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Erasmus and the “Other”: On Turks, Jews, and Indigenous Peoples

This book investigates how Erasmus viewed non-Christians and different races, including Muslims, Jews, the indigenous people of the Americas, and Africans. Nathan Ron argues that Erasmus was devoted to Christian Eurocentrism and not as tolerant as he is often portrayed. Erasmus’ thought is situated vis-à-vis the thought of contemporaries such as the cosmographer and humanist Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini who became Pope Pius II; the philosopher, scholar, and Cardinal, Nicholas of Cusa; and the Dominican missionary and famous defender of the Native Americans, Bartolomé Las Casas. Additionally, the relatively moderate attitude toward Islam which was demonstrated by Michael Servetus, Sebastian Franck, and Sebastian Castellio is analyzed in comparison with Erasmus’ harsh attitude toward Islam/Turks.

Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print

The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central figure of the European intellectual world. Erasmus himself—the historical as opposed to the figural individual—was a brilliant, maverick innovator, who achieved little formal academic recognition in his own lifetime. What Jardine offers here is not only a fascinating study of Erasmus but also a bold account of a key moment in Western history, a time when it first became possible to believe in the existence of something that could be designated "European thought."

Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print

The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central figure of the European intellectual world. Erasmus himself—the historical as opposed to the figural individual—was a brilliant, maverick innovator, who achieved little formal academic recognition in his own lifetime. What Jardine offers here is not only a fascinating study of Erasmus but also a bold account of a key moment in Western history, a time when it first became possible to believe in the existence of something that could be designated "European thought."

Ereignistheorie für eine Soziologie der Praxis: Das Love and Peace Festival auf Fehmarn und die Formation der Pop-Musik

Die praxissoziologische Theorieanlage, die in diesem Buch aus dem Ereignisbegriff entwickelt wird, zwingt zu der Frage, wie sich die Praktiken nicht nur zu Praxisformen verketten, sondern wie diese Praktiken auch Praxisformationen entstehen lassen, die sich dauerhaft als Intensitätszonen der Gesellschaft ereignen. Genau dieses Problem steht im Mittelpunkt der hier verfolgten Überlegungen und wird über eine Analyse der Pop-Musik als Formation der Praxis entfaltet. Als beispielhafte Fallstudie wählt der Autor das Love and Peace Festival auf Fehmarn aus dem Jahr 1970. Dadurch lässt das Buch eine Zeit der Pop-Musik wieder lebendig werden, die sehr viel mehr mit unserer Gegenwart zu tun hat, als es auf dem ersten Blick scheint.

¡Eres excepcional!: 7 maneras de vivir alentadas, empoderadas, e intencionadas

¡Conviértete en la persona excepcional que Dios creó!¿Cómo estás viviendo tu vida? ¿Te levantaste esta mañana esperando hacer algo importante o te despertaste cansada, preocupada y frustrada? En su reciente libro, ¡Eres excepcional!, Victoria Osteen declara que Dios no quiere que vivas el día tediosamente, ni evites los desafíos de la vida. Si te armas con el conocimiento de que Dios está contigo, Él te dará las ideas, las palabras y la energía que necesitas para hacer que cada día sea excepcional.A través de historias personales y enseñanzas bíblicas, Victoria te mostrará cómo adoptar una nueva forma de pensar sobre ti misma y tu vida que fortalecerá tu fe, aumentará tu confianza y sacará a la persona extraordinaria que realmente eres a través de siete prácticas:Ten la certeza de que eres escogidaAlza tu vistaMantén llena tu caja de recuerdosViaja ligeraAma de verdadVive el presenteEmpodérate¡No esperes ni un minuto más para que descubras que eres excepcional!Become the exceptional person God has called you to be with these seven practices for living a fulfilled and plentiful life from Lakewood Church co-pastor and bestselling author Victoria Osteen.In her latest book, Exceptional You! Victoria Osteen shares seven ways to become the exceptional person God has called you to be. She says, "If you're going reach your highest potential in life, you're going to have to develop the ability to see beyond where you are right now." Through empowering, uplifting stories and biblical teachings, Victoria will encourage you to set your mind and intent towards the important things in life with seven exceptional practices:Keep your memory box full of encouragementLift up your eyesKnow that you are chosenLove wellKeep your accounts shortLive in your space of gratitudeStart your day off rightLive encouraged, live empowered, and live intentional, and see the new and exciting things God has in store for you.

