R.Ruard Ganzevoort, Ph.D (1994) teaches practical theology at VU University Amsterdam. He published extensively on pastoral and practical theology, incuding a narrative-based introduction to pastoral care and religion and popular culture. Maaike de Haardt, Ph.D (1993) teaches Religion and Gender (Raboud University) and Religion and Culture (Tilburg University). She published on religion and culture, the sacred/divinity in everyday life, and recently particulary on the city, city life and culture as 'places for the sacred'. Michael Scherer-Rath, Ph.D (2001) teaches practical theology and empirical studies of religion at Radboud University Nijmegen. He published on religion, the narrative reconstruction of experiences of contigency and a narrative approach of religious counseling.

• List of Contributors ... ixIntroduction. Religious StoriesWe Live By ... 1R. Ruard Ganzevoort‘Show, Don’t Tell’. The (Ir)rationality of Religious Stories ... 19Edwin KosterNarrative, Postformal Cognition, and Religious Belief ... 33James M. DayNarratives of the Self in the Study of Religion. Epistemological Reections Based on a Pragmatic Notion ofWeak Rationality ... 55Chris HermansBIBLICAL STUDIESA Short Story of Narratology in Biblical Studies ... 75Dorothea Erbele-KüsterSaramago’s Reshaping of Cain and God. A Study in Characterization and Intertextuality ... 89Wim J.C.WerenJericho is Shouting. Narrative and Rhetoric in Joshua 6 ... 99Marieke den BraberThe Story of a Gang Rape as a Means of Liberation. A Contextual Reading of Judges 19 ... 109Klaas SpronkShowcasing the Little Sister. The Grammatical Lives of Samson’s Women (Judg changed to SBL abbreviation 13–16) as a Syntactic Supplement to Narratological Analysis ...117Willien van WieringenEMPIRICAL STUDIESNarrative Reconstruction as Creative Contingency ... 131Michael Scherer-RathDialogical Constructions of a Muslim Self through Life Story Telling ... 143Marjo BuitelaarReligious Narrative and the Body ... 157Toke ElshofAn Instrument for Reconstructing Interpretation in Life Stories ... 169Jos van den Brand, Chris Hermans, Michael Scherer-Rath, and Piet VerschurenSYSTEMATIC STUDIESNarrative Theology. A Structural Overview ... 183Luco J. van den BromMourning for Yasmina: A Passion Narrative. Storytelling and Social Engagement in Urban Ministry ... 195Anne-Marie KorteVisual Narratives. Entrance to Everyday Religious Practices ... 209Maaike de HaardtHISTORICAL STUDIESChanging Narratives. The Stories the Religious Have Lived by since the 1960’s ... 221Marit Monteiro, Marjet Derks, and Annelies van HeijstTelling Authorized Stories. The Dynamics of the Dutch Pietistic Narrative Community ... 241John ExaltoPublish or Perish? The Polemical and Apologetic Publications of the Jesuits in the Low Countries (17th Century) ... 251Joep W.J. van GennipMeans of Submission or Symbol of Protest? The Habit of the Sister of St Charles Borromeo Amalie Augustine von Lasaulx (1815–1872) ... 263Angela BerlisA Religion en plein public. Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory ... 279Liesbeth HoevenIndex

R.Ruard Ganzevoort, Ph.D (1994) teaches practical theology at VU University Amsterdam. He published extensively on pastoral and practical theology, incuding a narrative-based introduction to pastoral care and religion and popular culture. Maaike de Haardt, Ph.D (1993) teaches Religion and Gender (Raboud University) and Religion and Culture (Tilburg University). She published on religion and culture, the sacred/divinity in everyday life, and recently particulary on the city, city life and culture as 'places for the sacred'. Michael Scherer-Rath, Ph.D (2001) teaches practical theology and empirical studies of religion at Radboud University Nijmegen. He published on religion, the narrative reconstruction of experiences of contigency and a narrative approach of religious counseling.

