Bücher der Reihe Die Religionen der Menschheit

Der Islam ist heute mit ca. 1,8 Milliarden Gläubigen eine lebendige schnell wachsende weltweite Glaubensgemeinschaft.Der dritte Band der dreiteiligen Darstellung des Islam in der Reihe "Die Religionen der Menschheit" zeichnet die historische Entwicklung der letzten 200 Jahre nach und nimmt die Fragen "Islam und Moderne" und "Islam in der postkolonialen Zeit" in den Blick. Diese werden mit der gegenwärtigen Situation in islamisch geprägten Regionen und der muslimischen Diaspora verknüpft: der Umgang des Islam mit den Herausforderungen der Moderne; die Suche nach dem "rechten Weg" (halal/haram); interkulturelle Einflüsse; die Situation nichtislamischer Minderheiten in der Welt des Islam; Djihad, Terror und Märtyrertum; u.v.m.Ein Überblick über Themen der modernen islamischen Theologie und Philosophie sowie des Interreligiösen Dialogs komplettieren diese lebendige Darstellung der jüngsten der drei monotheistischen Weltreligionen.

Judaism, the oldest of the Abrahamitic religions, is one of the pillars of modern civilization. A collective of internationally renowned experts cooperated in a singular academic enterprise to portrait Judaism from its transformation as a Temple cult to its broad contemporary varieties. In three volumes the long-running book series "Die Religionen der Menschheit" (Religions of Mankind) presents for the first time a complete and compelling view on Jewish life now and then - a fascinating portrait of the Jewish people with its ability to adapt itself to most different cultural settings, always maintaining its strong and unique identity.Volume II presents Jewish literature and thinking: the Jewish Bibel; Hellenistic, Tannaitic, Amoraic and Gaonic literature to medieval and modern genres. Chapters on mysticism, Piyyut, Liturgy and Prayer complete the volume.

There are three apparently contradictory aspects that define the religious features of South America: traditionally strong Catholicism, Protestant and Pentecostal denominations that have gained strength since the 19th century, and religions of pre-Columbian origin that have survived and developed further. This volume offers a descriptive account of these strands as the living religions of people today, which can be inquired into by ethnologists and religious scholars. In the process, the book divides South America into two religious areas: the Central Andes region, where pre-European traditions were already incorporated into local Christianity in many places during the colonial period, and the area east of the Andes (and to a lesser extent the northern and southern Andes), where separate religions survived more autonomously, but lost a large number of their adherents in the 20th century due to new, intensive Christian missionary work.