EAN: 9783447114660

RELIGIOUS PLURALITY AND INTERRELIGIOUS CONTACTS...

This volume brings together Spanish and German scholars specialised in the field of religious
interaction. Most medieval societies ruled by Muslims and Christians were religiously plural
not by choice and ideal but by nature. Religious affiliation­ and identity had to be repeatedly
negotiated  defined  and chosen. The impact of legitimated religious violence towards
subordinate religions or of religious wars underlies the more peaceful periods. Semi-permeable
borders between the religions favoured inter-religious exchanges  while at the same time the
efforts to impose segregation and discrimination aimed to restrict contact and influence.
Agency by members of the subordinate religions was administratively and economically welcome
and religiously and socially inevitable. The authors address topics such as the different
strategies for power  order  exchange and identity chosen to organise religious plurality in
medieval societies. Rights and regulations by both dominant and subordinate religions for
demarcation  and in the opposite direction  pragmatism and forum shopping  were important
strategies. A comparative approach stemming from the controversy on the concept of convivencia
or coexistence in and beyond the Iberian Penin­sula  as a possible model of inter-religious
cohabitation  is combined with the inspiring results on religious plurality un­earthed by
intense research on mixed societies in the Mediter­ranean  Byzantium  the Crusading States and
Central Asia. New theo­retical and empirical models and concepts are proposed for comparative
work in this research field.

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