Faithful Narratives

Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2014
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-7857-4 (ISBN)

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This volume brings together twelve eminent scholars whose research has exemplified compelling strategies for negotiating the difficulties inherent in the history of religion.

Historians of religion face complex interpretive issues when examining religious texts, practices, and experiences. Faithful Narratives presents the work of twelve eminent scholars whose research has exemplified compelling strategies for negotiating the difficulties inherent in this increasingly important area of historical inquiry. The chapters range chronologically from Late Antiquity to modern America and thematically from the spirituality of near eastern monks to women's agency in religion, considering familiar religious communities alongside those on the margins and bringing a range of spiritual and religious practices into historical focus.

Focusing on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the essays address matters central to the study of religion in history, in particular texts and traditions of authority, interreligious discourse, and religious practice and experience. Some examine mainstream communities and traditions, others explore individuals who crossed religious or confessional boundaries, and still others study the peripheries of what is considered orthodox religious tradition. Encompassing a wide geographical as well as chronological scope, Faithful Narratives illustrates the persistence of central themes and common analytical challenges for historians working in all periods.

Andrea Sterk is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. She is the author most recently of Renouncing the World Yet Leading the Church: The Monk-Bishop in Late Antiquity. Nina Caputo is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. She is the author of Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia: Community, History, and Messianism.

Introduction: The Challenge of Religion in History

ANDREA STERK AND NINA CAPUTO

Part One: Late Antique and Medieval Religious Debates and Their Modern Implications

1. Pagan Challenge, Christian Response: Emperor Julian and Gregory of Nazianzus as Paradigms of Interreligious Discourse

SUSANNA ELM

2. Between Syria and Egypt: Alms, Work, and the "Holy Poor"

PETER BROWN

3. Medieval Monks on Labor and Leisure

JOHN VAN ENGEN

4. Sibling Rivalries, Scriptural Communities: What Medieval History Can and Cannot

Teach Us about Relations between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

DAVID NIRENBERG

Part Two: Early Modern Perspectives on Spirituality, Culture, and Religious Boundaries

5. The People and the Book: Print and the Transformation of Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe

DAVID B. RUDERMAN

6. The Jewish Book in Christian Europe: Material Texts and Religious Encounters

ANTHONY GRAFTON

7. Mission and Narrative in the Early Modern Spanish World: Diego de Ocaña's Desert in Passing

KENNETH MILLS

8. Incombustible Weber: How the Protestant Reformation Really Disenchanted the World

CARLOS EIRE

Part Three: From the Premodern to the Modern World: Sacred Texts, Individual Agency, and Religious Identity

9. Religion and Gender in Enlightenment England: The Problem of Agency

PHYLLIS MACK

10. Constructions of Jewish Identity through Reflections on Islam

SUSANNAH HESCHEL

11. Bible, Translation, and Culture: From the KJV to the Christian Resurgence in Africa

LAMIN SANNEH

12. Reflections on the Bible and American Public Life

MARK A. NOLL

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Zusatzinfo	3 Tables, unspecified
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	0-8014-7857-X / 080147857X
ISBN-13	978-0-8014-7857-4 / 9780801478574
Zustand	Neuware