Publications
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A Bibliography of South African Languages, 2008-2017
(2018)
This concise bibliography on South-African Languages and Linguistics was compiled on the occasion of the 20th International Congress of Linguists in Cape Town, South Africa, in July 2018. The selection of titles is drawn ...
Buddhism and the Body
(2023)
Mahayana, Theravada, ancient, modern? Even at the most basic level, the diversity of Buddhism makes a comprehensive approach daunting. This book is a first step in solving the problem. In foregrounding the bodies of ...
Editing the Greek Psalter
(2024)
This collected volume is an indispensable part of any theological and philological library. It provides a detailed and up-to-date overview of the Greek Psalter, which plays a central role in the study of the Septuagint. ...
Streitkultur und Öffentlichkeit im konfessionellen Zeitalter (Volume 95, Edition 1)
(2013)
Öffentlich ausgetragene Debatten gehören zu den Grundmerkmalen moderner Gesellschaften. Eine entwickelte »demokratische Streitkultur« gilt mithin geradezu als Voraussetzung für das Funktionieren einer Demokratie. Die dieser ...
Mimetic Posthumanism
(2024)
It is tempting to affirm that on and about November 2022 (post)human character changed. The revolution in A.I. simulations certainly calls for an update of the ancient realization that humans are imitative animals, or homo ...
Sharīʿa in Africa Today
(2020)
Sharīʿa in Africa Today. Reactions and Responses explores how Islamic law has influenced relations between Muslims and Christians, through a series of case studies by young African scholars working in four African countries: ...
Ergativity and Other Alignment Types in Neo-Aramaic
(2021)
The alignment splits in the Neo-Aramaic languages display a considerable degree of diversity, especially in terms of agreement. While earlier studies have generally oversimplified the actual state of affairs, Paul M. ...
Dictionary as Commentary - Arabic Lexicography in the Post-Formative Period
(2025)
This is the first book-length study of Arabic lexicography in the post-formative period (ca. 1200-1800). It provides a window into the dynamics of the discipline and the intellectual debates that unfolded in the study of ...
Constructing Virtue and Vice
(2012)
The study examines textual representations of women’s laughter and smiling and their imagined connection to female virtue in a wide variety of discourses and contexts of the German Middle Ages, including medieval epic, ...
Reconstructing Syntax
(2020)
Contributing to the vigorous discussion of the viability of syntactic reconstruction, this volume offers methods for identifying i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, thus providing historical ...
National Stereotyping, Identity Politics, European Crises (Volume 27)
(2021)
The articulation of collective identity by means of a stereotyped repertoire of exclusionary characterizations of Self and Other is one of the longest-standing literary traditions in Europe and as such has become part of ...
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination
(2018)
In Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination Holning Lau offers an incisive review of the conceptual questions that arise as legal systems around the world grapple with whether and how to protect people against ...
Etnografie van de Kaowerawédj (Centraal Nieuw-Guinea)
(1962)
Regional and national history
Zeitlichkeit und Geschichtlichkeit des bewegten Bildes in der Gegenwartskunst
(2021)
Time and temporality are not only inherent to the moving image because it is time-based, but also because it is able to reflect on time – through its materialization in the image, through the revelation of distinct layers ...
The Making of Englishmen
(2020)
Making the Englishmen: Debates on National Identity 1550-1650 asks how Englishmen defined themselves at a time of profound change and uncertainty. It will seek to contextualise the ways in which Englishness came to be ...
Katholische Dunkelräume
(2022)
Seitdem 2010 der frühere sexuelle Missbrauch am Berliner Canisius-Kolleg bekannt wurde, wird auch in Deutschland intensiv über den sexuellen Missbrauch an Minderjährigen durch Vertreter der katholischen Kirche diskutiert. ...
Early Modern Privacy
(2022)
An examination of instances, experiences, and spaces of early modern privacy. It opens new avenues to understanding the structures and dynamics that shape early modern societies through examination of a wide array of ...
Schrift als Autorität
(2025)
In seiner drittmittelfinanzierten Studie fragt Tobias Meihofer in einer konfessionsvergleichenden Perspektive nach der normativen Bedeutung der Heiligen Schrift und nach dem diesbezüglichen Potenzial des Autoritätsbegriffs. ...
Climate Change and International Shipping
(2016)
In Climate Change and International Shipping: The Regulatory Framework for the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Yubing Shi provides ground-breaking analyses of the evolving regulatory framework for the reduction of ...
Echoing Events
(2022)
“Echoing Events” questions the perpetuation, actualization, and canonization of national narratives in English and Dutch history textbooks, wide-reaching media that tendentially inspire a sense of meaning, memory, and thus ...