Fabricating Founders in Early Modern England

History, Rhetoric, and the Origins of Christianity
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-51435-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 7 g

Reihe: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion

Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion publishes book length manuscripts which explicitly address the problems of methodology and theory in the academic study of religion. This includes such traditional multidisciplinary points of departure as history, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, and sociology, but also the natural sciences, and such other approaches as feminist theory, discourse analysis, and ideology critique. Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion also concentrates on the critical analysis of the history of the study of religion itself.

The series has published an average of 1,5 volumes per year since 2013.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horn Griffin, Lauren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Abbreviations

Terminology

Translation

Introduction

1 Innovation versus Tradition: Managing the Messiness of History

2 Temporal versus Universal: Origins and Supernatural Authorizing Power

3 Religion versus History: Our Own Categories & Classifications

4 Texts versus Objects and Bodies: Memorializing Origins

5 Cohesion versus Division: The Function of Origin Narratives

6 Chapter Overview

1 Constructing Time, Tradition, and Truth: The Origins of the Christian Origins Debate in England

1 Contextualizing Origins: The Early Church and the Empire of England

2 Denigrating the Old Past

3 Creating a New Past: John Bale and Epochal Time

4 Human History and Universal Truth

5 Conclusions

2 Framing Spaces: Where Was the Early Church?

1 From Precedent to Acts of Identification: Legitimizing Edward and Mary

2 Changing Places: Shifting Conceptions of Space in Jewel and Fox

3 Spatial Understandings of Regional Culture: Nicholas Harpsfield’s Archipelagic Narrative

4 Space and Ethnicity: Anglo-Centrism in Stapleton and Persons

5 Conclusions

3 Authorizing Origins: Martyrology, Hagiography, and the Varieties of Supernatural Authorization in Christian Foundation Narratives

1 An Unbelievable Origin Narrative

2 Reframing Miracles: From Conversion to Confirmation

3 Founder-Saints and the Construction of Space and Time

4 Case Study: St Winefride

5 Conclusions

4 Experiencing Origins: Founding Figures in Visual and Ritual Culture, or Public History and the Realm of the Everyday

1 Landmarks and the Production of History: The Augustine Story in Public Spaces

2 Authority and Audience: Antiquarian Accounts of the Conversion of the North

3 Memorialization and Memory: Local Missionary Saints Throughout Britain

4 Liturgy, Time, and Narrative

5 A Relationalist Reading: Foregrounding the Celtic Legacy

6 Conclusions

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Aaron W. Hughes, Ph.D. (1968), is the Phillip S. Benrstein Chair in the Department of Religion and Classics at the Univeristy of Rochester. He is the Editor-in-Chief of MTSR and has published widely in Jewish Studies, Islamic Studies, and Theory and Method.

Russell T. McCutcheon is professor at the Department of Religious Studies of the University of Alabama. His areas of interest include the history of scholarship on myths and rituals, the history of the publicly-funded academic study of religion as practiced in the U.S., secularism, as well as the relations between the classification "religion" itself and the rise of the nation-state.

Kocku von Stuckrad is professor of religious studies at the University of Groningen. In his work he focuses particularly on esoteric discourses in Western culture, astrology, shamanism, and on topics related to religion, nature, and science.