Religious Polemics In Context

Author : Theo Hettema,Christine Kooi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004495302

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Religious Polemics in Context by Theo Hettema,Christine Kooi Pdf

Studies in Theology and Religion,11 Polemics, as “the art or practice of disputation or controversy”, is a living issue in matters of religion, and is a major object of research for scholars in religious studies and theology. The second international conference of the Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions (LISOR), held at Leiden in April 2000, was devoted to the subject of Religious Polemics in Context, aiming at a further exploration of the notion of religious polemics, together with the unfolding of a wide variety of case-studies from various religious traditions. The volume contains most of the papers read at the conference, and offers contributions on general issues (e.g., by M. Dascal), as well as on particular topics in the fields of history of religion (e.g., Islam), ancient Israel and early Christianity, the history of Christianity, and the social sciences of religion. An annotated bibliography is added to this collection, which may stimulate a further study of the topic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004466845

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Religious Polemics and Encounters in Late Antiquity by Anonim Pdf

Religious Polemics and Encounters in Late Antiquity: Boundaries, Conversions, and Persuasion explores the intricate identity formation and negotiations of early encounters of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). It explores the ever-pressing challenges arising from polemical inter-religious encounters by analyzing the dynamics of apologetic debate, the negotiation and formation of boundaries of belonging, and the argumentative thrust for persuasion and conversion, as well as the outcomes of these various encounters, including the articulation of novel ideas. The Late Antique authors studied in the present volume represent a variety of voices from North Africa, passing through Rome, to Palestine. Together, these voices of the past offer invaluable insight to shape the present times, in hope for a better future.

Author : Mun'im Sirry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199359370

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Scriptural Polemics by Mun'im Sirry Pdf

A number of passages in the Qur'an criticize Jews and Christians, from claims of exclusive salvation and charges of Jewish and Christian falsification of revelation to cautions against the taking of Jews and Christians as patrons, allies, or intimates. Mun'im Sirry offers a novel exploration of these polemical passages, which have long been regarded as obstacles to peaceable interreligious relations, through the lens of twentieth-century tafsir (exegesis). He considers such essential questions as: How have modern contexts shaped Muslim reformers' understanding of the Qur'an, and how have the reformers' interpretations recontextualized these passages? Can the Qur'an's polemical texts be interpreted fruitfully for interactions among religious communities in the modern world? Sirry also reflects on the various definitions of apologetic or polemic as relevant sacred texts and analyzes reformist tafsirs with careful attention to argument, literary context, and rhetoric in order to illuminate the methods, positions, and horizons of the exegeses. Scriptural Polemics provides both a critical engagement with the tafsirs and a lucid and original examination of Qur'anic language, logic, and dilemmas, showing how the dynamic and varied reformist interpretations of these passages open the way for a less polemical approach to other religions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004401792

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Interreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

This book focuses on polemical religious texts of Iberia’s long fifteenth century, a period characterized by both social violence and cultural exchange. It highlights how polemical texts often reveal the interconnected nature of social and cultural intimacy, promoting dialogue and cultural transfer.

Author : Alberto Tiburcio
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474440486

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Muslim-Christian Polemics in Safavid Iran by Alberto Tiburcio Pdf

Focused on the work of the renegade missionary 'Ali Quli Jadid al-Islam (d. 1734), this book contributes to ongoing debates on the nature of confessionalism, interreligious encounters, and cultural translation in early modern Muslim empires.

Author : Mònica Colominas Aparicio
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004363618

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The Religious Polemics of the Muslims of Late Medieval Christian Iberia by Mònica Colominas Aparicio Pdf

The Religious Polemics of the Muslims of Late Medieval Christian Iberia examines the corpus of polemical literature against the Christians and the Jews of the protected Muslims (Mudejars) preserved in Arabic and in Aljamiado (Spanish in Arabic characters).

Author : Mercedes García-Arenal,Gerard Wiegers
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271082974

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Polemical Encounters by Mercedes García-Arenal,Gerard Wiegers Pdf

This collection takes a new approach to understanding religious plurality in the Iberian Peninsula and its Mediterranean and northern European contexts. Focusing on polemics—works that attack or refute the beliefs of religious Others—this volume aims to challenge the problematic characterization of Iberian Jews, Muslims, and Christians as homogeneous groups. From the high Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century, Christian efforts to convert groups of Jews and Muslims, Muslim efforts to convert Christians and Jews, and the defensive efforts of these communities to keep their members within the faiths led to the production of numerous polemics. This volume brings together a wide variety of case studies that expose how the current historiographical focus on the three religious communities as allegedly homogeneous groups obscures the diversity within the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities as well as the growing ranks of skeptics and outright unbelievers. Featuring contributions from a range of academic disciplines, this paradigm-shifting book sheds new light on the cultural and intellectual dynamics of the conflicts that marked relations among these religious communities in the Iberian Peninsula and beyond. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Antoni Biosca i Bas, Thomas E. Burman, Mònica Colominas Aparicio, John Dagenais, Óscar de la Cruz, Borja Franco Llopis, Linda G. Jones, Daniel J. Lasker, Davide Scotto, Teresa Soto, Ryan Szpiech, Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, and Carsten Wilke.

