History and Religion : Narrating a Religious Past.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- History and Religion -- Section 1. Origins and developments -- Introduction -- The historiography of Brahmanism -- Construing 'religion' by doing historiography: The historicisation of religion in the Roman Republic -- The use of historiography in Paul: A case-study of the instrumentalisation of the past in the context of Late Second Temple Judaism -- Flirty fishing and poisonous serpents: Epiphanius of Salamis inside his Medical chest against heresies -- Reading sutras in biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks -- History and Heilsgeschichte in early Islam: Some observations on prophetic history and biography -- The development and formation of religious historiography in Tibet -- Medieval memories of the origins of the Waldensian movement -- The use of history by French Protestants and its impact on Protestant historiography -- Section 2. Writing histories -- Introduction -- A Perso-Islamic universal chronicle in its historical context: Ghiyas_ al-Din Khwandamir's ?abib al-siyar -- Conditions for historicising religion: Hindu saints, regional identity, and social change in western India, ca. 1600-1900 -- Practitioners of religious historiography in early modern Europe -- Impartiality, individualisation, and the historiography of religion: Tobias Pfanner on the rituals of the Ancient Church -- 'The gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it': The narrative of the victorious Church in French Church histories of the nineteenth century -- Conflicting historiographical claims in religiously plural societies -- Religion and economic development: On the role of religion in the historiography of political economy in twentieth century China -- Section 3. Transforming narratives -- Introduction -- The notion of tradition in liturgy.

Verbs, nouns, temporality and typology: Narrations of ritualised warfare in Roman Antiquity -- Judaism: An inquiry into the historical discourse -- President de Brosses's modern and post-modern fetishes in the historiography and history of religions -- Historia sacra and historical criticism in biblical scholarship -- A Catholic 'magician' historicises 'magic': Éliphas Lévi's Histoire de la Magie -- Locating the history of Christianity between the history of the Church and the History of Religions: The Italian case -- Contributors -- Index.

RGVV (History of Religion: Essays and Preliminary Studies) brings together the mutually constitutive aspects of the study of religion(s)--contextualized data, theory, and disciplinary positioning--and engages them from a critical historical perspective. The series publishes monographs and thematically focused edited volumes on specific topics and cases as well as comparative work across historical periods from the ancient world to the modern era.

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