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Writing history, constructing religion / edited by James G. Crossley, Christian Karner.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 233 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780754682530
  • 0754682536
  • 9780754651833
  • 0754651835
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Writing history, constructing religion.DDC classification:
  • 201/.69 22
LOC classification:
  • BL65.H5 W75 2005eb
Other classification:
  • 11.09
  • 15.01
Online resources:
Contents:
Writing history, constructing religion / James G. Crossley and Christian Karner -- Defining history / James G. Crossley -- Postmodernism and the study of religions / Christian Karner -- On 'religion': speeches to its cultural despisers / Philip Goodchild -- Postmodernism before and after: the fate of secularization / Alan Aldridge -- The crisis of representation in Islamic studies / Hugh Goddard -- Living yesterday in today and tomorrow: Meskhetian Turks in Southern Russia / Kathryn Tomlinson -- Who's afraid of Jesus Christ? Some comments on attempts to write a life of Jesus / Maurice Casey -- History from the margins: the death of John the Baptist / James G. Crossley -- 'If Isaac could speak ... ': redefining sacrifice / Maria Varsam -- Ideological 'deconstructing' in myth, history and memory / Seth Kunin -- Writing Hindutva history, constructing nationalist religion / Christian Karner.
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This volume presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the significance of debates among historian, scholars of religion and cultural theorists over the 'nature' of history to the study of religion.
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Writing history, constructing religion / James G. Crossley and Christian Karner -- Defining history / James G. Crossley -- Postmodernism and the study of religions / Christian Karner -- On 'religion': speeches to its cultural despisers / Philip Goodchild -- Postmodernism before and after: the fate of secularization / Alan Aldridge -- The crisis of representation in Islamic studies / Hugh Goddard -- Living yesterday in today and tomorrow: Meskhetian Turks in Southern Russia / Kathryn Tomlinson -- Who's afraid of Jesus Christ? Some comments on attempts to write a life of Jesus / Maurice Casey -- History from the margins: the death of John the Baptist / James G. Crossley -- 'If Isaac could speak ... ': redefining sacrifice / Maria Varsam -- Ideological 'deconstructing' in myth, history and memory / Seth Kunin -- Writing Hindutva history, constructing nationalist religion / Christian Karner.

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This volume presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the significance of debates among historian, scholars of religion and cultural theorists over the 'nature' of history to the study of religion.

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