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oapen-20.500.12657-886362024-03-28T14:03:01Z Shared Saints and Festivals among Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean Cuffel, Alexandra Shared saints;shared space;shared festivals;Jews;Christians;Muslims;pilgrimage thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRJ Judaism thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islam thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history 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. 2024-03-19T12:24:30Z 2024-03-19T12:24:30Z 2024 book 9781641891493 9781802701685 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88636 eng Jewish Engagements application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781802701678.pdf Arc Humanities Press 10.2307/jj.13027305 10.2307/jj.13027305 e8579ecb-7a9a-49c1-9777-413adf1559c9 9781641891493 9781802701685 324 open access
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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.
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