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Returning Remitting Receiving

Social remittances of transnational (re)migrants to Croatia, Lithuania, and Poland

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Returning Remitting Receiving

Social remittances of transnational (re)migrants to Croatia, Lithuania, and Poland

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This volume is the result of an international research project that drew together perspectives from three countries in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe: Croatia, Lithuania, and Poland. It explores the under-researched phenomenon of immaterial values and resources that returning migrants bring with them, as they have the potential to contribute to economic development, together with the social, political, and cultural change in their countries of origin. The authors explore the mechanisms, challenges, and successes of the process of social remitting by returnees to these countries.

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Sustainable Development Goal Nine and African Development

Challenges and Opportunities

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Sustainable Development Goal Nine and African Development

Challenges and Opportunities

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This issue of the African Development Perspectives Yearbook focusses on the relevance of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 9 ("Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation") for Africa's development. Issues are analysed at the continental level and in country case studies. Unit 1 presents in four essays the African continental perspectives and achievements. Unit 2 presents six essays, which are focussing on aspects of the eight targets of SDG 9 in country cases. Unit 3 presents book reviews and book notes in the context of SDG 9. Tobias Knedlik is Research Professor at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) and Professor for International Economics at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Samia Satti Mohamed Nour is Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. Anthony Ifeanyi Ugulu is researcher at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Karl Wohlmuth is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Economics and Business Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany. Open Access Download

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Security and Technology in Arctic Governance

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Security and Technology in Arctic Governance

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Because the impact of climate change is felt acutely in the Arctic, this region has gained increasing global attention in recent years. Since the last days of the Cold War, a particular system of international governance that includes local stakeholders, in particular indigenous peoples, and that transcends political divisions, has been created among the Arctic states. In Security and Technology in Arctic Governance, researchers from different disciplines investigate current and emerging challenges for the governance of the Arctic that are connected to security concerns and the use of modern technology. Prof. Dr. Stefan Kirchner, MJI, is Research Professor of Arctic Law and the head of the Arctic Governance Research Group at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland.

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Insight Karabakh

Chronological Order of the Historical, Legal, and Political Aspects of the Conflict

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Insight Karabakh

Chronological Order of the Historical, Legal, and Political Aspects of the Conflict

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This book introduces the main historical, political, and legal facts and arguments regarding the Karabakh region in general and the former Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in particular as a collection of 99 questions. Each chapter is academically substantiated and developed in detail according to local and international sources, documents, and treaties. The contributions are presented with appropriate academic references. Thus, the Book develops questions and answers regarding the Karabakh region and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and contains the main documents and treaties mentioned.

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Resilient Religion, Resilience and Heartbreaking Adversity

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Resilient Religion, Resilience and Heartbreaking Adversity

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A resilience theory on religion needs to answer four questions. What defines the kind of adversity which is addressed in religion? What is characteristic for processes of resilience in religion? What defines resilient religion as outcome? Which logic of inference (epistemology) based on our beliefs and experiences about reality binds these three elements together? The book starts with mapping the field of resilience theory on religion by addressing all four questions. The need for thinking about Christian resilience and the God symbol is addressed, and the need to be "explicitly contextual" with regard to resilience in South Africa. Next three types practices of religious acting are related to experiences of resilience, namely preaching, narrating and discerning. In the last chapters the focus is on the way stories help to express feelings of experiences of crises, tragedy, and trauma. But also how stories can help heal the broken heart. Prof Chris A.M. Hermans is extraordinary professor in practical theology and missiology at the University of the Free State (South Africa). He is emeritus professor in pastoral theology at Radboud University (the Netherlands).and emeritus professor in empirical study of religion as Radboud University (the Netherlands). Prof. Kobus (W.J.) Schoeman is professor of practical theology at the University of the Free State (South Africa).

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Women's Religious Voices

Migration, Culture and (Eco)Peacebuilding

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Women's Religious Voices

Migration, Culture and (Eco)Peacebuilding

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The volume presents theological and religious research that explores women's voices and experiences in the fields of migration, culture and (eco)peacebuilding with the goal to discuss complex and dynamic questions of women's active participation and engagement in these challenges, mainly from the perspective of Central European authors. The chapters address these matters in order to rethink and search for theological and religious responses to the inequalities, prejudices, and conflicts that arise from these crises and look for new ethical paths to mitigate them through interreligious dialogue and religious (eco)peacebuilding Nadja Furlan tante is Principal Research Associate and Professor of Religious Studies at ZRS (Science and Research Centre) Koper. Maja Bjelica is Research Assistant at Institute for Philosophical Studies at ZRS (Science and Research Centre) Koper. Rebeka Ani? is a is Principal Research Associate at Institute of Sociological Sciences Ivo Pilar - Split.

