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 [...]

englischSince 2003, Iran’s nuclear programme has not only been a subject of discussion internationally but also in Iran itself. This study examines the debate on this issue in Iran during the international negotiations in this respect from 2003 to 2015, and reveals the influences on Iran’s decisions [...]

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 [...]

Der zweite Band aus der Schriftenreihe des Beziehungs- und Familienpanel (pairfam) informiert über aktuelle Trends der Familien- und Beziehungsforschung in Deutschland. Die hier präsentierten Studien und Befunde schufen die Basis für das deutschlandweite umfangreiche pairfam Projekt (Panel Analysis [...]

Dieses Buch ist das Ergebnis eines Experiments. Es wurde von den Mitgliedern der Koordinierten Projektgruppe (KP) Säkularisierung und Sakralisierung der Medien im Münsteraner Exzellenzcluster Religion und Politik in den Kulturen der Vormoderne und der Moderne gemeinschaftlich verfasst, um die [...]

englischSport is omnipresent in museums. There are around 1,500 sports museums worldwide—from the lovable bicycle museum in the Palatine to the FIFA World Football Museum. Sport gets collected, sports objects are researched, sport is exhibited, and sport can be experienced and learned about in [...]

Was verlangen die Menschen von der Gemeinschaft, in der sie leben, was von ihren Mitmenschen? Der unaufhörliche Wandel der Gesellschaft zwingt die politische Philosophie, immer wieder neue Antworten auf diese Fragen zu finden: Vom "zoon politikon" der Antike, dem "homo oeconomicus" in der Neuzeit [...]

englischHow did intellectual elites, who had acquired their position and formed their self-conception within the Ottoman Empire, deal with its loss and change? This question is discussed by looking at their representations of Southeast Europe in Ottoman and Turkish travel literature. The study [...]

englischBased on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the UK, the US, and Belgium, as well as an analysis of a wide array of digital sources, this volume compellingly conceptualizes the digital and the diaspora as separate but intertwined frontier-spaces in which religious adaptation and change can [...]

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 [...]

englischDiscover the groundbreaking insights of a visionary thought leader in the age of data-driven civilization. In this experimental essay, the author presents a radical innovation ethic of combining human creativity and artificial intelligence, whose complex interplay he explores herein. [...]

Der französische Philosoph Emmanuel Levinas gilt als einer der herausragenden, aber zugleich auch schwierigen Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Um die Grenzen der Erkenntnisfähigkeit des Ich aufzuzeigen, hinterfragt Levinas dessen Selbst- und Weltverständnis und setzt die Rätselhaftigkeit des anderen [...]

englischThe Arab Spring revolution also transformed conditions at universities. This book analyses the changes that occurred in student culture after the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and identifies the political, religious, societal and educational dynamics behind these transformations. The study [...]

englischLiving below poverty threshold infringes human dignity. But the reverse is also true: the concept of human dignity is the key to a better understanding of poverty and to its overcoming. Approaching the last mentioned connection, an interdisciplinary team (Social sciences, Theology, [...]

englischIndustrial growth and the development of the new middle class in South Korea of the 1980s went together with increased consumption and leisure culture, causing growing concerns with health and personal self-cultivation. Accordingly, sŏngin undong (sports for adults), mountain hiking and ki [...]

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Manifestationen ökologischen Bewusstseins in seit den 1980er Jahren entstandenen Texten deutschsprachiger Literatur und knüpft somit an das Forschungsfeld des Ecocriticism an. Ausgangspunkt ist die Tatsache, dass sich ökologisches Bewusstsein in literarischen [...]

englischThis book offers an introduction into the methods and results of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, the academic discipline of the scripts, languages, and cultures of the Middle East from the beginnings of writing in the 4th millennium B.C. to the emergence of Islam in the 7th century A.D. It [...]

englischThis volume uses historiographical and literary texts from the Pahlawī era (1921-1979) to examine discourses on heroised actors. Based on the observation that Iranian mythology prefigures historians' assumptions about history, the study traces the changing approaches of state-affiliated [...]