Michelle A. Gonzalez Livres

Taking a thematic approach and covering both historical and contemporary dimensions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam shows how a shared monotheistic legacy frames and helps explain the commonalities and disagreements among Judaism, Christianity and Islam and their significant denominations. The authors discuss how contemporary geographic and cultural contexts shape the expression of monotheism in the three religions, covering differences between religious expressions in North America, Europe, the Middle-East, Latin America and Africa. Topics and themes discussed include creation, cult and ritual, scripture, prophecy, religious freedom, abortion and gender equality. Written for undergraduate students by three authors with extensive teaching experience, each a specialist in one of the three monotheistic traditions, the text contains 40 images, maps, and timelines. Case studies and study questions are contained throughout, and a companion website provides links to useful web-sites, films and documentaries. Judaism, Christianity and Islam offers a new approach and resource for teaching western religious traditions.

For centuries, the creation story in Genesis 1 has been a foundation for Christian understandings of the human being. In particular, this egalitarian vision of women as well as men being created in the image of God has been a lynchpin to feminist claims for equality in the church and society. But as Michele Gonzalez shows, feminist theology has struggled against a long, contrary tradition, in which women’s claim to represent the image of God was seen as deficient or secondary to men. In tracing the history of this contested theme, Gonzalez presents an introduction to the field of feminist anthropology. Ultimately, she argues, a new understanding of imago Dei in women must be rooted in a new understanding of God –grounded in, yet critical of, the Christian tradition.

Die 'Interkulturelle Theologie. Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft' erscheint in Fortführung des Evangelischen Missions-Magazins (seit 1816) und der Evangelischen Missions-Zeitschrift. Sie reflektiert die theologischen Grundlagen der Mission (Missionstheologie) sowie Erfahrungen und Probleme der weltweiten missionarischen Praxis. Sie bringt Beiträge und Analysen zu missionsgeschichtlichen Themen, widmet sich missionswissenschaftlich relevanten ethnologischen, religions- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsergebnissen und beteiligt sich an interreligiösen und interkulturellen Dialogen. Im Vordergrund steht das Bemühen um Respekt und ein besseres Verständnis anderer Glaubensweisen, die Unterstützung von auf den jeweiligen Kontext bezogenen Theologien und das Gespräch mit überseeischen Theologinnen und Theologen. Die 'Interkulturelle Theologie' informiert zudem regelmäßig in verschiedenen Rubriken über aktuelle Entwicklungen, Ereignisse und NeuerscheinungenSchriftleitung: Ulrich Dehn (Hauptschriftleiter), Moritz Fischer, Klaus Hock, Katrin Kusmierz, Benedict SchubertThemenheft mit Beiträgen zur Postkolonialismus-Debatte, hrsg. von Andreas Nehring