Publications
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Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World
(2018)
This volume sets out to explore the world of domestic devotions and is premised on the assumption that the home was a central space of religious practice and experience throughout the early modern world. The contributions ...
Gender, ritual and social formation in West Papua; A configurational analysis comparing Kamoro and Asmat
(2010)
This study, based on a lifelong involvement with New Guinea, compares the culture of the Kamoro (18,000 people) with that of their eastern neighbours, the Asmat (40,000), both living on the south coast of West Papua, ...
Tense and Text in Classical Arabic
(2016)
In Tense and Text in Classical Arabic, Michal Marmorstein presents a discourse-oriented analysis of the indicative tense system in Classical Arabic. The study demonstrates the effect of the extended syntactic and textual ...
Monetary Stability as a Common Concern in International Law
(2022)
Monetary Stability as a Common Concern in International Law convincingly argues that monetary stability should be recognised as a Common Concern of Humankind. It also claims that international monetary reform is needed and ...
International Law and Chemical, Biological, Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) Events
(2022)
This book explores the interplay between International Law and Chemical, Biological, Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) risks. An all-hazards approach is adopted to cover events of intentional, accidental and natural origin, and ...
The Dream of the North
(2014)
Northern Europe and North America have dominated the world stage for more than two centuries. Using a wide range of sources, this book provides the first coherent account from a multi-national perspective of the ideas and ...
Jesuit Art
(2022)
Mia Mochizuki draws upon masterpieces and material culture from around the world to show how the pre-suppression Society of Jesus (1540–1773) pioneered structural innovations in the history of the image. ; Readership: All ...
The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5)
(2019)
In The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5), Paul Linjamaa explores the theoretical foundations and practical implications of the ethics in the longest Valentinian text extant today. As such, it is one of the first ...
The Political System of the Atoni of Timor
(1971)
Indonesia
Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions
(2015)
Islam is often seen as a religious tradition in which hell does not play a particularly prominent role. This volume challenges this hackneyed view. Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions is the first book-length analytic study ...