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John Wyclif: Selected Latin works in translation (G - Reference, Information And Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.)
by Stephen PennJohn Wyclif (d. 1384) was among the leading schoolmen of fourteenth-century Europe. He was an outspoken controversialist and critic of the Church, and, in his last days at Oxford, the author of the greatest heresy that England had known. This volume offers new translations of a representative selection of his Latin writings on theology, the Church and the Christian life. It provides a comprehensive view of the life of this charismatic but irascible medieval theologian, and of the development of the most prominent dissenting mind in pre-Reformation England. This collection will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students of medieval history, historical theology and religious heresy, as well as scholars in the field.
John Wyclif: Selected Latin works in translation (Manchester University Press)
by John WyclifJohn Wyclif (d. 1384) was among the leading schoolmen of fourteenth-century Europe. He was an outspoken controversialist and critic of the Church, and, in his last days at Oxford, the author of the greatest heresy that England had known. This volume offers new translations of a representative selection of his Latin writings on theology, the Church and the Christian life. It provides a comprehensive view of the life of this charismatic but irascible medieval theologian, and of the development of the most prominent dissenting mind in pre-Reformation England. This collection will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students of medieval history, historical theology and religious heresy, as well as scholars in the field.
Jonah: An Earth Bible Commentary (Earth Bible Commentary)
by Jione HaveaJione Havea analyses the Book of Jonah through the lens of climate change, using this present situation to reconsider the significance of Jonah for contemporary struggles and contexts, and tapping into traditional practices of commentary to draw out the meaning of the biblical text. Havea takes Jonah 3:10 as a starting point, in which God repents and rethinks (decides not to destroy), taking this as a challenge and an opportunity for biblical scholars to reflect on the realities of climate change. Havea builds on this opportunity in two ways: first, by reading Jonah forward, giving special attention to the orientation of the narrative toward the sea and Nineveh, and then backward, highlighting the significance of sea and (is)land lives to the flow of the narrative. Second, by looking at the other figures in the narrative, rather than focusing on the narrator's obsession with Jonah and his God. Havea reminds readers that the fish, plant, worm and other beasts are also crucial in this narrative, and considers how this can change our reading of the text.
Josef und die Frau Potifars im populärkulturellen Kontext: Transkulturelle Verflechtungen in Theologie, Bildender Kunst, Literatur, Musik und Film (pop.religion: lebensstil – kultur – theologie)
by Manfred TiemannDieses Buch möchte an 200 Beispielen aus Theologie, Bildender Kunst, Literatur, Musik und Film aufzeigen, dass die Josefnovelle mit ihrer Verführungsszene längst zur Weltliteratur gehört. Der Koran nennt die gesamte Josefgeschichte „die schönste Erzählung“ und widmet ihr eine ganze Sure.Zahlreiche Künstler, Dichter und religiöse Schriftsteller fühlen sich dazu angeregt, bei ihren Bearbeitungen ihre kultur-, zeit- und theologiegeschichtlichen Prägungen, Intentionen und gängige profanhistorische Elemente einfließen zu lassen. Spannend sind transkulturelle Verflechtungen zwischen Persien und Europa, die viele Versionen zeigen. Das Aufdecken von transkulturellen Bezügen und Transfers zwischen dem Nahen Osten und Europa kann heutige oft traditionell/ideologisch geprägte Vorstellungen kultureller Grenzen in Frage stellen und somit einen interkulturellen Beitrag zur Völkerverständigung und zum interreligiösen Dialog leisten.
