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Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented through careful comparative and transdisciplinary studies, as this volume demonstrates, offering a wide range of innovative perspectives on often neglected literary, philosophical, historical, or medical documents. Texts, images, ideas, knowledge, and objects migrated throughout the world already in the pre-modern world, even if the quantitative level compared to the modern world might have been different. In fact, by means of translations and trade, for instance, global connections were established and maintained over the centuries. Archetypal motifs developed in many literatures indicate how much pre-modern people actually shared. But we also discover hard-core facts of global economic exchange, import of exotic medicine, and, on another level, intensive intellectual debates on religious issues. Literary evidence serves best to expose the extent to which contacts with people in foreign countries were imaginable, often desirable, and at times feared, of course. The pre-modern world was much more on the move and reached out to distant lands out of curiosity, economic interests, and political and military concerns. Diplomats crisscrossed the continents, and artists, poets, and craftsmen traveled widely. We can identify, for instance, both the Vikings and the Arabs as global players long before the rise of modern globalism, so this volume promises to rewrite many of our traditional notions about pre-modern worldviews, economic conditions, and the literary sharing on a global level, as perhaps best expressed by the genre of the fable.

economic globalism. --- inter-religious dialog. --- pre-modern globalism. --- travel literature.

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Marienverehrung in der Frühen Neuzeit gibt es nicht nur in der römisch-katholischen Konfession. In den Beiträgen des Bandes geht es um das Bild der Gottesmutter im Judentum und im Islam, um Kritik an der Marienverehrung in katholischen Reformbewegungen, um eine nähere Bestimmung der Rolle, die Maria in den protestantischen Konfessionen zukommt. Die Frage nach der medialen Vermittlung der jeweiligen Marienbilder durch die Künste ist dabei zentral.

Frömmigkeitsgeschichte. --- Frühe Neuzeit. --- Interkonfessionalität. --- Marienverehrung. --- Mary, --- Marian devotion. --- early modern period. --- history of piety. --- inter-religious connections.

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"The essays in this volume pose critical questions and suggest constructive possibilities regarding the extent to which trinitarian and pluralist discourses can be put into fruitful conversation with one another. On one hand, the volume interrogates the possibilities of trinitarian theology and its ethical promise with regard to divine and creaturely relationality by putting it into specific engagement with discourses of pluralism, diversity, and multiplicity. It asks how trinitarian conceptions of divine multiplicity might open the Christian tradition to increasingly more creative and affirming visions of creaturely identities, difference, and relationality--including the specific difference of religious plurality. Alternatively, where can the triadic patterning evident in the Christian theological tradition be seen to have always exceeded the boundaries of Christian thought and experience, inhabiting and determining other religious traditions' conceptions of divine and/or creaturely reality in ways internal to their own distinctive histories? On the other hand, the volume interrogates the possibilities of various discourses on pluralism by putting them in a very particular and concrete pluralist context. Religious pluralists, comparative theologians, and scholars of religious studies are place alongside and put into conversation with theological and doctrinal work carried out within the (albeit broadly conceived) normative thread of the Christian trinitarian tradition. To what extent can pluralist discourse collect within itself a convergent diversity of orthodox, heterodox, postcolonial, process, poststructuralist, liberationist, and feminist sensibilities while avoiding irruptions of conflict, competition, or the logic of mutual exclusion? The goal of this collection is that, in the midst of these crisscrossing lines of cohering and/or conflictual difference about the theme of divine multiplicity, critical and imaginative visions of divine and creaturely relations might be generated that can inform future theological, philosophical and ethical work in transdisciplary, inter-religious and intra-religious contexts"--

Trinity. --- Christianity and other religions. --- Inter-religious dialogue. --- Trinitarian theology. --- comparative theology. --- diversity. --- multiplicity. --- online searches. --- philosophical theology. --- polydoxy. --- relation. --- relationality. --- religious pluralism. --- theological anthropology. --- theological ethics.

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Christian Citizens in an Islamic State deals with the important question of inter-faith relations in Pakistan, a vital region of the Islamic world which has been the scene of the rise of both Islamic militancy and partnership with the West in counter-terrorism measures. Christians are the most important religious minority of Pakistan and their status and experience is a test case of the treatment of religious minorities in an Islamic state. This book covers new ground in exploring the various factors that govern the relations between Muslims and Christians in a nation state which has been politically unstable in the past, and where the imposition of Islamic law has been controversial and problematic for religious minorities. Theodore Gabriel clarifies the history of Christian-Muslim relations in the region, explores the rise of Islamic militancy, and draws on personal interviews to determine the mind set of both Christians and Muslims in Pakistan today.

Christians --- Christianity and other religions --- Islam --- Christianity --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religions --- Religious adherents --- Islam. --- Relations --- Christianity. --- History --- 266 <549> --- 297.116*2 --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Muslims --- 297.116*2 Relatie Islam tot Jodendom --- Relatie Islam tot Jodendom --- Relations&delete& --- Missies. Evangelisatie. Zending--Pakistan --- Pakistan --- population --- religion --- Islamicisation --- the Blasphemy Law --- Islamic resurgence --- Bush --- war on terror --- inter-religious dialogue

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The attitude of Jews living in the medieval Christian world to Jews who converted to Christianity or to Christians seeking to join the Jewish faith reflects the central traits that make up Jewish self-identification. The Jews saw themselves as a unique group chosen by God, who expected them to play a specific and unique role in the world. This study researches fully for the various aspects of the way European Jews regarded members of their own fold in the context of lapses into another religion.

Jews --- Judaism --- Christianity and other religions --- History --- Relations --- Christianity --- Identity. --- Europe, Northern --- Ethnic relations --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religions --- Semites --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Religion --- Northern Europe --- Jews. --- To 1500 --- Europe, Northern. --- Jewish question --- European history --- Social & cultural history --- Jewish history --- medieval --- Jewish --- conversion --- converted --- European Jews --- theology --- Jewish/Christian relations --- Middle Ages --- inter-religious --- Apostasy --- Halakha --- Rashi --- History. --- European history. --- HISTORY / Jewish. --- History & Archaeology --- Identity --- Offenses against religion --- Heresy