Colleagues and friends have compiled this volume to honor Hans G. Kippenberg and engage in a critical and creative dialogue with his ideas. The 32 essays in German and English language are concerned with issues that have been part of Hans G. Kippenberg's work in recent years: Hi…
Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe together have spent the better part of a century exploring possibilities for a scientific study of religion. The following essays are a record of their conversations together and of their conversations and controversies with a number of leading …
Welche Rolle nehmen Religionsgemeinschaften und ihre (religiösen) Überzeugungen in der Öffentlichkeit der spätmodernen, liberalen Gesellschaft ein?Die Beiträge des Bandes beleuchten das weit verzweigte Geflecht von Religion, Öffentlichkeit und Moderne aus den Perspektiven von Th…
Religionskritik interdisziplinär
Main description: This volume examines the specific role of horoscopic astrology in Western culture from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Focusing on the public appearance of astrological rhetoric, the essays break new ground for a better understanding of the function of hor…