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This article introduces a combined review symposium on Jennifer Graber’s The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Pamela Klassen’s The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary’s Journey on Indigenous Land (University of Chicago Press, 2018). It presents the four contributions to the review symposium as well as Graber and Klassen’s response and relates the discussion of the book to broader questions of studying North American Indigenous history as a central part of the study of religion.
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Theory in a Time of Excess (Equinox 2017) serves as a useful starting point to argue for a plural understanding of theory in the study of religion. While the existing conversation often implies that there is only one acceptable way of theorizing, it seems useful to distinguish between (at least) three understandings of theory—and a fourth potentially “illegitimate” one. These four forms (discourse theories, creative theories, scientific theories, and essentialist theories) are all present in the volume. Different theoretical approaches can learn from each other and expose their respective blind spots, which is the main reason to further a meta-theoretical debate about a permissible plurality within theory-building. Rather than a call to “just get along” under one big tent, this critical attitude implies that we should strive to better profile all four of these forms of theorizing in order to discuss their potential place in our discipline.
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Aesthetics of religion focuses on the sensual and representational aspects of religion and develops appropriate terminological tools. The idea of museality as an analytical and heuristic term for culture analysis is specified in the present paper by linking it to the history and dynamics of knowledge. Museums as institutions and cultural practice play a crucial role in the orders and politics of knowledge about religion in Europe. By means of different examples, museality is described as a specific and historically generated cultural pattern of perceiving, imagining, and knowing about religion in modernity. The examples focus on the production of different qualities of knowledge in exhibitions relating to religion, on transitions between religion and science in museums, and on popularisation as a mode of the circulation of knowledge about religion.These reflections on museality and knowledge dynamics could provide new potentials for inter-connective academic research, as well as for trans-disciplinary cooperation between the study of religion and museums.
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In response to critiques of the ‘slavery versus freedom’ binary and its limitations, researchers at the international Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS—
Für Theologen und Juristen in Wissenschaft, staatlicher und kirchlicher Verwaltung sowie in der Seelsorge und der beruflichen Praxis bietet dieses unter Mitarbeit namhafter Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler erstellte Lexikon verlässliche Informationen auf aktuellem Stand. Die Lemmata des vierten Bandes (S-Z) behandeln spezifische Themen wie „Schule“ (Staatlich, Katholisch, Evangelisch), „Seelsorge“ (Katholisch, Evangelisch, Orthodox, Jüdisch, Islamisch), „Strafrecht“ (Staatlich, Katholisch, Evangelisch, Orthodox, Jüdisch, Islamisch), „Synode“ (Katholisch, Evangelisch, Orthodox) oder „Trauung“ (Staatlich, Katholisch, Evangelisch, Orthodox, Jüdisch, Islamisch).
Für Theologen und Juristen in Wissenschaft, staatlicher und kirchlicher Verwaltung sowie in der Seelsorge und der beruflichen Praxis bietet dieses unter Mitarbeit namhafter Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler erstellte Lexikon verlässliche Informationen auf aktuellem Stand. Die Lemmata des vierten Bandes (S-Z) behandeln spezifische Themen wie „Schule“ (Staatlich, Katholisch, Evangelisch), „Seelsorge“ (Katholisch, Evangelisch, Orthodox, Jüdisch, Islamisch), „Strafrecht“ (Staatlich, Katholisch, Evangelisch, Orthodox, Jüdisch, Islamisch), „Synode“ (Katholisch, Evangelisch, Orthodox) oder „Trauung“ (Staatlich, Katholisch, Evangelisch, Orthodox, Jüdisch, Islamisch).