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This volume of the series "Key Concepts in Interreligious
Discourses" investigates the roots of the concept of "soul" in
Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The human soul fascinates not only
believers in the three monotheistic faiths. Believing in an
immortal entitiy, surpassing body, materia and their temporality
and thus seeming to be closer to the creator that the mere body was
and remains to be a vividly discussed theme in theological and
practical debates. Even our secular, postreligious environment is
unable to disengage from the key concept of the soul. Numerous
proverbs, undefined concepts and hopes prove this fact. Asking for
the soul means asking fundamental questions like life after death
and therefor asking for one of the most fundamental and uniting
hopes of human beings, be they secular or religious. The volume
presents the concept of "soul" in its different aspects as anchored
in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It unfolds
commonalities and differences between the three monotheistic
religions as well as the manifold discourses about peace within
these three traditions. The book offers fundamental knowledge about
the specific understanding of the soul in each one of these
traditions, their interdependencies and their relationship to
secular world views.
This volume of the series "Key Concepts in Interreligious
Discourses" investigates the roots of the concept of "body" in
Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Body and being a created being
stands in the focus of all the thre major monotheistic faiths. It
is not just by the christian idea of man's likeness to God that
indicates that the human body is a central object of religious
thinking, both culturally and theologically charged. Here, the body
stands in the crossfire of terms like "pure" and "unpure", "sacred"
and "profane", "male" and "femal". And besides the theological
controversies, everyday experiences like sexuality, gender equality
and how to dispose of the own body (and that of others) are
undoubtly recent and highly contentious discussion points in the
debate of a peaceful living together of different religions and
cultures. The volume presents the concept of "body" in its
different aspects as anchored in the traditions of Judaism,
Christianity and Islam. It unfolds commonalities and differences
between the three monotheistic religions as well as the manifold
discourses about peace within these three traditions. The book
offers fundamental knowledge about the specific understanding of
the body in each one of these traditions, their interdependencies
and their relationship to secular world views.
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