Publications
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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 ...
Making Islam Work
(2023)
The development of Islamic landscapes in Europe, is first and foremost related to Islamic authority. Religious authority relies on persuasiveness and deals with issues of truth, authenticity, legitimacy, trust, and ethics ...
The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi
(2020)
The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi explores the life and teachings of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311), a little-known Ḥanbalī Sufi master from the circle of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328). The first part of this book ...
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 ...
Die europäische Integration und die Kirchen
(2010)
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg begann Europa zusammenzuwachsen. Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge internationaler Autoren, die aus historischer oder theologischer Sicht die Haltung der Päpste (Pius XII.), der englischen Kirche ...
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 ...
Pragmatic Approaches to Drama
(2020)
This volume collects papers on pragmatic perspectives on ancient theatre. Scholars working on literature, linguistics, theatre will find interesting insights on verbal and non-verbal uses of language in ancient Greek and ...
Qahal und Ekklesia
(2024)
Politics begins with people assembling. An inquiry into types and functions of assemblies is therefore an inquiry into one of the most fundamental questions of political theory. In the present volume, that question is ...
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature
(2014)
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles explores the different attitudes toward the woman’s guilt for the expulsion from the Garden and human’s calamities and the legal ramifications ...
The Challenge of Radicalization and Extremism
(2022)
This interdisciplinary volume on The Challenge of Radicalization and Extremism: Integrating Research on Education and Citizenship in the Context of Migration addresses the need for educational researchers to place their ...
Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance
(2013-11-01)
Cynthia Skenazi explores in this book a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch ...
Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca
(2023)
Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses a wide variety of historical and contemporary personal accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca, most of which presented in English for the first time. The book addresses how being ...
Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions
(2020)
Academic study of the tantric traditions has blossomed in recent decades, in no small measure thanks to the magisterial contributions of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson, until 2015 Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics ...
Schreibberatung
(2024)
What challenges must writing consultants meet when working in an academic context? What characterizes language-sensitive writing consulting? Writing consultants support writers in developing their academic writing skills ...
Romantik
(2019)
“Romantik. Journal for the Study of Romanticisms” is a multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of romantic-era cultural productions and concepts. The journal promotes innovative research across disciplinary borders. ...
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. ...
Male and Female and the Afro-Curaçaoan Household
(1976)
The subject of the present study concerns the relationships between men and women and the composition of household groups among the lower Afro-American strata of the society of Curaçao. The material on which it is based ...
In Search of Singularity
(2022)
In Search of Singularity introduces a new “compairative” methodology that seeks to understand how the interplay of paired texts creates meaning in new, transcultural contexts. Bringing the worlds of contemporary Polish and ...
The Mapping of a Russian War: The Atlas of the Principality of Polatsk by Stanisław Pachołowiecki (1580)
(2024)
This volume is a comprehensive analysis of the Atlas of the Principality of Polatsk (1580), one of the oldest cartographic representations of the military conflict between Russia (Muscovy) and the Western world. Its author, ...
Chinese Families Upside Down: Intergenerational Dynamics and Neo-Familism in the Early 21st Century
(2021)
Chinese Families Upside Down offers the first systematic account of how intergenerational dependence is redefining the Chinese family. The authors make a collective effort to go beyond the conventional model of filial piety ...