¡Eres excepcional!: 7 maneras de vivir alentadas, empoderadas, e intencionadas

¡Conviértete en la persona excepcional que Dios creó!¿Cómo estás viviendo tu vida? ¿Te levantaste esta mañana esperando hacer algo importante o te despertaste cansada, preocupada y frustrada? En su reciente libro, ¡Eres excepcional!, Victoria Osteen declara que Dios no quiere que vivas el día tediosamente, ni evites los desafíos de la vida. Si te armas con el conocimiento de que Dios está contigo, Él te dará las ideas, las palabras y la energía que necesitas para hacer que cada día sea excepcional.A través de historias personales y enseñanzas bíblicas, Victoria te mostrará cómo adoptar una nueva forma de pensar sobre ti misma y tu vida que fortalecerá tu fe, aumentará tu confianza y sacará a la persona extraordinaria que realmente eres a través de siete prácticas:Ten la certeza de que eres escogidaAlza tu vistaMantén llena tu caja de recuerdosViaja ligeraAma de verdadVive el presenteEmpodérate¡No esperes ni un minuto más para que descubras que eres excepcional! Become the exceptional person God has called you to be with these seven practices for living a fulfilled and plentiful life from Lakewood Church co-pastor and bestselling author Victoria Osteen.In her latest book, Exceptional You! Victoria Osteen shares seven ways to become the exceptional person God has called you to be. She says, "If you're going reach your highest potential in life, you're going to have to develop the ability to see beyond where you are right now."Through empowering, uplifting stories and biblical teachings, Victoria will encourage you to set your mind and intent towards the important things in life with seven exceptional practices:Keep your memory box full of encouragementLift up your eyesKnow that you are chosenLove wellKeep your accounts shortLive in your space of gratitudeStart your day off rightLive encouraged, live empowered, and live intentional, and see the new and exciting things God has in store for you.

Eres más fuerte de lo que piensas: Libera el poder que te lleva más allá de lo que te limita

Discover a strength that pushes you forward, a power to do what you couldn&’t do before with #1 New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen.You may feel weak and fatigued, but that is not your destiny. When you feel overwhelmed, like you can&’t go on, He comes in and gives you special strength. Strength that you didn&’t get on your own. Strength to move forward when you should be stuck, strength to overcome that hurdle, strength to outlast that opposition. You&’re going to feel strength that you didn&’t have, joy when you could be discouraged, and hope when you should be depressed. You&’re going to have the power to endure, the favor to overcome, and the determination to outlast.He&’s going to bring blessings, increase, favor, and healing that He&’s already prepared. It&’s going to be easier than you thought, and it&’s going to happen sooner than you think. As you read You Are Stronger Than You Think, feel a power rising that you have never felt—a strength, a courage, a determination, a stamina. He won&’t let you stay overwhelmed. You may feel that way at times, but that&’s not how your story ends. You&’re going to feel a strength that pushes you forward, a power to do what you couldn&’t do before.​Believe and declare that you are strong, you are victorious, and you are able. You&’re going to accomplish dreams bigger than you imagined, overcome obstacles that look insurmountable, and reach the fullness of your destiny!

Erfahrungsweitergabe unter Auslandsentsandten: Eine gesprächsanalytische Studie am Beispiel deutscher Manager in Spanien (Europäische Kulturen in der Wirtschaftskommunikation)

Eribon revisited – Perspektiven der Gender und Queer Studies (Revisited – Relektüren aus den Gender und Queer Studies)

In diesem ersten Band der Reihe Revisited – Relektüren aus den Gender und Queer Studies werden die Werke Rückkehr nach Reims und Gesellschaft als Urteil von Didier Eribon als Ausgangspunkt für Diskussionen um soziale Ungleichheit und Bildungsprozesse genommen. Forscher*innen aus den Erziehungs- und Sozialwissenschaften, den Literatur-, Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften führen die Auseinandersetzung mit Eribons Texten mit unterschiedlichen theoretischen und methodischen Zugängen und fragen danach, wie sie sich zu anderen maßgebenden Texten der sozialen Ungleichheits- und Bildungsforschung verhalten. Was haben die Texte Eribons hier zu bieten? Was eröffnen sie? Was scheint zu verschwinden? Was ließe sich anders relationieren? Als inter- und transdisziplinäres, kollaboratives Projekt führt dieser Band Beiträge von Autor*innen zusammen, die mit geschlechterhistorischen, rassismuskritischen, de/postkolonialen, gender- und queertheoretischen sowie intersektionalen Ansätzen arbeiten und diese in unterschiedlichen Konstellationen miteinander ins Gespräch bringen.Mit Beiträgen von Gudrun Hentges, Karolin Kalmbach, Elke Kleinau, Bettina Kleiner, Christian Lömke, Julia Reuter, Thomas Viola Rieske, Dirk Schulz, Andrea Seier, Vanessa E. Thompson, Stephan Trinkaus und Susanne Völker.Alle Beiträge dieses Bandes wurden sowohl von den Herausgeber*innen als auch extern begutachtet.

