Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Sociology of Religion

This book describes Martin Bucer (1491-1551) as a teacher of theology, focusing on his time as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge between 1549 and 1551. The book is centered on his 1550 Cambridge lectures on Ephesians, and investigates them in their historical context, exploring what sort of a theologian Bucer was. The lectures are examined to find out how they represent Bucer's method of teaching and "doing" theology, and shed light on the relationship between biblical exegesis and theological formulation as he understood it. Divided into two interconnected parts,...

Beeinflussen Religionen und Religionsgemeinschaften vermittelt uber Lebensfuhrung, Werthaltungen, Minderheitenstatus, gemeinschaftliche Aktivitaten und Ressourcen den Bildungserfolg von Kindern in industrialisierten Gesellschaften? Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen knupfen die Autoren unter anderem an die in den Nachkriegsjahren in Westdeutschland gefuhrten Diskussionen zum katholischen Bildungsdefizit und zur Kunstfigur des katholischen Arbeitermadchens vom Lande sowie an amerikanische Studien zur Bedeutung von Aktivitaten in Religionsgemeinschaften fur die Generierung von Sozialkapital an....

"By offering a vibrant ethnography of the trajectories of evangelizing TV actors', their personal ambitions, anxieties, and disagreements with one another, Pype deconstructs the content of the melodrama...the ethnography offers insight into the role of religious media in the public sphere and its impacts on morals, even in secularized societies." - Sociology of Religion

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After the 2008 election and 2012 reelection of Barack Obama as US president and the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as the first of several blacks to serve as South Africa's president, many within the two countries have declared race to be irrelevant. For contributors to this volume, the presumed demise of race may be premature. Given continued racial disparities in income, education, and employment, as well as in perceptions of problems and promise within the two countries, much healing remains unfinished. Nevertheless, despite persistently pronounced disparities between black and white...