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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Following the Asian economic crisis of the 1990s, this is the first book to examine the structure and transformation of the labor markets and social stratification of contemporary East Asia, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China, focusing in particular on gender inequality. It deals with social mobility and gender differences in unemployment, temporary employment and self-employment. Additionally, gender segregation, social identity and suicide rates are also addressed.Taken together, the issues raised in this volume reinforce the advantage of a comparative approach to East Asian Studies. The findings, supported by strong statistical analysis, clearly call into question a longstanding view that East Asian gender regimes and class structure are homogeneous. Indeed, this is demonstrably not the case, as Labor Markets, Gender and Social Stratification in East Asia shows, revealing as it does considerable diversities in labor markets, gender regimes, and social mobility within East Asian societies due to historical and institutional differences.Contributors include: Chang Chin-Fen, Kim Young-Mi, Oda Akiko, Phang Hanam, Sakaguchi Yusuke, Shibata Haruka, Takamatsu Rie, Takenoshita Hirohisa, Tarohmaru Hiroshi, Xie Guihua, and Yamato Reiko.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Male homosexual narratives in various genres and media--from 'high-brow' literature by distinguished female authors to 'pornographic' comic books produced and distributed by amateurs--have attracted the attention of a number of cultural critics in Japan and abroad. This book represents the first extensive critical attempt to examine Japanese women's narratives of male homosexuality/homoeroticism, addressing not only popular culture genres, but also the considerable body of critically acclaimed literary works (with English translations of the original works). The result is an in-depth analysis of the ways in which female fantasies of male homosexuality/homoeroticism may be composed, acknowledged, and interrogated.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume explores the many intersections of religion and health through the lens of Comparative Theology. International scholars from theology, religious studies, sociology and medicine reflect on what this interconnection means for their disciplines. Contributions address themes such as shifts in religious practice during the pandemic, medical metaphors in sacred texts, and the complex role of faith in both healing and harm.Brill Deutschland GmbH, Wollmarktstr. 115, 33098 Paderborn 165 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume explores the many intersections of religion and health through the lens of Comparative Theology. International scholars from theology, religious studies, sociology and medicine reflect on what this interconnection means for their disciplines. Contributions address themes such as shifts in religious practice during the pandemic, medical metaphors in sacred texts, and the complex role of faith in both healing and harm.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This research offers a new interpretation of texts Karl Marx wrote in 1844, specifically the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (Ökonomisch-Philosophische Manuskripte) and the Paris Not Elektronisches Buch (Pariser Hefte).Its main objective is to show how the core ideas in these texts gain philosophical depth when understood through the concept Marx called 'authentic appropriation' (wirkliche Aneignung).The result of this research reveals the original model Marx used to outline his proposal for the positive resolution of alienation (Entfremdung).Brill Deutschland GmbH, Wollmarktstraße 115, 33098 Paderborn Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A neglected topic in the research on yoga and meditation traditions, the extraordinary capacities called yoga powers are at the core of the religious imagination in the history of religions in South Asia. Yoga powers explained the divine, the highest gods were thought of as great yogins, and since major religious traditions considered their attainment as an inevitable part of the salvific process the textual traditions had to provide rational analyses of the powers. The essays of the book provide a number of new insights in the yoga powers and their history, position and function in the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain traditions, in classical Yoga, Ha?ha Yoga, Tantra and Saiva textual traditions, in South Asian medieval and modern hagographies, and in some contemporary yoga traditions.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This research offers a new interpretation of texts Karl Marx wrote in 1844, specifically the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (Ökonomisch-Philosophische Manuskripte) and the Paris Not Elektronisches Buch (Pariser Hefte).Its main objective is to show how the core ideas in these texts gain philosophical depth when understood through the concept Marx called 'authentic appropriation' (wirkliche Aneignung).The result of this research reveals the original model Marx used to outline his proposal for the positive resolution of alienation (Entfremdung).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This series of eight articles connected by the common theme 'Law Meets Film' presents a thought-provoking analysis of law and legal protagonists as seen in the movies of contemporary filmmakers. It distinguishes courtroom dramas, films on legal problems, and films mirroring law, ranging from illustration of law (education in law schools), over problem awareness (sociological approach) to the questioning of the role and function of law and lawyers (philosophical approach). The focus lies on the analysis of three successful, contemporary films seen from a legal, sociological, political and artistic perspective. All three are narrative, but they are situated in different cultural and linguistical contexts (France, USA and Turkey). Each film is characteristic for one of the categories, and each of them is discussed by two authors stemming from different countries and backgrounds, but aware of the international perspectives.