Islamic Thought Through Protestant Eyes
Islamic Thought Through Protestant Eyes

Author: Mehmet Karabela

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1000369811

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Early modern Protestant scholars closely engaged with Islamic thought in more ways than is usually recognized. Among Protestants, Lutheran scholars distinguished themselves as the most invested in the study of Islam and Muslim culture. Mehmet Karabela brings the neglected voices of post-Reformation theologians, primarily German Lutherans, into focus and reveals their rigorous engagement with Islamic thought. Inspired by a global history approach to religious thought, Islamic Thought Through Protestant Eyes offers new sources to broaden the conventional interpretation of the Reformation beyond a solely European Christian phenomenon. Based on previously unstudied dissertations, disputations, and academic works written in Latin in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Karabela analyzes three themes: Islam as theology and religion; Islamic philosophy and liberal arts; and Muslim sects (Sunni and Shi‘a). This book provides analyses and translations of the Latin texts as well as brief biographies of the authors. These texts offer insight into the Protestant perception of Islamic thought for scholars of religious studies and Islamic studies as well as for general readers. Examining the influence of Islamic thought on the construction of the Protestant identity after the Reformation helps us to understand the role of Islam in the evolution of Christianity.

The Scribes of the Torah
The Scribes of the Torah

Author: Konrad Schmid

Publisher: SBL Press

Published: 2023-05-26

Total Pages: 955

ISBN-13: 1628374322

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A revised view of the Pentateuch with consequences for the broader literary history of the Bible This collection of thirty-one studies on the Pentateuch represents more than twenty years of Konrad Schmid’s research and publications advocating for a new view of the Pentateuch’s formation. Schmid’s essays present the case for a Persian period Priestly document that provided a basic narrative thread to the Torah, which included separate, pre-Priestly components of narratives in Genesis and the Moses story. Schmid’s open discussion includes evidence from various fields, such as literary history, comparative cultural history, historical linguistics, epigraphy, and archaeology. The essays are divided into eight sections usefully structured around the themes of the Pentateuch in the Enneateuch, the history of scholarship, the formation of the Torah, Genesis, the Moses story, the Priestly document, legal texts, and the Pentateuch in the history of ancient Israel’s religion.

The Invention of Religion
The Invention of Religion

Author: Jan Assmann

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-03-24

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 0691203199

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"The Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular moments of heaven-sent plagues and parting seas overshadow its true significance, says Jan Assmann, a leading historian of ancient religion. The story of Moses guiding the enslaved children of Israel out of captivity to become God's chosen people is the foundation of an entirely new idea of religion, one that lives on today in many of the world's faiths. The Invention of Religion sheds new light on ancient scriptures to show how Exodus has shaped fundamental understandings of monotheistic practice and belief." --

An Introduction to Christianity
An Introduction to Christianity

Author: Linda Woodhead

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-09-02

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780521786553

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An Introduction to Christianity examines the key figures, events and ideas of two thousand years of Christian history and places them in context. It considers the religion in its material as well as its spiritual dimensions and explores its interactions with wider society such as money, politics, force, gender and the family, and non-Christian cultures and societies. This Introduction places particular focus on the ways in which Christianity has understood, embodied and related to power. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will appeal to the student and general reader.

Nationalisierung der Religion und Sakralisierung der Nation im östlichen Europa
Nationalisierung der Religion und Sakralisierung der Nation im östlichen Europa

