Publication

2018 - Edinburgh University Press

Language

English

Word Count

72,000 words, Guess

Page Count

288 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780748699063
  • ISBN-100748699066
  • OCLC Control Number1078665676
  • Better World Books9780748699063
  • Open LibraryOL28905587M

Classifications

  • LCCBV5082.3.N4 2018
  • LCCBP172 .N48 2019

Description

"This new and dynamic approach to the perennially fascinating subject of miracles adopts a strictly anthropological and phenomenological approach. Allowing the miracles to speak for themselves, Ian Richard Netton examines these phenomena in the Islamic and Christian traditions through the lens of narration. What are the stories of the miracles? What are the contexts which gave rise to these miracles and allowed them to garner belief and flourish? Perspectives covered include the views of believers and non-believers alike in these phenomena. Similarities and differences in content and approach are explored with a primary focus on the five main anthropological topoi of food, water, blood, wood and stone, and cosmology. A range of intertextual elements in both these Islamic and Christian traditions are discerned." --

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Islam, Christianity and the Realms of the Miraculous: A Comparative ExplorationEdinburgh University Press2018-01-01

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