Verlag der Weltreligionen ("Publisher of World Religions") is a German publishing house in collaboration with the Suhrkamp Verlag dedicated to the foundational texts of the world's major religious traditions. It was founded in 2007, and serves both as an edition project for primary sources and as a platform for scholarly discussion of religious phenomena across diverse historical and cultural contexts.
The publisher's core program includes critical editions of writings from Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It also releases source texts from smaller religious communities (not all of them "Weltreligionen"), some of them translated into German for the first time. All works are newly translated from the original languages by scholars of religion and philology, accompanied by commentary on their origins, transmission, and reception, with particular attention to interreligious connections. The publishers editorial projects are supported extensively by the Udo Keller Stiftung Forum Humanum. [1]
In addition to source editions, the series comprises major wisdom texts, interreligious dialogues, anthologies, introductions, monographs, and essay collections on historical and contemporary religious developments, including studies on modern forms of religious fundamentalism.
Ulla Unseld-Berkéwicz (Suhrkamp Verlag) wrote an editorial. [2]
The first publication of the house was a four-hundred-page almanac: Die Religionen der Welt. Ein Almanach zur Eröffnung des Verlags der Weltreligionen. [3]
The last publication in the catalogue of the GNB dates from 2023. [4]
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