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On the basis of Martin Luther's theologia crucis in the Heidelberg Disputation (1518), the Lutheran concept of law in the 20th Century is examined. Luther's distinction of religious and civil dimension of law with its religious restriction to a convicting function regarding the sin is received in the Luther-Renaissance of the 1920 and 1930s. The sample of Emanuel Hirsch (1888–1972) gives insight into the deeply ambivalent character of the Lutheran concept of law before World War II which combined a profound theory of Christian subjectivity with a theory of state promoting German nationalism in opposition to western democracy. The moderate theology of Wolfgang Trillhaas (1903–1995) reflecting the experience of the Nazi-Regime de-potentializes the Lutheran prejudice against the law in order to achieve new democratic perspectives on the notion of law in dogmatics and ethics. Thus, an affirmative position is established despite a remaining ambivalence in contemporary Lutheran Protestantism.

When writing about politically and culturally sensitive topics, term use is of great relevance. Sá ; mi religion is a case in point. Words organise and create the world around us, and labels have direct consequences on how religious phenomena are perceived. Even labelling a phenomenon or an action &ldquo ; religious&rdquo ; carries certain baggage. Term use is, of course, easier when writing about historical materials and describing rituals whose practitioners have been dead for centuries. Nonetheless, contemporary practitioners of age-old rituals or people who use ancient symbols in their everyday lives often see themselves as carriers of old tradition and wish to identify with previous generations regardless of opinions that might deem their actions as &ldquo ; re-enacting&rdquo ; &ldquo ; neoshamanism&rdquo ; or &ldquo ; neopaganism&rdquo ; . If, for example, outsider academics wish to deem modern-day Indigenous persons as &ldquo ; neo&rdquo ; -something, issues of power and essentialism blend in with the discourse. This paper critically explores terms used around the Sá ; mi religion in different time periods and attempts to come to suggestions that could solve some of the terminological problems a student of modern practitioners of indigenous religions inevitably faces.

This unique encyclopedia explores the historical and contemporary controversies between science and religion. It is designed to offer multicultural and multi-religious views, and provide wide-ranging perspectives. ""Science, Religion, and Society"" covers all aspects of the religion and science dichotomy, from humanities to social sciences to natural sciences, and includes articles by theologians, religion scholars, physicians, scientists, historians, and psychologists, among others. The first section, General Overviews, contains essays that provide a road map for exploring the major challenge

"Der Artikel geht der Frage nach, wie Geschlecht und Religion/ Säkularität im Diskurs um den EU-Beitritt der Türkei in französischen und österreichischen Printmedien verknüpft sind und fokussiert auf die Ergebnisse einer vergleichenden empirischen Untersuchung des Mediendiskurses in Österreich und Frankreich. In den Blick genommen werden spezifische Darstellungen des Anderen und des Eigenen, die geschlechtsspezifisch und religiös konnotiert sind. Dabei zeichnen sich sowohl kontrastierende nationale Narrative als auch länderübergreifende Topoi ab: In Frankreich sind die untersuchten Darstellungsweisen der Türkei und die Beitrittsdebatten etwa an universalistische Vorstellungen einer mission civilisatrice gekoppelt, in Österreich hingegen kommen diverse Bedrohungsszenarien zum Tragen, in denen historische Konfliktlinien reaktiviert werden. Als länderübergreifende Strategien der Alteritätskonstruktion kristallisieren sich orientalistische Momente heraus, als deren Aufhänger etwa der Topos von Sein und Schein und der Topos der Öffnung der Türkei dienen." (Autorenreferat)