englischReligion 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, [...]

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 [...]

englischWho 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 [...]

englischFanny Moser's scientific career—which was anything but self-evident for women at the beginning of the 20th century—unites seemingly contradictory fields of research: biology and occultism, jellyfish and haunting, science and séance. Initially a recognised doctor of zoology, she devoted the [...]

englisch„What we know about the world, we know it through media coverage. What Niklas Luhman wrote in 1996 ist still valid in times of scoial media. If a subject is mentioned, how it is framed, influences our perception. We shouldn’t underestimate media’s responsibility in shaping our idea of the [...]

englischWith its new research approach, the study presented in this book represents a valuable enrichment and necessary extension of the quantitative paradigm of resilience research. The qualitative-reconstructive approach opens up a particularly authentic access to the biographical data, obtained [...]