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Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
Todd S. Berzon
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Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: HRC; HRKP; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 historical development of imperial forms of knowledge that have shaped western culture from antiquity to the present.
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 historical development of imperial forms of knowledge that have shaped western culture from antiquity to the present.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520284265
SKU
V9780520284265
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About Todd S. Berzon
Todd S. Berzon is Assistant Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College.
Reviews for Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
"Berzon's book offers a potent epistemological reflection on the production, organization, and limits of knowledge in late antiquity... a finely articulated meditation on the effects of theological and ethnographic ancient list-making." Bryn Mawr Classical Review "Classifying Christians is a remarkable book... indispensable." Reading Religion