In the summer of 1960 Paul Tillich visited Japan. Together with his wife Hannah, he spent eight weeks in the country sightseeing, lecturing, and having discussions with local scholars. This monograph provides the first comprehensive documentation of Tillich s journey, highlighting the political context and the itinerary of his visit. Moreover, Tomoaki Fukai presents the manuscripts of Tillich s lectures, his conversations with leading Buddhists in Kyoto, and his correspondence with his Japanese hosts."

Contemplating religion has long ceased to be the sole privilege of theology and religious studies. In cultural studies, a broad spectrum of theories and methods has developed, exploring the role of religion as an important socio-cultural factor in the modern world. This volume is a collection of contributions from history and political studies, sociology and Islamic studies, ethnology, religious studies and theology, demonstrating and interpreting these changes in research on religion.

This volume contains studies on two of the most fascinating personalities in the academic world of the 20th century. In their common years in Heidelberg, both Weber and Troeltsch developed a research program in sociology of religion which was devoted to the analysis of the "cultural importance" of religion, in particular Protestant piety. Their common interest in an analytical explanation of religion as vital power ("Lebensmacht"), however, resulted in different and competing theoretical programs. The studies in this book explore the constellations of the two men's lives and works.

Zwischen 1901 und 1914 publizierte Ernst Troeltsch 150 Rezensionen zu Neuerscheinungen in Theologie, Philosophie, Sozialwissenschaften und Kulturgeschichte. Viele dieser haufig an weit entlegenen Orten publizierten Texte waren bisher nicht bekannt. Sie bieten nicht nur faszinierende Einblicke in Troeltschs Denkwerkstatt, sondern erschliessen auch neue Perspektiven auf die im Heidelberger Gelehrtenmilieu gefuhrten Debatten uber die Kulturbedeutung von Religion und Christentum. Troeltsch rezensierte Texte von James, Simmel und Rickert, schrieb einen grossen Nachruf auf seinen Freund Georg Jellinek, nahm an den Methodendebatten der deutschen Historiker intensiv Anteil und entwickelte in Rezensionen das integrative Konzept einer Theologie als Kulturwissenschaft des Christentums.

Max Weber hat in seiner Religionssoziologie den Begriff der "Intellektuellenreligiositat" gepragt. In neun Beitragen wird das Verhaltnis prominenter judischer, romisch-katholischer und protestantischer Intellektueller zur Religion untersucht. Intellektuelle haben religiose Symbolsprachen vielfaltig transformiert, sich als Religionsstifter inszeniert oder auch alte, institutionalisierte Religion entschieden kritisiert. In kritischer Distanz zu etablierten religiosen Institutionen suchen sie auf ihre spezifische Weise Lebenssinn zu generieren. Insoweit sind sie selbst zentrale Akteure der modernen Religionsgeschichte."

This volume examines the complex intersections between religion and enlightenment from a historical and systematic perspective, and for the first time, shows the profound implications of the works of Schleiermacher, Troeltsch, and Tillich for understanding religious-cultural pluralism in our times. The authors use these sources to discuss the difficulties and challenges facing contemporary enlightened religion as well as the limitations of religious enlightenment.

The first volume of Troeltsch-Studien, Neue Folge presents the results of the 8th international congress of the Ernst-Troeltsch-Gesellschaft, which was dedicated to the analysis of the trio of subjects: historical philosophy, theology and politics. Troelsch presented a view of historicism as a critical theory of the Modern Age. As a historical philosopher it was his aim to access chains of transmission which could provide a strong ethical orientation as a reaction to historical relativistic experiences; while as a historical theologian he wanted to secure the continued importance of the Jewish and Christian histories of the origins of Europe, so that as a historical politician he could mobilise socio-moral resources to support the fragile Weimar democracy.

This volume presents 46 reviews and four wide-ranging literature surveys from 1894 to 1900. These early writings already demonstrate the broad sweep of the theologian Troeltsch's critical horizon. Apart from reviewing new publications on dogma, contemporary ethical models and writings in the philosophy of religion, he also discussed studies on the history of religion, culture and ideas since the 17th century, together with texts on the philosophy of history. These writings, too, reflect his underlying methodological stance that the diagnosis of the present always aims to (re)form the present.