Search

[German Version] I. Life – II. Work – III. Influence (Jul 28, 1804, Landshut – Sep 13, 1872, Rechenberg, near Nürnberg) I. Life The son of the legal theoretician Paul Johann Anselm (Ritter von) Feuerbach, he studied theology in Heidelberg especially under C. Daubl and philosophy in Berlin under G.F.W. Hegel. In Erlangen, he enrolled in botany, anatomy, and physiology ( De ratione, una, universali, infinita), and in 1829–1832 was active as Privatdozent. The anonymous publication of his Gedanken über Tod und Unsterblichkeit (ET: Thoughts on Death and Immortality, 1830), in particu…

[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Old Testament – III. Primitive Christianity – IV. Church History – V. Judaism – VI. Islam – VII. Asia, Africa, and Latin America – VIII. Social Sciences – IX. Psychology – X. Philosophy of Religion – XI. Practical Theology I. Religious Studies To date there have been hardly any works devoted to men from the perspective of religious studies. Given the androcentrism of traditional scholarship, the category of homo religiosus has usually yielded knowledge of the religious male, but this work must …

[German Version] Along with “patriarchy” and “sexism,” androcentrism (lit. “centering on the man [ anēr/andros]”) is one of the fundamental critical and heuristic categories of women's studies, feminist studies (Feminism and feminist theology), gender studies, outgrowths of so-called second-wave feminism since the end of the 1960s. Objectively, androcentrism means (a) a prejudice and perspective that understands maleness as th…

[German Version] I. Cultural History – II. Philosophy of Religion – III. Fundamental Theology – IV. Dogmatics – V. Ethics – VI. Practical Theology – VII. Feminism, Art, and Religion – VIII. Religious Feminism in North America I. Cultural History 1. The term Feminism is a theory, a praxis, and a worldwide movement whose goal is to achieve equal influence for women in all areas of the state, society, and culture, ¶ together with equal rights for women and men. The term was probably coined by the early socialist Charles Fourier (1772–1837), who was the first to…