Rassendenken und Religion im Mittelalter (German Edition, 2023) by David Nirenberg is reviewed by Frank Rexroth for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). In his essay, Nirenberg combines the consideration of biologically influenced discrimination and persecution with religious discrimination against people.
Read more at FAZ.
David Nirenberg, with Katharina Heyden, Professor for History of Christianity and Interreligious Encounters University of Bern, presented the keynote, “Religious Co-production and its Potentials for History and Theology” during an interactive webinar that took place on January 18, 2024. The event, hosted by The Journal of Interreligious Studies and Co-Produced Religions, brought together experts from history, religion, and theology to examine a new history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as co-produced communities.
A video of the program is available here.
This year's Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize of the Evangelical Theological Faculty is awarded to the historian David Nirenberg. The faculty of the University of Tübingen honors his research on the relationship between Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages and today.
Read more at the University of Tübingen.
David Nirenberg pens an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal discussing how, after helping invent the atomic bomb, past IAS Director J. Robert Oppenheimer spent decades thinking about how to preserve civilization from technological dangers, offering crucial lessons for the age of AI.
Read more at the Wall Street Journal.
Book Talk with David Nirenberg:
“In my book, Antijudaïsme (Labor et Fides, 2023), I proposed that we should understand the long history of Anti-Judaism not merely as the history of a prejudice, but also as the history of our Western religions (such as Christianity and Islam), philosophies (such as Idealism and Marxism), ethics and ideals. If this is true, then how can we be sure that our critical thought is truly critical? And how can we write history that helps us achieve the capacity to critique Anti-Judaism in the present, rather than reproducing it?”
Watch at Collège de France.
