englischThis first comprehensive study of heroism and the heroic in “Doctor Who” (1963-2020) uses one of Britain’s longest-running TV series to access the changing state of the nation and its collective emotions since the early Sixties. The analysis of two decade-spanning processes of heroization [...]

englischIn a time of rapid societal changes around the globe, there is a pressing need for genuine elucidation of Muslim moral values and norms, especially in migration contexts. These rapid changes raise questions about the conservation of the ‘self’ and the adaptation of norms and values to [...]

englischThe customers of the Mühldorfer Kramer Franciscus Schmidt had their purchases written: The debt books therefore give an insight into the assortment of goods, which ranged from stockings, fabrics and ribbons to spices and dried fish. Schmidt's customers were mainly citizens, craftsmen and [...]

englischThe Yearbook of the Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses (BaFID) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg offers current contributions to the study of exchange among religions from an interdisciplinary perspective. The format is aimed both at a [...]

englischThe global West has created a category that victimises ­Afghanistan’s women and instrumentalizes them for political purposes. This anthology focuses on values, beliefs and ­socialisation processes that perpetuate such role attributions. The volume shows that the women concerned by no means [...]

englischBased on a corpus of twelve wills of Catholic, Lutheran, and Calvinist sovereigns of three territories of the Holy Roman Empire from the period of the Confessional Age, this study investigates the influence of the confession of the testator princes on the use of language in their wills. For [...]