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Rethinking the Anthropology of Islam
(2024)
The contributions of this volume discuss the broad field of transformation processes in Muslim societies from different perspectives with various disciplinary approaches. Apart from methodological questions the authors ...
Rethinking the Anthropology of Islam
(2024)
The contributions of this volume discuss the broad field of transformation processes in Muslim societies from different perspectives with various disciplinary approaches. Apart from methodological questions the authors ...
Public History and School
(2018)
How do schools and public history influence each other? Cases studies focusing on school and public history around the world shed light on the intricate relationships between schools, students, teachers, policy makers and ...
Performing Peace and Friendship
(2022)
Through a case-study of the World Youth Festival, the book provides new insights into the Soviet role in the cultural Cold War and offers an explanation why the USSR failed in the cultural battle against the USA and the ...
Performing Peace and Friendship
(2022)
Through a case-study of the World Youth Festival, the book provides new insights into the Soviet role in the cultural Cold War and offers an explanation why the USSR failed in the cultural battle against the USA and the ...
Didaktische Perspektiven der Phraseologie in der Gegenwart
(2022)
Phraseology has established itself as an independent academic discipline. Its applied subdiscipline, phraseodidactics, has developed somewhat delayed, but just as intensively. The articles in this volume analyze the current ...
Didaktische Perspektiven der Phraseologie in der Gegenwart
(2022)
Phraseology has established itself as an independent academic discipline. Its applied subdiscipline, phraseodidactics, has developed somewhat delayed, but just as intensively. The articles in this volume analyze the current ...
Prisms of Work
(2024)
The phenomenon of labour takes the character of a prism. Labour is thereby always context dependent and constituted through the actions of all protagonists involved in any labour relationship. On the basis of three case ...
Prisms of Work
(2024)
The phenomenon of labour takes the character of a prism. Labour is thereby always context dependent and constituted through the actions of all protagonists involved in any labour relationship. On the basis of three case ...
East Asia and the First World War
(2022)
The First World War was a truely global event that changed the course of history in many participating as well as non-participating countries. In East Asia, the war stimulated the further rise of Japan as the leading power ...
East Asia and the First World War
(2022)
The First World War was a truely global event that changed the course of history in many participating as well as non-participating countries. In East Asia, the war stimulated the further rise of Japan as the leading power ...
Melothesia in Babylonia. Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East
(2014)
This book examines the Babylonian backgroundof melothesia, the science of charting zodiac influences on the human body, which transformed older divination by connecting astrology with medical techniques. Special attention ...
Wildes Übersetzen
(2023)
This book develops a theory of wild translation. It describes literary strategies that not only serve to translate content but also produce new poetic texts out of foreign linguistic material. Analyses of Johann Fischart’s ...
Wildes Übersetzen
(2023)
This book develops a theory of wild translation. It describes literary strategies that not only serve to translate content but also produce new poetic texts out of foreign linguistic material. Analyses of Johann Fischart’s ...
Internationale Gerechtigkeit und institutionelle Verantwortung
(2019)
What are the implications of globalization for moral behavior? What would global practices look like that were just for all in principle? Is it possible to generalize the basic principles of social justice as they prevail ...
Internationale Gerechtigkeit und institutionelle Verantwortung
(2019)
What are the implications of globalization for moral behavior? What would global practices look like that were just for all in principle? Is it possible to generalize the basic principles of social justice as they prevail ...
From Erasmus to Maius
(2024)
An-Ting Yi writes an extensive scholarly history of the famous Codex Vaticanus over the course of 350 years. Currently regarded as one of the most essential pillars to reconstruct the Greek New Testament text, the perceptions ...
From Erasmus to Maius
(2024)
An-Ting Yi writes an extensive scholarly history of the famous Codex Vaticanus over the course of 350 years. Currently regarded as one of the most essential pillars to reconstruct the Greek New Testament text, the perceptions ...
German and Dutch in Contrast
(2020)
Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Dutch, and other Germanic relatives like English, Afrikaans, and the Scandinavian ...
German and Dutch in Contrast
(2020)
Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Dutch, and other Germanic relatives like English, Afrikaans, and the Scandinavian ...
