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Even beyond the 500th anniversary of 2009, Calvin and the consequences of the Reformation associated with his name have lost none of their fascination. Current questions and research projects revolve around the life, work and thoughts of the early modern theologian. The work contains the lectures of the tenth International Congress for Calvin Research (Bloemfontein 2010) and represents the latest state of Calvin research. The first part consists of all lectures by leading scientists from the history of the Reformation and theology, including Luca Baschera, Tony Lane and Wim Janse. They deal with the main topic of the congress, reconciliation. The thematically diverse second part contains short lectures, such as on Calvin's concept of theology or Calvin's understanding of freedom. Mimako Saito writes about Calvin's legacy in Japan. Like the publications of previous Calvin Congress lectures, this edition is intended to serve as a source and guide for future studies. The selection of the title, Calvinus clarissimus theologus, continues the tradition of quoting from an exchange of letters to Calvin. The title echoes the words of Johannes Storm, who praises Calvin as an "astute and learned theologian." Based on these words, Herman J. Selderhuis expresses the honorable commemoration of the Calvin expert and long-time secretary and member of the Presidium Wilhelm Heinrich Neuser, who died a few weeks before the start of the congress.

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In the last decades, many countries in Latin America underwent a transition from dictatorship to democracy. Truth commissions were an essential instrument of uncovering politically motivated crimes and serious human rights violations. However, in many cases truth came without justice, perpetrators were not held accountable, and the reparations policy was rather restrictive. The authors of this volume address the issue from a transdisciplinary perspective. On the one hand, they focus on a past that is shaped by fierce conflicts but also by attempts of fostering reconciliation in the middle of conflict. On the other hand, they address a reconciliation that still lies in the future and has to do with justice. Their first part offers a collection of case studies that approach the topics of reconciliation and conflict resolution during and in the aftermath of dictatorship and civil war from different perspectives and academic disciplines. Their second part is dedicated to experiences with reconciliation, conflict resolution and migration from a global and comparative perspective. Several contributors reflect the Holderlin perspective of "reconciliation in the middle of dispute". Other contributions aim to deepen our theoretical understanding of reconciliation by exploring the diversity of interpretations of the concept itself and elaborating the specific benefit of reconciliatory approaches for a sustainable peace. Two authors offer an in-depth analysis of particular conflicts, and one article deals with the influence of religion and culture on the social role of Brazilian migrants in Japan.

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The yearbook "Pietismus undNeuzeit" offers a wide indterdisciplinary range of contributions to the history pf pietism.

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Im Jahr 1555 hielt der Leipziger Theologieprofessor Johann Pfeffinger eine Disputation ëber den freien Willen des Menschen ab. Dabei betonte er, im Anschluss an die Lehre Philipp Melanchthons, dass bei der Bekehrung des Menschen auch der menschliche Wille eine Rolle spiele. Die Publikation dieser Disputation im Jahr 1558 war der Auslöser des Synergistischen Streits (1555/58-1564). Dass man sich so intensiv auseinandersetzte, lag daran, dass diese theologische Problematik im Grunde weit ëber den Zusammenhang der "conversio" hinausging und zugleich die grundsätzliche, anthropologisch bedeutsame Frage tangierte, ob sich der Mensch frei und aus eigenem Antrieb dem Guten zuwenden könne. Den Spaltungen, den dieser Streit besonders innerhalb des Herzogtums Sachsen herauffëhrte, versuchte Herzog Johann Friedrich der Mittlere teils durch Vermittlungsbemëhungen, teils durch Entlassungen von Pfarrern und Professoren entgegenzuwirken. Im fënften Band der Edition "Controversia et Confessio" werden die fër den Streit ausschlaggebenden Texte von Johann Pfeffinger, Nikolaus von Amsdorf, Victorin Strigel, Matthias Flacius, Nikolaus Gallus und anderen Theologen geboten. Auch das "Weimarer Konfutationsbuchs", das hier erstmals kritisch ediert wird, ist in diesem Zusammenhang von Bedeutung.

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How does John Calvin view the church? And how does the pivotal event of Pentecost influence his view on the church? In his commentary on the Acts of the Apostles Calvin shows how Pentecost and the preaching of the Gospel gives rise to the church. For Calvin the new and peculiar aspect of Pentecost is articulated by the phrases "I will pour out" and "on all flesh" (Acts 2:17). The first phrase ("I will pour out") leads to a discussion of the Holy Spirit who leads the church and the believers by the Word and his secret guidance. All gifts flow from the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the study focuses on Calvin's view on the gifts of the Holy Spirit and on their use in church. The author argues that the gifts of the Spirit are the basis of Calvin's interpretation of Christian church. The second phrase ("on all flesh") leads to a discussion of the inclusion of the Gentiles in the church. The author treats different ecclesiologic topics of importance: He analyses the most important aspects of church that Calvin identifies in the book of Acts. His reflections are aiming at a convincing theological appreciation of the sacraments, in particular of the sacrament of baptism. By addressing Calvin's thoughts as elements of his historical context and including contemporary impulses to these issues, the author is able to present conclusive arguments for his main claim: Calvin's commentary on Acts enriches and qualifies Calvin's own systematic ecclesiology as found in his main doctrinal work, the Institutes.

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Biblical women play an important role in various genres of patristic literature and in rabbinical texts: for example as role models for women, sometimes for men, as representatives of certain virtues or vices, as authorities in disputes, as a starting point for certain practices. The images that the (almost always male) authors draw of the biblical women always reflect the contemporary social, cultural and religious context, especially with regard to widespread ancient ideas about women and the relationship between the sexes. The anthology asks about the presence and visibility or audibility and the image of biblical women in the late antique texts. It contains contributions on Rahab, the Egyptian wife of Solomon, the lover of the Song of Songs, Judit, the four daughters of Philip and the myrophores of the Gospels that bring salves to Jesus' grave, and examines the reception of these biblical women in various patristic and rabbinical ones texts.

