Alexandra Cuffel
Biographic Data
| ID | 570810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra Cuffel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Cuffel |
| SIGNATURE | CUFFEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macalester College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1932-2432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Senses, Religion, and Religious Encounter
An overview of the senses in the study of religion and religious encounter is provided, along with reflections on the ways in which various specific senses were imagined to serve as modes of communication between human beings and between humans and transcendent beings. How the individual case studies collected in this volume inform such a project and further research on religion, the senses, and the role of the senses in religious encounter is a …
Historical Engagements and Interreligious Encounters - Jews and Christians in Premodern and Early Modern Asia and Africa
The essays in this special issue are based on the proceedings of the workshop Eastern Jews and Christians in Interaction and Exchange in the Islamic World and Beyond: A Comparative View held in Jerusalem and Raʿanana in June 2016. Accordingly, the essays address interreligious encounters in the Islamic world and beyond, examining social and religious attitudes towards religious Others in a wide range of disciplinary approaches. What binds these e…
Historical Engagements and Interreligious Encounters - Jews and Christians in Premodern and Early Modern Asia and Africa
Introduction to all essays of the special issue Entangled Histories and Interreligious Encounters - Jews and Christians in Premodern and Early Modern Asia and Africa that is based on the proceedings of the workshop Eastern Jews and Christians in Interaction and Exchange in the Islamic World and Beyond: A Comparative View held in Jerusalem and Raʿanana in June 2016
SHARON Faye Koren. Forsaken
Journal Article Sharon Faye Koren. Forsaken: The Menstruant in Medieval Jewish Mysticism. Get access Sharon Faye Koren. Forsaken: The Menstruant in Medieval Jewish Mysticism. (HBI Series on Jewish Women; The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry.) Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press. 2011. Pp. xvii, 286. Cloth $85.00, paper $35.00, e-book $27.99. Alexandra Cuffel Alexandra Cuffel Macalester College Search for other works b…
Gendered Visions and Transformations of Women's Spirituality in Hayyim Vital's Sefer ha-Hezyonot
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Ibn Sahula's Meshal ha-Qadmoni as restorative polemic
This essay explores the ways in which Isaac ibn Sahula (1244–c. 1284) drew upon philosophy, medical theory, astrology, and animal lore, both to polemicize against Christians and Muslims and to goad his Jewish readers to correct spiritual behavior in his Meshal ha-Qadmoni. Christians, Muslims, and "bad" Jews are portrayed as having degraded their intellect by following fleshly lusts or false wisdom. In losing their intellect, they have lost the qu…
Framing Iberia
Living Together, Living Apart
In Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages, Jonathan Elukin provides an extended historiographic corrective to the study of medieval and early modern Jewish–Christian relations throughout Europe. Specifically, he challenges scholars to rethink the meanings behind Christian expulsions and persecutions of the Jews and the impact that these incidents had on Jewish understandings of their environment an…
Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World
Intersections of Sexuality and the Divine in Medieval Culture
From practice to polemic
In this article I examini two problems regarding women's participation in shared saint veneration and festivals in the eastern Mediterranean and Iberia. First, I ascertain what women's practices were, whether women participated in or assigned meanings to rituals that were separate from those of men, and finally, whether these shared practices were enough to break down religious barriers between women so that we may speak of 'women's piety' or 'wo…
Call and Response
From practice to polemic
In this article I examini two problems regarding women's participation in shared saint veneration and festivals in the eastern Mediterranean and Iberia. First, I ascertain what women's practices were, whether women participated in or assigned meanings to rituals that were separate from those of men, and finally, whether these shared practices were enough to break down religious barriers between women so that we may speak of 'women's piety' or 'wo…
Call and Response
Historical Engagements and Interreligious Encounters - Jews and Christians in Premodern and Early Modern Asia and Africa
Introduction to all essays of the special issue Entangled Histories and Interreligious Encounters - Jews and Christians in Premodern and Early Modern Asia and Africa that is based on the proceedings of the workshop Eastern Jews and Christians in Interaction and Exchange in the Islamic World and Beyond: A Comparative View held in Jerusalem and Raʿanana in June 2016
Call and Response
From practice to polemic
In this article I examini two problems regarding women's participation in shared saint veneration and festivals in the eastern Mediterranean and Iberia. First, I ascertain what women's practices were, whether women participated in or assigned meanings to rituals that were separate from those of men, and finally, whether these shared practices were enough to break down religious barriers between women so that we may speak of 'women's piety' or 'wo…
Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World
Intersections of Sexuality and the Divine in Medieval Culture
Living Together, Living Apart
In Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages, Jonathan Elukin provides an extended historiographic corrective to the study of medieval and early modern Jewish–Christian relations throughout Europe. Specifically, he challenges scholars to rethink the meanings behind Christian expulsions and persecutions of the Jews and the impact that these incidents had on Jewish understandings of their environment an…
Ibn Sahula's Meshal ha-Qadmoni as restorative polemic
This essay explores the ways in which Isaac ibn Sahula (1244–c. 1284) drew upon philosophy, medical theory, astrology, and animal lore, both to polemicize against Christians and Muslims and to goad his Jewish readers to correct spiritual behavior in his Meshal ha-Qadmoni. Christians, Muslims, and "bad" Jews are portrayed as having degraded their intellect by following fleshly lusts or false wisdom. In losing their intellect, they have lost the qu…
Framing Iberia
Gendered Visions and Transformations of Women's Spirituality in Hayyim Vital's Sefer ha-Hezyonot
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
SHARON Faye Koren. Forsaken
Journal Article Sharon Faye Koren. Forsaken: The Menstruant in Medieval Jewish Mysticism. Get access Sharon Faye Koren. Forsaken: The Menstruant in Medieval Jewish Mysticism. (HBI Series on Jewish Women; The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry.) Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press. 2011. Pp. xvii, 286. Cloth $85.00, paper $35.00, e-book $27.99. Alexandra Cuffel Alexandra Cuffel Macalester College Search for other works b…
Historical Engagements and Interreligious Encounters - Jews and Christians in Premodern and Early Modern Asia and Africa
The essays in this special issue are based on the proceedings of the workshop Eastern Jews and Christians in Interaction and Exchange in the Islamic World and Beyond: A Comparative View held in Jerusalem and Raʿanana in June 2016. Accordingly, the essays address interreligious encounters in the Islamic world and beyond, examining social and religious attitudes towards religious Others in a wide range of disciplinary approaches. What binds these e…
Historical Engagements and Interreligious Encounters - Jews and Christians in Premodern and Early Modern Asia and Africa
Introduction to all essays of the special issue Entangled Histories and Interreligious Encounters - Jews and Christians in Premodern and Early Modern Asia and Africa that is based on the proceedings of the workshop Eastern Jews and Christians in Interaction and Exchange in the Islamic World and Beyond: A Comparative View held in Jerusalem and Raʿanana in June 2016
Senses, Religion, and Religious Encounter
An overview of the senses in the study of religion and religious encounter is provided, along with reflections on the ways in which various specific senses were imagined to serve as modes of communication between human beings and between humans and transcendent beings. How the individual case studies collected in this volume inform such a project and further research on religion, the senses, and the role of the senses in religious encounter is a …
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