Religious Experience and Its Transformational Power
(2023)
The author approaches the phenomenon of 'religious experience' through a qualitative study in which young, urban people from Europe and the USA are empirically examined. It becomes clear that individuals themselves are ...
Religious Experience and Its Transformational Power
(2023)
The author approaches the phenomenon of 'religious experience' through a qualitative study in which young, urban people from Europe and the USA are empirically examined. It becomes clear that individuals themselves are ...
Säkularismus und religiöser Wandel
(2023)
Diese Studie dringt in den Kern des organisierten Säkularismus der Schweiz vor. Dazu rückt sie die Freidenkerbewegung in den Fokus einer soziologischen Analyse und bearbeitet zwei aufeinander bezogene Themenkomplexe: ...
Säkularismus und religiöser Wandel
(2023)
Diese Studie dringt in den Kern des organisierten Säkularismus der Schweiz vor. Dazu rückt sie die Freidenkerbewegung in den Fokus einer soziologischen Analyse und bearbeitet zwei aufeinander bezogene Themenkomplexe: ...
Libraries on the Agenda
(2024)
Libraries on the Agenda shows how to engage in lobbying and advocating for libraries. The book analyzes political elements of power, policy making and human values. Political decision makers from local communities up to ...
Libraries on the Agenda
(2024)
Libraries on the Agenda shows how to engage in lobbying and advocating for libraries. The book analyzes political elements of power, policy making and human values. Political decision makers from local communities up to ...
Die Produktion besonderer Arbeitskräfte
(2024)
The "servant question" in the late nineteenth century led to the proliferation of debates and conflicts regarding domestic work. Were household servants to be viewed as workers or as members of the household? How should ...
Die Produktion besonderer Arbeitskräfte
(2024)
The "servant question" in the late nineteenth century led to the proliferation of debates and conflicts regarding domestic work. Were household servants to be viewed as workers or as members of the household? How should ...
Das Deutsche als europäische Sprache
(2021)
As one of the world’s 7,000 languages, German shares "family similarities" with many other European languages, but also has some very unique traits. In a total of eight chapters, this book examines the German language ...
Das Deutsche als europäische Sprache
(2021)
As one of the world’s 7,000 languages, German shares "family similarities" with many other European languages, but also has some very unique traits. In a total of eight chapters, this book examines the German language ...
›Instrumenta domestica‹ aus Pompeji und ihr Design
(2022)
Houshold objects (instrumenta domestica) from the Insula del Menandro are used to examine decorative principles, their correlation and interaction. Ancient object design is not only an expression of a visual culture, but ...
Photographing Central Asia
(2022)
The volume demonstrates that photography was the cornerstone of imperial media governance and discourse construction in colonial Turkestan of the tsarist and early Soviet periods. The aim of this volume is to interpret ...
Impedance Spectroscopy
(2019-01-10)
This book covers new advances in the field of impedance spectroscopy including fundamentals, methods and applications. It releases selected extended and peer reviewed scientific contributions from the International Workshop ...
Impedance Spectroscopy
(2019-01-10)
This book covers new advances in the field of impedance spectroscopy including fundamentals, methods and applications. It releases selected extended and peer reviewed scientific contributions from the International Workshop ...
Possession and Dispossession
(2022)
When different types of knowledge and practice meet, they enrich each other. This book reflects on this meeting of divergent processes in Jerusalem. The contributions attempt to challenge the apparent division between ...
Possession and Dispossession
(2022)
When different types of knowledge and practice meet, they enrich each other. This book reflects on this meeting of divergent processes in Jerusalem. The contributions attempt to challenge the apparent division between ...
The Forgotten Massacre
(2021)
The book discusses the history of a previously invisible massacre in Budapest in 1944 committed by a paramilitary group lead by a women. Based on court trials, interviews with survivors, perpetrators and investigators the ...
The Forgotten Massacre
(2021)
The book discusses the history of a previously invisible massacre in Budapest in 1944 committed by a paramilitary group lead by a women. Based on court trials, interviews with survivors, perpetrators and investigators the ...
Variants of Rhetorical Ventriloquism
(2018)
This book-length study is concerned with the various - vicarious and delegative - devices pertaining to rhetorical ventriloquism (sermocinatio, ethopoeia, prosopopoeia, etc.) - including their technical, conceptual, and ...
