Interactive Histories, Co-Produced Communities: Judaism, Christianity, Islam

Our goal is to provide the foundations of a new history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as co-produced communities, a history that makes clear the many different ideas and ideals that each of these communities has formed, and continues to form, by interacting with or imagining the others.

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Reine Pédauque: A now-lost Statuary Tradition as a Case of Religious Co-Production

Reine Pédauque: A now-lost Statuary Tradition as a Case of Religious Co-Production

"Reine Pédauque" refers to a type of statue of a royal woman with webbed feet found in some 12th-century French churches, all of which are now lost. The mystery of the origins and significance of these statues has piqued scholarly interest since the 18th century and is one example of the strange fruits of religious co-production.

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Event: International Conference

Conference: “Moments of Religious Co-Production in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Past and Present”

June 26–28 2023 Program

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The project is coordinated by Katharina Heyden, Professor for Ancient History of Christianity and Interreligious Encounters at the University of Bern (Switzerland), and David Nirenberg, Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (U.S.), and includes a network of collaborators across North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

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