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Among Digitized Manuscripts. Philology, Codicology, Paleography in a Digital World

By: L.W.C. van Lit

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Among Digitized Manuscripts. Philology, Codicology, Paleography in a Digital World

By: L.W.C. van Lit

Working with manuscripts has become a digital affair. But, are there downsides to digital photos? And how can you take advantage of the incredible computing power you have literally at your fingertips? Cornelis van Lit explains in detail what happens when manuscript studies meets digital humanities. In Among Digitized Manuscripts you will learn why it is important to include a note on the photo quality in your codicological description, how to draw, collect, and publish glyphs of paleographic interest, what standards (such as TEI and IIIF) to abide by when transcribing a text, how to write custom software for image recognition, and much more. The leading principle is that learning a little about computers will already be of great benefit.

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9004400354

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Heritage and Change

Tamils in Berne, Switzerland

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Heritage and Change

Tamils in Berne, Switzerland

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The focus of this book is on the first-generation Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Berne, Switzerland. During the Sri Lankan civil war, tens of thousands of Tamil refugees migrated to Switzerland. For decades, they hoped for a return to their desired own state Tami? ?lam and strove to preserve their social ties and home culture. At the core of their identity was the Tamil language. They essentialized their values as part of the patriotic project of an independent Tamil state. Swiss culture was seen as incompatible with Tamil ideals. The second generation, socialized in the host country, tended to adopt both cultures. After the defeat of the Tamil Tigers and the end of the war in 2009, the vision of a return to the homeland was shattered. Ten years later the first-generation Swiss Tamils have little desire to return to a country where all their relatives have left or died, and where the situation is seen as unsafe. The elderly Tamils seem prepared to spend their old age in the Swiss exile, the homeland of their children. Damaris Lüthi is an associated researcher for South Asia at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Berne, Switzerland. Johanna Vögeli studied Social Anthropology at the University of Berne and has a post in development cooperation. Marie-Anne Pinheiro-Fankhauser studied Social Anthropology at the University of Berne and is a lecturer at the Berne University of Applied Sciences.

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3643853750

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Integrated Design of a Product Family and Its Assembly System

By: Pierre De Lit,Alain Delchambre

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Integrated Design of a Product Family and Its Assembly System

By: Pierre De Lit,Alain Delchambre

Integrated Design of a Product Family and Its Assembly System presents an integrated approach for the design of a product family and its assembly system, whose main principles consider the product family as a fictitious unique product for which the assembly system is to be devised. It imposes assembly and operation constraints as late as possible in the design process to get liberties in the system design, and adapts the product family at each design stage to integrate the new constraints related to the successive design choices. Integrated Design of a Product Family and Its Assembly System is an important, must-have book for researchers and Ph.D. students in Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, and Manufacturing, as well as practitioners in the Design, Planning and Production departments in the manufacturing industry. Integrated Design of a Product Family and Its Assembly System is also suitable for use as a textbook in courses such as Computer-Aided Design, Concurrent Engineering, Design for Assembly, Process Planning, and Integrated Design.

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Overcoming Violence

Challenges and Theological Responses in the Context of Central Africa and Europe

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Overcoming Violence

Challenges and Theological Responses in the Context of Central Africa and Europe

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On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda and coinciding with the intensification of violent attacks on the civilian population in the East Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo scholars and students from Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenia, Cameroon, South Africa, Germany, Austria, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Switzerland joined together in Rwanda to discuss the topic "Overcoming violence". This volume is a documentation of the lectures of this conference, organised by the Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS) in Butare, the Presbyterian Church of Rwanda (EPR) and the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB). Pascal Bataringaya, President of the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda. Penine Umimbabazi, Assistant professor of Policy analysis and conflict transformation at the Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS) in Huye/Rwanda. Claudia Jahnel and Traugott Jähnichen, Professors at the Faculty of Protestant Theoloy of the Ruhr-University Bochum.

