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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berzon, Todd S., 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
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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
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520959880
0520959884

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