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Although termed the little Genesis, the Book of Jubilees is significantly engaged with Exodus. It reworks key Exodus narratives, develops modules of Exodus law, and highlights Exodus motifs. The most fundamental connection to Exodus is the grounding of the two narrational structures of Jubilees in the scenario of Moses receiving a revelation on Mt. Sinai. In the frame an anonymous narrator develops the Mt. Sinai setting of the work. In the body an angel employs that setting as the present-time pivot for a retrospect that moves backward and forward in time.Focusing on the intersection of structure and content, the study explores the relationship between the retrospective design of the angel narration and the exegesis. The approach is a literary one that treats Jubilees as a unitary text that may reflect the work of a single author or of a final editor. The analysis draws particular attention to manipulations of temporal and textual perspective that transform Exodus narratives, facilitate the hermeneutical elaborations of Exodus law, and effect cohesion in the revelation that is the Book of Jubilees.Halpern-Amarus study makes a significant contribution to our understanding of biblical interpretation in Second Temple Judaism. For example, the reading of the Jubilees narrative of the exodus as a revelation of how God uses His heavenly forces, i.e., Mastema and his demons as well as the angels of the presence, on behalf of Israel, has implications for the understanding of strategies that temper dualism in Second Temple Judaism.

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The edited volume aims to re-contextualize revolts in early modern Central and Southern Europe (Hungary, Croatia, Czech Lands, Austria, Germany, Italy) by adopting the interdisciplinary and comparative methods of social and cultural history. Instead of structural explanations like the model of state-building versus popular resistance, it wishes to put back the peasants themselves to the historical narratives of revolts. Peasants appear in the book as active agents fighting or bargaining for freedom, which was a practical issue for them. Nonetheless, the language of lord-peasant negotiation was that of religion, just as official punishments used Christian symbols. The approach of revolts as the events of collective violence also highlights the experiences and memories of participants. How did individuals and groups use remembering and forgetting as a means of forging an identity for themselves? Instead of the narratives of the powerful that became the normative stories of history, the perspective of the rebels uncovers the everyday faces of revolts more forcibly. Finally, contributors examine how later narrators used the rebels for their own purposes, in other words the subsequent representation of the revolts and their leaders in image, literature and historiography comes to the fore. The volume aims to overcome disciplinary boundaries by bringing together historians and scholars of related disciplines including the history of literature, the visual arts and anthropology. The central contention of the volume - the cultural imprint of peasant revolts - is fully addressed, thereby filling a conspicuous gap in the currently available literature.

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The content of the book reconsiders the relation between visibility and transcendence. The focus is especially on the contribution to this issue from the theological tradition in protestant Europe between the 16th and the 21st Centuries. In the book a thematically broad field is covered embracing more than five centuries and a plurality of methods drawn from theology, philosophy, and the history and theory of art.

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The Philistines were migrants from the Aegean and Cyprus who changed during the 12th century BC. settled on the south coast of Palestine / Israel. During the Iron Age (approx. 1200600 BC) they developed a distinguished culture. David Ben-Shlomo presents and discusses the stock of iconographic representations of Philistine culture. The investigation includes various types of objects, including Clay paintings, statues, iron carvings, glyptics. The figurative style and symbolism impressively reflect both the connection of the Philistine culture to the Aegean homeland and the ongoing process of interaction with the local guest cultures in the southern Levant. Iconography thus provides an important testimony that helps to better understand the social, ethnic, religious and ideological aspects of the Philistines and their neighbors in the eastern Mediterranean.

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How did the written word serve as an authoritative source in the ancient world? What does it mean that some works became so popular as to merit dedicated interpretive commentaries? And does any direct relationship exist between the various methods of interpretation and styles of composition in these commentaries? The present work sets out to provide some solid answers to such questions. At the heart of this book stands a comparative analysis of ancient cuneiform commentary texts from mid-to-late first millennium Mesopotamia and early Jewish commentaries -- known as pesharim -- from the turn of the common era found in caves near Khirbet Qumran. Though some aspects of Mesopotamian hermeneutics may have influenced Jewish exegesis, likely through Jewish Aramaic scribes, the actual Mesopotamian practice of composing commentary texts exerted little-to-no influence on the compositional techniques of the pesharim. Nevertheless, many textual difficulties in the Qumran pesharim can be explained as the result of an accretion of interpretations over an extended period of time -- practice detailed in the textual record of the Mesopotamian commentaries. What is more, these commentaries reveal important evidence about both the way in which and the extent to which such works functioned as authoritative sources. As a result, this book advocates a shift away from discussing textual authority in simple binary terms, both in ancient and modern contexts, to functional descriptions of literary authority.

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The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (T12P), one of the longest texts of the so-called Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, presents the fictitious farewell speeches that the twelve sons of Jacob held on their respective deathbeds. Tom de Bruin examines these twelve monologues as literary products in order to understand the function of the text for the setting in which it was composed. He approaches T12P from three directions: an analysis of the paraenetic parts, a discussion of the anthropology, and a comparative examination of other contemporaneous works documenting a world-view similar to T12P.These three approaches merge into a detailed discussion about the reasoning behind the admonition in T12P, and identifies the fundamental message of the text, namely that each person stands between the forces of good and evil and that this person is called to constantly decide which way to follow. Though T12P is still familiar with the apocalyptic origin and plays with the cosmological implications of this 'great controversy', the text clearly puts the emphasis on the battle inside each individual. It is thereby an important witness for reinterpreting and reapplying apocalyptic traditions through ethicizing them and focusing on the individual. Such an individualistic application of the 'great controversy' theme can be found in a number of other (mostly Christian) works, revealing a similar understanding of mankinds existence and development as in T12P. The analysis of the ethical reappropriation of apocalyptic traditions in T12P provides important insights into the foundations of early Christian ethics, ancient anthropology, and the Jewish and Christian understanding of the struggle between good and evil. The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (T12P), one of the longest texts of the so-called Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, presents the fictitious farewell speeches that the twelve sons of Jacob held on their respective deathbeds. Tom de Bruin examines these twelve monologues as literary products in order to understand the function of the text for the setting in which it was composed. He approaches T12P from three directions: an analysis of the paraenetic parts, a discussion of the anthropology, and a comparative examination of other contemporaneous works documenting a world-view similar to T12P.These three approaches merge into a detailed discussion about the reasoning behind the admonition in T12P, and identifies the fundamental message of the text, namely that each person stands between the forces of good and evil and that this person is called to constantly decide which way to follow. Though T12P is still familiar with the apocalyptic origin and plays with the cosmological implications of this 'great controversy', the text clearly puts the emphasis on the battle inside each individual. It is thereby an important witness for reinterpreting and reapplying apocalyptic traditions through ethicizing them and focusing on the individual. Such an individualistic application of the 'great controversy' theme can be found in a number of other (mostly Christian) works, revealing a similar understanding of mankinds existence and development as in T12P. The analysis of the ethical reappropriation of apocalyptic traditions in T12P provides important insights into the foundations of early Christian ethics, ancient anthropology, and the Jewish and Christian understanding of the struggle between good and evil.

