Shared Saints and Festivals among Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean

Alexandra Cuffel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

326 Seiten

2024 | New edition
ARC Humanities Press (Verlag)
978-1-64189-149-3 (ISBN)

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This book explores shared religious practices among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, focusing primarily on the medieval Mediterranean. It examines the meanings members of each community ascribed to the presence of the religious other at "their" festivals or holy sites during pilgrimage. Communal boundaries were often redefined or dissolved during pilgrimage and religious festivals. Yet, paradoxically, shared practices served to enforce communal boundaries, since many of the religious elite devised polemical interpretations of these phenomena which highlighted the superiority of their own faith. Such interpretations became integral to each group’s theological understanding of self and other to such a degree that in some regions, religious minorities were required to participate in the festivals of the ruling community. In all formulations, “otherness” remained an essential component of both polemic and prayer.

Alexandra Cuffel is Professor of Jewish Religion and History at Ruhr University, Bochum (Germany). Her research interests focus on medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim relations.

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Holy Spaces and Holy Corpses: Defining Sanctity and Veneration of the Dead from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

Chapter 2. The Other as Witness to the Truth: Positive Responses to Shared Religious Veneration among Jewish and Christian Pilgrims to the Middle East from Western Europe

Chapter 3. Forceful Saints and Compelling Rituals: Real and Imagined Jewish and Muslim Participation in Christian Rituals and Saint Cults from Byzantium to Western Europe

Chapter 4. Praising, Cursing, or Ignoring the Other: Jews, Christians, and Muslims at One Another’s Holy Spaces in the Islamicate Mediterranean

Chapter 5. Opposition to Shared Saints and Festivals in the Islamicate World

Chapter 6. Upholding the Dignity of the Faith and Separating Believers and Unbelievers in Medieval Christian Societies

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	Jewish Engagements
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-64189-149-1 / 1641891491
ISBN-13	978-1-64189-149-3 / 9781641891493
Zustand	Neuware