englischThe publication deals with texts calling for violence and justifies this by religious arguments. It is however not always possible to distinguish, whether these arguments are motivated by religious convictions or whether they are later justifications. In most cases, they are intertwined. It [...]

englisch„‘Whoever preserves forty hadiths for my umma…‘ A type of hadith collection’s rise and development“

Being widely spread within and beyond the Arabic speaking world, the Forty Hadiths still belong to one of the most popular and varied types of hadith collection. Based on a quantitative [...]

Die Vierzig Hadithe sind für die Glaubens- und Lebenspraxis der Muslime vom 9. Jahrhundert an bis heute von großer Bedeutung, wurden wissenschaftlich bislang jedoch kaum beachtet. Für eine überschaubare Sammlung ausgewählter Prophetenüberlieferungen gestaltet sich der Inhalt der Vierzig Hadithe [...]

englischWhereas early modern cathedral chapters have mostly been studied as electoral bodies of prince-bishops and noble corporations, this study examines the administrative and governmental practices of the Bamberg cathedral chapter from the perspective of the history of knowledge. Its active [...]

englischThe book is focused on the religiosity of a migrant group that has hardly been researched so far. Using young adults with Vietnamese roots as examples, it shows how intergenerational changes in religiosity take place in the diaspora. By means of biographical-narrative interviews with more [...]

englischNizari Ismailis are one of most active Muslim communities in academic education and knowledge production in the fields of Islamic studies and humanities. For this purpose, the community runs two academic institutions based in London: The Institute of Ismaili Studies and the Institute for the [...]

englisch This book critically analyzes the notion that there are passages in the 7th-century text of the Qur’an that reflect medical ideas of the time about the origin of human beings through pregnancy. It turns out that the Qur’an draws on a rich heritage of motifs, on the one hand baptismal [...]

In dieser Arbeit werden christliche Überlieferungsbestände und existentielle Erfahrungswelten heutiger Menschen aufeinander bezogen, sodass theologische Verstehenszugänge zur „nicht-religiösen“ (D. Bonhoeffer) Gegenwartskultur eröffnet werden.Ausgehend von Bonhoeffers Gefängnistheologie wird [...]

englischThis study discusses the historical and (power-) political backgrounds as well as the legally and theologically questionable justification of the historically unique constitutional amendment with which the Pakistani parliament excommunicated Ahmadi Muslims from Islam—a decision wholly at [...]

englischThe subject Islamic theology, which was founded eleven years ago, was politically expected to train imams who promote integration. The author empirically investigates how students of Islamic theology deal with these expectations. The book shows that the actors' attributions of meaning is [...]

englischBetween the age of confessionalization and the comprehensive edicts of tolerance of the late 18th century lies a period in which research emphasises the role of the confession in very different ways. The concept of tolerance existed in the intellectual history, but the regulations of the [...]

englischThis book takes on the forcefulness of post-modernist appeals and their rational fantasies of omnipotence. Since the Enlightenment, theology has sought to bring faith and reason together. In doing so, it usually presupposes an image of the human being that understands the subject as a [...]

Kirchen werden abgerissen und zugleich Moscheen neu errichtet. Die scheinbar paradoxalen Phänomene rufen oft heftige Emotionen hervor und rücken die Debatte um sakrale Orte in den Blickpunkt. Dieser Band geht einer Bandbreite von Fragen nach, die die Bedeutung und Funktion der sakralen Orte in [...]

Der vorliegende Band widmet sich der Biographie des Rabbis David Diespeck - geboren 1715 im fränkischen Diespeck an der Aisch. Seine Gelehrtenlaufbahn begann in Fürth, führte ihn nach Frankfurt a. M. und dann in die Praxis der Lehre. Diespeck, früh verheiratet und bald verwitwet, diente Gemeinden im [...]

Das Thema der vorliegenden Studie ist die ideologische Reproduktion bei der Muslimbruderschaft in der arabischen Welt zwischen 1950 und 2013. Den Prozess der Indoktrination verortet sie im sogenannten „Familiensystem“, dessen Funktionsweise sie im Kontext der gesellschaftlichen und politischen [...]

englischThe 15th century saw the last wave of mass conversions to the Christian faith on the Iberian Peninsula. The formerly large Jewish population there was coerced, sometimes with open violence, to accept baptism. However, significant parts of the Christian majority never accepted the converts as [...]

In dieser Publikation werden aussagekräftige Basiselemente und Schlüsselbegriffe der Gülen- oder auch hizmet-Bewegung anhand einer textuellen und multiperspektivischen Performanzanalyse (nach John L. Austin und Erving Goffman) untersucht. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, welche Gülen-Bewegung gegenüber [...]

