This paper provides overview of the two larger Muslim communities in Detroit (African-American and Arab American), their differing views on theology, racism, and women's rights issues, as well as the places where they are united. It also focuses on the recent media and scholarly attention on the Arab American Muslim community in Detroit and how it marginalizes the African-American Muslim community. It looks at the reasons for diversity and then evaluates if it is feasible that Detroit Muslims will eventually develop a united ummah or if they will continue to construct distinctive but separate American Muslim identities and communities in the twenty-first century.

The Family of Love was a religious collective that emerged in the Low Countries during the Reformation and settled in England in the latter half of the sixteenth century. It was a casualty of entrenched doctrinal disagreement and the sensationalism of popular print culture. Yet, there is reason to believe that Familists were very much a part of the very society that so vehemently condemned them. While earlier scholars have noted the surprising level to which the group immersed themselves in their local communities, few have specifically addressed the immersion of Familists in their religious and intellectual milieu. This dissertation seeks to uncover the worldview that the Elizabethan Family shared with even its fiercest detractors. Through a close reading of the surviving material, the following chapters reveal a religious climate in England that was far more porous, and far less set-in-stone, than many in the period were willing to admit. In particular, the dissertation focuses on two, related categories: the religious justifications for outward obedience to authority and the methods of interpreting the "literal" meaning of sacred writings. Familists were notorious for transgressing the accepted boundaries of both categories. As those hostile to the group were eager to point out, they were furtively disobedient and ruthlessly allegorical. My research suggests, to the contrary, that Familist thought often fell within the accepted boundaries of these two categories; only the categories themselves were inchoate. In making this point, this dissertation contributes to a broader interest in the reification of religious traditions at the expense of those less-defined worldviews that contributed to their original development.

This dissertation is grounded in a detailed analysis of Paul Tillich's ontology and theology, which allows me to develop a conceptual analysis grounded in a particular ontological theory. Specifically, that theory is the existential ontology developed by Martin Heidegger and theologically codified by Paul Tillich. Based in that analysis, the dissertation develops a philosophical concept of Nature, arguing that the modern understanding of Nature is a product of existential estrangement, the mechanistic understanding of nature of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, and the technological drive to master nature. The modern concept of Nature is thus deeply ambiguous: Nature is that from which we are apart but simultaneously that of which we are a part. The dissertation then employs Tillich's method of correlation to correlate this concept of Nature with the recently revitalized symbolic name, Gaia, understood through the lens of James Lovelock's Gaia theory. This allows for a religious ethic of environmental conservation -- fully grounded in a scientific, ecological understanding of the life process of the Earth as a whole as well as a systematic and developed philosophical ontology and theology -- guided by the imaginative resource of an image of a living Earth, Gaia.

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Inhalt: 1. Die Gesetze der Torah bezüglich verbotener Speisen 2. Die zum Genuss erlaubten Tiere 2.1. Säugetiere 2.2. Vögel 2.3. Fische 2.4. Insekten 3. Das Schächten 4. Gründe für das Schächten in der jüdischen Literatur 5. Trefot – religiöse Fleischbeschau 6. Das Porschen 7. Das Salzen

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Rezensiertes Werk: Encyclopaedia Judaica / Hrsg. von Fred Skolnik ... - Second Edition. - Jerusalem [u.a] : Keter Publ., 2007. - (Library Edition, www.encyclopaediajudaica.com/encyclopaedia-judaica/index.php)

Rezensiertes Werk: Kahana, Menahem I.: Sifre Zuta Deuteronomy : citations from a New Tannaitic Midrash / Menahem I. Kahana. - Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2002. - 476 S.

Rezensiertes Werk: Current trends in the study of midrash / ed. by Carol Bakhos. - Leiden [u.a.]: Brill, 2006. - VI, 336 S. ISBN 9004138706