Cultural Studies

That the period between 1380 and 1520 did not see a late medieval setting of the sun on, but rather the dawn of a powerful new era of dynamic religion is the main thesis of Berndt Hamm's new volume presented here. Driven by a fearful anticipation of the afterlife and fuelled by a desire for grace and salvation, religion was propelled towards piety, theology, and pastoral care, which in turn gave rise to a surge in sacred artistic expression.

In the era of pandemics, hyper-digitalization, mass migration, and precarious ecology, the idea of what it means to live as a bodily creature is more important than ever. The authors of this volume aim to 'think' the Unthinkable Body both together with, and beyond, embodied reason.

The digital revolution has created a need to orientate human practice, something that Protestant media ethics is not exempt from. Constantin Plaul's study provides the systematic groundwork for this and examines the orientation potential of freedom understood in Christian terms.

Margarete Susman (1872-1966) was a philosopher, poet, and essayist. Her contributions to questions of feminism, difference and alterity, literature and culture, religion and politics continue to be relevant.