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[German Version] I. Protestantism 1. Concept and subject area Religionspädagogik (RP), as the German technical term designating the science of ¶ religious education or pedagogics, is first attested in 1889 in the writings of Max Reischle (1858–1905), a disciple of A. Ritschl (Bockwoldt, 9f.). The first professorship for (Protestant) RP was instituted in 1924 in Göttingen (Roggenkamp-Kaufmann, 119f.). The term denotes “a ‘modern’ German science situated between theology and educational theory (Education, Theory of)” …

[German Version] I. Byzantine Chronicles – II. Eastern Christian Chronicles – III. Russian Chronicles – IV. Western Chronicles I. Byzantine Chronicles Recent scholarship rightly sees world histories and contemporary historical works as a literary unity. In conformity with the terminology used here, in this article “chronicles” encompasses only world histories and annals. The Byzantine world produced far fewer kinds of chronicles than did the West, the Slavic world, and the Christian East. There are virtually no chronicles and annals o…

[German Version] ( Herakleios; 575 – Feb 11, 641), Byzantine emperor from 610 to 641. Born in Carthage, where his father was exarch, Heraclius overthrew his predecessor Phokas and established a dynasty that ruled until 711. He secured the status quo in the Balkans by negotiating treaties with the Avars and turned his attention to the conflict with the Sasanids, who had unsuccessfully besieged Constantinople in 626 before suffering a crucial defeat near Niniveh in 627, an event that precipitated the…

[German Version] was patriarch of Constantinople; the dates of his birth and death (the latter probably between 536 and 552) are unknown. As an adherent of Monophysitism, he was transferred at the instigation of Empress Theodora from the Metropolitan see in Trapezus to Constantinople (after Jun 5, 535). The historian Theophanes Homologetes and the Liber pontificalis report his activity, which his own clergy opposed. Pope Agapet, who stayed in Constantinople in 535/36, obtained his deposition because …

[German Version] (lit. “Song of the Lord”) is one of the best-known, most discussed, and for many Hindus most authoritative texts of Hinduism; it comprises 18 chapters (700 verses) from book 6 of the Mahābhārata epic. Greatly simplified, the teachings contained in the Bhagavadgītā fall into three categories: 1. reflections on competing ideals of salvation and proper social order: ascetic renunciation, yogic contemplation, Sāṃkhya …

[English Version] I. Evangelisch 1.  Begriff und Gegenstandsbereich. Religionspädagogik (RP), als Fachterminus erstmals 1889 bei Max Reischle (1858–1905), Schüler A. Ritschls, nachweisbar (Bockwoldt 9f.), erste Professur für (ev.) RP 1924 in Göttingen (Roggenkamp-Kaufmann 119f.), bez. »eine ›moderne‹ dt. Wiss. zw. Theol. und Pädagogik« (Grethlein, 1998, 1f.), wobei mittlerweile die Religionswissenschaft als dritte Bezugswiss. hinzutritt, inhaltlich die Theorie rel., christl. und kirchl. Bildung, Sozial…