Publications
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Adult Education Policy and the European Union: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
(2014)
The European Union is now a key player in making lifelong learning and adult education policy: this is the first book to explore a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives researchers can use to investigate its ...
Treason
(2019)
"The willingness to betray one’s country, one’s people, one’s family—to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another—is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have ...
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 ...
Beauvoir in Time (Volume 348)
(2020)
Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's ...
"Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth": The First International in a Global Perspective
(2018)
“Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth” provides a fresh account of the International Working Men’s Association. Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual ...
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 ...
Latin American Liberation Theology
(2002)
David Tombs offers an accessible introduction to the theological challenges raised by Latin American Liberation from its emergence in the 1960s to its ‘decade of crisis’ in the 1990s. This work traces the distinct developments ...
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, ...
Drie Asmat-dialecten
(1963)
Indonesia
Enlightened Religion
(2019)
This volume widens the scope of research into the relation between religion and Enlightenment. The contributions demonstrate the impact of changing worldviews in a variety of intellectual disciplines and cultural milieus. ...
Founding Territorial Cults in Early Japan
(2023)
The first book that deals with the territorial cults of early Japan by focusing on how such cults were founded in ownerless regions. Numerous ancient Japanese myths and legends are discussed to show that the typical founding ...
Music in New Guinea
(1967)
Indonesia
Islam and the Limits of the State
(2015)
This book examines the complex relationships between the state state implementation of Shariʿa and diverse lived realities of everyday Islam in contemporary Aceh, Indonesia. ; Readership: Students and scholars concerned ...
The Merok Feast of the Sa'dan Toradja
(1965)
Indonesia
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 12 (2005-2006)
(2007)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. Readership: Academics and practitioners who deal with international ...
Der Totenkult der Ngadju Dajak in Süd-Borneo (2 Vols.)
(1966)
Indonesia
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 Renewal of Medieval Metaphysics
(2021)
This is the first volume exclusively devoted to the Expositio by Berthold of Moosburg (c.1295-c.1361) on Proclus’ Elements of Theology. The breadth of its vision surpasses every other known commentary on the Elements of ...
A Critical Companion to the 'Mirrors for Princes' Literature
(2022)
Why devote a Companion to the "mirrors for princes", whose very existence is debated? These texts offer key insights into political thoughts of the past. Their ambiguous, problematic status further enhances their interest. ...
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen
(2019)
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of Pergamum. In 31 chapters, written by a range of experts in the ...