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"The author focuses on one of the most fascinating texts of the 17th and 18th century China mission - the Tianxue benyi (The Original Meaning of the Heavenly Teachings) and the more elaborate Gujin jingtian jian (Mirror on the Worship of Heaven in Ancient Times and Nowadays), both written and compiled by the Jesuit Joachim Bouvet (1656-1730) with the assistance of Chinese converts. The two works were even translated into Latin in order to support the Jesuit position in the Chinese Rites Controversy in the Roman Curia. Through them, Bouvet presented the Jesuit missionary strategy of accommodation in a nutshell: He aimed at introducing Christianity in the terms of Chinese traditional culture. Thus, Bouvet's approach can be characterised as an early attempt at a contextualized theology which is meaningful even for contemporary discussions. The present study offers an introduction to Bouvet's thoughts and works and their respective historical and theological context, a transcription of the Latin texts - the Cœlestis Disciplinæ vera notitia and the De cultu cœlesti Sinarum veterum & modernorum - with an annotated German translation"--

"The author focuses on one of the most fascinating texts of the 17th and 18th century China mission - the Tianxue benyi (The Original Meaning of the Heavenly Teachings) and the more elaborate Gujin jingtian jian (Mirror on the Worship of Heaven in Ancient Times and Nowadays), both written and compiled by the Jesuit Joachim Bouvet (1656-1730) with the assistance of Chinese converts. The two works were even translated into Latin in order to support the Jesuit position in the Chinese Rites Controversy in the Roman Curia. Through them, Bouvet presented the Jesuit missionary strategy of accommodation in a nutshell: He aimed at introducing Christianity in the terms of Chinese traditional culture. Thus, Bouvet's approach can be characterised as an early attempt at a contextualized theology which is meaningful even for contemporary discussions. The present study offers an introduction to Bouvet's thoughts and works and their respective historical and theological context, a transcription of the Latin texts - the Cœlestis Disciplinæ vera notitia and the De cultu cœlesti Sinarum veterum & modernorum - with an annotated German translation"--

This book deals with the tension between a strategy of language maintenance (protecting and reinforcing the language where it is still spoken by community members) and a strategy of language revitalization (opening up access to the language to all interested people and encouraging new domains of its use). The case study presented concerns a grammar school in Upper Lusatia, which hosts the coexistence of a community of Upper Sorbian-speakers and a group of German native speakers who are learning Upper Sorbian at school. The tensions between these two groups studying at the same school are presented in this book against the background of various language strategies, practices and ideologies. The conflict of interests between the "traditional" community which perceives itself as the "guardians" of the minority language and its potential new speakers is played off on different levels by policy-makers and may be read through different levels of language policy and planning

Das Kloster Riddagshausen prägte durch seine herausragende Stellung als wirtschaftliches und geistliches Zentrum das Land Braunschweig nachhaltig. Das in Braunschweig gelegene Zisterzienserkloster Riddagshausen blickt auf eine bewegte Geschichte zurück. 1145 im Interessenbereich des welfischen Hauses und der sich entwickelnden Stadt Braunschweig gegründet, wurde das Kloster mehrfach zu einem Stützpunkt der Landesherren gegenüber der Stadt. Dabei kam es verschiedentlich zu militärischer Bedrohung, in konfessionellen Auseinandersetzungen wie 1492 wurde das Kloster sogar zeitweilig zerstört. Zugleich war es ein geistliches Zentrum der breiten Bevölkerung und übte Einfluss auf Klöster im Reich aus, beispielsweise als Mutterkloster von Marienrode und Wahlshausen an der Fulda. Wirtschaftlich war es durch seinen reichen Besitz sowie den Salz- und Tuchhandel prägend für die Region. Der umfangreiche Urkundenbestand des Klosters umfasst die Zeit vom 12. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. In zwei Bänden werden 1.087 Urkunden bis in das Jahr 1500 abgedruckt, mit Kurzregesten zugänglich gemacht und durch ausführliche Register erschlossen. Die Begründungen der Schenkungen, Stiftungen und Amtsgeschäfte vermitteln einen Eindruck des wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Lebens sowie des religiösen und politischen Wandels, geben zugleich aber auch Einblick in Angst, Vertrauen sowie tiefe Gläubigkeit.