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We live in a present of multiple and conflicting sacralities. How do we account for the persistence and remarkable adaptability of traditional forms of the Christian sacred? How do we explain the ongoing allure of instrumentalizing the sacred for political purposes? And what do we make of the spread of nature spiritualities that have been so pertinent over the last half century? This volume seeks to reflect upon how these multiple sacralizations can be studied and understood in historical and cross-disciplinary perspective.
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PD Dr. Gregor Feindt ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte und assoziiertes Mitglied im SFB 1482 Humandifferenzierung.Dr. Bernhard Gißibl ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz.Andrea Hofmann, Dr. theol., is a member of the academic staff at the chair of Early Modern and Modern History of Christianity, Faculty of Theology at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Recently, she holds a DFG-fellowship and carries on research at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Strasbourg. Recent publications: Predigt im Ersten Weltkrieg. La predication durant la “Grande Guerre” (co-ed., Göttingen 2017); Überlegungen zur Ausbildung einer „Zwei-Reiche-Lehre“ in wissenschaftlichen Schriften und Predigten des Ersten Weltkriegs (in: Jürgen Kampmann / Hans Otte (Hg.), Angewandtes Luthertum? Die Zwei-Reiche-Lehre als theologische Konstruktion in politischen Kontexten des 20. Jahrhunderts, Gütersloh 2017, 53–65).Prof. Dr. Johannes Paulmann ist Direktor des Leibniz-Instituts für Europäische Geschichte, Abteilung für Universalgeschichte, in Mainz.Dr. Bernhard Gißibl ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz.Andrea Hofmann is a private lecturer in the Faculty of Theology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.
Summary
We live in a present of multiple and conflicting sacralities. How do we account for the persistence and remarkable adaptability of traditional forms of the Christian sacred? How do we explain the ongoing allure of instrumentalizing the sacred for political purposes? And what do we make of the spread of nature spiritualities that have been so pertinent over the last half century? This volume seeks to reflect upon how these multiple sacralizations can be studied and understood in historical and cross-disciplinary perspective.