Variants of Rhetorical Ventriloquism
(2018)
This book-length study is concerned with the various - vicarious and delegative - devices pertaining to rhetorical ventriloquism (sermocinatio, ethopoeia, prosopopoeia, etc.) - including their technical, conceptual, and ...
Auf dem Weg zur Normalität
(2014)
Despite the fortuitous leadership of Giscard and Schmidt, German-French relations during the 1970s experienced a series of major conflicts. There were a number of different governmental and societal forces that sought to ...
Transformations of Romanness
(2018)
Few pre-modern empires had an impact on their subjects comparable to that of the Roman Empire. Over time, being Roman could mean many different things, e.g. Latin speakers under barbarian rule, subjects of the Byzantine ...
Transformations of Romanness
(2018)
Few pre-modern empires had an impact on their subjects comparable to that of the Roman Empire. Over time, being Roman could mean many different things, e.g. Latin speakers under barbarian rule, subjects of the Byzantine ...
Chapter 2 Microbial evolution
(2015)
In this review we describe the major advances of recent years in the study of the evolutionary mechanisms that shape the genomes of acidophilic organisms, as well as the ecological scenarios in which these changes take ...
Chapter 2 Microbial evolution
(2015)
In this review we describe the major advances of recent years in the study of the evolutionary mechanisms that shape the genomes of acidophilic organisms, as well as the ecological scenarios in which these changes take ...
Nach der Kulturgeschichte
(2021)
The predicted end of the era of cultural studies in the humanities and social sciences opens the possibility for serious methodological debate. The volume collects essays by medievalists and modern linguists that explore ...
Nach der Kulturgeschichte
(2021)
The predicted end of the era of cultural studies in the humanities and social sciences opens the possibility for serious methodological debate. The volume collects essays by medievalists and modern linguists that explore ...
Weltwirtschaftsstatistik
(2023)
By looking at the development of international economic statistics, this book examines globalization processes and the dynamics that drive them. It questions widespread periodizations by showing that, from the First World ...
Weltwirtschaftsstatistik
(2023)
By looking at the development of international economic statistics, this book examines globalization processes and the dynamics that drive them. It questions widespread periodizations by showing that, from the First World ...
Making Religion and Human Rights at the United Nations
(2018)
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and ...
Making Religion and Human Rights at the United Nations
(2018)
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and ...
Prosodie und Konstruktionsgrammatik
(2020)
Most forms of construction grammar offer a usage-based model of grammar. To date, construction grammar researchers have been dismissive of prosody. This anthology seeks to redress this gap in the research, examining the ...
Prosodie und Konstruktionsgrammatik
(2020)
Most forms of construction grammar offer a usage-based model of grammar. To date, construction grammar researchers have been dismissive of prosody. This anthology seeks to redress this gap in the research, examining the ...
Islam and Muslim Life in West Africa
(2022)
The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, ...
Islam and Muslim Life in West Africa
(2022)
The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, ...
Sceptical Paths Enquiry and Doubt from Antiquity to the Present
(2019)
Sceptical Paths gathers a variety of innovative studies that inquire into the presence and function of sceptical elements, strategies, and approaches in various traditions throughout Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and contemporary ...
Sceptical Paths Enquiry and Doubt from Antiquity to the Present
(2019)
Sceptical Paths gathers a variety of innovative studies that inquire into the presence and function of sceptical elements, strategies, and approaches in various traditions throughout Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and contemporary ...
Chapter Textgemeinschaften und die Erfindung von Rivalität und Toleranz in der Kaiserzeit (2./3. Jh. n. Chr.)
(2016)
1,700 years ago, the Roman emperors Constantine and Licinius granted religious freedom – even and particularly for Christianity. The religious policy of Constantine is often associated with the modern ideal of tolerance. ...
Chapter Textgemeinschaften und die Erfindung von Rivalität und Toleranz in der Kaiserzeit (2./3. Jh. n. Chr.)
(2016)
1,700 years ago, the Roman emperors Constantine and Licinius granted religious freedom – even and particularly for Christianity. The religious policy of Constantine is often associated with the modern ideal of tolerance. ...
Health and socio-economic status over the life course First results from SHARE Waves 6 and 7
(2019)
Health in later life is shaped by behavior and policies over the life course and reflects the differences between the societies in which we are ageing. This multidisciplinary book answers questions from all life course ...