Ernan McMullin and Critical Realism in the Science-Theology Dialogue (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)

Scientists, philosophers and theologians have wrestled repeatedly with the question of whether knowledge is similar or different in their various understandings of the world and God. Although agreement is still elusive, the epistemology of critical realism, associated with Ian Barbour, John Polkinghorne and Arthur Peacocke, remains widely credible. Relying on the lifetime work of philosopher Ernan McMullin, this book expands our understanding of critical realism beyond a permanent stand-off between the subjective and objective, whether in science or theology. Critical realism illuminates the subject and the objectively known simultaneously. Responding to criticisms made against it, this book defends critical realism in science and theology with a specific role to play in our understanding of God.

Ernan McMullin and Critical Realism in the Science-Theology Dialogue (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)

Scientists, philosophers and theologians have wrestled repeatedly with the question of whether knowledge is similar or different in their various understandings of the world and God. Although agreement is still elusive, the epistemology of critical realism, associated with Ian Barbour, John Polkinghorne and Arthur Peacocke, remains widely credible. Relying on the lifetime work of philosopher Ernan McMullin, this book expands our understanding of critical realism beyond a permanent stand-off between the subjective and objective, whether in science or theology. Critical realism illuminates the subject and the objectively known simultaneously. Responding to criticisms made against it, this book defends critical realism in science and theology with a specific role to play in our understanding of God.

Ernesto De Martino on Religion: The Crisis and the Presence (Key Thinkers in the Study of Religion)

Ernesto de Martino was a major critical thinker in the study of vernacular religions, producing innovative analyses of key concepts such as 'folklore', 'magic' and 'ritual'. His methodology stemmed from his training under the philosopher Benedetto Croce whilst his philosophical approach to anthropology borrowed from Marx and Gramsci. Widely celebrated in continental Europe, de Martino's contribution to the study of religion has not been fully understood in the Anglophone world though some of his works - 'Primitive Magic: the Psychic Powers of Shamans and Sorcerers' and 'The Land of Remorse: a Study of Southern Italian Tarantism' - have been translated. This volume presents a comprehensive overview of de Martino's life and work, the thinkers and theories which informed his writings, his contribution to the study of religions and the potential of his methodology for contemporary scholarship.

Ernesto De Martino on Religion: The Crisis and the Presence (Key Thinkers in the Study of Religion)

Ernesto de Martino was a major critical thinker in the study of vernacular religions, producing innovative analyses of key concepts such as 'folklore', 'magic' and 'ritual'. His methodology stemmed from his training under the philosopher Benedetto Croce whilst his philosophical approach to anthropology borrowed from Marx and Gramsci. Widely celebrated in continental Europe, de Martino's contribution to the study of religion has not been fully understood in the Anglophone world though some of his works - 'Primitive Magic: the Psychic Powers of Shamans and Sorcerers' and 'The Land of Remorse: a Study of Southern Italian Tarantism' - have been translated. This volume presents a comprehensive overview of de Martino's life and work, the thinkers and theories which informed his writings, his contribution to the study of religions and the potential of his methodology for contemporary scholarship.

Eros and Socratic Political Philosophy (Recovering Political Philosophy)

Eros and Socratic Political Philosophy offers a new account of Plato's view of eros, or romantic love, by focusing on a question which has vexed many scholars: why does Plato's Socrates praise eros highly on some occasions but also criticize it harshly on others? Through detailed analyses of Plato's Republic, Phaedrus, and Symposium, Levy shows how, despite the apparent tensions between Socrates' statements about eros in each dialogue, these statements supplement each other well and serve to clarify Socrates' understanding of the complex relationship between eros, religious belief, and philosophy. Thus, Levy's interpretation sheds new light not only on Plato's view of eros, but also on his view of piety and philosophy, challenging common assumptions about the erotic nature of Socratic philosophy. This novel approach to classic political theory will incite discussion and interest among scholars of classics, philosophy, and political theory.

