@book{63722, abstract = {{This volume presents insights from the 2025 ITS-Colloquium on Comparative Theology and So-cial Work, exploring how theological concepts and interreligious dialogue inform and critically engage social practice. Drawing on insights from education, psychosocial support, military chaplaincy, and community-building, it reveals the transformative potential of comparative theology in addressing migration, marginalization, and social fragmentation. The contributions critically examine the ethical depth and practical challenges of integrating religious perspectives into social work, offering valuable insights for theory and praxis in pluralistic societies, while also showing the limits and challenges of theoretical models. Overall, when critically and contextually applied, impulses from comparative theology offer both conceptual depth and practical tools for ethical, inclusive, and transformative social engagement. }}, editor = {{Erdem, Gülbahar and Eroglu, Tarik and Lebock, Sarah}}, location = {{Paderborn}}, publisher = {{DeGruyter}}, title = {{{Comparative Theology and Social Work: Exploring Theory and Praxis in Pluralistic Societies}}}, volume = {{6}}, year = {{2026}}, } @inbook{63211, author = {{Dockter, Cornelia and Lebock, Sarah and Wiesenhütter, Lukas }}, booktitle = {{Religion and Health - Comparative-theological Approaches}}, editor = {{Dockter, Cornelia and Lebock, Sarah and Wiesenhütter, Lukas}}, issn = {{2629-8848}}, pages = {{VII--XV}}, publisher = {{Brill - Schöningh}}, title = {{{Introduction}}}, volume = {{44}}, year = {{2026}}, } @book{63210, editor = {{Dockter, Cornelia and Lebock, Sarah and Wiesenhütter, Lukas}}, issn = {{2629-8848}}, location = {{Paderborn}}, publisher = {{Brill - Schöningh}}, title = {{{Religion and Health - Comparative-Theological Approaches}}}, volume = {{44}}, year = {{2026}}, } @misc{65598, abstract = {{BloKK-Beitrag für das ZeKK, 09.05.2026}}, author = {{Lebock, Sarah}}, title = {{{Von Lust und Frust im Wissenschaftstransfer}}}, year = {{2026}}, } @inbook{58225, abstract = {{In this chapter the common parlance of “religious violence in early modern history” is put to the test, although it seems to be linked in an indissoluble way with the master narratives about this period. The first section shows that it makes no difference whether historians think of early modern history in terms of impersonal structures or of personal experience–they agree in regarding religion as a crucial cause of violence. Against this widespread conviction the paper unfolds two arguments. The first is that the Latin word “religio”, as it was used throughout the 16th and 17th century, did not mean ‘religion’ in our modern comprehensive understanding of the word. Instead its meaning was quite narrow and specific, referring either to the medieval sense of ‘committing oneself to God by joining a religious order’ (becoming a “religiosus” resp. a “religiosa”) or to the ancient sense of ‘scrupulously venerating God’. It did not mean ‘faith’, ‘doctrine’, ‘worship’, ‘church law’ or ‘denomination’, and definitely not all these things in conjunction. Only when the vernacular languages began to borrow the Latin word from the 16th century onwards was its narrow meaning broadened. As a consequence of reformation and counterreformation, the idea arose that one should make faith and doctrine and worship and church law match, although the attempt to implement this new rapport provoked much opposition and turned out to be a very violent process. From this point of view what is generally called “early modern religious