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Rights Catalogue Spring 2022
Theology
Grzegorz Hołub
Understanding the Person Essays on the Personalism of Karol Wojtyła The book deals with the philosophy of the human person as worked out by Karol Wojtyła. It presents a number of fundamental issues necessary to understand Karol Wojtyła’s personalism. Thus, first it undertakes Wojtyła’s move from the philosophy of the human being to the philosophy of the human person; second, it presents Wojtyła’s epistemological approach to the person against the background of other philosophies concerned with the human person; third, it describes the metaphysical structure of the person; four, it analyses the person’s selected faculties (consciousness, emotions); five, it presents some aspects of the action of the person (a person’s causation, or their role in dialogue); and finally, it tries to sketch the problem of personal dignity. Grzegorz Hołub is professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland. His area of research includes ethics, bioethics and the philosophy of the human person.
Berlin, 2021. 196 pp. European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions. Vol. 29 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-85423-5 CHF 58.– / €D 49.95 / €A 51.40 / € 46.70 / £ 38.– / US-$ 56.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-631-85701-4 CHF 58.– / €D 49.95 / €A 51.40 / € 46.70 / £ 38.– / US-$ 56.95 Monographs, English
Zekirija Sejdini • Martina Kraml • Matthias Scharer (eds.)
Becoming Human Fundamentals of Interreligious Education and Didactics from a MuslimChristian Perspective
Oxford, 2020. VIII, 162 pp., 1 fig. b/w. pb. • ISBN 978-1-78874-720-2 CHF 39.– / €D 33.95 / €A 34.– / € 30.90 / £ 25.– / US-$ 37.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-1-78874-721-9 CHF 39.– / €D 33.95 / €A 34.– / € 30.90 / £ 25.– / US-$ 37.95 Monograph, English
Religious and cultural diversity are increasingly visible today. At the same time, increased fear of the «other» has manifested, particularly of the Islamic religion. Islam today is considered a «problematic» religion. This attitude yields many challenges in universities and schools, particularly when it comes to religious education. The Institute for Islamic Theology and Religious Education and the Catholic Religious Education Department at the University of Innsbruck are addressing these challenges, having spearheaded a program of intensive cooperation in teacher education – including courses on pedagogy, religious didactics, internships, and evidence-based learning processes in schools and universities. This research and teaching collaboration lacked an appropriate framework. This book provides a solid basis for interreligious pedagogy and didactics. Authentic interreligious cooperation begins by promoting intra- and inter-religious self-confidence and self-understanding. This required countless discussions among the authors, which yielded distinct viewpoints as well as commonalities. In this way the anthropological starting point for this book emerged and is expanded through a theological perspective on religious education and didactics. Various approaches and attitudes are developed and examined, including contingency sensibility, to support the competent planning, management, and evaluation of educational processes in pluralistic and heterogeneous fields. Zekirija Sejdini, Professor of Religious Education and Contemporary Islam, Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna, Head of the Center of Interreligious Studies, Innsbruck. Martina Kraml, Professor of Religious Education, University of Innsbruck, Head of the Center of Interreligious Studies, Innsbruck. Matthias Scharer, Professor Emeritus of Religious Education, University of Innsbruck, certificated trainer at the Ruth Cohn Institute International for TCI.