Joseph Carens: Between Aliens and Citizens (Münster Lectures in Philosophy #6)
by Matthias Hoesch Nadine MoorenThis book offers a critical discussion of Joseph Carens’s main works in migration ethics covering themes such as migration, naturalization, citizenship, culture, religion and economic equality. The volume is published on the occasion of the annual Münster Lectures in Philosophy held by Joseph Carens in the fall of 2018. It documents the intellectual exchange with the well-known philosopher Joseph Carens by offering critical contributions on Carens’s work and commentaries of Carens as a reply to these critical contributions. With his various works on migration ethics, Joseph Carens must be seen as one of the leading academics in the political and ethical discourse of migration in the last years. The topic of migration raises questions not only regarding naturalization and citizenship but also cultural, economic and religious differences between aliens, citizens and persons whose status lies in between and calls for further determination. Such questions gain more and more importance in our globalized world as can be seen for example in the context of the refugee crisis in the European Union and the U.S. The book covers different systematic topics of Carens’s work as can be found in his widely read book “The Ethics of Immigration” but also in further publications. It provides papers with critical discussions of Carens’s work as well as his responses to these, thus enabling and documenting the fruitful dialogue between the contributors and Carens himself. The aim of this book is to sharpen and shed light on Carens’s arguments concerning migration by offering new and critical perspectives and fine-grained analyses.
Joseph Smith's Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism
by Samuel Morris BrownMormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated ancient scriptures. He dictated an American Bible from metal plates reportedly buried by ancient Jews in a nearby hill, and produced an Egyptian "Book of Abraham" derived from funerary papyri he extracted from a collection of mummies he bought from a traveling showman. In addition, he rewrote sections of the King James Version as a "New Translation" of the Bible. Smith and his followers used the term translation to describe the genesis of these English scriptures, which remain canonical for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Whether one believes him or not, the discussion has focused on whether Smith's English texts represent literal translations of extant source documents. On closer inspection, though, Smith's translations are far more metaphysical than linguistic. In Joseph Smith's Translation, Samuel Morris Brown argues that these translations express the mystical power of language and scripture to interconnect people across barriers of space and time, especially in the developing Mormon temple liturgy. He shows that Smith was devoted to an ancient metaphysics--especially the principle of correspondence, the concept of "as above, so below"--that provided an infrastructure for bridging the human and the divine as well as for his textual interpretive projects. Joseph Smith's projects of metaphysical translation place Mormonism at the productive edge of the transitions associated with shifts toward "secular modernity." This transition into modern worldviews intensified, complexly, in nineteenth-century America. The evolving legacies of Reformation and Enlightenment were the sea in which early Mormons swam, says Brown. Smith's translations and the theology that supported them illuminate the power and vulnerability of the Mormon critique of American culture in transition. This complex critique continues to resonate and illuminate to the present day.
The Joshua Generation: Israeli Occupation and the Bible
by Rachel HavrelockHow a controversial biblical tale of conquest and genocide became a founding story of modern IsraelNo biblical text has been more central to the politics of modern Israel than the book of Joshua. Named after a military leader who became the successor to Moses, it depicts the march of the ancient Israelites into Canaan, describing how they subjugated and massacred the indigenous peoples. The Joshua Generation examines the book's centrality to the Israeli occupation today, revealing why nationalist longing and social reality are tragically out of sync in the Promised Land.Though the book of Joshua was largely ignored and reviled by diaspora Jews, the leaders of modern Israel have invoked it to promote national cohesion. Critics of occupation, meanwhile, have denounced it as a book that celebrates genocide. Rachel Havrelock looks at the composition of Joshua, showing how it reflected the fractious nature of ancient Israelite society and a desire to unify the populace under a strong monarchy. She describes how David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, convened a study group at his home in the late 1950s, where generals, politicians, and professors reformulated the story of Israel's founding in the language of Joshua. Havrelock traces how Ben-Gurion used a brutal tale of conquest to unite an immigrant population of Jews of different ethnicities and backgrounds, casting modern Israelis and Palestinians as latter-day Israelites and Canaanites.Providing an alternative reading of Joshua, The Joshua Generation finds evidence of a decentralized society composed of tribes, clans, and woman-run households, one with relevance to today when diverse peoples share the dwindling resources of a scarred land.
