• 邻近的信仰:中世纪以及今天的基督教、伊斯兰教以及犹太教
  • Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today
  • 作者:David Nirenberg
  • 出版社代理人:University of Chicago Press(美国)
  • 出版时间:2014年10月
  • 页数:352页
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内容介绍
基督教、犹太教以及伊斯兰教通常被认为是自治、完全分开的宗教,但是如果我们研究它们的历史,其实我们会看到这三个宗教其实长期以来都是一直有互动的。在本书中,作者David Nirenberg探讨了穆斯林、基督徒以及犹太人如何在中世纪时期互相相处以及对于彼此的感想。他接着利用了这片历史来思考如何在现代应用。
 
已经存在许多研究这三个宗教的书了,但是作者在本书探入地更深,主要研究这三个邻近的信仰如何在历史上爱、忍受、屠杀、驱逐彼此——而都是在神的名字之下。作者认为我们需要研究这三个宗教的历史,看它们如何影响彼此,研究它们在信仰上以及哲学上的相似处以及不同处,以及研究它们如何定义彼此。 从跨宗教的婚姻到跨宗教的冲突,从隔离、暴力,甚至到消灭到如何在宗教之间透过语言、文字、诗词盖一座桥,作者在书中试图了解这三个宗教交织的历史,以及它们的未来。
 
关于作者:  
David Nirenberg是美国芝加哥大学的中世纪历史以及社会思考教授,以及Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society的负责人。他写过另外一本书:Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition。
 
目录:
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
 
好评:
Carlos Fraenkel | London Review of Books
"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."
 
Teofilo F. Ruiz, University of California, Los Angeles
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.”
 
Richard L. Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
“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.”
Peter Cole, author of The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950–1492
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.”
Mercedes García-Arenal Rodríguez, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid
“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.”