Religious Studies

Siegfried Kracauer was a sociologist, film theorist, and critic of religion, yet he grappled with theological questions throughout his life. Ansgar Martins traces his »wanderings« through Judaism, esotericism, and Marxism.

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have always constituted themselves historically, through competing interpretations of a shared inheritance. Joining historical and religious inquiry, David Nirenberg illuminates the many possibilities of relation between past and present.

For Luke, Abraham, Moses, and David are more than prehistory. Carolin Ziethe shows how he weaves the three father figures into a Gedächtnisgemälde - a tableau of memory - that anchors his account of Jesus and the early church in the history of Israel and orients the Lukan community both inwardly and outwardly.

Eilert Herms reconstructs Weinberg's description of the process of the cosmos and shows: The enduring presence of this process for inner-cosmic persons, who explore it, is not only the condition of possibility for this exploration, but also the real condition of possibility and the real medium of the process itself.