Religious Studies

Friedrich Hermanni reconstructs Hegel's Berlin philosophy of religion - which he developed in four lectures on the philosophy of religion between 1821 and 1831 - in a precise and comprehensible manner. He thereby paves the way for its appropriation in the context of contemporary philosophy of religion.

Religious experience was a driving force behind the emergence of early Christianity. Andreas-Christian Heidel explores experiential spaces in Greco-Roman religion and demonstrates how this force shaped the tension-laden development of the early Christian community in Corinth amid competing expectations.

What we know as the Holy Land is not merely the biblical land. The contributions to this volume demonstrate how it - perhaps even more than through biblical texts - was created by extracanonical traditions of texts, rituals, and material culture.

The cross is the tremendum of theology and its fascinosum . The cross as a rupture of interpretations marks the Other of the media of religion. The cross breaks open the possibilities for the media of religion: in word, writing and image of the cross. Theology of the cross thus becomes the phobic prolegomena of medial theology.