,Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe

Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe


 

Publication Date: January 2005

Publisher: Association for Jewish Studies; Association for Jewish Studies

Author(s): Jonathan Boyarin; Jonathan Boyarin

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Academic Research; History; Theory; International Relations

Type: Report

Abstract:

The author describes a research project in progress, the general thesis of which is that Jewish difference was critical to the formation of what came to be called "Christian Europe" and, a fortiori, to the very possibility of an encounter between that Christian Europe and its colonial "Others." The author describes how anthropological studies of Jewishness in modernity can inform interdisciplinary cultural studies of intercultural postcoloniality.