Während weltweit Religion, insbesondere das Christentum, boomt, neue kraftvolle Gemeinden entstehen und sich ganze Landstriche dem Glauben zuwenden, leeren sich im kulturellen Westen die Kirchen und die gesellschaftliche Gestaltungskraft des Christentums schwindet.
Meeting in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2010, the Eleventh Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) asked for forgiveness from members of the Anabaptist/Mennonite tradition for the wrongs going back to the beginnings of the Lutheran movement in the sixteenth century that had led to painful divisions between the two Christian families.
This volume documents the ninth theological conference of the Church of England and the Evangelical Church in Germany held in London in January 2016 as part of their Meissen process.
Im Jahr 1849 entsandte Theodor Fliedner vier Diakonissen in die USA und gab damit den Impuls zur Entstehung einer zwar nicht immer erfolgreichen, aber ungeheuer vielfältigen amerikanischen Diakonissenbewegung.
Seit Beginn dieses Jahrhunderts hat die Rede von der 'Kommunikation des Evangeliums' viel Beachtung gefunden in den Subdisziplinen der Praktischen Theologie, aber auch in deren Grundlegung, zuletzt in Christian Grethleins Entwurf aus dem Jahr 2012.
The State Copper is the first volume of the DEK encyclopedia ( Descriptive encyclopedia for kids, which simplifies the history, geography and etc of the U.
A panoramic history of the Jewish American South, from European colonization to todayIn 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to ';Jews, heathens, and other dissenters,' ushering in an era that would see Jews settle in cities and towns throughout what would become the Confederate States.
By World War I, the Northwestern Knitting Company was the largest workplace for gainfully employed women in Minnesota and the largest garment factory in the United States.
This collective book offers new insight on the genres of biography and autobiography by examining the singular path of those deemed to be 'outsiders', such as Winnie Mandela, Ida B.
During the Cold War, the United States enabled the rise of President Syngman Rhee's repressive government in South Korea, and yet neither the American occupation nor Rhee's growing authoritarianism ever became particularly controversial news stories in the United States.
This book challenges the wide-ranging generalizations that dominate the literature on the impact of export-led growth upon Latin America during the first export era.
The book interprets the Cuban revolutionary movement from 1868 to 1959 as a continuous process that sought political independence and social and economic transformation of colonial and neocolonial structures.
This book is a rhetorical analysis of the "e;Seybert Report,"e; based on the findings of the Seybert Commission formed in the nineteenth century at the University of Pennsylvania and tasked with investigating the paranormal phenomena alleged to arise in Spiritualist seances.
This book examines historic examples of US public diplomacy in order to understand how past uses and techniques of foreign public engagement evolved into modern public diplomacy as a tool of American statecraft.
This book explores the new types of political organization that emerged in Western Europe and the United States during the nineteenth century, from popular meetings to single-issue organizations and political parties.
This monograph asserts that the troubled history of segregation within American women's associations created a legacy of racial exclusivity and privilege.
This book makes a wide, conceptual challenge to the theory that the English of the colonial period thought of Native Americans as irrational and subhuman, dismissing any intimations to the contrary as ideology or propaganda.
The book uses an innovative prism of interorality that powerfully reevaluates Caribbean orality and innovatively casts light on its overlooked and fundamental epistemological contribution into the formation of Caribbean philosophy.
This volume examines the transformation of British and US naval policy from 1870 to 1889, which resulted in the British Naval Defence Act (1889), the construction of the first modern US battleships, and began the naval arms race which culminated in World War One.
Überwältigt stehen 1519 Cortés und seine Truppen vor einer Stadt, die an Größe, Pracht, Einwohnerzahl und Baukunst alles übertrifft, was sie aus der alten Welt kennen: Tenochtitlan.
Exactly 200 years ago, on 28 July 1821, General José de San Martín solemnly proclaimed the independence of Peru from the Spanish crown, in the country=s capital, Lima.
Exactly 200 years ago, on 28 July 1821, General José de San Martín solemnly proclaimed the independence of Peru from the Spanish crown, in the country=s capital, Lima.
Die Geschichte Lateinamerikas in der Moderne verlief spektakulär und voller Dynamik: Aufstände gegen die Kolonialmächte, die frühe Gründung von Nationalstaaten, die Herrschaft autokratischer Anführer und Militärs, Revolutionen und Guerillabewegungen sowie eine immer wieder von Rückschlägen bedrohte Demokratisierung.
Die Geschichte Lateinamerikas in der Moderne verlief spektakulär und voller Dynamik: Aufstände gegen die Kolonialmächte, die frühe Gründung von Nationalstaaten, die Herrschaft autokratischer Anführer und Militärs, Revolutionen und Guerillabewegungen sowie eine immer wieder von Rückschlägen bedrohte Demokratisierung.
"e;"e;Based on impressive multi-archival work and a keen sense for a good narrative, the author introduces us to the complex, interlocking networks of the littleknown Atlantik-Brucke and the American Council on Germany.
This edited volume offers a critical reflection on the failed experiment to redevelop the city of Rio de Janeiro according to the neoliberal strategy of entrepreneurial urban governance and mercantile regulatory transformations, which were leveraged by mega-sporting events.
This book will offer a unique approach to the Year of Intelligence, the sixteen-month period between January 1975 and April 1976 that saw the innermost secrets of various US intelligence agencies laid bare before the world.
Las reconstrucciones históricas del periodo de la Regeneración generalmente han enfatizado en el carácter autoritario y radicalmente conservador de los gobiernos de esa época.
By World War I, the Northwestern Knitting Company was the largest workplace for gainfully employed women in Minnesota and the largest garment factory in the United States.
Ein kühnes Debüt – ein furchtlos feministischer Wild-West-RomanMit einer Pistole in den Händen und der Leiche des Vaters auf dem Rücken des Pferdes sind die chinesischen Waisenkinder Lucy und Sam auf der Flucht durch die Prärie.
