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This is a one-of-kind volume bringing together leading scholars in the economics of religion for the first time. The treatment of topics is interdisciplinary, comparative, as well as global in nature. Scholars apply the economics of religion approach to contemporary issues such as immigrants in the United States and ask historical questions such as why did Judaism as a religion promote investment in education? The economics of religion applies economic concepts (for example, supply and demand) and models of the market to the study of religion. Advocates of the economics of religion approach look at ways in which the religion market influences individual choices as well as institutional development. For example, economists would argue that when a large denomination declines, the religion is not supplying the right kind of religious good that appeals to the faithful. Like firms, religions compete and supply goods. The economics of religion approach using rational choice theory, assumes that all human beings, regardless of their cultural context, their socio-economic situation, act rationally to further his/her ends. The wide-ranging topics show the depth and breadth of the approach to the study of religion.

Zum 200. Geburtstag des Mitbegründers des deutschen Baptismus, Julius Köbner, wurde diese Festschrift von 22 freikirchlichen Autorinnen und Autoren verfasst. Zentrales Thema aller Beiträge ist die "Religionsfreiheit". Immerhin war sie auch das Thema des berühmten kleinen Manifests von Julius Köbner aus dem Jahre 1848, das in diesem Buch mit abgedruckt wurde. Das Buch zeichnet Leben und Werk Köbners nach und unterstreicht in zahlreichen Beiträgen die Bedeutung der Religionsfreiheit in unserem Land heute und weltweit. Ein erfrischendes Buch über eine wenig beachtete Seite des deutschen Baptismus.

Village, Religion, Nation. About the Changes of Imagined Communities in the Balkan Area In the former European territories of the Ottoman Empire, community-building was based on local and regional contexts (village or tribe) on one side, and religious affiliations within the millet-system on the other. As part of the process of nationbuilding, these communities were disbanded from the 19th century on. The affiliation to religious communities was nationalised and ethnicised – with the following result: Even the Orthodox church broke up into competing national Churches. At the same time, the newly emerging nation-states integrated the village communities in their administrative and judicial systems as local unities. Simultaneously, competing concepts of nation developed by combining or excluding «objective» characteristics like race, language or religion in different ways. Thus, starting in the 19th century the Balkans became an experimentation field for different types of national communitarisation models.