Amos (magazine)
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| description | political journal |
| First edition | 1968 |
| Frequency of publication | quarterly |
| Web link | amos-zeitschrift.de |
| Article archive | amos-zeitschrift.de |
| ISSN (print) | 1615-3278 |
AMOS is the title of a magazine from the time of the 1968 movement , which ties in with the socially critical prophet Amos from the Bible . AMOS first appeared as a magazine title in autumn 1968 on leaflets on the occasion of the then regional synod of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia at the Von Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten Bethel . Since the beginning of 1969 AMOS has been published as a critical quarterly magazine from the Ruhr area in Bochum. Until 2008 the subtitle was Critical Papers from the Ruhr Area. The journal deals with a particular topic and contains mostly original articles.
Goals and implementation
The authors want to combine the statements of the biblical prophet with today's social criticism: as a criticism of social injustice ( social justice ) on the one hand, and of “pious self-sufficiency” on the other. Amos, like other biblical prophets of his time, provoked, exposed the powerful and caused a sensation through symbolic acts of civil disobedience . According to the biblical story, Amos was exemplary in his time (8th century BC): He worked with his hands and simply lived on the produce of his fields; he is portrayed as spiritually and economically independent. Coming from a humble background, he went public without having officially studied. He did not want to exercise power at court or in the temple. His example was the reason to choose him as the name giver.
The magazine's logo has remained unchanged, which is intended to emphasize the continuity with the 1968 movement. In contrast to many of the start-ups of this era, it is one of the few magazines that has been published continuously until today (2020).
The sponsor is a project by socially active people in the Ruhr area who relate to the structural change in the region. This change is represented in terms of certain themes and the opposing actors are considered. The magazine continues to see itself as socially critical. The editors and authors set themselves the goal of analyzing “power relations” and supporting forces of “rebellion” and “resistance”. By AMOS should be networked forces who are looking for alternatives to the motto "Another world is possible". The magazine sees itself as taking sides, but not as party-political. The topics stem mainly from current social, cultural, religious and integration-political issues. Subscribers and sponsors secure the financing.
Work in the editing and editorial team a. Personalities from the Protestant Church who are involved in ecumenical and interreligious practice and theory.
The quarterly magazine is viewed critically in the Protestant Church . Because she knows u. a. also refer to "undesirable developments" and "grievances" within the church, such as problems of church employees under labor law. AMOS received a one-off grant for printing costs from church authorities in 2003.
The publication is listed in the Stamm Jahrbuch , a guide for press and advertising.
Legal dispute over the magazine title
One of the Catholic Social Institute Coming in the title with the subtitle was in Dortmund and the publisher Aschendorff, Münster, since autumn 2006, newly published magazine initially the same name company meet make . The publisher of the original AMOS took title protection to complete and achieved only with the help of the Landgericht Bochum that the editor of the new journal from 2008 the title in Amosinternational abänderten.