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What are the contemporary afterlives of the medieval mystical tradition How do its searching questions about subjectivity, language, time, sex, bodies, divine love, and divine absence continue to shape theology, literature, history, Black Studies, psychoanalysis, and gender studies today This book asks not only how scholars interpret medieval mystical theology, but how turning to premodern insights, practices, and struggles can help articulate urgent contemporary concerns. Offering a thematic overview across disciplines, it traces how contemporary thinkers have received, reimagined, and transformed Christian medieval mystical texts and tropes. It also returns to the medieval sources themselves--to reveal their complexity, open new paths for analysis, and provide essential background for readers newly encountering these traditions. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It has long been a charism of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) that major decisions have been made not by a small leadership group at the apex of the organisation but by the largest possible gathering of the worshipping community, locally or nationally, seeking prayerfully to discern the way forward. However, partly associated with the fragmentation of belief among its members, this volume indicates that over the past 40 years the widely-shared responsibility for decisions has become more performative than actual, and that increasingly centralised decision-making has changed the ecclesiology of the Society of Friends in Britain. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This study attempts to synthesize Joseph de Maistre's historical (and political) reflections on a phenomenon as momentous as the French Revolution. Although not a professional historian or philosopher, Maistre's merit lies in integrating his interpretation of the French Revolution within the broader framework of cultural transformations (particularly those of a moral and epistemological nature) that underpinned it: the Protestant Reformation and the Enlightenment.José Miguel Nanni Soares seeks to demonstrate that the Savoyard Count's reaction to the Enlightenment-revolutionary project not only aligns with contemporary interpretations of the genesis of the modern world but also, despite his vehement defense of the system of authority (monarchy as a political regime and Catholicism as a spiritual authority), his traditionalism did not lead to a mere desire for a straightforward restoration of the Ancien Régime. Paradoxically, his thought was informed by humanist and rationalist premises.Brill I Schoeningh, Wollmarktstraße 115, 33098 Paderborn 518 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Step inside the doctoral journeys of university leaders whose educational backgrounds include degrees in Education. This volume offers candid, unpublished reflections, rare anecdotes, and vivid examples showing how scholarship shapes leadership, decision-making, and institutional impact. You will discover stories of resilience, growth, and transformation, revealing strategies leaders use to balance research, study, and professional responsibility. Each chapter delivers actionable insights, inspiration, and behind-the-scenes perspectives rarely shared in print. Essential for aspiring leaders, doctoral candidates, and scholars, this book brings the challenges, triumphs, and lessons of the doctoral journey vividly to life, offering guidance and inspiration for navigating higher education today. Contributors are: Ainsley Carry, Holly Cowman, Brad Donaldson, Cindy Gnadinger, Bryan Larson, Tim Loreman, Glen Mitchell, Laurie Waye, and Jia Wenjian.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This study attempts to synthesize Joseph de Maistre's historical (and political) reflections on a phenomenon as momentous as the French Revolution. Although not a professional historian or philosopher, Maistre's merit lies in integrating his interpretation of the French Revolution within the broader framework of cultural transformations (particularly those of a moral and epistemological nature) that underpinned it: the Protestant Reformation and the Enlightenment.José Miguel Nanni Soares seeks to demonstrate that the Savoyard Count's reaction to the Enlightenment-revolutionary project not only aligns with contemporary interpretations of the genesis of the modern world but also, despite his vehement defense of the system of authority (monarchy as a political regime and Catholicism as a spiritual authority), his traditionalism did not lead to a mere desire for a straightforward restoration of the Ancien Régime. Paradoxically, his thought was informed by humanist and rationalist premises.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume explores the many intersections of religion and health through the lens of Comparative Theology. International scholars from theology, religious studies, sociology and medicine reflect on what this interconnection means for their disciplines. Contributions address themes such as shifts in religious practice during the pandemic, medical metaphors in sacred texts, and the complex role of faith in both healing and harm. 165 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This study attempts to synthesize Joseph de Maistre's historical (and political) reflections on a phenomenon as momentous as the French Revolution. Although not a professional historian or philosopher, Maistre's merit lies in integrating his interpretation of the French Revolution within the broader framework of cultural transformations (particularly those of a moral and epistemological nature) that underpinned it: the Protestant Reformation and the Enlightenment.José Miguel Nanni Soares seeks to demonstrate that the Savoyard Count's reaction to the Enlightenment-revolutionary project not only aligns with contemporary interpretations of the genesis of the modern world but also, despite his vehement defense of the system of authority (monarchy as a political regime and Catholicism as a spiritual authority), his traditionalism did not lead to a mere desire for a straightforward restoration of the Ancien Régime. Paradoxically, his thought was informed by humanist and rationalist premises. 