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Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World
(2018)
This volume sets out to explore the world of domestic devotions and is premised on the assumption that the home was a central space of religious practice and experience throughout the early modern world. The contributions ...
Gender, ritual and social formation in West Papua; A configurational analysis comparing Kamoro and Asmat
(2010)
This study, based on a lifelong involvement with New Guinea, compares the culture of the Kamoro (18,000 people) with that of their eastern neighbours, the Asmat (40,000), both living on the south coast of West Papua, ...
Tense and Text in Classical Arabic
(2016)
In Tense and Text in Classical Arabic, Michal Marmorstein presents a discourse-oriented analysis of the indicative tense system in Classical Arabic. The study demonstrates the effect of the extended syntactic and textual ...
Monetary Stability as a Common Concern in International Law
(2022)
Monetary Stability as a Common Concern in International Law convincingly argues that monetary stability should be recognised as a Common Concern of Humankind. It also claims that international monetary reform is needed and ...
International Law and Chemical, Biological, Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) Events
(2022)
This book explores the interplay between International Law and Chemical, Biological, Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) risks. An all-hazards approach is adopted to cover events of intentional, accidental and natural origin, and ...
The Dream of the North
(2014)
Northern Europe and North America have dominated the world stage for more than two centuries. Using a wide range of sources, this book provides the first coherent account from a multi-national perspective of the ideas and ...
Jesuit Art
(2022)
Mia Mochizuki draws upon masterpieces and material culture from around the world to show how the pre-suppression Society of Jesus (1540–1773) pioneered structural innovations in the history of the image. ; Readership: All ...
The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5)
(2019)
In The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5), Paul Linjamaa explores the theoretical foundations and practical implications of the ethics in the longest Valentinian text extant today. As such, it is one of the first ...
The Political System of the Atoni of Timor
(1971)
Indonesia
Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions
(2015)
Islam is often seen as a religious tradition in which hell does not play a particularly prominent role. This volume challenges this hackneyed view. Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions is the first book-length analytic study ...
The Khilafat Movement in India 1919-1924
(1972)
Indonesia
Provozierte Bewunderung
(2022)
Bewunderung ›passiert‹ nicht einfach, sie wird provoziert und instrumentalisiert. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge untersuchen, mittels welcher Verfahren und zu welchen Zwecken Bewunderung in sozialen, medialen und ...
Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
(2019)
The Viennese Jesuit astronomer Maximilian Hell was a nodal figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. This study of his career sheds light on the Enlightenment, Catholicism, reform in the Habsburg monarchy, ...
European Citizenship under Stress
(2020)
European citizenship is facing numerous challenges, including fundamental rights and social justice considerations. These get amplified in the context of Brexit and the general rise of populism in Europe today. This book ...
World Trade, Child Labour and Transnational Constitutionalism, The Case for a New Legal Humanism
(2024)
Is the current structure of international law still adequate to solve global problems such as child labour? This book argues for more coherence between human rights and trade law, analysing the world trade law compatibility ...
Time and the Ancestors
(2017)
Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art combines iconographical analysis with archaeological, historical and ethnographic studies and offers new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico, ...
Composition Analysis of Writing Materials in Cairo Genizah Documents
(2021)
This work investigates the different writing materials in use in Egypt during the 11th century and the reason for their diversity.; Readership: Academics and specialists working in the Cairo Genizah and in writing material ...
From Isolation towards Integration
(1977)
From Isolation towards Integration was originally published in Dutch as Volume 41 (1963) in the series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
Dionysos in Classical Athens
(2014-11-14)
"Dionysos, with his following of satyrs and women, was a major theme in a big part of the figure painted pottery in 500-300 B.C. Athens. As an original testimonial of their time, the imagery on these vases convey what this ...
Ekagi-Dutch-English-Indonesian Dictionary
(1969)
Indonesia
Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World
(2016)
Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World makes an important contribution to the field of Muslims in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. This volume of essays marks eighty years since the death of ...
The Makassar Annals
(2011)
The Makassar annals Translated and edited by William Cummings
Beginning in the 1630s, a series of annalists at the main courts of Makassar began keeping records with dated entries that recorded a wide variety of specific ...
The Transformation of Economic Life under the Roman Empire
(2002)
Ancient history: to c 500 CE
Dramatic Experience
(2017)
The authors explore the convergence of dramatic theory, theatrical practice, and various modes of audience experience that contributed to the emergence of ‘public sphere(s)’ across early modern Europe — and in Asia.
Handbook of Leaving Religion
(2020)
The Handbook of Leaving Religion introduces a neglected field of research with the aim to outline previous and contemporary research, and suggest how the topic of leaving religion should be studied in the future. The ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 16 (2010)
(2013)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
Administrating Kinship: Marriage Impediments and Dispensation Policies in the 18th and 19th Centuries
(2023)
From the late eighteenth century, more and more men and women wanted to marry their cousins or in-laws. In this case, bridal couples had to apply for a papal dispensation and this meant a hurdled, lengthy and also expensive ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 20 (2014)
(2018)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia
(2022)
Case studies in the dynamic, contested, exciting, constant, and ever evolving relationship between Buddhism and the state across pre-modern East Asia.
Career and Career Guidance in the Nordic Countries
(2020)
Career and Career Guidance in the Nordic Countries explores what kind of context the Nordic region offers for the pursuit of career, how the development of careers are supported and how career guidance is enacted in this ...
