Peter Lang: 4879 books
by Isabel Hohmann
Language: German
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Die Autorin befasst sich mit den praxisrelevanten Fragen, die eine sogenannte Facebook-Party aus sicherheitsrechtlicher Sicht aufwirft. Sie untersucht, wer unter welchen Voraussetzungen für die Kosten des Polizeieinsatzes haftet, und unterbreitet einen Vorschlag einer konkreten Kostenregelung. Somit...
Dancing As If Language No Longer Existed
Dance in Contemporary Irish Drama
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
This book offers a comprehensive study of the role of dance in a wide range of contemporary Irish plays and argues that dance can be perceived as exemplifying the re-embracement of bodily expression by the local culture. The author approaches this issue from a cultural materialist perspective, demonstrating...
Ecumenism in Praxis
A Historical Critique of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The Malankara Mar Thoma Church’s ecumenical outlook – marked by twin facets of openness and autonomy – has been the underlying ethos guiding its history, helping it to establish a unique identity. The book retells the church’s ecumenical history dating back to its founding in 52 CE. This study...
Womens Emancipation in Africa Reality or Illusion?
A Case Study of Mbarara, Western Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Women’s emancipation in Uganda is one of the most successful ventures an African country has ever undertaken. The reality of its success, however, remains a challenge in a society with a long-held structure of patriarchy and institutional, cultural beliefs.
After a critical analysis, the...
Islam, the Turks and the Making of the English Reformation
The History of the Ottoman Empire in John Foxes «Acts and Monuments»
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
John Foxe wrote the first English history of the Ottoman Empire in his magnum opus, The Acts and Monuments. He exceeds contemporary representations in his extremely negative image of Islam and the «Turks,» who are identified as Antichrist and the epitome of wickedness. By juxtaposing Foxe’s work...
Theologie im Spannungsfeld von Kirche und Politik - Theology in Engagement with Church and Politics
Hans Schwarz zum 75. Geburtstag- Hans Schwarz on the Occasion of his 75 th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Die 39 Beiträge dieses Sonderbandes beleuchten das Thema Theologie im Spannungsfeld von Kirche und Politik aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Neben historischen Aspekten werden sowohl politisch-zeitgeschichtliche Fragen als auch ethische Problemstellungen bedacht. Weitere Aufsätze widmen sich der...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In this work, leading contemporary philosophers discuss key facets of the human person from a variety of perspectives in Christian thought. This closely woven volume includes chapters by Nicholas Wolterstorff on the distinction between humans and other animals; Robert Sokolowski on language; Marilyn...
Cosmological and Philosophical World of Dante Alighieri
«The Divine Comedy» as a Medieval Vision of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
The book analyses the medieval vision of the world as depicted in Dante Alighieri’s poetic works. In detail it discusses two works, The Banquet and The Divine Comedy, and offers a view on politics, faith and the universe of the medieval period. For modern people that period with its debates, polemics...
Irish Education and Catholic Emancipation, 17911831
The Campaigns of Bishop Doyle and Daniel OConnell
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
The restrictions applied to Catholics in the early eighteenth century to curtail their political and economic power in Ireland were gradually removed by the British government in response to changing circumstances. By 1800 the remaining restrictions related to membership of Parliament and a few senior...
Text and Tune
On the Association of Music and Lyrics in Sung Verse
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This book offers an overview of issues related to the regulated, formal organization of sound and speech in verse intended for singing. Particularly, it is concerned with the structural properties and underlying mechanisms involved in the association of lyrics and music. While in spoken verse the...
by Anais Holgado Lage
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
El Diccionario de Marcadores Discursivos para estudiantes de español como segunda lengua registra alrededor de 700 expresiones de diversos tipos: organizadores del discurso, conjunciones, fórmulas rutinarias, etc. Estos marcadores están definidos, ejemplificados, explicados de forma simple y clasificados...
Urban Christian Spirituality
East Asian and Nordic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This book explores some of the challenges presented to church and mission from the contemporary culture of globalization and how this affects Christian spirituality in various ways. The attention is primarily focused on contemporary East Asian urban life, but from the assumption that this may not...
An Ecclesiological Exploration of the Four Marks of the Church
An Eccumenical Option for the Church in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The vibrancy of faith and the fast growth of different churches in Nigeria seem to obscure the reality of some precarious historical challenges that call for crucial and genuine ecclesiological inquiry. The Nigerian Church’s unique history loaded with various facets of indoctrination and the peculiarities...
Measuring Change
Transformational Outcomes in Christian Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Measuring Change provides voluminous data substantiating the claim that students can and do experience personal formation in the context of Christian higher education. This volume is a one-of-a-kind, mixed-methods analysis of Canby Bible College (CBC) alumnae. By means of a three-part research instrumentation,...