Publications
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Pre-suppression Jesuit Activity in the British Isles and Ireland
(2019)
Conceived in optimism but baptized with blood, Jesuit missions to the British Isles and Ireland withstood government repression, internal squabbles, theological disputes, political machinations, and overbearing prelates ...
Making Saints in a “Glocal” Religion
(2024)
Early modern Catholicism was a “glocal” affair: global in aspiration yet diverse in its local manifestations. Saint-making was no exception. In the wake of the Council of Trent, the Roman Church developed complex bureaucratic ...
Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Ancient Judaism
(2012)
Focusing on concepts, practices and images associated with purity in the ancient Mediterranean, this volume contributes new aspects to the current discussion about the forming of religious traditions, from a comparative ...
Zofia Kossaks Geschichte(n)
(2023)
Die polnische Schriftstellerin Zofia Kossak (1889–1968) schrieb historische Romane, mit denen sie versuchte, die Traumata des 20. Jahrhunderts zu überwinden – zwei Kriege, die Oktoberrevolution, die Inhaftierung im ...
Transnationale Bildungsräume
(2013)
Bildung ist keine interne Angelegenheit einzelner Staaten oder Gesellschaften, sondern ereignet sich über nationale Grenzen hinweg: Fremde Bildungskonzepte und -inhalte werden ausgetauscht, angeeignet oder abgelehnt; Lehrer ...
Good Governance and Modern International Financial Institutions
(2019)
The first volume of the AIIB Yearbook of International Law (AYIL) examines a series of dimensions to the good governance of modern International Financial Institutions. Readership: All international legal practitioners, ...
Frieden übersetzen in der Vormoderne
(2012)
Übersetzungen sind das Bindemittel zwischenmenschlicher Kommunikation. Durch sie wird Wissen vermittelt und politische, kulturelle Prozesse sogar komplexer moderner Gesellschaften geregelt. Dieser Band stellt die vielfältigen ...
Un piccolo esempio. La psicagogia matematica di Platone
(2024)
‘Let me give you a simple example of what I mean, and you will see the rest for yourself.’ This is how Plato usually introduces mathematical examples to illustrate important philosophical puzzles. The research presented ...
Oyfn Sheydveg
(2025)
In continuation of the first issue of the Yiddish journal Oyfn sheydveg (At the Crossroads) from April 1939, this volume presents both the second issue, published in August 1939, along with the reconstructed third issue, ...
Relational Religion
(2019)
Håkon Naasen Tandberg explores how, when, and why humans relate to the non-human world. Based on two ethnographic fieldworks among the Parsis in Mumbai, the research focuses on the role of temple fires in the lives of ...