Health and socio-economic status over the life course First results from SHARE Waves 6 and 7
(2019)
Health in later life is shaped by behavior and policies over the life course and reflects the differences between the societies in which we are ageing. This multidisciplinary book answers questions from all life course ...
Digital Classical Philology
(2019)
The buzzwords “Information Society” and “Age of Access” suggest that information is now universally accessible without any form of hindrance. Indeed, the German constitution calls for all citizens to have open access to ...
Digital Classical Philology
(2019)
The buzzwords “Information Society” and “Age of Access” suggest that information is now universally accessible without any form of hindrance. Indeed, the German constitution calls for all citizens to have open access to ...
Navigating Socialist Encounters
(2021)
This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African ...
Navigating Socialist Encounters
(2021)
This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African ...
System- and Data-Driven Methods and Algorithms
(2021)
An increasing complexity of models used to predict real-world systems leads to the need for algorithms to replace complex models with far simpler ones, while preserving the accuracy of the predictions. This two-volume ...
Rêves de la littérature de divertissement en Chine impériale tardive
(2023)
The book offers a cultural, historical and literary study of dream narration in Chinese literature (particularly in the literary genres of xiaoshuo 小說, "petty talk" and biji 筆記, "notebook"). It considers texts from Late ...
Rêves de la littérature de divertissement en Chine impériale tardive
(2023)
The book offers a cultural, historical and literary study of dream narration in Chinese literature (particularly in the literary genres of xiaoshuo 小說, "petty talk" and biji 筆記, "notebook"). It considers texts from Late ...
Chapter Encyclopaedias and Commentaries
(2015)
This paper looks at how empirical knowledge was assembled and interpreted in Babylonian academies and investigates two Neo-Assyrian plant lists: KADP 2 and KADP 4. These two lists are not simple collections of scholastic ...
Chapter Encyclopaedias and Commentaries
(2015)
This paper looks at how empirical knowledge was assembled and interpreted in Babylonian academies and investigates two Neo-Assyrian plant lists: KADP 2 and KADP 4. These two lists are not simple collections of scholastic ...
Mischungen beim antiken Gelage
(2024)
While ancient banquets are gaining traction in international research, they still pose a number of interpretative challenges. By concentrating on the early Greek symposium, this volume reviews previous interpretative models ...
Mischungen beim antiken Gelage
(2024)
While ancient banquets are gaining traction in international research, they still pose a number of interpretative challenges. By concentrating on the early Greek symposium, this volume reviews previous interpretative models ...
Erzählungen – Erwartungen – Erfahrungen
(2024)
Surprising experiences with performers with intellectual disabilities can raise awareness of subliminal negative perceptions and open them to critique, e.g., in professional theater productions and films. This book examines ...
Erzählungen – Erwartungen – Erfahrungen
(2024)
Surprising experiences with performers with intellectual disabilities can raise awareness of subliminal negative perceptions and open them to critique, e.g., in professional theater productions and films. This book examines ...
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism
(2022)
Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) was a prominent German sociologist, economist and Zionist activist. As a co-founder of academic sociology in Germany, Oppenheimer vehemently opposed the influence of antisemitism on the nascent ...
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism
(2022)
Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) was a prominent German sociologist, economist and Zionist activist. As a co-founder of academic sociology in Germany, Oppenheimer vehemently opposed the influence of antisemitism on the nascent ...
Centenarians’ Autobiographies
(2024)
Situated at the intersection between medical humanities, aging studies, autobiographical studies, disability studies and ethic studies, this book explores the fascination of centenarians' autobiographies for humanites ...
Gender in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
(2022)
This volume is the first to diachronously present the development of gender in German children's and young-adult literature from the middle ages to the present. It explores a topic of enormous societal relevance by examining ...
Gender in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
(2022)
This volume is the first to diachronously present the development of gender in German children's and young-adult literature from the middle ages to the present. It explores a topic of enormous societal relevance by examining ...
Playing the Text, Performing the Future: Future Narratives in Print and Digiture
(2013)
This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate ...
Playing the Text, Performing the Future: Future Narratives in Print and Digiture
(2013)
This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate ...
