By Halvor Moxnes
Read Online or Download Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism: A New Quest for the Nineteenth Century Historical Jesus PDF
Best religious history books
The be aware Islam capability Peace, yet for almost 1,400 years its adherents have waged war—frequently at the grandest and so much profitable scales in background. This publication introduces a few of Islam's maximum army figures and analyzes major occasions which are shaping the trendy international. Nafziger and Walton aspect the wealthy and numerous army histories of dozens of empires, countries, tribes, clans, and peoples.
An End to Enmity: Paul and the "Wrongdoer" of Second Corinthians
An finish to Enmity casts mild upon the shadowy determine of the perpetrator of moment Corinthians via exploring the social and rhetorical conventions that ruled friendship, enmity and reconciliation within the Greco-Roman global. The booklet places ahead a unique speculation concerning the identification of the culprit and the character of his offence opposed to Paul.
New York Glory: Religions in the City
Is ny a post-secular urban? immense immigration and cultural adjustments have created an more and more complicated social panorama within which non secular existence performs a dynamic function. but the value of religion's effect on New York's social existence has long past unacknowledged. manhattan Glory gathers jointly for the 1st time the easiest examine on faith in modern manhattan urban.
- Historical dictionary of the Orthodox Church
- The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons, c. 597-700: Discourses of Life, Death and Afterlife
- The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century
- Black Pilgrimage to Islam
- German Visions of India, 1871–1918: Commandeering the Holy Ganges during the Kaiserreich
- Greek Religion (New Surveys in the Classics No. 24)
Additional info for Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism: A New Quest for the Nineteenth Century Historical Jesus
Sample text
Masculinities and nation Schleiermacher started his lectures on The Life of Jesus by addressing his students as ‘Gentlemen’. In itself, this greeting only reflected the obvious fact that the student body at the University of Berlin in his time was all male. But just because it was so ‘natural’, Schleiermacher’s address signals the general context of historical Jesus studies in the nineteenth century. This was an all-male enterprise, and it has been criticized (and ridiculed) for being part of a male, European attempt to secure its position in a changing world, on a par with colonialism and imperialism.
He uses examples of early novels from Mexico and the Philippines that were associated with nationalist movements. Anderson finds a characteristic element in the way the novel combines the life of the hero and the social environment of the reading public. ’60 Here Anderson combines two aspects that were central to nineteenth-century ideas about history and nation. Since history was determined by the influence of ‘great men’ or heroes, they were also the protagonists of national movements and the founders of nations.
Strauss published his The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined in 1835 and lost his teaching position in Zurich as a result. Ernest Renan, in the inaugural lecture for his chair in Hebrew at the College de France in 1862, spoke of Jesus as ‘an incomparable man whom some call God’. 9 From a distance of 200 years and after a process of secularization and the marginalization of religious symbols and the Bible in European societies, it is difficult to imagine the significance of the symbols attached to Christ in prenineteenth century Europe.