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Stories have always been important in religion, but systematic explorations of the narrative dimensions of religion are more recent and interdisciplinary explorations of narrative approaches in theology and religious studies are scarce. Religious Stories We Live By paves the ground for these much needed interdisciplinary conversations. It first offers philosophical, psychological, and epistemological reflections on the importance of narrative approaches in the study of religion. The subsequent sections contain case studies and disciplinary overviews of narrative perspectives in biblical, empirical, systematic, and historical approaches in theology and religious studies. Combined, the contributions showcase the potential of narrative perspectives in bridging theology and religious studies, as well as descriptive and normative approaches. Narrative perspectives offer a fruitful common ground for the study of religion.
Contributors include Angela Berlis, Marjo Buitelaar, James Day, Maaike de Haardt, Marieke den Braber, Luco van den Brom, Marjet Derks, Toke Elshof, Dorothea Erbele Küster, John Exalto, Ruard Ganzevoort, Joep van Gennip, Annelies van Heijst, Chris Hermans, Liesbeth Hoeven, Anne-Marie Korte, Edwin Koster, Marit Monteiro, Michael Scherer-Rath, Klaas Spronk, Piet Verschuren, Wim Weren, and Willien van Wieringen.
Contents
List of Contributors ... ix
Introduction. Religious StoriesWe Live By ... 1
R. Ruard Ganzevoort
'Show, Don't Tell'. The (Ir)rationality of Religious Stories ... 19
Edwin Koster
Narrative, Postformal Cognition, and Religious Belief ... 33
James M. Day
Narratives of the Self in the Study of Religion. Epistemological Reections Based on a Pragmatic Notion ofWeak Rationality ... 55
Chris Hermans
BIBLICAL STUDIES
A Short Story of Narratology in Biblical Studies ... 75
Dorothea Erbele-Küster
Saramago's Reshaping of Cain and God. A Study in Characterization and Intertextuality ... 89
Wim J.C.Weren
Jericho is Shouting. Narrative and Rhetoric in Joshua 6 ... 99
Marieke den Braber
The Story of a Gang Rape as a Means of Liberation. A Contextual Reading of Judges 19 ... 109
Klaas Spronk
Showcasing the Little Sister. The Grammatical Lives of Samson's Women (Judg changed to SBL abbreviation 13-16) as a Syntactic Supplement to Narratological Analysis ...117
Willien van Wieringen
EMPIRICAL STUDIES
Narrative Reconstruction as Creative Contingency ... 131
Michael Scherer-Rath
Dialogical Constructions of a Muslim Self through Life Story Telling ... 143
Marjo Buitelaar
Religious Narrative and the Body ... 157
Toke Elshof
An Instrument for Reconstructing Interpretation in Life Stories ... 169
Jos van den Brand, Chris Hermans, Michael Scherer-Rath, and Piet Verschuren
SYSTEMATIC STUDIES
Narrative Theology. A Structural Overview ... 183
Luco J. van den Brom
Mourning for Yasmina: A Passion Narrative. Storytelling and Social Engagement in Urban Ministry ... 195
Anne-Marie Korte
Visual Narratives. Entrance to Everyday Religious Practices ... 209
Maaike de Haardt
HISTORICAL STUDIES
Changing Narratives. The Stories the Religious Have Lived by since the 1960's ... 221
Marit Monteiro, Marjet Derks, and Annelies van Heijst
Telling Authorized Stories. The Dynamics of the Dutch Pietistic Narrative Community ... 241
John Exalto
Publish or Perish? The Polemical and Apologetic Publications of the Jesuits in the Low Countries (17th Century) ... 251
Joep W.J. van Gennip
Means of Submission or Symbol of Protest? The Habit of the Sister of St Charles Borromeo Amalie Augustine von Lasaulx (1815-1872) ... 263
Angela Berlis
A Religion en plein public. Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory ... 279
Liesbeth Hoeven
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