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Religious Stories We Live By : Narrative Approaches in Theology and Religious Studies / edited by R. Ruard Ganzevoort, Maaike de Haardt, Michael Scherer-Rath.

Contributor(s): Ganzevoort, Reinder Ruard, 1965- [editor.] | Haardt, Maaike de, 1954- [editor.] | Scherer-Rath, Michael [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in theology and religion: v. 19.Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004264052 (hardback : alk. paper); 9004264051 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Storytelling -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Narrative theology | Narration in the Bible | Bible -- Criticism, NarrativeDDC classification: 230 LOC classification: BT83.78 | .R45 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Religious Stories We Live By / R. Ruard Ganzevoort -- 'Show, Don't Tell': The (Ir)rationality of Religious Stories / Edwin Koster -- Narrative, Postformal Cognition, and Religious Belief / James M. Day -- Narratives of the Self in the Study of Religions: Epistemological Reflections Based on a Pragmatic Notion of Weak Rationality / Chris Hermans -- A Short Survey of Narratology in Biblical Studies / Dorothea Erbele-Küster -- Saramago's Reshaping of Cain and God: A Study in Characterization and Intertextuality / Wim J.C. Weren -- Jericho is Shouting: Narrative and Rhetoric in Joshua 6 / Marieke den Braber -- The Story of a Gang Rape as a Means of Liberation: A Contextual Reading of Judges 19 / Klaas Spronk -- Showcasing the Little Sister: The Grammatical Lives of Samson's Women (Judg 13-16) as a Syntactic Supplement to Narratological Analysis / Willien van Wieringen -- Narrative Reconstruction as Creative Contingency / Michael Scherer-Rath -- Dialogical Constructions of a Muslim Self through Life Story Telling / Marjo Buitelaar --
Religious Narrative and the Body / Toke Elshof -- An Instrument for Reconstructing Interpretation in Life Stories / Jos van den Brand, Chris Hermans, Michael Scherer-Rath, and Piet Verschuren -- Narrative Theology: A Structural Overview / Luco J. van den Brom -- Mourning for Yasmina: A Passion Narrative, Storytelling and Social Engagement in Urban Ministry / Anne-Marie Korte -- Visual Narratives: Entrance to Everyday Religious Practices / Maaike de Haardt -- Changing Narratives: The Stories the Religious Have Lived by since the 1960s / Marit Monteiro, Marjet Derks, and Annelies van Heijst -- Telling Authorized Stories: The Dynamics of the Dutch Pietistic Narrative Community / John Exalto -- Publish or Perish? The Polemical and Apologetic Publications of the Jesuits in the Low Countries (17th Century) / Joep W.J. van Gennip -- Means of Submission or Symbol of Protest? The Habit of the Sister of St Charles Borromeo Amalie Augustine von Lasaulx (1815-1872) / Angela Berlis -- A Religion en plein public: Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory / Liesbeth Hoeven.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Religious Stories We Live By / R. Ruard Ganzevoort -- 'Show, Don't Tell': The (Ir)rationality of Religious Stories / Edwin Koster -- Narrative, Postformal Cognition, and Religious Belief / James M. Day -- Narratives of the Self in the Study of Religions: Epistemological Reflections Based on a Pragmatic Notion of Weak Rationality / Chris Hermans -- A Short Survey of Narratology in Biblical Studies / Dorothea Erbele-Küster -- Saramago's Reshaping of Cain and God: A Study in Characterization and Intertextuality / Wim J.C. Weren -- Jericho is Shouting: Narrative and Rhetoric in Joshua 6 / Marieke den Braber -- The Story of a Gang Rape as a Means of Liberation: A Contextual Reading of Judges 19 / Klaas Spronk -- Showcasing the Little Sister: The Grammatical Lives of Samson's Women (Judg 13-16) as a Syntactic Supplement to Narratological Analysis / Willien van Wieringen -- Narrative Reconstruction as Creative Contingency / Michael Scherer-Rath -- Dialogical Constructions of a Muslim Self through Life Story Telling / Marjo Buitelaar --

Religious Narrative and the Body / Toke Elshof -- An Instrument for Reconstructing Interpretation in Life Stories / Jos van den Brand, Chris Hermans, Michael Scherer-Rath, and Piet Verschuren -- Narrative Theology: A Structural Overview / Luco J. van den Brom -- Mourning for Yasmina: A Passion Narrative, Storytelling and Social Engagement in Urban Ministry / Anne-Marie Korte -- Visual Narratives: Entrance to Everyday Religious Practices / Maaike de Haardt -- Changing Narratives: The Stories the Religious Have Lived by since the 1960s / Marit Monteiro, Marjet Derks, and Annelies van Heijst -- Telling Authorized Stories: The Dynamics of the Dutch Pietistic Narrative Community / John Exalto -- Publish or Perish? The Polemical and Apologetic Publications of the Jesuits in the Low Countries (17th Century) / Joep W.J. van Gennip -- Means of Submission or Symbol of Protest? The Habit of the Sister of St Charles Borromeo Amalie Augustine von Lasaulx (1815-1872) / Angela Berlis -- A Religion en plein public: Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory / Liesbeth Hoeven.

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