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Peer Effects in Green Transformation: Leveraging Social Learning
(2024)
The global energy crisis has led to a growing debate on the need to expedite the phasing out of fossil fuels. Highlighting the advantages of adopting renewable energy solutions can act as a driving force for positive change ...
Changing Assessment
(2025)
Since the Delors report, education reformers have been working to create curricula that allow human beings to flourish. Schools should not only be places where we learn to be and learn to live together, but also places ...
Erprobung empirisch
(2024)
Many Protestant regional churches have established so-called innovation and testing spaces as part of their strategic church development. They are characterized by the diverse ways in which they allow and encourage deviations ...
Christlich-Islamischer Religionsunterricht im Teamteaching
(2024)
This volume presents the findings of the cooperative religious education project “Christian-Islamic Religious Education in Teamteaching”. In this specific teaching setting, one Catholic and one Islamic teacher taught ...
Formal Axiology and Its Critics
(2021)
Formal Axiology and Its Critics consists of two parts, both of which present criticisms of the formal theory of values developed by Robert S. Hartman, replies to these criticisms, plus a short introduction to formal ...
Governing the Galleys: Jurisdiction, Justice, and Trade in the Squadrons of the Hispanic Monarchy (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
(2019)
In Governing the Galleys, Manuel Lomas analyses the political, legal and economic impact of the development of the Spanish Navy in the Early Modern Mediterranean (sixteenth - seventeenth centuries). Readership: All interested ...
Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities
(2019)
The Western Sephardic communities came into being as a result of confessional migration. However, in contrast to the other European confessional communities, the Sephardic Jews in Western Europe came to Judaism after a ...
Herrschaftskontrolle durch Öffentlichkeit
(2012)
Das Mediensystem der politischen Publizistik im frühmodernen Deutschland war keineswegs eine obrigkeitliche Stiftung, sondern entwickelte sich in wechselseitiger Beziehung zu politischen Entwicklungsprozessen zu zunehmender ...
Aristotle reads Hippocrates
(2024)
Despite Aristotle's family background and his undeniable impact on ancient Greek medicine, the influence of medicine on Aristotle's philosophy is controversial and far from universally acknowledged. The aim of this volume ...
Describing God?
(2025)
This volume engages traditional and contemporary approaches to the Divine attributes in Christian-Muslim dialogue. A particular focus lies on the attributes of omnipotence and omniscience, justice and mercy, as well as ...
The Conceptualization of Equality and Non-discrimination as Legal Standards
(2024)
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the central concepts figuring in equality and non-discrimination standards across jurisdictions: formal and substantive equality, direct and indirect discrimination, reasonable ...
Khwadāynāmag The Middle Persian Book of Kings
(2018)
In Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, its lost Arabic translations, and the sources of Firdawsī's Shāhnāme. ...
The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches
(2023)
The ancient commentaries and scholia to Cicero’s speeches have hitherto received relatively little scholarly attention. This volume is dedicated to Asconius’ first-century commentary and the corpora of the scholia stemming ...
Chinese in France amid the Covid-19 Pandemic
(2023)
The day after the epidemic broke out in Wuhan, Chinese people in France are already busy sending masks across borders and sharing media information; at the same time, a significant number of Chinese people are victims of ...
The Eastern Question or Balkan Nationalism(s)
(2018)
This volume is critical to the two dominant historiographical paradigms on the topic of Balkan revolutions. This new treatment does not adopt a description of the national movements resulting from the dissolution of the ...
Re-Thinking Agency
(2024)
The book explores the multi-faceted nature of contemporary reflections on agency, focusing on various discursive practices that shape the posthumanist approach to the relationship between the human and non-human world from ...
BITE: Recipes for Remarkable Research
(2014)
BITE: Recipes for remarkable research is an edited field book capturing the research, learning and experiences of an international network of scholars studying effective and creative research environments. The book ...
