\ edited by Bernd-Christian Otto, Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke with the support of Andrés Quero-Sanchez.
; Boston
: Walter de Gruyter
, [2015]
vii, 464 p.
Religionsgeschichtliche versuche und vorarbeiten
; Band 68
Includes bibliographical references and index.
History and religion: section i origins and developments -- Introduction / Johannes Bronkhorst -- The historiography of brahmanism / Jörg Rüpke -- Construing Religion by doing historiography : the historicisation of religion -- In the Roman Republic / Anders Klostergaard Petersen -- The use of historiography in Paul : a case-study of the instrumentalisation -- Of the past in the context of late Second Temple Judaism -- Ingvild Sælid Gilhus -- Flirty fishing and poisonous serpents : Epiphanius of Salamis inside his medical chest against heresies / Sylvie Hureau -- Reading Sutras in biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks / Chase F. Robinson -- History and heilsgeschichte in early Islam : some observations on prophetic -- History and biography / Per K. Sørensen -- The development and formation of religious historiography in Tibet -- Pekka Tolonen -- Medieval memories of the origins of the Waldensian movement / Yves Krumenacker -- The use of history by French Protestants and its impact on Protestant -- Historiography -- Writing histories -- Introduction / Shahzad Bashir -- A Perso-Islamic universal chronicle in its historical context : Ghiyas al-Din / Khwandamir's Abib al-Siyar / Jon Keune -- Conditions for historicising religion : Hindu saints, regional identity, and social change in western India, ca. 1600-1900 / Susanne Rau -- Practitioners of religious historiography in early modern europe / Martin mulsow -- Impartiality, individualisation, and the historiography of religion : Tobias Pfanner on the rituals of the Ancient Church / Hannah schneider -- The gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it : the narrative of the victorious church in French church histories of the nineteenth century / Franziska Metzger -- Conflicting historiographical claims in religiously plural societies / Philipp Hetmanczyk -- Religion and economic development on the role of religion in the historiography of political economy in twentieth century China -- Transforming narratives -- Introduction / Benedikt Kranemann -- The notion of tradition in liturgy / Gabriella Gustafsson -- Verbs, nouns, temporality and typology : narrations of ritualised warfare in Roman Antiquity / Cristiana Facchini -- Judaism : an inquiry into the historical discourse / Renée Koch Piettre -- President de Brosses's modern and post-modern fetishes in the historiography and history of religions / Reinhard G. Kratz -- Historia sacra and historical criticism in biblical scholarship / Bernd-Christian Otto -- A Catholic magician, historicises, magic : Éliphas Lévi's Histoire de la Magie / Giovanni Filoramo -- Locating the history of Christianity between the history of the Church and the history of religions : the Italian case.