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Religion und Politik bilden seit jeher ein spannungsvolles Geflecht wechselseitiger Begründungs- und Abgrenzungsprozesse. Die in diesem Band versammelten Autoren beleuchten historische und aktuelle Konstellationen dieser Prozesse durch die Verschränkung von systematischen und historischen Perspektiven. So reicht die Spannweite der Beiträge von der Frühzeit des Christentums über die Reformation bis hin zu Schelling, Schleiermacher, Troeltsch und Barth, während gleichzeitig aktuelle Debatten u.a. zur Theologie in der DDR, zur Bedeutung der Menschenrechte, zum Konzept der inneren Führung und zur Flüchtlingsdebatte kritisch nachgezeichnet werden.

This book discusses the shortcomings of the standard macroeconomic model (SMM). The SMM failed to explain the real world and anticipate the global financial crises. The main reason for these failures was the lack, in the SMM, of any role of money and the way the financial sector works.

This book analyzes unobvious relations between historical definitions of the face and its contemporary usage in popular culture and social media, like Facebook or Instagram. The authors focus on both metaphorical and material meanings of the face and grapple with crucial questions about modernity, modern and postmodern subjectivity.

The book addresses constitutional and human rights implications of the "erasure". With this act the Slovenian state unlawfully deprived thousands of individuals of their residence rights. This book examines the root causes of this violation and compares the erasure with other citizenship politics in selected transitional European countries.

This volume explores the graphic narratives of Alison Bechdel, particularly focusing on the reconstruction of gender in her graphic memoirs. The case studies show how Bechdel plays with the characteristics of graphic narratives in order to trace back the complex relationship with her parents and the development of her own gender identities.

The author analyses the politics of parliamentary pensions in four OECD countries, Australia, Austria, Canada, and Germany. Members of Parliament do not only decide upon public pensions, they also enact changes of their own pension scheme. Thus, it is surprising that they have implemented cuts for themselves.

This book focuses on the relationship between identity and music in Europe from different angles. It takes two basic categories into account: identities in music and music in identities. The authors provide studies on identity construction in different historical and geographical contexts.

The author analyses the inter-confessional relations in selected territories in a longue duree perspective, between Reformation and Enlightenment, going beyond a simple juxtaposition of tolerant and intolerant states to conduct an analysis of political, social and ideological conditions determining the level of religious tolerance.

This study analyzes how far Integrated Reporting tackles shortcomings of corporate reporting. It investigates the IIRC Framework conceptually and provides a descriptive analysis of the degree of IR in existing reports from South Africa and the USA. The study also examines the relationship of IR with investor underreaction at the capital market.

Based on historical corpora, the book is a comprehensive study of the demise of five preterite-present verbs in English. It offers a detailed description of the forms and uses of these verbs in Old and Middle English, which, when compared, allow the author to suggest the reasons for their elimination from the language.

This book analyzes the literature and lifestyles of the Beat Generation based on Victor Turner's anthropological studies. Signs of liminality and "communitas" appear in works by Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. The Beats formed anti-structure in their liminal stage and recorded this in their liminoid literature.

This book contains studies which refer to some essential traits of language in general, as well as of the Romanian language. The theme "tradition and innovation" is investigated not only in language, as produced by alterity and creativity, but also in linguistics.

The book examines the reasons for the support and involvement of Manchester bourgeoisie and its municipal authorities in the development of leisure, recreation and entertainment in the Victorian period. The author identifies certain ideologies which governed the middle class' hegemonic approach to leisure in the city.

This book analyzes how people settle disputes in and outside of Polish courts. The authors evaluate basic factors influencing the choice between the court and other authoritative dispute settlement agencies and the informal direct compromise of mediation by third parties.

The book explores possibilities for happening in education. It considers happening in relation to critical pedagogy, teaching as a liminal practice, creative pedagogy and multiple intelligences. It outlines a participatory research strategy, based upon bricolage and the rhizome, used to inquire into happening and EFL teaching.

The contributions in this book address a vast variety of questions concerning the sources and mutual inspirations in Oriental and European literatures. The authors discuss selected texts from both historical and synchronic perspectives. They reveal and scrutinise the sedimented layers in their search for the original.

The book is devoted to the issue of public administration discretionary power within law application processes and its control. It presents a variety of factors that may affect the range of discretion as well as the influence on public administration's reasoning.

The book presents a critical reflection on how the presence of "culture" in theory and practice of international relations is reflected in IR as a research field. The book consists of three parts: The culture in International Relations scholarship, culture in the practice of International Relations and culture in International Law.

The classification of words in terms of parts of speech is frequently problematic. This book examines the classification of conjunctions and similar words of other classes. It reviews work done over the past two centuries on a wide range of languages. Most chapters treat conjunctions as opposed to one of the other parts of speech.

Geoparks as nature conservation category in Iran have a good potential of growth. Especially for the domestic tourism they are an important instrument. Landscape conservation is another overall target.

This book investigates the effectiveness of the use of a mobile version of a flashcard spaced-repetition learning platform (Memrise.com) in learning and teaching of English for Medical Purposes. It outlines design and core principles of the "Mobile Medical English Companion" - a mobile spaced-repetition medical vocabulary tutor.

This book revisits psychology's appropriation of natural scientific methods. The author argues that, in order to overcome ongoing methodological debates in psychology, it is necessary to confront the problem of formalisation contained in the appropriation of methods of natural science.

This book describes law from the perspective of its language. The author proposes a theory of the legal language as language used in legally relevant communicational situations. He focuses on legal-linguistic operations such as legal argumentation and legal interpretation that steer the legal discourse.

The book explores how the rhetorical function of "bos" ("shame") and its cognates within twelve Individual Lament Psalms (ILP) reflect persuasive responses aimed at enhancing the relational spirituality of the psalmist.