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Religious Knowledge and Positioning
What should one know in order to position oneself vis-à-vis other religions and confessions? What is religious knowledge and how should it be taught? This volume sheds light on educational media in Judaism and Christianity such as catechisms, children’s bibles, and sermons as well as Jewish and Protestant teacher training in 19th-century Germany and explores the methodological potentials of educational media as a source for (inter-)religious history. It reflects on broader processes of knowledge production and the impact of science and scholarship on religious edu-cation and knowledge production within Christian and Jewish contexts. The volume draws on an interdisciplinary conference that...
Kaiser, Christ, and Canaan
Back cover: What did biblical scholars, theologians, orientalists, philologists, and ancient historians of the 19th century consider "religion" and "history" to be? How did they understand these conceptual categories, and why did they study them in the manner they did? Analyzing the figures of Julius Wellhausen and Hermann Gunkel, Paul Michael Kurtz examines the historiography of ancient Israel in the German Empire through the prism of religion, as a structuring framework not only for writings on the past but also for the writers of that past themselves.
The Transnational in the History of Education
This edited volume reflects on how the “transnational” features in education as well as policies and practices are conceived of as mobile and connected beyond the local. Like “globalization,” the “transnational” is much more than a static reality of the modern world; it has become a mode of observation and self-reflection that informs education research, history, and policy in many world regions. This book examines the sociocultural project that the “transnational turn” evident in historical scholarship of the last few decades represents, and how a “transnational history” shapes how historians construct their objects of study. It does so from a multinational perspective, yet with a view of the different layers of historical meanings associated with the concept of the transnational.
Arts, Portraits and Representation in the Reformation Era
The role played by artistic, literary, historical and theological representations in the establishment of the European Reformation has attracted scholarly attention over the years. While they were generally regarded as a significant means of conveying the evangelical message, particularly in a society with a low average literacy rate, this scholarly consensus was then seriously challenged by objecting that their meaning must have remained opaque to those who couldn't read and interpret their sometimes multilayered imagery and their verbal and figurative messages. This volume, which publishes some of the papers delivered at the Fourth Reformation Research Consortium Conference held in Bologna...
Transatlantic Religion
Transatlantic Religion offers a historical reinterpretation of nineteenth-century American Christianity, one that emphasizes European connections. Its authors represent a diverse group of international scholars offering new insights based on a range of analytical approaches to previously unexamined archival sources.
Catholic Perspectives on Reform
The Catholic Church is under great pressure to change. The list of debated topics is long: women’s rights, same-sex partnerships, the involvement of the laity, etc. Michael Seewald makes it clear: the Church could be more flexible than it is currently. Discussions about reform move within a narrow dogmatic framework, but this is only one of many possibilities. Here Michael Seewald shows how it is possible for the Catholic Church to undergo fundamental reform while at the same time remaining itself.
Transnational Philanthropy
This book provides a collective biography of the Mond family and explores the philanthropic activities of Ludwig Mond and of his two sons Alfred and Robert in the field of art collecting, the fight against early childhood mortality, the advancement of research and of higher education, archaeological excavations in Egypt and Palestine, and for the founding of the State of Israel from the 1890s to the late 1930s. These activities resulted in the creation of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, the donation of Ludwig Mond’s art collection to the National Gallery in London, the funding of the excavation of the sacred Buchis Bulls at Armant in Egypt, the establishment of the Children’s Hospital in London, and the support of many natural science institutes and associations in England, France, Germany, and Italy.
Sisters Crossing Boundaries
The last third of the 19th century witnessed a considerable increase in the active participation of women in the various Christian missions. Katharina Stornig focusses onthe Catholic case, and particularly explores the activities and experiences of German missionary nuns, the so-called Servants of the Holy Spirit,in colonial Togo and New Guinea in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Introducing the nuns' ambiguous roles as travelers, evangelists, believers, domestic workers, farmers, teachers, and nurses, Stornig highlights the ways in which these women shaped and were shaped by the missionary encounter and how they affected colonial societies more generally. Privileging the ...
Architektur der Diplomatie
Grundlegende Entwicklungen in den internationalen Beziehungen des 19. Jahrhunderts – wie die Transformation des Staatensystems, der Wandel diplomatischer Praktiken und sich verschiebende Spielräume außenpolitischer Akteure – untersucht Jakob Hort in ganz neuer Weise anhand der Architektur und Baugeschichte von Botschaftsgebäuden. Errichtet in den Zentren anderer Staaten nahmen Botschaftsgebäude unter staatlichen Repräsentationsbauten eine singuläre Stellung ein. Ihre Architektur und Symbolik diente dem repräsentierten Staat zur Formulierung und Vermittlung eines spezifischen Geltungsanspruchs, der lokalen Bevölkerung als Projektionsfläche von Selbst- und Fremdbildern und anderen...
Exportgut Reformation
Erstmals europaweit werden Transferprozesse der Reformation über die »Grenzen« des deutschen Sprachraums in die Nachbarbevölkerungen dargestellt. Nach einem gesamteuropäischen Überblick behandeln die Einzelbeiträge international renommierter Forscher zunächst die Entwicklungen im 16. Jahrhundert in den Kontakträumen zu Nachbarn des deutschen Sprachgebiets. Dabei beschreibt der Band die Verhältnisse – ausgehend vom Ostseeraum – in einem über West-, Süd- und Osteuropa reichenden geographischen Rahmen. Der Sammelband zeichnet nach, welche Strategien und Maßnahmen politischer und theologischer Förderung in Kontaktzonen dazu führten, dass bei ethnisch und politisch differierend...
