Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund

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Format: 1 online resource.

Edition: First edition.

ISBN: 90-04-37531-7

Series Statement: Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity Series ; Volume 13

Content: In Architecture and Asceticism Loosley Leeming presents the first interdisciplinary exploration of Late Antique Syrian-Georgian relations available in English. The author takes an inter-disciplinary approach and examines the question from archaeological, art historical, historical, literary and theological viewpoints to try and explore the relationship as thoroughly as possible. Taking the Georgian belief that ‘Thirteen Syrian Fathers’ introduced monasticism to the country in the sixth century as a starting point, this volume explores the evidence for trade, cultural and religious relations between Syria and the Kingdom of Kartli (what is now eastern Georgia) between the fourth and seventh centuries CE. It considers whether there is any evidence to support the medieval texts and tries to place this posited relationship within a wider regional context.

Note: Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- Defining the Geographical and Historical Parameters of This Study -- Syrians, Assyrians, Orthodox, Chalcedonians and Monophysites or Non-Chalcedonians: The Problems of Identifying the Thirteen Fathers -- A Parallel Evolution? Issues in Vernacular Architecture and the Development of Church Building in Syria and Georgia -- The Mystery of the Missing Objects: Do Archaeological Artefacts and Liturgical Objects Support the Story of (As)Syrians in Kartli? -- Symeon and His Followers: Stylitism as a Cultural Trend between Syria and Georgia -- The Evidence Written in Stone: An Evaluation of the Relationship (or Not) of Syrian and Georgian Ecclesiastical Architecture -- The Syrian bema and the Georgian Pre-altar Cross: A Comparison of the Liturgical Furnishings of the Nave in the Two Traditions -- An Argument from Silence: The Differing Evidence in the Syriac and Georgian Language Sources -- The Unknown Factors: Evidence from the Cave Monasteries and the Significance of Georgian Vernacular Religion as a Relic of Earlier Ritual Practices -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 90-04-37363-2

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (320 pages) : , illustrations.

