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
Autor principal: Berzon, Todd S., 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Christian heresies > Early church.
RELIGION > Ancient.
RELIGION > History.
Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Heresies chretiennes > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Christian heresies > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
History.
Electronic books.
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 (320 pages).
ISBN:9780520959880

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