Descrizione del progetto
Uno sguardo più attento alle relazioni interreligiose
La diversità è oggi ampiamente considerata come una risorsa. Quando si tratta di religione la storia cambia, in un contesto in cui identità religiose miste e relazioni interreligiose sono oggetto di accesi dibattiti in tutto il mondo. Il progetto REL-NET, finanziato dall’UE, esaminerà questioni globali studiando la storia delle reti transnazionali cristiano-ebraiche tra Israele, Palestina, Medio Oriente, Europa e Stati Uniti dopo l’istituzione dello Stato di Israele nel 1948. L’attenzione si concentrerà sulla storia della St James Association (sopravvissuti all’Olocausto che si convertirono al cristianesimo) dalla fine degli anni ’40.
Obiettivo
Mixed religious identities and interfaith relations represent one of the most crucial and debated phenomena in the 21st century. The revival of the religious dimension in the world is evident in the growing religious implications in modern and contemporary wars. The REL-NET project tackles these global issues through the analysis of a significant case study that has been overlooked in the historiography: the history of Christian–Jewish transnational networks between Israel, Palestine, the Middle East, Europe and the United States after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. In particular, I will focus on the history of the St James Association (SJA) since the end of the 1940s. The SJA is a community formed by Holocaust survivors who converted to Christianity, moved to Israel and settled in the mainly Arab Jerusalem Church. Some SJA members became well-known intellectuals who developed an international network that influenced Christian–Jewish–Muslim relations during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and on a global scale. Using multiple and interdisciplinary methodologies and an unprecedented mass of unpublished archival documentation disseminated all over the world will lead me to retrace the strands that contributed to the new relations between Jews and Christians while also engaging Muslim communities. Involving an extensive programme of teaching, language, digital and project management training at Fordham and Ca’ Foscari universities and under the supervision of two leading scholars in these fields, the MSCA-GF will give me the extraordinary opportunity to outline a new framework for the historical appraisal of religious relationships in the contemporary world, delivering innovative outputs in terms of academic products and in disseminating them to a larger and non-specialist audience and significantly advancing my already solid experience within European research programmes (ERC and ERASMUS), which will decisively enhance my academic career.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinatore
30123 Venezia
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