• List of Contributors ... ixIntroduction. Religious StoriesWe Live By ... 1R. Ruard Ganzevoort‘Show, Don’t Tell’. The (Ir)rationality of Religious Stories ... 19Edwin KosterNarrative, Postformal Cognition, and Religious Belief ... 33James M. DayNarratives of the Self in the Study of Religion. Epistemological Reections Based on a Pragmatic Notion ofWeak Rationality ... 55Chris HermansBIBLICAL STUDIESA Short Story of Narratology in Biblical Studies ... 75Dorothea Erbele-KüsterSaramago’s Reshaping of Cain and God. A Study in Characterization and Intertextuality ... 89Wim J.C.WerenJericho is Shouting. Narrative and Rhetoric in Joshua 6 ... 99Marieke den BraberThe Story of a Gang Rape as a Means of Liberation. A Contextual Reading of Judges 19 ... 109Klaas SpronkShowcasing the Little Sister. The Grammatical Lives of Samson’s Women (Judg changed to SBL abbreviation 13–16) as a Syntactic Supplement to Narratological Analysis ...117Willien van WieringenEMPIRICAL STUDIESNarrative Reconstruction as Creative Contingency ... 131Michael Scherer-RathDialogical Constructions of a Muslim Self through Life Story Telling ... 143Marjo BuitelaarReligious Narrative and the Body ... 157Toke ElshofAn Instrument for Reconstructing Interpretation in Life Stories ... 169Jos van den Brand, Chris Hermans, Michael Scherer-Rath, and Piet VerschurenSYSTEMATIC STUDIESNarrative Theology. A Structural Overview ... 183Luco J. van den BromMourning for Yasmina: A Passion Narrative. Storytelling and Social Engagement in Urban Ministry ... 195Anne-Marie KorteVisual Narratives. Entrance to Everyday Religious Practices ... 209Maaike de HaardtHISTORICAL STUDIESChanging Narratives. The Stories the Religious Have Lived by since the 1960’s ... 221Marit Monteiro, Marjet Derks, and Annelies van HeijstTelling Authorized Stories. The Dynamics of the Dutch Pietistic Narrative Community ... 241John ExaltoPublish or Perish? The Polemical and Apologetic Publications of the Jesuits in the Low Countries (17th Century) ... 251Joep W.J. van GennipMeans of Submission or Symbol of Protest? The Habit of the Sister of St Charles Borromeo Amalie Augustine von Lasaulx (1815–1872) ... 263Angela BerlisA Religion en plein public. Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory ... 279Liesbeth HoevenIndex

R.Ruard Ganzevoort, Ph.D (1994) teaches practical theology at VU University Amsterdam. He published extensively on pastoral and practical theology, incuding a narrative-based introduction to pastoral care and religion and popular culture. Maaike de Haardt, Ph.D (1993) teaches Religion and Gender (Raboud University) and Religion and Culture (Tilburg University). She published on religion and culture, the sacred/divinity in everyday life, and recently particulary on the city, city life and culture as 'places for the sacred'. Michael Scherer-Rath, Ph.D (2001) teaches practical theology and empirical studies of religion at Radboud University Nijmegen. He published on religion, the narrative reconstruction of experiences of contigency and a narrative approach of religious counseling.

• List of Contributors ... ixIntroduction. Religious StoriesWe Live By ... 1R. Ruard Ganzevoort‘Show, Don’t Tell’. The (Ir)rationality of Religious Stories ... 19Edwin KosterNarrative, Postformal Cognition, and Religious Belief ... 33James M. DayNarratives of the Self in the Study of Religion. Epistemological Reections Based on a Pragmatic Notion ofWeak Rationality ... 55Chris HermansBIBLICAL STUDIESA Short Story of Narratology in Biblical Studies ... 75Dorothea Erbele-KüsterSaramago’s Reshaping of Cain and God. A Study in Characterization and Intertextuality ... 89Wim J.C.WerenJericho is Shouting. Narrative and Rhetoric in Joshua 6 ... 99Marieke den BraberThe Story of a Gang Rape as a Means of Liberation. A Contextual Reading of Judges 19 ... 109Klaas SpronkShowcasing the Little Sister. The Grammatical Lives of Samson’s Women (Judg changed to SBL abbreviation 13–16) as a Syntactic Supplement to Narratological Analysis ...117Willien van WieringenEMPIRICAL STUDIESNarrative Reconstruction as Creative Contingency ... 131Michael Scherer-RathDialogical Constructions of a Muslim Self through Life Story Telling ... 143Marjo BuitelaarReligious Narrative and the Body ... 157Toke ElshofAn Instrument for Reconstructing Interpretation in Life Stories ... 169Jos van den Brand, Chris Hermans, Michael Scherer-Rath, and Piet VerschurenSYSTEMATIC STUDIESNarrative Theology. A Structural Overview ... 183Luco J. van den BromMourning for Yasmina: A Passion Narrative. Storytelling and Social Engagement in Urban Ministry ... 195Anne-Marie KorteVisual Narratives. Entrance to Everyday Religious Practices ... 209Maaike de HaardtHISTORICAL STUDIESChanging Narratives. The Stories the Religious Have Lived by since the 1960’s ... 221Marit Monteiro, Marjet Derks, and Annelies van HeijstTelling Authorized Stories. The Dynamics of the Dutch Pietistic Narrative Community ... 241John ExaltoPublish or Perish? The Polemical and Apologetic Publications of the Jesuits in the Low Countries (17th Century) ... 251Joep W.J. van GennipMeans of Submission or Symbol of Protest? The Habit of the Sister of St Charles Borromeo Amalie Augustine von Lasaulx (1815–1872) ... 263Angela BerlisA Religion en plein public. Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory ... 279Liesbeth HoevenIndex