518 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Recent scholarship has focused on John's relationship to Judaism, his intertextual method, and his portrayal of John the Baptist, yet few connect these topics. We know the Evangelist is a masterful storyteller, particularly with his characters, which raises the question: Could we view the relationship between the Fourth Gospel and Judaism through the lens of the Baptist This study explores the intersection of scriptural allusions and characterization related to John the Baptist, uncovering another perspective to the complex interplay between Judaism and the Fourth Gospel. Readers will discover how John the Baptist emerges as a key figure, illuminating the narrative and reinforcing the Gospel's themes. This engaging exploration challenges conventional interpretations and invites the reader to see the Fourth Gospel in a new light 264 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Roman Empire was shaped and consolidated by pro-Roman and imperialistic discourses, but also by the words and actions of its enemies and critics. Discourses and actions of opposition to Rome had an impact on how Rome was conceived and forced the Empire to react. Repressing them was one response, but other reactions were also possible. In that sense, the very enunciation of Rome and its Empire as 'enemy', or the selection of certain features of the empire against which opposition was exercised, can be interpreted as a way of shaping or consolidating the empire. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Recent scholarship has focused on John's relationship to Judaism, his intertextual method, and his portrayal of John the Baptist, yet few connect these topics. We know the Evangelist is a masterful storyteller, particularly with his characters, which raises the question: Could we view the relationship between the Fourth Gospel and Judaism through the lens of the Baptist This study explores the intersection of scriptural allusions and characterization related to John the Baptist, uncovering another perspective to the complex interplay between Judaism and the Fourth Gospel. Readers will discover how John the Baptist emerges as a key figure, illuminating the narrative and reinforcing the Gospel's themes. This engaging exploration challenges conventional interpretations and invites the reader to see the Fourth Gospel in a new light.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What happened to Four Quartets in Italy How were they read by Italian intellectuals This volume traces the history of the Italian reception of Eliot's masterpiece, from the early struggle for appropriation in literary magazines - where the poems were alternately framed as expressions of resignation or hope, Hermetic grammar or intimate music - to their eventual canonization and illustration. While two Neapolitan translators, influenced by Elio Vittorini, offered an ideological reading, Florentine poets sought to make Eliot's verses sound precious and obscure. It was a woman poet who first provided a religious interpretation of the poem, a diplomat who finally published it in book form and an Argentinian artist who translated its words into images.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first full-length monograph published on one of the most intriguing and knotty challenges of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system: the so-called 'prophetic perfect' or 'prophetic' use of qa?al. This study takes a strong linguistic approach, improving and expanding on other scholars' advances, and makes unique contributions through a culturally and conceptually contextualised approach to prophetic texts. These findings are then confirmed through comparative analysis of Akkadian, Aramaic, and other ancient Near Eastern texts. While not the final word on the matter, this book furthers the discussion of this very old and multifaceted issue.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How does French poetry navigate the advent of the digital and an increasingly polarized political landscape Centering on the 1990s to the present, this book examines poetry's turn towards the public and its problems. While earlier poets privileged the language of personal expression, French poets today appropriate and reorganize the discourses of contemporary society. They turn to new approaches, adopting techniques from disciplines like the visual arts, and integrating an array of media into their works. Collapsing the boundaries separating poetry and its outsides, poets challenge the autonomy of literature and probe the language and practices that structure contemporary experience.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The awakening process has received limited attention in comparison with other phases of the circadian cycle. Among its foci, Awakenings in Word and Image takes up persistent allusions to downward movement in such depictions. Despite the familiar phrase, 'wake up,' intimations of downwardness or falling often appear in tandem with retrieval of a depicted subject's identity following sleep. Awakenings in Word and Image also makes clear that, while this process is body-based, such a designation is often applied to enhancements of consciousness, whether within an individual or across a culture. On the verbal side, material from Plato, the New Testament, Proust, and other sources is considered. Visual art discussed includes work by Italian frescoist Taddeo Zuccari and acclaimed New York painter Vincent Desiderio . …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An Introduction to Data Visualisation of the Writing Process, aims to address the growing need for sophisticated methods to interpret and analyse the complex data available through various data acquisition techniques. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of academic and professional writing settings across a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, text genetics, psychology, mathematical modelling, computer science, information science, engineering neuroscience, modern language studies, education and other professional degree programmes. With data visualisation becoming essential for understanding data in ways that were previously impossible, this new volume offers a unique introduction tailored to the needs of learners, teachers and researchers involved in the study of writing and its process. Contributors are Pavithra M. Basnayake, Lamyk Bekius, Floor Buschenhenke, Gilles Caporossi, Georgeta Cislaru, Nistor Grozavu, Alain Hertz, Juuso Koponen, Päivi Laine, Christophe Leblay, Maarit Mutta, Mari Mäkilä, Thierry Olive, Maxime Olivié, Daniel Perrin, Linda Sandström, Andreas Sellstone, Kirk P.H. Sullivan, Florence Tanoï Namio, Hakim Usoof, and Anne-Maj Åberg.