Handbook of Basic Concepts in Religious Studies

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The Handbook of Religious Studies Basic Concepts (official abbreviation: HrwG ) is a five-volume reference work on religious studies published from 1988 to 2001 .

This is the first comprehensive, explicitly religious studies lexicon in the German-speaking area, i. This means that it is not based on a specific denominational or religious foundation - in contrast to Religion Past and Present (RGG) ( Protestant Christianity ), the Lexicon for Theology and Church (LthK) ( Catholic Christianity ) or the Theological Real Encyclopedia (TRE) ( ecumenical ). The manual contains a theoretically based and scientific-practical separation of religious and religious-scientific terms, a detailed description of the sub-disciplines of religious studies and their leading representatives and, in the systematic part, a comparative history of science .

The HrwG u. a. by the religious historian Hubert Cancik , Burkhard Gladigow and the ethnologist Karl-Heinz Kohl . The individual contributions come from numerous other representatives of the discipline of religious studies, such as B. the religious historian Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier , the religious sociologist Günter Kehrer or the religious scholars Hans Gerhard Kippenberg and Hartmut Zinser .

structure

  • Volume 1: Systematic Part; Alphabetical part: "Superstition" - "Anti-Semitism"
  • Volume 2: "Apocalyptic" - "History"
  • Volume 3: "Law" - "Cult"
  • Volume 4: "Cult Image" - "Role"
  • Volume 5: "Secularization" - "Intermediate Beings"; Register.

literature

  • Hubert Cancik et al. (Ed.), Handbook of Basic Concepts for Religious Studies , in 5 volumes, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1988 - 2001, ISBN 3-17-010531-0 .