Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters- Newsletter No. 11

Check out all seminars filmed during the 2018-2019 academic year HERE.

June 3-5, 2019: Sacred Spaces in Abrahamic Religions

CSoC and Faculty of Theology and Religion from Oxford University are collaborating in an academic workshop on Sacred Spaces in the Abrahamic Religions.

Check the programme out here!

Pnina Arad

Read Dr. Pnina Arad’s newest article, “Landscape and Iconicity: Proskynetaria of the Holy Land from the Ottoman Period,” The Art Bulletin 100 no. 4 (2018): 62–80.

Elazar Ben-Lulu

Read Elazar Ben-Lulu's article: “From Queen Esther to Queer Esther – Megillat Esther (Esther Scroll) Reading in a Tel Aviv Reform congregation” in Megamot, a Journal of Behavioral Science [Hebrew]. 53(2): 137-162. (2018).

And ALSO (in Hebrew): "Landscape of Reform Religionization in Jaffa: The Israeli Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism (IMPJ) Mechina - pre-military program for young leadership as a study case". In Social Issues in Israel, 2019.

Gideon Elazar

Read Gideon Elazar's newest article:

" Out of Space: Christian Deterritorialization and Space Production in Yunnan "

Published in Asian Ethnology, Volume 77, Numbers 1&2, 2018.

Jackie Feldman

Read this special issue of Ethnolgoia Europea edited by Prof. Jackie Feldman, about "Tour Guides as Cultural Mediators".

Catalin-Stefan Popa

Read "Syriac Theological Formation and Patristic Rewritings in 5th and 6th century according to 'the Canons of the Holy School of Nisibis'", published in the Review of Ecumenical Studies, 2019.

Ephraim Shoham-Steiner

Read Dr. Ephraim Shoham-Steiner's newest article, "And in Most of Their Business Transactions They Rely on This", in "On the Word of A Jew", Religion, Reliability, and the Dynamics of Trust,

Edited by N. Caputo and M.B. Hart, Indiana University Press 2019, pp. 36-61

Effie has been the Director of the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters since 2018.

Erika Tritle

Read Dr. Erika Tritle's articles:

"Look for the Jews" published in "Sightings", edited by B. Colasacco, published by The University of Chicago's Martin Marty Center for the public understanding of religion.

'A Jewish solution to the problem of excessive Christian virility in the war against Spanish Islam’, published in "Crusading and Masculinities" - 1st Edition, edited by Natasha R. Hodgson, Katherine J. Lewis and Matthew M. Mesley.

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