"Andare in crisi". La conversione cristiana antica al di là delle metafisiche del soggetto
Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s Roberto Alciati, Emiliano R. Urciuoli
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/70 Language Italian
Pages 16 P. 21-36 File size 183 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2021-070003
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Aim of this paper is to foreground the conceptual limits and epistemological blind spots of a very influential psychological model of religious conversion by looking anew at two late antique cases of ‘turns’ to Christianity, namely those of Cyprian of Cartha¬ge (245-246 C.E.) and Augustine of Hippo (386 C.E.). Narratives on these conversions not only document the struggle of desired newness and resistant habits in the in-between phase of the turning. They also evidence the lasting conditioning effects of these latter on the ‘new¬born’. If the crisis reveals the scale and the power of habitualized schemes of percep¬tion, evaluation, and action over human existence, its overcoming may bespeak the conti¬nuation of habits by other means.
Keywords: Christian conversion, consciousness, habit, William James, Arthur D. Nock, Pierre Bourdieu, Cyprian of Carthage, Augustine of Hippo
Roberto Alciati, Emiliano R. Urciuoli, "Andare in crisi". La conversione cristiana antica al di là delle metafisiche del soggetto in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 70/2021, pp 21-36, DOI: 10.3280/LAS2021-070003