Cover of: Historical Interactions of Religious Cultures

Historical Interactions of Religious Cultures (HIReC)

Managing Editor: Volker Leppin (New Haven)

Editors: Alexander Fidora (Barcelona), Markus Friedrich (Hamburg), Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann (Zürich), Thomas Kaufmann (Göttingen), Volker Leppin (New Haven), Sabine Schmidtke (Princeton), Rebekka Voß (Frankfurt)

Advisory Board: Maribel Fierro (Madrid), Katharina Heyden (Bern), J. Michelle Molina (Evanston), Omer Michaelis (Tel Aviv), David Nirenberg (Princeton), John Tolan (Nantes), Alexander Treiger (Halifax), Katja Triplett (Göttingen)

ISSN 2941-4172 (Print Edition)

ISSN 2941-4180 (Online Edition)

In view of the growing societal interest in interreligious exchange, conflict processes, and intercultural osmoses, scholarly efforts to "liquefy" the study of religions have intensified, conceiving of them as dynamic phenomena that constituted, configured, and evolved in permanent processes of interaction with other religions. This perspective on interreligious interaction is the thematic focus of the newly founded journal Historical Interactions of Religious Cultures (HIReC), with reference to the three major monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the pre-modern period, from the seventh to the eighteenth century.

Interaction is understood as any relationship between at least two of the religions mentioned or with a third religious tradition. The religions are treated not as closed, fixed entities, but as a context of traditions and practices whose interactions with, among, and against each other formed a multifaceted spectrum ranging from ideational transfer to physical conflict. The term "religious cultures", which is not intended to be sharply demarcated, recognizes that while the religions themselves might have sought clear distinctions, "open margins" and hybrid forms are a central moment in the history of interreligious interaction.

The journal project is based on the premise that the study of interreligious interaction frequently transcends the competencies of the disciplines concerned, for example, the history of the church and Christianity, the history of religion, Jewish Studies, Islamic Studies, and Arabic Studies. The time frame chosen cuts across common periodisations and spans the millennium between the emergence of Islam and the rise of modern colonialism. The envisaged geographical framework corresponds to the spread and expansion of the three monotheistic religions, creating a global perspective.

HIReC provides an international forum for research in the field of the history of relations and conflicts between the major monotheistic religions in the pre-modern period, with the interdisciplinary nature of the journal fundamental to the enterprise. The contributions should therefore be interdisciplinary, that is, aim not only to reconstruct single-disciplinary internal perspectives, but also to trace the repercussions of interreligious interactions on the cultures involved.

The interdisciplinary and international editorial board will ensure the quality of the contributions and also bring expertise to broadening disciplinary perspectives. The editors are supported by an advisory board that is likewise international and interdisciplinary. All contributions will be subject to double-blind review and will be published Open Access under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, at no costs for authors and readers. This is funded by the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model and relies on the willingness of libraries to subscribe to the journal.

Editors

(Main editor) Volker Leppin, Prof. Dr., Professor of Historical Theology, Yale University. New Haven, CT.

Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann, Prof. Dr., Professorin für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit sowie Historische Hilfswissenschaften, Universität Zürich.

Alexander Fidora, Prof. Dr., ICREA Forschungsprofessor, Institut zur Erforschung der Antike und des Mittelalters, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Markus Friedrich, Prof. Dr., Professor für Europäische Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit, Universität Hamburg.

Thomas Kaufmann, Prof. Dr. Dr. theol. h.c. Dr. phil. h.c., Professor für Kirchengeschichte, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

Sabine Schmidtke, Prof. Dr., Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.

Rebekka Voß, Prof. Dr., Professorin für Geschichte des deutschen und europäischen Judentums, Seminar für Judaistik, Goethe Universität Frankfurt.

Advisory Board

Omer Michaelis, Prof. Dr., Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Tel Aviv University.

David Nirenberg, Prof. Dr., Leon Levy Professor, Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.

Alexander Treiger, Prof. Dr., Professor of Religious Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.

John Tolan, Prof. Dr., Professor of History at the University of Nantes (France).

Katharina Heyden, Prof. Dr., Full Professor for Ancient History of Christianity and Interreligious Encounters, University of Bern.

J. Michelle Molina, Prof. Dr., Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Department of History, Northwestern University.

Maribel Fierro, Prof. Dr., Research Professor, Institute for the Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Katja Triplett, Prof. Dr., Professorin für Religionswissenschaft, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.