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Dieser Sammelband beschäftigt sich mit der Islamdebatte in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit und mit der Rolle, die die Religion bei der Integration von Muslimen in Deutschland spielt. Während die gegenwärtigen integrationspolitischen Debatten und der interreligiöse Dialog...
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This volume explores receptacles housing objects with divine or supernatural powers attributed to them. It offers pioneering comparative insights regarding the focal ritual structures in sacred places of world religions, including Catholic Sacrament houses and...
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The Islamic prophet Muhammad
initiated a theological program
in theocratic form.The Qur’an
challenges Christians and Jews
in many ways and invites them
to take a stance. This is why an
explicitly theological response is
legitimate and necessary. This
book draws on...
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Seitdem John Hick durch seine pluralistische Position den Weg für eine Annäherung der Religionen geschaffen hat, haben seine Werke viel Aufmerksamkeit von Anhängern und Kritikern erfahren. Dieses Werk setzt sich kritisch mit dem Lebenswerk Hicks auseinander, und...
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Stephen Strehle continues his detailed analysis of the secular forces that shape the modern world in this second and final volume to the study, offering a fresh perspective and solid philosophical, theological, and historical conclusions from his years of research. He...
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The aim of this book is to discuss the quintessential struggle of faith and reason that invariably and perpetually manifests itself in the history of humanity. In west, technology, technolatria, is now seen as a substitute for desacralised Christianity. Ancients...
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Jesus Among Giants: Religious Biographies in Comparative Context compares and contrastsJesus to Mahavira, Buddha, Krishna, Confucius, Laozi, Moses, and Muhammad in terms of their missions and messages. These foundational religious figures are introduced in their...
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In the latest discussion on the relations between religions, it has often been argued that monotheism necessarily leads to intolerance and exclusivism. A religion which claims to worship «the one and only true God» is inevitably forced to reject every religious...
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A Critical Study of Classical Religious Texts in Global Contexts: Challenges of a Changing World challenges toxic stereotypes of world religions by providing scholarly investigations into classic sacred texts in global contexts. By engaging more perspectives, important...
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Based in New Zealand, the author, an Anglican priest, made a number of pilgrimages 1995–2008 to the extermination (and other camp) sites of the Third Reich, 1933–45. These find expression in Diary entries that describe the sites as they now are and scope the problems...
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Religion und Politik bilden seit jeher ein spannungsvolles Geflecht wechselseitiger Begründungs- und Abgrenzungsprozesse. Die in diesem Band versammelten Autoren beleuchten historische und aktuelle Konstellationen dieser Prozesse durch die Verschränkung von...
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This volume engages with the work of E. Douglas Lewis, who has made major contributions to the understanding of Eastern Indonesia, ethnography, culture, and religion, as well as a neurobiologically informed anthropology. Lewis’ work on the Ata Tana ‘Ai (People of the...
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Wie ist es möglich, Bürger Europas und gleichzeitig Muslim zu sein? Die Autorin vergleicht aus differenzhermeneutischer Perspektive die Antworten von drei zeitgenössischen muslimischen Denkern. Sie zeigen, dass Europa und Islam durchaus zusammen gedacht werden können....
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In 2005, the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the longest civil war in African history. Stein Erik Horjen argues that although this second civil war was not a religious one,...
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The fascinating story of Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) changing himself while trying to change the religious faith of the Chinese has been told many times. As a Jesuit, Ricci pushed Christian evangelism by claiming a theistic affinity with Confucianism and by presenting...
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This book presents a qualitative study of the «Gospel of Prosperity» preached by the Charismatic and Neo-Pentecostal churches in Ghana, with a particular focus on its soteriological significance. The author explores the concept of the Gospel of Prosperity from a number...
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Der Islamische Staat in Syrien und im Irak, die Massaker von Boko Haram in Nigeria – immer neue religiös motivierte Terrorakte rufen weltweite Betroffenheit hervor, auch unter gläubigen Menschen. Weder Bibel noch Koran rechtfertigen einfach jegliche Gewalttat oder Krieg...
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Die Beiträge in diesem Sammelband dokumentieren die heutige Diskussion um das Heilige, ein nach wie vor unerledigtes Problem der Religionswissenschaft. Sie wurden auf zwei verschiedenen Veranstaltungen präsentiert: einerseits auf dem Panel «Das Heilige als Problem in...
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Willem A. Visser ’t Hooft (1900–1985), Dutch pastor and theologian, was one of the most significant personalities in the Protestant Ecumenical movement. Deeply influenced by Karl Barth, and filled with a strong Ecumenical spirit, he was closely involved in the founding...
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The central thesis of this study is that there are religious Muslims who are against the Islamic State for Islamic reasons. Its main goal is to explain Ali Abdarraziq’s (1888–1966) Islamic Laicism and to show the arguments of some of his Arab critics and supporters....
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