Tag: religion
Peter Sloterdijk’s new book about the color gray – culture
In the first canto of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Pale Fire, the poet John Shade confesses: “All colors made me happy: even grey.” Peter Sloterdijk would have deleted the word “himself”…
Munich: Ramadan and breaking the fast together in Mama’s kitchen – Munich
The scene is reminiscent of the trip to Jerusalem: everyone remains in their position and waits for the signal so that they can finally continue. In Ahmet Malak’s shop one…
Ukrainian Diary: The Symbols of the Enemy – Culture
“I have the feeling that I’m using the language of the enemy,” says the Russian-speaking writer from Kyiv Andriy Kurkov in an interview. One of the most translated contemporary writers…
Moral Psychologist: When good people do evil – knowledge
Of Sebastian Herrmann The beautiful and also boring thing about superhero films, romantic sleazeballs and kitschy genre literature is that good or bad can be identified so easily there: The…
Christoph Brech on the relationship between art and church – Munich
Of Jutta Czeguhn, Munich Embroidered knee pads from English churches, 460 pieces, in strict formation on a stone floor. In 1999 this spatial installation by Christoph Brech was seen in…
Psychology: The Einstein Effect
Why meaningless things seem believable when a scientist says so. .source site
The Whining of the Catholic Church – Culture
Almost a hundred years ago, in 1925, Thomas Stearns Eliot published his poem “The Hollow Men”. TS Eliot, winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote in “Hollow Men”…
Emmanuel Macron considers it “desirable” that reason and religion live “side by side”
Emmanuel Macron considers “desirable” that reason and religion can “live side by side, sometimes even feed themselves”. “I deeply believe that there can be continuities between God and science, religion…
Who did the famous “Luther complaint?” – Culture
His heart is heavy, his idol trapped, possibly already dead. “And is he still alive or have you murdered someone that I don’t know,” complained Albrecht Dürer in his diary…