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Religion, Transformation and Gender
The fifth issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society (J-RaT) centers on the topic of religion, transformation and sex/gender. The focal point will be on religious and cultural transformation processes and their repercussions on gender roles, constructs and representations on the one hand, and on sex and/or gender transformations which are embedded in the context of specific religious traditions on the other. Transformation is understood here as change, alteration and reformatting. The multifaceted connections between religion, transformation and sex/gender are concretized in an abundance of material and symbolic phenomena and are examined starting from different subject-specific and methodical approaches.
Religion and Modernity
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 emphasize 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...
Constructs of Meaning and Religious Transformation
One of the major trends in the psychology of religion is the growing interest in religious and spiritual meaning making in relation to religious and spiritual transformation processes, notably as the aftermath of traumatic experiences and in situations of crisis, stress or disease when personal well-being is at stake and coping activities and skills are enhanced. This volume covers this broad and complex area of interrelated issues. The contributions focus on religious and spiritual meaning making and transformation. They do not compose an integrated perspective on religious meaning making and transformation processes. Rather, this volume assembles and presents the current state of research on this complex of issues. Thus it not only provides an excellent overview of the psychological study of constructs of meaning and religious transformation, but also contributes to our knowledge of contemporary religious life in the context of socio-cultural transformation processes (pluralisation, globalization).
Muggles, Monsters and Magicians
Originally published as the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Philipps-Universiteat Marburg, 2006.
Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2017
The Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill), aiming at a researcher’s audience. The Yearbook presents data in sets of tables and scholarly articles spanning social science, demography, history, and geography. Each issue offers findings, sources, methods, and implications surrounding internat...
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Weihnachten und der Koran
Auch der Koran kennt die Weihnachtsgeschichte. Überhaupt sind in ihm biblische Überlieferungen in erstaunlicher Breite aufgenommen. Sure 19 (mit dem Namen »Maryam«) erzählt: Durch den Geist Gottes empfängt Maria ihren Sohn Jesus, den sie an einem entlegenen Wüstenort allein unter einer Palme zur Welt bringt. Aus der Sicht des Korans ist er der größte Prophet vor Mohammed. Neben markanten Unterschieden zeigen sich überraschende Parallelen im Verständnis der Person Jesu. Die Überlieferungen von Bibel und Koran überschneiden sich nirgendwo stärker als bei der Geschichte seiner Geburt, die auch Muslimen ein »Zeichen Gottes« für die Menschheit ist. Karl-Josef Kuschel ermutigt über die Betrachtung der Geburtsgeschichten Jesu in Bibel und Koran zum Gespräch von Muslimen und Christen über Grundfragen ihres Glaubens. Beide können der Friedensbotschaft von Weihnachten neue Kraft geben.
Body Language
As much as we may like to evade them, illness and disability inescapably attend human embodiment – we are all vulnerable subjects. So it might seem natural and inevitable that the most universal, most democratic, form of literature – autobiography – should address these common features of human experience. Yet for the most part, autobiographical writing expressive of illness and disability remained quite uncommon until the second half of the twentieth century, when it flourished concurrently with successive civil rights movements. Women’s liberation, with its signature manifesto Our Bodies Ourselves, supported the breast cancer narrative; the gay rights movement encouraged AIDS narra...
Religion und gesellschaftliche Differenzierung
English summary: The role of religion and church in Western societies has changed fundamentally. In the Middles Ages, Christendom functioned as the social order's cognitive and institutional basis. In modern societies religion and church have become one societal sphere among others and are challenged to assert themselves ahead of attractive secular alternatives. The radical change preceding modernity was set in motion at the beginning of the 18th century; since then, religion and church have been intertwined in a process of functional differentiation that has significantly diminished their social relevance. In this historical analysis, Detlef Pollack investigates functional differentiation's...
Biegsame Expertise
Wann, wie und warum kam die Bioethik nach Deutschland? Wie konnte sie sich in der Turbulenzzone zwischen Wissenschaft, Politik und Öffentlichkeit so erfolgreich etablieren? In Biegsame Expertise schreibt Petra Gehring die spannende Geschichte einer Diskursformation, die binnen weniger Jahrzehnte in einer hochpolitischen Arena entstand. Denn Parlamente, Massenmedien und Protestbewegungen spielten hierbei eine ebenso wichtige Rolle wie Medizin und Recht, Theologie und Philosophie sowie das Zauberwort »interdisziplinär«. Auf Basis zahlreicher Zeitzeugengespräche und umfangreicher Hintergrundrecherchen schildert Gehring die Debatten etwa um Organtransplantation und Hirntoddefinition, um »R...
