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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Oden Salomos Teil 1 Text Ubersetzung Kommentar
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Devianz Und Dynamik Festschrift Fur Hubert
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Religious Competition in the Third Century CE:
Book SynopsisThe essays in this work examine issues related to authority, identity, or change in religious and philosophical traditions of the third century CE. This century is of particular interest because of the political and cultural developments and conflicts that occurred during this period, which in turn drastically changed the social and religious landscape of the Roman world. The specific focus of this volume edited by Jordan D. Rosenblum, Lily Vuong, and Nathaniel DesRosiers is to explore these major creative movements and to examine their strategies for developing and designating orthodoxies and orthopraxies. Contributors were encouraged to analyze or construct the intersections between parallel religious and philosophical communities of the third century, including points of contact either between or among Jews, Christians, pagans, and philosophers. As a result, the discussions of the material contained within this volume are both comparative in nature and interdisciplinary in approach, engaging participants who work in the fields of Religious Studies, Philosophy, History and Archaeology. The overall goal was to explore dialogues between individuals or groups that illuminate the mutual competition and influence that was extant among them, and to put forth a general methodological framework for the study of these ancient dialogues. These religious and philosophical dialogues are not only of great interest and import in their own right, but they also can help us to understand how later cultural and religious developments unfolded.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG World Youth Day
Book SynopsisCan digital games help us understand real life religion? With World Youth Day: Religious Interaction at a Catholic Festival, Skjoldli suggests that they can. The change is particularly visible from Skjoldlis new theoretical framework religious interaction, which draws on digital game studies. The framework centres on three key terms -- interaction, interface, and immersion. Interaction constitutes the core of the stipulative definition of religion operative in this framework: interaction with culturally postulated superhuman persons. Interface represents the means by which interaction takes place. When interaction becomes emotionally charged, immersion takes place -- whether it happens in religious contexts, gaming contexts, or other human activities like watching sports, reading books, playing instruments, listening and/or dancing to music. Religious immersion, Skjoldli suggests, is helpful for understanding -- and making intelligible -- the emotional charge of human-superhuman relationships, the power and vulnerability of the religious interfaces that enable them, the significance of emotionally charged experiences they afford, and the vexation expressed when interactions are frustrated by distraction, distortion, or destruction. In this book, Skjoldli employs her religious interaction framework in an analysis of how the Catholic festival World Youth Day (WYD) changed the meaning of pilgrimage in Catholicism. WYD emerged from a ritual, historical, and cultural context abundant associations to pilgrimage as the term is conventionally understood by scholars. WYDs are also consistently called pilgrimages, even when the host locations are not officially sanctioned as such. A substantive investment for the Catholic Church centrally, locally, and for the local event organisers, each WYD draws hundreds of thousands to millions of young Catholics from around the world. The pope always participates by giving speeches and leading some of the ceremonies. WYD is persistently referred to as a pilgrimage, and Skjoldli analyses what pilgrimage has meant, what it means now, and how it changed in the context of WYD.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Reformed Historical Theology: Die Abendmahlslehre
Book SynopsisIn this volume Frank Ewerszumrode studies the Eucharist teachings of Johannes Calvin from a Roman Catholic perspective. At the center of his focus lies the question concerning the real presence of Christ in the bread and wine. First the author describes Calvin's position on this matter in the context of the internal controversy among the Reformers concerning the nature of the Eucharist. A closer look reveals that broad agreement reigns between Calvin's theology in this matter and the Roman Catholic teaching of transsubstantiation.
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Herder Verlag GmbH Die Angst der Tiere
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EOS - Editions Sankt Ottilien Religious Education in the Diocese of Ahiara
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V&R Unipress Konflikt - Integration - Religion:
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V&R unipress GmbH Neuvermessung des Religionsunterrichts nach Art.
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V&R unipress GmbH Gott, ein Gefuge: Poststrukturalistische
Book SynopsisThe debates about the global concept of religion, as they are currently being conducted in religious studies, which have been shaped by post-structuralist and post-colonial theory, have in part also led to a re-reflection of traditional concepts in theology. The aim of this volume is to bundle these debates and make them fruitful for the theology of religions. On the one hand, central categories such as truth, universality or religion are subjected to a deconstruction in order to make them visible in their historical conditionality and their interweaving with social discourses. On the other hand, new spaces of what can be said are outlined, which can serve as the basis for an alternative, non-essentialist form of religion-theological speaking. This book extends the contemporary debate on the global concept of religion, conducted in the context of religious studies, to the field of the theology of religions. In applying poststructuralist and postcolonial perspectives, it seeks to deconstruct central categories such as truth, universality, or religion, in order to contextualize them by making transparent their historical genealogy and entanglement with political, social, and scientific discourses. Further, it aims to outline new areas of thinking, which can serve as the experimental basis of an alternative, non-essentialist form of theology (of religions).
