Screen LibraryHistory and religion : narrating a religious past /
This volume is the first systematic scholarly study that analyses the complex relationship between history and religion. It considers religious groups as both producers of historical narratives and topics of historiography. From different disciplinary perspectives, the authors explore how religions...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Religionsgeschichtliche versuche und vorarbeiten;
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
This volume is the first systematic scholarly study that analyses the complex relationship between history and religion. It considers religious groups as both producers of historical narratives and topics of historiography. From different disciplinary perspectives, the authors explore how religions are historicised. In so doing, they address the biases and elisions of current analytical and descriptive frames in the history of religion. |
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1 online resource (vii, 464 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110445954 |
| Index Number: | BL65 |
| CLC: | B929 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- History and Religion -- Introduction -- The historiography of Brahmanism / Construing religion by doing historiography: The historicisation of religion in the Roman Republic / The use of historiography in Paul: A case-study of the instrumentalisation of the past in the context of Late Second Temple Judaism / Flirty fishing and poisonous serpents: Epiphanius of Salamis inside his Medical chest against heresies / Reading sutras in biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks / History and Heilsgeschichte in early Islam: Some observations on prophetic history and biography / The development and formation of religious historiography in Tibet / Medieval memories of the origins of the Waldensian movement / The use of history by French Protestants and its impact on Protestant historiography / A Perso-Islamic universal chronicle in its historical context: Ghiy s al-D n Khw ndam r s ab b al-siyar / Conditions for historicising religion: Hindu saints, regional identity, and social change in western India, ca. 1600 1900 / Practitioners of religious historiography in early modern Europe / Impartiality, individualisation, and the historiography of religion: Tobias Pfanner on the rituals of the Ancient Church / The gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it : The narrative of the victorious Church in French Church histories of the nineteenth century / Conflicting historiographical claims in religiously plural societies / Religion and economic development: On the role of religion in the historiography of political economy in twentieth century China / Introduction - |