Sufitum und Theologie bei Ahmad Ibn 'AGiba (Sapientia Islamica, #2)
by Florian A.G. Lutzen
Florian A.G. Lutzen untersucht in dieser Studie den Religionsbegriff ( din) bei Ahmad Ibn 'AGiba (gest. 1224/1809), seine Synthese von Sufitum und Theologie. Den Religionsbegriff beschreibt er insbesondere anhand der im "Gabriel-Hadith" dargestellten Ebenen: islam, iman und ihsan - Hingabe, Glaube und Vervollkommnung. Dieses Stufengebilde, von vielen Gelehrten in der spaten Phase der Islamischen Theologie (etwa 1400-1800) fur fundamental erachtet, eignet sich zum einen dazu, die Religion aus der...
Being 'in Christ' in the Letters of Paul (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, #449)
by Teresa Morgan
In this study, Teresa Morgan offers a radically new interpretation of 'in Christ'and related expressions in the undisputed letters of Paul. Starting from a reassessment of Deissmann's Die neutestamentliche Formel "in Christo Jesu", she argues that Deissmann's philology is flawed, the Schweitzerian concept of 'participation in Christ' which is indebted to it is problematic, and many contemporary accounts of participation are better understood in other terms. Through close readings of each letter,...
Alexandria (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament)
Alexandria was one of the main hubs of the Hellenistic world and a cultural and religious "kaleidoscope." Merchants and migrants, scientists and scholars, philosophers, and religious innovators from all over the world and from all social backgrounds came to this ancient metropolis and exchanged their goods, views, and dreams. Accordingly, Alexandria became a place where Hellenistic, Egyptian, Jewish, and early Christian identities all emerged, coexisted, influenced, and rivaled each other. In or...
Parvati ou l'amour extreme (Contes Et Legendes de l'Inde, #4)
by Christine Devin
Die in diesem Band versammelten Studien Hans-Josef Klaucks zum johanneischen Schrifttum im weiteren Sinn beginnen mit einem Originalbeitrag, der den Abschnitt "Von Kana nach Kana" in Joh 2-4 als erste Missionsreise Jesu interpretiert, metaphorisch gestaltet als Hochzeitsreise, mit der Grundung der Familie Gottes als Ziel. UEberlegungen des Autors zur eschatologischen Bildersprache und zu alttestamentlichen Zitaten schliessen sich an. Die antike Rhetorik und das Thema "Liebe" kommen bei den Johan...
In this volume, the author challenges a number of widely held cultural stereotypes about India. Caste is not as old as Indian civilization itself, and current changes are no more radical than in the past, for caste has evolved throughout its history. It is not a colonial invention, nor does it result from weak state control. There is no single form of Indian kingship, and power relations, fundamental as they are for understanding Indian society. Nor do Indian villages conform to a single type, a...
The historical shift from Vedic traditions to post-Vedic bhakti (devotional) traditions is accompanied by a shift from abstract, translocal notions of divinity to particularized, localized notions of divinity and a corresponding shift from aniconic to iconic traditions and from temporary sacrificial arenas to established temple sites. In Bhakti and Embodiment Barbara Holdrege argues that the various transformations that characterize this historical shift are a direct consequence of newly emergin...
Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint
The Hebrew Bible has played an important part in the development of Western culture. However, its central ideas - such as monotheism, the demythologization of nature or the linearity of time - had to be taken out of the national and linguistic milieu in which they had developed if they were to to become fertile on a wider scale. They also needed to be rendered palatable to a mentality that had experienced the scientific, rationalist revolution prepared by the Greeks. The Septuagint - the oldest...
Nama-Ramayanam Legacy Book - Endowment of Devotion (Legacy Book - Endowment of Devotion)
Hanuman Chalisa Legacy Book - Endowment of Devotion (Legacy Book - Endowment of Devotion)
Routledge Revivals: The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita (1906) (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1909, this book presents an English translation of chapters 25-42 of the Bhishma Parva from the epic Sanskrit poem Mahabharata — better known as the Bhagavad-Gita, reckoned as one of the "Five Jewels" of Devanagari literature. The plot consists of a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and Krishna, the Supreme Deity, in a war-chariot prior to a great battle. The conversation that takes place unfolds a philosophical system which remains the prevailing Brahmanic belief, blending the d...
Devotion is a category of expression in many of the world's religious traditions. This book looks at issues involved in academically interpreting religious devotion, as well as exploring the interpretations of religious devotion made by a sixth century poet, a twelfth century biographer, and present-day festival publics. The book focuses on the female poet-saint Karaikkal Ammaiyar, whose poetry is devotional in nature. It discusses the biography written on the poet six centuries after her life...
Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Reformation and the liberal idea of the self-governing individual that arose from it. In Spiritual Despots, J. Barton Scott reveals an unexamined piece of this story: how Protestant technologies of asceticism became entangled with Hindu spiritual practices to create an ideal of the "self-ruling subject" crucial to both nineteenth-century reform culture and early twentieth-century anticolonialism in India. Scott uses the quaint term "p...
Colonizing the Realm of Words (SUNY series in Hindu Studies)
by Sascha Ebeling