Faithful narratives
Subtitle: historians, religion, and the challenge of objectivity
By: edited by Andrea Sterk and Nina Caputo
Contributors: Elm, Susanna
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780801478574; 9780801451829
Subjects: Historiography; Religion; Religious aspects; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the challenge of religion in history / Andrea Sterk and Nina Caputo; title: Pagan challenge, Christian response : Emperor Julian and Gregory of Nazianzus as paradigms of inter-religious discourse / Susanna Elm; title: Between Syria and Egypt : alms, work and the "holy poor" / Peter Brown; title: Medieval monks on labor and leisure / John Van Engen; title: Sibling rivalries, scriptural communities : what medieval history can and cannot teach us about relations between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam / David Nirenberg; title: The people and the book : print and the transformation of Jewish culture in early modern Europe / David Ruderman; title: The Jewish book in Christian Europe : material texts and religious encounters / Anthony Grafton; title: Mission and narrative in the early modern Spanish world : Diego de Oca's desert in passing / Kenneth Mills; title: Incombustible Weber : how the Protestant Reformation really disenchanted the world / Carlos Eire; title: Religion and gender in Enlightenment England : the problem of agency / Phyllis Mack; title: Constructions of Jewish identity through reflections on Islam / Susannah Heschel; title: Bible, translation, and culture : from the KJV to the Christian resurgence in Africa / Lamin Sanneh; title: Reflections on the Bible and American public life / Mark A. Noll.