Die 1997 erstmals erschienene Studie setzt sich empirisch-soziologisch mit der kirchlichen und standesamtlichen Hochzeit auseinander und geht der Frage nach, warum sich viele Partner gleich zweimal das Jawort geben. Welche Bedeutung haben die standesamtliche und die kirchliche Trauung zur [...]

englischThis study deals with the nineteenth-century Ottoman Sufi community of the Melâmiyye. It is the history of a social group for which modernization meant a crisis, which it sought to overcome with the help of trance and imaginary self-exaltation. Based on the texts of outstanding Melâmîs and [...]

Der römische Adlige und Humanist Pietro Della Valle bereist von 1614 bis 1626 das Osmanische Reich, Persien und Indien. In einer Zeit des Umbruchs sucht er nach neuen Allianzen für Rom: Gegen die Reformatoren will er die Einheit mit den orientalischen Christen wiederherstellen. Gegen die Osmanen [...]

Die Herausgeber hinterfragen die Wende von der Kirchen- zur Religionssoziologie und die damit verbundene Hochschätzung angeblich in der Gesellschaft frei flottierender Religiosität bei gleichzeitiger Geringschätzung kirchlich-religiöser Kommunikation. Dagegen halten sie an der hohen Bedeutung der [...]

englischBased on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the UK, the US, and Belgium, as well as an analysis of a wide array of digital sources, this volume compellingly conceptualizes the digital and the diaspora as separate but intertwined frontier-spaces in which religious adaptation and change can [...]

englischWith a focus on the political and religious surroundings in which Forty Hadith on Jihad emerge, the topic of the ‘exertion on the path of God’ will be for the first time systematically treated based on small hadith collections. A detailed analysis of four representative Forty Hadith [...]

englischAlthough humans are biologically omnivores, there is no community that makes full use of all the food available to it. Something is always not eaten. This anthology sheds light on why we don't eat what we don't eat from the perspectives of neuro-, nutritional-, social science and religious [...]

englischAt the beginning of the 21st century, writing about the Shoah in French literature is undergoing transformation processes. Soazig Aaron, Frédéric Brun, Philippe Claudel and Jean-Pierre Gattégno transform the survivor, including his duality, into a literary figure and place a clear focus on [...]

englischDuring the Middle Ages the cult of saints was an essential part of religious life. As a result, the study of saints’ lives and other narrative sources is a well-established research area for medievalists. But these studies often marginalize liturgical sources and rarely take the reality of [...]

englischReflections around the topics of gender and feminism - thought from an Islamic theological perspective - are indispensable for a contemporary Islamic theology. How can gender-sensitive and feminist aspects be justified from within theology? What significance do they bear for the realization [...]

Dem zunächst evangelischen Theologen Erik Peterson (1890-1960), der im Jahre 1930 in Rom zum Katholizismus konvertierte, ist in letzter Zeit größeres theologisches Forschungsinteresse zuteil geworden. Peterson fordert zum ökumenischen Nachdenken heraus, weil er sich mit vergessenen [...]

englischThis volume explores the concepts of paradise in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It reveals how they are portrayed as alternative and aesthetically significant realms compared to the current realities, what role they play in present-day culture and political ideals and how they can be [...]

englischThe Yearbook of the Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses (BaFID) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg offers current contributions to the study of exchange among religions from an interdisciplinary perspective. The format is aimed both at a [...]

Das Bayerische Forschungszentrum für Interreligiöse Diskurse (BaFID) wurde im Oktober 2020 an der FAU gegründet und wird mit Mitteln der Bayerischen Staatsregierung finanziert. Ziel des BaFID ist es, die grundlegenden Inhalte und Schlüsselbegriffe der monotheistischen Religionen Judentum, [...]

„Ferman 74“ bezeichnet den systematischen Völkermord am jesidischen Volk durch fanatische Anhänger des sogenannten Islamischen Staats, der mit dem Überfall auf dasDorf Kotscho im Sintschar-Gebiet am 3.8.2014 begann. Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert durch über 200 Aussagen und Interviews mit [...]

englischThis book analyses how Christians and Muslims are coexisting peacefully in Lebanon and evaluates this phenomenon in terms of its significance for Europe. Moreover, the book develops a constructive depiction of monotheism with regard to a solidary, egalitarian and inclusive society.

englischThe global West has created a category that victimises ­Afghanistan’s women and instrumentalizes them for political purposes. This anthology focuses on values, beliefs and ­socialisation processes that perpetuate such role attributions. The volume shows that the women concerned by no means [...]

englischBetween 2015 and 2017, various scholars from the University of Potsdam and the University of Lausanne contacted and interviewed religious, spiritual and humanistic communities in Potsdam. They operated with an inclusive concept of religion, referring also to groups and networks beyond the [...]