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Encounters in Ethnomusicology

Essays in Honor of Philip V. Bohlman

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Encounters in Ethnomusicology

Essays in Honor of Philip V. Bohlman

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Philip V. Bohlman's impact on the scope and meaning of ethnomusicology is difficult to overstate. His influence is manifest not only in his numerous publications, his service to the discipline, and his presence at institutions and gatherings across the globe, but also in the work of his students. This volume, featuring essays written by his students and peers, honors his enormous contributions to the discipline by focusing on three analytic lenses through which Bohlman's work has excavated the complexities of encounter - ethics, memory, and performance. The essays engaging ethics treat topics including scholarship as activism, the power/politics of knowledge, and the ethics of musical practice and performance. Memory is explored through essays exploring issues related to modernity, commemoration, the nation, and historiography. The essays concerned with performance interrogate historical, symbolic, and experiential aspects of musical performance and wrestle with the enduring questions of belonging that often accompany such performances. Throughout, it is clear that each contribution draws inspiration and methodological strength from the authors' formative encounters with Bohlman's body of work. Michael A. Figueroa is Associate Professor of Music at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jaime Jones is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at University College Dublin. Timothy Rommen is Professor of Music and Africana Studies at University of Pennsylvania. Philip V. Bohlman's impact on the scope and meaning of ethnomusicology is profound. This volume, featuring essays written by his students and peers, honors his enormous contributions to the discipline by focusing on the complexities of encounter. Part I: Ethics addresses scholarship as activism, the power/politics of knowledge, and the ethics of musical practice and performance. Part II: Memory examines commemoration, the nation, and historiography. Part III: Performance interrogates historical, symbolic, and experiential aspects of musical performance, wrestling with enduring questions of belonging. Michael A. Figueroa is Associate Professor of Music at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jaime Jones is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at University College Dublin. Timothy Rommen is Professor of Music and Africana Studies at University of Pennsylvania.

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Creation - Transformation - Theology

International Congress of the European Society for Catholic Theology (August 2021 - Osnabrück / Germany)

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Creation - Transformation - Theology

International Congress of the European Society for Catholic Theology (August 2021 - Osnabrück / Germany)

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The social and cultural challenges posed by the increasing threat to creation (climate change, destruction of biodiversity, etc.) are the starting point for new philosophical-ethical and theological reflections on the relationship between God, human beings and the world, as presented in this volume. God's creative impulse, which transforms anew, is at work in the actions of human beings and challenges us, in view of the threat to the "house of life" earth, to go new ways that make a common and good life possible. Creation and transformation are interrelated; an ecological theology of creation and practice of sustainability to be developed in the European context is to be embedded in the horizon of a global, liberating theology. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Margit Eckholt, professor of dogmatics and fundamental theology at the Institute of Catholic Theology / University of Osnabrück, president of the European Society for Catholic Theology

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3643964889

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Main Challenges for Christian Theology Today

Religious Pluralism / Transhumanism / Ecotheology. Consultations between Yonsei University's College of Theology (Seoul) and the University of Geneva's Theological Faculty, 2016-2019

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Main Challenges for Christian Theology Today

Religious Pluralism / Transhumanism / Ecotheology. Consultations between Yonsei University's College of Theology (Seoul) and the University of Geneva's Theological Faculty, 2016-2019

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In this volume, on the basis of three consultations which took place in Seoul and Geneva (2016, 2017, 2018), theologians from Yonsei University's College of Theology in Seoul, South Korea, and from the Theological Faculty at the University of Geneva reflect together on three of the main challenges facing Christian theology today. First, questions related to religious pluralism and multiple religious belonging are addressed. Second, the `promise' of an enhanced human being through technology and other means is discussed. Third, the reality of the threat humanity represents to our ecosystem is considered. Each of these themes is examined from a Korean as well as from a Western European perspective, for Christian theology, in our day, can no longer afford to remain limited to its own geographical context. Christophe Chalamet is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Hyun-Shik Jun is Professor of Systematic Theology at Yonsei University's College of Theology in Seoul, Korea.

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Contemporary Approaches to Legal Linguistics

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Contemporary Approaches to Legal Linguistics

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In this volume, scholars explore and discuss current issues in Theoretical Legal Linguistics (TLL) and Applied Legal Linguistics (ALL), contributing to the growing body of international research in the field. Focus is placed on the interconnected skills, tasks and approaches to the study of legal language in its plethora of facets as presented at the first international conference and the second International Legal Linguistics Workshop (ILLWS19) of the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics. The articles present research in the areas of contract interpretation, bijuralism, the European Reference Language System, clear language and communication in legal settings, issues in legal semantics, plain legal language in multilingual legislative drafting, legal language teaching, light verb constructions in legal German, forensic linguistic expert testimony, deontic modality in legislative drafting, migration and legal language, appeals in Russian and their qualification as language crimes, and graduation in the use of force statutes. The concepts, methods, and findings offer valuable insights into current research in legal linguistics. Daniel Green is a university assistant at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria. Luke Green is an independent researcher and linguistics podcaster in Vienna, Austria. Both editors are executive board members of the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics.

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3643963874

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Feminist Philosophy

A Close Encounter with the Work of Herta Nagl-Docekal. Special Volume

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Feminist Philosophy

A Close Encounter with the Work of Herta Nagl-Docekal. Special Volume

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This volume contains the proceedings of a panel on the feminist work of Herta Nagl-Docekal, organized by Gertrude Postl within the context of a conference of the Association for Philosophy and Literature (APL). It includes papers on the practical application of Nagl-Docekal's work for feminist counseling services (Bettina Zehetner), on the interconnection of moral philosophy and epistemology (Waltraud Ernst), on feminist aesthetics (Cornelia Esianu), and on Nagl- Docekal's contributions to a feminist philosophy of religion (Brigitte Buchhammer). It concludes with a response by Herta Nagl-Docekal. Brigitte Buchhammer is a Philosopher, teaching at universities in Austria and abroad. Gertrude Postl is Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY, USA. SWIP Austria: Society for Women in Philosophy, a society and network for the advancing and encouraging of the work of women* in philosophy

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Regional Networks in Context

Economy and Trade in the Lower Danube Balkans of the 19th Century

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Regional Networks in Context

Economy and Trade in the Lower Danube Balkans of the 19th Century

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The 'Balkan space' in the 19th century fell into a zone of limited modernization, which led to an unbalanced economic development. Therefore, the complexity of the circumstances requires research into the process by putting it into a European-wide and Balkan-regional context. International scholars have seen the 19th-century Bulgarian economy as a local phenomenon resulting in very few extensive and detailed works. Accordingly, the editors hope the present study volume will contribute to filling that gap. The case study of the broad and diverse network of people and ventures of the brothers Evlogi and Hristo Georgievi took the 'central stage' of the book as an illustration of the evolution of the Bulgarian society and elite in the 19th century.

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Silk Road Traces

Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia

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Silk Road Traces

Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia

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This volume includes cutting-edge research on the spread of Syrian Christianity along the Silk Road from the 6th to the 14th century. Recent archaeological discoveries and excavations of ancient and medieval Christian sites in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and China shed new light on Christian communities in Central Asia, China and Mongolia. Scholars from such fields as archaeology, manuscript studies, history and theology have contributed, offering new insights into the influence of Syriac Christianity along the Silk Roads. Li Tang is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Christian East (ZECO), University of Salzburg/Austria. Dietmar W. Winkler is Head of the Department of Biblical Studies and Ecclesiastical History, and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the Christian East (ZECO), University of Salzburg/Austria

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3643962282

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Financial Issues of a Universal Basic Income (UBI)

Proceedings of the FRIBIS Annual Conference 2021

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Financial Issues of a Universal Basic Income (UBI)

Proceedings of the FRIBIS Annual Conference 2021

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The first annual FRIBIS conference in October 2021 aimed to take into account the growing economic interest in financial issues in basic income research. After all, research on Unconditional Basic Income is significantly influenced by this development of monetary policy issues and, in turn, contributes just as influentially to the discussion. In addition to the economically focused main sessions, the two-day conference also included parallel sessions of other FRIBIS teams, in which prominent guests of the basic income discourse presented and discussed together with the interdisciplinary and international teams and members of FRIBIS. Bernhard Neumärker is Professor of Economic Policy and Director of the Götz Werner Professorship for Economic Policy and New Ordoliberalism at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. In 2019, he founded the Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS) for interfaculty and interdisciplinary research on Unconditional Basic Income in a network of six institutes of the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. Jessica Schulz is a doctoral candidate at FRIBIS in educational science and, as part of the FRIBIS staff responsible for publication management.