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This collection of essays is centred on the Gospel according to Matthew. It treats contemporary discussions of Matthew's origins, character, and place in the canon of the New Testament. It also discusses texts from the major sections of the Gospel: the Infancy narrative, the Sermon on the Mount and other parts of the public ministry, and the Passion narrative. It addresses major themes: the kingdom of God, revelation, the Sabbath, spirituality, ecclesiology, and the birth of Easter faith. It also includes aspects of Matthew's broader context: Qumran literature, the letters to the Galatians and of James, and John's reception of Matthew. In contrast to several recent studies which present Matthew and his community as gloomy and beleaguered, this work reveals a confident, cheerful evangelist.

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Der jüdische Schriftsteller Philo von Alexandrien (gest. ca. 50 n. Chr.) hat ein umfangreiches Werk in griechischer Sprache hinterlassen. Einer größeren Zahl bibelexegetischer Werke steht eine kleinere Zahl philosophischer Abhandlungen gegenüber. Bibelexegese und Philosophie kann er auch verbinden. Das geschieht in dem kleinen Traktat Das Leben eines Politikers oder über Josef. Philo bietet eine philosophische Nacherzählung der biblischen Josefsgeschichte, in der Josef als eine Art hellenistischer Herrscher erscheint. In die Nacherzählung stellt er drei Exkurse ein; sie bilden eine mit der Nacherzählung nur lose verknüpfte Abhandlung über Ethos und Selbstverständnis des Politikers in einer demokratisch verfassten antiken Polis. Auf diese Weise entsteht eine staatsphilosophische Schrift über die beiden Typen des antiken Politikers des Herrschers über ein Territorium und des in der Polis tätigen, sich mit Fragen der Justiz und der Verwaltung beschäftigenden Beamten. Tatsächlich ist Philos Josefsschrift das einzige antike Werk, das diese beiden Typen des Politikers gleichzeitig behandelt. Auf diese Weise leistet Philo einen profilierten Beitrag zur antiken politischen Philosophie.Die einzige deutsche Übersetzung von Philos Josefsschrift stammt aus dem Jahr 1909. Lang bietet eine ausführliche Einleitung, ein Glossar philonischer Grundbegriffe, eine neue, in lesbarer Sprache gehaltene Übersetzung sowie den ersten Kommentar zu diesem Werk. Philos Josefsschrift wird hier erstmals umfassend erschlossen sowohl für den interessierten Leser als auch für den Kenner antiker Literatur.

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The ancient site of Colossae in south-west Turkey has been sorely neglected by archaeologists and biblical commentators. It has never been excavated. Modern scholarship in general has been content to repeat nineteenth century assessments, especially those of J.B. Lightfoot and W.M. Ramsay. This is the first modern contribution to gather the archaeological, historical, classical and biblical materials related to the site and its region, some of which is published in English for the first time. It marks a major step forward in scholarship on Colossae, and is designed to restore Colossae to time and space, to its material and comparative significance. Colossae emerges as a site of uninterrupted human activity in dynamic interaction with its neighbours from before the Achaemenid period to beyond the end of Byzantine control. Evidence of a chalcolithic origin of Colossae is presented along with an assessment of the relationship of the site to the modern city of Honaz. An array of international scholars have brought their specialisations in various periods and disciplines to yield a radically new assessment of the history and importance of the site. All future scholarship will be able to use this volume as the necessary foundation for research. The volume includes the first chronology of the ancient site and the first English translation of the key Byzantine text centred on the ancient city, as well as major new insights into the text of the Epistle to the Colossians.

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Though interest in the use of metaphor in the Hebrew Bible has gained momentum in recent years, there is, to date, no investigation which concentrates exclusively on the animal metaphors in the book of Jeremiah. In this book, the author brings to light this neglected area of study by examining the language and imagery of the animal metaphors for the people of Israel in the book of Jeremiah. The contribution that these metaphors make to the theology of the book is given special attention, and since different interpretations have been given to many of the metaphors in question, the author resolves some of the questions regarding the meaning of these images in his in-depth study. Additionally, scholars have not tended to research metaphors for the nation of Israel and thus this volume draws attention to a particular subject which has largely been overlooked.In chapter one Foreman familiarizes the reader with the major theoretical approaches to metaphor and spells out the approach taken in his investigation. Eighteen metaphors are then thoroughly analyzed in chapters two, three, and four. These metaphors are grouped into three categories, each of which constitutes a chapter: pastoral metaphors, mammal metaphors, and bird metaphors. Chapter five draws the results of the inquiry together. This study reveals how animal metaphors make important theological claims about the nation of Israel and demonstrates that they are essential elements of the message of the book of Jeremiah. Foreman's elucidation of the language and imagery of the animal metaphors for the people of Israel leads to a richer understanding of these metaphors and ultimately contributes to a more precise interpretation of the message of the book of Jeremiah as a whole.

