englischReligions design specific gender images and transport them into society through a variety of visual media. Kristin H. Purfürst focuses on designs of female role models in Thai Buddhist temple paintings and inquires about the emergence of female stereotypes in a process of mutual influence [...]

englischThis study intimately examines the ethical aspects of inclusivity in order to help committed Christian volunteers charged with supervising its implementation by offering a theological perspective on this matter. The book explicitly identifies empathy as the basis of substantial ethical [...]

englischHow do you teach grammar successfully and sustainable? Petra Schappert presents drama grammar as a method to teach basic grammar skills in literacy courses in German as a foreign language and tests it in an empirical research setting in the areas of effectiveness, sustainability and [...]

englischThe way in which Goethe changed his style in his later writings is best described by the idea of ‘indirectness’ in contrast to the classic phase of his career in the 1790s. As the symbolic moment with its timeless and direct significance dominated at that time, the elderly Goethe felt [...]

englisch„A magician isn’t a juggler, but an actor playing the part of a magician,“ said Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, founder of the first magic theater in Paris. In the transition to modernity, stage magic was a catalyst and battlefield of the conflict between the development of bourgeois culture and [...]