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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Index - Jesus and Addiction to Origins |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Willi Braun; University of Alberta; Canada |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Religious Studies |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | religious practices; human behaviour; history of religion; anthropology of religion; early Christian; Greco-Roman; biblical studies, New Testament; sacred text |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | history of religion; anthropology and religion; biblical studies |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | With an Afterword by William E. Arnal, University of Regina This collection of essays constitute an extended argument for an anthropocentric, human-focused, study of religious practices. The basic premise of the argument, offered in the opening section, is that there is nothing special or extraordinary about human behaviors and constructs that are claimed to have uniquely religious status and authority. Instead, they are fundamentally human and so the scholar of religion is engaged in nothing more or less than studying humans across time and place and all their complex existence—that includes creating more-than-human beings and realities. As an extended and detailed example of such an approach, the second part of the book contains essays that address practices, rhetoric and other data in early Christianities within Greco-Roman cultures and religions. The underlying aim is to insert studies of the New Testament and non-canonical texts, most often presented as “biblical studies,” into the anthropocentric study of religion proposed in the opening section. For a general reading of modern biblical scholarship makes clear the assumption that the Christian bible is a “sacred text” whose principal raison d’être is to stand, fetish-like, as the foundational and highest authority in matters moral, ritual or theological; how might we instead approach the study of these texts if they are nothing more or less than human documents deriving from situations that were themselves all too human? Braun’s Jesus and Addiction to Origins seeks to answer just that question—doing so in a way that readers working outside Christian origins will undoubtedly find useful applications for the people, places, and historical periods that they study. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 05-Nov-2020 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/42138 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.42138 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Jesus and Addiction to Origins |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) | |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |