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

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

Cuffel, Alexandra

Hardcover

Series: Jewish Engagements

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryIslamJudaism

Publisher Price: $195.00

ISBN10: 1641891491
ISBN13: 9781641891493
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
Published: Mar 31 2024
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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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