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Celebrating Biblical and Jewish holidays is most characteristic of the Messianic Jewish movement, and it arouses much interest among Gentile Christians. This practice arose in the struggle of Hebrew Christians against "Christian assimilation". From the 1970s onwards, Messianic Jews identified strongly with their people's socio-cultural heritage.

The book offers comparative analysis of diverse Darwinism-inspired discourses such as post-modern novels, science fiction, popular science and nature films. Special attention is paid to Darwin's problem with human ancestry, Darwinism and the humanities, and the lives of Charles and Emma Darwin as contemporary myths.

Cognitive linguistics offers tools to discuss philosophical problems of being and becoming (identity) as necessary or contingent. Major positions on these questions can be explained based on human counterfactual thought. Conceptualisations of "innovation" and "creation" in English (as instantiations of being and becoming) build on construal of time as actually experienced or figurative.

Maria Jodlowiec shows how relevance theory can account for explicit and implicit communication. She emphasizes that this pragmatic model not only provides a coherent explanation of communication in which what is conveyed is straightforward and easy to identify, but also offers a fairly precise account of the vaguer aspects of verbal communication.

The articles explore individual religious transformation in Antiquity, with a focus on initiation and conversion and their definitions, content and characteristics. They investigate different facets of these phenomena in a wide range of religions in their own context and from new theoretical and empirical perspectives.

Ethno-national identity is an outcome of ideological interpellation, self-writing and narratives. Politics as the enactment of identity has led Ethiopian politics to a dead-end. A theological turn can open the ontological possibility of a new political subject and a reinvention of politics that transcends the impasse.

This research is focused on professional development opportunities for young academics who teach in German universities. The analysis shows how academics reconstruct the relation between teaching and research under given structural conditions of the academic labor market, and how they make career decisions.

The book considers optimal fiscal policy in the short and long run for an internationally integrating economy when public borrowing is constrained, and comes up with conclusions that shed new light on the fiscal reforms now being adopted in the European Union.

The recent transformations of the national agricultural economics prove more than ever the need for optimization of the agricultural production structures. The book presents five alternatives in valuing the agricultural potential by designing farming production modules with different production surface from 60 ha to 800 ha.

The author addresses key questions of foreign language teaching: How does foreign language learning take place? What is the mechanism of foreign language use and learning? What are the sources of our understanding of these processes? What significance does our understanding have for foreign language teaching?

What are the challenges presented to church and mission from the contemporary culture of globalization? And how does it affect Christian spirituality? This is explored here from the perspective of contemporary East Asian urban life, presupposing that it may not be that different from the experiences in urban contexts in other parts of the world.

Gandhi is an international icon, but did his influence extend up to the Vatican? The book replies to historical inquiries that include his inability to meet Pius XI, examines papal tributes to Gandhi and similarities between him and Pope Francis. It assesses the claim that Gandhi was influenced by Christ, and that Francis was influenced by Gandhi.

The book assesses the impacts of pesticide use reduction strategies in the context of Thai highland agriculture. It shows that it is possible to bring down levels of pesticide use without income trade-offs. Combining Integrated Pest Management (IPM) with pesticide taxes and bio-pesticide subsidies is the most cost-effective and practicable policy.

The publication deals with popular history magazines. Market conditions, topics and mediating strategies are analysed in a comparative European perspective. Moreover, information is provided about the EU project EHISTO, which uses popular history magazines to enhance media literacy and intercultural competences in history education.

The Eph "Pauline" spirit world articulations are founded in the attempts at Weltbewaltigung. Related mentality in Igbo world view accounts for their spirit world apprehensions. Psycho-hermeneutical approach reveals the importance of cognitive reconstruction of the basic Weltanschauung through true appreciations of Eph Christological paraenetics.

Following Koselleck's history of concepts, Americanness is approached as a semantic field at the intersection of several antebellum concepts (nation, representation, sympathy, race, and womanhood, among others), in the various stages of their respective histories. The book is also a period study of major American writers of the antebellum era.

Why are local political organizations enduring in certain municipalities and ephemeral in others? This book explores the systematic factors that influence the level of local party institutionalization in Hungary, a new democracy.

This book examines Poland's public sector and welfare state. These are historically rooted in economic and social structures and amount to a form of public capital. There is an ongoing attempt to financialise and commodify this public capital. This includes areas such as health, education and pensions. Social opinions and contemporary politics are analysed.

This empirical study investigates accuracy development of the emerging article system in German as a second language, focusing on child second language acquisition in an immersion context. The investigation combines applied, educational and psycholinguistic perspectives and bears implications for quality development in L2 learning and teaching.

The book intends to understand the concept of upasaka / upasika or Buddhist laity in in Digha- and Majjhima-nikaya discourse of the Pali canon. Considered as oral literature, the meaning of the structure and stock phrases constructing the narrative is examined and interpreted from a theory of religious experience.

Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers is the first study of contemporary literary representations of the English country house. The book analyses contemporary novels, including Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, Ian McEwan's Atonement and Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger by situating them in a broader context of manorial literary tradition.

Isolation is well known to people from minority groups. This approach is oriented towards the social exclusion of ethnic minorities and tries to create a comprehensive strategy for dealing with new faces of exclusion. The authors try to define the ethnic minorities' cultural and national identity from the perspective of intercultural psychology.

The main outcomes of the present research are the Text Classification Profile that includes the qualitative and quantitative description of linguistic characteristics pertinent in Intermediate and Advanced English reading texts and the L.A.S.T. Text Difficulty Index that makes possible the automatic classification of B2 and C1 English reading texts.

The volume relates multiliteracy's pedagogical foundations to LearnWeb2.0, an innovative e-learning environment using the affordances of social networks to promote learning. The LearnWeb2.0 Design Framework constitutes a significant reference point for teachers, researchers and developers when designing course activities and learning supports.

Trademark laws reduce customer confusion, prevent unfairness, and make communication between seller and buyer simple. Expanding legal protection coupled with aggressive "bullying" have restricted competition. Laws have failed to balance private interests (investments in business goodwill) with public interests (robust competition without barriers).

This book offers a pragma-semantic analysis of linguistic means (boosting and hedging devices, modal expressions) expressing speaker involvement in the genre of political interview. The aim of this study is to investigate the claim that this genre is detached and impersonal. It also investigates gender differences in the expression of politicians.

The volume examines Arab audiences and religion in today's Arab media. Religion is a topic in more than 1300 Arab mainstream and religious satellite TV channels as well as in popular culture. The case studies explore how Arab audiences make use of mediated religion in negotiations of identity and belonging in different national contexts.

The work presents Abrahamic monotheistic religions and the belief of the traditional religions in Africa, especially in Igboland. Religions have come and gone and many are still in existence and they are religiously or socially formed. The faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have their complementary religious conviction with Igbo religion.

This collection of papers includes topics such as Aldred the scribe, Old English glosses, the Exeter Book, aspects of the source studies of Old English homilies, Old English Boethius, Judgement Day II, and notes on Old English syntax.

The essays in this book explore the possibility of new approaches for the study of Korean civil society and democracy by combining interdisciplinary and transregional research, thereby making a direct contribution to the field of democracy after democratization focusing on developments in Germany, Korea, and Eastern Europe.