The Joshua Generation: Israeli Occupation and the Bible
by Rachel HavrelockHow a controversial biblical tale of conquest and genocide became a founding story of modern IsraelNo biblical text has been more central to the politics of modern Israel than the book of Joshua. Named after a military leader who became the successor to Moses, it depicts the march of the ancient Israelites into Canaan, describing how they subjugated and massacred the indigenous peoples. The Joshua Generation examines the book's centrality to the Israeli occupation today, revealing why nationalist longing and social reality are tragically out of sync in the Promised Land.Though the book of Joshua was largely ignored and reviled by diaspora Jews, the leaders of modern Israel have invoked it to promote national cohesion. Critics of occupation, meanwhile, have denounced it as a book that celebrates genocide. Rachel Havrelock looks at the composition of Joshua, showing how it reflected the fractious nature of ancient Israelite society and a desire to unify the populace under a strong monarchy. She describes how David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, convened a study group at his home in the late 1950s, where generals, politicians, and professors reformulated the story of Israel's founding in the language of Joshua. Havrelock traces how Ben-Gurion used a brutal tale of conquest to unite an immigrant population of Jews of different ethnicities and backgrounds, casting modern Israelis and Palestinians as latter-day Israelites and Canaanites.Providing an alternative reading of Joshua, The Joshua Generation finds evidence of a decentralized society composed of tribes, clans, and woman-run households, one with relevance to today when diverse peoples share the dwindling resources of a scarred land.
Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag
by Julius MargolinUnder the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag. There many died of starvation, disease, and exhaustion, and some were killed by criminals and camp guards. In 1939, as the Nazis and Soviets invaded Poland, many Polish citizens found themselves swept up by the Soviet occupation and sent into the Gulag. One such victim was Julius Margolin, a Pinsk-born Jewish philosopher and writer living in Palestine who was in Poland on family matters. Margolin's Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back offers a powerful, first-person account of one of the most shocking chapters of the violent twentieth century. Opening with the outbreak of World War II in Poland, Margolin relates its devastating impact on the Jews and his arrest and imprisonment in the Gulag system. During his incarceration from 1940 to 1945, he nearly died from starvation and overwork but was able to return to Western Europe and rejoin his family in Palestine. With a philosopher's astute analysis of man and society, as well as with humor, his memoir of flight, entrapment, and survival details the choices and dilemmas faced by an individual under extreme duress. Margolin's moving account illuminates universal issues of human rights under a totalitarian regime and ultimately the triumph of human dignity and decency. This translation by Stefani Hoffman is the first English-language edition of this classic work, originally written in Russian in 1947 and published in an abridged French version in 1949. Circulated in a Russian samizdat version in the USSR, it exerted considerable influence on the formation of the genre of Gulag memoirs and was eagerly read by Soviet dissidents. Timothy Snyder's foreword and Katherine Jolluck's introduction contextualize the creation of this remarkable account of a Jewish world ravaged in the Stalinist empire--and the life of the man who was determined to reveal the horrors of the gulag camps and the plight of the zeks to the world.
The Journey to the Mayflower: God’s Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom
by Stephen Tomkins'A rattling good read' - The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu 2020 sees the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower - the ship that took the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World. It's a foundational event in American history, but it began as an English story, which pioneered the idea of religious freedom. The illegal underground movement of Protestant separatists from Elizabeth I's Church of England is a story of subterfuge and danger, arrests and interrogations, prison and executions. It starts with Queen Mary's attempts to burn Protestantism out of England, which created a Protestant underground. Later, when Elizabeth's Protestant reformation didn't go far enough, radicals recreated that underground, meeting illegally throughout England, facing prison and death for their crimes. They went into exile in the Netherlands, where they lived in poverty - and finally the New World.Stephen Tomkins tells this fascinating story - one that is rarely told as an important piece of English, as well as American, history - that is full of contemporary relevance: religious violence, the threat to national security, freedom of religion and tolerance of dangerous opinions. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in the untold story of how the Mayflower came to be launched.'A riveting story ... impeccably researched history ... engaging and entertaining, this book serves as reminder of the importance of upholding religious freedom in our current age.' - Tim Farron MP
Joy at Birth: An Interpretive, Hermeneutic, Phenomenological Inquiry (Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery)
by Susan CrowtherTo be at the birth of a baby is special, yet there is an increasing secularisation and reliance on technology in contemporary maternity care, particularly in the western context. Through exploration of experiences at birth this book explores joy at birth, which is often ignored and overlooked beyond the activities that help to ensure survival. This book draws on a collection of stories of birth from mothers, birth partners, obstetricians and midwives, that demonstrate joy at birth across professional groups and in different types of births and locations with or without technological interventions. Each chapter introduces stories of joy that highlight embodied, spatial and relational meanings. Employing the Heideggerian notion of a human being, it sketches out an ontological focus that draws our gaze to the everyday taken-for-granted ways of being at birth. Based on phenomenological experiential data and rigorous interpretive analysis underpinned by seminal philosophical writings, this book calls for readers to attend to the wholeness of birth in all situations and at all births in ways not attempted before. It will be of great interest to midwives, and those working in and studying maternity, obstetrics and neonatology, as well as social and medical anthropology, sociology, cultural, organisational and clinical psychology and spirituality.
