Interreligious Appropriations in the Global History of Christianity
Edited by Stanislau Paulau Edited by Philip Michael Forness
Hardback (Published)
(September 2026)
ISBN: 9783161705540
6.1 x 9.13 inches
Price: $194.00
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How did Christian communities across time and space engage with religious others? Informed by current debates on global history, the studies in this volume cover Eastern and Western Christian traditions stretching from the second to the twentieth century and portray Christianity as a fluid, relational, and globally entangled religion.
English summary: This volume explores how Christian communities across time and space have engaged with religious others – reinterpreting, adapting, and integrating elements from non-Christian traditions. Drawing on case studies that span antiquity to modernity and come from African, Asian, and European contexts, the volume introduces the concept of “interreligious appropriation” as a critical lens for understanding the dynamic and often contested processes through which religious identities were and are shaped. Engaging both Eastern and Western Christian traditions and informed by current debates on global history, the book portrays Christianity as a fluid, relational, and globally entangled religion. German description: Wie verhielten sich christliche Gemeinschaften in Afrika, Asien und Europa zu nichtchristlichen Religionen und Traditionen in ihrer Umwelt? Die unter dem Begriffder “interreligiosen Aneignung” versammelten Fallstudien lassen das Christentum von der Antike bis zur Moderne als eine fluide, relationale und global verflochtene Religion erkennen.
Stanislau Paulau/Philip Michael Forness: Tracing Interreligious Appropriations in the Global History of Christianity - Benedict Totsche: An Offer to the Pagan World: Gods and Demons in the Legatio pro Christianis by Athenagoras of Athens - Christian Lange: Reflections on the Appropriation of Biblical Narratives for One's Own Religious Message in (Late) Antiquity: A Case Study on Noah's Ark - Joachim Jakob: A Qurʾānic Proof Text for the Trinitarian and Christological Teachings of Christianity? An Analysis of References to Q 4:171 in Syriac Sources from the Eighth and Ninth Centuries - Li Tang: Jesus, Mani, and Buddha in Medieval Chinese Religious Texts - Jonathan Stutz: Doing Theology under New Premises: The Legacy of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and the Coptic-Arabic Renaissance - Jürgen Heyde: Uncovering the Hagia Sophia: An Armenian Traveler's Visit to Istanbul in the Seventeenth Century - Mònica Colominas Aparicio: The Conditions of Christian Minorities in Muslim Iberia and Interreligious Appropriation in the Historia Eclesiástica de Granada of Justino Antolínez de Burgos - Emy Merin Joy: Appropriating Meaning, Faith, and Identity: The Paravur Dialogues and Literary Encounters between Catholic Missionaries, Hindus, Jews, Muslims and Saint Thomas Christians in Early Modern Malabar - Sergei Zotov: Islamic Evangelists and Christian Acrobats: Reinterpretations of Religious Otherness in Arabic and European Alchemical Illumination - Sophia Dege-Müller: The Life of Susanna in Light of the Betä Ǝsraʾel Manuscript Tradition - Lukas Pieper: Paulos Mar Gregorios, Indian Religions, and the Re-Imagination of Saint Thomas Christianity in Post-Colonial India
- Edited by Stanislau Paulau
- Edited by Philip Michael Forness
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