Publications
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Adult Education Policy and the European Union: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
(2014)
The European Union is now a key player in making lifelong learning and adult education policy: this is the first book to explore a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives researchers can use to investigate its ...
Treason
(2019)
"The willingness to betray one’s country, one’s people, one’s family—to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another—is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have ...
The Orient in Utrecht: Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), Arabist, Cartographer, Antiquarian and Scholar of Comparative Religion
(2021)
Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), Arabist, Cartographer, Antiquarian and Scholar of Comparative Religion covers the intellectual achievements of a remarkable man: Adriaan Reland, professor of Oriental languages (1701) and Hebrew ...
Beauvoir in Time (Volume 348)
(2020)
Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's ...
"Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth": The First International in a Global Perspective
(2018)
“Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth” provides a fresh account of the International Working Men’s Association. Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual ...
The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739)
(2016)
In The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739), Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso analyzes the politics behind the most salient Bourbon reform introduced in Spanish America during the early ...
Latin American Liberation Theology
(2002)
David Tombs offers an accessible introduction to the theological challenges raised by Latin American Liberation from its emergence in the 1960s to its ‘decade of crisis’ in the 1990s. This work traces the distinct developments ...
The Impact of Imperial Rome on Religions, Ritual and Religious Life in the Roman Empire
(2006)
The fifth volume Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, 200 BC-AD 476) focuses on the impact of imperial Rome on religion, treating connections between Roman expansion and religion; the imperial impact on local cults; priests, ...
Drie Asmat-dialecten
(1963)
Indonesia
Enlightened Religion
(2019)
This volume widens the scope of research into the relation between religion and Enlightenment. The contributions demonstrate the impact of changing worldviews in a variety of intellectual disciplines and cultural milieus. ...
Founding Territorial Cults in Early Japan
(2023)
The first book that deals with the territorial cults of early Japan by focusing on how such cults were founded in ownerless regions. Numerous ancient Japanese myths and legends are discussed to show that the typical founding ...
Music in New Guinea
(1967)
Indonesia
Islam and the Limits of the State
(2015)
This book examines the complex relationships between the state state implementation of Shariʿa and diverse lived realities of everyday Islam in contemporary Aceh, Indonesia. ; Readership: Students and scholars concerned ...
The Merok Feast of the Sa'dan Toradja
(1965)
Indonesia
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 12 (2005-2006)
(2007)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. Readership: Academics and practitioners who deal with international ...
Der Totenkult der Ngadju Dajak in Süd-Borneo (2 Vols.)
(1966)
Indonesia
Context and Catholicity in the Science and Religion Debate
(2020)
Based on a thorough study of the ‘lived theology’ of Christian students and university professors in Abidjan, Kinshasa and Yaoundé, this book proposes a theoretical framework that makes an intercultural and interdisciplinary ...
The Renewal of Medieval Metaphysics
(2021)
This is the first volume exclusively devoted to the Expositio by Berthold of Moosburg (c.1295-c.1361) on Proclus’ Elements of Theology. The breadth of its vision surpasses every other known commentary on the Elements of ...
A Critical Companion to the 'Mirrors for Princes' Literature
(2022)
Why devote a Companion to the "mirrors for princes", whose very existence is debated? These texts offer key insights into political thoughts of the past. Their ambiguous, problematic status further enhances their interest. ...
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen
(2019)
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of Pergamum. In 31 chapters, written by a range of experts in the ...
Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World
(2014-11-28)
Historians have long lamented the lack of contemporary documentary sources for the Islamic middle ages and the inhibiting effect this has had on our understanding of this critically important period. Although the field is ...
Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522)
(2020)
In Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522) Sofia Zoitou offers a study of the history of relic collections, devotional rituals, and sites invested with special meaning on Rhodes, during a time when ...
The Making of Middle Indonesia
(2014)
What holds Indonesia together? In The Making of Middle Indonesia, Gerry van Klinken develops an innovative historical explanation that looks beyond national elites to middle classes in provincial towns.
Entrepreneurship in Africa (Volume 15)
(2017)
Historically, entrepreneurs have always played a central role in the development of nation states. Aside from rentier states, which depend extensively on the availability of mineral resource rents, most economically ...
Discourses of Decline
(2021)
This volume explores the relevance of decline within the republican tradition. The essays in this volume focus on the Dutch Republic during the revolutionary era, as well as early modern Spain and Venice, the German ...
Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913
(2015)
In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South ...
Europe from Below
(2021)
In this book, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Katja Mäkinen, Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus scrutinize how people who participate in cultural initiatives funded and governed by the European Union understand the ...
States at Work
(2020)
States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants. Adopting mainly an ethnographic approach as a basis for ...
On the Formation of Marxism
(2016)
On the Formation of Marxism analyses Karl Kautsky
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 1, 2022
(2022)
The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines ...
Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change
(2019)
Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change critically appraises current animal use in science and discusses ways in which we can contribute to a paradigm change towards human-biology based approaches. ...
End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death in the Islamic Moral Tradition
(2022)
Modern biomedical technologies managed to revolutionise the End-of-Life Care (EoLC) in many aspects. The dying process can now be “engineered” by managing the accompanying physical symptoms or by “prolonging/hastening” ...
