Komparative Theologie

Interreligiöse Vergleiche als Weg der Religionstheologie

Reinhold Bernhardt - Klaus von Stosch, Hrsg.

TVZ Verlag

Komparative Theologie ist ein neuer Ansatz in der religionstheologischen Debatte und im deutschen Sprachraum noch nahezu unbekannt. Die Beziehung zwischen dem Christentum und anderen Religionen soll dabei nicht durch formale Raster bestimmt werden, sondern durch Vergleiche einzelner Vorstellungs- und Praxisformen. Ausgehend von ausgewählten Fallbeispielen wird in diesem Band die Tiefengrammatik von religiösen Überzeugungen komparativ herausgearbeitet, der neue Forschungsansatz vorgestellt und in Vergleichen zwischen christlichen, muslimischen und buddhistischen Traditionselementen erprobt. Dabei werden die philosophischen Grundlagen, die Anliegen und die bisherigen Leistungen der Komparativen Theologie deutlich. Ihre unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen kommen zur Darstellung, werden miteinander ins Gespräch gebracht und an Beispielen kritisch diskutiert. So wird eine spannende neue Perspektive in der Diskussion um eine theologische Beziehungsbestimmung des Christentums zu den nichtchristlichen Religionen eröffnet.

Mit Beiträgen von James Fredericks, Norbert Hintersteiner, Michael Hüttenhoff, Felix Körner, Anja Middelbeck-Varwick, Jürgen Mohn, Robert Neville, Christiane Tietz, Pim Valkenberg, Keith Ward, Ulrich Winkler, Klaus von Stosch.

Multiple religiöse Identität

Aus verschiedenen religiösen Traditionen schöpfen

Reinhold Bernhardt - Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Hrsg.

TVZ Verlag

Die Konturen der religiösen Identität werden bei vielen Menschen zunehmend unschärfer: Sowohl bei einfachen Gläubigen und religiösen Sinnsuchern als auch bei einigen Fachleuten des interreligiösen Dialogs speist sich die eigene Spiritualität nicht mehr nur aus den Quellen einer einzigen Religion. Was bedeutet es, wenn Menschen sich etwa als Buddhist und zugleich Christ verstehen? Wie lassen sich Wahrheiten anderer Religionen integrieren? Wie viel an Religionsvermischung verträgt der Glaube? Im vorliegenden Band wird das Phänomen multipler religiöser Identität aus religionswissenschaftlicher, soziologischer, psychologischer und theologischer Perspektive analysiert und diskutiert.

Forrás: https://www.tvz-verlag.ch/buch/multiple-religioese-identitaet-9783290174552/?page_id=1

Byzantium

A very short introduction

Peter Sarris, author

Oxford University Press

After surviving the fifth century fall of the Western European Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire flourished as one of the most powerful economic, cultural, and military forces in Europe for a thousand years.

In this Very Short Introduction Peter Sarris introduces the reader to the unique fusion of Roman political culture, Greek intellectual tradition and Christian faith that took place in the imperial capital of Byzantium under the emperor Constantine and his heirs. Using examples from Byzantine architecture, art and literature, Sarris shows how their legacy was re-worked and re-invented in the centuries ahead, in the face of external challenges and threats. Charting the impact of warfare with the Persian and Islamic worlds to the east, Sarris explores the creativity of Byzantine statecraft and strategy, as well as the empire's repeated (but ultimately forlorn) attempts to enlist aid from the Christian powers of Western Europe to ensure its survival.

The lost world of Byzantium

Jonathan Harris, author

Yale University Press

For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world. Jonathan Harris, a leading scholar of Byzantium, eschews the usual run-through of emperors and battles and instead recounts the empire’s extraordinary history by focusing each chronological chapter on an archetypal figure, family, place, or event.
 
Harris’s action-packed introduction presents a civilization rich in contrasts, combining orthodox Christianity with paganism, and classical Greek learning with Roman power. Frequently assailed by numerous armies—including those of Islam—Byzantium nonetheless survived and even flourished by dint of its somewhat unorthodox foreign policy and its sumptuous art and architecture, which helped to embed a deep sense of Byzantine identity in its people.
 
Enormously engaging and utilizing a wealth of sources to cover all major aspects of the empire’s social, political, military, religious, cultural, and artistic history, Harris’s study illuminates the very heart of Byzantine civilization and explores its remarkable and lasting influence on its neighbors and on the modern world.

The making of Orthodox Byzantium

600-1025

Mark Whittow, author

Macmillan Press

The book is a clear, up-to-date, reassessment of the Byzantine empire during a crucial phase in the history of the Near East. Against a geopolitical background (well-illustrated with 14 maps), it covers the last decade of the Roman empire as a superpower of the ancient world, the catastrophic crisis of the seventh century and the means whereby its embattled Byzantine successor hung on in Constantinople and Asia Minor until the Abbasid Caliphate's decline opened up new perspectives for Christian power in the Near East. Not confined to any narrow definition of Byzantine history, the empire's neighbours, allies and enemies in Europe and Asia also receive extensive treatment.

Forrás: https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/The-Making-of-Orthodox-Byzantium-600%EF%BF%BD1025/?K=9780333496015

A History of Byzantium

Timothy E. Gregory, author

Wiley-Blackwell

This revised and expanded edition of the widely-praised A History of Byzantium covers the time of Constantine the Great in AD 306 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

Expands treatment of the middle and later Byzantine periods, incorporating new archaeological evidence

Includes additional maps and photographs, and a newly annotated, updated bibliography

Incorporates a new section on web resources for Byzantium studies

Demonstrates that Byzantium was important in its own right but also served as a bridge between East and West and ancient and modern society

Situates Byzantium in its broader historical context with a new comparative timeline and textboxes

Forrás: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+History+of+Byzantium%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9781405184717