Joy at Birth: An Interpretive, Hermeneutic, Phenomenological Inquiry (Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery)
by Susan CrowtherTo be at the birth of a baby is special, yet there is an increasing secularisation and reliance on technology in contemporary maternity care, particularly in the western context. Through exploration of experiences at birth this book explores joy at birth, which is often ignored and overlooked beyond the activities that help to ensure survival. This book draws on a collection of stories of birth from mothers, birth partners, obstetricians and midwives, that demonstrate joy at birth across professional groups and in different types of births and locations with or without technological interventions. Each chapter introduces stories of joy that highlight embodied, spatial and relational meanings. Employing the Heideggerian notion of a human being, it sketches out an ontological focus that draws our gaze to the everyday taken-for-granted ways of being at birth. Based on phenomenological experiential data and rigorous interpretive analysis underpinned by seminal philosophical writings, this book calls for readers to attend to the wholeness of birth in all situations and at all births in ways not attempted before. It will be of great interest to midwives, and those working in and studying maternity, obstetrics and neonatology, as well as social and medical anthropology, sociology, cultural, organisational and clinical psychology and spirituality.
Judaism in Motion: The Making of Same-Sex Parenthood in Israel (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)
by Sibylle LustenbergerIn Israel, where the Orthodox rabbinate wields historically sanctioned influence over the legal definitions of marriage and parenthood, same-sex parenthood raises important questions such as what constitutes belonging to the national collective, who has the authority to define the norms of reproduction, and where the boundaries of Orthodox Judaism begin and end. Judaism in Motion addresses these questions from a transgenerational perspective that pays heed to how religiously informed rules, norms, and practices of transferring material properties, names, and societal belonging are adopted and transformed. It presents a detailed ethnographic account of the dynamic interaction between kinship, religion, and the state that complicates the commonly held assumption that places same-sex parenthood in a radically secular sphere that stands in stark opposition to Orthodox Judaism. Taking same-sex parenthood as a prism through which society at large is reflected, this volume further explores how transformations of societal structures take place, and what flexibility and leeway exist in organized religions.
Judith Butler und die Theologie: Herausforderung und Rezeption (Religionswissenschaft #15)
by Bernhard Grümme Gunda WernerJudith Butler fasziniert und verstört, ihr Werk ist gleichermaßen prägend, irritierend und herausfordernd. Diese Spannung findet sich auch deutlich in der Theologie: Für die einen ist ihre Gendertheorie ebenso bedeutsam wie ihre Öffentlichkeitstheorie, ihre Einlassungen zur Verkörperung der Versammlung, ihr Subjektdenken und ihre Reflexionen über Anerkennung. Die anderen scheinen abgestoßen durch ihren Kritikbegriff und ihre Delegitimierung überkommener Ordnungen, die mitunter als massive Kirchenkritik aufgefasst wird. Die Beiträge des interdisziplinären Bandes gehen grundsätzlicher den theologischen Rezeptionsmöglichkeiten und -grenzen der Butler'schen Philosophie im Spiegel der theologischen Einzeldisziplinen nach.
