It`s Just Another Story: The Politics of Remembering the Earliest Christians, Willi Braun

Автор: Willi Braun
Название: It`s Just Another Story: The Politics of Remembering the Earliest Christians
ISBN: 1845530098 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845530099
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: With one eye on the motives for and the manners of the production of early Christian narratives of Christian beginnings, and the other eye on modern scholarly and popular motives for and manners of appropriating the early Christian narratives, this book offers a bifocal meditation on the historiographical practices and problems entailed in the concept of Christian "origins". The author begins by examining why and how early and modern Christian "archive fever" (Derrida) converts the mythic notion of "origin" to the historical concept of "beginnings" and that sees in "beginnings" an endlessly redeeming past. The gospel of Mark is an elaborated example of "just another story" that, though it really is just another story, perhaps not a very good one by any accounting, is exalted to the status of a charter narrative that is read as the true story of how it truly was in the past. The story of Jesus, fixed just so by elaborate techniques of producing stories that present themselves as histories, is a second example of early and modern past-making for purposes that are not in the past but for which the past as a constructed ideal is valuable currency in the contest for social and political identity and power in the present. A third example of a constructed past as a fix for modern ills is evident in modern attempts to find in the beginnings of Christianity an ideology that favoured a set of practices that were emancipatory for women. The author exposes this reading as "wishful thinking" historiography and explains why such historiography is compelling both in the academy and in popular thinking. In the final chapter the author engages current historiographical theories in order to explain why the Christian past is like a dead ancestor who refuses to stay dead.

Автор: Penn Michael Philip
Название: When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam
ISBN: 0520284941 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520284944
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Through its introductions and translations of this book allows scholars, students, and the general public to explore the earliest interactions between what eventually became the world`s two largest religions, shedding new light on Islamic history and Christian-Muslim relations.

Автор: Invisible God P Mpg: Aw
Название: Invisible God P Mpg: Aw
ISBN: 0195113810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195113815
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In this text, the author refutes the traditional assumption that early Christians were opposed in principle to visual images and thus produced no art. He asserts that once Christians acquired legal status and were able to own property and places of worship, they produced art to decorate them.

Автор: Chestang Thelonius
Название: Becoming Japoc: Just Another Piece of Clay
ISBN: 055717256X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780557172566
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Цена: 25410.00 T
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