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Moral Infringement and Repair in Antiquity, is a series of publications related to a project on Dynamics of Moral Repair in Antiquity, run by Thomas Kazen and Rikard Roitto between 2017 and 2021, and funded by the Swedish Research Council. The volumes contain stand-alone articles and serve as supplements to the main outcome of the project, the volume Interpersonal Infringement and Moral Repair: Revenge, Compensation and Forgiveness in the Ancient World, forthcoming on Mohr Siebeck in 2023.
Supplement 2: Group Dynamics, contains four articles and chapters by Rikard Roitto, republished in accordance with the publishers' general conditions for author reuse, or by special permission.
1. Rituals of Reintegration: Penance, Confession of Sins, Intercession
2. Reintegrative Shaming and a Prayer Ritual of Reintegration in Matthew
3. Enduring Shame as Costly Signalling
4. The Johannine Information War: A Social Network Analysis of the Information Flow Between Johannine Assemblies as Witnessed by 1-3 John
About the author
Rikard Roitto is associate professor of New Testament Studies at Stockholm School of Theology (University College Stockholm). His previous publications include Behaving as a Christ-Believer: A Cognitive Perspective on Identity and Behavior Norms in Ephesians (2011) and numerous articles with a socio-cognitive perspective. He is an editor of the Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual (2018) and Social and Cognitive Perspectives on the Sermon on the Mount (2021), as well as a Swedish anthology on technotheology.
