STAR Studies in Theology and Religion

The STAR-series is an initiative of the NOSTER Board. It aims at making proceedings of conferences better available to scholars, at publishing quality monographs, including outstanding dissertations. STAR will give high priority to the publication of the results of interdisciplinary research in an ecumenical, interreligious and intercultural context. The series will also incorporate introductions to specific fields of theological and religious studies, serving both the senior and junior researcher.

Editor in Chief: prof.dr. J.W. van Henten

Editorial assistant: Winnifred Jelier

Publisher: Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands
(Volumes 1 and 2 published by Deo Publishing, Leyden, The Netherlands; Volumes 3-11 published by Royal Van Gorcum Publishers, Assen, The Netherlands)

Information for those who wish to publish a volume in the STAR-series

NOSTER will send you the STAR template or German Style sheet on request, or you can download the files here:

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German Style sheet

NOSTER members receive a discount on all volumes of the STAR series. For more information about the discount, please contact the NOSTER bureau: noster@uu.nl.
For ordering please go to Brill’s website at www.brill.nl.

Overview of series

In preparation

Coping with Violence in the New Testament (STAR 16)

Violence is present in the very heart of religion and its sacred traditions – also of Christianity and the Bible. The problem, however, is not only that violence is ingrained in the mere existence of religions with their sacred traditions. Read more…

Orthodoxy, Liberalism and Adaptation: Essays on Ways of Worldmaking in Times of Change from Biblical, Historical and Systematic Perspectives (STAR 15)

How does religion cope with changing situations? Are orthodoxy and liberalism really competing strategies? The essays in this volume argue three views. Read more…

Scholasticism Reformed. Essays in Honour of Willem J. van Asselt (STAR 14)

This Festschrift celebrates Professor Willem J. van Asselt’s many contributions to the study of Reformed scholasticism on the occasion of his retirement from Utrecht University. The authors argue that the resurgence of interest in scholasticism, especially in Reformed scholasticism, has in turn reformed our views of scholasticism. Read more…

The Boundaries of Monotheism. Interdisciplinary Explorations into the Foundations of Western Monotheism (STAR 13)

What is the significance of monotheism in modern western culture, taking into account both its problematic and promising aspects? Biblical texts and the biblical faith traditions bear a continuous, polemical tension between exclusive and inclusive perceptions and interpretations of monotheism. Read more…

Religions Challenged by Contingency. Theological and Philosophical Approaches to the Problem of Contingency (STAR 12)

In this volume, the relationship between religion and contingency is investigated. Its historical part comprises analyses of important philosophers’ interpretations of this relationship, viz. that of Leibniz, Kant, Lessing, Jaspers, and Heidegger. Read more…

Religious Polemics in context (STAR 11)

Polemics, as “the art or practice of disputation or controversy”, is a living issue in matters of religion, and is a major object of research for scholars in religious studies and theology. Read more…

Religion and the Good Life (STAR 10)

In this volume, fourteen philosophers of religion reflect on religious views of the good life. Some authors focus on positive religion and its specific religious representations of the good life, while others abstract from these and focus on philosophical religion and its conceptual articulations of the good life. Read more…

Evangelien-harmonien des Mittelalters (STAR 9)

Evangelienharmonien sind in Westeuropa zumindest vom sechsten Jahrhundert an nachweisbar, wurden aber im Hoch- und Spätmittelalter verstärkt tradiert, bearbeitet oder auch neu verfasst. Diese Texte bieten zumeist Zusammenstellungen des Stoffes der vier neutestamentlichen Evangelien, die alle darin erzählten Inhalte in einen fortlaufenden Erzählzusammenhang bringen. Read more…

Recent Developments in Textual Criticism (STAR 8)

From 4 to 6 January 2001, a three-day international conference on textual criticism took place in Münster. This conference was remarkable for its multi-disciplinary set-up. The speakers included experts in the field of New Testament textual criticism as well as researchers who specialise in preparing critical editions of documents from early-Jewish and rabbinic literature. Read more…

Research

Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion

Overview of series