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Crossing confessional boundaries exemplary lives in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions

Renard, John, S.I., 1944-

Crossing confessional boundaries exemplary lives in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions John Renard - 1 online resource (xii, 345 pages) - The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies . - S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Metaphor, method, and the three "sources" of hagiographic narrative -- Part one. Geographies shared -- Historical/anthropological perspectives -- Part two. Hagiographies compared -- literary perspectives: form, content, and function -- Part three. Dramatis personae: history, authority, and community

"Arguably the single most important element in Abrahamic cross-confessional relations has been an ongoing mutual interest in perennial spiritual and ethical exemplars of one another's communities. Ranging from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages, Crossing Confessional Boundaries explores the complex roles played by saints, sages, and Friends of God in the communal and intercommunal lives of Christians, Muslims, and Jews across the Mediterranean world, from Spain and North Africa to the Middle East to the Balkans. By examining these stories in their broad institutional, social, and cultural contexts, Crossing Confessional Boundaries reveals unique theological insights into the interlocking histories of the Abrahamic faiths"--


In English.

9780520962903 0520962907

10.1525/9780520962903 doi

22573/ctvw14m47 JSTOR

2019045329


To 1500


Abrahamic religions--History--Mediterranean Region--To 1500.
Saints--History--To 1500.
Abrahamic religions--Relations.
Religions abrahamiques--Relations.
RELIGION--Islam--History.
Abrahamic religions
Saints


Mediterranean Region

abrahamic religions. christian hagiography. christianity. christians. comparative religion. comparative religions. faith based comparison. friends of god. hagiography. history of abrahamic faiths. history of interfaith dialogue. islam. islamic studies. jewish studies. jews. judaism. muslims. religion in late antiquity. religion in the mediterranean. religion in the middle ages. religious education. religious studies. sages. saints. world theology.


History

BL96 / .R46 2020eb

206/.1