englischThe proceedings explore knowledge organization systems and their role in knowledge organization, knowledge sharing, and information searching.

The papers cover a wide range of topics related to knowledge transfer, representation, concepts and conceptualization, social tagging, domain [...]

englischThis book provides interested readers a very personal insight into the history of German pediatric surgery. The experiences and perspectives of 10 retired pediatric surgeons in former leadership positions are complied in personal interviews. A particularly interesting aspect of this book is [...]

englischTo what extent are progressive and democratizing innovations in education to be understood as ideological? The volume explores this question and exposes the seemingly neutral, distant scientific pedagogy as a committed part of an ideology production.

The authors of the volume examine this [...]

Vorstellungen von Reinheit und Unreinheit sind wichtige Strukturelemente antiker religiöser Traditionen. In ihrer einfachsten Form regeln sie die physische Präsenz von Individuen und Objekten in heiligen Bezirken oder an anderen Orten, an denen dies gesellschaftlich geboten scheint. Aufgrund ihres [...]

Der Band knüpft an die 1995 (als Bd. 1 der Reihe) erschienene Aufsatzsammlung „Religionssoziologie um 1900“ an. Ebenso wie sein Vorgänger behandelt der Band anhand von Fallstudien ausgewählte Probleme der Geschichte der Religionssoziologie, darunter das Verhältnis der Religionssoziologie zu [...]

englischThis study examines the production of knowledge on Tripolitania, Benghazi and Fezzan by the late Ottoman state, the ways in which local subjects and imperial officials communicated and what kind of agency they had. They operated in a continuum between a discourse of civilisation and complete [...]

englischIn international and national studies on the topic of academic success and drop-outs, the conditions of the university context were given priority in addition to individual competences. Other life domains of the students were rather neglected. This book analyses the influence of important [...]

englischIs homophobia in Iranian society a product imported from the West? In today's scholarly contributions to the history of sexuality in the Middle East, this question is often answered with a 'yes', pointing to the replacement of local discourses by the Western discourse on sexuality during the [...]

englischIslamist groups popularity and their success at the ballot boxes in Arab Spring have strikingly underlined their importance and their role as ‘big players‘ in Egypt‘s political system. When Arab Spring arose the groups examined in this book, namely the Daᶜwa Salafiyya, the Egyptian Muslim [...]