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3643965125

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Framing History in East-Central Europe and Beyond

Politics - Memory - Discourse. Double Volume 21/22 (2021-22)

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Framing History in East-Central Europe and Beyond

Politics - Memory - Discourse. Double Volume 21/22 (2021-22)

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During the 1970s todays Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, BMBWF) supported the founding of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University in California. These foundings were the initial incentives for the worldwide `spreading' of similar institutions; currently, nine Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies exist in seven countries on three continents. The funding of the Ministry enables to connect senior scholars with young scholars, to help young PhD students, to participate in and to benefit from the scientific connection of experienced researchers, and to get in touch with the national scientific community by `sniffing scientific air', as the Austrians like to say. Furthermore, it aims to avoid prejudices, and to spread a better understanding and knowledge about Austria and Central Europe by promoting scientific exchange. This volume contains the annual reports (2018/2019 & 2019/2020) of the Center Directors and the papers of their PhD students, which discuss various topics on mostly (East-)Central European History from several perspectives and in different centuries. Ferdinand Kühnel, Postdoc researcher at the Institute of East European History, University of Vienna Nedad Ku?, PhD candidate at the Institute of East European History, University of Vienna Marija Wakounig, Professor at the Institute of East European History, University of Vienna

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3643962231

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Social Networking in South-Eastern Europe

15th-19th Century

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Social Networking in South-Eastern Europe

15th-19th Century

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Social Networking in South-Eastern Europe in the 15th19th centuries exhibits specific characteristics: the Ottomans and the Habsburgs, for example, each have their pattern of building and using social networks, with the Third South-Eastern Europe, i.e., the vassal principalities in the Balkans and the re-created national states, staying closer in the Ottoman pattern. It seems that the Muslim-Oriental social traditions established in the Balkans during Ottoman rule had a clear impact on the building of networks and the exercising of social influence. The specific regional practices, once established, were very hard to overcome or to replace by other patterns of social networking. These practices, however, could easily interact in border areas with one other, giving the inhabitants on both sides of the frontier the possibility of living a socially amphibious life, at least in terms of Social Networking. Ivan Parvev is Professor for Modern Balkan History at Sofia University St, Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria. Maria Baramova is associate Professor for Early Modern Balkan History at Sofia University St, Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria. Grigor Boykov is at the Faculty of History at Sofia University St, Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria.

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Insight Karabakh

Chronological Order of the Historical, Legal, and Political Aspects of the Conflict

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Chronological Order of the Historical, Legal, and Political Aspects of the Conflict

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Essays on Philosophy and Religious Studies

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Essays on Philosophy and Religious Studies

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Analecta Bruxellensia has been since 1996 the annual review of the Protestant Faculties of Theology and Religious Studies (FUTP (French) and FPTR (Dutch)) in Brussels. Analecta 21 is a varied number. Three themes are developed covering exegetical, historical, sociological, theological and philosophical fields. The first explores hermeneutics related to the understanding and assimilation of the biblical text; the second addresses the weight of ideology in the construction of narratives invoked in the representation of the Other; the third pursues this theme of encounter and otherness in various historical perspectives. From a queer exegesis of the narrative of Acts 8 to the question of the extent of Christ's salvation in the hypothesis of inhabited worlds in science fiction literature, the eclecticism of these academic contributions, as well as their relevance to contemporary debates, promise the reader multiple changes of scenery and genuinely new thinking. This issue also includes a previously unpublished contribution by Paul Ricur, a restitution of a three-speaker conference given in January 2000 on the theme of justice between ethics and law.

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Women's Religious Voices

Migration, Culture and (Eco)Peacebuilding

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Migration, Culture and (Eco)Peacebuilding

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Encounters in Ethnomusicology

Essays in Honor of Philip V. Bohlman

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Essays in Honor of Philip V. Bohlman

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Philosophy's Duty Towards Social Suffering

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Philosophy's Duty Towards Social Suffering

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Social suffering commands increasing public attention in the wake of several historical processes that have changed the ways victims are perceived. In making suffering eloquent by rendering it in conceptual form, philosophy runs the risk of muting suffering, thereby neutralizing its ability to mobilize responses. In the experience of suffering philosophy finds a limit it must recognize as its own. Yet only by fulfilling its duty towards suffering - only by having the abolition of suffering as its ultimate goal - can philosophical thinking withstand a tacit complicity with injustice. José A. Zamora. Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy (Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research - CSIC), Madrid-Spain. Reyes Mate. Emeritus Research Professor at the Institute of Philosophy (Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research - CSIC), Madrid-Spain.

