Crossing Confessional Boundaries (eBook)

Exemplary Lives in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions

John Renard (Autor)

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2020
360 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96290-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Arguably the single most important element in Abrahamic cross-confessional relations has been an ongoing mutual interest in perennial spiritual and ethical exemplars of one another’s communities. Ranging from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages, Crossing Confessional Boundaries explores the complex roles played by saints, sages, and Friends of God in the communal and intercommunal lives of Christians, Muslims, and Jews across the Mediterranean world, from Spain and North Africa to the Middle East to the Balkans. By examining these stories in their broad institutional, social, and cultural contexts, Crossing Confessional Boundaries reveals unique theological insights into the interlocking histories of the Abrahamic faiths.
 

Inhalt

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Metaphor, Method, and the Three “Sources” of Hagiographic Narrative

PART ONE: GEOGRAPHIES SHARED-HISTORICAL/ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

1. Geographies Shared I—The Central Middle East
2. Geographies Shared II—Spain and North Africa
3. Geographies Shared III—From Anatolia to the Balkans

PART TWO: HAGIOGRAPHIES COMPARED-LITERARY PERSPECTIVES: FORM, CONTENT, AND FUNCTION

4. Hagiography Constructed: An Owner’s Manual
5. Hagiography Deconstructed: A Reader’s Toolbox
6. Hagiography at Work: A Job Description

PART THREE: DRAMATIS PERSONAE: HISTORY, AUTHORITY, AND COMMUNITY

7. Historical Themes and Institutional Authority
8. Constructions of Personal Authority—Epistemic and Charismatic
9. Exemplars and Their Communities
 
Conclusion: Comparative Approaches to Religious Exemplarity and Hagiography

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.1.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: Abrahamic religions • Christian hagiography • Christianity • Christians • Comparative Religion • comparative religions • faith based comparison • friends of God • Hagiography • history of abrahamic faiths • history of interfaith dialogue • Islam • Islamic Studies • Jewish Studies • Jews • Judaism • Muslims • religion in late antiquity • religion in the mediterranean • religion in the middle ages • Religious education • Religious Studies • Sages • Saints • world theology
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96290-7 / 0520962907
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96290-3 / 9780520962903