Religious stories we live by : narrative approaches in theology and religious studies /

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Imprint:Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, 2014.
©2014
Description:xi, 296 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in theology and religion (STAR) ; VOLUME 19
Studies in theology and religion ; v. 19.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9807206
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Other authors / contributors:Ganzevoort, Reinder Ruard, 1965- editor of compilation.
Haardt, Maaike de, 1954- editor of compilation.
Scherer-Rath, Michael, editor of compilation.
ISBN:9789004264052 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004264051 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004264069 (e-book : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction. Religious Stories We Live By
  • 'Show, Don't Tell'. The (Irrationality of Religious Stories
  • Narrative, Postformal Cognition, and Religious Belief
  • Narratives of the Self in the Study of Religion. Epistemological Reflections Based on a Pragmatic Notion of Weak Rationality
  • Biblical Studies
  • A Short Story of Narratology in Biblical Studies
  • Saramago's Reshaping of Cain and God. A Study in Characterization and Intertextuality
  • Jericho is Shouting. Narrative and Rhetoric in Joshua 6
  • The Story of a Gang Rape as a Means of Liberation. A Contextual Reading of Judges 19
  • Showcasing the Little Sister. The Grammatical Lives of Samson's Women (Judg 13-16) as a Syntactic Supplement to Narratological Analysis
  • Empirical Studies
  • Narrative Reconstruction as Creative Contingency
  • Dialogical Constructions of a Muslim Self through Life Story Telling
  • Religious Narrative and the Body
  • An Instrument for Reconstructing Interpretation in Life Stories
  • Systematic Studies
  • Narrative Theology. A Structural Overview
  • Mourning for Yasmina: A Passion Narrative. Storytelling and Social Engagement in Urban Ministry
  • Visual Narratives. Entrance to Everyday Religious Practices
  • Historical Studies
  • Changing Narratives. The Stories the Religious Have Lived by since the 1960s
  • Telling Authorized Stories. The Dynamics of the Dutch Pietistic Narrative Community
  • Publish or Perish? The Polemical and Apologetic Publications of the Jesuits in the Low Countries (17th Century)
  • Means of Submission or Symbol of Protest? The Habit of the Sister of St Charles Borromeo Amalie Augustine von Lasaulx (1815-1872)
  • A Religion en plein public. Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory
  • Index