Publications
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The Paradox of Openness
(2015)
Openness implies bottom-up empowerment and top-down transparency. The Paradox of Openness analyses the tensions encountered when openness is applied to the quest for democracy and markets, freedom and truth, compliance and ...
Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity
(2022)
In a seminal study, Cur cantatur?, Anders Ekenberg examined Carolingian sources for explanations of why the liturgy was sung, rather than spoken. This multidisciplinary volume takes up Ekenberg’s question anew, investigating ...
Syria's Monuments
(2016)
Syria's Monuments: their Survival and Destruction examines the fate of the various monuments in Syria (including present-day Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine/Israel) from Late Antiquity to the fall of the Ottoman Empire in ...
The Language of Paul Muldoon
(2020)
This book interprets the multifarious writing of the Irish-American word wizard, Paul Muldoon, who has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as ‘the most significant English-language poet born since the second ...
Islamic Reformism and Christianity
(2009-01-01)
Drawing on newly-discovered archival materials, the study offers a comprehensive and critical reading of the polemics of Sheikh Rashīd Riḍā and his associates on Christianity in al-Manār, and their fascinating encounters ...
Taking a Common Concern Approach to Economic Inequality
(2022)
Through the lens of cooperative sovereignty and the common concern of humankind concept, this book contemplates what kind of transnational corporate taxation system would be necessary for appropriately dealing with rising ...
Säkularisierung und Religion
(2019)
In den vergangenen Jahren ist das Thema „Säkularisierung“ zu einem beliebten Forschungsparadigma geworden. Geschichtliche Prozesse und gegenwärtige Phänomene werden unter der Perspektive von „Säkularisierung“ beschrieben ...
Healthcare Chaplaincy as Specialised Spiritual Care
(2024)
Is healthcare chaplaincy a health profession? This book argues that it is. It is a plea for Christian healthcare chaplaincy to be practiced as a form of specialized spiritual care, and to be understood anew within the ...
Texts, Contexts and Intertextuality
(2014)
While Dickens used to be seen as a writer of shallow and sentimental children’s literature, as the prolific caterer to the new market of mass literature, this collection of essays shows that Dickens was not only a reader ...
New Approaches to the Analysis of Jihadism
(2011)
Jihadism has been an important issue of public discussions since 9/11. Internet media have been used by Jihadis as means of communication, propaganda, recruitment, and even training purposes. In this volume, the processes ...