Ganzevoort, R. Ruard.

Religious Stories We Live By : Narrative Approaches in Theology and Religious Studies. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (308 pages) - Studies in Theology and Religion Ser. . - Studies in Theology and Religion Ser. .

Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- R. Ruard Ganzevoort - Introduction. Religious Stories We Live By -- E. Koster - 'Show, Don't Tell'. The (Ir)rationality of Religious Stories -- J.M. Day - Narrative, Postformal Cognition, and Religious Belief -- C. Hermans - Narratives of the Self in the Study of Religion. Epistemological Reflections Based on a Pragmatic Notion of Weak Rationality -- BIBLICAL STUDIES -- D. Erbele-Kuester - A Short Story of Narratology in Biblical Studies -- W.J.C. Weren - Saramago's Reshaping of Cain and God. A Study in Characterization and Intertextuality -- M. den Braber - Jericho is Shouting. Narrative and Rhetoric in Joshua 6 -- K. Spronk - The Story of a Gang Rape as a Means of Liberation. A Contextual Reading of Judges 19 -- W. van Wieringen - Showcasing the Little Sister. The Grammatical Lives of Samson's Women (Jdg 13-16) as a Syntactic Supplement to Narratological Analysis -- EMPIRICAL STUDIES -- M. Scherer-Rath - Narrative Reconstruction as Creative Contingency -- M. Buitelaar - Dialogical Constructions of a Muslim Self through Life Story Telling -- T. Elshof - Religious Narrative and the Body -- J. van den Brand et al. - An Instrument for Reconstructing Interpretation in Life Stories -- SYSTEMATIC STUDIES -- L.J. van den Brom - Narrative Theology. A Structural Overview -- A.-M. Korte - Mourning for Yasmina: A Passion Narrative. Storytelling and Social Engagement in Urban Ministry -- M. de Haardt - Visual Narratives. Entrance to Everyday Religious Practices -- HISTORICAL STUDIES -- M. Monteiro et al. - Changing Narratives. The Stories the Religious Have Lived by since the 1960's -- J. Exalto - Telling Authorized Stories. The Dynamics of the Dutch Pietistic Narrative Community -- J.W.J. van Gennip - Publish or Perish? The Polemical and Apologetic Publications of the Jesuits in the Low Countries (17th Century). A. Berlis - Means of Submission or Symbol of Protest? The Habit of the Sister of St Charles Borromeo Amalie Augustine von Lasaulx (1815-1872) -- L. Hoeven - A Religion en plein public. Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory -- Index of Subjects, Authors and Biblical Passages.

Religious Stories We Live By offers philosophical, psychological, and epistemological reflections on the importance of narrative, case studies, and disciplinary overviews of narrative perspectives in biblical, empirical, systematic, and historical approaches in theology and religious studies.

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Bible -- Criticism, Narrative.
Narration in the Bible.
Narrative theology.
Storytelling -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.


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