Beim Entrümpeln des Elternhauses findet Hanan Al Obaidat 1998 einen Koffer mit 630 Briefen ihres Großvaters, die ihr Bild von den Großeltern radikal verändern.
This book explores changing gender and religious roles for Catholic men and women in the British Isles from Henry VIII's break with the Catholic Church in 1534 to full emancipation in 1829.
"Besondere" Gottesdienste scheinen eine wichtige Rolle dafür zu spielen, dass Menschen sich im kirchlichen Kontext punktuell-selektiv und jenseits pfarrgemeindlicher Strukturen vergemeinschaften.
Der Sonntagsgottesdienst gilt traditionell als Mitte und Kennzeichen kirchlichen Lebens, bis heute erscheint er im kirchlichen und öffentlichen Bewusstsein als "Normalfall" des Gottesdienstes.
This collection of papers aims to draw lessons and apply indigenous knowledge, wisdom and cultural traditions to suit policy contexts describing the (a) role of individuals (b) communities, and (c) the state to ensure effectively manage water resources.
Set against the backdrop of the rise of right-wing Christian nationalism in Eastern Europe, this book declares that Catholic theologians ought to be understood and studied as intellectuals: socially and historically situated creators of national cultural traditions.
Das Buch untersucht die unter der Bezeichnung „Konfessionen Jeremias“ bekannten Gebete (Jer 11,18-12,6; 15,10-21; 17,14-18; 18,18-23; 20,7-18) aus redaktionskritischer Perspektive.
This book is a transnational study of rural and anti-Semitic violence around the triple frontier between Austria-Hungary, Romania and Tsarist Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century.
This book approaches newly emerging religious groups through the interplay between religious and non-religious spheres in the specific context of Vietnam.
This book examines the paradoxical relationship between the religious and political behaviors of American and British Evangelicals, who exhibit nearly identical religious canon and practice, but sharply divergent political beliefs and action.
This volume describes and maps congregations of Christian confessions and denominations, as well as groups with Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, and various other spiritual faiths, in different European countries.
This book explores the Holocaust exhibition opened within the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in 2000; setting out the long and often contentious debates surrounding the conception, design, and finally the opening of an important exhibition within a national museum in Britain.
This first verse-by-verse commentary on the Greek text of the Testament of Abraham places the work within the history of both Jewish and Christian literature.
The volume presents a collection of international papers on the literary genesis of the deuteronomistic history and on “Deuteronomism” in the books from Genesis to Kings.
The hermeneutics employed in this work is partly referred to as hindsight hermeneutics, and upholds the resonance and dissonance between the Epilogue of the Book of Job and the preceding sections.
This book addresses the changes in education practices, especially basic education, necessitated by the global challenges of climate change and sustainable development and in a context characterized by increasing poverty and inequality, migration and refugees.