Contents

List of Contributors

R. Ruard Ganzevoort - Introduction. Religious Stories We Live By

E. Koster - 'Show, Don't Tell'. The (Ir)rationality of Religious Stories

J.M. Day - Narrative, Postformal Cognition, and Religious Belief

C. Hermans - Narratives of the Self in the Study of Religion. Epistemological Reflections Based on a Pragmatic Notion of Weak Rationality

BIBLICAL STUDIES

D. Erbele-Kuester - A Short Story of Narratology in Biblical Studies

W.J.C. Weren - Saramago's Reshaping of Cain and God. A Study in Characterization and Intertextuality

M. den Braber - Jericho is Shouting. Narrative and Rhetoric in Joshua 6

K. Spronk - The Story of a Gang Rape as a Means of Liberation. A Contextual Reading of Judges 19

W. van Wieringen - Showcasing the Little Sister. The Grammatical Lives of Samson's Women (Jdg 13-16) as a Syntactic Supplement to Narratological Analysis

EMPIRICAL STUDIES

M. Scherer-Rath - Narrative Reconstruction as Creative Contingency

M. Buitelaar - Dialogical Constructions of a Muslim Self through Life Story Telling

T. Elshof - Religious Narrative and the Body

J. van den Brand et al. - An Instrument for Reconstructing Interpretation in Life Stories

SYSTEMATIC STUDIES

L.J. van den Brom - Narrative Theology. A Structural Overview

A.-M. Korte - Mourning for Yasmina: A Passion Narrative. Storytelling and Social Engagement in Urban Ministry

M. de Haardt - Visual Narratives. Entrance to Everyday Religious Practices

HISTORICAL STUDIES

M. Monteiro et al. - Changing Narratives. The Stories the Religious Have Lived by since the 1960's

J. Exalto - Telling Authorized Stories. The Dynamics of the Dutch Pietistic Narrative Community

J.W.J. van Gennip - Publish or Perish? The Polemical and Apologetic Publications of the Jesuits in the Low Countries (17th Century)

A. Berlis - Means of Submission or Symbol of Protest? The Habit of the Sister of St Charles Borromeo Amalie Augustine von Lasaulx (1815-1872)

L. Hoeven - A Religion en plein public. Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory

Index of Subjects, Authors and Biblical Passages