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

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1641891493
• ISBN-13: 978-1802701685
• Thông tin xuất bản: Arc Humanities Press, 2024
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 461497
• Chủ đề: 1. Shared saints; 2. shared space; 3. shared festivals; 4. Jews; 5. Christians; 6. Muslims; 7. pilgrimage; 8. thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history; 9. thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history; 10. thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRJ Judaism; 11. thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity

Tóm tắt

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.