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9789004686458

Series Statement: Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024 76

Content: The first book that deals with the territorial cults of early Japan by focusing on how such cults were founded in ownerless regions. Numerous ancient Japanese myths and legends are discussed to show that the typical founding ritual was a two-phase ritual that turned the territory into a horizontal microcosm, complete with its own ‘terrestrial heaven’ inhabited by local deities. Reversing Mircea Eliade’s popular thesis, the author concludes that the concept of the human-made horizontal microcosm is not a reflection but the source of the religious concept of the macrocosm with gods dwelling high up in the sky. The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Note: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- The Problem of the Pre-Shinto Cults -- Territorial Cults -- The Focus on Early Japan -- Japan's Protohistory -- Innovations Introduced by the Taika Reform -- Different Versions of the Same Story in Nihon Shoki -- The God Age Mythology -- The Fudoki Mythology -- The Method of Interpretation -- The Theoretical Model -- The Structure of the Book -- Romanisation -- Quoting from Ancient Texts -- Chapter 1 Divination, the Crucial Rite -- Divining with Things Thrown and Falling Down -- Divining the Place for Founding a Shrine -- Absurd Uses of the Falling Motif -- Realistic Methods Exaggerated -- Land Divination Typically Performed in Front -- Divining with Things Cast Overboard -- Floating a Wisteria Twig to Find the Right Place -- Letting a Cooking Set Float to Enemy Land -- Susanoo and the Floating Chopsticks -- Kisakahime and the Lost Bow and Arrow -- Articles to Play on the Sea -- Floats Used for Divining -- Divining in Boats -- The Religious Use of Wood Drifted Ashore -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The Story of Yato no Kami -- The Topography -- The Mountain Entrance -- The Lacking First Part of the Story -- The Yashiro at the Upper Boundary -- Matachi's Ritual Procedure Reconstructed -- Mibu no Muraji Maro and the Divine Snakes -- Moving a Shrine to Another Site -- The Location of the Ancient Pond -- The New Conditions in the Ritsuryō State -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Making a Large Territory in Harima -- Ame no Hiboko and Iwa no Ōkami -- Ame no Hiboko's Arrival -- The Claiming Ceremony on Iibo Hill -- Other Claiming Stories -- The Iibo Hill and Its Special Relation to the Iwa Jinja -- Hardening the Land -- A Model of the Grand-Scale Land-Making Myth? -- The Two Foundations of the Iwa Shrine -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Making and Ceding the Land in the God Age. , The God Age Mythology: An Overview According to Kojiki -- The Land-Making Myth -- Sukunabikona -- Ōnamuchi as a Beginner in Land-Making -- The Land-Ceding Myth According to Kojiki -- The Land-Ceding Myth According to Nihon Shoki -- Kojiki and Nihon Shoki: Two Different Doctrines -- Consequences of the Land-Ceding Myth -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Ninigi's Descent and His Territory in Kyushu -- The Title Sentence Pattern -- The Two Main Versions of the Myth -- Cape Kasasa as a Place on the Way to Takachiho -- Ninigi's Arrival at the Coast -- Ninigi Questions the Master of the Land at Cape Kasasa -- Ninigi at Cape Kasasa -- Takama no Hara as a Horizontally Distant Heaven -- Ninigi's Descendants Living in Kyushu -- The Conquest of Yamato -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Foundation of the Izumo Shrine -- Ōkuninushi's Place of Hiding and Waiting -- Prince Homuchiwake Worships the Great God of Izumo -- Ashihara no Shikoo and the Worship at Iwakuma -- Mt. Kannabi and the Sokinoya Shrine -- A Suitable Site at the Foot of Mt. Kannabi -- The Political Aspect -- The Foundation of the Shrine at Kizuki -- The Land-Pulling Myth and the Four Kannabi of Izumo -- Summing Up -- Chapter 7 The Foundation of the Ise Shrine -- The Later Version of the Foundation Story -- Name-Asking as a Form of Claiming -- Pillow Words Alluding to Land-Making Myths -- The Topography of the Isuzu Valley -- Sarutahiko and a Heaven in the Mountains -- The Precinct of the Inner Shrine (Naikū) -- From Simple to Complex Cult Systems -- Sarutahiko's Destiny -- Summing Up -- Chapter 8 Characteristics of Territorial Cults -- Divination as the Primary Rite -- Variants of the Cult Contract -- The Cult Contract and the State Ritual after the Taika Reform -- Founder Worship -- Shrine and Tomb -- The Guardian Deity Is Excluded from the Land Opened Up -- Nature Spirits Can Become Manifest in Wild Animals. , The Guardian Deity Is Believed to Control the Local Weather -- Calamities Blamed on Some Mistake in the Ritual -- Cult Places Could Be Moved to Enlarge the Agricultural Land -- The Mountain God as a Multifunctional Deity -- The Mountain Entrance and the Torii -- Boundary Marks -- Tabooed Mountain Areas -- The Bipolar Structure of Territories -- The Chigi Cross as a Symbol -- The Name of the Kami Land -- The Age of the Yorishiro Concept -- The Land-Making Motif in Creation Myths -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Sacred Groves and Cult Marks -- Yashikigami Worship -- A Sacred Grove on Hirado Island -- The Garō Yama of Tanegashima -- The Sacred Forest of the Ōmiwa Shrine -- The Matsushita Shrine and the Somin Sanctuary -- Cult Marks Replaced by Shrine Buildings -- Yorishiro and Ogishiro -- The Shimenawa and the Straw Snake -- Claiming Signs Made by Binding or Knotting Growing Plants -- Pacifying the Site -- Ancient Land-Claiming and the Rural Gathering Economy -- Sign-Making Dealt with in Ethnographic Studies -- Chapter 10 Comparative Notes -- The Settlement of Iceland -- Founding Sacred Groves and Colonies in Ancient Greece -- The Vedic Tradition -- Opening Up Land in Shifting Cultivation -- From Terrestrial Heavens to the Heaven in the Sky -- Bibliography -- Index. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 9789004685819

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (750 pages) : , illustrations.

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 90-04-68260-0

Series Statement: Islamic Translation Series ; 15

Content: Nahj al-BalÄghah , the celebrated compendium of orations, letters, and sayings of Ê¿AlÄ« ibn AbÄ« á¹Älib (d. 40/661) compiled by al-SharÄ«f al-Raá¸ōÄ« (d. 406/1015), is a masterpiece of Arabic literature and Islamic wisdom studied and memorized avidly and continually for over a thousand years. Showcasing Ê¿AlÄ«'s life and travails in his own words, it also transcribes his profound reflections on piety and virtue, and on just and compassionate governance. Tahera Qutbuddin's meticulously researched critical edition based on the earliest 5th/11th-century manuscripts, with a lucid, annotated facing-page translation, brings to the modern reader the power and beauty of this influential text, and confirms the aptness of Raá¸ōÄ«'s title, "The Way of Eloquence."

