{"product_id":"faithful-narratives-9780801478574","title":"Faithful Narratives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together twelve eminent scholars whose research has exemplified compelling strategies for negotiating the difficulties inherent in the history of religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Faithful Narratives features an all-star lineup of historians, the best of the best, and all deliver. They contend that religion cannot be explained away, ignored as a factor in human agency, reduced to a by-product of other factors, or treated as a category separate from society.\" -- David Kling, University of Miami, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bible in History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Traversing the boundaries of the religious and the secular, the premodern and modern, and the disciplines of history and religious studies, this collection of illuminating and compelling essays offers new insights into the significance of religion in the study of history. It is an important and interdisciplinary intervention in modern historiography, for the contributors remind us that religion belongs alongside politics, economics, and culture as an integral dimension of individual and communal identity.\" -- Kim Haines-Eitzen, Cornell University, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gendered Palimpsest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Challenge of Religion in History\u003cbr\u003e ANDREA STERK AND NINA CAPUTO\u003cbr\u003e Part One: Late Antique and Medieval Religious Debates and Their Modern Implications\u003cbr\u003e 1. Pagan Challenge, Christian Response: Emperor Julian and Gregory of Nazianzus as Paradigms of Interreligious Discourse\u003cbr\u003e SUSANNA ELM\u003cbr\u003e 2. Between Syria and Egypt: Alms, Work, and the \"Holy Poor\"\u003cbr\u003e PETER BROWN\u003cbr\u003e 3. Medieval Monks on Labor and Leisure\u003cbr\u003e JOHN VAN ENGEN\u003cbr\u003e 4. Sibling Rivalries, Scriptural Communities: What Medieval History Can and Cannot\u003cbr\u003e Teach Us about Relations between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam\u003cbr\u003e DAVID NIRENBERG\u003cbr\u003e Part Two: Early Modern Perspectives on Spirituality, Culture, and Religious Boundaries\u003cbr\u003e 5. The People and the Book: Print and the Transformation of Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe\u003cbr\u003e DAVID B. RUDERMAN\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Jewish Book in Christian Europe: Material Texts and Religious Encounters\u003cbr\u003e ANTHONY GRAFTON\u003cbr\u003e 7. Mission and Narrative in the Early Modern Spanish World: Diego de Ocaña's Desert in Passing\u003cbr\u003e KENNETH MILLS\u003cbr\u003e 8. Incombustible Weber: How the Protestant Reformation Really Disenchanted the World\u003cbr\u003e CARLOS EIRE\u003cbr\u003e Part Three: From the Premodern to the Modern World: Sacred Texts, Individual Agency, and Religious Identity\u003cbr\u003e 9. Religion and Gender in Enlightenment England: The Problem of Agency\u003cbr\u003e PHYLLIS MACK\u003cbr\u003e 10. Constructions of Jewish Identity through Reflections on Islam\u003cbr\u003e SUSANNAH HESCHEL\u003cbr\u003e 11. Bible, Translation, and Culture: From the KJV to the Christian Resurgence in Africa\u003cbr\u003e LAMIN SANNEH\u003cbr\u003e 12. Reflections on the Bible and American Public Life\u003cbr\u003e MARK A. NOLL\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405157605719,"sku":"9780801478574","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801478574.jpg?v=1730488924","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/faithful-narratives-9780801478574","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}