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Landscapes of Resistance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 407

Landscapes of Resistance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-11-11
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  • Publisher: BRILL

On August 3, 2014, the Sinjar region of Northern Iraq was attacked by the “Islamic State”. Killing and abducting thousands, the jihadists also destroyed many of the religious minority’s shrines. Others, however, were defended by local fighters and groups affiliated with the PKK. In the aftermath of the genocide, stories of divine intervention into the defence bolstered land claims of serveral Kurdish political groups. Through extensive fieldwork in the region, I trace imaginaries of Sinjar as a landscape of resistance and a communal history of continuous persecution to current political disputes and attempts to construct a unified Yezidi identity.

Politics of Religion
  • Language: en

Politics of Religion

The relationship between religion and politics has been explored systematically since the very inception of modern social sciences. This volume tackles this classical topic anew. Its chapters offer fresh ethnographic empirical evidence, up-to-date analyses, as well as an original theoretical discussion on the entanglements between these two spheres. In particular, focus is drawn on three dimensions that characterise the politics of religion in the very different societal contexts explored in this book: those pertaining to religious authority, creativity, and conflicts, all within the globalised, interconnected world of the 21st century.

Heilige Schriften in der Kritik
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 709

Heilige Schriften in der Kritik

Wie steht es um die historische Bibelkritik innerhalb der Theologie und den Kirchen? Lässt sich empirisch erfassen und beschreiben, inwiefern sich historisch-kritische Zugänge zur Bibel in den religiösen und theologischen Vollzügen des Christentums niedergeschlagen haben? Welche religiösen Kulturen und Verhaltensweisen ergeben sich aus kritischen oder nichtkritischen Wahrnehmungen heiliger Schriften? Welche Chancen bieten sich einer historisch besser informierten religiösen und kirchlichen Praxis? Eröffnen sich Möglichkeiten einer integralen Berücksichtigung eines aufgeklärten Umgangs mit heiligen Schriften im Christentum, aber auch im Judentum und im Islam? Diesen und weiteren Fra...

Säfte und Kräfte
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 371

Säfte und Kräfte

Milch geben, Blut spenden, Blut saugen: Immer wieder kommen verschiedenste Körperflüssigkeiten in Mythen und anderen religiösen Erzählungen zum Vorschein. Metaphorisch können sie für allerlei Themen stehen, etwa für Subjektivität, für Fremdheit und Bewegtheit der Gefühle oder für das Auflösen starrer Ordnungen. Besonderes Augenmerk verdienen dabei die Mythen: Wenn die Erde in Gestalt einer Kuh alle Wesen durch ihre Milch ernährt, wenn der Sohn Gottes sein Blut in Form des Weines einer weltweiten Glaubensgemeinschaft spendet, aber auch wenn altgriechische Rächerinnen einem Helden das Blut aus dem Körper saugen, erhält die Welt in ihrer Unbegreiflichkeit neue Deutungen. Natur, Gesellschaft und Innenleben werden so sichtbar und greifbar. Immaterielles und Religiöses drückt sich in den wandelbaren Metaphern nicht nur aus, sondern transformiert und erschafft sich dabei selbst auch neu.

Same-sex Marriage and Religious Liberty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

Same-sex Marriage and Religious Liberty

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty explores the religious freedom implications of defining marriage to include same-sex couples. It represents the only comprehensive, scholarly appraisal to date of the church-state conflicts virtually certain to arise from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage. It explores two principal questions. First, exactly what kind of religious freedom conflicts are likely to emerge if society embraces same-sex marriage? A redefinition of marriage would impact a host of laws where marital status affects legal rights--in housing, employment, health-care, education, public accommodations, and property, in addition to family law. These laws, in turn, regulate a...

First Baptist Church of Bloomfield, N. J. (Organized Nov. 25th, 1851)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 110

First Baptist Church of Bloomfield, N. J. (Organized Nov. 25th, 1851)

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

First Baptist Church of Bloomfield, N.J. (organized Nov. 25th, 1851)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 130

First Baptist Church of Bloomfield, N.J. (organized Nov. 25th, 1851)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1876
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Scientific and Technical Mobilization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1264

Scientific and Technical Mobilization

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1944
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Landscapes of Resistance
  • Language: en

Landscapes of Resistance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-11-28
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In 2014, Yezidis were targeted by the "Islamic State". The Sinjar region has remained a contested landscape ever since: narratives around local shrines, put forward by different political groups, speak about resistance and divine intervention that ensured the Yezidis' survival.