Author : Hans Barstad
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004275577

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The Religious Polemics of Amos by Hans Barstad Pdf

Preliminary material /Hans M. Barstad -- Chapter One: Introduction /Hans M. Barstad -- Chapter Two: \'Filius Ac Pater Eius Ierunt Ad Puellam\'. A Study in Am 2, 7B-8 /Hans M. Barstad -- Chapter Three: The Prophet as Missionary. Studies in Am 4, 1-13 /Hans M. Barstad -- Chapter Four: Religious Polemics in Amos 5 /Hans M. Barstad -- Chapter Five: AM 6, 4-6. The Mrzḥ Institution /Hans M. Barstad -- Chapter Six: The Deities of AM 8, 14 /Hans M. Barstad -- Bibliography /Hans M. Barstad -- Addenda /Hans M. Barstad -- Author Index /Hans M. Barstad -- Scripture References /Hans M. Barstad -- Subject Index /Hans M. Barstad.

Author : George H. van Kooten,Jacques van Ruiten
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004411500

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Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antiquity by George H. van Kooten,Jacques van Ruiten Pdf

In Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antiquity politico-cultural, philosophical, and religious forms of critical conversation in the ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, Graeco-Roman, and early-Islamic world are discussed. The contributions enquire into the boundaries between debate, polemics, and intolerance, and address their manifestations in both philosophy and religion.

Author : Diego R. Sarrió Cucarella
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004285606

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Muslim-Christian Polemics across the Mediterranean by Diego R. Sarrió Cucarella Pdf

In Muslim-Christian Polemics across the Mediterranean Diego R. Sarrió Cucarella provides an exposition and analysis of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī’s (d. 684/1285) Splendid Replies. This book is among the most extensive and most important medieval Muslim refutations of Christianity.

Author : Michael Stausberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047412502

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Zoroastrian Rituals in Context by Michael Stausberg Pdf

Rituals play a prominent role in Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest religious traditions of mankind. In this book, scholars from a broad range of disciplines make the first ever collective effort to discuss Zoroastrian rituals in different historical contexts and geographical settings.

Author : Alexandra Cuffel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0268204306

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Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic by Alexandra Cuffel Pdf

In Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic, Alexandra Cuffel analyzes medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim uses of gendered bodily imagery and metaphors of impurity in their visual and verbal polemic against one another. Drawing from a rich array of sources--including medical texts, bestiaries, Muslim apocalyptic texts, midrash, biblical commentaries, kabbalistic literature, Hebrew liturgical poetry, and theological tracts from late antiquity to the mid-fourteenth century--Cuffel examines attitudes toward the corporeal body and its relationship to divinity. She shows that these religious traditions shared notions of the human body as distasteful, with many believers viewing corporeality and communion with the divine as incompatible. In particular, she explores how authors from each religious tradition targeted the woman's body as antithetical to holiness. Foul smell, bodily fluids and states, and animals were employed by these religious communities as powerful tropes, which they used to mark their religious opponents as sinful, filthy, and unacceptable. By defining and denigrating the religious "other," each group wielded bodily insult as a means of resistance, of inciting violence, and of creating community boundaries. Representations of impurity or filth designed to inspire revulsion served also to reassure audiences of their religious and sometimes physical superiority and to encourage oppressive measures toward the minority. Yet, even in the midst of opposing one another, their very polemic demonstrates that Jews, Christians, and Muslims held basic cultural assumptions and symbols in common while inflecting their meanings differently.

Author : Olav Hammer,Kocku Von Stuckrad
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004162570

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Polemical Encounters by Olav Hammer,Kocku Von Stuckrad Pdf

In its historical development from late antiquity to the present, western esotericism has repeatedly been the issue of polemical discourse. This volume engages the polemical structures that underlie both the identities within and the controversy about esoteric currents in European history. From Jewish and Christian kabbalah through heretical discourse and interconfessional polemics in early modernity to the legitimization of esoteric identity in modern culture, the 12 chapters, accompanied by an editors' introduction, provide a cornucopia of relevant cases that are interpreted in a framework of polemical discourse and 'Othering'. This volume sheds new light on the ultimately polemical structure of western esotericism and thus opens new vistas for further research into esoteric discourse.

Author : Hans M. Barstad
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004070176

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The Religious Polemics of Amos by Hans M. Barstad Pdf

Author : Josef Lössl,Nicholas J. Baker-Brian
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118968109

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A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity by Josef Lössl,Nicholas J. Baker-Brian Pdf

A comprehensive review of the development, geographic spread, and cultural influence of religion in Late Antiquity A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity offers an authoritative and comprehensive survey of religion in Late Antiquity. This historical era spanned from the second century to the eighth century of the Common Era. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the Companion explores the evolution and development of religion and the role various religions played in the cultural, political, and social transformations of the late antique period. The authors examine the theories and methods used in the study of religion during this period, consider the most notable historical developments, and reveal how religions spread geographically. The authors also review the major religious traditions that emerged in Late Antiquity and include reflections on the interaction of these religions within their particular societies and cultures. This important Companion: Brings together in one volume the work of a notable team of international scholars Explores the principal geographical divisions of the late antique world Offers a deep examination of the predominant religions of Late Antiquity Examines established views in the scholarly assessment of the religions of Late Antiquity Includes information on the current trends in late-antique scholarship on religion Written for scholars and students of religion, A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity offers a comprehensive survey of religion and the influence religion played in the culture, politics, and social change during the late antique period.