Note: Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgments -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Note on the Edition and Translation: Manuscripts and Methodology -- ‎Detailed Contents -- ‎Text and Translation -- ‎Raḍī's Introduction -- ‎1. Orations -- ‎2. Letters -- ‎3. Sayings -- ‎Section on Rare Words -- ‎(cont. Sayings) -- ‎Additional Sayings -- ‎Raḍī's Conclusion -- ‎Glossary of Names, Places, and Terms -- ‎Appendix of Sources for the Texts of Nahj al-Balāghah -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index of Names and Places -- ‎Index of Terms -- ‎Index of Qurʾan, Hadith, Poetry, and Proverbs -- ‎‮فهرس المفاهيم الدينيّة والأخلاقيّة ‭Index of Religious and Ethical Concepts‬‬‎. , English and Arabic

Additional Edition: ISBN 90-04-68259-7

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource.

ISBN: 90-04-47164-2

Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; 27

Content: The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers – all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows.

Note: This collection brings together scholars from different disciplines. In short and provocative essays, they shine their light on the often ambivalent and contradictory possibilities and challenges people in Africa are facing. Africa, indeed, has many futures. , Futuring Africa : an introduction / Steven Van Wolputte, Clemens Greiner, Michael Bollig -- African futures : polymorphous, polycentric, heterogenous, unpredictable (as everywhere and always) / Hana Horakova -- COVID-19, disrupted futures, and challenges for African studies / Steven Van Wolputte, Clemens Greiner, Michael Bollig -- African pastoralism : plus change? From constant herders to social differentiation / Clemens Greiner -- Religious practices and/as future making in Africa : some cautionary remarks / Dorothea Schulz -- Rethinking the ethnographic museum / Ciraj Rassool -- The future of helath in sub-Saharan Africa : is there a path to longer and healtheir lives for all? / Richard G. Wamai and Hugh C. Shirley -- A new politics of uncertainty : towards convivial development in Africa / Ian Scoones -- Twenty-first century conservation in Africa : contemporary dilemmas, future challenges / Michael Bollig -- Forest crime in Africa : actors, moarkets and complexities / Eric M. Kioko -- Framing the future of national parks / Thomas Widlok and Ndapewa Fenny Nakanyete -- The future of communal lands in Africa : experiences from Namibia / Romi Vonki Nghitevelekwa -- Connected Sahel-Sahara in turmoil : the past in the future / Mirjam de Bruijn -- Black swan, grey swan? Pandemic scenarios and African peace and security futures / Ulf Engel -- The youth and land access challenges : critical reflections from post-fast track land reform Zimbabwe / Clement Chipenda and Tom Tom -- "We will not watch like monkeys" : development visions and conflict potentials in Northern Kenya / Kennedy Mkutu Agade -- Spells of moral panic and flashes of pride : Digital Kinois' engagements with the search for a COVID-19 cure / Katrien Pype -- Beyond the dead end : Gikuyus and Englishes in colonial and postcolonial debates on language and decolonizing (Kenya) / Inge Brinkman -- Animating the future : storytelling and super heroes in Africa / Ute Fendler -- Conceptual design and fashion's futures in the Afropolis -- Future tense / Anne Storch -- CityLabs : making cities, making futures / Steven van Wolputte, Ann Cassiman, and Filip de Boeck -- Innovation, music and future making by young Africans in a challenging environment : examples from Cameroon and Nigeria / Jonathan Ngeh and Michaela Pelican -- A future of hope : artists in a context of insecurity / Ludovic Ouhonyioué Kibora -- 'Girling' the future and 'futuring' girls in Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- Queer futures, national utopias : notes on objects, intimacy, time, and the state / George Paul Meiu -- Futuring together : inside and outside of marriage on Namibia / Julia Pauli -- The future of female genital cutting : an evolution of its medicalization / Tammary Esho -- Imagination of the past and memory for the future : re-establishment of the Lifeworld through rituals among the Glua/Gllana / Akira Takada and Yuriko Sugiyama -- Visitations / Martha Ndakalako -- Academic cooperation in the humanities and social sciences : a post-COVID future / Andreas Mehaler and Francis B. Nyamnjoh. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 90-04-47081-6

Language: English

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Format: 1 CD-ROM (1 file : 87 MB) ; , 12 cm.

