englischThe complex Gnostic teachings of antiquity and their revival and remythification in neo-Gnostic and occultist groups at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century form the core of this two-volume publication. The "Gnostic Mystery School" of the pastor E. C. H. Peithmann is [...]
more informationenglischThe complex Gnostic teachings of antiquity and their revival and remythification in neo-Gnostic and occultist groups at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century form the core of this two-volume publication. The "Gnostic Mystery School" of the pastor E. C. H. Peithmann is [...]
more informationenglischIn this publication, a literal and a free translation of Arabic proverbs and idioms into German are examined comparatively in order to show various influencing factors in the transmission process and their effects on the meaning. The different social, cultural and historical background of an [...]
more informationenglischThe study of ancient heroes in film provides an eminent contribution to our understanding of the present by identifying the upheavals, conflicts, crises and resolution strategies that manifest themselves in heroic figures. This volume approaches heroizations by examining political leadership [...]
more informationenglischAlthough humans are biologically omnivores, there is no community that makes full use of all the food available to it. Something is always not eaten. This anthology sheds light on why we don't eat what we don't eat from the perspectives of neuro-, nutritional-, social science and religious [...]
more informationenglischSince 1993, Osama bin Laden and al-Qáida have carried out a series of terrible Islamist terrorist attacks - on the World Trade Center 1, the US warship Cole, the World Trade Center 2 (11 September), hotels in Bali, synagogues in Istanbul, railways in Madrid and Casablanca, to name just a few [...]
more informationenglischThe book deals with the discourse of a spiritual medicine in Arabic-Islamic sources of the pre-modern period. The focus is on a 13th-century writing: "The Cheering of the Soul" (Mufarriḥ an-nafs) by the Damascene physician Ibn Qāḍī Baʿalbakk, a scholar in the tradition of Ibn Sinā. Based on [...]
more informationenglischIn this publication, a literal and a free translation of Arabic proverbs and idioms into German are examined comparatively in order to show various influencing factors in the transmission process and their effects on the meaning. The different social, cultural and historical background of an [...]
more informationenglischBoth pedagogy and its science should face questions of power. Educational science takes up this challenge. On the one hand, it explicitly criticizes pedagogical practice and the profession and critically questions the discipline itself; on the other hand, it rather implicitly strives for [...]
more informationenglischAlthough humans are biologically omnivores, there is no community that makes full use of all the food available to it. Something is always not eaten. This anthology sheds light on why we don't eat what we don't eat from the perspectives of neuro-, nutritional-, social science and religious [...]
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