The study of Jesus has rarely looked at its own scholarly context, at how the representation of Jesus might be shaped by those who study him. 'Jesus beyond Nationalism' examines how - since the beginnings of historical Jesus studies in the nineteenth century - representations of Jesus have been used to promote hegemonic or mono-cultural views. The ideology behind such representation has operated to deny difference in society, difference in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Examining depictions of Jesus in a range of contexts - from the Russian Christ and Jesus as 'Holy Anarchist' to Jesus in Muslim thought - Jesus Beyond Nationalism reveals the politics behind the ways in which Jesus has been constructed and presented.

Jesus Beyond Nationalism (BibleWorld)

Moxnes, Halvor; Blanton, Ward; Crossley, James G

Ward Blanton, Halvor Moxnes, James G. Crossley

London ; Oakville, CT: Equinox

Equinox Publishing Ltd

Taylor and Francis

Bible world (London, England), London, 2009

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

London, Oakville, CT, England, 2009

BibleWorld, Sheffield, 2016

1, FR, 2009

Includes bibliographical references and index.

<p>The link between historical Jesus studies and the broader cultural contexts has been largely lost in contemporary scholarship, with the heritage of the Jesus scholarship from the nineteenth century being detached from its cultural context and with the history of Jesus scholarship being buried as a topic in the development of methods and issues in New Testament studies. As a result most presentations of the historical Jesus are historiographically and hermeneutically naive, assuming an objective posture, with little or no reflection on their ideological presuppositions. Therefore, consciously or unconsciously, they often represent hegemonic positions. This collection of essays starts from a different position, by questioning the use of presentations of Jesus to defend and protect hegemonic or mono-cultural contexts, and thereby explicitly or implicitly favour a development towards a more inclusive society for persons from different ethnic, racial, national, gender and sexual orientation backgrounds. This collection of essays will look at the cultural and ideological beginnings of historical Jesus studies in the nineteenth century and expose the underlying presuppositions of hegemony in contemporary presentations of Jesus, viewed from the perspective of cultural complexity.</p>

viii, 179 p. ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
What is cultural complexity? / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- What is it to write a biography of Jesus? : Schleiermacher's "Life of Jesus" and nineteenth-century nationalism / Halvor Moxnes -- Dostoevsky and the Russian Christ / Peter Normann Waage -- Albert Schweitzer's apocalyptic Jesus and the end of modernity / Ward Blanton -- Beyond nationalism : Jesus the "holy anarchist"? : the cynic Jesus as eternal recurrence of the repressed / Leif E. Vaage -- Jesus as battleground in a period of cultural complexity / William E. Arnal -- Jesus the Jew since 1967 / James G. Crossley -- Jesus in modern Muslim thought : from anti-colonial polemics to post-colonial dialogue? / Oddbjørn Leirvik

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 What Is Cultural Complexity? -- Part I Nineteenth-century Beginnings: Jesus, Nationalism and Modernism -- Chapter 2 What Is It to Write a Biography of Jesus? Schleiermacher's Life of Jesus and Nineteenth-century Nationalism -- Chapter 3 Dostoevsky and the Russian Christ -- Chapter 4 Albert Schweitzer's Apocalyptic Jesus and the End of Modernity -- Chapter 5 Beyond Nationalism: Jesus the "Holy Anarchist"? The Cynic Jesus as Eternal Recurrence of the Repressed

2023-06-28