The Oldest Past of Christianity: Dead or Alive?

The article argues that just as religion is manufactured or invented, so is tradition and history. This starting point is worked out with reference to history as a discursive construction, the past as fictioned in the present. The past does not exist independently of historical practice. History is...

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Main Author: Braun, Willi (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2024
In: Religion & theology
Year: 2024, Volume: 31, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 11-28
Further subjects:B Historiography
B manufacturing religion
B Historical Jesus
B invention of history
B mythmaking
B Christian Origins
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