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?Hat religiöse Bildung in der heutigen säkularen, postmodernen Gesellschaft noch einen Sinn und eine positive Wirkung? In diesem Buch berichten Forscherinnen und Forscher aus Soziologie, Psychologie und Religionspädagogik über eine breit angelegte empirische Studie zur religiösen Bildung am Beispiel der Erstkommunionkatechese. Was lernen die Kinder bei Vorbereitung und Durchführung? Wie schätzen sie selbst, ihre Eltern und die Verantwortlichen die Wirkung dieses Lernprozesses ein? Ändern sich ihre Werte und Einstellungen zu Gesellschaft, Kirche, Religion, ihre Beziehung zu anderen Menscehn und zu Gott? Die überraschenden Ergebnisse bieten Gelegenheit zu Diskussion und Weiterentwicklung von Konzepten der Erstkommunionkatechese und damit zur Qualität und Bedeutung religiöser Bildung in Kindheit und Jugendzeit. Forschungsgruppe 'Religion und Gesellschaft', Universitäten Bonn, Dortmund, Frankfurt/St. Georgen, Heidelberg, Tübingen.

"This collection analyses relationships between religious and consumption practices and cultures, and their diverse responses to ecological crisis, ranging from indifference to engagement. The book includes contributions on Japan, Israel, Iran, Slovakia and Britain"--

The article outlines a framework for the analysis of religion and foreign policy. Despite the increased attention to religion in international relations, questions remain. Particularly controversial, yet relatively unexplored, is the role of religion in the foreign policies of states. We extrapolate from theories in the fields of international relations and comparative politics to explore religion's potential avenues of influence on foreign policy. There are potential tools of analysis in these fields, which can be fruitfully extended and applied to understand the role of religion in foreign policy. We propose a framework within which various causal pathways and mechanisms can be situated. We also show how contributions from the field of religion and politics might be used to frame theories and specify further hypotheses about religion and foreign policy. After identifying the main threads of these lines of research, we discuss how to apply them to the question of the role of religion in foreign policy and set out a new research agenda. We conclude that the potential of these theoretical approaches to the analysis of religion has not yet been exploited. Adapted from the source document.

Mandarin wine in Western wineskins: terminological problems -- A pre-history: black magic and Messianism in early political and -- Legal discourse -- Landscape of late imperial religious life -- Black magic in the heresy construct -- Messianism in the heresy construct -- Victims of the heresy construct -- Heresy in the modern era: transmission and transformation

In early twenty-first-century China, online fantasy is one of the most popular literary genres. This article studies a subgenre of Chinese fantasy named xiuzhen (immortality cultivation), which draws on Daoist alchemy in particular and Chinese religion and culture in general, especially that which was negatively labelled superstitious in the twentieth century, to tell exciting adventure stories. Xiuzhen fantasy is indebted to wuxia xiaoshuo (martial arts novels), the first emergence of Chinese fantasy in the early twentieth century after the translation of the modern Western discourses of science, religion, and superstition. Although martial arts fiction was suppressed by the modernizing nation-state because it contained the unwanted elements of magic and supernaturalism, its reemergence in the late twentieth century paved the way for the rise of its successor, xiuzhen fantasy. As a type of magical arts fiction, xiuzhen reinvents Daoist alchemy and other superstitious practices to build a cultivation world which does not escape but engages with the dazzling reality of digital technology, neoliberal governance, and global capitalism. In this fantastic world, the divide of magic and science breaks down; religion, defined not by faith but embodied practice, serves as the organizing center of society, economy, and politics. Moreover, the subject of martial arts fiction that challenged the sovereignty of the nation-state has evolved into the neoliberal homo economicus and its non-/anti-capitalist alternatives. Reading four exemplary xiuzhen novels, Journeys into the Ephemeral (Piaomiao zhilv ), The Buddha Belongs to the Dao ( Foben shidao ), Spirit Roaming ( Shenyou ), and Immortality Cultivation 40K ( Xiuzhen siwannian ), this article argues that xiuzhen fantasy provides a platform on which the postsocialist generation seek to orient themselves in the labyrinth of contemporary capitalism by rethinking the modernist triad of religion, science, and superstition. ; Published version

The Persian period has long been recognized as the time when much of the biblical material was produced or finally edited. An analysis of events and religious perspectives in Persian period Judah will help contribute to a developmental context for Western religious thought. Certain methodological biases and ideological presuppositions have, to a large extent, conditioned this type of research resulting in an anachronistic interpretation of the past. My project is to analyze archaeological and textual studies to support the following outline. After Judah's defeat in 586 BCE by the Babylonians, members of the ruling and priestly classes were deported to Babylon. Lacking connection to the land of Judah and unable to continue the traditional cultic Yahwism, the exiles developed different theological perspectives. With the Persian takeover of Babylon in 539 BCE, those exiles who returned to Judah found their religious beliefs to be different than those who had remained behind in Judah. These people, the "people of the land," had continued cultic worship in traditional ways while the returnees had narrowed and purified types of ritual acceptable in the worship of Yahweh during the exile. Ezra and Nehemiah were leaders of the returning group, the golah, whose desired religious reforms changed these traditional types of worship and led to the formation of a temple-centered urban society. As the returnees began to thrive with the assistance of the Persian throne and Persian foreign policy, political and economic conflict developed in addition to religious tension. In this centralization and consolidation of the temple's power, Persian political and economic interests met the political and religious interests of the golah group. Within the overall ideological and social struggle therefore, the returnees were able to secure a monopoly on both the building and use of the temple and thus gained enough control to insure that their theology would become normative Judaean religion as preserved in and imposed on the biblical ...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Heinrich Meier's Straussian Refutation of Revelation -- 2. Political Philosophy after the Collapse of Classical, Epistemic Foundationalism -- 3 Eros and Agape Revisited: Reconciling Classical Eudaemonism with Christian Love? -- 4. The Strange Second Life of Confessional States -- 5. Defending the Personal Logos Today -- 6. Pierre Manent: Between Nature and History -- 7. Catholicism and the Constitution -- 8. Beholden to Revelation? Scripture's Role as Public Knowledge and Moral Authority -- 9. Fides, Ratio et Juris: How Some Courts and Some Legal Theorists Misrepresent the Rational Status of Religious Beliefs -- 10. Richard Rorty's Secular Gods and Unphilosophic Philosophers Luigi Bradizza -- 11. Converting Secularism -- Contributor Biographies -- Index