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History and religion : narrating a religious past

Title: History and religion : narrating a religious past / edited by Bernd-Christian Otto, Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke with the support of Andrés Quero-Sanchez.
Publication: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2015]

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Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9783110446005
Online-Ausg.: ISBN 9783110437256
Online-Ausg.: ISBN 9783110445954

Description

vii, 464 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Religionsgeschichtliche versuche und vorarbeiten ; Band 68

Uniform Title

Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten ; Bd. 68.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

History and religion -- Section 1. Origins and developments -- Introduction -- The historiography of brahmanism / Johannes Bronkhorst -- Construing Religion by doing historiography : the historicisation of religion in the Roman Republic / Jörg Rüpke -- The use of historiography in Paul : a case-study of the instrumentalisation of the past in the context of late Second Temple Judaism / Anders Klostergaard Petersen -- Flirty fishing and poisonous serpents : Epiphanius of Salamis inside his medical chest against heresies / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus -- Reading Sutras in biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks / Sylvie Hureau -- History and heilsgeschichte in early Islam : some observations on prophetic history and biography / Chase F. Robinson -- The development and formation of religious historiography in Tibet / Per K. Sørensen -- Medieval memories of the origins of the Waldensian movement / Pekka Tolonen -- The use of history by French Protestants and its impact on Protestant historiography / Yves Krumenacker -- Section 2. Writing histories -- Introduction -- A Perso-Islamic universal chronicle in its historical context : Ghiyā̲s al-Dīn Khwāndamīr's Ḥabīb al-siyar / Shahzad Bashir -- Conditions for historicising religion : Hindu saints, regional identity, and social change in western India, ca. 1600-1900 / Jon Keune -- Practitioners of religious historiography in early modern europe / Susanne Rau -- Impartiality, individualisation, and the historiography of religion : Tobias Pfanner on the rituals of the Ancient Church / Martin Mulsow -- The gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it : the narrative of the victorious church in French church histories of the nineteenth century / Hannah Schneider -- Conflicting historiographical claims in religiously plural societies / Franziska Metzger -- Religion and economic development : on the role of religion in the historiography of political economy in twentieth century China / Philipp Hetmanczyk -- Section 3. Transforming narratives -- Introduction -- The notion of tradition in liturgy / Benedikt Kranemann -- Verbs, nouns, temporality and typology : narrations of ritualised warfare in Roman Antiquity / Gabriella Gustafsson -- Judaism : an inquiry into the historical discourse / Cristiana Facchini -- President de Brosses's modern and post-modern fetishes in the historiography and history of religions / Renée Koch Piettre -- Historia sacra and historical criticism in biblical scholarship / Reinhard G. Kratz -- A Catholic magician, historicises, magic : Éliphas Lévi's Histoire de la Magie / Bernd-Christian Otto -- Locating the history of Christianity between the history of the Church and the history of religions : the Italian case / Giovanni Filoramo.

Call Number

JFE 16-3288

ISBN

9783110444544
3110444542
9783110445954 (canceled/invalid)
9783110437256 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015027092

OCLC

913829626

Title

History and religion : narrating a religious past / edited by Bernd-Christian Otto, Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke with the support of Andrés Quero-Sanchez.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Religionsgeschichtliche versuche und vorarbeiten ; Band 68

Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten ; Bd. 68.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Indexed Term

1542: Hardcover, Softcover / Religion/Theologie/Christentum

Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft

Hardback

Historiographiegeschichte

History of religion; history of historiography; religious narratives; concepts of time

REL033000

Religionsgeschichte

Religiöse Narrative

Zeitkonzeption

Added Author

Otto, Bernd-Christian, editor.

Rau, Susanne, editor.

Rüpke, Jörg, editor.

Found In:

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9783110446005

Online-Ausg.: ISBN 9783110437256

Online-Ausg.: ISBN 9783110445954

Research Call Number

JFE 16-3288

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