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Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today de David Nirenberg

Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today

Autor David Nirenberg
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 oct 2014

Observăm în Neighboring Faiths o schimbare de paradigmă în studiul religiilor abrahamice: autorul nu le tratează ca entități autonome, ci ca sisteme care s-au definit permanent prin raportare la 'vecinul' religios. Progresul cercetării pornește de la analiza textelor sacre și ajunge până la mecanismele sociale complexe care au guvernat conviețuirea în bazinul mediteranean. Descoperim aici o metodologie care refuză simplificările, explorând tensiunea dintre atracția periculoasă a căsătoriilor mixte și episoadele de violență sau segregare.

Ca și Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam, această lucrare acoperă interacțiunea triunghiulară a credințelor, dar David Nirenberg aduce o perspectivă mai profund ancorată în istoria mentalităților și în modul în care ideile religioase au modelat categorii precum 'rasa' înainte de modernitate. Structura cărții, reflectată în capitole despre masacrul din Valencia sau politica lui Alfonso al VIII-lea, indică o progresie de la contactul direct la construcții intelectuale și 'fantezii dialectice'.

Această abordare este coerentă cu opera anterioară a autorului; dacă în Anti-Judaism el investiga rădăcinile unei tradiții critice, iar în Communities of Violence analiza funcția socială a conflictului, în volumul de față el integrează aceste teme într-o viziune de ansamblu. Neighboring Faiths ne provoacă să înțelegem că istoria celor trei religii este una întrepătrunsă, unde limbajul și vocabularul comun au servit atât la construirea punților, cât și la justificarea excluderii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226168937
ISBN-10: 022616893X
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților la istorie sau studii religioase care doresc să depășească clișeele despre conflictul etern dintre religii. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere nuanțată a modului în care identitățile creștină, evreiască și musulmană s-au format reciproc. Este un instrument esențial pentru a înțelege cum trecutul medieval continuă să dicteze dinamica geopolitică și socială a lumii contemporane.

Despre autor

David Nirenberg este un distins profesor de istorie medievală și gândire socială la Universitatea din Chicago, deținând funcții de conducere în cadrul diviziei de Științe Sociale și al Collegiumului Neubauer. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe modul în care comunitățile religioase au interacționat de-a lungul secolelor, cu un accent deosebit pe tradiția occidentală. Printre lucrările sale notabile se numără Anti-Judaism și Uncountable, autorul fiind recunoscut pentru eleganța stilului și profunzimea analizelor sale istorice și filozofice.

Descriere scurtă

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths, David Nirenberg examines how Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived with and thought about each other during the Middle Ages and what the medieval past can tell us about how they do so today.
           
There have been countless scripture-based studies of the three “religions of the book,” but Nirenberg goes beyond those to pay close attention to how the three religious neighbors loved, tolerated, massacred, and expelled each other—all in the name of God—in periods and places both long ago and far away. Nirenberg argues that the three religions need to be studied in terms of how each affected the development of the others over time, their proximity of religious and philosophical thought as well as their overlapping geographies, and how the three “neighbors” define—and continue to define—themselves and their place in terms of one another. From dangerous attractions leading to interfaith marriage; to interreligious conflicts leading to segregation, violence, and sometimes extermination; to strategies for bridging the interfaith gap through language, vocabulary, and poetry, Nirenberg aims to understand the intertwined past of the three faiths as a way for their heirs to produce the future—together.

Notă biografică

David Nirenberg is the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought and the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, both at the University of Chicago. His most recent book is Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition. He lives in Chicago.

Cuprins

Introduction: Neighboring Faiths
 
1 Christendom and Islam
2 Love between Muslim and Jew
3 Deviant Politics and Jewish Love: Alfonso VIII and the Jewess of Toledo
4 Massacre or Miracle? Valencia, 1391
5 Conversion, Sex, and Segregation
6 Figures of Thought and Figures of Flesh
7 Mass Conversion and Genealogical Mentalities
8 Was There Race before Modernity? The Example of “Jewish” Blood in Late Medieval Spain
9 Islam and the West: Two Dialectical Fantasies
 
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

"It's no surprise that Nirenberg's new book, Neighboring Faiths, isn't a feel-good story about how we can all get along. The identities of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, he argues, are fundamentally enmeshed; how one group thinks about itself cannot be separated from how it thinks about the others. . . . If Nirenberg is right that ideas matter, especially once they have hardened into what he calls 'habits of thought,' our concern about the future relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims should make us study the ideas they had about themselves and one another in the past."

"Nirenberg unpacks five hundred years of Western fantasies about Islam, ranging from barbarous invaders to utopian tolerance, a phenomenon he labels the 'inseparability of exclusion and inclusion.' . . . The essays in this book are learned, provocative, and consistently thought-provoking."

“The scope of Neighboring Faiths reaches beyond the Middle Ages and appeals to a broader audience. . . . An important read for anyone from the undergraduate level up who is interested in the history or historiography of identity, religion, and Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations.”

“[Nirenberg] illustrates quite compellingly how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam continued to influence and shape each other; identifies historical processes of transformation; and reveals that the relationships were never static. . . . His arguments about the shared history of the three monotheistic religions are persuasive. . . . Considering the quality of its scholarship, its elegant execution, and its important concerns, it can only be wished that [Neighboring Faiths] will gain a wide—and new—readership.”

“The book is an important contribution to current issues of grave concern and proves how knowing history improves one’s ability to make sense of critical issues of the day.”
 

"This collection of essays confirms Nirenberg’s place as a particularly incisive and trustworthy historian of religion."

“Neighboring Faiths provides a cogent and powerful intervention into one of the most debated topics and thorniest issues in the history of the late medieval West: How did Christians, Muslims, and Jews live with each other and think about one another? The book will be of extraordinary importance not only for specialists in the field but also for general readers and anyone interested in the relations among the three religions and in the enduring discussion on ‘the clash of civilizations,’ an argument Nirenberg demolishes in an elegant but forceful manner. There are no books presently in print that even approach Nirenberg’s in terms of its themes, thoroughness, or interpretive thrust.”

“Using medieval Iberia—the ‘land of three religions’—as his  principal point of departure, Nirenberg highlights the dynamic, often ambivalent and fractious, yet interdependent relationship among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Whether focused on matters of scripture or sexuality, philosophy or poetry, conversion or conflict, he offers a brilliant and provocative demonstration of medieval conceptions of both race and religion. Neighboring Faiths is scholarship at its very best, successfully challenging current notions about the so-called clash of civilizations and even Benedict XVI on the supposed incompatibility of Christianity and Islam.”

“Neighboring Faiths maneuvers masterfully between readings of the tense and sometimes violent multicultural Iberian past and bold assessments of their lessons for our tense and sometimes violent multicultural present. Nirenberg has an uncanny knack for dwelling on—and in—interstices, and for asking the difficult questions that ‘being between’ often prompts. This is a keenly intelligent, cautionary collection—one that makes eloquent connections across the centuries.”

“Nirenberg succeeds in cultivating a sensibility that allows us to discover in the past a stimulus to critical awareness about the workings of our own assumptions about the relations among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and habits of thought. Among those habits is the conviction that our religious traditions are independent of one another, that they are stable, and that one contains truth and tolerance while the others do not. Conversely, this book proposes the interdependence of these religions, a process in which they are constantly transforming themselves by thinking about one another in a fundamentally ambivalent form of neighborliness.”

"There is much food for thought in these engaging and erudite essays regarding the interdependence between members of these three communities in medieval times. The study is well suited not only for students and scholars of religious studies and intergroup relations but also for those working on the nature of historical thinking and the history of medieval Europe."