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Emotions have increasingly attracted the attention of the sciences
and academia. The topic is all the more timely since we have
witnessed a global trend towards highly emotionalized discourses
across societies and religions. Discourses are less guided by
rational arguments and “facts”. Instead, narratives, sometimes
manipulative, influence the thoughts and activi-ties of our
societies. In this context, the authoritative texts of the
monotheistic religions are experiencing a renaissance. Tanach,
Bible and Qur’an do not only “emotionalize”, they also offer
ancient concepts of emotions which affect the present. This book
brings the interdependencies of antiquity and (post)modernity into
an interdisci-plinary discussion. How should we understand feelings
at all? This book explores the ap-proaches to emotions as portrayed
and understood in various sources and disciplines. The contributors
share their perspectives on methodological questions concerning
research on the emotions. Scholars in religious studies and
theology from different traditions—Jewish, Christian,
Islamic—enter into dialogue with other disciplines, such as
psychology, literary studies, sociology, cultural studies,
philosophy, and historiography.
In pluralistischen Gesellschaften, aber auch in globalen Kontexten
erhebt sich angesichts zunehmender Konflikte die drängende Frage
nach kulturellen und religiösen Ressourcen für Toleranz und
Verständigung. Vor diesem Hintergrund bieten pagane, jüdische,
christliche, islamische und indologische Konzepte der
Barmherzigkeit bzw. des Mitgefühls Deutungsangebote. In
interreligiösen und interdisziplinären Zugängen wird in diesem
Band religiös begründetes Mitgefühl auf seine eigentümliche
Signatur, seine Konstitutionsbedingungen und irenischen Potentiale
sowie auf deren Kritik und Grenzen hin untersucht. Dabei kommen
insbesondere Perspektiven und Einsichten der neueren
philosophisch-kulturwissenschaftlichen Emotionsforschung zur
Geltung. Es werden Beiträge aus den Bereichen der klassischen
Philologie, der jüdischen, christlichen und islamischen
Theologien, der Indologie, der Philosophie, der Politik- und
Rechtswissenschaft, der Pädagogik und Literaturwissenschaft
geboten.
Women Officeholders in Early Christianity is a scholarly
investigation of the evidence for women holding offices of
authority in the first several centuries of Christianity. Ute Eisen
focuses on inscriptions and documentary papyri (private letters,
official documents, contracts, and other such pieces) that have
scarcely been considered before. Eisen presents the first extensive
documentation of selected Greek and Latin inscriptions, plus a few
documentary papyri, that witness to the existence of Christian
women officeholders. The intent is to show the multiplicity of
titles borne by women and to illustrate the narrowness of previous
research on this topic. A single chapter is devoted to each of the
titles of office or functional designations found in the sources.
The epigraphical, papyrological, and literary witnesses are
accordingly grouped by function. Topics are Apostles," "Prophets,"
"Teachers of Theology," "Presbyters," "Enrolled Widows," "Deacons,"
"Bishops," and "Stewards." Central to Women Officeholders in Early
Christianity are the epigraphical witnesses. To this point they
have been only marginally incorporated into research on women
officeholders in the Church. In order to ensure correct
interpretation, the majority of the inscriptions discussed have
extensive documentation. They are organized geographically and
chronologically. Besides the documentation they are commented on in
the context of the existing literary sources. The book concludes
with a chapter entitled "Source-Oriented Perspectives for a History
of Christian Women Officeholders." The book also includes a
bibliography of reference works, primary sources, and secondary
sources. Ute E. Eisen is a Wissenschaftliche Assistentin at the
Institute of New Testament Studies and Ancient Judaism at the
University of Kiel, Germany. She has a doctorate in theology from
the University of Hamburg. Her special areas of study include
narrative analysis of Luke-Acts, methodology in New Testament
studies, history of early Christianity, and gender studies. "
Peter Lampes work has covered a wide range of fields, the common
denominator being his interest in contextualizing belief systems.
Mirroring his multifaced work, the authors pursue his interest from
different interdisciplinary angles, addressing the interdependence
between religious expressions and their situations or contexts. The
application of theoretical models to texts examples flanks the
inspiring theoretical - epistemological and methodological -
reflections. Studies in socio-economic and political history adjoin
archaeological, epigraphic, papyrological and iconographic
investigations. (Social-)psychological interpretations of texts
complement rhetorical analyses. The hermeneutical reception of
biblical materials in, for example, the Koran and Christian Chinese
or Orthodox contexts, as well as in religious education and
homiletics, rounds off the volumes.
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