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Name Philippa Townsend
Position Chancellor's fellow
Institutional Affiliation University of Edinburg
Latitude 55.9445158
Longitude -3.19143
Research Interests

Early Christian identity formation; Race and ethnicity in the Greco-Roman world; Sacrifice in the Greco-Roman world; Non-canonical ('Gnostic') Christian texts and the construction of orthodoxy and heresy Greek philosophical traditions (especially Neoplatonism) and their relationship to early Christianity.

Websites http://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-philippa-townsend
Publications

The Manichaean body and society.
Motions of Late Antiquity: Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society in Honor of Peter Brown. ed. / Jamie Kreiner; Helmut Reimitz. Brepols, 2016. (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages; Vol. 4).

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