englischThe Catholic Church in Germany is facing great challenges. The loss of pastors, declining membership and lack of participation in church activities increase organizational insecurity and put pressure on the dioceses, while at the same time the still increasing church tax revenues stabilize [...]

englischThis study deals with the nineteenth-century Ottoman Sufi community of the Melâmiyye. It is the history of a social group for which modernization meant a crisis, which it sought to overcome with the help of trance and imaginary self-exaltation. Based on the texts of outstanding Melâmîs and [...]

englischAt the beginning of the 21st century, writing about the Shoah in French literature is undergoing transformation processes. Soazig Aaron, Frédéric Brun, Philippe Claudel and Jean-Pierre Gattégno transform the survivor, including his duality, into a literary figure and place a clear focus on [...]