Herman J Selderhuis
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
How does the powerful effect that religion has on public and personal life relate to the various spheres of our culture? Is the relationship between power and religion always negative or can religion also affect individuals and societies positively? This volume of the EuARe Lectures, edited by Herman Selderhuis, collects the texts of the lectures delivered at the Third Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion (2020) on the topic "The...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Religion from the inside looks different in different religious traditions. Within some, the inside view is engaged mainly with questions of theology: the contemplation of the divine and all things in relation thereto. Within others, it is preoccupied with the conforming of human action to a more-than-human law. In yet other, an emic perspective focuses on the practice and experience of ritual. Reflection on sacred texts is common to many traditions,...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Im Jahr 2030 jährt sich zum 500. Mal die Verlesung und Überreichung der "Confessio Augustana", der wichtigsten Bekenntnisschrift der evangelischen, Wittenberger Bewegung, an Kaiser Karl V. Von Melanchthon als letzter Versuch verfasst, die Einheit des westlichen Christentums zu erhalten und zugleich die überfälligen Reformen zu verteidigen, wurde sie damals ein Dokument der Spaltung. Schon 1980, dem 450. Jubiläum, wurde vor dem Hintergrund der...