Religious stories we live by : : narrative approaches in theology and religious studies / / edited by R. Ruard Ganzevoort, Maaike de Haardt, Michael Scherer-Rath.

Stories have always been important in religion, but systematic explorations of the narrative dimensions of religion are more recent and interdisciplinary explorations of narrative approaches in theology and religious studies are scarce. Religious Stories We Live By paves the ground for these much ne...

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Superior document:Studies in theology and religion (STAR), volume 19
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Brill,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Studies in theology and religion ; v. 19.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 296 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter / R. Ruard Ganzevoort , Maaike de Haardt and Michael Scherer-Rath
  • Religious Stories We Live By / R. Ruard Ganzevoort
  • ‘Show, Don’t Tell’. The (Ir)rationality of Religious Stories / Edwin Koster
  • Narrative, Postformal Cognition, and Religious Belief / James M. Day
  • Narratives of the Self in the Study of Religion. Epistemological Reflections Based on a Pragmatic Notion of Weak Rationality / Chris Hermans
  • A Short Story of Narratology in Biblical Studies / Dorothea Erbele-Küster
  • Saramago’s Reshaping of Cain and God. A Study in Characterization and Intertextuality / Wim J.C. Weren
  • Jericho is Shouting. Narrative and Rhetoric in Joshua 6 / Marieke den Braber
  • The Story of a Gang Rape as a Means of Liberation. A Contextual Reading of Judges 19 / Klaas Spronk
  • Showcasing the Little Sister. The Grammatical Lives of Samson’s Women (Judg 13–16) as a Syntactic Supplement to Narratological Analysis / Willien van Wieringen
  • Narrative Reconstruction as Creative Contingency / Michael Scherer-Rath
  • Dialogical Constructions of a Muslim Self through Life Story Telling / Marjo Buitelaar
  • Religious Narrative and the Body / Toke Elshof
  • An Instrument for Reconstructing Interpretation in Life Stories / Jos van den Brand , Chris Hermans , Michael Scherer-Rath and Piet Verschuren
  • Narrative Theology. A Structural Overview / Luco J. van den Brom
  • Mourning for Yasmina: A Passion Narrative. Storytelling and Social Engagement in Urban Ministry / Anne-Marie Korte
  • Visual Narratives. Entrance to Everyday Religious Practices / Maaike de Haardt
  • Changing Narratives. The Stories the Religious Have Lived by since the 1960’s / Marit Monteiro , Marjet Derks and Annelies van Heijst
  • Telling Authorized Stories. The Dynamics of the Dutch Pietistic Narrative Community / John Exalto
  • Publish or Perish? The Polemical and Apologetic Publications of the Jesuits in the Low Countries (17th Century) / Joep W.J. van Gennip
  • Means of Submission or Symbol of Protest? The Habit of the Sister of St Charles Borromeo Amalie Augustine von Lasaulx (1815–1872) / Angela Berlis
  • A Religion en plein public. Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory / Liesbeth Hoeven
  • Index of Subjects, Authors and Biblical Passages / R. Ruard Ganzevoort , Maaike de Haardt and Michael Scherer-Rath.