Brill aug 2022 (60 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Pentecostal forms of Christianity have now taken a dynamic role in contemporary Christianity, often at the vanguard of new movements and spiritual vitality among Christians in the late modern world. The many movements which constitute global Pentecostalism share in common an intense commitmen…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What does it mean to be Black in America In this book, Pierre W. Orelus uses his poetry to unpack this question, unmasking racism, sexism, and oppression in America. The 59 poems in this collection deal with a wide range of topics, from immigration to xenophobia, from Black pride to Black rag…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In an ever-changing and interdependent world, diversity has become the norm, not the exception. Our constantly evolving understanding of intercultural communication and its rich complexities calls us to question, review, and renew our intervention practices. Intercultural Twinnings: A Commitm…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book develops a modern evolutionary anthropological theory of the cognitive conditions for explanatory descriptions of the world. Within the broad framework of processual hermeneutics, this monograph studies rationality by investigating what are the fundamental cognitive mechanisms requi…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book deals with the Iecur Placentinum, the bronze model of a sheep's liver, bearing 42 Etruscan inscriptions. The Piacenza Liver is a highly interesting document of the utmost importance for the understanding of Etruscan religion. It will appear that the network with the inscribed names…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Theology, Empowerment, and Prison Ministry Meins G.S. Coetsier offers a new scholarly account of Karl Rahner's theological anthropology and the prison pastorate with a contemporary expansion for meaning, seeking an antidote to the suffering and isolation of those incarcerated with a 'theol…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What does it mean to be Black in America In this book, Pierre W. Orelus uses his poetry to unpack this question, unmasking racism, sexism, and oppression in America. The 59 poems in this collection deal with a wide range of topics, from immigration to xenophobia, from Black pride to Black rage, from…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How do objects become contested in settings characterized by (violent) conflict Why are some things contested by religious actors How do religious actors mobilize things in conflict situations and how are conflict and violence experienced by religious groups This volume explores relations between ma…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Up in Arms provides an illustrative and timely window onto the ways in which guns shape people's lives and social relations in Texas. With a long history of myth, lore, and imaginaries attached to gun carrying, the Lone Star State exemplifies how various groups of people at different historical mome…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Adapt or perish! During the past 50 years, theological libraries world-wide have met with huge societal changes challenging their relevance, while simultaneously discovering opportunities for technological advancement, renovation and international cooperation in librarianship. Read in this volume ho…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through new readings and interpretation of Cypriot inscriptions - written in Cypriot-syllabic Greek, Eteocypriot, Phoenician, and alphabetic Greek - Kyprion Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms is the first book which reconstructs in detail the po…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first complete study of the relationship between Retranslation and Reception. Although many translation scholars have cited Reception Theory in their work, this is the first systematic study of its relationship to Retranslation. The book starts from the hypothesis that frequent retransla…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Have you ever wondered why Cordelia has to die Or how Alonso talks and walks about the isle while his body lies 'full fathom five' on the sea floor Ever wondered why the monument to Shakespeare in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon names three pagans: Nestor, Socrates, and Virgil…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The present volume sets Swahili religious tracts available in Kenya and Tanzania in their context. The book starts with an overview of tracts in Swahili from the 19th century to the present day, an examination of Swahili as a religious language, and an introduction to Swahili versions of the Bible a…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Previous scholarship hints at the connection between Judges 19-21 and Ruth (as set in dialogue), but there has yet to be a study to articulate this relationship. Through a Bakhtinian-canonical perspective, a comparative analysis of these texts unveils intertextual correlations. Lexical and thematic…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book addresses the dearth of study in Lukan scholarship on the transfiguration account and provides a model of new exodus based on the Song of the Sea (Exod 15) beyond the two major--Deuteronomi(sti)c and Isaianic--models. The proposed Exodus 15 pattern explicates the enigmatic phrase 'his 'exo…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Eastern Himalaya holds perhaps the highest levels of ethnolinguistic diversity in all Eurasia, with over 300 languages spoken by as many distinct cultural groups. What factors can explain such diversity How did it evolve, and what can its analysis teach us about the prehistory of its wider regio…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When I entered her shop, my friend turned to me and said: 'Arà, che si dice ' ('Hey there, how you doing '). This was not a full-fledged sentence in Italian, as she had thrown a little Sicilian word in - arà. It was a greeting, of course, but also a way of expressing her surprise at seeing me there,…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. In this volume, Hanna Vanonen offers a fresh view to the Milhamah and Sefer ha-Milhamah manuscripts by producing a thorough close-reading analysis of them, paying attention not only to their contents but also to manusc…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Read also Alexander Lott's blog on the recent Award of the Annex VII Arbitral Tribunal in the dispute concerning the Kerch Strait incident. Hybrid Threats and the Law of the Sea debates the practice of states that have resorted to discriminatory navigational restrictions or aggression against foreig…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Spaces of Connoisseurship, Alison Clarke explores the 'who', 'where' and 'how' of judging Old Master paintings in the nineteenth-century British art trade. She describes how the staff at family art dealers Thomas Agnew & Sons ('Agnew's') and London's National Gallery took advantage of emerging te…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Already in 1854, Henry David Thoreau had declared in Walden that 'Most men appear never to have considered what a house is' (225). Like Thoreau, many other renowned American writers have considered what houses are and, particularly, what houses do, and they have created fictional dwellings that func…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The discoveries of Coptic books containing 'Gnostic' scriptures in Upper Egypt in 1945 and of the Dead Sea Scrolls near Khirbet Qumran in 1946 are commonly reckoned as the most important archaeological finds of the twentieth century for the study of early Christianity and ancient Judaism. Yet, imped…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature is a Festschrift for the Arabist and Islamicist Thomas Bauer. It includes 17 essays by established academics on various themes and aspects of Arabic literature and rhetoric of the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods (12th-18th centuries). Notoriously neglected a…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During the 13th and 14th centuries, medieval Castile produced some of the liveliest, most sophisticated vernacular reworkings of narratives inherited from classical and late antiquity, including those about Alexander the Great, the Trojan War, or Apollonius of Tyre. This study recovers the overlooke…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Search of Singularity introduces a new 'compairative' methodology that seeks to understand how the interplay of paired texts creates meaning in new, transcultural contexts. Bringing the worlds of contemporary Polish and Chinese poetry since 1989 into conversation with one another, Joanna Krenz ap…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If you want to better understand not only international but also social diplomacy, then this book is for you. If you are a practitioner in traditional diplomacy or a person who want to apply diplomatic ideas and methods in social life, you can find many useful insights in this original work. A schol…