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With God, for Fatherland and Humanity is the first comprehensive study of the internationalism of freemasons. It examines, with a focus on Germany, England, France and Italy, how European masonic umbrella associations worked for or against a worldwide organisation of their "brotherhood".

Religion / History --- Religion --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- History --- Freemasons --- Freemasons. --- 1800-1999 --- Europe. --- Religion.

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What role does religion play at the end of life in Japan? Spiritual Ends draws on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with hospice patients, chaplains, and medical workers to provide an intimate portrayal of how spiritual care is provided to the dying in Japan. Timothy O. Benedict uses both local and cross-cultural perspectives to show how global conversations on concepts like spirituality and the practice of spiritual care are being appropriated and reinterpreted in Japanese contexts. Benedict relates these findings to a longer story of how Japanese religious groups have pursued vocational roles in medical institutions as a means to demonstrate a so-called "healthy" role in society. By paying attention to how care for the kokoro (heart or mind) is key to the practice of spiritual care, this book enriches conventional understandings of religious identity in Japan, while offering a valuable East Asian perspective to global conversations on the ways religion, spirituality, and medicine intersect at death.

Death --- Hospice care --- Spirituality --- RELIGION / History --- Psychological aspects --- Religious aspects --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Spiritual life --- Psychology --- Religion & beliefs --- religion; dying; Japan

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La rencontre organisée à Bordeaux au mois de mai 1997 sur les cultes polythéistes dans l’Adriatique romaine marque une étape importante dans la collaboration que l’Institut Ausonius a nouée depuis plusieurs années avec les organismes de recherche de plusieurs pays riverains du nord de l’Adriatique. Cette coopération trouve régulièrement une concrétisation dans la parution d’une chronique quinquennale publiée avec le concours de l’École Française de Rome et qui fait le bilan de la recherche sur l’Histoire Ancienne et l’archéologie de la zone adriatique à l’époque romaine. L’opportunité se présentait cependant de rassembler une bonne partie des partenaires de cette initiative.

Rome --- Paganism --- Cults --- Religion --- History. --- Adriatic Sea Region --- History --- Congresses --- Italy --- Polytheism --- Rome - Religion - History. --- Paganism - Adriatic Coast (Balkan Peninsula) - History. --- Cults - Adriatic Coast (Balkan Peninsula) - History. --- Classics --- polythéisme --- croyance antique --- culte de Cybèle --- religion à mystères --- lieu de culte païen --- archéologie

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The articles included in this Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam are focused on two perspectives: Some link the comparative analysis of Islam to ongoing debates on the Axial Age and its role in the formation of major civilizational complexes, while others are more concerned with the historical constellations and sources involved in the formation of Islam as a religion and a civilization. More than any other particular line of inquiry, new historical and sociological approaches to the Axial Age revived the idea of comparative civilizational analysis and channeled it into more specific projects. A closer look at the very problematic place of Islam in this context will help to clarify questions about the Axial version of civilizational theory as well as issues in Islamic studies and sociological approaches to modern Islam. Contributors among others: Said Arjomand, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Josef van Ess and Raif G. Khoury. »[Es] ist zu vermerken, dass vergleichende historische Zivilisationsforschung, aufgrund der Spezialisierung der jeweiligen Fachgebiete, nicht gerade ein überrepräsentiertes Terrain darstellt. Allein deshalb beinhaltet dieser Band jede Menge neue Denkanstöße und interessante Blickwinkel für an der Materie Interessierte.« Philipp Bruckmayr, DAVO Nachrichten, 7 (2008) »Auch das 7. Jahrbuch für die Soziologie des Islams vereinigt Beiträge von Autoren, die sich von sehr unterschiedlichen Ausgangspunkten ausgehend in eine aktuelle Debatte einmischen. Je nach dem theoretischen und wissenschaftlich-praktischen Standpunkt wird der Leser die Beiträge mit unterschiedlicher Zustimmung, aber stets mit Interesse lesen.« Peter Heine, Anthropos, 103/1 (2008) »Diejenigen, die sich auf eine genaue Lektüre einlassen, werden je nach Interesse in unterschiedlichem Umfang Anregungen und Anstöße aus diesem Band mitnehmen können, besonders was die frühe Zeit des Islam betrifft.« Astrid Meier, www.geschichte-transnational/clio-online.net, 15.02.2008

Islam --- Comparative Analysis of Civilisations. --- Cultural History. --- Cultural Studies. --- History of Religion. --- Islam. --- Islamic Studies. --- Religion. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Sociology. --- Axial Age Theory (history); Comparative Analysis of Civilisations; Cultural Studies; Islam; Religion; Cultural History; Islamic Studies; Sociology of Religion; History of Religion; Sociology --- Civilization. --- Islamic sociology. --- Muslim sociology --- Sociology, Islamic --- Sociology --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Axial Age Theory (history) --- Comparative Analysis of Civilisations --- Cultural Studies --- Religion --- Cultural History --- Islamic Studies --- Sociology of Religion --- History of Religion --- Islamic countries --- Civilization --- History. --- Muslim countries

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This innovative volume focuses on the significance of early Christianity for modern means of addressing poverty, by offering a rigorous study of deprivation and its alleviation in both earliest Christianity and today's world. The contributors seek to present the complex ways in which early Christian ideas and practices relate to modern ideas and practices, and vice versa. In this light, the book covers seven major areas of poverty and its causes, benefaction, patronage, donation, wealth and dehumanization, `the undeserving poor', and responsibility. Each area features an expert in early Christianity in its Jewish and Graeco-Roman settings, paired with an expert in modern strategies for addressing poverty and benefaction; each author engages with the same topic from their respective area of expertise, and responds to their partner's essay. Giving careful attention toboth the continuities and discontinuities between the ancient world and today, the contributors seek to inform and engage church leaders, those working in NGOs concerned with poverty, and all interested in these crucial issues, both Christian and not.

Poverty --- Church history --- RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues. --- RELIGION / Christianity / General. --- Poverty (Virtue) --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Christianity --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- History of doctrines. --- Primitive and early church. --- 30-600 --- Early Church Period --- Primitive and Early Church Period --- Ancient History (History) --- Biblical Studies - Other --- Christian Education --- Christian Life and Issues --- Church History --- Development Studies --- Early Modern History (History) --- Education - Other --- Education Studies --- Evidence --- General Religion - Other --- History - Other (History) --- History of Education --- History of Education (History) --- History of Religion (History) --- Modern History (History) --- Social History (History) --- World History (History) --- 241.65*5 --- 241.65*5 Theologische ethiek: private eigendom; diefstal; armoede --- Theologische ethiek: private eigendom; diefstal; armoede