Faithful narratives : historians, religion, and the challenge of objectivity

Faithful narratives : historians, religion, and the challenge of objectivity / Andrea Sterk and Nina Caputo, editors.

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 imp...

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Other Authors: Sterk, Andrea (Editor), Caputo, Nina, 1966- (Editor), Elm, Susanna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
History > Religious aspects.
Religion > History.
Religion > Historiography.
religious history.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Essays.
RELIGION > Reference.
RELIGION > Theology.
History > Religious aspects
Religion
Religion > Historiography
Geschichtsschreibung
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the challenge of religion in history / Andrea Sterk and Nina Caputo
  • Pagan challenge, Christian response : Emperor Julian and Gregory of Nazianzus as paradigms of inter-religious discourse / Susanna Elm
  • Between Syria and Egypt : alms, work and the "holy poor" / Peter Brown
  • Medieval monks on labor and leisure / John Van Engen
  • Sibling rivalries, scriptural communities : what medieval history can and cannot teach us about relations between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam / David Nirenberg
  • The people and the book : print and the transformation of Jewish culture in early modern Europe / David Ruderman
  • The Jewish book in Christian Europe : material texts and religious encounters / Anthony Grafton
  • Mission and narrative in the early modern Spanish world : Diego de Oca's desert in passing / Kenneth Mills
  • Incombustible Weber : how the Protestant Reformation really disenchanted the world / Carlos Eire
  • Religion and gender in Enlightenment England : the problem of agency / Phyllis Mack
  • Constructions of Jewish identity through reflections on Islam / Susannah Heschel
  • Bible, translation, and culture : from the KJV to the Christian resurgence in Africa / Lamin Sanneh
  • Reflections on the Bible and American public life / Mark A. Noll.

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