Publications
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The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam
(2022)
This collective volume explores the figure of the Prophet Muhammad in early Islam and its pious transformations in later times. It illuminates the interplay of doctrine, literature and visual arts in the formation of a ...
Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America
(2015)
In Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America academics from various fields such as anthropology, art history, cultural studies, environmental science, history, political science, and ...
De biografie van een Minangkabausen peperhandelaar in de Lampongs
(1961)
Indonesia
War and Law in the Islamic World
(2015)
Armed conflict, today, has diverged from war as it was known in generations past, and from this, has tested the means by which conflicts and violence are regulated. Written with an eye to a region plagued by such conflicts, ...
Kana Sera, zang der zwangerschap
(1955)
Indonesia
Travelling Chronicles
(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 ...
Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks
(2010)
This book examines catalysts for Buddhist formation in ancient South Asia and expansion throughout and beyond the northwestern Indian subcontinent to Central Asia by investigating symbiotic relationships between networks ...
Les manuscrits arabes des lettres de Paul
(2018)
Dans cet ouvrage, Sara Schulthess discute l’état de la recherche sur les manuscrits arabes des lettres de Paul et offre une contribution innovante en éditant et analysant la Première lettre aux Corinthiens dans le Vaticanus ...
Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe
(2011)
The conference volume of the Bochumer Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe” outlines the thesis that religion is not a homogeneous cultural phenomenon, but a dense network of diachronically ...
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
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.
Jane Austen Speaks Norwegian
(2018)
Can Jane Austen only be fully understood in English? In Jane Austen Speaks Norwegian, Sørbø compares novels and their translations, while also discussing the strategies chosen by translators of literature. Readership: ...
In search of a path; An analysis of the foreign policy of Suriname from 1975 to 1991
(2011)
In search of a path An analysis of the foreign policy of Suriname from 1975 to 1991
Roger Janssen
The foreign policy of small states is an often neglected topic, which is particularly the case when it comes to Suriname. ...
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 ...
The Lifework of a Labor Historian: Essays in Honor of Marcel van der Linden
(2018)
The Life Work of a Labor Historian: Essays in honor of Marcel van der Linden, presents the latest developments in the global history of labor, work and workers, and of capitalism and its critics. Readership: All interested ...
The Saqqara Necropolis through the New Kingdom
(2022)
This book is the first comprehensive monographic treatment of the New Kingdom (1539–1078 BCE) necropolis at Saqqara, the burial ground of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, and addresses questions fundamental to ...
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 ...
De vestiging der Nederlanders ter kuste Malabar
(1943)
Indonesia
Power and Religion in Baroque Rome
(2005)
This study analyzes the ways in which a variety of cultural manifestations were the necessary preconditions for (religious) policy and power in the Rome of Urban VIII (1623-1644). Precisely their interaction created what ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy
(2018)
Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy illuminates the vibrancy of spiritual beliefs and practices which profoundly shaped family life in this era. Scholarship on Catholicism has tended to focus on institutions, but the ...
Die „krumme Bahn der Sinnlichkeit“
(2022)
Der Epoche der Aufklärung wird nicht nur eine besondere Vorliebe für den Sehsinn und das Licht nachgesagt, sondern auch ein bestimmtes ‚Wahrnehmungsmodell‘, das von dem Topos des kalten, distanzierten und klassifizierenden ...
Sja'ir Perang Mengkasar
(1963)
Indonesia
Samuel Beckett dans les marges du surréalisme
(2021)
Dans Samuel Beckett dans les marges du surréalisme, Bernard-Olivier Posse propose une relecture de la posture auctoriale de Samuel Beckett en interrogeant l’ambiguïté de sa relation avec le mouvement français, faite ...
Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers
(2018)
Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers: Potentials for a Learning Space in a Changing World focuses on the continuities and discontinuities of the learning careers and identities of non-traditional adult students ...
Memory before Modernity
(2013)
This volume examines the practice of memory in early modern Europe, showing that this was already a multimedia affair with many political uses, and affecting people at all levels of society; many pre-modern memory practices ...
Het passieve werkwoord in de Indonesische talen
(1952)
Indonesia
Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa
(2018)
The essays in Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa offer a critical reflection on the often more competitive than cordial relationships between Jesuit and Protestant missionaries in nineteenth- and early ...
A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth
(2020)
A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval ...
Episches Erzählen bei Goethe als Reflexion auf moderne Zeitlichkeit
(2022)
Die Gattung des Epos gilt gemeinhin als die Antithese moderner Literatur. Wenn zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts das Epische restituiert wird und dabei insbesondere seine Erzählökonomie der Entschleunigung hervorgehoben wird, ...
Gathering Souls: Jesuit Missions and Missionaries in Oceania (1668–1945)
(2019)
This essay deals with the missionary work of the Society of Jesus in today’s Micronesia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. In order to understand the Jesuits’ evangelization project of gathering souls in the ...
The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews
(2009)
In The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews the author explains how Christians with Jewish ancestry went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation and development of the Society of Jesus to ...
Symbolic Anthropology in the Netherlands
(1982)
Indonesia
Strahlen im Kalten Krieg
(2021)
“Radiation in the Cold War” investigates the way that politics, science, and society dealt with radiation in Switzerland. The study examines how Switzerland prepared for a future atomic war as well as for nuclear uses in ...
Qur’ans of the Umayyads
(2013)
For the first time, the dramatic changes the Qur’anic code underwent during the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished. Winner of 23rd I.R. ...
Roman Rule and Civic Life: Local and Regional Perspectives
(2004)
Ancient history: to c 500 CE