History and Religion: Narrating a Religious Past

This volume is the first systematic scholarly study that analyses the complex relationship between history and religion. It considers religious groups as both producers of historical narratives and topics of historiography. From different disciplinary perspectives, the authors explore how religions are historicised. In so doing, they address the biases and elisions of current analytical and descriptive frames in the history of religion.

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History and Religion: Narrating a Religious Past

This volume is the first systematic scholarly study that analyses the complex relationship between history and religion. It considers religious groups as both producers of historical narratives and topics of historiography. From different disciplinary perspectives, the authors explore how religions are historicised. In so doing, they address the biases and elisions of current analytical and descriptive frames in the history of religion.

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This volume is the first systematic scholarly study that analyses the complex relationship between history and religion. It considers religious groups as both producers of historical narratives and topics of historiography. From different disciplinary perspectives, the authors explore how religions are historicised. In so doing, they address the biases and elisions of current analytical and descriptive frames in the history of religion.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783110437256
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 08/31/2015
Series: Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten , #68
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 471
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Bernd-Christian Otto, Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke: University of Erfurt, Germany.

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