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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...
Massekhet Betsah
This book is a feminist commentary on Tractate Betsah, which deals with the laws specific to festivals. Tamara Or reveals surprising insights into the role of women in the development of halakhah. Thus, the commentary shows women's oppression as well as their actual power and influence even on halakhic decisions. The power women possess in this tractate can be explained as emanating from the fact that most of it is based on labors usually performed by women. In nearly all the cases where the rabbis discuss the sphere of action of women, the latter's behavior was considered halakhically correct or at least not in need of change. The power and influence gained by women through their various activities and endeavors were passed over in silence and thus hidden from the view of their descendants. The following commentary will strive to put these women back into Jewish history and into the history of the development of halakhah.
Ringleaders of Redemption
In popular thought, Christianity is often figured as being opposed to dance. Throughout the medieval era, the Latin Church denounced and prohibited dancing, often aligning it with demonic intervention, lust, pride, and sacrilege. However, Ringleaders of Redemption reveals how the historical sources - including biblical commentaries, sermons, saints' lives, ecclesiastical statutes, mystical treatises, vernacular literature, and iconography from France, Italy, Germany, England, Spain, and beyond - tell a different story. During the High and Late Middle Ages, Western theologians, liturgists, and mystics not only tolerated dance; they transformed it into a dynamic component of religious thought and practice.
Political Demonology
“The structural core problem of the Gnostic dualism between the god of creation and the god of redemption governs not only every religion of salvation and redemption. It is immanently given in every world in need of change and renewal, inescapably and ineradicably. The lord of a world in need of change, that is, a misconceived world and the liberator, the creator of a transformed, new world cannot be good friends. They are, so to speak, enemies by definition.” Whether Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin, or Erich Auerbach and Hans Blumenberg, Ernst Bloch and Jacob Taubes, or Carl Schmitt (cited above)—all of them have been more or less fascinated or awed by the dualistic theology of St. Paul’s disciple Marcion, and have as prominently and as differently referred to him. Already Adolf von Harnack, author of the Marcion monograph that even today sets the standard, was aware of the timeliness of his research object, in view of a modern Marcionism, right after the First World War.
Rage in the Belly
How is rage related to hunger? Hunger is a liminal experience, connected to powerlessness, shame, and violence. Hunger does not issue into speech. It cannot therefore be easily found in the biblical texts, written by (and about) people who knew hunger. It hides behind the words in these texts. Rage, conversely, finds expression; and in the texts, it can alert readers to hidden experiences of hunger. But rage is not just a response to the lack of food. It is also a transformative force, reaching towards a justice that is not yet real. The experience of hunger and the fear of famine often go hand in hand with anger--a rage that can bring whole populations to their feet. Luzia Sutter Rehmann develops a biblical hermeneutic that centers on the "fire" in the belly of the hungry, their rage that leads to protests and uprisings. Her reading shows "the poor" or "the many" as those with whom Jesus cooperates and as subjects acting on their own initiative. The book also highlights key socio-historical information on the food situation of ancient Rome and Palestine: on poverty, political dependence and unrest, droughts, and famines.
Protestant Empires
Through its wide geographical and chronological scope, Protestant Empires advances a novel perspective on the nature and impact of the Protestant Reformations.
The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation
During the Reformation of the sixteenth century, the role of the Bible in both Protestant and Roman Catholic branches of western Christianity was vital and complex. Drawing on new technologies such as movable type, this period saw extraordinary energy and enterprise put into the translation, interpretation, and publication of Christianity's sacred text. As a result, an increasingly broad section of the population, from scholars and clergy to laity and children, came to be involved in the reception of the Bible and its position in early modern religious expression. The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation provides readers with a deeper understanding of the expansive history of the...
Theater als Gottesdienst
Theater und Gottesdienst bildeten in der Antike eine Einheit. Im Laufe der Geschichte des Christentums zerbrach diese Einheit. Es kam immer wieder zu Spannungen und Ausgrenzungen. Dennoch, die Verbindungen zwischen beiden Formen der Kultur sind aber nie ganz abgerissen. Ihre wechselvolle Beziehungsgeschichte in den letzten 150 Jahren wird aufgezeigt , aktuelle Beispiele werden beschrieben und Wege gezeigt, wie der Gottesdienst, als Theater verstanden, eine Chance für die Zukunft hat. Beide verbindet das gleiche Anliegen: Sichtbarmachen des Unsichtbaren und Vermittlung einer Welt, die in der Realität verborgen ist. Denn auch das Theater ist ohne seine religiösen Wurzeln nicht wirklich zu verstehen. Theater und Liturgie tun gut daran, wieder zueinander zu finden, nicht nur in der Theorie, sondern auch im Vollzug.
Moral und Ethik in Kinderbibeln
"Vom 8. bis 10. September fand an der Theologischen Fakult'at der Universit'at Z'urich unter dem Thema "Moral und Ethik in Kinderbibeln" das 6. Internationale Forschungskolloquium 'Kinderbibel' in Z'urich statt"--P. [7].
Kosmischer Tanz
Tanz ist ein urmenschliches Phänomen. Der kosmische Tanz bewegt uns Menschen vom Ursprung zum Urgrund und ist Dreh- und Angelpunkt dieses Eranos-Bandes. Die Dynamik des Universums durchdringt die geheimnisvolle Lebendigkeit der Welt. Namhafte Wissenschaftler und ausgewählte Fachleute umkreisen (außer)gewöhnliche Ausdrucksformen allgegenwärtiger Transzendenz und lassen den Leser an diesem interdisziplinären Dialog teilhaben. Den Reigen eröffnet der indische Gott des Tanzes, der Erscheinungen und der Transformation, Shiva, der alles verwandelt und alles in Bewegung bringt. Shiva in uns vereint die Polaritäten männlich–weiblich, Licht und Schatten. Diesem Zwischenraum von Licht und S...
