englisch‘Turkish Studies’ deal with the history, culture, religions, languages and literature of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. The scope of the book includes everything relating to Turkey, e.g. Kurdish, Armenian, Greek or Jewish matters, as well as its relations with the Turkic [...]
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 informationenglischThis historiographical study deals with the transformation of heroic images of German and French soldiers and officers during the Seven Years' War and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. A culture of sensitivity, levée en masse and intensive forms of opinion management on the part of [...]
more informationenglischThis book is dedicated to the forgotten intellectual Léo Wanner, who intervened in the political landscape in the 1920s and 1930s with public statements and strategic ingenuity. Based on historical sources that were opend up for the first time, the diverse role repertoire of this globally [...]
more informationenglischConrad Ekhof (1720–1778) is known for establishing the realistic style of acting in German theatre–like Garrick in Britain–, turning strolling troupes into state theatres, and transforming jesters who lived at the fringes of society into distinguished artists and respected citizens. The [...]
more informationenglischThis historiographical study deals with the transformation of heroic images of German and French soldiers and officers during the Seven Years' War and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. A culture of sensitivity, levée en masse and intensive forms of opinion management on the part of [...]
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englischThis book is dedicated to the forgotten intellectual Léo Wanner, who intervened in the political landscape in the 1920s and 1930s with public statements and strategic ingenuity. Based on historical sources that were opend up for the first time, the diverse role repertoire of this globally [...]
more informationenglischThis dissertation is the first to examine the soldier's tax as a special case of the tribute system during the Thirty Years' War. Since "contribution" has two meanings, the term "soldier's tax" is introduced. Ideally, it describes a direct form of army financing, independent of [...]
more informationenglischInvestigating the use of language in pieces of visual art enables a sensual experience of its complexity. This study is therefore built like an exhibition: Based on over eighty paintings it scrutinises versatile constellations of language use and highlights its prototypical contingency. This [...]
more informationenglischWhile Kurt Tucholsky's political struggle and provocations against Weimar society have gone down in literary history, there has been a lack of critical examination of his relationship to the new media that began to shape modern reality at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Berlin [...]
more informationenglischReligions are important actors in civil society. The question of how they deal with each other is of decisive importance for the future of plural, open societies. For this book, three actors in interreligious understanding have come together for the first time: the nationally and [...]
more informationenglischThis study examines late 20th century depictions of embryonic development derived from the Quran, which are referred to as a scientific miracle of the Qur'an. This approach of harmonizing religious and scientific knowledge has so far only been evaluated as a marginal phenomenon. Using the [...]
more informationenglischThis study examines late 20th century depictions of embryonic development derived from the Quran, which are referred to as a scientific miracle of the Qur'an. This approach of harmonizing religious and scientific knowledge has so far only been evaluated as a marginal phenomenon. Using the [...]
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englischThis dissertation is the first to examine the soldier's tax as a special case of the tribute system during the Thirty Years' War. Since "contribution" has two meanings, the term "soldier's tax" is introduced. Ideally, it describes a direct form of army financing, independent of [...]
more informationenglischThis book explores the latest advances in how knowledge organization can both draw on and inform different disciplines and technological developments. It examines how best to combine theory and practice. The content considers practical solutions as well as the theory behind the design, [...]
more informationenglischWhile Kurt Tucholsky's political struggle and provocations against Weimar society have gone down in literary history, there has been a lack of critical examination of his relationship to the new media that began to shape modern reality at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Berlin [...]
more informationenglischInvestigating the use of language in pieces of visual art enables a sensual experience of its complexity. This study is therefore built like an exhibition: Based on over eighty paintings it scrutinises versatile constellations of language use and highlights its prototypical contingency. This [...]
more informationenglischThis book explores the latest advances in how knowledge organization can both draw on and inform different disciplines and technological developments. It examines how best to combine theory and practice. The content considers practical solutions as well as the theory behind the design, [...]
more informationenglischFor anyone interested in cultural and intercultural linguistics paired with research into multilingualism, this volume offers multifaceted insights into current research topics, questions and methods. The various contributions include not only traditions and theoretical considerations but [...]
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 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 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 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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englischReligions are important actors in civil society. The question of how they deal with each other is of decisive importance for the future of plural, open societies. For this book, three actors in interreligious understanding have come together for the first time: the nationally and [...]
more informationenglischFor anyone interested in cultural and intercultural linguistics paired with research into multilingualism, this volume offers multifaceted insights into current research topics, questions and methods. The various contributions include not only traditions and theoretical considerations but [...]
