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]
©2016
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12869912
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ISBN:9780520959880
0520959884
9780520284265
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Berzon, Todd S., 1983- Classifying Christians 9780520284265