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ancient mediterranean world
anthropology
Author_Todd S. Berzon
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christian heresiologies
christian religion
christian state church
christianity
christians
customs
doctrines
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ethnographic research
fifth century history
fourth century history
heresiology
heresy
history of religion
imperial forms of knowledge
late antique theological polemics
late antiquity
origins
religion
religious history
religious studies
retrospective
rituals
second century history
study of heresy
theology
third century
western culture
Product details
- ISBN 9780520383173
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 May 2021
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Todd S. Berzon is Associate Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College.
