History and the Study of Religion. Prophecy, Imagination and Religion in the Granadan Lead Books, the Works of Jacobus Palaeologus and of Nicholas of Cusa
This article challenges the observation that historians and the discipline of History have not been helpful in addressing some of the important challenges in the Study of Religion by concentrating on “the local” and on deconstruction rather than on construction and “the global.” By undertaking a cro...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2022
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Journal of religious history
Year: 2022, Volume: 46, Issue: 4, Pages: 675-690 |
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Nicholas of Cusa 1401-1464
/ Palaeologus, Jacobus 1520-1585
/ Mediterranean area
/ Microhistory (Subject)
/ Research method
/ Comparative religion
/ Apocalypticism
/ History 1520-1600
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion BJ Islam CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBH Iberian Peninsula KBL Near East and North Africa NBQ Eschatology ZA Social sciences |
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| Summary: | This article challenges the observation that historians and the discipline of History have not been helpful in addressing some of the important challenges in the Study of Religion by concentrating on “the local” and on deconstruction rather than on construction and “the global.” By undertaking a cross-cultural case study — Medieval and Early Modern prophecies in the Muslim world and Europe — and focusing on the role and significance of the Granadan Sacromonte Lead Books (1588–1606) and the work of the radical Antitrinitarian Jacobus Paleologus (1520–1585), this paper argues that global and connected microhistorical approaches have been of great value to developing the promising trend of a relational approach in the Study of Religion. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9809 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12908 |