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 [...]