Historical Methods in Religious Studies and Theology

RT2713 Historical Methods in Religious Studies and Theology Advanced Level, 7,5 hp

Books:
Bond, Helen (2012). The Historical Jesus. A Guide for the Perplexed. London: T&T Clark. 174 pages.
or
Wassen, Cecilia and Tobias Hägerland (2016). Den okände Jesus: Berättelsen om en profet som misslyckades. Stockholm: Langenskiöld, 2016. 249 pages.

Bradley, James E. and Muller, Richard (2016). Church History: An Introduction to Research, Reference Works, and Methods. 99 pages.

Howell, Martha and Prevenier, Walter. From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001). 195 pages.

Law, David R. (2012). The Historical-Critical Method: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: T&T Clark. 241 pages.

Schrag, Zachary M. The Princeton Guide to Historical Research. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. 402 pages.
Tosh, John (2015). The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of History. Sixth edition. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. 291 pages.
or
Tosh, John (2011). Historisk teori och metod. Lund: Studentlitteratur. 337 pages.


Articles:

Casadio, Giovanni (2016). ”Historicizing and Translating Religion.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion. Edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 14 pages. Link.

Eskola, Timo (2010). “Quran Criticism, the Historical-Critical Method, and the Secularization of Biblical Theology.” In Journal of Theological Interpretation 4 (2): 229–51. Link.

Morrow, Jeffrey L. (2010). “The Politics of Biblical Interpretation: A ‘Criticism of Criticism’.” In New Blackfriars 91, no. 1035. 17 pages. Link.
Quirk, Joel (2008). ”Historical Methods.” In The Oxford Handbook of International Relations. Edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 19 pages. Link.
Rüpke, Jörg (2012). ”History.” In The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion. London: Routledge. 19 pages. Link.
Stausberg, Michael (2016). ”History.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 24 pages. Link.

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