IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 522: Heresy and the History of Religion
Tuesday 14 July 2009, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Mark Gregory Pegg, Department of History, Washington University in St Louis |
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Moderator/Chair: | Amanda Power, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
Paper 522-a | Heresy and the People: The 1140s (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Religious Life, Social History |
Paper 522-b | On Heresy, Orthodoxy, and the So-Called Nomothetic Religions (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Religious Life |
Paper 522-c | Catharism and the Study of Religion (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Religious Life, Social History |
Abstract | The three papers will each address the problem of how we approach the study of heresy in the Middle Ages in Christianity and Judaism (with some reflection on this problem in Islam). In each case the papers will question the prevailing assumptions about heresy and heretics - as in the existence of the Cathars, the origin of heresy in the 11th and 12th centuries, or the identity of the Qaraites in relation to Rabbinic Judaism - and how this reappraisal of the historiography of heresy demands a reappraisal of what we mean when we study the history of religion. |