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By opposing sectarian discourses with the universal weapons of history, philology and anthropology, in short, the entire arsenal of science and reason, the history of religions of the past enables us to deflate modern myths, and not only those of others but also our own. It allows us to identify the projection, in the imaginary past, of the "origins" of nationalist, religious or racist fantasies, and to disarm exaggerated interpretations of the sacred texts. Within nations inherited from the 19th century, ancient history can help to deconstruct the representation that nation states sometimes create of their past, by showing that despite their apparent proximity, their "ancestors", often simply assumed to be so, were as distant from the current society as the inhabitants of the antipodes, and hardly resembled the image assigned to them. It enables us to challenge the "Greek miracle", the "Roman genius", the "Germanic superiority", or the Hegelian dialectic professing that religions and history tend towards Christian monotheism

Religions --- Civilization, Ancient --- History. --- Rome --- Religion. --- Ancient civilization --- institutions --- ancient history --- archeology --- religion --- history of religions

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Throughout the last two decades, the modern dialogue movement has gained worldwide significance. The knowledge about its origins is, however, still very limited. This book presents a wide range of insights from eleven case studies into the early history of several important international interreligious/interfaith dialogue organizations that have shaped the modern development of interreligious dialogue from the late nineteenth century up to the present. Based on new archival research, they describe, on the one hand, how these actors put their ideals into practice and, on the other, how they faced many challenges as pioneers in the establishment of new interreligious/interfaith organizational structures. This book concludes with a comparison of those case studies, bringing to light new and broader historico-sociological understanding of the beginnings of international and multi-religious interreligious/interfaith dialogue organizations over more than one century. The World's Parliament of Religions / 1893 The Religiöser Menschheitsbund / 1921 The World Congress of Faiths / 1933-1950 The Committee on the Church and the Jewish People of the World Council of Churches / 1961 The Temple of Understanding / 1968 The International Association for Religious Freedom / 1969 The World Conference on Religion and Peace / 1970 The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions / 1989-1991 The Oxford International Interfaith Centre / 1993 The United Religions Initiative / 2000 The Universal Peace Federation / 2005 Based on these analyses, the authors identify three distinct groups with sometimes-conflicting interests that are shaping the movement: individual religious virtuosi, countercultural activists, and representatives of religious institutions. Published in cooperation with the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious & Intercultural Dialogue, Vienna.

Dialogue --- Religion --- Religious aspects. --- Relations. --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Interreligious dialogue. --- international relations. --- modern history of religions. --- religion, peace and violence.

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Religion. --- Religie --- Kościół katolicki i kultura --- badania porównawcze --- czasopisma. --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Periodicals --- Religions. (Mélanges) --- Godsdiensten. (Versch.onderwerpen) --- study of religions --- history of religions --- phenomenology of religion --- anthropology of religion --- sociology of religion --- psychology of religion --- religion (discipline)

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The book puts the current interest in historical Jesus research into a proper historical context, highlighting Gnosticism’s lasting influence on early Christianity and making the provocative claim that nearly all Christian Churches are in some way descended from Roman Christianity. Breaking with the accepted wisdom of Christianity’s origins, the revised history it puts forward challenges the assumptions of Church and secular historians, biblical critics and general readers alike, with profound repercussions for scholarship, belief and practice. .

Religion. --- Bible --- Ethnology. --- Europe --- Religious Studies. --- Biblical Studies. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- History of Ancient Europe. --- Theology. --- History—To 476. --- Christianity. --- Religionsgeschichtliche Schule. --- Church history. --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- History of religions school --- History --- Religions --- Church history --- Origin --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Bible-Theology. --- Europe-History-To 476. --- Bible—Theology. --- Europe—History—To 476.