of Christian identity, drawing on a range of social-psychological and social-scientific resources to illuminate the social processes at work.184 A first step is to see the label Χριστιανός as a form of stigma. That is to say, in the words of Erving Goffman’s classic definition, it is ‘an attribute that is deeply discrediting’ in terms of the wider society’s values and assumptions.185 Someone who bears a stigma is ‘the bearer of a “mark” that defines him or her as deviant, flawed, limited, spoiled,