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As the ancient Greek version of the Old Testament the Septuagint is probably the first great translation project of Greco-Roman antiquity. Together with the Septuagint text the religion and culture of ancient Judaism came to the fore of a Greek speaking audience, which did not have any access to the holy scriptures of the Jews in Hebrew. That translation project also manifested a transfer of religious, social, and anthropological categories and concepts of Semitic origin to another cultural world of language and science that itself was shaped by Hellenism.Over the last years the Septuagint has gradually edged closer into the interest of Biblical scholars and into the centre of historical and philological research. In the course of this main attention has not only been paid to further particulars of its origination in Alexandria but also on various linguistic specifics and distinctive features with regards to content of the Greek Bible. The question, however, which has hardly been studied so far, is to what extent the Greek translation of the Bible consists of stylistic and rhetorical elements that are not present in the Hebrew source text. Did the translators made use of their rhetoric and stylistic skills to give their translations a distinctive ornatus? Can we, according to Augustine, rightly claim that not only the authors of the Biblical texts but also the translators knew to formulate et eloquenter et sapienter, i.e. in an eloquent and wise manner? This issue, neglected in current research, is taken up in this collected volume. Seven scholars investigate into stylistic and rhetorical elements present in various books of the Bible (e.g., Psalms, Amos, and Solomon's Book of Wisdom) and establish a field of work that deserves to receive more attention in the future.Contributors are Eberhard Bons, Jennifer M. Dines, Katrin Hauspie, Jan Joosten, Thomas J. Kraus, A. Léonas, and K. Usener.

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This exegetical study of creation and nature in 4 Ezra argues that this first-century Jewish apocalypse's profound pessimism concerning humankind and the present age is matched by a surprisingly robust belief in the goodness of the created order. 4 Ezra presents the natural world as standing with God over and against corrupt humankind, envisions substantial elements of continuity between the ages and hints that those parts of the earth that remain unsullied by humankind still witness to God's sovereignty, love and justice and even serve as material pointers to the new creation. This study calls into question the persistent assumption that apocalypticism and the 'apocalyptic eschatology' of the historical apocalypses in particular necessarily entails a profound dualism. Emerging as it does from an experience of historical disaster and unresolved questions of theodicy, 4 Ezra especially is often considered an apocalypse in which the doctrine of the two ages has been radicalised to the extent that creation, history and life in this world have lost their meaning or significance. The results of this study, however, indicate that while 4 Ezra considers the world of humankind to be corrupted and corrupting, in the natural world the creator's sovereignty is not so obscured, and there his original intentions for creation can still be perceived. This study provides a fresh reading of 4 Ezra that takes seriously the book's unity and coherence. Its conclusions suggest that it may be best to abandon the label 'apocalyptic eschatology' given its potential mask the interesting complexities and mix of continuity and discontinuity that attend the portrayal of creation, nature and hope in an apocalypse like 4 Ezra.

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The direct quotations in the letter to the Hebrews presumably go back to a template from the Septuagint, but have so far scarcely been explored. Gert J. Steyn explores this situation from a perspective of historical and textual criticism A structured structure that recognizes two different types of quotations, which are listed in pairs: primarily song lyrics and quotes from the Torah that mingle with psalm and prophetic words. Gert J. Steyn examines each quote on the background of the possible alternative template (s). In the course of the study, it becomes clear that the author of the letter himself has combined a whole series of quotes from the early Jewish and early Christian traditions.

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This package contains the publicationsBruno Callegher, Coins from the Excavations at Khirbet Qumran (1951-1956) and Aïn Feshkha (1956-1958), ISBN 978-3-525-50194-8The Qumran coins (hoard and single finds) are worthy of a novel. They were perfectly examined by H. Seyrig and A. Spijkerman, then the popular conviction spread that the coins had been lost. In fact, they were always kept where they had been classified. Now they are finally published and provide the possibility to suggest that Qumran was a very open centre for trade and transactions, at least from finally the end of the second century BC until the destruction of the site in 70/72 CE.This documentation provides a new reasoning on effective data - not on assumptions.Bruno Callegher, From Hasmonean Period to Umayyad Rulers. Coins and economy in Magdala/Tarichea, ISBN 978-3-525-50193-1On a monetary basis, Magdala must be considered as one of the most important and active settlements between the 1st century BC and most of the 3rd century AD on Lake Kinneret, a place of production and trade, of supply for military forces, certainly in contact with other trading centres, Its monetary decline started on the early 4th century, when the economic and monetary strategies of the Constantinian era shifted the flow of money to other routes, especially between the great port cities of the Mediterranean.Bruno Callegher's study publishes new data, which allow us to overcome "clichés" and a stereotypical view of both the archaeological site and the economy of the Upper Galilee.

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Es gibt keinen Ort, an dem der Schlüssel so klar den Umgang mit Macht symbolisiert wie das Gefängnis. Unter welchen Bedingungen kann an diesem Ort ein Zusammenspiel von Strafe und Therapie, von Anpassung und Selbstverantwortung gelingen, um die Insassen in einem straffreien Leben zu unterstützen? In Einrichtungen der Justiz, die neben dem Vollzug von Strafe, auch Therapie realisieren sollen, arbeiten therapeutische Teams in einem Spannungsfeld, dem unter anderem Jurisprudenz, Psychologie und Pädagogik angehören. Sie werden nicht nur mit schwierigen Insassen, sondern auch mit Bedingungen konfrontiert, die sich aus strukturellen Widersprüchen der Institution ergeben. Soll das Projekt der Resozialisierung greifen, muss das Zusammenspiel von Therapie und Strafe gewährleistet, müssen die jeweiligen Perspektiven aufeinander bezogen und miteinander in Einklang gebracht werden. Erfolgreiche Supervision in sozialtherapeutischen Abteilungen des Strafvollzugs bedeutet, so Franziska Lamott, die gesellschaftliche Funktion der Institution zu kennen, ihre strukturellen Widersprüche wahrzunehmen, heftige Emotionen und psychosoziale Abwehrstrategien zu erfassen sowie die Energie und Ausdauer aufzubringen, gemeinsam Wege zu finden, auf denen sich die komplexen Aufgaben des Teams in Balance halten lassen.

