Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Over the past few years, the cross-disciplinary field of research devoted to family and kinship history in Europe has seen the emergence of an important stream of studies developing wide-ranging comparative perspectives on great spaces and long periods. Their hypotheses and interpretative models differ...
Vatican II in Ireland, Fifty Years On
Essays in Honour of Pádraic Conway
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This book commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, which concluded in 1965. A selection of essays by distinguished Irish theologians offers an objective assessment of the historical reception and pastoral implementation of Vatican II in Ireland with the benefit of half...
Expressing Post-Secular Citizenship
A Madrasa, an Ethic and a Comprehensive Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
According to Habermas, the contemporary public sphere is post-secular. In other words, the continuing presence of religious communities within a secular society is indisputable. However, the significance of this is not entirely clear, despite intensive discussion by social scientists, journalists,...
Policing in Colonial Empires
Cases, Connections, Boundaries (ca. 18501970)
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Colonial security strategies and the postcolonial vestiges they left both in the global South and in former metropoles have recently attracted renewed academic attention. Policing in Colonial Empires is a collection of essays reflecting current, ongoing research and exploring the multifaceted dynamics...
Subjected Subcontinent
Sectarian and Sexual Lines in Indian Writing in English
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This book offers a new, complex understanding of Indian writing in English by focusing its analysis on both Indo-Pakistani Partition fiction and novels written by women. The author gives a comprehensive outline of Partition novels in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh written in English as well as an...
Fabulous Ireland- «Ibernia Fabulosa»
Imagining Ireland in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
According to Petrarch, the Father of the Renaissance, Ireland was almost as well known to the Italians as Italy itself. Visiting Ireland from the comfort of their armchairs, his followers thus knew for a fact that the Irish ate their fathers and slept with their mothers, were welcoming and inhospitable,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Taking conflict as its collective theme, this book brings together the work of early modern specialists to offer a range of insights into the political, social and religious climate in Savoy between 1400 and 1700. The contributors focus on the broader context of early modern European history, making...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This volume offers a view of modern Russian intellectual culture as shaped by the dynamic of conversions. The individual contributions examine a rich variety of personal conversions occurring in a culture in which the written word enjoyed a privileged status and, historically, was closely linked to...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
World War II and East-West confrontation redefined borders between Italy and Yugoslavia, reshaped national frontiers and adversely affected political relations. As a result, major quarrels and disputes arose over territorial claims, demarcation of State boundaries, expulsion of national minorities,...
LSP in Colombia
Advances and challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Studies in LSP in Colombia began in the 1990’s, mainly in the discipline of terminology. Since then, studies in translation, terminology, and LSP have spread out throughout the country. Many papers have been written since then in national and international journals by Colombian authors. This book...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Corpus linguistics was initiated with the compilation and exploitation of native English reference corpora. Over the past years, corpus linguistics has experienced such a great expansion and specialisation that a variety of languages, registers, text types and speakers are now represented in language...
Thinking Between Islam and the West
The Thoughts of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Bassam Tibi and Tariq Ramadan
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
In this book, the author assesses the social vision of three western Muslim intellectuals, Seyyed H. Nasr, Bassam Tibi and Tariq Ramadan. He finds that the thoughts of Nasr and his students promote a kind of tradition-based society, which is in harmony with the Divine Law in Islam and a hierarchical...
Religion and Secularism in the European Union
State of Affairs and Current Debates
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
The present volume monitors new developments concerning religious issues, faith-based organizations, State-Church relations and secularism in the EU, which especially during the past two decades have undergone profound changes, changes which continuously and increasingly alter mentalities and habits,...
European Francophonie
The Social, Political and Cultural History of an International Prestige Language
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The phenomenon of French language usage is explored in a wide variety of communities, namely Bohemian, Dutch, medieval English, German (Prussian), Italian, Piedmontese,...