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Religion and Modernity

An International Comparison

By: Detlef Pollack,Gergely Rosta

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Religion and Modernity

An International Comparison

By: Detlef Pollack,Gergely Rosta

This is not a book that provides a new integrated theory of religious change in modern societies, but rather one that develops theoretical elements that contribute to the understanding of some contemporary religious developments. Most of the approaches in sociology of religion are prone to emphasise either processes of religious decline or of religious upswing. For example, secularization theory usually includes a couple of relevant factors--such as functional differentiation, economic affluence or social equality--in order to account for religious change. However, the result of such a theory's empirical analyses seems to be certain in advance, namely that the social relevance of religion is decreasing. In contrast, the religious market model devised by sociologists of religion in the US is inclined to detect everywhere processes of religious upsurge. Religion and Modernity: An International Comparison avoids a purely theoretically based perspective on religious changes. For this reason, Detlef Pollack and Gergely Rosta do not begin with theoretical propositions but with questions. The authors raise the question of how the social significance of religion in its various facets has changed in modern societies, and explain what factors and conditions have contributed to these changes.

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Oxford University Press

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019252173X

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Hitler's Voice: Organisation & development of the Nazi Party

By: Detlef Mühlberger

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Hitler's Voice: Organisation & development of the Nazi Party

By: Detlef Mühlberger

What did the Nazis inform the readership of their national newspaper about before 1933? How did they portray the origins and development of the Nazi Party and its specialist organisations at the micro and macro level before the Nazi seizure of power in 1933? What type of propaganda did the Nazis use before 1933 to secure support from specific elements of German society, such as the working class, the peasantry, the urban Mittelstand, and women? What were the main themes of Nazi propaganda projected in its official newspaper before 1933? This study provides the reader with a detailed insight into the content of the Völkischer Beobachter or 'Peoples' Observer', through the use of speeches, reports, articles and various other types of material taken from the Nazi Party's official national newspaper.

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Peter Lang

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3906769720

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Abraham in Mamre

Historische und exegetische Studien zur Region von Hebron und zu Genesis 11,27-19,38

By: Detlef Jericke

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Abraham in Mamre

Historische und exegetische Studien zur Region von Hebron und zu Genesis 11,27-19,38

By: Detlef Jericke

This volume deals with historical and exegetical problems of the Abraham story in the book of Genesis. The first part describes the results of archaeological investigations at Hebron and Mamre in Southern Palestine including remarks on the status of the province of Judah in the first millennium BCE, especially in the Babylonian and Persian period. The second part presents exegetical comments on Genesis chapter 13 and 18. The concluding part of the volume relates the historical and exegetical aspects. The Abraham story is interpreted as a product of the Judaean people of the Babylonian and Persian Period.

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BRILL

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9004496734

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9789004496736

Germany and the Second World War

Volume VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5

By: Horst Boog,Gerhard Krebs,Detlef Vogel

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Germany and the Second World War

Volume VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5

By: Horst Boog,Gerhard Krebs,Detlef Vogel

By the spring of 1943, after the defeat at Stalingrad, the writing was on the wall. But while commanders close to the troops on Germany's various fronts were beginning to read it, those at the top were resolutely looking the other way. This seventh volume in the magisterial 10-volume series from the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt [Research Institute for Military History] shows both Germany and her Japanese ally on the defensive, from 1943 into early 1945. It looks in depth at the strategic air war over the Reich and the mounting toll taken in the Battles of the Ruhr, Hamburg, and Berlin, and at the "Battle of the Radar Sets" so central to them all. The collapse of the Luftwaffe in its retaliatory role led to hopes being pinned on the revolutionary V-weapons, whose dramatic but ultimately fruitless achievements are chronicled. The Luftwaffe's weakness in defence is seen during the Normandy invasion, Operation overlord, an account of the planning, preparation and execution of which form the central part of this volume together with the landings in the south of France, the setback suffered at Arnhem, and the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes. The final part follows the fortunes of Germany's ally fighting in the Pacific, Burma, Thailand, and China, with American forces capturing islands ever closer to Japan's homeland, and culminates in her capitulation and the creation of a new postwar order in the Far East. The struggle between internal factions in the Japanese high command and imperial court is studied in detail, and highlights an interesting contrast with the intolerance of all dissent that typified the Nazi power structure. Based on meticulous research by MGFA's team of historians at Potsdam, this analysis of events is illustrated by a wealth of tables and maps covering aspects ranging from Germany's radar defence system and the targets of RAF Bomber Command and the US 8th Air Force, through the break-out from the Normandy beachhead, to the battles for Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

