UID:
almahu_9949384196502882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781351113311
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1351113313
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9781351113304
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1351113305
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9781351113281
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1351113283
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9781351113298
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1351113291
Content:
What is a religion? How do we discern the boundaries between religions, or religious communities? When does Judaism become Judaism, Christianity become Christianity, Islam become Islam? Scholars have increasingly called into question the standard narratives created by the various orthodoxies, narratives of steadfastness and consistency, of long and courageous maintenance of true doctrine and right practice over the centuries, in the face of opposition (and at times persecution) at the hands of infidels or heretics. The11 chapters in this book, Geneses: A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism and Islam, written by an international group of specialists the languages, religions, laws and cultures of early Judaism, Christianity and Islam, tackle these questions through a comparative study of these narratives: their formation over time, and their use today. They explore three key aspects of the field: (1) the construction (and scholarly deconstruction) of the narratives of triumph (and defeat) of religions, (2) how legal imperatives are constructed from religious narratives and sacred texts, and (3) contemporary ramifications of these issues. In doing so, they tap into the significant body of research over the last 30 years, which has shown the fluidity and malleability of these religious traditions in relation to each other and to more traditional "pagan" and Zoroastrian religions and philosophical traditions. This bookrepresents an important contribution to, and a valuable resourcefor, the burgeoning field of comparative history of the Abrahamic religions.
Note:
The contours of Abrahamic identity: a Zoroastrian perspective / Yishai Kiel -- The twilight of the ancient gods / Danuta Shanzer -- Simon the god: imagining the other in second-century Christianity / Duncan E. Macrae -- Contested ground in Gaza: the narrative of triumphalist Christianity / Claudia Rapp -- Between Jerome and Augustine of Hippo: some intellectual preoccupations of Late Antiquity / Mohamed-Arbi Nsiri -- What is "Islamic" about geonic depictions of the Oral Torah? / Marc Herman -- Reevaluating the role of the Epigons (tabi'un) in the formation of Islamic ritual and jurisprudence / Mohammed Hocine Benkheira -- Recording debts in Sufyānid Fusṭāṭ: a reexamination of the procedures and calendar in use in the first/seventh century / Mathieu Tillier and Naïm Vanthieghem -- Slavery and sexual ethics: divergence and change in Hanafi legal discourse / Karen Moukheiber -- Teaching early Islam: the gap between school and the internet in British schooling / Philip Wood -- The Shahada and the creation of an Islamic identity / Suleiman A. Mourad.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Geneses New York : Routledge, 2019 ISBN 9780815362074
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.4324/9781351113311.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351113311
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