Introduction: identity-- biographical, moral, religious / Hermann Hring, Maureen Junker-Kenny, and Dietmar Mieth -- I. Approaches. Moral identity: how is it narrated? / Dietmar Mieth -- Personalized identity in an individualized society / Albert W. Musschenga -- Identity: suppressed, alienated, lost / Felix Wilfred -- Business identity through ethical orientation / Annette Kleinfeld -- II. Philosophical discussion. The hermeneutical anthropology of Charles Taylor / Thomas Gil -- Narrative and moral identity in Paul Ricoeur / Hille Haker -- Virtue and identity / James F. Keenan -- A critique of the identity paradigm / Luiz Carlos Susin -- III. Theological discussion. The narrative identity of Christians according to the New Testament / Agustn del Agua -- The history of Jesus as the foundation and origin of religious identity / Hermann Hring -- Identity in the feminist theology debate / Christine Firer-Hinze -- Being and becoming a self in an ethical perspective / Hans G. Ulrich.