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Title:
Religion : narrating religion / Sarah Iles Johnston, editor.
Author:
Johnston, Sarah Iles, 1957- editor.
Publication Information:
Farmington Hills, Mich. : Macmillan Reference USA, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2017]
Call Number:
BL624 .R4265 2017
Abstract:
"Discusses the ways in which narratives can create, sustain, and challenge religious beliefs and practices"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780028662916
Series:
Macmillan interdisciplinary handbooks, religion

Macmillan interdisciplinary handbooks. Religion.
Physical Description:
xxviii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents:
Sacred texts / Ritual and narrative / Myth and ritual / Actually, you can compare apples to oranges: secrets of successful comparison of myths / Narrating the faith in Greek Orthodox liturgy / Myth and ritual in modern paganisms / Narratives that do things / Constructing belief through narrative engagement / Narrating supernatural experiences / How myths and other stories help to create and sustain beliefs / Narrating through images / Reading iconography as narrative / Narrating the future / The lifestory of the Buddha / The biography of a pagan saint: Apollonius of Tyana / The lives of Christian saints / Religion goes to the movies / Screen narratives: film and television / Talmud / Narrating the Upaniṣads / The preservation and adaptation of Norse myth / Narrating religion through museums / On the mythologies of scholarship: the deep narratives of the study of religion and some possible futures
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