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From 1933, the inner Protestant 'German Christians Church Movement' from Thuringia took control over some Protestant regional churches in Germany. For the German Christians the main motives of their agitation were the creation of a 'volkisch' belief system based on race, Christianity and 'dejudaization' (of Christianity). <br /> Based on the theoretical considerations of spaces, boundaries and exclusion, the article uses the example of the German Christians to show under which conditions individuals are denied entry into an imaginary religious space. 'Exclusivist border crossings,' as this phenomena is named here on the theoretical perspective, can explain how religious arguments exclude people from entering a religious space such as salvation when the access criteria are linked to birth-related conditions.
In Berlin two rabbinical seminaries, a Reform and a Conservative, have recently been established. The historical and intellectual roots of these institutions in the nineteenth century is sketched, and then contrasted with the present curriculum and the religious profile of the students. Some theological questions for the future of these projects conclude the article.
This book brings together case studies dealing with historical as well as recent phenomena in former socialist nations, which testify the transfer of knowledge about religion and atheism. The material is connected on a semantic level by the presence of a historical watershed before and after socialism as well as on a theoretical level by the sociology of knowledge. With its focus on Central and Eastern Europe this volume is an important contribution to the research on nonreligion and secularity.
The collected volume deals with agents and media within specific cultural and historical contexts. Theoretical claims and conceptions by single agents and/or institutions in which the imparting of knowledge about religion and atheism was or is a central assignment, are analyzed. Additionally, procedures of transmitting knowledge about religion and atheism and of sustaining related institutionalized norms, interpretations, roles and practices are in the focus of interest.
The book opens the perspective for the multidimensional and negotiating character of legitimation processes, being involved in the establishment or questioning of the institutionalized opposition between religion and atheism or religion and science.
The will of the masses
(2020)
This article describes the way of Conrado Balweg from the Tingguian-tribe in the Cordillera mountains/Philippines, who was educated in Catholic seminaries, entered a missionary congregation, was ordained priest and joined the communist insurgency New People’s Army. There he quickly attained the rank of a political officer and military commander. Balweg held teachings on Marxism in remote villages, he organized several ambushes on government troops and conducted people’s courts against traitors. Over time he developed a special indigenous Maoism and broke away from the party-line and, which was the reason why he was killed by the NPA in 1999. In a contextualized biographical portrait we track the question: How did Maoist thought become part of Balweg’s conviction? As a hypothesis we assumed, that Maoist thought was integrated in Catholic tenets (e.g. interpreting God’s will as the will of the masses). After a close analysis of intellectual backgrounds and political events it turned out, that Maoist ideology superseded religious motives instead. This is crucial to understand if violence was justified in the name of God or in the name of the people.
Die Ordnung der Religionen
(2020)
Der römische Adlige und Humanist Pietro Della Valle bereist von 1614 bis 1626 das Osmanische Reich, Persien und Indien. In einer Zeit des Umbruchs sucht er nach neuen Allianzen für Rom: Gegen die Reformatoren will er die Einheit mit den orientalischen Christen wiederherstellen. Gegen die Osmanen sucht er ein Bündnis mit dem schiitischen Schah Abbas I. zu schließen. Sein Reisebericht, die „Viaggi“ (3 Teile, 1650-63), dokumentiert seine Ambitionen und enthält umfangreiche Erläuterungen zu vielen Religionen Asiens, die damals wie heute im Zentrum des Interesses stehen.
In der Form einer Begriffs- und Ideengeschichte untersuche ich in den „Viaggi“, welche Rolle Religion in den damaligen Auseinandersetzungen spielt und wie sich Della Valle mit der großen religiösen Vielfalt Asiens auseinandersetzt. Welche Hoffnungen und Befürchtungen verbindet er mit den verschiedenen Religionen? Welche Strategien verfolgt er in Bezug auf sie? Wo zieht er Grenzen und wo baut er Brücken?
Normen
(2020)