EAN: 9783110444544

HISTORY AND RELIGION GEBUNDEN

History is one of the most important cultural tools to make sense of one's situation  to
establish identity  define otherness  and explain change. This is the first systematic
scholarly study that analyses the complex relationship between history and religion  taking
into account religious groups both as producers of historical narratives as well as distinct
topics of historiography. Coming from different disciplines  the authors of this volume ask
under which conditions and with what consequences religions are historicised. How do religious
groups employ historical narratives in the construction of their identities? What are the
biases and elisions of current analytical and descriptive frames in the History of Religion?
The volume aims at initiating a comparative historiography of religion and combines
disciplinary competences of Religious Studies and the History of Religion  Confessional
Theologies  History  History of Science  and Literary Studies. By applying literary comparison
and historical contextualization to those texts that have been used as central documents for
histories of individual religions  their historiographic themes  tools and strategies are
analysed. The comparative approach addresses circum-Mediterranean and European as well as Asian
religious traditions from the first millennium BCE to the present and deals with topics such as
the origins of religious historiography  the practices of writing and the transformation of
narratives.

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