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 [...]
more informationenglischThe 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 [...]
more informationenglisch„‘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 [...]
more informationDie 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 [...]
more informationDie 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 [...]
more informationenglischWhereas 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 [...]
more informationenglischWhereas 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 [...]
more informationenglischThe 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 [...]
more informationenglischThe 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 [...]
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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 [...]
more informationenglischNizari 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 [...]
more informationenglisch 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 [...]
more informationenglisch 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 [...]
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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 [...]
more informationenglischThis 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 [...]
more informationenglischThis 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 [...]
more informationenglischThe 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 [...]
more informationenglischThe 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 [...]
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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 [...]
more informationenglischBetween 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 [...]
more informationenglischThis 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 [...]
more informationenglischThis 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 [...]
more informationKirchen 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 [...]
more informationDer 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 [...]
more informationDas 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 [...]
more informationDas 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 [...]
more informationenglischThe 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 [...]
more informationenglischThe 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 [...]
more informationIn 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 [...]
more informationIn 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 [...]
more informationDie 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 [...]
more informationDie 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 [...]
more informationenglischThis 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 [...]
more informationenglischThis 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 [...]
more informationDer 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 [...]
more informationDer 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 [...]
more informationDie 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 [...]
more informationDie 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 [...]
more informationenglischBased 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 [...]
more informationenglischBased 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 [...]
more informationenglischWith 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 [...]
more informationenglischAlthough 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 [...]
more informationenglischAlthough 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 [...]
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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 [...]
more informationenglischAt 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 [...]
more informationenglischDuring 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 [...]
more informationenglischDuring 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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