Product Description: Since the arrival of the first Tibetans in exile in 1959, a vast and continuous wave of international – especially Western – support has permitted these refugees to survive and even to flourish in their temporary places of residence...read more

Product Description: English summary: Thomas Kaufmann describes Luthers "writings on the Jews" in the setting of the dramatically changing historical contexts of the Reformation and in the context of contemporary debates. German description: Thomas Kaufmann stellt Luthers "Judenschriften" vor dem Hintergrund der sich dramatisch verandernden historischen Kontexte der Reformationszeit und im Kontext der zeitgenossischen Debatten dar...read more

Product Description: In the second part of Wechselseitige Wahrnehmung, the Gottingen Academy presents additional conference papers on the ways that Islam and Christianity perceived one another and on the reception of pagan religions by Renaissance humanists."

Product Description: Book by Jörg Baur

Product Description: This volume combines a number of approaches to the history of the conflict between religions and cultures. Contributions from history, art and legal history, as well as Judaistic studies deal with new conceptual considerations on the history of perceptions in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern period; above all interpretations of non-European religions, of paganism in their own European tradition, and how ecclesiastic law treated ""non-believers"" in relation to the heretics...read more

Product Description: No Turks, no Reformation? Thomas Kaufmann explores Christian attitudes to the expanding Ottoman Empire in the late Middle Ages. German text.

Product Description: English summary: In the period of time between Luther's death, the Smalcaldic war (1546/47) and the Thirty Years War, the Lutheran denomination was confronted with particular challenges. Thomas Kaufmann examines the formation of Lutheran Protestantism against the setting of these conflicts as a process of identity development in denominational culture...read more