Author: Martin Schulze Wessel

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9783515086653

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Aus dem Inhalt Martin Schulze Wessel: Einleitung: Die Nationalisierung der Religion und die Sakralisierung der Nation im ostlichen Europa Thomas Bremer: Konfessionelle Konflikte aus theologischer Sicht Nationale und religiose Kulte: Stefan Laube: Nationaler Heiligenkult in Polen und Deutschland. Ein erinnerungspolitischer Vergleich aus dem 19. Jahrhundert Frithjof Benjamin Schenk: Die Nationalisierung des kulturellen Gedachtnisses? Das Aleksandr Nevskij-Bild in Russland im 19. Jahrhundert Religion in den Nationalbewegungen des 18./19. Jahrhunderts: Hans-Christian Maner: Die "rumanische Nation" in den Konzeptionen griechisch-katholischer und orthodoxer Geistlicher und Intellektueller Siebenburgens im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert John-Paul Himka: The Place of Religion in the Ukrainian National Revival Ricarda Vulpius: Der Kirchenkampf in der Ukraine als Beispiel fur Sakralisierung der Nation und Nationalisierung der Religion (1917-1921) Religion und nationale Festkultur: Harald Binder: Kirche und nationale Festkultur in Krakau 1861 bis 1910 Joachim von Puttkamer: Alltagliche Inszenierungen. Kirchliche und nationale Schulfeste in Ungarn 1867-1914 Religion und Krieg: Juliane Brandt: "Jesus und der Weltkrieg": Das Schicksal nationalen Gedankenguts des ungarischen Protestantismus im Ersten Weltkrieg Christoph Mick: Der Kult um den Unbekannten Soldaten in der Zweiten Polnischen Republik Religion in Kulturmustern: Klaus Buchenau: Svetosavlje und Pravoslavlje. Nationales und Universales in der serbischen Orthodoxie Vera Urban: Nationalisierung der Religion durch Abgrenzung? Orthodoxie versus Katholizismus in russischen Kulturtheorien des 19. Jahrhunderts Dirk Uffelmann: Nationalstaat und Religion - direkt oder umgekehrt proportional? Die gespannte Historiosophie von Zygmunt Krasinskis "Przedswit" (1843)

Networks, Poetics and Multilingual Society in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region
Networks, Poetics and Multilingual Society in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region

Author: Kati Kallio

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-10-20

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9004429778

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The literarisation of the early modern Baltic Sea region was a long and complex process with varying trajectories for different vernacular languages. This volume highlights the interaction of local social and cultural settings with wider political and confessional contexts. With rarely examined materials, such as prints, court protocols, letters and manuscripts in Latin and a range of vernacular languages, including Estonian, Finnish, German, Ingrian, Karelian, Latvian, Lenape, Sami languages and Swedish, the thirteen authors chart the social and literary developments of the area. Wide networks of learned men and officials but also the number of native speakers in the clergy defined the ways the poetic resources of transnational and local literary and oral cultures benefited the nascent literatures. Contributors include: Eeva-Liisa Bastman, Kati Kallio, Suvi-Päivi Koski, Ulla Koskinen, Miia Kuha, Anu Lahtinen, Tuija Laine, Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen, Ilkka Leskelä, Aivar Põldvee, Sanna Raninen, Kristiina Ross, Taarna Valtonen, Kristi Viiding

Religion and Modernity
Religion and Modernity

Author: Detlef Pollack

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-12-08

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 019252173X

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This is not a book that provides a new integrated theory of religious change in modern societies, but rather one that develops theoretical elements that contribute to the understanding of some contemporary religious developments. Most of the approaches in sociology of religion are prone to emphasise either processes of religious decline or of religious upswing. For example, secularization theory usually includes a couple of relevant factors--such as functional differentiation, economic affluence or social equality--in order to account for religious change. However, the result of such a theory's empirical analyses seems to be certain in advance, namely that the social relevance of religion is decreasing. In contrast, the religious market model devised by sociologists of religion in the US is inclined to detect everywhere processes of religious upsurge. Religion and Modernity: An International Comparison avoids a purely theoretically based perspective on religious changes. For this reason, Detlef Pollack and Gergely Rosta do not begin with theoretical propositions but with questions. The authors raise the question of how the social significance of religion in its various facets has changed in modern societies, and explain what factors and conditions have contributed to these changes.

The Book of the Twelve
The Book of the Twelve

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9004424326

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In the last two decades, research on the Book of the Twelve has shown that this corpus is not just a collection of twelve prophetic books. It is rather a coherent work with a common history of formation and, based upon this, with an overall message and intention. The individual books of the Book of the Twelve are thus part of a larger whole in which they can be interpreted in a fruitful manner. The volume The Book of the Twelve: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation features 30 articles, written by renowned scholars, that explore different aspects regarding the formation, interpretation, and reception of the Book of the Twelve as a literary unity.