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Religion, Christian Faith, and Secular World

Some thoughts on the meaning and role of religion from the perspective of science of religion, theology, philosophy and sociology

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Religion, Christian Faith, and Secular World

Some thoughts on the meaning and role of religion from the perspective of science of religion, theology, philosophy and sociology

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What has been the role and understanding of religion in the last hundred years, and what can be the meaning of religion today? There is a well-known ongoing process of secularization in the Western world. Is there also a return of religion? And what does the fate of religion mean for an understanding of the Christian faith? These are topics of this book. The articles originate from the actual fields of research of an interdisciplinary group of scholars, who took part in a symposium held in Bergen Nov. 2019. The contributions relate to specific contexts in the modern history of religion from the perspective of religious studies, theology, philosophy and sociology. The editors are Hans Bringeland, Assoc. Prof., and Arve Brunvoll, Prof. emer., both teachers of theology and philosophy at NLA University College, Bergen, Norway.

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Transhumanism as a Challenge for Ethics and Religion

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Transhumanism as a Challenge for Ethics and Religion

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The crucial question of our time is: How to preserve humanity, humanitas, in a world of radical and not so long ago practically unimaginable technological possibilities? The book addresses this issue through its treatment of transhumanism, a diverse movement the representatives of which promise and advocate for the enhancement of human being through modern science, technology, and pharmacology. Their views differ in the degree of extremity, and they contain many ambiguities, as well as pitfalls and dangers that require an answer from both ethical and religious points of view. The book deepens the understanding of transhumanism in an interdisciplinary way and thus helps to form the right attitude towards it that will truly benefit human flourishing. It offers a rich variety of views on transhumanism, ranging from its illumination in the light of contemporary research into happiness, through liberal eugenics and biopolitics, all the way to its considerations in terms of religions and manifestations in concrete works of art. Robert Petkovek is Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana. Professor Bojan alec is the Head of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Ethics at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana.

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Varieties of Religion and Ecology

Dispatches from Indonesia

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Varieties of Religion and Ecology

Dispatches from Indonesia

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This collection presents critical environmental problems with respect to their intersection with culture and religion in Indonesia, such as water resource management, conservation, and political ecology. Scholars from the region ground investigation in ethnographic field studies that represent diverse communities, including Indigenous perspectives from across the archipelago. The discussion is forward-looking and sophisticated, offering a meaningful and critical engagement with the field of religion and ecology. Anna M. Gade, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States. Zainal Abidin Bagir, Graduate School, Universitas Gadjah Mada; Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Michael S. Northcott is Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Frans Wijsen, Professor of empirical and practical religious studies, Radboud University, The Netherlands.

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Imagination in Religion

Perspectives from the Philosophy of Religion

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Imagination in Religion

Perspectives from the Philosophy of Religion

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Religion would be impossible without imagination. Imagination provides content that otherwise escapes discourse and perception. Thus, it opens up a productive realm for creative involvement that keeps religion from sinking into trivialities or abstractions. The contributions in the present volume explore in various ways potentialities and problems linked to imagination's role in the context of religion. The book challenges readers to think again and think differently about imagination in religion which, in itself, involves the power of imagination. The book opens up fresh perspectives on the interactive dynamics between imagination and various faculties or dimensions of life. Imagination might be involved in thinking, perceiving, contemplation, and in practices. The contributors to the volume are all members of the Nordic Society for the Philosophy of Religion. Espen Dahl, Professor of Systematic Theology, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. Jan-Olav Henriksen, Professor of Philosophy of Religion, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo. Marius T. Mjaaland, Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway.

