Browsing the archives for the identity formation category

18 Aug 10

Social Identity Theory: A Bibliography in Progress

Some theories from various social scientific disciplines make a singular appearance in our field, while others have a bit of staying power. Social Identity Theory (SIT)–or, as it has been called, the “social identity perspective” or the “social identity approach”–appears to fall in that latter category. The concepts are not entirely new (e.g., boundary markers [...]

10 Comments Posted in biblical studies, bibliographies, identity formation, social identity theory, social-scientific research by Patrick George McCullough
28 Dec 09

Harland on the Uniqueness of Early Christians

As I mentioned earlier, I am working through Philip Harland’s Dynamics of Identity (courtesy of T & T Clark), which looks into early Judean and Christian gatherings as related to other unofficial associations in the Greco-Roman world. One of the themes in the back cover endorsements, and rightly so, is Harland’s challenge to many scholarly assumptions about [...]

2 Comments Posted in Philip Harland, book reviews, identity formation by Patrick George McCullough
22 Dec 09

Philip Harland on Social History and Social Science

I’m reading through Philip Harland’s Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians: Associations, Judeans, and Cultural Minorities, kindly sent along to me by T & T Clark for review, and I’d like to first highlight his excellent introduction, which provides a very helpful review of scholarship on social-scientific issues, identity theory, and associations [...]

6 Comments Posted in Philip Harland, book reviews, identity formation by Patrick George McCullough
3 Sep 09

If Jim West is a "Biblioblogger" . . . Who Isn't?

Tim gives voice to a version of this question that I’ve seen a few others say and probably several others have thought without actually saying it. This point gets to one of the big pieces in the dearth-of-female-bibliobloggers puzzle. This is about identity formation and setting boundary markers (can you help us out, Brian?). When [...]

10 Comments Posted in biblioblogging, gender, identity formation by Patrick George McCullough