Faithful Narratives

Andrea Sterk is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. She is the author most recently of Renouncing the World Yet Leading the Church: The Monk-Bishop in Late Antiquity. Nina Caputo is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. She is the author of Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia: Community, History, and Messianism.

• Introduction: The Challenge of Religion in HistoryANDREA STERK AND NINA CAPUTOPart One: Late Antique and Medieval Religious Debates and Their Modern Implications1. Pagan Challenge, Christian Response: Emperor Julian and Gregory of Nazianzus as Paradigms of Interreligious DiscourseSUSANNA ELM2. Between Syria and Egypt: Alms, Work, and the "Holy Poor"PETER BROWN3. Medieval Monks on Labor and LeisureJOHN VAN ENGEN4. Sibling Rivalries, Scriptural Communities: What Medieval History Can and CannotTeach Us about Relations between Judaism, Christianity, and IslamDAVID NIRENBERGPart Two: Early Modern Perspectives on Spirituality, Culture, and Religious Boundaries5. The People and the Book: Print and the Transformation of Jewish Culture in Early Modern EuropeDAVID B. RUDERMAN6. The Jewish Book in Christian Europe: Material Texts and Religious EncountersANTHONY GRAFTON7. Mission and Narrative in the Early Modern Spanish World: Diego de Ocaña's Desert in PassingKENNETH MILLS8. Incombustible Weber: How the Protestant Reformation Really Disenchanted the WorldCARLOS EIREPart Three: From the Premodern to the Modern World: Sacred Texts, Individual Agency, and Religious Identity9. Religion and Gender in Enlightenment England: The Problem of AgencyPHYLLIS MACK10. Constructions of Jewish Identity through Reflections on IslamSUSANNAH HESCHEL11. Bible, Translation, and Culture: From the KJV to the Christian Resurgence in AfricaLAMIN SANNEH12. Reflections on the Bible and American Public LifeMARK A. NOLLNotes

"Faithful Narratives features an all-star lineup of historians, the best of the best, and all deliver. They contend that religion cannot be explained away, ignored as a factor in human agency, reduced to a by-product of other factors, or treated as a category separate from society."