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Glimpses into the World of Mathematics

A Cognitive Perspective

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Glimpses into the World of Mathematics

A Cognitive Perspective

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Essays collected in this volume deal with various problems from the philosophy of mathematics. What connects them are two questions: how mathematics is created and how it is acquired. In 'Three Worlds of Mathematics' we are familiarized with David Tall's ideas pertaining to the embodied, symbolic and formal worlds of mathematics. In 'Basic Ideas of Intuitionism', we focus on an epistemological approach to mathematics which is distinctive to constructive mathematics. The author focuses on the computational content of intuitionistic logic and shows how it relates to functional programming. 'The Brave Mathematical Ant' carefully selects mathematical puzzles related to teaching experiences in a way that the solution requires creativity and is not obtainable by following an algorithm. Moreover the solution gives us some new insight into the underlying idea. 'Degrees Of Accessibility Of Mathematical Objects' discusses various criteria which can be used to judge accessibility of mathematical objects. We find logical complexity, range of applications, existence of a physical model as well as aesthetic values. Jerzy Pogonowski, Faculty of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna? Szymon Chlebowski, Faculty of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna? Barbara Borkowicz, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna?

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Feminist Philosophy

A Close Encounter with the Work of Herta Nagl-Docekal. Special Volume

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A Close Encounter with the Work of Herta Nagl-Docekal. Special Volume

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Transforming Buddhism

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Transforming Buddhism

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The world of Buddhism has always been a dynamic one. There are endless developments and interactions as the dharma spread throughout Asia. In more recent times Buddhism has even made a more global appeal, dharma centers are everywhere nowadays. Transforming Buddhism presents a number of casestudies of a group of scholars who each of them focus on the ways how Buddhism transforms and is transformed, both in the past and in modernity. The book presents results of research performed in Asia for instance on women in the Buddhist monastic tradition of Thailand, foreigners living in the harsh conditions of specific Thai Therav?da monasteries, and childmonks in Tibet. Other subjects are developments within Japanese Zen Buddhism in interaction with modern western philosophy and the Japanese Buddhism incited by K?b? Daishi (774-835). Next there is the inspiration for modernity that can be found in the works of the Korean monk Chinul (1158-1210), and themes in Buddhist life-histories, legendary, historical and personal. As such Transforming Buddhism gives a broad view on a number of transformations of the Buddhist dharma from various perspectives. Paul van der Velde is Professor of Asian Religions, Sanskrit and Hindi at the Radboud University Nijmegen (RUN). André van der Braak is Professor of Comparative Philosophy of Religion at the faculty of Religion and Theology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). Tristan Letzer is currently a research master student of Theology and Religious Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), specializing in Buddhism.

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Heritage and Change

Tamils in Berne, Switzerland

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Heritage and Change

Tamils in Berne, Switzerland

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Overcoming Violence

Challenges and Theological Responses in the Context of Central Africa and Europe

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Challenges and Theological Responses in the Context of Central Africa and Europe

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Human Rights

Feminist and Gender-Philosophical Perspectives

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Human Rights

Feminist and Gender-Philosophical Perspectives

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In this volume thirteen essays highlight the subject of human rights from different points of view. The guiding questions include the following: Can feminists and gender researchers ground their commitment to greater gender justice in human rights? Is there a single concept of human rights? Do human rights include individual rights or group rights? Are the demands of human rights addressed to institutions or to individuals? Is there an intrinsic moment of Eurocentrism within human rights? Are human rights a moral or legal measure, or somewhere in between? Who is recognized as a human being? Angela Kallhoff is Professor of Ethics with special emphasis of Applied Ethics and Chair of Ethics at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Brigitte Buchhammer is philosopher. teaches at various universities, lectures in Vienna, Berlin, Paderborn, Stuttgart, Athen, Washington, Linz, Zürich.

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Governing the Crisis: Law, Human Rights and COVID-19

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Governing the Crisis: Law, Human Rights and COVID-19

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Governing the Crisis: Law, Human Rights and COVID-19 is a collection of essays by an interdisciplinary group of experts from around the world who look at different human rights issues which have emerged as relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic. The topics cover a range of issues in different countries, for example, tracing apps, digitalization, privacy, priority setting in health care, refugees, cruise ships or risks faced by children. Other chapters investigate the specific government responses in a number of countries. In addition, topics of wider legal interest are investigated, such as the role of constitutional courts, federalism and the concept of the state of emergency. Prof. Dr. Stefan Kirchner, MJI, is Research Professor of Arctic Law and the head of the Arctic Governance Research Group at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland.

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