The Post-Secular City
(2022)
“The Post-Secular City” is the first attempt to systematically map and assess the recent debate about secularization. “The Post-Secular City” examines the alleged shift from a “secular” to a “post-secular” dispensation ...
Arts, Religion, and the Environment
(2018)
Exploring Nature’s Texture brings together a collection of internationally-known group of artists, theologians, anthropologists and philosophers to look at the imaginative possibilities of using the visual arts to address ...
Chairil Anwar
(1972)
Indonesia
Meanings of Community across Medieval Eurasia
(2016)
How did Christianity, Islam and Buddhism frame the emergence and significance of particular communities in medieval Eurasia? This volume of well-linked comparative studies addresses the terminology of community, genealogies, ...
From monologue to dialogue; Radio and reform in Indonesia
(2009)
From monologue to dialogue; Radio and reform in Indonesia analyses how radio journalism since the late 1990s has been shaped by and contributed to Reformasi, or the ambition of democratizing Indonesian politics, economy ...
Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Experience in Early Netherlandish Painting | catalogue
(2019)
This is the first exhaustive catalogue of paintings with devotional portraits produced in the Low Countries between c. 1400 and 1550. This printed catalogue is an appendix to the book Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual ...
Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713
(2015)
Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713 aims to rethink the significance of the Peace of Utrecht (1713) by exploring the nexus between culture and politics. This book is available in Open Access. Readership: All interested ...
The Impact of Covid on International Disputes
(2022)
With little warning, COVID-19 quickly escalated into a generational crisis, creating sustained havoc seen perhaps only in past cases of war, attack, and natural disasters. In the bedlam of the early months, health, science, ...
The Making of Englishmen
(2013)
Making the Englishmen offers an account of how national identities were construed and contested in the post-Reformation public sphere 1550-1650. Readership: For historians of ideas primarily - it is in the history of ...
The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)
(2010)
In the thirteenth century, the Armenians of Greater Armenia and of the Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia were invaded by Mongol nomads of the Inner Asian steppe. The ensuing Mongol-Armenian relations were varied. The Greater ...
Seventy Years of the International Law Commission
(2020)
Seventy Years of the International Law Commission: Drawing a Balance for the Future brings together voices from academia and practice to celebrate and critically evaluate the work of the United Nations International Law ...
The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam
(2022)
This second volume of the series The Presence of the Prophet, explores the growing importance of the figure of the Prophet Muhammad for questions of authority and power in many regions in early modern and modern times.; ...
Lifelong Religion as Habitus
(2016)
In this book, Helena Kupari examines the lived religion of elderly Finnish Orthodox Christian women, displaced from Karelia in the aftermath of the Second World War, through an innovative reading and application of Pierre ...
Space in Ancient Greek Literature
(2012)
The third volume of the Studies in Ancient Greek narrative deals with the narratological category of space: how is space, including objects which function as 'props', presented in narrative texts and what are its functions ...
Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800 : Linking Empires, Bridging Borders
(2014)
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. Dutch Atlantic Connections reevaluates the role of the Dutch in the Atlantic between 1680-1800. It shows how pivotal the Dutch were for the functioning of the ...
Rebellion under the Banner of Islam
(1981)
The Darul Islam rebellion, striving for the establishment of an Islamic State of Indonesia, broke out in several areas since 1949. The author describes each of these Darul Islam rebellions and identifies some of the factors ...
In the Shadow of War and Empire
(2023)
In the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans ...
Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage
(2016)
In Caliphate and Kingship Jo Van Steenbergen presents a revisionist cultural biography, a critical edition and an annotated translation of al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk, a summary history of the ḥağğ and Muslim rule by Egypt’s leading ...
Treasured Oases
(2022)
Dunhuang: China’s traditional northwest frontier and overland conduit of exchange with the Old World. Jao Tsung-i: China’s last great traditional man of letters, polymath, and pioneer of comparative humanistic inquiry ...
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 ...
Overleveringen en zangen der Zuid-Toradja's
(1979)
Indonesia
Supersapientia: Berthold of Moosburg and the Divine Science of the Platonists
(2021)
This study examines the motivations and doctrinal coherence of the Commentary on the Elements of Theology of Proclus written by Berthold of Moosburg, O.P. († c. 1361/1363). It provides an overview of Berthold’s biography ...
Het Sultanaat Palembang 1811-1825
(1975)
Indonesia
Ibn Taymiyya's Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism
(2007)
This comprehensive study of Muslim jurist Ibn Taymiyya
Oblivionism
(2022)
The book offers a fundamental view on the problem of forgetting in sociology in general and within sociology of knowledge. Furthermore it focuses – as a case study – on the field of modern science. With recourse to the ...
Rural Granaries in Northern Gaul (Sixth Century BCE – Fourth Century CE)
(2019)
Rural granaries in northern Gaul (sixth century BCE – fourth century CE) offers a comprehensive account of rural grain storage and its role in the economy of a key region of the Roman Empire. Readership: All interested in ...
The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange (Expanded Edition)
(2020)
The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange—expanded beyond the special issue of Medieval Encounters from which it was drawn—centers on the magnificent treasury of San Isidoro de León to address ...