Culture-bearing Women
(2019)
The study examines the fiction of Black Women’s Renaissance. It focuses on the novels of the 1980s, which appreciated “culture-bearing” mothers as reproducers of the nation, to analyze the vexed relationship between cultural ...
Culture-bearing Women
(2019)
The study examines the fiction of Black Women’s Renaissance. It focuses on the novels of the 1980s, which appreciated “culture-bearing” mothers as reproducers of the nation, to analyze the vexed relationship between cultural ...
The Temporality of Festivals
(2024)
In this volume, scholars from different fields examine the temporality of festivals of the past. They show that we can use astronomical documents, calendars, and literary texts to recover how people in the past structured ...
The Temporality of Festivals
(2024)
In this volume, scholars from different fields examine the temporality of festivals of the past. They show that we can use astronomical documents, calendars, and literary texts to recover how people in the past structured ...
Language Activism
(2021)
Through an ethnographic account of Isthmus Zapotec language advocates in Oaxaca, Mexico, this study illuminates a repertoire of advocacy strategies that are bringing linguistic equality closer to reality.
Language Activism
(2021)
Through an ethnographic account of Isthmus Zapotec language advocates in Oaxaca, Mexico, this study illuminates a repertoire of advocacy strategies that are bringing linguistic equality closer to reality.
The Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts
(2020)
Selecting and excerpting, summarizing and canonizing, arranging texts and visual signs in manuscripts appear to be universal practices. This volume analyses the fascinating vicissitudes of birth and development, growth and ...
The Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts
(2020)
Selecting and excerpting, summarizing and canonizing, arranging texts and visual signs in manuscripts appear to be universal practices. This volume analyses the fascinating vicissitudes of birth and development, growth and ...
Die Ordnung der Zukunft
(2023)
The future is open: This is a basic assumption of modernity. It originated in the 18th century and still shapes our self-image today. This study uncovers another tradition: the effort to close the future again, to ‘fill ...
Die Ordnung der Zukunft
(2023)
The future is open: This is a basic assumption of modernity. It originated in the 18th century and still shapes our self-image today. This study uncovers another tradition: the effort to close the future again, to ‘fill ...
Die Basilika in Byzanz
(2013)
In Byzantium, the central structure is considered archetypical. This study shows that this assumption is only partly true. It presents the basilicas of the 7th to 15th centuries, addressing questions of typology, appointments, ...
Die Diachronie der französischen Progressivperiphrase
(2024)
This diachronous corpus study examines the grammaticalization of the French progressive verbal periphrasis être en train de + infinitive. It explores the semantic development of periphrasis and how the restrictions it is ...
Die Diachronie der französischen Progressivperiphrase
(2024)
This diachronous corpus study examines the grammaticalization of the French progressive verbal periphrasis être en train de + infinitive. It explores the semantic development of periphrasis and how the restrictions it is ...
Principles of Decoration in the Roman World
(2021)
Principles of Decoration in the Roman World explores the manner in which architectural settings and action contexts influenced the perception of decorative elements in Roman culture. By examining the relationship between ...
Principles of Decoration in the Roman World
(2021)
Principles of Decoration in the Roman World explores the manner in which architectural settings and action contexts influenced the perception of decorative elements in Roman culture. By examining the relationship between ...
Massenwahntheorie und Friedenspoetik
(2023)
The radical rupture in civilization, the future and defense of democracy, the fight against totalitarianism and mass hysteria, the commitment to human rights, and the utopian potential of literature – these were the topics ...
Massenwahntheorie und Friedenspoetik
(2023)
The radical rupture in civilization, the future and defense of democracy, the fight against totalitarianism and mass hysteria, the commitment to human rights, and the utopian potential of literature – these were the topics ...
Kellers Welten
(2023)
Gottfried Kellers Welten erscheint als dritter Band der Serie „Gottfried Kellers Moderne“. Kellers Jahrhundert ist das der Industrialisierung, des Imperialismus und des Kolonialismus. Ob Martin Salander, der sein Vermögen ...
Kellers Welten
(2023)
Gottfried Kellers Welten erscheint als dritter Band der Serie „Gottfried Kellers Moderne“. Kellers Jahrhundert ist das der Industrialisierung, des Imperialismus und des Kolonialismus. Ob Martin Salander, der sein Vermögen ...