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Claudia Gould draws on fieldwork she conducted, as an anthropologist, in North Carolina, where she earlier spent large parts of her childhood, among a net of paternal relations. From that ethnography and from lifelong observation, she crafts stories that lay open the human heart and social complications of fundamentalist Christian belief. These stories and the compelling characters who inhabit them pull us into the complicated, variable core of religious experience among southern American Christians. Jesus in America, a perceptive work rich with cultural insight, is a singular addition to the growing genre of ethnographic fiction.

Religious fiction, American --- Parables --- Ethnology --- Protestants --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Religious fiction, American. --- Parables. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- American religious fiction --- Morganton (N.C.) --- Social life and customs --- Christians --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Exempla --- Homiletical illustrations --- Tales --- Allegories --- Fables --- American fiction

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This volume aims to broaden our understanding of the related genres of parables, fables, and similes in the Graeco-Roman world. These genres, which make use of narrative analogy, appear in early Christian and ancient Jewish literatures and in various Graeco-Roman sources. However, despite the fact that these texts were part of the wider cultural context of Graeco-Roman antiquity, they have not yet been thoroughly studied in relation to each other. The present volume brings together contributions on a range of Graeco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian sources, so as to contribute to the study of parables, fables, and similes across disciplinary boundaries. The contributions highlight the fluid boundaries between these different genres, but also demonstrate how their adoption and adaption in different literary works give expression to the distinct identities of the composers.

Parables --- Parables in rabbinical literature --- Fables --- Simile --- Literary form --- 292 --- 225.08*7 --- 225.08*9 --- 225.08*9 Theologie van het Nieuw Testament: relatie met het hellenisme --- Theologie van het Nieuw Testament: relatie met het hellenisme --- 225.08*7 Theologie van het Nieuwe Testament: relatie met het jodendom --- Theologie van het Nieuwe Testament: relatie met het jodendom --- 292 Godsdiensten van Grieken en Romeinen. Klassieke mythologie --- Godsdiensten van Grieken en Romeinen. Klassieke mythologie --- 292 Religions des Grecs et des Romains. Mythologie classique --- Religions des Grecs et des Romains. Mythologie classique --- 292 Religions of the Greeks and Roman. Classical mythology --- Religions of the Greeks and Roman. Classical mythology --- Didactic literature --- Exempla --- Fiction --- Homiletical illustrations --- Legends --- Literature --- Tales --- Allegories --- Rabbinical literature --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- History --- Bible --- Ba-yon Tipan --- Bagong Tipan --- Bible. --- Jaji ma Hungi --- Kainē Diathēkē --- New Testament --- Nouveau Testament --- Novo Testamento --- Novum Testamentum --- Novyĭ Zavet --- Novyĭ Zavi︠e︡t Gospoda nashego Īisusa Khrista --- Novyĭ Zavit --- Nuevo Testamento --- Nuovo Testamento --- Nye Testamente --- Perjanjian Baru --- Dhamma sacʻ kyamʻʺ --- Injīl --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Parables. --- Parables in rabbinical literature. --- Fables. --- Simile. --- Rabbinic Judaism