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[German Version] I. Linguistics and Religious Studies – II. Philosophy – III. Philosophy of Religion – IV. Fundamental Theology – V. Ethics – VI. Practical Theology – VII. Missiology – VIII. Liturgics I. Linguistics and Religious Studies 1. Linguistics As studied by linguistics (Philology), language is an inventory of audible signs combined ¶ according to specific rules to facilitate interpersonal communication. There is a general distinction between language as a transindividual system of signs ( langue) and its actualization by an individual speaker ( parole). Within the field, a distinction is usually made between general linguistics, which studies the premises of speech and develops a typology of language through analysis of the structural differences between various languages, and comparative (or historical) linguistics, which studies the history of related language families, especially the Indo-European languages. Additional specialized fields of study within linguistics characteristically overlap with other disciplines in the social sciences, …

[German Version] The organization previously known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics (now SIL International) was founded in 1934 by the American William C. Townsend as a series of annual language training programs for missionaries, with an emphasis on Bible translation. SIL grew substantially, and the organization eventually spread to Australia, Asia, Africa, and Europe. The main activity today is systematic linguistic work with unwritten languages: linguistic analysis, publishing educational…