Classifying Christians : ethnography, heresiology, and the limits of knowledge in Late Antiquity /

Classifying Christians : ethnography, heresiology, and the limits of knowledge in Late Antiquity /

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Author / Creator:Berzon, Todd S., 1983- author.
Imprint:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Description:xiv, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Christian heresies -- Early church.
Church history -- Primitive and early church.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10507558
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ISBN:9780520284265
0520284267
9780520959880
0520959884
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Classifying Christians investigates the ways in which late antique Christian heresiologists (150-450 C.E.) produced polemical ethnographies and presented their ethnographic dispositions in theological terms. The book demonstrates how the rituals, doctrines, customs, and origins of heretics functioned to map and delimit the composition of the Christian world and the world at large. Heresiology was about understanding human difference and organizing knowledge of it"--Provided by publisher.

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