Jüngel: Essays In Honour Of Eberhard J?ngel In His 80th Year (Guides for the Perplexed)
by R. David NelsonEberhard Jüngel is one of the most original and influential Protestant theologians in the generation after Karl Barth. His theology has received fresh interest of late from systematic theologians, biblical scholars and historians of modern Christian thought.This volume offers an up-to-date introduction to Jüngel's intellectual formation, publications and influence. R. David Nelson guides the reader through the figures, movements and conceptual developments in the background of Jüngel's thought, introduces Jüngel's major monographs and key essays, and assesses a number of themes prominent in Jüngel's theology.
Kant and the Divine: From Contemplation to the Moral Law
by Christopher J. InsoleThe book offers a definitive study of the development of Kant's conception of the highest good, from his earliest work, to his dying days. Insole argues that Kant believes in God, but that Kant is not a Christian, and that this opens up an important and neglected dimension of Western Philosophy. Kant is not a Christian, because he cannot accept Christianity's traditional claims about the relationship between divine action, grace, human freedom and happiness. Christian theologians who continue to affirm these traditional claims (and many do), therefore have grounds to be suspicious of Kant as an interpreter of Christian doctrine. As well as setting out a theological critique of Kant, Insole offers a new defence of the power, beauty, and internal coherence of Kant's non-Christian philosophical religiosity, 'within the limits of reason alone', which reason itself has some divine features. This neglected strand of philosophical religiosity deserves to be engaged with by both philosophers, and theologians. The Kant revealed in this book reminds us of a perennial task of philosophy, going back to Plato, where philosophy is construed as a way of life, oriented towards happiness, achieved through a properly expansive conception of reason and happiness. When we understand this philosophical religiosity, many standard 'problems' in the interpretation of Kant can be seen in a new light, and resolved. Kant witnesses to a strand of philosophy that leans into the category of the divine, at the edges of what we can say about reason, freedom, autonomy, and happiness.
Katastrophen zwischen sozialem Erinnern und Vergessen: Zur Theorie und Empirie sozialer Katastrophengedächtnisse (Soziales Gedächtnis, Erinnern und Vergessen – Memory Studies)
by Michael Heinlein Oliver DimbathKatastrophen gehören zu den grundlegenden Erfahrungen des menschlichen Daseins. Sie entsetzen, indem sie unvermittelt eine große destruktive Kraft entfalten, die von Individuen und Kollektiven als existenzbedrohend wahrgenommen wird. Soziale Ordnungen werden nachhaltig und ohne Aussicht auf baldige Wiederherstellung irritiert.Ziel des vorliegenden Bandes ist es, Katastrophen als Erinnerungen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven sowie mit Rücksicht auf gesellschaftliche Katastrophengedächtnisse zu beleuchten. Im Mittelpunkt steht hierbei die Zeitperspektive im Sinne der wissens- und damit gedächtnisspezifischen Wechselwirkung zwischen Erfahrung und Erwartung. Die hier versammelten Beiträge leisten dies zum einen mit theoretisch-systematisierendem Interesse und zum anderen als Fallstudien zu einzelnen Katastrophenphänomenen.Der InhaltFallstudien des Erinnerns und Vergessens katastrophaler Ereignisse • Theoretische Zugänge zu sozialen KatastrophengedächtnissenDie HerausgeberDr. Michael Heinlein ist Wissenschaftler am Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung e.V. – ISF München.Dr. Oliver Dimbath ist Professor für Soziologie an der Universität Koblenz-Landau.
Kate Chopin and Catholicism
by Heather OstmanThis book explores the Catholic aesthetic and mystical dimensions in KateChopin’s fiction within the context of an evolving American Catholicism in thelate nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through a close reading of hernovels and numerous short stories, Kate Chopin and Catholicism looks at theways Chopin represented Catholicism in her work as a literary device that servedon multiple levels: as an aesthetic within local color depictions of Louisiana, as atrope for illuminating the tensions surrounding nineteenth-century women’sstruggles for autonomy, as a critique of the Catholic dogma that subordinatedauthenticity and physical and emotional pleasure, and as it pointed to thedistinction between religious doctrine and mystical experience, and enabled thearticulation of spirituality beyond the context of the Church. This book revealsChopin to be not only a literary visionary but a writer who saw divinity in thenatural world.
