Religious Conflict from Early Christianity to the Rise of Islam

Wendy Mayer, Bronwen Neil (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
XII, 256 Seiten
2013
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-029178-0 (ISBN)
154,95 inkl. MwSt
Die seit 1925 erscheinenden Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte bilden eine der traditionsreichsten historischen Buchreihen im deutschsprachigen Raum. Sie enthalten Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte des Christentums aller Epochen, veröffentlichen aber auch Arbeiten aus verwandten Disziplinen wie beispielsweise der Archäologie, Kunstgeschichte oder Literaturwissenschaft. Kennzeichnend für die Reihe ist der durchgängige Anspruch, historisch-methodische Präzision mit systematischen Kontextualisierungen des jeweiligen Gegenstandes zu verbinden. In jüngerer Zeit erscheinen verstärkt Arbeiten zu Themen einer Kultur- und Ideengeschichte des Christentums in einem methodisch offenen christentumsgeschichtlichen Horizont.
Conflict has been an inescapable facet of religion from its very beginnings. This volume offers insight into the mechanisms at play in the centuries from the Jesus-movement’s first attempts to define itself over and against Judaism to the beginnings of Islam. Profiling research by scholars of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University, the essays document inter- and intra-religious conflict from a variety of angles. Topics relevant to the early centuries range from religious conflict between different parts of the Christian canon, types of conflict, the origins of conflict, strategies for winning, for conflict resolution, and the emergence of a language of conflict. For the fourth to seventh centuries case studies from Asia Minor, Syria, Constantinople, Gaul, Arabia and Egypt are presented. The volume closes with examinations of the Christian and Jewish response to Islam, and of Islam’s response to Christianity. Given the political and religious tensions in the world today, this volume is well positioned to find relevance and meaning in societies still grappling with the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

David Luckensmeyer, Wendy Mayer, and Bronwen Neil, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Australia.

"The Centre's interdisciplinary team of scholars put its collaborative focus and collective expertise on a further topic of current global interest, namely religious conflict (previous research projects focused on poverty and crisis management). [...] In the first essay, "Religious Conflict: Definitions, Problems and Theoretical Approaches" (1-19), Wendy Mayer provides an excellent survey of the problems involved in defining religious conflict, of various recent theoretical approaches (contemporary theories and approaches, approaches to religious conflict in the period 50-850 CE), different international research projects and of "shifting paradigms, old problems, and new questions" in the study of religious conflict. [...]
The volume testifies to the Centre's approach of bringing together the still largely separate disciplines of New Testament Studies, Patristics, and Latin Antiquity. It indicates to what extent religious conflicts of various kinds and degrees shaped the early centuries of Christianity."
Christoph Stenschke in: Ephemerides Theologica Lovanienses 91,2 (2015)

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.8.2013
Reihe/Serie Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte ; 121
Verlagsort Berlin/Boston
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 230 mm
Gewicht 485 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
Schlagworte Early Christianity • Early Islam • Früher Islam • Frühes Christentum • Late Antiquity • Neues Testament • New Testament Studies • New Testament Studies; Early Christianity; Patristics; Early Islam; Late Antiquity • Patristics • Patristik • Spätantike
ISBN-10 3-11-029178-9 / 3110291789
ISBN-13 978-3-11-029178-0 / 9783110291780
Zustand Neuware
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