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

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
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

Hidden Bibliographic Details
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.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Writing People, Writing Religion
1. Heresiology as Ethnography: The Ethnographic Disposition
2. Comparing Theologies and Comparing Peoples: The Customs, Doctrines, and Dispositions of the Heretics
3. Contesting Ethnography: Heretical Models of Human and Cosmic Plurality
4. Christianized Ethnography: Paradigms of Heresiological Knowledge
5. Knowledge Fair and Foul: The Rhetoric of Heresiological Inquiry
6. The Infinity of Continuity: Epiphanius of Salamis and the Limits of the Ethnographic Disposition
7. From Ethnography to List: Transcribing and Traversing Heresy
Epilogue: The Legacy of Heresiology
Bibliography
Index

Similar Items