This history celebrates the Catholic League, an ecumenical society founded in 1913 to promote the unity of Christians and to encourage the journey of all towards the visible unity of the whole Church.
Fruit du 9e Forum bilingue " Fribourg Église dans le monde ", cet ouvrage uniquement francophone explore d'abord dans l'histoire l'évolution des différences et des éléments communs entre les principales confessions chrétiennes dans le domaine de la missiologie.
Based on archival and primary sources in Persian, Hebrew, Judeo-Persian, Arabic, and European languages, Between Foreigners and Shi'is examines the Jews' religious, social, and political status in nineteenth-century Iran.
In Religious Cohesion in Times of Conflict Andrew Holden presents the results and analysis of the key findings of a sociological investigation which seeks to establish the contribution that Christian-Muslim partnerships can make to community cohesion.
Zur ReiheFür die Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften, für die Rechtswissenschaften und die Theologie sind Fragen nach dem Zusammenhang von Text und Normativität gleichermaßen zentral.
When people of different cultures and religious traditions are being constantly drawn closer together, interreligious dialogue becomes not only a strategy to understand the "e;Others,"e; but also an attitude to deepen one's faith.
Peter Slade examines Mission Mississippi's model of racial reconciliation (which stresses one-on-one, individual friendships among religious people of different races) and considers whether it can effectively address the issue of social justice.
From the 1980s Britain's large Muslim community, a long established but little noticed group, suddenly became visible as controversies involving the education and dress of Muslim schoolgirls, the Rushdie affair and the Gulf War excited huge media interest.
The IFLA Religious Libraries in Dialogue Special Interest Group is dedicated to libraries serving as places of dialogue between cultures through a better knowledge of religions.
In recent decades the ebb and flow of immigration to Canada has changed significantly, with the majority of immigrants coming from non-European countries.
Holy sites are often at the center of intense contestation between different groups regarding a wide variety of issues, including ownership, access, usage rights, permissible religious conduct, and many others.
Protestant religious instruction and confirmation in Germany and in orthodox Sunday schools in Belarus – the most extensive religious teaching programmes available to young people – are systematically examined in this study.
Der Benediktinermönch Anselm Grün und der ehemalige Ratsvorsitzende der Evangelischen Kirche, Nikolaus Schneider, gehen in diesem Buch der Frage nach, was Martin Luthers Thesen für den Menschen von heute und die moderne Gesellschaft bedeuten.
This volume of the series "e;Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses"e; investigates the roots of the concept of "e;soul"e; in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
The sixth volume of the series "e;Key Concepts of Interreligious Discourses"e; investigates the roots of the concept of "e;person"e; in Judaism, Christianity and Islam and its relevance for the present time.
Recent studies have examined martyrdom as a means of constructing Christian identity, but until now none has focused on Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
This valuable book is the first to bring together theory and policy with analysis and expertise on practices in key areas of the public realm to explore what religious literacy is, why it is needed and what might be done about it.