englischIn the year 1685, the Great Elector issued the “Edict of Potsdam,” which has been fundamental for Potsdam’s self-conception as a city of tolerance and religious freedom. But what does it mean for the people of Potsdam today? Whom do they believe in – and why? In the series Glaube in Potsdam [...]

englischBetween 2015 and 2017, various scholars from the University of Potsdam and the University of Lausanne contacted and interviewed religious, spiritual and humanistic communities in Potsdam. They operated with an inclusive concept of religion, referring also to groups and networks beyond the [...]

englischThe complex Gnostic teachings of antiquity and their revival and remythification in neo-Gnostic and occultist groups at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century form the core of this two-volume publication. The "Gnostic Mystery School" of the pastor E. C. H. Peithmann is [...]

englischThroughout the history of religions, their holy texts and norms have been sources of images of men in societies around the world and have presented forms of masculinity that have found expression in religious acts and rituals. This volume examines how this reciprocal influence has shifted [...]

englischDeceits were evaluated ambivalently in the Middle Ages. Although Christian authors condemned the use of deceits in general, they often regarded them as praiseworthy or even holy if they served a good cause. On the basis of the lives of high medieval bishops and abbots this study examines [...]

Die vorliegende monografische Essaysammlung leuchtet den Zusammenhang von Männlichkeit und Religion in der Moderne aus. Dabei betrachten die einzelnen Kapitel Idealisierungsformen, die sich in der Figur des Helden oder Heros verdichten.

englischFor decades, the Maoist New People's Army in the Philippines has been fighting exploitation and poverty. In the 1980s, several Catholic priests joined and shaped it. One faction pursued national revolution, while another emphasized the preservation of indigenous culture. Conrado Balweg [...]

Wie sind Recht und Religion aufeinander bezogen und wie ist ihr Verhältnis im pluralistischen Gemeinwesen zu bestimmen? Die Autorinnen und Autoren der in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge lassen es nicht damit bewenden, Trennendes und Abgrenzendes aufzudecken. Sie gehen vielmehr auch den [...]

englischReligions are important actors in civil society. The question of how they deal with each other is of decisive importance for the future of plural, open societies. For this book, three actors in interreligious understanding have come together for the first time: the nationally and [...]

englischThe relationship of Sharia to secular law, human rights, gender roles and ethical issues of thought and action has been the focus of media, social and political attention for decades. By combining an in-depth understanding of pre-modern Islamic jurisprudence with modern legal and social [...]

englischBecause of the right-wing party AfD and the Pegida-movement, the Islam-critical scene in Germany has received much attention in recent years. But many campaigners have been politically active for a much longer time. The survey traces the developments since 9/11 and lets active opponents of [...]

englischDue to German unification and the immigration of Jews from the Soviet Union, the Jewish communities in Germany have been in a situation of upheaval and reorganization since 1990. The book presents the tense developments that took place on the religious, social, and organizational levels. [...]

englischThe Jewish-Canadian and Arab-American writers and professors of literature George Ellenbogen (*1934) and Evelyn Shakir (1938–2010) were life companions. In both their memoirs, the authors tell stories of neighborhood, enriching encounters and their search for roots. George grows up in the [...]

englischA dialogical examination of the Qur'an as an approach to transcendence is elementary remembering. This book examines topics such as understanding revelation and scripture, gender justice or anthropology exegetically and from the perspectives of textual criticism and the history of religion, [...]

„Lebensdienlich und Überlieferungsgerecht. Jüdische und christliche Aktualisierungen der Gott-Mensch-Beziehung.“ Unter diesem Buchtitel schreiben jüdische und christliche Autorinnen und Autoren, die über den Wissenschaftsbetrieb und/oder durch langjährige Freundschaften mit Heinz-Günther Schöttler [...]

Die Arbeit untersucht die Verbindungen zwischen Theosophie und Lebensreform (Medizinkritik, Vegetarismus etc.) in Leipzig zwischen 1896 und 1914 anhand einer sozialstatistischen Auswertung der Leipziger Mitglieder der "Internationalen Theosophischen Verbrüderung".

englischJewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies are often thought to be at odds. Both disciplines intensively debate modernity, troubling its universalist claims and showing the contradictory nature of its promises. The call to provincialize Europe allows scholars from both disciplines to think, [...]

Musik ist ein zentrales Element in den Ritualen zahlreicher Religionen. Ebenso vielfältig wie die religiösen Traditionen sind die hierbei relevanten klanglichen Elemente. Im vorliegenden Band wird das vielschichtige und vielfältige Verhältnis von Musik und Religion in Vormoderne und Moderne aus der [...]

englischIn a time of rapid societal changes around the globe, there is a pressing need for genuine elucidation of Muslim moral values and norms, especially in migration contexts. These rapid changes raise questions about the conservation of the ‘self’ and the adaptation of norms and values to [...]