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Die Frage, ob, wann und wie die internationale Gemeinschaft auf Verletzungen humanitärer Normen und damit verbundene humanitäre Krisen reagieren soll, gehört zweifellos zu den vieldiskutierten Themen auf der Agenda der heutigen internationalen Politik. Allerdings tauchte diese Problematik nicht erst am Ende des 20. und zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts plötzlich aus dem Nichts auf, sondern bereits im Verlauf des "langen 19. Jahrhunderts" setzte man sich kontrovers mit dieser Problematik auseinander. Anhand ausgewählter Fallbeispiele wie dem Kampf gegen den Sklavenhandel (18071890), den Militärinterventionen der europäischen Großmächte zur humanitären Nothilfe für christliche Minderheiten im Osmanischen Reich (18271878) oder dem Eingreifen der Vereinigten Staaten in den kubanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg (1898) untersucht Fabian Klose die militärische Praktik und die völkerrechtlichen Debatten zum Schutz humanitärer Normen gewaltsam einzugreifen. Insgesamt etablierte sich in dieser Epoche die Idee der humanitären Intervention als ein anerkanntes Instrumentarium in der internationalen Politik. Eine zentrale Schlüsselrolle bei der Entstehung eines neuen humanitären Interventionsverständnisses übernahm der bewaffnete internationale Kampf gegen den Sklavenhandel als Urtyp der humanitären Intervention. Als Folge kam es zur Ausbildung völkerrechtlicher Leitlinien, die als Begründung für das militärische Eingreifen in verschiedenen Krisenregionen dieser Welt dienten. Das "lange 19. Jahrhundert" kann demnach als das genuine "Jahrhundert der humanitären Intervention" charakterisiert werden, in dem es zu einer signifikanten Verzahnung von militärischem Interventionismus unter dem Banner der Humanität mit kolonialen und imperialen Projekten kam.

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Der fünfte Band der Iberia Pontificia erschließt in rund 250 kommentierten Regesten die Papstbeziehungen der Bistümer Oviedo und Astorga bis zum Jahr 1198, womit gleichzeitig die Bearbeitung der exemten Diözesen innerhalb der Iberia Pontificia abgeschlossen wird. Von den exemten Diözesen Kastiliens und Leóns (Burgos, León, Oviedo) war Oviedo das altehrwürdige Zentrum des christlichen Reiches Asturien, das den muslimischen Eroberungen nach 711 Widerstand leistete und sich später auch als Hort der westgotischen Tradition gerierte. Mit der Verlagerung der des Herrschaftszentrums nach Süden, v. a. nach León, verlor Oviedo ab dem 10. Jahrhundert allmählich an Bedeutung, weshalb das Bistum große Anstrengungen unternahm, um die eigene Stellung päpstlich zu legitimieren. Dies geschah besonders zu Zeiten des Bischofs Pelayo (1101-1130), der seinen Sitz gerne zum Erzbistum erhöht hätte und dabei offenbar nicht davor zurückscheute, päpstliche Urkunden zu interpolieren bzw. zu fingieren. Mit dem südlich an Oviedo angrenzenden Bistum Astorga wird innerhalb der Iberia Pontificia erstmals ein Suffraganbistum der Kirchenprovinz Braga behandelt, dessen Metropolitanzugehörigkeit allerdings lange Zeit zwischen Braga und Compostela umstritten war. Neben den Beziehungen des Papsttums zum Bischof und Kathedralkapitel arbeitet der Band auch die Papst- und Legatenurkunden für die verschiedenen Klöster der beiden Diözesen auf. Zusätzlich zum Nachweis der archivalischen und historiographischen Überlieferung bietet der Band bibliographische Angaben zu den einzelnen Empfängerinstitutionen sowie historische Einführungen.

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Der alltägliche und wissenschaftliche Umlauf des Wortes »Text« ist begleitet von weitgehender Unkenntnis über seine Sinn- und Gebrauchsgeschichte. Gilt heute nahezu jeder schriftliche sinntragende Gegenstand als Text, war dies noch vor wenigen Jahrzehnten deutlich, in der Vormoderne sogar radikal anders. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes liefern die erste breit gefächerte Historisierung der vormodernen Geschichte des Textes. Einzelstudien über Verskunst, Hagiographie, Historiographie, Briefe, Kirchenrecht, Liturgie, Theologie, universitäres Lehrschrifttum, mittelhochdeutsche Dichtungen, ländliches und städtisches Recht, Illustrationen, Malerei und Musiknotate beleuchten langfristige linguistische Profile, Momente des Wortgebrauchs und wichtige Neuerungen wie Wandlungen des Begriffs »Text«.

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In this volume on the history of the European nobility in the modern era, the boundary between the early modern and 'real' modern periods around 1800 is deliberately crossed. By centring on the nobility, the authors undertake a new exploration of the continuities and ruptures in European history. In the three thematic areas of law, politics and aesthetics, the noble knights' utilisation of the early modern courts in the Holy Roman Empire is considered, along with the social and political identity of the English nobility in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributions make clear the virtuosity with which the nobility met the challenges of their time, and how they managed to be simultaneously 'contemporary' and retain a specific aristocratic character.