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The creation of meaningful and beautiful similarities as part of a pattern or structure is among the most important means humankind has developed in order to create, or respond to, order in various contexts and for various purposes. In the arts, similarity is among the most general aesthetic features which have informed all levels of works of art across cultures and times. It may range from all but zero difference between individual occurrences of a phenomenon ('repetition') to recognizable 'variations' of the same. The present volume focusses on the manifold forms and functions which repetition and variation can have in both literature and music.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book weaves together little moments of companionship--a human trying to cajole a mother cow to accept her newborn calf, a cow secretly burying biscuits in the backyard, a human biting a bull's tail, a cow kicking a human, a calf's nose being roped, humans, bulls, and cows walking together. These moments narrate the biography of companionship between humans and bovines. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume offers a renewed examination of the letter collections attributed to Greek philosophers from the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods. Long dismissed as largely inauthentic since Bentley, these texts are reconsidered here not for their authorship, but for what they reveal about the reception, interpretation, and fictionalization of philosophical figures and traditions. The contributors explore the role of these letters in constructing images of philosophers, blending biography and literary invention, shaping school identities, and circulating doctrines. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate that these often neglected texts are essential evidence for understanding how philosophical ideas and ways of life were transmitted and reshaped in antiquity. Ce volume jette un nouveau regard sur les corpus de lettres attribuées aux philosophes grecs entre l'époque archaïque et le début de l'époque hellénistique, corpus longtemps négligé à partir de la condamnation d'inauthenticité de Bentley. Loin de se limiter à la question de leur authenticité, le volume montre comment ces écrits participent à la construction de l'image des philosophes, à la formation des identités des écoles philosophiques, et à la diffusion de leurs doctrines. Les contributions mettent en évidence la dimension littéraire, pédagogique et parfois fictionnelle de ces lettres, qui témoignent ainsi des modes de transmission des idées philosophiques dans l'Antiquité.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The author of many monographs, edited collections, and essays, Seyed Javad Miri has been a major influence in social sciences and humanities. His significant contributions disrupted prevailing narratives surrounding critical issues, including nationality, identity, secularism, religion, and modernity. In Beyond Eurocentric Social Theory: The Nomadic Intellectual on Religion, Culture and the State, the contributors illustrate different dimensions of Seyed Javad Miri's oeuvre and demonstrate how his scholarship bridge the Eastern and Western intellectual traditions and foster a dialogue at the global level between Iranian intellectual history, Islamic philosophy and Western social theory. Contributors are: Joseph Alagha, Syed Farid Alatas, Ali Almasizand, Krikor Ankeshian, Dustin J. Byrd, Ramze Endut, Meisam Ghavehchian, Carimo Mohomed, Michael Naughton, Aditya Nigam, Hossein Roohani, Mehdi Shariati, and Esmaeil Zeiny. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents a new reading of Hegel's philosophy of religion, focusing on the mediating role of habit between nature and spirit. It explores how the death of the animal becomes central to the emergence of spirit and how religious practice (cultus) functions as a habitual form of reconciliation. Engaging Hegel's Encyclopedia, Phenomenology of Spirit, and Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, it situates these questions within debates in postcolonial studies, critical animal theory, and philosophy of religion. The result is a vital contribution to Hegel scholarship and contemporary reflections on (post-)humanity, animality, and religion.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Biblical commentaries vary in scope and ambition, but all contain profound reflections on the order of the world. During the Middle Ages and the early modern period, commenting on the Bible was essential for understanding and interpreting events, and for developing a legitimate social and political framework aimed at salvation. This volume approaches the 'exegetical experience' from various angles: the places and people involved in exegetical production, the intellectual and material techniques used, and the ways in which the Bible was used and interpreted, particularly in debates and in the development of political thought. Contributors are Emmanuel Bain, Paula Barros, Gaelle Bosseman, Caroline Chevalier-Royet, Amélie de las Heras, Sophie Delmas, Roberto Gamberini, Cinzia Grifoni, Robert A. Harris, Frédérique Lachaud, Kristina Mitalaite, Lydwine Scordia, Claire Soussen, and Frans van Liere.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection of essays represents the first interdisciplinary study in English to consider social memory in Japan across a wide range of issues and phenomena. Unlike previous studies which have focused on isolated issues, especially Second World War events, this volume examines in depth a variety of memorialization subjects, including music and poetry, artefacts and tools, oral testimonies and written documents, stones and performances, rivers and earthquakes, ritual and ceremonies as well as art and artists. In addition to valuable insights into the social and cultural life of the Japanese, its contextualized analysis and rich narrative provide a basis for the comparative study of collective memory-making. The chapters are thematically grouped as 'Remembering the Dead', 'Art of Memory' and 'Nature Remembered'.…