For those who need to be persuaded that Christianity, Judaism and Islam are helpfully grouped together and analysed as Abrahamic religions, Stroumsa provides a most compelling and subtle collection of evidence. This volume is highly recommended for those wanting to probe questions of method and content surrounding Islamic origins and the mutation of religiosity in Late Antiquity.
Damian Howard, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity. The continuation of biblical prophecy runs like a thread from Jesus through Mani to Muhammad. And yet this thread, arguably the single most important characteristic of the Abrahamic movement, often remains outside the mainstream, hidden, as it were, since it generates heresy. The figures of the Gnostic, the holy man, and the mystic are all sequels of the Israelite prophet. They reflect a mode of religiosity that is characterized by high intensity. It is centripetal and activist by nature and emphasizes sectarianism and polemics, esoteric knowledge, or gnosis and charisma. The other mode of religiosity, much more common than the first, is centrifugal and irenic. It favours an ecumenical attitude, contents itself with a widely shared faith, or pistis, and reflects, in Weberian parlance, the routinisation of the new religious movement. This is the mode of priests and bishops, rather than that of martyrs and holy men. These two main modes of religion, high versus low intensity, exist simultaneously, and cross the boundaries of religious communities. They offer a tool permitting us to follow the transformations of religion in late antiquity in general, and in ancient Christianity in particular, without becoming prisoners of the traditional categories of patristic literature. Through the dialectical relationship between these two modes of religiosity, one can follow the complex transformations of ancient Christianity in its broad religious context.
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The book studies how the religious structures of late antique religion (in particular Christianity) forged the core elements that became identified with those of the Abrahamic religions after the birth of Islam.
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PART I: TRANSFORMATIONS OF RELIGION IN LATE ANTIQUITY; PART II: THE TRUE PROPHET; PART III: RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES AND GOD'S LAW; PART IV: THE WAY TO MECCA
For those who need to be persuaded that Christianity, Judaism and Islam are helpfully grouped together and analysed as Abrahamic religions, Stroumsa provides a most compelling and subtle collection of evidence. This volume is highly recommended for those wanting to probe questions of method and content surrounding Islamic origins and the mutation of religiosity in Late Antiquity.
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Launches the new Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions series
Shows how religious history of late antiquity informs our understanding of the genesis of Islam
Examines the main developments in religious trends in the Near East (in particular in Christianity) from the first to the seventh century
Shows how the end of blood sacrifices represented one of the most significant transformations of religion in late antiquity
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Guy G. Stroumsa is Professor Emeritus of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions at the University of Oxford and Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He obtained his PhD from Harvard in 1978. Professor Stroumsa received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Zurich in 2004, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2008, and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre du Mérite in 2012. He is a member of the
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
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Launches the new Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions series
Shows how religious history of late antiquity informs our understanding of the genesis of Islam
Examines the main developments in religious trends in the Near East (in particular in Christianity) from the first to the seventh century
Shows how the end of blood sacrifices represented one of the most significant transformations of religion in late antiquity
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ISBN
9780198738862
Publisert
2015
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Vendor
Oxford University Press
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512 gr
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240 mm
Bredde
173 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
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Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
238
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