The Key To Your Energy: 22 Steps to Rebuild Your Energy and Free Yourself Emotionally
by Natacha CalestremeThe international bestselling guide to regaining your energy so you can finally live life to the full.Are you tired of feeling tired? Do you feel weighed down by your emotional burdens and your past traumas?French bestselling author, journalist and therapist Natacha Calestrémé is here to help you bounce back, build resilience and regain your energy. Read by more than a million readers in France, French phenomenon The Key To Your Energy is the ultimate companion. In just 22 tried-and-tested steps, you can unblock any energy in your body, fix your fatigue, restore your joy and serenity, and heal inner wounds that are holding you back.'A rockstar for self-help' - ELLE
Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 11, Part 2: Loose Papers, 1843-1855 (Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks #17)
by Søren KierkegaardFor over a century, the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55) has been at the center of a number of important discussions, concerning not only philosophy and theology, but also, more recently, fields such as social thought, psychology, and contemporary aesthetics, especially literary theory.Despite his relatively short life, Kierkegaard was an extraordinarily prolific writer, as attested to by the 26-volume Princeton University Press edition of all of his published writings. But Kierkegaard left behind nearly as much unpublished writing, most of which consists of what are called his "journals and notebooks." Kierkegaard has long been recognized as one of history's great journal keepers, but only rather small portions of his journals and notebooks are what we usually understand by the term "diaries." By far the greater part of Kierkegaard's journals and notebooks consists of reflections on a myriad of subjects—philosophical, religious, political, personal. Studying his journals and notebooks takes us into his workshop, where we can see his entire universe of thought. We can witness the genesis of his published works, to be sure—but we can also see whole galaxies of concepts, new insights, and fragments, large and small, of partially (or almost entirely) completed but unpublished works. Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks enables us to see the thinker in dialogue with his times and with himself.Kierkegaard wrote his journals in a two-column format, one for his initial entries and the second for the extensive marginal comments that he added later. This edition of the journals reproduces this format, includes several photographs of original manuscript pages, and contains extensive scholarly commentary on the various entries and on the history of the manuscripts being reproduced.Volume 11, Parts 1 and 2, present an exciting, enlightening, and enormously varied treasure trove of papers that were found, carefully sorted and stored by Kierkegaard himself, in his apartment after his death. These papers—many of which have never before been published in English—provide a window into many different aspects of Kierkegaard's life and creativity. Volume 11, Part 2, includes writings from the period between 1843, the year in which he published his breakthrough Either/Or, and late September 1855, a few weeks before his death, when he recorded his final reflections on "Christendom." Among the highlights are Kierkegaard's famous description of the "Great Earthquake" that shaped his life; his early reflections on becoming an author; his important, though never-delivered, lectures on "The Dialectic of Ethical and Ethical-Religious Communication"; and his final, incandescent assault on the tendency—new in his time—to harness Christianity in support of a specific social and political order.
A Kind of Upside-Downness: Learning Disabilities and Transformational Community
by Judith Gardom E. S. Kempson Daniel Smith Suzanna R. Millar Philip S. Powell Patrick McKearney Theresia PaquetOne of the great prophetic figures of our time was Jean Vanier, founder of the L'Arche communities, where those with and without disabilities share life together. This book tells the story of a new, practical development, inspired by Vanier, and taking further both his thought and the practice of L'Arche. Lyn's House is a small Christian house of hospitality and friendship in Cambridge, set in an open community of volunteers and supporters. Its story told here contains moving accounts of its origins and development, and of the friendships it enables. The contributors, all members of the wider Lyn's House community, also reflect on its meaning, and explore the implications for both church and society of this creative response to Vanier's call. Not only does the book convey the spirit of Lyn's House and its transformative effects on those who participate in it, it also offers inspiration and a practical guide to any who wish to begin something similar.
