TY - BOOK ID - 68619523 TI - Classifying Christians : ethnography, heresiology, and the limits of knowledge in Late Antiquity PY - 2016 SN - 9780520284265 9780520959880 PB - Oakland, California University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Christian heresies KW - Church history KW - History KW - 276:273 KW - Apostolic Church KW - Christianity KW - Church, Apostolic KW - Early Christianity KW - Early church KW - Primitive and early church KW - Primitive Christianity KW - Fathers of the church KW - Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) KW - Patrologie. Patristiek-:-Schisma's. Ketterijen UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68619523 AB - "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. ER -