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Der "Sperr-Kreis" war ein bürgerlicher Widerstandskreis gegen den Nationalsozialismus in Bayern. In der Widerstandsforschung wurde er bisher nur am Rande behandelt. Die Untersuchung der Ursprünge, Motive und Ziele der Gruppe erfolgt auf umfassender Quellengrundlage. Eine Mischung aus individual- und kollektivbiographischem Zugang macht die Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede der etwa 66 Mitglieder der Widerstandsgruppe deutlich. Das Ziel des Widerstandskreises war der Aufbau einer "Auffangorganisation" für die Zeit nach dem Untergang des "Dritten Reiches" in Bayern. Seine Führungsriege der ehemalige Bayerische Gesandte in Berlin, Franz Sperr, sowie die früheren Weimarer Reichsminister Otto Geßler und Eduard Hamm stand früh mit dem bayerischen Kronprinzen Rupprecht in Verbindung, der im Falle des Zusammenbruchs als Integrationsfigur an die Spitze Bayerns treten sollte. Zur Wiederherstellung von Sicherheit und Ordnung trat man mit geeigneten Persönlichkeiten aus Militär, Polizei, Justiz, Verwaltung und Wirtschaft in Kontakt. Im Verlauf des Krieges nahm der Kreis mit dem westlichen Ausland sowie mit anderen Widerstandsgruppen Fühlung auf. So geriet er in das Fahrwasser des gescheiterten Attentats vom 20. Juli 1944, in dessen Folge seine führenden Köpfe verhaftet wurden. Sperr wurde hingerichtet, Hamm verlor sein Leben im Gefängnis. Doch sollte ein Großteil der ehemaligen Mitglieder der Gruppe den Krieg überleben und sich am Wiederaufbau und der Rückkehr zum Rechtsstaat beteiligen.

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Volume 51 of the publications of the Institute for European History in Mainz.

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There has been much academic debate over recent years on Europe defining itself over against the "Other." This volume asks from the opposite perspective: What views did non-Europeans hold of "European Christianity"? In this way, the volume turns the agency of definition over to non-Europeans. Over the last centuries, the contacts between Europeans and non-Europeans have been diverse and complex. Non-Europeans encountered Europeans as colonialists, traders, missionaries and travellers. Most of those Europeans were Christians or were perceived as Christians. Therefore, in terms of religion Europe was often identified with Christianity. Europeans thus also conveyed a certain image of Christianity to non-European countries. At the same time, non-Europeans increasingly travelled to Europe and experienced a kind of Christianity that often did not conform to the picture they had formed earlier. Their descriptions of European Christianity ranged from sympathetic acceptance to harsh criticism. The contributions in this volume reveal the breadth of these opinions. They also show that there is no clear line of division between "insiders" and "outsiders", but that Europeans could sometimes perceive themselves as being "outsiders" in their own culture while non-Europeans could adopt "insider" perspectives. Furthermore, from these encounters new religious and cultural expressions could emerge. There has been much academic debate over recent years on Europe defining itself over against the "Other." This volume asks from the opposite perspective: What views did non-Europeans hold of "European Christianity"? In this way, the volume turns the agency of definition over to non-Europeans. Over the last centuries, the contacts between Europeans and non-Europeans have been diverse and complex. Non-Europeans encountered Europeans as colonialists, traders, missionaries and travellers. Most of those Europeans were Christians or were perceived as Christians. Therefore, in terms of religion Europe was often identified with Christianity. Europeans thus also conveyed a certain image of Christianity to non-European countries. At the same time, non-Europeans increasingly travelled to Europe and experienced a kind of Christianity that often did not conform to the picture they had formed earlier. Their descriptions of European Christianity ranged from sympathetic acceptance to harsh criticism. The contributions in this volume reveal the breadth of these opinions. They also show that there is no clear line of division between "insiders" and "outsiders", but that Europeans could sometimes perceive themselves as being "outsiders" in their own culture while non-Europeans could adopt "insider" perspectives. Furthermore, from these encounters new religious and cultural expressions could emerge.

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It was not just the corona crisis that showed that scientific expertise is playing a growing role in political decision-making processes. Already in the debate about the climate crisis, the euro crisis, the economic crises of the noughties, academics have become important and at the same time controversial advisers to politics, key sources of movements such as Fridays for Future or declarators and reminders in times of the rampant coronavirus. For democratic reasons, this is not unproblematic insofar as non-political experts are not legitimized by elections and have an exclusive status that contradicts democratic equality. Reason enough to ask about the relationship between expertise and democracy, about economic cycles, persistence and intrinsic logics of this difficult and perhaps necessary interrelationship between the so different and yet interrelated spheres of expertise, politics and democracy.

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Haim Omers erstes Werk »Autorität ohne Gewalt« erschien 2002 auf Deutsch, das kurze Zeit später veröffentlichte Buch »Autorität durch Beziehung« wird nun auch schon seit nahezu zwanzig Jahren nachgefragt. Das Konzept, die Prinzipien des gewaltlosen Widerstands in Therapie und Beratung einzuführen, ist inzwischen theoretisch und empirisch besser fundiert und hat Eingang in eine Vielzahl neuer Anwendungsfelder gefunden. All dies ist genug Anlass für ein Update zur Entwicklung des Ansatzes, der heute knapp mit dem Begriff »Neue Autorität« gefasst wird. Haim Omer legt in seinem zehnten Buch bei Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, in bewährter Co-Autorenschaft mit Arist von Schlippe, ein Werk vor, das dezidiert die Entwicklung von »elterlicher Präsenz« bis hin zur »Ankerfunktion« nachzeichnet. Die Bandbreite der Anwendungsfelder wird dargestellt, Forschungsergebnisse sowie Wirksamkeitsnachweise werden referiert. So wird der Anspruch eines Handbuchs ganz und gar erfüllt. Haim Omer legt eine inspirierende Zusammenschau seines Ansatzes vor, der sich in der konkreten Praxis seiner Teams über Jahrzehnte immer weiter ausdifferenziert hat. Der »aktuelle Stand« zeigt einmal mehr den hohen Anspruch Omers an die Achtung vor den Problemen von Eltern, Kindern, Jugendlichen, jungen Erwachsenen, aber auch anderen Erziehungspersonen bis hin zu Problemkonstellationen in gemeinwesenorientierten Zusammenhängen, sowie den Respekt vor der Autonomie derjenigen, die im Fokus von Hilfsangeboten stehen. Es gibt kein grundlegenderes Werk zur „Neuen Autorität“ in allen Facetten der Entwicklung und Anwendung.

