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Ireland and the Reception of the Bible Social and Cultural Perspectives, 2018

Chapters in Edited Volumes/Encyclopaedia Entries by Jonathan F Kearney

Ireland and the Reception of the Bible: Social and Cultural Perspectives, 2018

The Cultural Reception of the Bible: Explorations in Theology, Literature and the Arts, 2018

The Future of Interfaith Dialogue: Muslim-Christian Encounters through A Common Word, 2018

Reading the Sacred Scriptures: From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception, 2017

Papers by Jonathan F Kearney

Religions, 2022

A disproportionate emphasis on the work of Western European and North American scholars has been ... more A disproportionate emphasis on the work of Western European and North American scholars has been a feature of investigations into the development of the academic study of religion. This article seeks to examine how a non-European intellectual, the Syrian Muḥammad Kurd ʿAlī (1876-1953), produced and transmitted knowledge about religions in his encyclopedic historical topography of 'Greater Syria'-the Khiṭaṭ al-Shām (1925-1928). Kurd ʿAlī was a leading figure in the Nahḍa, an intellectual movement that sought to revivify Arab (and for some, Islamic) culture through a rediscovery of its classical heritage and was a proponent of a reformist tendency within Sunnī Islam known as Salafism-often associated with the thought of Jamal al-Dīn al-Afghānī and Muḥammad ʿAbduh. Kurd ʿAlī's religiography in the Khiṭaṭ, though grounded in traditional Islamic discourse on the religious other, moves beyond that discourse to privilege the experiences and accounts of insiders. This move from heresiography to religiography is best seen through a close reading of Kurd ʿAlī's writing on the ʿAlawīs (formerly known as Nuṣayrīs). Kurd ʿAlī's writing on the ʿAlawīs is also an important witness to a vital phase in the development of that group's articulation of its own identity in an environment that had been at best indifferent and at worst hostile to its existence.

Doctrine and Life 63/10 (2013): 25-33

Doctrine and Life 63/9 (2013): 3–11

Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Association 35 (2012): 111-120., Apr 2013

This paper is an expanded version of that read at the National Bible Society of Ireland's Bedell/... more This paper is an expanded version of that read at the National Bible Society of Ireland's Bedell/Boyle Lecture 2012. In keeping with the aims of the lecture series, it aims to offer a general audience a basic introduction to Karaite Judaism.

Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Association 33-34 (2010-2011): 55-75., 2010

My sincere thanks to Edgar Xavier (https://independent.academia.edu/EdgarXavier2) for kindly poin... more My sincere thanks to Edgar Xavier (https://independent.academia.edu/EdgarXavier2) for kindly pointing out some errors of fact in this paper. On page 70, the Herald is incorrectly identified as an Indonesian Catholic newspaper. The newspaper is Malaysian. And, of course, Kuala Lumpur (as mentioned in footnote 49), is the capital city of Malaysia - not Indonesia. So the phrase in parenthesis at the end of the second paragraph on page 70 should read "(an Arabic loanword in Malay [Bahasa Melayu])". Again, sincere thanks to Edgar for his close reading of the paper and his taking the trouble to point out these errors.

Jonathan

Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Association 29 (2006): 57-77., 2006

Talks by Jonathan F Kearney