Wissenschaftliche Literatur Marriage

Mark Eneojo Odah

Juridical Perspectives on Marriage in the Catholic Church and in Islam vis-à-vis Catholic–Muslim Marriages in Nigeria

THEOS – Studienreihe Theologische Forschungsergebnisse

Die Ehe eines Katholiken mit einem Muslim bringt zwei Personen zusammen, die unterschiedliche religiöse Überzeugungen bekennen und sich von unterschiedlichen Ehegesetzen leiten lassen. Die meisten Forschungen weisen tendenziell darauf hin, dass interreligiöse Ehen mit höherer Wahrscheinlichkeit scheitern als Ehen, in denen die Parteien derselben religiösen Tradition angehören. Die enormen Herausforderungen, die mit interreligiösen Ehen verbunden sind, werden besser…

Christogonus Onyekachi Keke

The Misery of Childless Marriage in Igbo Culture

Re-Consideration of Ecclesiastical Ethical Response to Cultural and Biomedical “Remedies”

Ethik in Forschung und Praxis

Infertility is a universal problem but the crisis it poses for Christian couples in the African cultural context differs from the experience in Western cultures. The root of the problem is the conflict in the understanding of marriage in African culture and the Christian marriage ethics, which makes it difficult for one to remain truly African and happily Christian in the faces of childless marriage. This work demonstrates this using the life context of the Igbo people of…

Alexander Izuchukwu Abasili

Marriage and Adultery in the Old Testament

An Igbo-African Contextual Reading

THEOS – Studienreihe Theologische Forschungsergebnisse

This book not only provides an in-depth understanding of family, marriage and adultery in the Old Testament and the implications thereof for contemporary Igbo-African society, but also demonstrates convincingly the vital role of the Bible in Africa as a resource for social and ethical transformation. [...]

Godwin Atede

„Trial Marriage“ in Nigeria

Igala as a Case Study: A Moral-Theological Investigation

THEOS – Studienreihe Theologische Forschungsergebnisse

This work is an investigation into the moral quality and relatedproblems of „Trial Marriage? among young Nigerians of today, with particular reference to the Igala and Catholic Christians in general.

In this work, the author identifies the different problems that prevent many Catholic Christians from marrying in the Church after their traditional marriage and articulates what can be done to help such people to regularise their marriage in order…

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Grazyna Liczbinska

Lutherans in the Poznan province

Biological dynamics of the Lutheran population in the 19th and early 20th centuries

HERODOT – Wissenschaftliche Schriften zur Ethnologie und Anthropologie

In contrast to the Lutheran communities of Western Europe, those settling in the Poznan province were culturally very diverse in terms of roots, traditions, customs, habits, lifestyles, and wealth. In Germany they were members of different local churches. On coming to the Poznan province, they brought with them religious practices characteristic of the various German states and regions. Moreover, their cultural heterogeneity and the proximity of Catholics could facilitate…

Josephine Ndagire

National Redress for ‘Gendered’ International Crimes

Uganda, Germany and the International Criminal System

Strafrecht in Forschung und Praxis

On the premise that the duty of states to prosecute international crimes is a fairly new development, this book assesses the extent to which Uganda is meeting this obligation, using the international criminal justice system as a benchmark and the German criminal justice system as a ’best practices’ case study.

The viability of law and justice structures to redress these crimes is evaluated through a comparative lens restricted to ’gendered’ international crimes,…

Michaela Schmidt

Rose Terry Cooke and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik

During a career that lasted for forty years, nineteenth-century American woman writer Rose Terry Cooke (1827 – 1892) published short stories, poems, and essays in such different magazines as prestigious literary monthlies, religious weeklies and childrens magazines. She was a multifaceted author, and yet only a small number of her works has been analyzed. Literary critics and historians have usually portrayed Cooke as a realist and an early feminist. However,…

Katharina Wöhlermann

Aspects of English Law in Contract

Implementation of Spousal Arrangements in Divorce Proceedings

Studien zur Rechtswissenschaft

This thesis focuses on the law concerning contracts made between spouses in an attempt to provide for their future after a breakdown of their marriage. This is described against the historical evolution of the permitted limits to which they could lawfully arrange matters as to principal (i.e. separation/divorce) and ancillary relief. As to the latter the three options which are open to divorcing spouses are either: [...]