Religions in world- and global history a view from the German-language discussion

The author argues that religious history is underestimated in its importance for World- and Global history. The history of religions is quite often an established sub-discipline within convincing research traditions. In order to reconstruct the past adequately, historians need academically controlle...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Nolte, Hans-Heinrich, 1938-, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang Edition cop. 2015
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. General remarks and definitions
  • I.1 World and Global History - an inter-disciplinary project
  • I.2 World and Global History - on concepts
  • I.3 Religions and civilizations
  • II. Case-Studies
  • II.1 Some famous ones
  • II.2 Catholic Church and European World System in the 13th. century
  • II.3 Protestantism and nation-states in the 16th. cy. "Konfessionsbildung" and social discipline.
  • II.4 "Old belief" as protest against the modernising tendency of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 17th. century
  • II.5 The Russian Orthodox Church serving enlightened absolutism in the 18th. century and yet loosing the Patriarchy and monasteries
  • II.6 Islam as an anti-colonial movement in the Caucasus in the 19th. century
  • II.7 Christian Democracy as European variant for politics in the 20th. century
  • II.8 Secularisation as European "Sonderweg"
  • II.9 The role of religions in the developing East-West-conflict in Europe
  • II.10 Orisha
  • III Conclusions for Histories of the World and of the World-System