Publications
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The Orient in Utrecht: Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), Arabist, Cartographer, Antiquarian and Scholar of Comparative Religion
(2021)
Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), Arabist, Cartographer, Antiquarian and Scholar of Comparative Religion covers the intellectual achievements of a remarkable man: Adriaan Reland, professor of Oriental languages (1701) and Hebrew ...
Trust in Contemporary Society
(2019)
Trust in Contemporary Society, by well-known trust researchers, deals with conceptual, theoretical and social interaction analyses, historical data on societies, national surveys or cross-national comparative studies, and ...
Indian Islamic Architecture
(2007-01-12)
The British scholar John Burton-Page contributed numerous formative articles on Indian Islamic architecture for the Encyclopaedia of Islam over a period of 25 years. Assembled here for the first time, these offer an ...
Remaking Communities and Adult Learning
(2022)
What responses is adult education providing to the great global problems: climate change and the environment, populism and racism, gender inequality, social and economic inequality? The ESREA Research Network between Local ...
Neue Urbanität – Konzepte zur Stadt der Zukunft
(2025)
Since 2008, more people worldwide have been living in cities than in rural areas and the end of this form of urbanization is far from imminent. This development began as early as the Renaissance with the conception of ...
The Power to Pardon in Medieval and Early Modern Christian Europe
(2025)
In medieval and early modern Christian Europe, the power to exercise pardon over rigor of justice was one of the strongest manifestations of sovereignty and, as such, it was almost ubiquitous. For merciful rulers, pardoning ...
The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739)
(2016)
In The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739), Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso analyzes the politics behind the most salient Bourbon reform introduced in Spanish America during the early ...
Context and Catholicity in the Science and Religion Debate
(2020)
Based on a thorough study of the ‘lived theology’ of Christian students and university professors in Abidjan, Kinshasa and Yaoundé, this book proposes a theoretical framework that makes an intercultural and interdisciplinary ...
The Impact of Imperial Rome on Religions, Ritual and Religious Life in the Roman Empire
(2006)
The fifth volume Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, 200 BC-AD 476) focuses on the impact of imperial Rome on religion, treating connections between Roman expansion and religion; the imperial impact on local cults; priests, ...
International Organizations and the Promotion of Effective Dispute Resolution
(2019)
This second volume of the AIIB Yearbook of International Law examines a series of overarching themes and relationships regarding the role of international organizations in promoting effective dispute resolution. Readership: ...