englisch‘Turkish Studies’ deal with the history, culture, religions, languages and literature of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. The scope of the book includes everything relating to Turkey, e.g. Kurdish, Armenian, Greek or Jewish matters, as well as its relations with the Turkic [...]

englischBetween the age of confessionalization and the comprehensive edicts of tolerance of the late 18th century lies a period in which research emphasises the role of the confession in very different ways. The concept of tolerance existed in the intellectual history, but the regulations of the [...]

englischThis volume explores the concepts of paradise in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It reveals how they are portrayed as alternative and aesthetically significant realms compared to the current realities, what role they play in present-day culture and political ideals and how they can be [...]

englischThis study examines late 20th century depictions of embryonic development derived from the Quran, which are referred to as a scientific miracle of the Qur'an. This approach of harmonizing religious and scientific knowledge has so far only been evaluated as a marginal phenomenon. Using the [...]

englischThe complex Gnostic teachings of antiquity and their revival and remythification in neo-Gnostic and occultist groups at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century form the core of this two-volume publication. The "Gnostic Mystery School" of the pastor E. C. H. Peithmann is [...]

englischAlthough humans are biologically omnivores, there is no community that makes full use of all the food available to it. Something is always not eaten. This anthology sheds light on why we don't eat what we don't eat from the perspectives of neuro-, nutritional-, social science and religious [...]

englischReligions are important actors in civil society. The question of how they deal with each other is of decisive importance for the future of plural, open societies. For this book, three actors in interreligious understanding have come together for the first time: the nationally and [...]

englischDiscover the groundbreaking insights of a visionary thought leader in the age of data-driven civilization. In this experimental essay, the author presents a radical innovation ethic of combining human creativity and artificial intelligence, whose complex interplay he explores herein. [...]

englischThe subject Islamic theology, which was founded eleven years ago, was politically expected to train imams who promote integration. The author empirically investigates how students of Islamic theology deal with these expectations. The book shows that the actors' attributions of meaning is [...]

englisch This book critically analyzes the notion that there are passages in the 7th-century text of the Qur’an that reflect medical ideas of the time about the origin of human beings through pregnancy. It turns out that the Qur’an draws on a rich heritage of motifs, on the one hand baptismal [...]

englischThis book takes on the forcefulness of post-modernist appeals and their rational fantasies of omnipotence. Since the Enlightenment, theology has sought to bring faith and reason together. In doing so, it usually presupposes an image of the human being that understands the subject as a [...]

englischReligion as a discontinued model – that is how the narrative of modernity likes to see it. Empirically, the situation is more complex: even if secularisation often makes religious institutions appear as losers, important areas of religion have proven to be innovative and productive. How, [...]