Publications
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The Manichaean Church at Kellis
(2021)
The Manichaean Church in Kellis presents an in-depth study of social organisation within the religious movement known as Manichaeism in Roman Egypt. In particular, it employs papyri from Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab), a village ...
African Futures
(2022)
This collection brings together scholars from different disciplines. In short and provocative essays, they shine their light on the often ambivalent and contradictory possibilities and challenges people in Africa are facing. ...
Empathie und Perspektivenwechsel in interreligiösen Begegnungen
(2024)
How can the ability to empathise and change perspectives be fostered in primary school children through interreligious encounters? This doctoral thesis offers a comprehensive theoretical foundation (Part I), an empirical ...
Kirche und Staat in Deutschland, Frankreich und den USA
(2012)
Es gehört zu den Errungenschaften der Neuzeit, einer Vermischung von Kirche und Staat zu wehren. Weder soll die Kirche theokratisch das politische Gemeinwesen bestimmen noch der Staat totalitär über die Kirche herrschen. ...
Gender in Peacebuilding
(2021)
This volume analyses how and to what effect gender shapes, and is shaped by, peacebuilding initiatives in relation to other social dynamics in the context of local peacebuilding initiatives in Indonesia and Nigeria.; ...
Buddhist Encounters and Identities Across East Asia
(2018)
Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia offers a fascinating picture of the intricacies of regional and cross-regional networks and the complexity of Buddhist identities emerging across Asia.; Readership: All ...
Das Meer. Maritime Welten in der Frühen Neuzeit
(2021)
In der Frühen Neuzeit war das Meer zugleich Ressource und Gefahr. Es war Transportweg, Kontaktzone und Konfliktarena: Fernhandel, Seekriege und Migration prägten selbst küstenferne Regionen, auf lokaler wie auf globaler ...
Atlas of Religion in China
(2018)
This atlas maps religious sites and describes social and demographic characteristics of religious believers in contemporary China.; Readership: All people interested in religion in China; academic libraries; research ...
Federalism and the Law of Diversity
(2025)
The volume offers new and unexplored perspectives on federalism and its relationships with diversity accommodation. It represents the first structured attempt to use federal theory and practice to frame several phenomena ...
Orte der Zivilisierungsmission
(2013)
Im Zentrum dieses Werkes stehen die französischen Schulen im Libanon in der historischen Zeitepoche der wachsenden französischen Einflussnahme von 1909 bis 1943. Anhand der verschiedenen politischen Regime des Osmanischen ...
The Skandapurāṇa Volume V
(2021)
Skandapurāṇa V presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 92-112 from the Skandapurāṇa, with an introduction and annotated English synopsis. The text edited in this volume includes the extensive myth of Viṣṇu’s manifestation ...
The Skandapurāṇa Volume IIb
(2014)
Skandapurāṇa IIb presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 31-52 from the Skandapurāṇa, with an introduction and English synopsis. ; Readership: All interested in Sanskrit literature, Purana literature, early Saivism, Hindu ...
Connecting Territories
(2021)
The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants and local natural environments, covering different regions in Europe, the Americas and Asia, during the ...
Calvin und Calvinismus
(2011)
Die von Irene Dingel und Herman Selderhuis versammelten Beiträge widmen sich der europäischen Ausstrahlung des Genfer Reformators Johannes Calvin und den weitgreifenden Wirkungen des Calvinismus. Dabei kommt der Calvinismus ...
The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
(2017)
The essays in this volume shed light on how, for what purposes and to what extent the Arabic language was taught and studied by European scholars, theologian, merchants, diplomats and prisoners in early modern Europe.
Academia in Crisis
(2020)
Academia is standing at a junction in time. Behind lies the community of the curious, ahead the mass and the market. This book joins in a growing stream of works that explore the vicissitudes of present-day European ...
Space, Time, Myth, and Morals: A Selection of Jao Tsung-i’s Studies on Cosmological Thought in Early China and Beyond
(2022)
The articles assembled in this volume present an important selection of Professor Jao Tsung-i’s research in the field of the early Chinese intellectual tradition, especially as it concerns the human condition. Whether his ...
Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century
(2018)
Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news and newspapers, from the early modern period to the eighteenth century, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of ...
Crises and the Roman Empire
(2007)
This volume presents the proceedings of the seventh workshop of the international thematic network Impact of Empire, which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on the impact that crises had on the ...
The Linguistic Landscape of the Indian Himalayas
(2022)
This monograph is a contribution to the documentation of the linguistic situation of the Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh (Indian Himalayas) which has been so far almost undescribed. The Sino-Tibetan languages Kinnauri ...