Eros Crucified: Death, Desire, and the Divine in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Religion (Psychology and the Other)

Bringing contemporary philosophers, theologians, and psychoanalysts into dialogue with works of art and literature, this work provides a fresh perspective on how humans can make sense of suffering and finitude and how our existence as sexual beings shapes our relations to one another and the divine. It attempts to establish a connection between carnal, bodily love and humanity’s relation to the divine. Relying on the works of philosophers such as Manoussakis, Kearney, and Marion and psychoanalysts such as Freud and Lacan, this book provides a possible answer to these fundamental questions and fosters further dialogue between thinkers and scholars of these different fields. The author analyzes why human sexuality implies both perversion and perfection and why it brings together humanity’s baseness and beatitude. Through it, the author taps once more into the dark mystery of Eros and Thanatos who, to paraphrase Dostoevsky, forever struggle with God on the battlefield of the human heart. This book is written primarily for scholars interested in the fields of philosophical psychology, existential philosophy, and philosophy of religion

Eros Crucified: Death, Desire, and the Divine in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Religion (Psychology and the Other)

Bringing contemporary philosophers, theologians, and psychoanalysts into dialogue with works of art and literature, this work provides a fresh perspective on how humans can make sense of suffering and finitude and how our existence as sexual beings shapes our relations to one another and the divine. It attempts to establish a connection between carnal, bodily love and humanity’s relation to the divine. Relying on the works of philosophers such as Manoussakis, Kearney, and Marion and psychoanalysts such as Freud and Lacan, this book provides a possible answer to these fundamental questions and fosters further dialogue between thinkers and scholars of these different fields. The author analyzes why human sexuality implies both perversion and perfection and why it brings together humanity’s baseness and beatitude. Through it, the author taps once more into the dark mystery of Eros and Thanatos who, to paraphrase Dostoevsky, forever struggle with God on the battlefield of the human heart. This book is written primarily for scholars interested in the fields of philosophical psychology, existential philosophy, and philosophy of religion

The Erosion of Biblical Certainty: Battles over Authority and Interpretation in America

According to conventional wisdom, by the late 1800s, the image of Bible as a supernatural and infallible text crumbled in the eyes of intellectuals under the assaults of secularizing forces. This book corrects the narrative by arguing that in America, the road to skepticism had already been paved by the Scriptures' most able and ardent defenders.

Erotic Attunement: Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals

Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children—in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young children need regular human contact, and the benefits of breastfeeding have been widely extolled. Exploring the complicated history of love, desire, gender, sexuality, parenthood, and inequality, Erotic Attunement probes the disquieting issue of how we can draw a clear line between natural affection toward children and perverse exploitation of them. Cristina L. H. Traina demonstrates that we cannot determine what is wrong about sexual abuse without first understanding what is good about appropriate sensual affection. Pondering topics such as the importance of touch in nurturing children, the psychology of abuse and victimhood, and recent ideologies of motherhood, she argues that we must expand our philosophical and theological language of physical love and make a distinction between sexual love and erotic love. Taking on theological and ethical arguments over the question of sexuality between unequals, she arrives at the provocative conclusion that it can be destructive to completely bar eroticism from these relationships.

Erotic Attunement: Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals

Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children—in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young children need regular human contact, and the benefits of breastfeeding have been widely extolled. Exploring the complicated history of love, desire, gender, sexuality, parenthood, and inequality, Erotic Attunement probes the disquieting issue of how we can draw a clear line between natural affection toward children and perverse exploitation of them. Cristina L. H. Traina demonstrates that we cannot determine what is wrong about sexual abuse without first understanding what is good about appropriate sensual affection. Pondering topics such as the importance of touch in nurturing children, the psychology of abuse and victimhood, and recent ideologies of motherhood, she argues that we must expand our philosophical and theological language of physical love and make a distinction between sexual love and erotic love. Taking on theological and ethical arguments over the question of sexuality between unequals, she arrives at the provocative conclusion that it can be destructive to completely bar eroticism from these relationships.

Erotic Attunement: Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals

Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children—in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young children need regular human contact, and the benefits of breastfeeding have been widely extolled. Exploring the complicated history of love, desire, gender, sexuality, parenthood, and inequality, Erotic Attunement probes the disquieting issue of how we can draw a clear line between natural affection toward children and perverse exploitation of them. Cristina L. H. Traina demonstrates that we cannot determine what is wrong about sexual abuse without first understanding what is good about appropriate sensual affection. Pondering topics such as the importance of touch in nurturing children, the psychology of abuse and victimhood, and recent ideologies of motherhood, she argues that we must expand our philosophical and theological language of physical love and make a distinction between sexual love and erotic love. Taking on theological and ethical arguments over the question of sexuality between unequals, she arrives at the provocative conclusion that it can be destructive to completely bar eroticism from these relationships.

