Faithful Narratives : : Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity /

Faithful Narratives : : Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity / / ed. by Andrea Sterk, Nina Caputo.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Brown, Peter,
Caputo, Nina,
Eire, Carlos,
Elm, Susanna,
Grafton, Anthony,
Heschel, Susannah,
Mack, Phyllis,
Mills, Kenneth,
Nirenberg, David,
Noll, Mark A.,
Ruderman, David B.,
Sanneh, Lamin,
Sterk, Andrea,
Van Engen, John,
HerausgeberIn:
Caputo, Nina,
Sterk, Andrea,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 3 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Challenge of Religion in History
  • 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
  • 2. Between Syria and Egypt: Alms, Work, and the “Holy Poor”
  • 3. Medieval Monks on Labor and Leisure
  • 4. Sibling Rivalries, Scriptural Communities: What Medieval History Can and Cannot Teach Us about Relations between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
  • 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
  • 6. The Jewish Book in Christian Europe: Material Texts and Religious Encounters
  • 7. Mission and Narrative in the Early Modern Spanish World: Diego de Ocaña’s Desert in Passing
  • 8. Incombustible Weber: How the Protestant Reformation Really Disenchanted the World
  • 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
  • 10. Constructions of Jewish Identity through Reflections on Islam
  • 11. Bible, Translation, and Culture: From the KJV to the Christian Resurgence in Africa
  • 12. Reflections on the Bible and American Political Life
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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