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[German Version] (Nov 11, 1897, Montezuma, IN – Oct 9, 1967, Cambridge, MA), personality psychologist. Allport received his doctorate from Harvard in 1922 and taught at Dartmouth and Harvard. During a period in which the field of psychology was dominated by the …

[German Version] (Sep 16, 1885, Hamburg – Dec 4, 1952, New York) was a psychoanalyst in Berlin, Chicago, and New Y…

[German Version] I. Concept – II. Practical Theology – III. Ethics…

[German Version] I. Philosophy of Religion and Ethics – II. Practical Theology …

[German Version] I. Science of Religion – II. Philosophy – III. Practical Theology I. Science of Religion A functional analysis describes the parts of a system on the basis of their function for the whole. Pioneered by É. Durkheim, functionalism was developed in Anglo-Saxon cultural anthropology by B. Malinowski and Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown, primarily as a heuristic framework for ethnographic observation, to be distinguished from theory-driven evolutionism…

[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Philosophy – III. Philosophy of Religion – IV. Practical Theology I. Religious Studies Anxiety (Angst) or fear (anxiety is the deeper but less harmful form of the feeling) – S. Freud scarcely differentiates between the terms – is an alteration in feeling and behavior triggered by pain, actual or expected, loss, or expected punishment. Somatic responses triggered by a perceived threat – perspiration, increased pulse rate, a sense of confinement (cf. Lat. angustus, “narrow, constricted”) – are associated with complex reactions of the limbic brain. In religion, physical fear is less important than cognitive fear of leaving this world and being punished in the next – so much so that critics of religion from antiquity (Statius: primus in orbe deos fecit timor [ Thebaid 3, 661]) to modern times (L. Feuerbach, S. Kierkegaard, S. Freud, K. Marx) have asserted that there is no fear without religion. – In his book Das Heilige…

[German Version] I. Philosophy – II. Philosophy of Religion – III. Church History – IV. Fundamental Theology – V. Dogmatics – VI. Ethics – VII. Practical Theology I. Philosophy In a broad sense shaped by daily life in the world, “experience” has been understood since Aristotle ( …