TY - JOUR

T1 - Transfer and Religion: Interactions between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Edited by Alexander A. Dubrau, Davide Scotto, and Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino

AU - Negoita, Octavian-Adrian

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - In recent decades, the study of the entangled relations between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam has increasingly become one of the main points on the agenda of historians and scholars of religion. Seeking to understand the social, religious, and cultural encounters among the members of these Abrahamic religions, scholars have looked at various historical contexts as they have constantly revised their perspectives by using new tools and methodologies in their investigations. Considering the recent efforts and results that discuss how debates on entangled cultural history reflect in the refashioning of religious studies and its related fields, the editors of this volume make a good case for approaching the religious contacts between Jews, Christians, and Muslims through the lenses of “religious transfer,” a process that entails “the transfer of knowledge, ideas, objects, texts and customs of religious character, which affect religious life on an individual or community level” (3). In their quest of defining the phenomenon, the editors argue that religious transfer takes place in a “space of interaction between faiths leading either to the building of bridges or to the exacerbation of contrasts” between them (3–4). Divided into two parts, the volume includes thirteen chapters in English, French, and German, arranged along chronological lines, which investigate multiple contexts of interaction from the medieval to modern times.

AB - In recent decades, the study of the entangled relations between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam has increasingly become one of the main points on the agenda of historians and scholars of religion. Seeking to understand the social, religious, and cultural encounters among the members of these Abrahamic religions, scholars have looked at various historical contexts as they have constantly revised their perspectives by using new tools and methodologies in their investigations. Considering the recent efforts and results that discuss how debates on entangled cultural history reflect in the refashioning of religious studies and its related fields, the editors of this volume make a good case for approaching the religious contacts between Jews, Christians, and Muslims through the lenses of “religious transfer,” a process that entails “the transfer of knowledge, ideas, objects, texts and customs of religious character, which affect religious life on an individual or community level” (3). In their quest of defining the phenomenon, the editors argue that religious transfer takes place in a “space of interaction between faiths leading either to the building of bridges or to the exacerbation of contrasts” between them (3–4). Divided into two parts, the volume includes thirteen chapters in English, French, and German, arranged along chronological lines, which investigate multiple contexts of interaction from the medieval to modern times.

U2 - 10.1093/jaarel/lfac064

DO - 10.1093/jaarel/lfac064

M3 - Journal article

VL - 90

SP - 762

EP - 764

JO - Journal of the American Academy of Religion

JF - Journal of the American Academy of Religion

SN - 0002-7189

IS - 3

ER -