Publications
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Authority and Performance
(2015)
One can hardly exaggerate the importance of the church councils in the 5th and 6th centuries. They provide us with great insights into the situation in the late Roman Empire and particularly into the role of the Church at ...
Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education
(2020)
Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education brings together leading and emerging scholars in adult education in order to capture the vitality and complexity of contemporary adult education research, marked by ...
Jesuits and the Natural Sciences in Modern Times, 1814–2014
(2019)
From 1814, linked to their educational work, Jesuits made significant contributions to the natural sciences, especially in the fields of astronomy, meteorology, seismology, terrestrial magnetism, mathematics, and biology ...
Negotiating the Fabric of the African University
(2025)
This book is the first volume of two edited collections that critically assess the historical and contemporary processes that have shaped the formation and transformation of the African university. It provides general ...
Jeremia und seine Verkündigung
(2025)
In seinem Jeremiabuch sucht Werner H. Schmidt mit seiner Darstellung nach Jeremia selbst zurückzufragen. In Aufnahme und Abwandlung von Redeformen und Einsichten seiner prophetischen Vorgänger lässt sich Jeremias Eigenart ...
Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective (300–1600)
(2015)
This volume comprises fifteen articles on the differing functions that purity, impurity, pollution and related categories could fulfil in Asian and European religions and societies of the 3rd to 17th century c.E. They focus ...
Religiöse Sozialisation (muslimischer) Jugendlicher in mediatisierter Welt
(2025)
Erkan Binici’s study examines how (muslim) adolescents, aged 12 to 19, perceive and interpret religion in their everyday media use, based on interviews and documentary method. The findings show that within their media and ...
UN Security Council Referrals to the International Criminal Court
(2018)
Galand critically spells out a comprehensive conception of the nature and effects of Security Council referrals that responds to the various limits to the International Criminal Court’s exercise of jurisdiction over ...
Philipp von Stosch: Collecting, Drawing, Studying and Publishing Engraved Gems
(2025)
This book, published with two online appendices, highlights and discusses critically a facet of Stosch that stands in sharp contrast to the dense negative mythology of him as a spy, hoarder and libertine which for a long ...
Die ›Kriegshistoriographie‹ des Orosius
(2025)
Through his way of historical representation, Orosius wants to proof that Christianity is not responsible for the catastrophe of his own time: the sack of Rome in 410 AD. In her study, the author examines Orosius’ numerous ...