Is there a language of transcendence which does not fall under the well-worn categories of monism, theism, pantheism, biblical or pagan monotheism, personal or tripersonal God, or an impersonal absolute, conceived as immanent and/or transcendent?
Max Weber hat um 1900 das Verhältnis von Religion und Wirtschaft auf eine klassische Weise zur Sprache gebracht und religiöse Wurzeln des modernen Kapitalismus identifiziert.
Folklore has been a phenomenon based on nostalgic and autochthonous nuances conveyed with a story-telling technique with a penchant for over-playing and nationalistic pomp and circumstance, often with significant consequences for societal, poetic, and cultural areas.
Das Lachen ist zwar seit Aristoteles als Wesensmerkmal des Menschen anerkannt und wurde doch in der christlich geprägten Gelehrtenkultur marginalisiert und dämonisiert.
This book addresses the Jihad movement that created the largest African state of the 19th century: the Sokoto Caliphate, existing for 99 years from 1804 until its military defeat by European colonial troops in 1903.
In 'David Hume: Dialoge über natürliche Religion' präsentiert der berühmte schottische Philosoph seine Gedanken über Theologie und Religion in Form eines Dialogs zwischen drei Personen.
The third volume of the series "e;Key Concepts of Interreligious Discourses"e; investigates the roots of the concept of freedom in Judaism, Christianity and Islam and its relevance for the present time.
IDH Religion provides a series of short introductions to specific areas of study at the intersections of digital humanities and religion, offering an overview of current methodologies, techniques, tools, and projects as well as defining challenges and opportunities for further research.
This book addresses the Jihad movement that created the largest African state of the 19th century: the Sokoto Caliphate, existing for 99 years from 1804 until its military defeat by European colonial troops in 1903.
The volume In Need of a Master: Politics, Theology, and Radical Democracy discusses how our so-called "e;postmodern age"e; of widespread ideological critique paves the way for reactionary and conservative political movements.
Die Entwicklung freigeistiger Organisationen in Deutschland nach 1945 ist bislang unter dem Radarschirm der Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften geblieben.
Erstmals wird in einer Ganzschrift das Wahrheitsverständnis des Theologen Paul Tillich ausgehend von dessen Frühwerk mit dem Schwerpunkt auf der Vorlesung zur Religionsphilosophie (1920) und der Dresdner-Dogmatik-Vorlesung (1925) analysiert.
This second volume delves into the intricate dynamics that surrounded the use of Scripture by North African Christians from the late-fourth to the mid-seventh century CE.
Building from a range of essays representing multiple fields of expertise and traversing multiple religious traditions, this important text provides analytic rigor to a question now pressing the academic study of religion: what is the relationship between the material and the digital?
The volume In Need of a Master: Politics, Theology, and Radical Democracy discusses how our so-called "e;postmodern age"e; of widespread ideological critique paves the way for reactionary and conservative political movements.
The discursive study of religion is a growing field that attracts increasing numbers of students and researchers from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds.
The Recovery Rosary shows you how to pray and meditate on the mysteries of the Rosary to strengthen your spiritual life as a Catholic working the Twelve Steps of recovery or accompanying a loved one who is.
L’architecture du droit de la laïcité se charpente tout entière autour de l’obligation de neutralité religieuse des pouvoirs publics, qui est la clef de voûte de la laïcité.
How have humans sought to prevent viable assumptions about themselves and their world from being in force, how does this propensity manifest itself, and in what terms has it been theorized and criticized throughout the ages?
Dana Sawyer unpacks the philosophy-spirituality of Huxley, Watts, and Ram Dass (as well as our contemporaries, including Mirabai Starr and Richard Rohr) in ways readers will find intriguing, creating an original view of human nature, revealing why this mystical understanding of our world is called perennial.
The discursive study of religion is a growing field that attracts increasing numbers of students and researchers from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds.
While modern students of Greek religion are alert to the occasion-boundedness of epiphanies and divinatory dreams in Greek polytheism, they are curiously indifferent to the generic parameters of the relevant textual representations on which they build their argument.
The investigation of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood during the presidencies of Anwar Sadat and the early years of Hosni Mubarak is based on the movement's main journals, al-Da'wa and Liwa' al-'Islam, presenting its history during two relevant periods: 1976-1981, 1987-1988.
