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This book contains a multidisciplinary collection of studies on women in miracle stories found in texts ranging from religious classics to contemporary literary fiction. Miracle stories are a genre of great importance for the study of women's religious inheritance and for the historical and cultural understanding of women as 'makers of faith'. Miracle stories are very generally speaking more open to popular religion and culture than, for instance, doctrinal and official ecclesiastical texts, and as such, they can be of special interest to the study of women's lives and religious aspirations. Remarkably, up till now this genre has not been looked at from this point of view. This book aims to open this field for further research by presenting case studies from diverse angles and disciplines. Some of the questions this book tries to answer are: What do miracle stories specifically tell us about women? Are there some (types of) miracles that are in particular related to (certain groups of) women? What do these stories tell us about women as performers and/or subjects of miracles? What can be said about the social function and religious meaning of miracles by specifically looking at the way certain groups of women are practising and experiencing miracles? By including research on miracle stories in contemporary fiction written by women this book also wants to acknowledge and research the disputed status of 'miracles' as well of 'women' in our present society which is moving from modernity to post-modernity. Please note that Women and Miracle Stories is previously published by Brill in hardback (ISBN 90 04 16681 8, still available).

Miracles. --- Women --- RELIGION --- God --- Marvelous, The --- Miracle workers --- Spiritual healing --- Supernatural --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Religious life. --- Christianity --- Theology.

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Comparative literature --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Magical realism (Literature) --- Fantasy fiction --- Surrealism --- Magic in literature --- Marvelous, The, in literature --- Realism in literature --- American and Latin American --- Latin American and American --- History and criticism --- America --- Literatures --- History and criticism. --- REALISME MAGIQUE (LITTERATURE) --- LITTERATURE COMPAREE --- AMERICAINE ET HISPANO-AMERICAINE

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Der Autor vergleicht die drei Erzählungen der Apostelgeschichte über Gefängnisausbrüche mit anderen Befreiungswundern in griechisch-römischen und jüdischen Mythen. Eine Analyse dieser Geschichten und ihrer konventionellen Darstellung göttlicher Epiphanie und Kultbegründung ermöglicht neue Einblicke in den kulturellen Kontext und die narrative Darstellung frühchristlicher Geschichte in der Apostelgeschichte. Past scholarship on the prison-escapes in the Acts of the Apostles has tended to focus on lexical similarities to Euripides' Bacchae, going so far as to argue for direct literary dependence. Moving beyond such explanations, the present study argues that miraculous prison-escape was a central event in a traditional and culturally significant story about the introduction and foundation of cults - a story discernable in the Bacchae and other ancient texts. When the mythic quality and cultural diffusion of the prison-escape narratives are taken into account, the resemblance of Lukan and Dionysian narrative episodes is seen to depend less on specific literary borrowing, and more on shared familiarity with cultural discourses involving the legitimating portrayal of new cults in the ancient world.

Bible / N.T / Acts --- Criticism, Form --- Miracles --- Comparative studies --- Escapes --- Mythology --- Myth in the Bible --- 226.6 --- Handelingen der apostelen. Akten van de apostelen --- Myth in the Bible. --- Demythologization --- Prison escapes --- Adventure and adventurers --- Fugitives from justice --- Prisoners --- Prisons --- God --- Marvelous, The --- Miracle workers --- Spiritual healing --- Supernatural --- Bible. --- Acts (Book of the New Testament) --- Acts of the Apostles --- Chongdo haengjŏn --- Sado haengjŏn --- Criticism, Form. --- Jail breaks --- Prison breaks