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This collection of essays, a companion volume to the book, Twentieth-Century Lutheran Theologians (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013), examines important nineteenth-century figures from the perspective of contemporary European and North-American scholars. Each essay provides an overview of the life and central ideas of a key Lutheran/Protestant theologian who has had a significant impact on theological reflection down to the present. The focus here is on those thinkers who were active between 1799 (the year when Schleiermachers Speeches appeared) and the First World War. These are individuals who deserve repeated examination, whose insights are still worth pondering today, and whose theological positions help us to understand better where contemporary theology has come from (Karl Barth). All of the essays were initiated by the journal Lutheran Quarterly in order to assess our theological heritage as we move further into a new millennium. The goal of the authors, each a leading theologian, has been to describe a given thinker's life and vocation and how that persons work continues to impact theology today.

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Das erste Buch auf dem deutschen Markt, das verständlich und wissenschaftlich fundiert erklärt, wie und warum Schreiben hilft. FÃ"r Fachleute ebenso geeignet wie fÃ"r Laien, fÃ"r Schreibende wie fÃ"r Ãrzte, Therapeuten, Pädagogen, Seelsorger und alle, die es wissen wollen. Gut strukturiert, Ã"bersichtlich und nachvollziehbar erklärt uns die Poesietherapeutin und Medizinerin Silke Heimes, welche Faktoren beim Schreiben eine Rolle spielen und wie es seine heilsame Wirkung entfaltet. Schreiben als Therapie, zur Vorbeugung, aus Erkenntnisinteresse, aus Neugier und weil es Freude macht und das Leben in all seinen Facetten spÃ"rbar werden lässt. Wäre ein Medikament so kostengÃ"nstig und leicht herzustellen, so wirksam und nebenwirkungsarm, so flexibel und universell einsetzbar wie das Schreiben, die Pharmaindustrie wÃ"rde frohlocken. So frohlocken wir, die wir schreiben, um gesund zu bleiben, gesund zu werden und das Leben achtsam und neugierig zu erfahren und zu vertiefen.Die Autorin hat im Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht bereits die BÃ"cher "Kreatives und therapeutisches Schreiben" und "Schreib es dir von der Seele" veröffentlicht.

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Ephippus is an outstanding playwright of Greek Middle Comedy. He won a single Lenaean victory ca. 378-376 BC and continued being productive until the late 340s. His twenty-eight surviving fragments reveal a wide thematic range: myth burlesque (with a special fondness for Heracles), political allegory, sympotic themes, personal mockery, satire of philosophy (Plato), hetairai. His corpus features seven hapax terms, as well as the highest percentage of anapaestic dimeter lines of all poets of Middle Comedy.

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Der italienisch-sprachige Band enthält zehn Komödien (Krapataloi, Leroi, Metalles, Metoikoi, Myrmekanthropoi, Persai, Petale, Tyrannis, Cheiron, Pseuderakles) des Pherekrates, eines älteren Zeitgenossen des Aristophanes, der von den 30er Jahren des 5. Jahrhunderts bis ca. 410 tätig war. Die in diesem Band kommentierten Stücke zeigen den Ideenreichtum des komischen Dichters und die Vielzahl der Themen und Spielformen, mit denen er vielfach spätere Entwicklung vorwegnahm. Von besonderem Interesse für die Geschichte der griechischen Musik und der chorlyrischen Gattung des Dithyrambos sind die Fragmente des Cheiron.

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Das Buch versammelt Aufsätze des Althistorikers Leonhard Schumacher aus vier Jahrzehnten zur Griechischen und Römischen Geschichte und ihrer Rezeptionsgeschichte. Im Fokus stehen zentrale und nach wie vor aktuelle Fragen der Politik-, Sozial- und Rechtsgeschichte der Antike. Historische Forschung begreift Schumacher als Beitrag zum Verständnis der Gegenwart und als Schutz vor Ã"berwältigender Ãberredung. In den Texten des Sammelbandes thematisiert er soziale Ungleichheiten und Abhängigkeiten, Status und Rang, politische Verluste und ihre Folgen, Herrschaft und ihre Aneignung sowie Durchsetzung, ihre Verwerfungen und auch ihre propagandistische, nicht "diskursive" Befestigung. Die Einbeziehung epigraphischer und numismatischer Zeugnisse, sogar archäologischer Fragestellungen, ist fÃ"r ihn dabei unverzichtbar, der spezifische Umgang mit ihnen selbstverständlich. Unter fortwährender BerÃ"cksichtigung von Quellenproblemen und der Fokussierung auf den Befund selbst, lenkt der Autor die Aufmerksamkeit auf vergangene Wirklichkeiten und stellt explizit wie implizit Fragen zu Machtverhältnissen.

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Die in diesem Band versammelten Texte laden dazu ein, die antike Welt neu kennenzulernen - pointiert, durchaus anspruchsvoll und mit überraschenden Durchblicken in die Moderne und die Gegenwart. Themen, Traditionen und Tendenzen altertumswissenschaftlicher Forschung werden in ihren Büchern, ihren Vertretern und ihren Gegenständen transparent gemacht. Die zwischen 1998 und 2017 zunächst in der „Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung“ publizierten Stücke erscheinen hier in überarbeiteter und neu arrangierter Form, um ihren gedanklichen Zusammenhang sowie die disziplinären Entwicklungslinien möglichst klar herauszustellen. Den Schluß des Lesebuches bildet ein bisher nicht gedruckter Rückblick und Ausblick auf antike Gegenstände in Qualitätszeitungen, die trotz veränderter Rezeptionsgewohnheiten noch immer einen Eckstein kultureller Verständigung darstellen weit über die alten Griechen und Römer hinaus.

