Propaganda and (un)covered identities in treatises and sermons: Christians, Jews

Autor: Ferrero Hernández, Cándida

Sección: RELIGIONES - Religión Cristiana

Propaganda and (un)covered identities in treatises and sermons: Christians, Jews

Propaganda and (un)covered identities in treatises and sermons: Christians, Jews

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The eleven essays included in this collective volume examine a range of textual genres produced by Christians and Muslims throughout the Mediterranean, including materials from the Corpus Islamolatinum, Christian propaganda and polemical works targeting Muslims and Jews, Inquisition records, and Christian and Muslim sermons. Despite the diversity of the works under consideration and the variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches …

The eleven essays included in this collective volume examine a range of textual genres produced by Christians and Muslims throughout the Mediterranean, including materials from the Corpus Islamolatinum, Christian propaganda and polemical works targeting Muslims and Jews, Inquisition records, and Christian and Muslim sermons. Despite the diversity of the works under consideration and the variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches employed in their analysis, the volume is bound together by the common goals of exploring the propaganda strategies premodern authors deployed for specific aims, be it the unification of religious, cultural, and political groups through discourses of self-representation, or the invention of the political, cultural, religious, or gendered other. Many of the essays offer critical re-readings of works that are obscure or have never been studied, while others shed new light on the cultural and textual interactions between Christians, Muslims and Jews. The volume is divided into four sections, the first of which is comprised of three chapters on the Corpus Islamolatinum that furnish new evidence showing the important role this encyclopedia played in spreading knowledge about Islam and contributing to the creation of propaganda and polemics against Islam among European intellectual circles. The chapters in section two offer novel interpretations of the hermeneutical strategies underlying the composition of polemical works such as the lives of Muhammad and Pedro de la Cavallerias Zelus Christi. The essays in section three identify some common hermeneutical strategies in the use of anti-Jewish and anti-Islamic arguments to polemicize against religious others or edify Christians and illuminate intertextual relations between authors and genres (disputatio and praedicatio). Finally, section four introduces the gender perspective: the genered nature of the accusations of Judaizing in the analysis of the transcripts of the inquisitorial
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Propaganda and (un)covered identities in treatises and sermons: Christians, Jews

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978-84-490-8891-9
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9788449088919
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196
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DOCUMENTS
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Religión Cristiana
Cándida Ferrero Hernández has been conducting research at the Autonomous University of Barcelona since 2000; in 2016 she received the Advanced Research Accreditation (Full Professor) from AQU-Catalonia. Since 2000, she has been a member (currently PI) of Islamolatina, a group dedicated to the study of the cultural and religious relations of the Latin world with Islam, paying particular attention to Latin translations of Arabic texts on Islamic doctrine.

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