Der Niedergang der Religion in der westlichen Welt wurde oft als direkte Folge von Entwicklung gesehen, dieselben Tendenzen erwartete man bei gleichen Bedingungen auch im Globalen Süden.
Im Mittelpunkt der Monographie steht eine Reihe von zwischenkirchlichen Konsultationen, die sogenannten Serbien-Tagungen, die unter Beteiligung der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland, der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz und der Serbischen Orthodoxen Kirche von 1999 bis 2009 stattfanden.
Immer wieder sind kritische Stimmen zu vernehmen, die die Rolle der Kirche in unserem Land und die Bedeutung des Religiösen für die Gesellschaft in Frage stellen.
Immer wieder sind kritische Stimmen zu vernehmen, die die Rolle der Kirche in unserem Land und die Bedeutung des Religiösen für die Gesellschaft in Frage stellen.
Durch Androhung und Ausübung von Gewalt für Recht und Frieden zu sorgen gehört nach protestantischer Tradition zu den eigenständigen, jedoch ethisch zu verantwortenden Aufgaben des Staates (Barmen V).
Seit der Zeit der Reformation wird in Trier ein altes Textil als 'Heiliger Rock Christi' von Katholiken, vermehrt auch von Orthodoxen, verehrt und von Protestanten verspottet.
Democracy is a dominant principle and practice to legitimate political power in the modern world, and yet its relationship with other moral traditions is not well understood.
The topic of immigration is at the center of contemporary politics and, from a scholarly perspective, existing studies have documented that attitudes towards immigration have brought about changes in both partisanship and voting behavior.
This book argues that political Islam (represented by its moderate and militant forms) has failed to govern effectively or successfully due to its inability to reconcile its discursive understanding of Islam, centered on literal justice, with the dominant neo-liberal value of freedom.
In its portrayal of Judaism as a worldwide conspiracy dedicated to the destruction of Christian civilization, the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion remains one of the most infamous documents ever written.
This book analyzes the development of Islam and Muslim communities in the West, including influences from abroad, relations with the state and society, and internal community dynamics.
This book shows how an encounter with everyday nationhood in the northern United Arab Emirates can make us revisit the classics of sociology as continuous analytical world-views.
This book brings together theories of world society with poststructuralist and postcolonial work on modern subjectivity to understand the universalising and particularising processes of globalisation.
This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth empirical research.
This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.
This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West.
Providing an expansive view of the making and meaning of African American conservatism, this volume examines the phenomenon in four spheres: the political realm, the academic world, the black church, and grass-roots activism movements.
This volume examines the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life in a representative sample of West European countries: newly democratized and long-established democracies, societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and welfare states with different levels and types of state-provided social services.
The book considers some of the solutions proposed by Muslim activists and thinkers in their attempts to renew (tajdid) their ways of life and thought in accord with the demands of the age in which they lived.
As the epicenter of Christianity has shifted towards Africa in recent decades, Pentecostalism has emerged as a particularly vibrant presence on the continent.
