Rational Christianity in the strained domain of esoteric-masonic development: Halle 1740%u20131800

在18世纪后半叶，哈雷成为宗教史上的一个中心，其身份是由启蒙神学或新学的发展决定的。哈勒的新学运动最杰出的代表约翰·萨洛莫·塞姆勒的作品占据了这一历史研究的思想史组成部分的中心。与此同时，哈勒的共济会场景对深奥运动的组织构成了第二个历史宗教方面。调查的最重要的社会参照是自由共济会建立的背景。在私人协会的小屋，城市的一部分有学问的环境，首先是学生，但越来越多的教授，开始组织自己。关于哈勒的新学，该项目的目的在于通过对社会历史参考资料的调查，补充相关作品的有条理的文本分析视角。在宗教和社会政治对抗的现实中新出现的概念必须以各自的方式提出。这个研究项目的目标是精神和权力政治概念的阐述;即宗教模型之间的界限，在密宗和启蒙之间的竞争，在政治宗教领域的定义权威。

In the second half of the 18th Century, Halle became a centre in the history of religion, its identity determined by the development of enlightened theology or Neology. The work of the most prominent representative of Halle´s Neology movement, Johann Salomo Semler, occupies the centre of the history of ideas component of this historical study.Parallel to this, the organization of esoteric movements by Halle´s Freemason scene constitutes a second historical-religious aspect. The foremost social reference of investigation is the setting within which the founding of freemasonry occurred. In the private association of the lodges, a segment of the learned milieu of the city, above all students but increasingly professors, began to organize themselves. With respect to Halle´s Neology, the aim of the project lies in supplementing the methodical text-analytical perspective of pertinent works through the investigation of social historical references. The concepts which newly emerge from within the reality of religious and social political confrontation must be claimed in their respective ways. The goal of this research project is the elaboration of spiritual and power-political concepts; namely the confines within which religious models straddling between Esotericism and Enlightenment compete for definitional authority in the politico-religious realm.