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SUMMARY:Workshop: Traveling Texts and Transformative Encounters: Interreli
 gious Networks between medieval and early Modern Asia\, Africa\, and Europ
 e
DTSTART:20140715T070000Z
DTEND:20140715T103000Z
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DESCRIPTION:flyer\nIn this workshop we will examine instances of the circu
 lation of written\, oral\, and visual media and material culture\, between
  Western Europe\, Central Asia\, the Caucasus\, the Eastern Mediterranean\
 , Ethiopia\, and South Asia as indicators of religious contact between the
 se regions. More significantly\, we seek to examine the transformation of 
 meanings and religious identities which resulted from the circulation of 
 “texts” and peoples over these geographic expanses. We will focus spec
 ifically on cosmological and polemical exchanges between different Christi
 an communities\, and between Jews\, Hindus\, and Muslims\, and as facilita
 ted by international trade\, crusading and missionizing aspirations.  For
  example\, Ethiopian  and Indian Christians drew from Western and Middle 
 Eastern anti-Jewish polemical texts\, and reshaped  them to suit their ow
 n needs in a new inter-religious environment\, which in the Indian case\, 
 included Hindus as well.  Jewish sources from the Cairo Geniza testify to
  the conversion of both Western and Eastern Christians (and possibly Hindu
 s)  to Judaism\, a situation that should be understood in the light of Je
 wish polemic against Christians in the region and to Jewish trade and sett
 lement in India.  Muslims\, Western Christians\, and Ethiopians alike use
 d tales of Ethiopian control of the Nile in an effort to manipulate one an
 other\, even as Ethiopians were importing European artisans and religious 
 iconography\, Byzantine polemic\, and  Armenian hagiographies dealing wit
 h non-Christians.  Such clear indications of contact and exchange of reli
 gious meaningful material points to the need to study the inter-relation o
 f these regions and the impact of such exchanges in greater detail.  This
  workshop takes a first step in this direction.
LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-traveling-texts-2tag/
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