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Christian Body at Work: Spirituality,
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag Re-Enacting the Past: A Cultural History of the
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Dr Ludwig Reichert The Life and Works of Karma 'Phrin Las Pa
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Zaphon Les Cherubins / Keruvim Dans l'Antiquite:
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Editorial Trotta, S.A. Himnos a Isis
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Robinbook Ángeles
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Dykinson, S.L. - Libros Judaísmo Cristianismo e Islam tres religiones en diálogo
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Editorial Kairos El Sueño de Shitala: Viaje Al Mundo de Las
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Antropologia E Apocalittica
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Christian Theological Understanding of Other
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Gregorian & Biblical Press En El Corazon de la Iglesia: Misterio de Amor En
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Peeters Publishers Rituals and Ethics: Patterns of Repentance
Book SynopsisWhat patterns of repentance are presented by such different religious traditions as Judaism, Christianity and Islam? How are transgressions cancelled in the eyes of God, the individual and society? What individual and collective actions are necessary for the granting of forgiveness?Today, the study of the mechanisms of social reconciliation based on inner and collective repentance is an increasingly urgent issue. An international conference on this subject was organized by "Mediterraneum", with the participation of scholars from European, American and Middle Eastern universities. We publish here the essays by J. Assmann (Heidelberg), P.C. Bori, A. Destro, M. Pesce (Bologna), A. Feldtkeller (Berlin), G. Filoramo (Turin), G. Mayer (Heidelberg), Mongia and Mokdad Arfa Mensia (Tunis), J. Neusner (Bard College), M. Nobile (Rome), P. Vassiliadis and D. Passakos (Thessaloniki)."Mediterraneum" is an international center for the study of religions situated in Bertinoro, the medieval Italian city from which Ovadiah, the famous commentator of the Mishna, takes his name.
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Peeters Publishers The Three Rings: Textual Studies in the
Book SynopsisIn history, Judaism, Christianity and Islam have been both partners and rivals. The well-known parable of the three rings argues in a beautiful paradox how the religion most beloved by the other two will turn out to be in possession of the true ring. This book collects a number of texts in which not just bilateral religious dialogues but the relations between one's own religion and the two others are documented. The texts translated and studied here, date from the medieval period, both from the East and from the West. It brings together in one volume esteemed writers such as the Jews Judah Halevi, Abraham Ibn Daud, Moses Maimonides, and Ibn Kammuna; the Christians John of Damascus, Paul of Antioch, Peter Abelard, Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas of Cusa; and the Muslims 'Abd al-Jabbar, Al-Ghazali, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and Nur-al-Din al-Raniri. The shared knowledge of different religious traditions as testified to in some of these texts, may come as a surprise. Basic patterns of mutual understanding, pluralism, tolerance and dialogue - still relevant today - are drafted.
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Peeters Publishers Mythologie et Religion des Semites Occidentaux:
Book SynopsisL'ouvrage pretend mettre en relief l'unite et continuite fondamentales des conceptions mythologiques et religieuses des Semites occidentaux anciens au sein du monde semitique en general. A cet effet differents specialistes analysent leurs traditions, depuis Ebla jusqu'au monde phenicien, en passant par Mari, Emar, Ougarit, Canaan-Israel, Aram et l'Arabie du Sud, sur la base des temoignages epigraphiques que ces peuples nous ont laisse. Ce parcours permet de constater la specificite et l'evolution de ces conceptions, aussi bien que leur influence sur la mythologie et la religion des Semites orientaux d'un cote, et la persistance de certaines de ces idees et symboles dans la tradition religieuse du monde semitique judeo-islamique, de l'autre. Toutes ces syntheses se basent en grande mesure sur des temoignages textuels decouverts les derniers soixante-dix ans, qui sont encore en train d'elaboration, et dans certains cas (Mari) meme inedits. On offre ainsi un apercu d'ensemble qui permet envisager la particularite du symbolisme religieux des Semites occidentaux par rapport a celui des orientaux, et les echanges mutuels entre ces deux mondes.
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Peeters Publishers Mission in Dialogue: Essays in Honour of Michael
Book SynopsisArchbishop Michael Fitzgerald has made a lasting contribution to the Catholic Church in the field of interreligious dialogue, through his scholarship and through his work at the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue in the Vatican, as its secretary and then president. This volume, which includes contributions by several scholars and friends of Archbishop Fitzgerald, focuses on three aspects: the theology of religions, the experience of dialogue, and Muslim-Christian relations. Written by specialists, in English and in French, these seventeen contributions reflect the challenge of dialogue as it has been emphasized by the Second Vatican Council. Written from a scholarly perspective as well as from grassroots experiences, this volume also tries to show the diversity of approaches across the world.
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Peeters Publishers From Violence to Peace: Dismantling the
Book SynopsisFrom Violence to Peace introduces us to three monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and the distorted image of a God who is praised when committing violence. Instead peace should be the soul and lungs of all religions. Religion is not the source of violence; violence is constellated through human manipulation. There is an urgent need for self-awareness, the sine qua non for all transformation so that western countries can move away from this distorted image or dominant religion or "new opium." Several concrete observations are proposed with the book ending with a call to a wider vision of transcendence, an openness to a larger frame of reference, that is, of meaning and an enlarged vision of the role of religion's passion to bring spirit and forgiveness to public life and provide a vision of moral order.
