Product Description: English summary: The modern age understands justice not only as being an object of jurisprudence. Historical, philosophical, social and cultural studies along with theological approaches each draw near to justice in their own way...read more

Product Description: English summary: 'Metamorphoses of the holy' denotes the changing aesthetic presentation of the sacred which is connected to the creation and institutionalization of religion as art. The focus of the essays in this volume is the structure and dynamic of this process, something which affects all art genres...read more

Product Description: Magnus Schlette investigates the understanding of identity in pietism by analysing 17th- and 18th-century pietistic literature. Most stunningly, he finds out that how a person sees him/herself is intimately linked to forms of narrative self-invention, in which religious experiences are internalised by way of narration...read more