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Impoverishment
(615 words)
[German Version] The intransitive meaning of the German verb
verelenden, which is already attested in Middle High German, is “to sink into misery,” while its transitive use means “to drive someone into poverty.” ¶ The related verb
verelendigen means “to drive out of the land, to bring misery upon someone.”
Elend (misery) was the term with which the social criticism of the early 19th century denounced the impoverishment of large segments of the population that accompanied the simultaneous increase of general prosperity resulting from progressing industrialization. In contrast to pro-reform conceptions of society, the early writings of K. Marx and F. Engels are based on the assumption that the growing impoverishment of the working class would lead to revolutionary action. According to Marx, a characteris…
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Religion Past and Present
Sexual Ethics
(532 words)
[German Version] Recent conceptions of Protestant sexual ethics emphasize the difference between ethics as critical moral theory and sexual morality as its object; again, a distinction must be made between normative conceptions of ethics and descriptive or hermeneutical conceptions, following in the footsteps of F.D.E. Schleiermacher. Changes in the area of sexuality, marriage, and family, often profound, can be adequately addressed theologically only if they are not subjected at the same time to normative ethic…
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Religion Past and Present
Distant Neighbor, Love for the
(472 words)
[German Version] The expression “love for the distant neighbor” originated (as
Fernstenliebe) with F. Nietzsche, whose Zarathustra propounds a love for those far away and for the future
Übermensch (6.1: 78.30–79.2), derived from the Socratic idea of friendship (IV) and in contrast to the Christian ideal of love of one's neighbor, which is said to be merely a symptom of base self-love and weakness of c…
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Religion Past and Present
Sexism
(466 words)
[German Version] The term
sexism was coined by feminism after the analogy of racism. It denotes “the social construction of inequality within a society based on the assumed superiority of one sex to the other” (Tolbert, 503). The social pressure to act in accordance with conventional gender roles implies a negative moral assessment of deviant sexual behavior, especially homosexuality, and in the context of patriarchy misogyny that can extend to violence. A sexist perspective ascribes gender differen…
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Religion Past and Present
Amnesty International
(218 words)
[German Version] (AI), founded in 1961, is a human rights organization that works …
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Religion Past and Present
Accommodation
(742 words)
[German Version] I. Dogmatics, Fundamental Theology - II. Missiology
I. Dogmatics, Fundamental Theology The term “accommodation” (from Latin
accommodatio…
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Religion Past and Present
Proclamation
(1,775 words)
[German Version]
I. Fundamental Theology Although
proclamation…
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Religion Past and Present
Sexuality
(7,176 words)
[German Version]
I. Religious Studies Religions have various assessments and guidelines regarding sexuality, which shape the concrete ways people deal with it and influence certain social attitudes. Religious sexual morality (Sexual ethics) regulates sexual relations through various sexual taboos and by …
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Religion Past and Present
Enemy/Love of One's Enemy
(1,755 words)
[German Version] I. History of Religion – II. Old Testament – III. New Testament – IV. Ethics
I. History of Religion …
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Religion Past and Present
Anthropomorphism
(2,629 words)
[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Bible – III. Judaism – IV. Islam –V. Philosophy of Religion – VI. Dogmatics – VII. Practical Theology
I. Religious Studies Anthropomorphism denotes the conception of God or gods in human form. It derives from the personification of spiritual events (animatism), the idea of attributing a soul to stones, trees or places (Animism) or the idea of a power indwelling objects or persons (dyna-mism). In re…
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Religion Past and Present