Migration – Kommunikation – Transfer (Volume 1, Edition 1)
(2021)
Der Band behandelt Fragen des gegenseitigen Austauschs sowie ethnischer, kultureller und religiöser Verflechtungen der mitteleuropäischen Länder und ihrer Bevölkerung. In zwölf Beiträgen von Archäologen und Historikern der ...
Species Cleansing
(2024)
The book scrutinizes post-war rat control programs in Poland, exploring their intricate intersections with politics, science, and ideology. It delves into the impact of prevailing cultural narratives concerning problematic ...
Long-lived Family Businesses in Japan: Factors of Success
(2024)
Japanese family businesses are among the oldest in the world and many of them prove a history record of 200 years and more. Research on several case studies of century old firms (‘shinise’) in Japan reveal three factors ...
Nur eine »Geld-Emancipation«?
(2018)
Im Mittelpunkt des Buches steht die Frage nach den Loyalitäten und Lebenswelten des Prager jüdischen Großbürgertums zwischen 1800 und 1867. Aufgrund seines enormen wirtschaftlichen Erfolges nahm es innerhalb der jüdischen ...
Verse and Transmutation
(2013-11-01)
Identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous Middle English recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth century. Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry ...
Körperkommunikation
(2022)
Das Auftreten falscher Mitglieder der Dynastie (russ. samozvanstvo) im Moskauer und Russländischen Reich wurde in der Vergangenheit meist als Form von Protest gedeutet. Im Unterschied dazu nähert sich die Studie aus ...
Gender Equality in the Mirror
(2022)
By taking an innovative perspective, Gender Equality in the Mirror aims to advance the debate on gender equalities and to engage with the complexities of their practical implications in everyday life. Through the voice of ...
Die Formierung der frühen Religionswissenschaft in China (1890–1949)
(2024)
How did modern religious studies develop in China before 1949? Which discourses, actors, and local contexts contributed to its adaptation in a non-Western context? Which transfer channels and motives were decisive? Christian ...
Politisches Entscheiden im Kalten Krieg
(2019)
Wer sich für die krisenhaften Zuspitzungen in der Politik des Kalten Kriegs interessiert, kommt um eine Analyse der hinter diesen Prozessen liegenden Kulturen des Entscheidens nicht herum. Als Spitzenereignis steht die ...
Kampf um Wort und Schrift
(2012)
Seit Beginn der Neuzeit expandierte das Moskauer Fürstentum gen Westen und Süden. Zu Zeiten der Romanov-Dynastie umfasste Russland weite Gebiete mit überwiegend nichtrussischer und konfessionell heterogener Bevölkerung. ...
Geschichtsvermittlung postkolonial
(2024)
Postcolonial theory is a topic of ongoing heated discussions: for some it is a “super theory” for the age of globalization, while others see it as an elitist discourse that only leads to sectarian identity politics. But ...
Plympton Priory: A House of Augustinian Canons in South-Western England in the Late Middle Ages
(2007)
A case study examining the history of a house of English Augustinian canons, this book reveals the ways in which Plympton Priory formed connections with the laity, the episcopacy, the secular clergy, and the Crown in the ...
Sterben und Tod öffentlich gestalten
(2022)
Die Thematik „Sterben und Tod“ erlebt seit den 2010er-Jahren in den Künsten einen enormen Aufschwung, der sich beispielsweise im neuen Genre „Autobiografische Sterbeliteratur“ manifestiert. Indem die Künste bestimmte ...
Geschichte eines jüdischen Soldaten
(2012)
Mit seiner während des Ersten Weltkriegs entstandenen Erzählung legte Simon Dubnow eine kollektive Biografie der russischen Judenheit vor. Er schildert die Ereignisse zwischen den Jahren 1881, der Zeit der Pogrome, und ...
Lateinische Dialoge 1200-1400
(2007)
In this monograph the dialogue production between 1200 and 1400 is presented in a detailed repertory. Building on this material, the author describes four genres of dialogue (didactic, polemical, introspective and philosophical ...
Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire
(2009)
This volume presents the proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on the impact the Roman Empire had on changes ...
The European Union and the Arctic
(2017)
The European Union and the Arctic examines the roles the EU can and should play in shaping Arctic governance to ensure sustainable development in the Arctic region. Readership: The target audience of the book includes ...
The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls
(2023)
This book contributes to the rethinking of the Dead Sea Scrolls as an essential and integral part of Judaism in the Greco-Roman period. The Qumran manuscripts attest to the reconfiguration of Jewish wisdom concepts in this ...
Administrating Kinship: Marriage Impediments and Dispensation Policies in the 18th and 19th Centuries
(2023)
From the late eighteenth century, more and more men and women wished to marry their cousins or in-laws. This aim was primarily linked to changes in marriage concepts, which were increasingly based on familiarity. Wealthy ...
Worship, Ritual, and Pentecostal Spirituality-as-Theology
(2024)
Vibrant worship music is part of the Charismatic liturgy all around the world, and has become in many ways the hallmark of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. Despite its centrality, scholarly interest in the theological ...
Traces of Ink
(2021)
Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman ...
A King and a Fool?
(2019)
In A King and a Fool? The Succession Narrative as a Satire Virginia Miller argues that the genre of the Succession Narrative is a satire. Accordingly, this narrative is pejoratively critical of King David. ; Readership: ...
Cracking Facebook
(2015)
This book presents a Facebook study on members of the Cusp Generation, or those born before the “great digital divide” of 1995. This delineation allows for a discussion on the possible socio-cultural implications of Facebook ...
Princeps et episcopus
(2013)
Die nordwestdeutschen Fürstbischöfe (Köln, Münster, Osnabrück, Paderborn und Hildesheim) bewegten sich in einem komplexen Bedingungsgefüge zwischen landesherrlicher Stellung, reichsfürstlicher Position, geistlichem Amt und ...
Our Mythical Childhood...
(2016)
This volume offers a survey of the reception of Classical Antiquity in the literature for youngsters by applying regional perspectives from East-Central and Western Europe, Africa, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, and ...
Putting knowledge(s) into perspective?
(2024)
The fact that textbooks and other educational media should reflect different perspectives and enable learners to form their own opinions is widely accepted by academics, schools and publishers. But how exactly can ...
Das antike Griechenland ist die schönste Erfindung der Neuzeit (Volume 3, Edition 1)
(2021)
Mit einem Satz des Dichters Paul Valéry betitelt François Hartog seine Suche nach den Schlüsselmomenten in der Begegnung der europäischen Neuzeit mit dem antiken Griechenland und schöpft dabei aus seiner langjährigen ...
The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800–1950
(2020)
In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the ‘stigmatic’: young women ...
Astrophysics, Astronomy and Space Sciences in the History of the Max Planck Society
(2022)
This book provides the first comprehensive historical account of the evolution of scientific traditions in astronomy, astrophysics, and the space sciences within the Max Planck Society. Structured with in-depth archival ...
Ruling the Stage: Social and Cultural History of Opera in Sichuan from the Qing to the People's Republic of China
(2022)
Through an innovative interdisciplinary reading and field research, Igor Chabrowski analyses the history of the development of opera in Sichuan, arguing that opera serves as a microcosm of the profound transformation of ...
Faith, Truth, Fidelity
(2023)
Though frequently acknowledged as a remarkable phase within Czech literary history, the poetic outpouring in the build-up to and aftermath of the Munich Agreement has received comparatively little rigorous scholarly attention ...
Critical Storytelling
(2022)
What does power abuse look and feel like in the academic world? How does it affect university faculty, students, education and research? What can we do to counteract and prevent power abuse? These questions are addressed ...
Raum Gottes
(2015)
»Wir müssen neu lernen, den Raum zu denken« – Die Forderung des Sozialanthropologen Marc Augé formuliert programmatisch das Anliegen des später sogenannten spatial turn, der in den Kulturwissenschaften auf vielfältige ...
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 ...