Erotic Attunement: Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals

Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children—in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young children need regular human contact, and the benefits of breastfeeding have been widely extolled. Exploring the complicated history of love, desire, gender, sexuality, parenthood, and inequality, Erotic Attunement probes the disquieting issue of how we can draw a clear line between natural affection toward children and perverse exploitation of them. Cristina L. H. Traina demonstrates that we cannot determine what is wrong about sexual abuse without first understanding what is good about appropriate sensual affection. Pondering topics such as the importance of touch in nurturing children, the psychology of abuse and victimhood, and recent ideologies of motherhood, she argues that we must expand our philosophical and theological language of physical love and make a distinction between sexual love and erotic love. Taking on theological and ethical arguments over the question of sexuality between unequals, she arrives at the provocative conclusion that it can be destructive to completely bar eroticism from these relationships.

Erotic Attunement: Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals

Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children—in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young children need regular human contact, and the benefits of breastfeeding have been widely extolled. Exploring the complicated history of love, desire, gender, sexuality, parenthood, and inequality, Erotic Attunement probes the disquieting issue of how we can draw a clear line between natural affection toward children and perverse exploitation of them. Cristina L. H. Traina demonstrates that we cannot determine what is wrong about sexual abuse without first understanding what is good about appropriate sensual affection. Pondering topics such as the importance of touch in nurturing children, the psychology of abuse and victimhood, and recent ideologies of motherhood, she argues that we must expand our philosophical and theological language of physical love and make a distinction between sexual love and erotic love. Taking on theological and ethical arguments over the question of sexuality between unequals, she arrives at the provocative conclusion that it can be destructive to completely bar eroticism from these relationships.

Erotic Attunement: Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals

Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children—in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young children need regular human contact, and the benefits of breastfeeding have been widely extolled. Exploring the complicated history of love, desire, gender, sexuality, parenthood, and inequality, Erotic Attunement probes the disquieting issue of how we can draw a clear line between natural affection toward children and perverse exploitation of them. Cristina L. H. Traina demonstrates that we cannot determine what is wrong about sexual abuse without first understanding what is good about appropriate sensual affection. Pondering topics such as the importance of touch in nurturing children, the psychology of abuse and victimhood, and recent ideologies of motherhood, she argues that we must expand our philosophical and theological language of physical love and make a distinction between sexual love and erotic love. Taking on theological and ethical arguments over the question of sexuality between unequals, she arrives at the provocative conclusion that it can be destructive to completely bar eroticism from these relationships.

Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing (The New Middle Ages)

Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing discusses the role of sexuality in medieval devotional practice, looking in particular at religious writings circulating in England in the tenth to thirteenth centuries.

The Erotic Life of Manuscripts: New Testament Textual Criticism and the Biological Sciences

Since the New Testament's inception as written text, its manuscripts have been subject to all the dangers of history: scribal error, emendation, injury, and total destruction. The traditional goal of modern textual criticism has been to reconstruct an "original text" from surviving manuscripts, adjudicating among all the variant texts resulting from the slips, additions, and embellishments of scribal hand-copying. Because of the way manuscripts circulate and give rise to new copies, it can be said that they have an "erotic" life: they mate and breed, bear offspring, and generate families and descendants. New Testament textual critics of the eighteenth century who began to use this language to group texts into families and genealogies were not pioneering new approaches, but rather borrowing the metaphors and methods of natural scientists. Texts began to be classified into "families, tribes, and nations," and later were racialized as "African" or "Asian," with distinguishable "textual physiognomies" and "textual complexions." The Erotic Life of Manuscripts explores this curious relationship between the field of New Testament textual criticism and the biological sciences, beginning with the eighteenth century and extending into the present. While these biological metaphors have been powerful tools for textual critics, they also produce problematic understandings of textual "purity" and agency, with the use of scientific discourse artificially separating the work of textual criticism from literary interpretation. Yii-Jan Lin shows how the use of biological classification, genealogy, evolutionary theory, and phylogenetics has shaped-and limited-the goals of New Testament textual criticism, the greatest of which is the establishment of an authoritative, original text. She concludes by proposing new metaphors for the field.