Religion-Scholars

Schleiermacher, the Study of Religion, and the Future of Theology - A Transatlantic Dialogue

Offering fresh interpretations of Schleiermacher´s theological and philosophical program in light of its contested place in the

Race in the Age of Obama

Leading scholars across a variety of disciplines look at key social issues in the age of Obama including African and American relations, religion, gender issues, family, class, education, social justice and war.. In addition, the volume examines the 2008 Presidential Election, with emphasis on Obamas road to success.This volume provides the first in-depth examination of the key sociological issues faced by the new Obama Administration and explores conventional topics on

Der Ursprung des Konzepts um 1800

Kunstreligion [art religion] has been an established term since Schleiermachers Speeches on Religion (1799).. in the theology of Schleiermacher but rather in its cultural-philosophical sources, i.e.Alessandro Costazza, Università degli Studi di Milano; Albert Meier, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel; Gérard Laudin, Université de Paris IV Sorbonne. This first of three volumes, in which scholars of literary studies from Germany, Italy, and France have collaborated, focuses on the origin of the concept of Kunstreligion in German literature and philosophy around 1800 and investigates its transformation into

Der religiöse Glaube als Wirtschaftsgut

Ein subjektiv empfundenes Bedürfnis des Menschen wird durch den Erwerb, durch Investition von Zeit und unter Umständen Geld, und dem Konsum des Gutes befriedigt. Dieses Feld der Untersuchungen economics of religion ist dabei, nicht zuletzt wegen der namentlichen Ähnlichkeit, von dem Feld religious economics abzugrenzen letzteres ist der normative Ansatz von Religionen, auf ökonomische Fragestellungen Antworten zu geben. Dennoch kann der religiöse Glaube in keiner der beiden Strö-mungen als Wirtschaftsgut deklariert werden , viel mehr gibt der Güterbegriff Anhalts-punkte für die Interpretation der Religion als das religiöse Gut.. Dabei kann dieses sowohl aus materiellen als auch

The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel

There is a chronology and guide to further reading, all quotations are in English. This volume will be invaluable not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across

Faith, Reason, and Skepticism

Penelhum contends that religious beliefs and those based on common sense, and the reconcilability of skepticism with religious belief.In terms of current epistemology, Alston explores the implications of reliabilism for Christian knowledge of God.This book of original essays provides a dialogue between four of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was used and can be used to neutralize questionable metaphysical theology while leaving a mysticism and spirituality without creed or institution

Buddhas Teachings

Numata assembled a committee of Buddhist scholars to substantially revise and edit a new English-Japanese edition. It is now available in forty-one languages, and over 7 million copies have been distributed and placed in hotel rooms in over fifty countries throughout the world. First published in 1934. Buddhas Teachings

Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

Beyond Enlightenment - Buddhism, Religion, Modernity

A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians

Surveys the full range of American Indian anthropology: from ecological and political-economic questions to topics concerning religion, language, and expressive culture Each chapter provides definitive coverage of its topic, as well

Rethinking Religion in India - The Colonial Construction of Hinduism

Bringing together the different versions, arguments and counter-arguments of the thesis that the Hindu religion

Social Structures, Social Capital, and Personal Freedom

A variety of social institutions are analyzed.The eleven essays in this collection examine the macrostructures of

Queer Theology - Rethinking the Western Body

Queer Theology makes an important contribution to public debate about Christianity and sex.A remarkable collection of specially commissioned essays by some of the Church Proposes that bodies are the mobile products of changing discourses

Radical Interpretation in Religion

For the first time, a collection of original essays explores the significance of Donald Davidsons radical interpretation, Robert Brandoms inferentialism, and Richard Rortys pragmatism for issues in the twenty-first

The Promise of Salvation - A Theory of Religion

To remedy this state of affairs, Martin Riesebrodt here undertakes a task that is at once simple and monumental: to define, understand, and explain religion as a universal concept. In analyzing these practices, his scope is appropriately broad, taking into consideration traditions in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Daoism, and Shinto.Instead of propounding abstract theories, Riesebrodt concentrates on the concrete realities of worship, examining religious holidays, conversion stories, prophetic visions, and life-cycle events.Why has religion persisted across the course of human history? Secularists

Max Weber - From History to Modernity

.This wide-ranging and assured book, written by one of the leading Weber scholars in the English-speaking world, shows us the many sides of Max Weber. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in Webers claim that the aim of sociology must be to explain what is distinctive about the times in which

Derrida and Religion - Other Testaments

.Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments represents the most comprehensive attempt to date to explore, adapt, and test Derridas contributions and influence on the study of theology, biblical studies, and the philosophy of religion. With over twenty original essays from highly-respected scholars such as John Caputo, Daniel Boyarin, Edith

Science and Religion - New Historical Perspectives

The idea of an inevitable conflict between science and religion, the role of publishing and education in forging and spreading ideas, the connection between knowledge, power and intellectual imperialism, and the reasons for the confrontation between evolution and creationism among American Christians and in the Islamic

Religious Commodifications in Asia - Marketing Gods

. The fact that religions compete with each other in a market of faiths is also at the core of the shift of religious institutions in Asia adjusted to, and negotiated with, the penetrative forces of a global market economy into the regions changing religio-cultural landscapes. Bringing together a group of leading scholars from Asia, Europe, Australia and North America, it discusses multiple issues regarding religious commodifications and their consequences across Asias diverse religious

Medieval Religion - New Approaches

Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture

. Illustrations complement the text throughout, and many entries cite works for further reading. Academic and public libraries will also treasure this work as an incomparable guide to our nations heritage.This unique encyclopedia chronicles American

Contemporary Theories of Religion - A Critical Companion

Stausberg is Professor of Religion surveys the neglected landscape in its totality. Scholars debate single theoretical approaches in different scholarly journals, while the new atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett criticize the whole idea of religion. Each chapter provides students with background information on the theoretician, a presentation of the theorys basic principles, an analysis of basic assumptions, and a review of previous critiques. As well as scholars of religion, it features anthropologists, archaeologists,

The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion

Also covers a diverse range of topical issues, such as the body, fundamentalism, magic, and new religious movements Consists of 24 essays written by an outstanding team of international contributors, and edited by one of the most

Philosophy and Religion in German Idealism

Der östliche Manichäismus ? Gattungs- und Werksgeschichte - Vorträge des Göttinger Symposiums vom 4./5. März 2010

These sources led scholars to realize that here, under the influence of other religions (above all Buddhism), special syncretic forms of the Manicheans was rediscovered in Central Asia.Jens Wilkens und Zekine Özertural, Seminar für