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The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress
What happens when the idea of religious progress propels the shaping of modernity? In The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress. Missionizing Europe 1900 – 1965 Gerdien Jonker offers an account of the mission the Ahmadiyya reform movement undertook in interwar Europe. Nowadays persecuted in the Muslim world, Ahmadis appear here as the vanguard of a modern, rational Islam that met with a considerable interest. Ahmadiyya mission on the European continent attracted European ‘moderns’, among them Jews and Christians, theosophists and agnostics, artists and academics, liberals and Nazis. Each in their own manner, all these people strove towards modernity, and were convinced that Islam helped realizing it. Based on a wide array of sources, this book unravels the multiple layers of entanglement that arose once the missionaries and their quarry met. This title is available in its entirety in Open Access.
Cultural Memory and Early Civilization
Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity and culture. It investigates how cultures remember, arguing that human memory exists and is communicated in two ways, namely inter-human interaction and in external systems of notation, such as writing, which can span generations. Dr Assmann defines two theoretical concepts of cultural memory, differentiating between the long-term memory of societies, which can span up to 3,000 years, and communicative memory, which is typically restricted to 80 to 100 years. He applies this theoretical framework to case studies of four specific cultures, illustrating the function contexts and specific achievements, including the state, international law, religion and science. Ultimately, his research demonstrates that memory is not simply a means of retaining information, but rather a force that can shape cultural identity and allow cultures to respond creatively to both daily challenges and catastrophic changes.
Brinkman's catalogus van boeken en tijdschriften
With 1901/1910-1956/1960 Repertoium is bound: Brinkman's Titel-catalohus van de gedurende 1901/1910-1956/1960 (Title varies slightly).
Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800–1945
Religion as a form of cultural expression constitutes a critical element in the relationship between Germany and India. The discovery of Indian traditions in Germany and re-interpretations of those traditions in India fueled not only new theological and philosophical explorations, but also extensive innovations in the fields of music, dance, bodily experience, and political intervention. Seeking to uncover the enfolding of colonial thought structures through presentations of the Self, while placing them in the context of global colonial value chains that connected the peripheries with the centre, this interdisciplinary volume addresses India through the lens of an entangled relationship. Ado...
Die Wahrnehmung des Anderen in der arabischen Welt und in Deutschland
Die Wahrnehmung des Anderen ist Quelle für Images und Feindbilder anderer Kulturen wie auch für Konstruktionen der eigenen kulturellen Identität. Die zwölf Beiträge dieses Bandes beleuchten das oft stereotypisierende, exotisierende, verzerrende Bild von Muslimen in deutschen Medien und Schulbüchern, das Bild des religiös Anderen in Islam, Christentum und Bahai-Glauben, aber auch den Blick arabischer Literatur auf die europäische Kultur und Gesellschaft sowie Entwürfe eines interkulturellen Dialogs bei Lessing, Montesquieu und Goethe im Sinne einer Heterotopie (Foucault).
Unheimlich moederland
Bijna elke zichzelf respecterende Zuid-Afrikaanse schrijver schreef in de laatste decennia voorafgaand aan de politieke omwenteling van 1994 een farm novel of plaasroman: een verhaal dat zich afspeelde op een Zuid-Afrikaans landgoed. Vaak waren die verhalen wat morbide van aard: vol wandelende doden of wrekende natuurkrachten. Ook in de decennia die voorafgingen aan het bijna 50-jarig bewind van de Nationale Partij werden er boerderijromans geschreven. Gitte Postel onderzocht hoe veranderingen in sociaal-economische verhoudingen, landrechten en culturele identiteit hun beslag kregen op boerderijen en in boerderijromans. Ze laat zien hoe verborgen of verdrongen facetten van de werkelijkheid literair verbeeld werden door de dood en het Unheimliche - datgene wat binnen het eigen domein vreemd of ongrijpbaar is, en daarom angstaanjagend.
End of Days
Covering religious traditions ranging from Buddhism to Christianity to Zoroastrianism and modern apocalyptic movements such as Arun Shinrikyo and the Branch Davidians, this book addresses prophesied end of days from a breadth of perspectives and includes material on often-neglected themes and genres. End of Days: An Encyclopedia of the Apocalypse in World Religions describes apocalyptic writings in the world's major religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. The cross-referenced entries address ancient traditions—Zoroastrianism, as one example—as well as modern apocalyptic movements, such as Arun Shinrikyo, the Branch Davidians, and the Order of...
Alevi Hafızasını Tanımlamak: Geçmiş ve Tarih Aslında
Adem, Havva ve Şit’le başlayan insanlık macerasının Hazreti Muhammed’e kadar uzanan öyküsü, onun yeni dini ilan etmesiyle birlikte yaşanan sorunlar, her şeyden önce amcasının oğlu Ali ile olan ilişkileri, Kerbela olayı... Erdal Gezik, çocukluk günlerinden itibaren dinlediği; tarihsel verilerin, efsanelerin, mitos ve söylencelerin birbirine karıştığı “büyüklerin” sohbetlerini yıllar sonra anlamlandırma çabası içine giriyor. Bir yandan incelikli bir sözlü tarih çalışması yürütürken bir yandan da temel bir sorunun peşine düşüyor: “Birkaçı dışında ellerinde kitap görmediğim bu yaşlı insanlar geçmişe dair bilgilerini nereden almı...
Unheilsmächte und Schutzgenien, Antiwesen und Grenzgänger
Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit ist der forschungsgeschichtliche Befund, dass unter dem Begriff »Dämon« eine Vielfalt von Phänomenen verstanden wird. Der Gebrauch dieses Sammelbegriffs ohne semitisches Äquivalent suggeriert eine Einheitlichkeit der Quellen (Bilder und Texte), die sich bei näherer Betrachtung nicht bestätigt. Werden in Studien zur Ikonographie (bedrohliche) Mischwesen als »Dämonen« bezeichnet, so sind es in den Texten Krankheiten ebenso wie depotenzierte Götter oder Wesen, die die Peripherie der Zivilisation bevölkern, aus der Umwelt Israels übernommene Gestalten wie Lilit und A_modai oder Grenzgänger und Mittlergestalten wie die Figur des Satans. Die vorl...
