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

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"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 fun...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berzon, Todd S., 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Temas:
30-600
Christian heresies > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Hérésies chrétiennes > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
RELIGION > History.
RELIGION > Ancient.
Christian heresies > Early church
Church history > Primitive and early church
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520959880
0520959884

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