Since the Enlightenment period, German-Jewish intellectuals have been prominent voices in the multi-facetted discourse on the reinterpretation of Jewish tradition in light of modern thinking.
Different religious groups in Central and Eastern Europe influenced societies in the region after the fall of Communism and continue to play a crucial role in culture, politics, social networks and value transformations.
For several years now, sigillography as an independent subarea in the field of Byzantine studies has received increasing attention from both Byzantine studies and related disciplines, as it is the only area still able to provide academia with large amounts of material not previously analysed.
A long occidental tradition has regarded the Greek monastic romance Barlaam and Josaphat as the work of John Damascene, and the first critical edition of the work appears now in the corpus of his writings.
Raymond Aron greift die alte Kontroverse um den Primat von formellen oder reellen Freiheiten auf und setzt sich kritisch mit der marxistischen These auseinander, wonach die politischen, individuellen und geistigen Freiheiten, wie sie der demokratisch-liberale Verfassungsstaat allen seinen Bürgern garantiert, so lange bedeutungslos bleiben müssen, bis durch einen revolutionären Akt die Produktionsmittel in Gemeineigentum überführt und die reellen Freiheiten hergestellt sind.
Diese Zusammenstellung beinhaltet folgende Essays von Richard Löwenthal: Von der Einzigartigkeit des Westens (1979); Die Intellektuellen zwischen Gesellschaftswandel und Kulturkrise (1976); Neues Mittelalter oder anomische Kulturkrise?
This book explores the unusual and unique experience of direct democracy in the small state of New Zealand, where referendums have been a persistent feature of the political landscape for over a century.
Der langjährige Chefredaktor der NZZ am Sonntag greift das wohl aktuellste politische Thema der Schweiz auf: das Ringen um einen institutionellen Rahmen für die Beziehungen zu Brüssel.
Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion takes a close look at Shakespeare's engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformation England.
This book, first ethnographic attempt, examines negated spaces, practices, and relationships that have been intentionally or unintentionally dismissed from academic and non-academic studies, articles, reports, and policy papers that investigate and debate the experiences of Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt.
In terms of practical-theology's critical reflection on marginalized people's wounds in a wider society, this book investigates the question, "e;How to proclaim the good news in response to first-generation Korean immigrants' contextual suffering in the United Sates?
This book analyzes the transformation of ethnic and religious political parties in Turkey with special focus on their role in the country's democratization and regime changes.
This book provides a sociological understanding of transformations within Eastern Orthodoxy and the settlement of Orthodox diasporas in Western Europe.
This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in the two countries.
