History and Religion

History and Religion
Author :
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 475
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783110437256
ISBN-13 : 3110437252
Rating : 4/5 (252 Downloads)

Book Synopsis History and Religion by : Bernd-Christian Otto

Download or read book History and Religion written by Bernd-Christian Otto and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is one of the most important cultural tools to make sense of one’s situation, to establish identity, define otherness, and explain change. This is the first systematic scholarly study that analyses the complex relationship between history and religion, taking into account religious groups both as producers of historical narratives as well as distinct topics of historiography. Coming from different disciplines, the authors of this volume ask under which conditions and with what consequences religions are historicised. How do religious groups employ historical narratives in the construction of their identities? What are the biases and elisions of current analytical and descriptive frames in the History of Religion? The volume aims at initiating a comparative historiography of religion and combines disciplinary competences of Religious Studies and the History of Religion, Confessional Theologies, History, History of Science, and Literary Studies. By applying literary comparison and historical contextualization to those texts that have been used as central documents for histories of individual religions, their historiographic themes, tools and strategies are analysed. The comparative approach addresses circum-Mediterranean and European as well as Asian religious traditions from the first millennium BCE to the present and deals with topics such as the origins of religious historiography, the practices of writing and the transformation of narratives.


History and Religion Related Books

History and Religion
Language: en
Pages: 475
Authors: Bernd-Christian Otto
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-31 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

GET EBOOK

History is one of the most important cultural tools to make sense of one’s situation, to establish identity, define otherness, and explain change. This is the
Monks in Motion
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: Jack Meng-Tat Chia
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-25 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

Chinese Buddhists have never remained stationary. They have always been on the move. In Monks in Motion, Jack Meng-Tat Chia explores why Buddhist monks migrated
Map Is Not Territory
Language: en
Pages: 347
Authors: Jonathan Z Smith
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-17 - Publisher: BRILL

GET EBOOK

Hindu Pluralism
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Elaine M. Fisher
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-24 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

GET EBOOK

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to l
Women in World Religions
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Arvind Sharma
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-04-15 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

GET EBOOK

This is a book by women about women in the religions of the world. It presents all the basic facts and ideological issues concerning the position of women in th