Kinderlosigkeit: Ersehnte, verweigerte und bereute Elternschaft im Mittelalter
by Regina ToepferKinderlosigkeit ist kein biologisches Schicksal, sondern sozial und kulturell geprägt, argumentiert Regina Toepfer. Anknüpfend an aktuelle Diskussionen über Samenspende, Adoption, Kinderfreiheit und bereute Mutterschaft untersucht sie, wie im Mittelalter über Fruchtbarkeit und Unfruchtbarkeit gesprochen wurde. In der Theologie, der Medizin und im Recht, aber auch in der Erzählliteratur zeichnen sich auffällige Unterschiede ab: Für die einen ist Kinderlosigkeit ein großes Problem, für die anderen ein hohes Ideal. Das Buch fragt nach den Gründen für diese Wertungen und nach historischen Veränderungen. Offengelegt werden so verschiedene Erzählmuster, die Geschichten der Kinderlosigkeit bis in die Gegenwart prägen: Das Spektrum reicht vom spät erfüllten Kinderwunsch dank göttlicher oder dämonischer Hilfe über soziale und religiöse Alternativen bis hin zur bewussten Entscheidung gegen Elternschaft und dem wunschlosen Glück innig Liebender.
Klima, Corona und das Christentum: Religiöse Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung in einer verwundeten Welt (Religionswissenschaft #20)
by Claudia GärtnerDie Corona- und Klimakrise zeigen, dass sich globale Krisen nicht mehr auf Bereiche wie Gesundheit, Ökologie, Wirtschaft oder Soziales begrenzen lassen. Wie diese multiple Krise bewältigt werden kann, ist gänzlich offen. Religiöse Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung befähigt Heranwachsende, kompetent mit der offenen und prekären Zukunft der Welt umzugehen. Das Christentum kann dazu Traditionen nachhaltigen Lebens und Visionen für eine gerechte, lebenswerte Zukunft aller Menschen bereitstellen. Hieraus entwirft Claudia Gärtner - im interdisziplinären Gespräch mit Politischer Theologie und kritischen Bildungstheorien - Leitlinien und praktische Bausteine für eine politische religiöse Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung.
Knowledge of Spirit Worlds and Life After Death: As Received Through Spirit Guides
by Bob Woodward‘Everyone with a curiosity for spiritual knowledge should read this excellent book.’ – Peter John, psychic artistBased on direct communications with his eight spirit guides, Dr Bob Woodward confirms that we have all lived in spirit worlds before our birth – and that we will enter these same realms again after our material deaths. In a very real sense, these higher spirit worlds are actually our true home, he says, rather than our present physical existence, which is only a temporary abode.In consultation with his spirit guides – including a Tibetan Lama, a Jewish Rabbi, a Native American and his personal guardian angel – Bob Woodward gives a detailed survey of our lives in spirit worlds before birth and after death, our relationships there with friends, family and even pets, and our connections with both good and evil spiritual beings. He also gives a commentary on a range of subjects such as reincarnation and climate change. In a final extensive and moving interview, Woodward finds and speaks with the soul of his deceased father, who offers enlightening glimpses of life after death.Whilst the author’s knowledge is grounded in decades of study of the work of Rudolf Steiner – with which he compares the results of his own extrasensory perceptions – Knowledge of Spirit Worlds is not intended as a dry philosophical study. Rather, it has a warm, experiential quality – based as it is on personal interaction with spirit entities – and emphasizes the love that connects all worlds and beings together.
Komm und sieh: Analysen und Modelle (pop.religion: lebensstil – kultur – theologie)
by Inge KirsnerDer erste große Teil dieses Bandes beschreibt – angefangen bei den „Zehn Geboten“ und ihrer Aktualisierung in „The Beach“ über das „Opfer“ Harry Potters, Blade Runners & Katniss´ in „Tribute von Panem" bis hin zu natürlichen und künstlichen Intelligenzen ("Planet der Affen" und "Ex Machina") – wie Religion in aktuellen Filmen thematisiert wird, die sich u. a. mit den Folgen der Digitalisierung und Mechanisierung sowie deren Auswirkungen auf das Menschenbild der Zukunft beschäftigen. Im zweiten Teil finden diese Themen praktisch-theologisch und liturgisch Gestalt, nämlich in Form von Filmgottesdiensten, die als Bausteine für Deutsch- und Religionsunterricht und für Gottesdienste in Schulen, Gemeinden und in der Erwachsenenbildung dienen können.