Note: System requirements: PC or Mac with CD-ROM drive. - Adobe Acrobat Reader. - Title from title screen. - Paralleltitel: Richard Oelze (1900 - 1980) : paintings & drawings from the 1950s & 1960 , Text in PDF format ([47] p.)

Language: English

Keywords: 1900-1980 Oelze, Richard ; Malerei ; Zeichnung ; Ausstellungskatalog ; CD-ROM ; Ausstellungskatalog ; CD-ROM

Author information: Oelze, Richard 1900-1980

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Format: 1 online resource

ISSN: 2559-902X

Note: A Magyarhoni Földtani Társulat folyóirata. , Refereed/Peer-reviewed , [V. 1] called nos. 1-10. , Summaries in English, French or German. , V. 13-30, 1883-1900, 1 v.; v. 30-90, 1900-1960, 1 v.

Additional Edition: Print version: Földtani közlöny. ISSN 0015-542X

Language: Hungarian

Keywords: Periodicals. ; Periodicals. ; Periodicals. ; Periodicals. ; Periodicals. ; Periodicals.

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Format: 1 online resource.

ISBN: 90-04-40642-5

Series Statement: Clio Medica; volume98

Content: Attributing Excellence in Medicine discusses the aura around the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It analyzes the social processes and contingent factors leading to recognition and reputation in science and medicine. This volume will help the reader to better understand the dynamics of the attribution of excellence throughout the 20th century. Contributors are Massimiano Bucchi, Fabio De Sio, Jacalyn Duffin, Heiner Fangerau, Thorsten Halling, Nils Hansson, David S. Jones, Gustav Källstrand, Ulrich Koppitz, Pauline Mattsson, Katarina Nordqvist, Scott H. Podolsky, Thomas Schlich, and Sven Widmalm.

Note: Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Foreword -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction /

Additional Edition: ISBN 90-04-39397-8

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (xxi, 344 pages) : , illustrations.

Edition: First edition.

ISBN: 90-04-35167-1

Series Statement: International Development Policy Series ; Volume 9

Content: This issue of International Development Policy looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and related development trajectories in Latin America, with a particular focus on the Andean region. It examines the diverse development narratives and experiences in countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru during a period of high commodity prices associated with robust growth, poverty alleviation and inequality reduction. Highlighting propositions such as buen vivir , this thematic issue questions whether competing ideologies and discourses have translated into different outcomes, be it with regard to environmental sustainability, social progress, primary commodity dependence, or the rights of indigenous peoples. This collection of articles aims to enrich our understanding of recent development debates and processes in Latin America, and what the rest of the world can learn from them.

Note: Front Matter -- , Foreword -- , Preface -- , Development Alternatives in Latin America -- , Alternative Development Narratives, Policies and Outcomes in the Andean Region / , The Future of Latin America in the Global Economy: An Interview with Fernando Henrique Cardoso / , Deconstruction and Genealogy of Latin American Good Living (Buen Vivir). The (Triune) Good Living and Its Diverse Intellectual Wellsprings / , Commodity-led Development in Latin America / , Post-extractivism: From Discourse to Practice—Reflections for Action / , Development Outcomes and External Influences -- , Socialism in the Twenty-First Century and Neo-liberalism: Diverse Ideological Options Do Not Always Generate Different Effects / , Implementing ‘Vivir Bien’: Results and Lessons from the Biocultura Programme, Bolivia / , Poverty and Economic Inequalities in Peru during the Boom in Growth: 2004–14 / , Skirting or Courting Controversy? Chinese fdi in Latin American Extractive Industries / , The Influence of Multilateral Development Institutions on Latin American Development Strategies / , Social and Environmental Dynamics -- , Towards Regimes for Sustainable Mineral Resource Management—Constitutional Reform, Law and Judicial Decisions in Latin America / , Territories in Dispute: Tensions between ‘Extractivism’, Ethnic Rights, Local Governments and the Environment in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru / , The Rise of Citizen Security in Latin America and the Caribbean / , The Evolving Role and Influence and Growing Strength of Social Movements in Latin America and the Caribbean / , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 90-04-35166-3

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (357 Seiten)

Edition: First edition.

