Classifying Christians: ethnography, heresiology, and the limits of knowledge in late antiquity
Classifying Christians investigates late antique Christian heresiologies as ethnographies that catalogued and detailed the origins, rituals, doctrines, and customs of the heretics in explicitly polemical and theological terms. Oscillating between ancient ethnographic evidence and contemporary ethnog...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
University of Californiarnia Press
[2016]
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church
/ Ethnology
/ Heresy
B Church / Heresy / Ethnology / History |
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Christian Heresies
History Early church, ca. 30-600
B Church History Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 |
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| Summary: | Classifying Christians investigates late antique Christian heresiologies as ethnographies that catalogued and detailed the origins, rituals, doctrines, and customs of the heretics in explicitly polemical and theological terms. Oscillating between ancient ethnographic evidence and contemporary ethnographic writing, Todd S. Berzon argues that late antique heresiology shares an underlying logic with classical ethnography in the ancient Mediterranean world. By providing an account of heresiological writing from the second to fifth century, Classifying Christians embeds heresiology within the histo "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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0520284267 |