violence” is violence caused not by religion, but by the ambition to establish a new idea of religion. The second argument is that our modern understanding of religion is coined by the 18th-century critique of religion. Only the Enlightenment’s claim to overcome religion (in the new sense of the word) declared it to be “irrational” or even “fanatic”. Thus the Enlightenment invented religious fanatism, using it as a retrospective explanation of the violence that had gripped the last centuries. Modern parlance of “religious violence” unintentionally prolongs a very poor idea of religion–and one that should not be mistaken for an explanation.}}, author = {{Süßmann, Johannes}}, booktitle = {{Religiöse Gewalt in historischer Dimension}}, editor = {{Weltecke, Dorothea}}, isbn = {{9783110773781}}, keywords = {{Religion, Gewalt, Begriffsgeschichte, Frühe Neuzeit, Aufklärung, Religionskritik}}, pages = {{429–448}}, publisher = {{De Gruyter | Oldenbourg}}, title = {{{„Religiöse Gewalt“ in der Frühen Neuzeit? Eine begriffsgeschichtliche Revision}}}, doi = {{10.1515/9783110773781-018}}, volume = {{109}}, year = {{2025}}, } @inbook{58538, author = {{Kokew, Stephan Matthias}}, booktitle = {{Islam II. Regionen, Lebensformen, Geistesgeschichte}}, editor = {{Tamer, Georges}}, isbn = {{978-3-17-034022-0}}, keywords = {{Islam, Islamwissenschaft, Toleranz, Islamische Geistesgeschichte, Interreligiöser Dialog}}, pages = {{216--234}}, publisher = {{Kohlhammer}}, title = {{{Aspekte des Zusammenlebens zwischen Muslimen und Nichtmuslimen}}}, doi = {{10.17433/978-3-17-034023-7}}, volume = {{25,2}}, year = {{2025}}, } @misc{60609, author = {{Süßmann, Johannes}}, title = {{{Der Begriff der Religion im ersten deutschen Fremdwörterbuch von 1571}}}, year = {{2025}}, } @misc{60942, abstract = {{BloKK-Beitrag für das ZeKK, 11.07.2025}}, author = {{Lebock, Sarah}}, title = {{{"Komparative Theologie und Soziale Arbeit?!"}}}, year = {{2025}}, } @misc{60601, author = {{Breckner, Anne}}, title = {{{ZeKK Live - 45 Minuten mit Dr. Yasemin El-Menouar}}}, year = {{2025}}, } @article{54964, abstract = {{ Although Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ (Q 112) is one of the shortest sūrahs of the Qurʾān, it has led to an extensive commentary on its structure and content in Muslim exe-getical literature and in Western scholarship. This article takes the recent attempt to contextualize the sūrah in Western scholarship as a starting point and proposes new evidence for the nature of the religious milieu that shaped its form and content. It posits several “intertexts” of creedal expressions, which shed light on the discursive nature of the sūrah.}}, author = {{Ghaffar, Zishan}}, journal = {{Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association}}, keywords = {{Qurʾān, Christology, Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, Jacob of Serugh, Syriac Christianity, Credo}}, number = {{1}}, pages = {{19--45}}, publisher = {{DeGruyter}}, title = {{{The Many Faces of Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ}}}, doi = {{10.1515/jiqsa-2023-0012}}, volume = {{9}}, year = {{2024}}, } @misc{54235, author = {{Süßmann, Johannes}}, title = {{{Religion und Freiheit}}}, year = {{2024}}, } @book{57441, editor = {{Höink, Dominik and Meyer, Andreas}}, isbn = {{978-3-8288-4979-2}}, publisher = {{Tectum}}, title = {{{Music and Religions in the 21st Century}}}, volume = {{1}}, year = {{2024}}, } @inbook{57854, author = {{Lebock, Sarah}}, booktitle = {{Horin. Vergleichende Studien zur japanischen Kultur, Bd. 24}}, editor = {{Matsumaru, Hisao and Röllicke, Hermann-Josef}}, isbn = {{978-3-86205-148-9}}, pages = {{119--142}}, publisher = {{Iudicium Verlag}}, title = {{{Das Flackern der Kerze – Zur Philosophie der Endlichkeit bei Gadamer, Heidegger und Nishida}}}, year = {{2024}}, } @misc{57860, abstract = {{BloKK-Beitrag für das ZeKK, 07.06.2024}}, author = {{Lebock, Sarah}}, title = {{{"Auf der Suche nach Frieden"}}}, year = {{2024}}, } @inbook{45701, author = {{Ghaffar, Zishan}}, booktitle = {{Prophetie in Tenach, Bibel und Qur'an}}, editor = {{Wacker, Marie-Theres and Bechmann, Ulrike and Langer, Gerhard}}, pages = {{11--36}}, title = {{{Prophetologie – Eine Annäherung}}}, year = {{2023}}, } @inbook{49481, abstract = {{Nach dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg kam es in Paderborn zu einem Stadtumbau. Unter der Regierung des Fürstbischofs Ferdinand von Fürstenberg (1661–1683) wurden drei neue Kirchen errichtet, eine ältere erhielt eine neue Fassade. Das machte alle vier zu städtebaulichen Dominanten – nicht nur durch Größe und Positionierung, sondern weil sie die Barockfassade in Paderborn einführten und damit die Kirchen in ein neues Verhältnis zum städtischen Raum rückten. Gestaltet als Schaufronten vor bühnenartigen Vorplätzen, trugen die Fassaden dazu bei, die vorher auf die Innenräume beschränkte Heiligenverehrung in den Stadtraum hinaus zu wenden und auch im Alltag vor Augen zu stellen. Zugleich wurde ein neuer Prozessionsweg geschaffen, der die Verehrung aller Kirchenpatrone zusammenführte und zu einer Aufgabe für die gesamte Stadt machte. Über Wallfahrtskapellen bezog man das Umland mit ein. Das gesamte Fürstbistum wurde geheiligt. Der politische Sinn war, es nach den Erschütterungen des Dreißigjährigen Kriegs im Innern neu zu begründen und nach außen sakrosankt zu machen.}}, author = {{Süßmann, Johannes}}, booktitle = {{(Un)verfügbar – Kulturen des Heiligen}}, editor = {{Egidi, Margreth and Peters, Ludmilla and Schmidt, Jochen}}, isbn = {{9783837666113}}, pages = {{203–219}}, publisher = {{Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag}}, title = {{{Gebaute Heiligung. Wie Stadtumbau und Heiligenverehrung des späten 17. und frühen 18. Jahrhunderts Paderborn in eine heilige Stadt verwandelten}}}, doi = {{10.14361/9783839466117-009}}, year = {{2023}}, } @article{59165, author = {{Süßmann, Johannes}}, journal = {{Westfälische Zeitschrift}}, keywords = {{Universität Paderborn, Jesuiten, Universitätsgeschichte, Bildungstheorie}}, location = {{Paderborn}}, pages = {{283–304}}, title = {{{Gegenreformation und verpasste Aufklärung. Die Academia Theodoriana im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert und ihr Verhältnis zu den heutigen Paderborner Hochschulen}}}, volume = {{173}}, year = {{2023}}, } @misc{43186, author = {{Süßmann, Johannes}}, title = {{{Pantheon}}}, year = {{2023}}, } @inbook{48583, author = {{Süßmann, Johannes}}, booktitle = {{Beyond Binaries. Religious Diversity in Europe}}, editor = {{Ralston, Joshua and Stosch, Klaus von}}, isbn = {{978-3-506-79155-9}}, pages = {{19–30}}, publisher = {{Brill | Schöningh}}, title = {{{When Did Europe Become Identified With Christianity? The Revolutionary Origins of an All Too Common Slogan}}}, doi = {{10.30965/9783657791552_003}}, volume = {{37}}, year = {{2023}}, } @inbook{42342, author = {{Ghaffar, Zishan}}, booktitle = {{Normativität Heiliger Schriften in Judentum, Christentum und Islam}}, editor = {{von Stosch, Klaus and Tietz, Christiane}}, pages = {{67--91}}, publisher = {{Mohr Siebeck}}, title = {{{Kanon im Kanon? Herausforderungen einer koranischen Theologie}}}, volume = {{87}}, year = {{2022}}, }