ISBN: 90-04-51910-6

Series Statement: Endangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects Series ; Volume 1

Content: Japanese is definitely one of the best-known languages in typological literature. For example, typologists often assume that Japanese is a nominative-accusative language. However, it is often overlooked that Japanese, or more precisely, Tokyo Japanese, is just one of various local varieties of the Japonic language family (Japanese and Ryukyuan). In fact, the Japonic languages exhibit a surprising typological diversity. For example, some varieties display a split-intransitive as opposed to nominative-accusative system. The present volume is thus a unique attempt to explore the typological diversity of Japonic by providing a collection of grammatical sketches of various local varieties, four from Japanese dialects and five from Ryukyuan. Each grammatical sketch follows the same descriptive format, addressing a wide range of typological topics.

Note: Preliminary Material / , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 90-04-51888-6

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (vii, 599 pages)

ISBN: 963-386-110-1

Content: "The book intends to be the first collective monograph of the post-1989 history of political and social thought of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The project emerges from a deep conviction that the period of political transitions in the region, whether accomplished, aborted or abhorred, can and needs to be treated as a chapter in the intellectual history of political thought. Adopting the perspective of intellectual history, but inviting multidisciplinary expertise, the book aims to contribute to a more complex reflection on the post-socialist 'transition period' in East Central Europe and its historicization. While necessarily lacking comprehensiveness, it has a remarkable exploratory value for the future challenges in the field. The volume raises some of the most pressing problems of intellectual history of the period as addressed by the current scholarship, clustered into several major themes"--Provided by publisher.

Note: Towards an intellectual history of post-socialism / Michal Kopecek (ICH, Prague), Piotr Wcislik (CEU, Budapest) -- Liberalism : dissident illusions and disillusions -- Faces of post-dissident Hungarian liberalism : a study in agendas, concepts and ambiguities / Ferenc Laczó (Imre Kertesz Kolleg, Jena) -- Totalitarianism and the limits of the political thought of Polish dissidents : late socialism and after / Piotr Wcislik (CEU, Budapest) -- Václav Havel, his idea of civil society and the Czech liberal tradition / Milan Znoj (Charles University, Prague) -- The (re-)emergence of constitutionalism in East-Central Europe / Paul Blokker (University of Trento) -- Conservatism : a counter-revolution? -- The conservative counter-revolution : post-dissident neoconservatives in post-communist transformation / Petr Roubal (ICH, Prague) -- Songs of innocence and songs of experience : Polish conservatism, 1979-2011 / Rafal Matyja (WSB-NLU, Nowy Sacz) -- The abortion of a "conservative" constitution-making : a discourse analysis of the 1994-1998 failed Hungarian constitution-making enterprise / Zoltán Gábor Szucs (Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest) -- Populism : endemic pasts and global effects -- Populism and democratic malaise in post-communist Romania / Camil Alexandru Parvu (University of Bucharest) -- Configurations of populism in Hungary / András Bozóki (CEU, Budapest) -- The political lives of dead populists in post-socialist Slovakia / Juraj Buzalka (Comenius University, Bratislava) -- The Left : between communist legacy and neoliberal challenge -- Non-post-communist Left in Hungary after 1989 : diverging paths of Leftist criticism, civil activism and radicalizing constituency / Agnes Gagyi (Moholy-Nagy University of Arts, Budapest) -- The architecture of revival : left-wing ideas and politics in Poland after 2002 / Maciej Gdula (University of Warsaw) -- The formation of the Czech post-communist intellectual Left : twenty years of seeking an identity / Stanislav Holubec (Imre Kertesz Kolleg Jena) -- Feminist criticism of the "new democracies" in Serbia and Croatia in the early 1990's / Zsófia Lóránd (CEU, Budapest) -- Politics of history : nations, wars, revolutions -- Remembering the end of communism in East-Central Europe / James Mark (University of Exeter), Muriel Blaive (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Vienna), Adam Hudek (Historical Institute SAV, Bratislava), Anna Saunder, Stanislaw Tyszka -- A fate for a nation : concepts of history and the nation in the Hungarian politics, 1989-2010 / Gábor Egry (Institute of Political History, Budapest) -- From "Husakism" to "Meciarism" : the national identity-building discourse of the Slovak left-wing intellectuals in the 1990's Slovakia / Stevo Đurašković (University of Zagreb) -- Post-communist Europe : on the path to a regional regime of remembrance? / Zoltán Dujisin (CEU, Budapest). , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 963-386-085-7

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science

DOI: 10.1515/9789633861103