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Die Diagnose einer Krise der Sozialdemokratie ist beinahe ein Gemeinplatz, Krisendeutungen zum Niedergang sozialdemokratischer Parteien sind mittlerweile Legion. Nicht nur die Schlussfolgerungen, auch die in den Blick genommenen Facetten des Niedergangs sind dabei die immer gleichen: rückläufige Wählerzahlen, schwindende Organisationskraft, konzeptionelle Leere. Vor diesem Hintergrund mag es verwundern, dass der Schwerpunkt des Heftes 3/2018 der INDES die Sozialdemokratie ist vorhersehbar, langweilig, zu oft schon wiederholt mag der kritische Leser einwenden. Doch in dieser Ausgabe stehen nicht Abstieg und aktuelle Schwäche der Sozialdemokratie im Fokus, wenngleich sich beides nicht vollständig ausblenden lässt, sondern ihre Perspektiven, Optionen, Potentiale. Die Frage nach Auswegen aus der gegenwärtig zu konstatierenden Malaise soll dabei Ausgangspunkt sein. Wie müssten sich sozialdemokratische Parteien heute positionieren, wo ihren gesellschaftlichen Ort suchen, um ihren fortschreitenden Bedeutungsverlust aufzuhalten, gar umzukehren? Kann die Sozialdemokratie noch Emanzipationsbewegung der Arbeiterschaft sein oder soll sie ihre Zielgruppen entlang neuer gesellschaftlicher Trennungslinien suchen? Welchen Bedarf gibt es im 21. Jahrhundert nach sozialdemokratischen Ideen? Und was lässt sich lernen aus den Beispielen zuletzt gegen den generellen Trend erfolgreicher Sozialdemokratien? Oder liegt das sozialdemokratische Heil jenseits der zunehmend enger gewordenen eigenen Organisationsgrenzen in einer neuen linken Sammlungsbewegung?

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"Teaching Religion Hands On" means a year's worth of religion class with customized lessons, teachings units and ready-to-use materials for the grade-school level. Each unit is preceeded by an outline of the theological and didactic materials that follow, providing an exact orientation to the content and goals of the lesson.A. Living together: Hand in hand with the the sick, the disabled, the elderly (The Good Samaritan), emphasis on humans and their worldB. Moses: God sets us free and accompanies us, emphasis on GodC. Parables: Bringing Heaven to Earth, emphasis on Jesus ChristD. Christmas: Joy that can be experienced by humans, emphasis on Jesus ChristE. Church: A house for all, emphasis on the ChurchF. Protestant - Catholic - Ecumenical: Good neighbours, emphasis on the ChurchG. Pentecost: God's spirit among us - When a fresh breeze blows and hearts burn, emphasis on the ChurchH. Prayer in Judaism, Islam and Christianity, emphasis on religionsI. The Bible: Spreading the Good News, emphasis on the Bible

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This book introduces us to the many criminal cases to be found in the Bible and provides many stimuli and methods for using these stories to teach religion in the classroom. The pupils become detectives: They study the crime scenes, discern how the crime went off, what motives and what effects it had. Then they turn to the theological and ethical repercussions of these matters. The teaching modules included in this volume invite the readers to discover, wonder at, trace and discuss the cases and thus sharpen their detective skills.A special highlight are the outdoor projects on the Biblical crime stories. Without having previous knowledge one can construct near the school one's own Biblical criminal rallye; equipped with GPS, compass or a simple map the students can go looking for the Biblical geocaches.

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Woraus besteht die Welt? Was hat es mit der menschlichen Seele auf sich? Welche Haltung soll der Mensch einnehmen? Welche Rolle spielen die Götter? Wie entwickelt sich der Kosmos? Solche und ähnliche elementare Fragen versucht Lukrez in seinem Lehrgedicht "De rerum natura" zu beantworten.Die Textauswahl wird ergänzt durch Erkenntnisse der modernen Naturwissenschaften und bietet viele Anregungen zum eigenen Philosophieren. Bonus: Zum Heft gibt es Arbeitsblätter zum Download.als digitales Zusatzmaterial.

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Der dritte Band von "VIVA" berÃ"cksichtigt in besonderer Weise die Interessen von 8-Klässlern und fÃ"hrt sie an die LektÃ"re von Originaltexten heran: Themen sind u.a. der spektakuläre Mordprozess gegen Sextus Roscius, eine Abenteuer- und Liebesgeschichte und mittelalterliche Mönchsgeschichten.

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Im zweiten Band von "VIVA" begleiten die SchÃ"lerinnen und SchÃ"ler die Familie des Gaius Bruttius Praesens, eines Briefpartners von Plinius, und erleben Rom im Jahr 107 n.Chr. Themen sind u.a. der große Triumph Trajans, der Plinius-Brief zum Vesuvausbruch und verschiedene Mythen (Europa, Parisurteil, Troja, Odysseus) sowie eine Sequenz aus der Plautuskomödie Mostellaria. Was ist das Besondere? - kurze und kreative Lektionstexte - viele Ãbungen: Binnendifferenzierung nach Schwierigkeit und Lerntyp - Fokus auf Wortschatzarbeit - durchdachte Grammatikprogression: z.B. EinfÃ"hrung des PC zuerst mit dem PPA (denn die Ãbersetzung eines Partizips, das gleichzeitig und aktiv ist, ist wesentlich einfacher).

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Das Verhältnis von Schule und Religion wird bisher ëberwiegend im multireligiösen Kontext diskutiert. Wichtig ist aber auch eine Auseinandersetzung unter dem Stichwort Säkularität.Vertreter aus religionspädagogischer Theorie und Praxis tauschten sich im Oktober 2011 zum Thema -Schule und Religion im Kontext der Konfessionslosigkeit" aus: Zum Teil wurden die Beiträge des Bandes auf der Tagung diskutiert, zum Teil im Anschluss daran und unter Aufnahme grundlegender Diskussionslinien verfasst.

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