Publications
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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