Daniela C. Luft

Osiris-Hymnen

In this study, Daniela C. Luft traces the original usages and contexts of four groups of hymns and describes their checkered history in the form of text biographies.

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Maik Weichert

Kunst und Verfassung in der DDR

What impact did the constitutional law of the German Democratic Republic have on artists and vice versa? Maik Weichert recounts the legal-historical development of the freedom of the ...

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Stefanie Egidy

Finanzkrise und Verfassung

During the 2007–09 financial crisis, the German legislature provided the executive with wide-ranging powers in order to stabilise markets. However, in contrast to those issued by the US ...

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Stephan Wagner

Interzession naher Angehöriger

The creation of securities of credit (so-called intercessio) by close relatives imposes a difficult task on every legal system. Stephan Wagner's study analyses the development of ...

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Arbeitsvölkerrecht

This work lays out not only international labour law and related fields of law, but also its reception by jurisprudence. The law of the United Nations, the International Labour Organization, the Council of Europe (the ...

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Michael Meyer-Blanck

Das Gebet

In this work, Michael Meyer-Blanck outlines reformatory and current intellectual endeavours, and then describes phenomena that distinguish the act of prayer from prayer as an attitude.

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Sabrina Hoppe

Der Protestantismus als Forum und Faktor

Sabrina Hoppe's analysis of socially-orientated Protestantism's networks sheds light on its aspirations and self-image, and describes its role in debates about the ...

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Mode als ein Prinzip der Moderne?

It is evident that there are not only trends in clothing, hairstyle or living, but also fashions in the sciences, art, philosophy, and religion. But what does fashion mean in these contexts? And how ...

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Konrad Schmid

Theologie des Alten Testaments

Konrad Schmid clarifies the historical conception of theology applied to the Bible, turning then to discuss the multidimensionality of the present Hebrew Bibles and Old Testaments in ...

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Marcus Bergmann / Johannes Eichenhofer / Carsten Hörich / Constanze Janda / Robert Nestler / Katharina Stamm / Hannah Tewocht / Vinzent Vogt

Einwanderungsgesetz

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Konstantin Chatziathanasiou

Verfassungsstabilität

What makes for a stable constitution? The enigmatic Article 146 of Germany's Basic Law points to conditions beyond the purely legal. Konstantin Chatziathanasiou's ...

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Early Modern Trends in Islamic Theology

The present volume is dedicated to the study of ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641–1731), an outstanding religious scholar from Ottoman Syria. With its interdisciplinary character, it ...

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Christian Danz

Gottes Geist

The Holy Spirit reminds us of Jesus Christ. Based on this main theme, Christian Danz has developed a new understanding of pneumatology against the backdrop of the history of the doctrine and of a modern ...

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Philipp Jakob Spener

Briefwechsel mit Adam Rechenberg

The first volume of the Spener-Rechenberg series contains 199 letters from the years 1686 to 1689.

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Dynamics of Social Change and Perceptions of Threat

This volume addresses the question of how the perception of threat influences social change. Its contributions cover topics ranging from systems of belief in ancient Europe ...

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Lieve M. Teugels

The Meshalim in the Mekhiltot

This edition of rabbinic parables (meshalim) in the two Mekhiltot, the tannaitic Midrashim to the book of Exodus (3rd century CE), offers a critical synoptic presentation and study ...

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Strafrecht und Gesellschaft

Günther Jakobs is one of the most important contemporary thinkers on criminal law. This first detailed commentary of his work comprises the contributions of thirty one leading scholars from both Germany and ...

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Christian Armbrüster

Privatversicherungsrecht

In its second edition, Christian Armbrüster's textbook on private insurance law has been thematically enhanced and significantly expanded. The focus remains on insurance contract ...

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Die Seele im Kosmos

Homer's puzzling description of a cave of nymphs leads Porphyry to a fascinating interpretation setting out the journey of souls in the cosmos, answering questions about their immortality, and providing insights into the ...

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Udo Schnelle

Die getrennten Wege von Römern, Juden und Christen

Udo Schnelle shows that the question of when Christianity can be called an independent religion remains controversial. Did Judaism and Christianity part ...

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