Book Series Co-produced Religions, vol. 1

The Co-production of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Artefacts, Rituals, Communities, Narratives, Doctrines, Concepts

Katharina Heyden, David Nirenberg (eds)

  • Pages: approx. 400 p.
  • Size:156 x 234 mm
  • Illustrations:23 col.
  • Language(s):English
  • Publication Year:2025


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The fifteen essays in this volume present case studies on artifacts, rituals, communities, narratives, concepts, and theological doctrines co-produced within and across the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

BIO

Katharina Heyden (Dr. theol. Jena 2008, Dr. habil. Göttingen 2013) has been Full Professor for Ancient History of Christianity and Interreligious Encounters at the University of Bern since 2014.
David Nirenberg (Dr. Princeton University 1992) has been the Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, since 2022.

Summary

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have always formed, re-formed, and transformed themselves in conversation. That is, these religions have come to exist in all their varieties by interacting with, thinking about, and imagining each other. In this sense they are co-produced, linked by a dynamic and ongoing inter-dependence. The fifteen essays collected in this volume explore moments of such religious coproduction from the second to the twenty-first century, from early pilgrimage sites to social media. The case studies range across textual and material cultures, showing how a variety of artefacts, coins, rituals, communities, narratives, theological doctrines, and scholarly concepts, were all co-produced across the three religious traditions. In so doing they present a panorama of possibilities from the past, as well as a taxonomy that can help us think about the future of religious co-production. An introductory essay describes the advantages of approaching the past, present, and future of these religions through the lens of co-production, and reflects on crucial methodological issues related to the understanding of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as co-produced religions.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: The Co-production of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
KATHARINA HEYDEN and DAVID NIRENBERG

Artefacts

Jewish Printers and Christian Artists Designing a Book for the Sephardi Community of Naples, 1492
KATRIN KOGMAN-APEL

From pre-Reform Umayyad Solidi to the ‘morabitino alfonsino’: A Full-Circle Case of Co-production
PAUL NEUENKIRCHEN

Co-produced Legal Documents: Compliance and Resistance in Fatimid Jewish Debt Acknowledgements in the Cairo Geniz
SARAH ISLAM

Rituals

The Life of Jeremiah: A Co-produced Window into a Jewish Cult of the Martyrs during the Early Roman Period
MAUREEN ATTALI

Moments of Religious Co-production in a Super-Diverse Community in Germany: An Ethnographic Reconstruction of an Interreligious Prayer for Peace
ANDREA BIELER

Communities

‘The Jews of this Nation’: The Co-production of Sectarian Identity in the Fatimid Caliphate, ca. 1120
MOHAMAD BALLAN

Embrico of Mainz: Re-Inventing Muhammad for the Christian Simony Controversy
VOLKER LEPPIN

Religion as a Function of Social Circumstances? Co-production in Shlomo ibn Verga`s Shevet Yehuda
WOLFRAM DREWS

Narratives

The Other One Who Curses the Fig Tree: A Jewish Counter Narrative to Christian Missionary Endeavours
SUSANNE TALABARDON

‘Livre de Sidrac’ and the Co-Production of a Mediterranean Encyclopedia
URI ZVI SHACHAR

Contemporary Media as Space for Religious Co-production: Some Reflections on Mass Media and Digital Media as Spaces for Imagining and Contacting ‘the Other’
ANNA NEUMAIER

Doctrines

The Doctrine of Alteration Leading to the Doctrine of Sticking to the Text: Muslim Attitudes to the Qur'an in Opposition to Accusations against Jews of Changing the Torah
AMIR DZIRI

A Christology, Sensitive to Jewish and Muslim Concerns
REINHOLD BERNHARDT

Concepts

The Concepts of Migration and Alienation in the Twelfth-Century Maghreb: Intramural Co-production
MIRIAM FRENKEL

Lex Abrahae. The Co-production of a Qur’an-Inspired Concept in Renaissance Christendom
AVIDE SCOTTO