Behind the Story: Ethical Readings of Qurʾānic Narratives
(2024)
Behind the Story: Ethical Readings of Qurʾānic Narratives is a pivotal work that presents groundbreaking research on the Qurʾānic narrative as a literary genre with profound moral significance. It underscores the genre's ...
Outline of Dani Morphology
(1966)
Indonesia
Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia
(2022)
The world as seen by a Qur’an specialist in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Our book tells a dramatic story of ’Abd al-Majid al-Qadiri, a Muslim individual born in the Kazakh lands and brought up in the Sufi environment ...
Large-Scale Land Acquisitions
(2015)
This book examines large-scale land acquisitions, or
Music of the Baduy People of Western Java
(2020)
Music of the Baduy People of Western Java: Singing is a Medicine by Wim van Zanten is about music and dance of the indigenous group of the Baduy, consisting of about twelve-thousand people living in western Java. It covers ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 17 (2011)
(2014)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
Musical worlds in Yogyakarta
(2012)
Musical worlds in Yogyakarta is an ethnographic account of a vibrant Indonesian city during the turbulent early post-Soeharto years. The book examines musical performance in public contexts ranging from the street and ...
Human Nature in Gregory of Nyssa
(2000)
This study in the thought of Gregory of Nyssa seeks to demonstrate in what sense and to what extent the philosophical notion of universal human nature functions as the systematic backbone of this church father's theology.; ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 21 (2015)
(2017)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
Universal Śaivism
(2018)
In Universal Śaivism Peter Bisschop provides a critical edition and annotated translation of the sixth chapter of the Śivadharmaśāstra `Treatise on the Religion of Śiva’, the so-called Śāntyadhyāya 'Chapter on Appeasement’. ...
The Stone Age of Indonesia
(1972)
The first edition of The Stone Age of Indonesia was published as Volume 21 (1957) in the series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
Contemporary Indonesian Film; Spirits of Reform and ghosts from the past
(2012)
This highly informative book explores the world of Post-Soeharto Indonesian audio-visual media in the exiting era of Reform. From a multidisciplinary approach it considers a wide variety of issues such as mainstream and ...
Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the Law of the Sea
(2022)
This book explores how ocean governance expert Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918–2002) spent decades fighting to promote her radical vision of a just ocean order in the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention.
The Jesuit Encounters with Islam in the Asia-Pacific
(2023)
This book explores the strategies adopted by the Jesuit missions under the Portuguese and Spanish patronage before Islamic powers such as the Mughal Empire in South Asia and the expansion of Islam in the Southeast Asian ...
Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective (300–1600)
(2015)
This volume comprises fifteen articles on the differing functions that purity, impurity, pollution and related categories could fulfil in Asian and European religions and societies of the 3rd to 17th century c.E. They focus ...
Philo of Alexandria
(1988)
The first author in which the traditions of Judaic thought and Greek philosophy flow together in a significant way is Philo of Alexandria.This study presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of Philo's knowledge ...
Een 16de eeuwse Maleise vertaling van de Burda van al-Būṣīrī
(1955)
Indonesia
Aus der Welt gefallen
(2019)
Drawing from the archive of the Perthes publishing house, this study reconstructs how cast away explorers shaped not only the literary imagination but also the history of cartography. Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, ...
The Dynastic Centre and the Provinces
(2014)
The dynastic centre and the provinces were linked by agents and ritual occasions. This book includes contributions by specialists examining these connections in late imperial China, early modern Europe, and the Ottoman ...
Uma politics
(2008)
Democracy cannot be implemented overnight. Democratization is an often unpredictable process. This book concentrates on that political transformation in one of Indonesia’s most ‘traditional’ islands, Sumba. Why does ...
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas
(2019)
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 archaeological case studies that offer new perspectives on colonial period interactions in the Caribbean and surrounding ...
UN Security Council Referrals to the International Criminal Court
(2018)
Galand critically spells out a comprehensive conception of the nature and effects of Security Council referrals that responds to the various limits to the International Criminal Court’s exercise of jurisdiction over ...
Blockchain and Private International Law
(2023)
Blockchain is the first global mechanism for the transfer and storage of value. Despite being conceived as an alternative to state and law, the technology and its use cases raise many legal questions, most notably, regarding ...
The Stone Age of Indonesia
(1957)
This first edition of The Stone Age of Indonesia has been replaced by the second edition, which is published as Volume 61 (1972; ISBN 9024713005) in the series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- ...
Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education
(2020)
Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education brings together leading and emerging scholars in adult education in order to capture the vitality and complexity of contemporary adult education research, marked by ...
Religion and Secularity
(2013)
Religion and Secularity assembles studies on the concept of „secularity“ in various cultures, thereby tracing the entangled history of the modern re-configuration of the religious field across the Eurasion continent.; ...
The Peasants' Revolt of Banten in 1888
(1966)
Indonesia
Jesuits and the Natural Sciences in Modern Times, 1814–2014
(2019)
From 1814, linked to their educational work, Jesuits made significant contributions to the natural sciences, especially in the fields of astronomy, meteorology, seismology, terrestrial magnetism, mathematics, and biology ...
Medicine in Ancient Assur
(2021)
In Medicine in Ancient Assur Troels Pank Arbøll offfers a microhistorical study of a single exorcist named Kiṣir-Aššur who practiced medical and magical healing in the ancient city of Assur (modern northern Iraq) in the ...
The Echo of Die Blechtrommel in Europe
(2016)
The Echo of Die Blechtrommel in Europe presents an overview of the critical reception of Günter Grass’s classic novel throughout Europe since its publication in 1959. Readership: The book aims at a relatively broad readership ...