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Oxford University Press

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0191089842

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function

With 22 Tables

By: Ernst-Detlef Schulze

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function

With 22 Tables

By: Ernst-Detlef Schulze

With the accelerating loss of biodiversity there is increasing concern about how this loss may be affecting ecosystem processes, or services, that are of benefit to human well being. The limited studies that address the principal question directly, species numbers versus system function, are evaluated. Moreover, the degree of redundancy within systems, the ubiquity of keystone species, the tightness of species interactions from mutualisms to food webs, the resilience of systems to perturbation, the interactions of landscape units are explored, as is also how policy decisions are driven in this research area. This book brings together the disciplines of population biology and ecoysystem science, both directed toward evaluating the consequences of human-driven disruptions of natural systems.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540581030

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We all come back!

The real truth about reincarnation

By: Detlef K.H. Würth

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We all come back!

The real truth about reincarnation

By: Detlef K.H. Würth

During a normal therapy session an incredible incident that completely changed the author's thinking about reincarnation happened. A woman in deep hypnosis provided a report on a previous life in Frankfurt am Main so detailed that this occurrence fascinated him for years. He analysed all audio files of the sessions over a 2 year period. Thereby, he was able to create a theory about a possible mechanism of reincarnation. Furthermore, the author has succeeded in reconstructing a historical and unique account of the previous life of a woman, who was born 1877 in Frankfurt am Main and died in 1959. This book contains 489 pages of unprecedented information and statements. It answers the questions that we all wonder about: What happens after death? Will we ever see our beloved decedents again? Does karma exist and if yes, will we get punished for our actions? It also includes drawings, made by Miss B after the therapy sessions. After reading this book you will also feel confident and say, there are no doubts anymore because ''We all come back!

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tredition

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3732381013

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9783732381012

Hitler's Followers (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)

Studies in the Sociology of the Nazi Movement

By: Detlef Muhlberger

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Hitler's Followers (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)

Studies in the Sociology of the Nazi Movement

By: Detlef Muhlberger

When originally published in 1991, this book was the first systematic, detailed evaluation of the social structure of the Nazi Party in several regions of Germany during its so-called Kampfzeit phase. Based on extensive archival material, much of it left untouched since the end of the war until Detlef Mühlberger uncovered it, the book demonstrates that the Nazi Party and its major auxiliaries, the SA and the SS mobilized support which was remarkably heterogeneous in social terms. The author reveals that in addition to followers from the middle and upper social classes the Nazi Party enjoyed strong support among the lower class and it was indeed, as it claimed to be a people’s party, or Volkspartei.

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248

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Routledge

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1317619986

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9781317619987

Between Resistance and Martyrdom

Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich

By: Detlef Garbe

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Between Resistance and Martyrdom

Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich

By: Detlef Garbe

Between Resistance and Martyrdom is the first comprehensive historical study of the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust era. Refusing to perform military service under Germany's Third Reich due to their fundamental belief in nonviolence, Jehovah's Witnesses caught the attention of the highest authorities in the justice system, the police, and the SS. Although persecuted and banned from practicing their beliefs by the Nazi regime in 1933, the Jehovah's Witnesses' unified resistance has been largely forgotten. Basing his work on a wide range of sources, including documents and archives previously unconsidered as well as critical analyses of Jehovah's Witness literature and survivor interviews, Detlef Garbe chronicles the Nazis' relentless persecution of this religious group before and during World War II. The English-language edition of this important work features a series of original photographs not published in the German edition. These striking images bring a sense of individual humanity to this story and help readers comprehend the reality of the events documented. Between Resistance and Martyrdom is an indispensable work that will introduce an English-speaking audience to this important but lesser-known part of Holocaust history.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299207900

