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Analyses based on sociology, cultural anthropology, and the study of religion as well as interpretations of the situation in colonial and postcolonial Africa point out emphatically the growing tendency of confronting the world view, economics, and human ecological makeup of modernity with more or less occult magical practices. Description of urban development in Leopoldville/Kinshasa, the Congo/Zaïre respectively allows no exception to this. Analysts sensitized by pastoral sociology show anxiety over this "return to Kindoki magic" in the West African metropolis. Since these phenomena of urbanization—characterized more and more under the sociological categories "social pathology" or "structural anomie"—have recently received specific forms of expression in the capital of Zaire which are typical for Black Africa, the following should first briefly describe a few modern aspects of these developments in terms of traditional lifestyle interpretations. In the second part, one of the many possible forms of therapy should be presented which—and this is our working hypothesis—opens past encoding models useful in the current search for methods of resolving conflict: the African Negro palaver system.

Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity, published by Peter Lang since 1975, is nowadays the largest series in the wide field of missiology, intercultural theology, and comparative religion/theology. The present editors decided to celebrate the publication of no less than one hundred and fifty volumes by evaluating and rethinking "intercultural theology". This book is meant to encourage Christian theology to be done more thoroughly, adequately, and effectively in the contemporary global and local setting. On the one hand, the volume offers new insights into the nature of doing biblical studies, church history, and systematic and practical theology as well as comparative theology, in an intercultural way. On the other hand, it argues for accomplishing interdisciplinary studies in the fields of theology and religion.

Am 20. Dezember 2012 feierte Richard Friedli seinen 75. Geburtstag. Mit dieser Festschrift sollen seine akademische Karriere sowie seine Person gebührend geehrt werden. Die Beiträge befassen sich aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven mit den zentralen Themen sowohl seiner wissenschaftlichen Karriere als auch seiner Lehrtätigkeit: dem religiösen Faktor in der Friedensforschung, der Rolle der Religionen in den gegenwärtigen Gesellschaften sowie der Begegnung und dem Austausch der Kulturen. Die Beiträge durchzieht das von Richard Friedli immer wieder artikulierte Spannungsfeld von 'global' und 'lokal' sowie die Frage nach der sozialen Anwendung religionswissenschaftlichen Wissens.