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Peeters Publishers Tradition and the Normativity of History
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays by some of the world’s leading theological voices aims at unfolding and reflecting upon the complex relationship between theology and history, with a special focus on the development of tradition. The articles gathered here make it clear that the role of historical consciousness within theology and the contribution of historical studies to the theological disciplines, are of paramount importance, and fundamentally alter the shape of the theological enterprise. Rather than destroying theology, tradition and theological truth claims, historical consciousness contributes to the deconstruction of all facile appeals to history in order to support theological claims, and works to prevent us from proposing simplistic readings of tradition in terms of continuity or discontinuity. Moreover, it offers new opportunities to theology to engage in the process of recontextualization in the contemporary context, taking into account its sensibility to historicity, contingency and particularity. It allows us, for example, to think resurrection anew, and to constructively criticize our forgetfulness of dangerous memories. It is not by overcoming these features of the contemporary age that theology will succeed in its striving after theological truth, but by discerning how such truth is revealed precisely within, and thanks to, particular and contingent histories, and not in spite of historicity, contingency and particularity. When this is done, the dialogue between theology and history/historical studies contributes to a contemporary reconsideration of the radical dialogical character of revelation, that is, of the way in which God reveals Godself in history. It is the hope of this collective volume that it will further deepen the understanding of revelation that was developed in Vatican II’s constitution on divine revelation, Dei verbum.
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Peeters Publishers Priests and Prophets Among Pagans, Jews and
Book SynopsisThe emperor Julian pointed out that the duties of priesthood were better understood among 'the impious Galileans' (i.e. Christians) than among his pagan contemporaries. Like the emperor, the essays in this volume look in both directions. Its pages are populated by very diverse figures: Plutach, Aelius Aristides, Alexander of Abonouteichos, Daniel the Stylite, Gregory of Nazianzus, Shenoute of Atripe, Mani, Muhammad, and a host of anonymous Greek and Roman priests, prophets, and diviners. The priests of second temple Judaism are considered too. Both in the Greco-Roman and the early Christian worlds the neat division between priests and prophets proves hard to sustain. But in terms of fame and influence a strong contrast emerges between Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian prophets; this is why it is only among Jews and Christians that 'false prophets' are feared. Two recurrent preoccupations are the relation of priests and prophets to secular power, and the priest/prophet not as reality but as idea, an imagined figure. Leading scholars of the religions of antiquity come together in this wide-ranging and innovative volume.
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Peeters Publishers On the Fringe of Commentary: Metatextuality in
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the papers of the second meeting of the international scholarly network "The Hermeneutic of Judaism, Christianity and Islam," held in Aix-en-Provence (September 25-27, 2008). Drawing on Gérard Genette's theory of the five different types of "transtextuality" (Palimpsestes, Paris 1982) - intertextuality, paratextuality, metatextuality, hypertextuality, and architextuality - , the volume discusses the practices of metatextuality as diverse as commentaries, hypomnemata, pesharim, targumim, Talmud, allegoresis, glosses, scholia, catenae, questions-and-responses (erotapocriseis), prophetic extracts, hypotheses, homilies, integumenta and involucra, Keys to Dreams, translations, and transliterations in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures. Presented with an introduction designed to expand and re-contextualize this issue, the eighteen communications discuss common strategies of metatextuality in Greek and Jewish culture as well as its various manifestations in the Septuagint and other Jewish texts, in the literature of the Ancient Near East and Egypt, in the Greco-Roman world, and in the late antique and medieval literature.
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Peeters Publishers Zhu Xi and Meister Eckhart: Two Intellectual
Book SynopsisThis book attempts a comparative study between Zhu Xi (1130-1200), a Neo-Confucian master of the Song dynasty in China, and Meister Eckhart (1260-1328), a scholastic and mystic in the medieval West. With a focus on the theme of human intellect as presented in the works of the two thinkers, this study also explores the massive hermeneutical framework in which that concept is unfolded in Zhu Xi and in Eckhart. Thus, the complexity of each thinker's understanding of the human intellect is demonstrated in its own context, and the common themes between them are discussed in their own terms. Based on a systematic study of the original texts, the comparison between Zhu Xi and Meister Eckhart goes much deeper than a general dialogue between East and West. The comparative model of this book, based strictly on textual study, aims to develop an in-depth communication between a scholastic Confucian mind and his equally sophisticated counterpart in Christendom, in the hope that the intellectual brilliance and spiritual splendour of one thinker will be illuminated by the light of the other. Probably only when one encounters a like-minded counterpart brought up in a totally different tradition will such a mutual illumination become meaningful.
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Viella Toucher lInvisible
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