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to bloom That which destroys us This torn apart Undivided earth On which We travel together.   — Rose Ausländer, “ Gemeinsam /Together” Each year, many Inayati Sufis gather for a summer school in a village in northern Germany that

“It is really a key to another world.” On this ostensibly simple yet lucid note, Onur summed up for me the expansive character of Zikr , the Sufi exercise of a mindful remembrance of Allah. He was one of 30 regular attendees at a German

to establish branches across the globe, including 15 congregations in Germany, and William Kumuyi eventually became the general superintendent of what is claimed to be one of the largest churches in the world ( Akoda 2012: 403) . The group in Berlin

to step outside of the silos we have come to call ‘anthropology of Islam’ and ‘anthropology of Christianity ’. The articles take us to Germany, Lebanon, Norway, and Iran. Each tells a very particular story of engagements with the Elsewhere (or

(German: unheimlich, bordering on the unfamiliar) enjoys a renewed popularity in the anthropology of religion ( Goslinga 2012 ; Morgain 2012 ), in examining “the frightening … that ought to have remained … secret and hidden but has come to light

-only concentration camp, and my mother was interned three years later in a family camp. It was there that my father eventually joined us for the remainder of the war. The camp's inmates were largely German speakers, with a sprinkling of Italians. But the labels used

by a fellowship of the German Orient-Institut in Beirut (OIB). Notes 1 I use ‘Shi‘i’, the adjective form derived from Arabic, to denote an attribute of a proper or common noun. This article examines how Shi‘i rituals, beliefs, and experiences

and Anticommunist Reaction .” Asian Journal of German and European Studies 2 ( 1 ). Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40856-017-0018-1 . 10.1186/s40856-017-0018-1 Kim , Hyŏn-mi . 2018 . “ Nanmin p'obiawa Han'guk chŏngch'ijŏk chŏngdongŭi

University of Munich, which offers a non-denominational Interfaculty Programme for the Study of Religion that engages historically and comparatively with various religious traditions. The program has been well known in Germany for its ambitious first

charismatic authority. 12 Regarding this ‘standing order’, it is interesting to note that the etymology of ‘state’ in English (as well as French état , German Staat , Italian stato , and Spanish estado ) goes back to Old French estat ‘position