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The volume focuses on the Pan-Orthodox Council of 2016 and highlights key issues for the Orthodox world. These include conciliarism, ecclesiastical geopolitics, local and universal Orthodoxy, relations to modernity, secularity, nationalism, and globality, diasporic communities, and questions pertaining to Ecumenism and inter-Christian dialogue.

This book discusses the aspects of women's status at the beginning of the 20th century. It draws a parallel between Romanian and British feminism by analysing historical data and modernist literary texts. The main contribution is related to the research of the beginnings of the Romanian feminism, which has not yet been sufficiently emphasised.

The book deals with Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II) and his investigations in the field of theoretical and practical arithmetic. It is mainly based on an analysis of Gerbert's so-called scientific letters. An attention is paid to the philosophy of numbers (Saltus Gerberti, quadrivium) and practical counting (Hindu-Arabic numerals, abacus).

This book argues at the intersection of feminist literary analysis and cultural studies methodology and the author sets out that Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter represents a twenty-first century series attempting to challenge social norms and to envision worlds of freedom.

The book provides a series of studies comprising the health, social, and economic aspects of COVID-19, which emerged in China in December 2019, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and turned into a pandemic in a short time.

The book addresses the twentieth century history and anthropology of Jews in Poland, as well as culture and literature pertaining to the Holocaust.

After a distinction between private religious visions and prophetic religious manifestations this book provides a deteiled description of the great Marian Apparitions in Guadalupe, La Salette, Lourdes, Fatima, Medjugorje and Kibeho.

This volume offers a selection of essays on Catalan cultural studies that delves into the history and language of the Catalan-speaking lands. A combination of novel approaches from the literary, linguistic and educational fields contribute to offering a view of the Catalan-speaking lands in contemporary research trends.

Convention and Contravention in Ben Jonson's Three Comedies: Volpone, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair aims to explain comedy, carnival, laughter, and satire in Jonson's selected plays, and what it means to deceive as well as to be deceived in Jonson's world of drama.

The contributions to this volume focus on contemporary cinematic productions, literary works and testimonies of popular culture in Western Societies telling of a very present triangulation: money and crime in times of neoliberalism.

The book deals with the changes in the field of communication with the Coronavirus epidemic. The content of the book, in which the reflections of the epidemics, which have been the subject of novels and films throughout history, in literature and cinema are also discussed, the effects of the epidemic which became a reality as of March 2020.

This book reveals the value of pirate radio, with a special focus on local radio stations that broadcast illegally in Poland and other countries from the region in the early 90s. The analysis of the sources supports the conclusion that, although the pirates left a lasting legacy, they lost out in the licensed regime driven by market logic.