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englischSince 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 informationenglischIn June 2009, US president Barack Obama travelled to Cairo to seek a ‘new beginning’ in the Middle East. Beyond people’s hopes and disappointments, Nils E. Lukacs takes the Obama’s historical idea under the magnifying glass. Asking what was ‘new’, what was ‘old’, and how the ‘new beginning’ [...]
more informationenglischStaufen in Baden-Württemberg and Lüdge in North Rhine-Westphalia stand for the biggest youth welfare scandals of recent years. This book is dedicated to the question of how this can be stopped and the answers to it. The aim is to increase professional expertise in child protection. A pattern [...]
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 informationenglischDiscover the groundbreaking insights of a visionary thought leader in the age of data-driven civilization. In this experimental essay, the author presents a radical innovation ethic of combining human creativity and artificial intelligence, whose complex interplay he explores herein. [...]
more informationenglischThe subject Islamic theology, which was founded eleven years ago, was politically expected to train imams who promote integration. The author empirically investigates how students of Islamic theology deal with these expectations. The book shows that the actors' attributions of meaning is [...]
more informationenglischIn June 2009, US president Barack Obama travelled to Cairo to seek a ‘new beginning’ in the Middle East. Beyond people’s hopes and disappointments, Nils E. Lukacs takes the Obama’s historical idea under the magnifying glass. Asking what was ‘new’, what was ‘old’, and how the ‘new beginning’ [...]
more informationenglischStaufen in Baden-Württemberg and Lüdge in North Rhine-Westphalia stand for the biggest youth welfare scandals of recent years. This book is dedicated to the question of how this can be stopped and the answers to it. The aim is to increase professional expertise in child protection. A pattern [...]
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 [...]
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englischThe subject Islamic theology, which was founded eleven years ago, was politically expected to train imams who promote integration. The author empirically investigates how students of Islamic theology deal with these expectations. The book shows that the actors' attributions of meaning is [...]
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englischDiscover the groundbreaking insights of a visionary thought leader in the age of data-driven civilization. In this experimental essay, the author presents a radical innovation ethic of combining human creativity and artificial intelligence, whose complex interplay he explores herein. [...]
more informationenglisch This book critically analyzes the notion that there are passages in the 7th-century text of the Qur’an that reflect medical ideas of the time about the origin of human beings through pregnancy. It turns out that the Qur’an draws on a rich heritage of motifs, on the one hand baptismal [...]
more informationenglisch This book critically analyzes the notion that there are passages in the 7th-century text of the Qur’an that reflect medical ideas of the time about the origin of human beings through pregnancy. It turns out that the Qur’an draws on a rich heritage of motifs, on the one hand baptismal [...]
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englischThis book offers an introduction into the methods and results of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, the academic discipline of the scripts, languages, and cultures of the Middle East from the beginnings of writing in the 4th millennium B.C. to the emergence of Islam in the 7th century A.D. It [...]
more informationenglischThis book offers an introduction into the methods and results of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, the academic discipline of the scripts, languages, and cultures of the Middle East from the beginnings of writing in the 4th millennium B.C. to the emergence of Islam in the 7th century A.D. It [...]
more informationenglischReligion as a discontinued model – that is how the narrative of modernity likes to see it. Empirically, the situation is more complex: even if secularisation often makes religious institutions appear as losers, important areas of religion have proven to be innovative and productive. How, [...]
more informationenglischDue to German unification and the immigration of Jews from the Soviet Union, the Jewish communities in Germany have been in a situation of upheaval and reorganization since 1990. The book presents the tense developments that took place on the religious, social, and organizational levels. [...]
more informationenglischWho was responsible for the thousands of murders of people with psychological, mental or physical impairments under National Socialism? How were institutions and actors interconnected?
The mental hospitals play a central role as crime scenes within the framework of Nazi "euthanasia: Health [...]
more informationenglischDue to German unification and the immigration of Jews from the Soviet Union, the Jewish communities in Germany have been in a situation of upheaval and reorganization since 1990. The book presents the tense developments that took place on the religious, social, and organizational levels. [...]
more informationenglischReligion as a discontinued model – that is how the narrative of modernity likes to see it. Empirically, the situation is more complex: even if secularisation often makes religious institutions appear as losers, important areas of religion have proven to be innovative and productive. How, [...]
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englischReflections around the topics of gender and feminism - thought from an Islamic theological perspective - are indispensable for a contemporary Islamic theology. How can gender-sensitive and feminist aspects be justified from within theology? What significance do they bear for the realization [...]
more informationenglischWho was responsible for the thousands of murders of people with psychological, mental or physical impairments under National Socialism? How were institutions and actors interconnected?
The mental hospitals play a central role as crime scenes within the framework of Nazi "euthanasia: Health [...]
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