INHALTSVERZEICHNIS HEFT 1/2008

SCHOEPS, JULIUS H.: Editorial

AUFSÄTZE:
KNOLL, JOACHIM H.: Jahresringe der Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. Jubiläen und Erinnerungen anläßlich des 100. Geburtstages von Hans-Joachim Schoeps, des „60sten“ der „Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte“ und des „50sten“ der „Gesellschaft für Geistesgeschichte“ , p. 1-19
HAFNER, JOHANN EV.: Monstranz – Gott zeigen. Das Fronleichnamsfest aus systemtheoretischer Perspektive, p. 20-40
BEN-ASHER GITLER, INBAL: Reconstructing Religions: Jewish place and space in the Jerusalem YMCA Building, 1919-1933, p. 41-62
HOMOLKA, WALTER: Jesus der Jude. Die jüdische Leben-Jesu-Forschung von Abraham Geiger bis Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich, p. 63-72

MISZELLEN:
DATHE, UWE: Jena – eine Episode aus Gershom Scholems Leben, p. 73-78
KNOLL, JOACHIM H.: „Was man weiß, was man wissen sollte“. Lerngesellschaft in der Bildungskrise?, p. 79-82
SCHOEPS, JULIUS H.: SCHOEPS, JULIUS H.: Ernst Benz (1907-1978). Zum 100. Geburtstag des Marburger Religionshistorikers, p. 83-84

BUCHBESPRECHUNGEN, p. 85-95
Götterbilder – Gottesbilder – Weltbilder. Polytheismus und Monotheismus in der Welt der Antike, Band I; Band II, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2006 (Lukas Bormann)
Tor Vegge: Paulus und das antike Schulwesen. Schule und Bildung des Paulus, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006 (Friedrich W. Horn)
Gangolf Hübinger: Gelehrte, Politik und Öffentlichkeit. Eine Intellektuellengeschichte. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006 (Björn Hofmeister)
Anke Dörner: La vita spezzata. Leonardo Olschki: ein jüdischer Romanist zwischen Integration und Emigration. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2005 (Thomas Gilbhard)
Asia Now. Architektur in Asien. München/Berlin/London/New York: Prestel 2006 (Hans Sprenger)

Abstracts:
JOACHIM H. KNOLL: Jahresringe der Religions- und Geistesgeschichte.
In the near future three anniversaries are to be celebrated: Hans-Joachim Schoeps, german-jewish scholar and full professor of religious and intellectual history, would be in January 2009 100 years old. Jointly together with Ernst Benz, full professor of Theology at the University of Marburg, Hans-Joachim Schoeps launched the Journal of religious and intellectual history (ZRGG), which is now entering its 60th volume. And the Scientific Association for religious and intellectual history (GGG), which was as well founded by Hans-Joachim Schoeps, is going to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The article depicts biographical data and scholarly highlights of Schoeps, and combines them with a view to the development of ZRGG and GGG.

JOHANN EV. HAFNER: Monstranz – Gott zeigen.
The Feast of Corpus Christi was only able to assert itself after it Came to be connected with a procession. In this visual rite a host in a monstrance is carried through the streets. The intention is to emphasize the substantial presence of Christ in the “accidental” form of bread. In studying such rites, a scholarly approach to religion does not limit itself to popular custom or sacramental theology, but also asks about the underlying functions of the feast of Corpus Christi. The following article interprets the Corpus Christi procession as a diffusion and expansion of the believer’s’ focused attention. This, in turn, was a reaction to the overly strong emphasis on external appearances of piety when the host was elevated. The host itself may be interpreted as the blind spot of religious observation because it functions as a visible sign of the transcendental that is not further interpreted, but is displayed in silence. It is neither negated nor affirmed, though its meaning is presumed and is operationally repeated.

INBAL BEN-ASHER GITLER: Reconstructing Religions.
This paper discusses the representation of Jewish religion and culture in the architecture of the YMCA Building in Jerusalem, a prominent edifice built by New York architect Arthur Loomis Harmon for the American YMCA. Within it, Jewish place and space were reconstructed as part of an architecture planned to promote Jewish, Christian and Moslem co-existence through an American secular cultural curriculum and a Christian vision of peace.

WALTER HOMOLKA: Jesus der Jude.
The article provides an overview of Jewish Life-of-Jesus research from Abraham Geiger to Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich. Julius Wellhausen’s assessment that Jesus was not Christian but Jewish encountered a Jewish community that was striving for civic equality in the course of the Enlightenment and that saw itself impaired by the idea of the „Christian state.“ The ensuing Jewish concern with the central figure of the New Testament was not of fundamental nature, but rather followed from an apologetic impulse: the wish to participate in general society without having to give up Jewish identity. Since then, many Jewish thinkers of the modern era have studied Jesus. The essay outlines the history of „bringing Jesus home“ to Judaism, which has been observable since the nineteenth century. Jesus returns as exemplary Jew, as hortatory prophet, as revolutionary and freedom fighter, as big brother and messianic Zionist. The foremost intention though, was that Jews wanted to remain Jews and nevertheless be part of Christian society. How fortunate, therefore, that Jesus was Jewish.