At the second major conference held in Salzburg in 2009 of The European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS), participants probed the broad theme of 'interreligious hermeneutics in a pluralistic Europe'. Due to the phenomenon of an increasingly plural Europe, questions arise about how we see each other's cultural heritage, religious traditions and sacred scriptures. Following the discussions that took place at the conference, this book focuses on the usage of texts in our global and mass media world, the possibility of 'scriptural reasoning', the theological...

Ulrich Winkler untersucht das Verhaltnis strategischer und transaktionskostentheoretischer Konzepte zueinander und ihren Einfluss auf die Grenzen der Unternehmung. Er zeigt, dass in vielen Fallen die Vorteile durch die Konzentration auf Kernkompetenzen die durch das Entstehen von Transaktionskosten bedingten Nachteile uberwiegen und es trotz Spezifitat nicht zur Integration einer marktlichen Transaktion kommen muss."

Spaces are produced and shaped by discourses and, in turn, produce and shape discourses themselves. 'Space' is becoming a significant and complex concept for the encounter between people, cultures, religions, ideologies, politics, between histories and memories, the advantaged and the disadvantaged, the powerful and the weak. As a result, it provides a rich hermeneutical and methodological inventory for mapping interculturality and interreligiosity. This volume looks at space as a critical theory and epistemological tool within cultural studies that fosters the analysis of power structures...