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9780299207908

The Nazi Party

The Anatomy of a People's Party, 1919-1933

By: Paul Madden,Detlef Mühlberger

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The Nazi Party

The Anatomy of a People's Party, 1919-1933

By: Paul Madden,Detlef Mühlberger

This work contains amended versions of a number of pioneering articles on the social contours of the membership of the Nazi Party published by the authors in the 1980s, added to which are new studies examining the social background of members of the Nazi Party recruited in a rural region, a university town, and in a city.

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Peter Lang

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3039105426

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Modern Lusts

Ernest Borneman: Jazz Critic, Filmmaker, Sexologist

By: Detlef Siegfried

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Ernest Borneman: Jazz Critic, Filmmaker, Sexologist

By: Detlef Siegfried

As a jazz musician, filmmaker, anthropologist, sexologist, and crime novelist, the boundlessly curious German autodidact Ernest Borneman exemplified the conflicting cultural and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. In this long-awaited English translation, acclaimed historian Detlef Siegfried chronicles Borneman’s journey from a young Jewish Communist in Nazi Berlin to his emergence as a celebrated (and reliably controversial) transatlantic polymath. Through an innovative structure organized around the human senses, this biography memorably portrays a figure whose far-flung obsessions comprised a microcosm of postwar intellectual life.

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Berghahn Books

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1789202892

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European Cities, Youth and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century

By: Detlef Siegfried

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European Cities, Youth and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century

By: Detlef Siegfried

The late nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented levels of urban growth as migration swelled the population of European cities to new heights. The resulting problems of overcrowding and inadequate civic utilities prompted the governing elites to look for new planning solutions to address the needs of an increasingly urbanised society. At the same time young people were also increasingly recognised as being adversely affected, both politically and morally, by the on-going process of urbanization. Church groups, civic authorities, middle-class reformers and political movements all tried to steer youth toward their own concept of respectable behaviour, concepts that often tended to share many similarities in their paternalistic emphasis upon social discipline. This volume directly addresses the confluence of these issues, the point at which the city government, youth and public space meet and the resulting problems and tensions that were often created. Whether it be the corruption of the rural youth flooding into the cities at the beginning of the twentieth century, battles between Hitler Youth and working-class gangs in Nazi Germany, hooliganism in 1950s Hungary or the appropriation of, or withdrawal from, public spaces by youths in more recent times, all the chapters in this book explore ways in which authorities and adult groups have sought to control young people, both directly and indirectly. Drawing on a broad selection of methods and disciplines, a wide variety of case studies from across Europe are used to investigate the interactions between youth and authority, and show how these adapted and changed over time and in different countries. By taking a fresh look at these issues within a comparative framework, this volume furthers our understanding of modern European society during the twentieth century.

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1351938746

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Modern Lusts

Ernest Borneman: Jazz Critic, Filmmaker, Sexologist

By: Detlef Siegfried

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Modern Lusts

Ernest Borneman: Jazz Critic, Filmmaker, Sexologist

By: Detlef Siegfried

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European Cities, Youth and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century

By: Detlef Siegfried

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Book's by Detlef Siegfried

Religion and Modernity

Religion and Modernity

Hitler's Voice: Organisation & development of the Nazi Party

Hitler's Voice: Organisation & development of the Nazi Party

Abraham in Mamre

Abraham in Mamre

Germany and the Second World War

Germany and the Second World War

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function

We all come back!

We all come back!

Hitler's Followers (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)

Hitler's Followers (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)

Between Resistance and Martyrdom

Between Resistance and Martyrdom

The Nazi Party

The Nazi Party

Modern Lusts

Modern Lusts

European Cities, Youth and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century

European Cities, Youth and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century

Modern Lusts

Modern Lusts

European Cities, Youth and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century

European Cities, Youth and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century

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