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Paul and the Philosophers’ Faith
(2024)
The notion of faith experienced a remarkable surge in popularity among early Christians, with Paul as its pioneer. Yet what was the wider cultural significance of the pistis word group? This comprehensive work contextualizes ...
Yearbook on the African Union Volume 2 (2021)
(2023)
This is the second edition of the Yearbook on the African Union (YBAU). The YBAU is first and foremost an academic project that provides an in-depth evaluation and analysis of the institution, its processes, and its ...
Muslim Empowerment in Ghana
(2024)
This book is the first ‘groundwork’ on Muslim NGOs in contemporary Ghana. It builds upon a database of more than 600 Muslim non-profit associations, foundations and grass-roots organisations whose activities are traced ...
Muḥammad and His Followers in Context
(2024)
This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki Library. The book surveys and analyzes changes in religious groups and identities in late antique Arabia, ca. 300-700 CE. It engages ...
Quadraturen des Staunens
(2024)
In „Quadraturen des Staunens“ wird die These entwickelt, dass sich Staunen in Ludwig Wittgensteins Wirken und Werk als signifikante, transformationsfähige und inkorporierende Figur mit intellektuellen und praxeologischen ...
Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700 — 1776)
(2023)
This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki Library. This book takes a long-run view of the global maritime trade of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia from 1700 to American ...
Arbitrary Withholding of Consent to Humanitarian Relief in Non-international Armed Conflict
(2024)
How to legally assess the situation when humanitarian actors in non-international armed conflicts are arbitrarily denied access to the affected civilian population? The book answers this question from the perspective of ...
Interpretation of Customary International Law
(2024)
In international law interpretation is ubiquitous. However, whereas in the case of treaty interpretation, this process has been codified in Articles 31-33 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the interpretation ...
Identifying the Stones of Classical Hebrew
(2024)
Since the translation of the Septuagint in the 3rd century BCE, scholars have attempted to identify the stones that populate the biblical text. This study rejects the long-standing reliance on ancient translations for ...
Spiritus Loci
(2015)
In Spiritus Loci Bert Daelemans, who graduated as an architect and a theologian, provides an interdisciplinary method for the theological assessment of church architecture. Rather than a theory, this method is based on ...
Yearbook on the African Union Volume 1 (2020)
(2021)
This is the first edition of the Yearbook on the African Union. It is first and foremost an academic project that will provide an in-depth evaluation and analysis of the institution, its processes, and its engagements. ...
A world of water: Rain, rivers and seas in Southeast Asian histories
(2007)
Water, in its many guises, has always played a powerful role in shaping Southeast Asian histories, cultures, societies and economies. This volume, the rewritten results of an international workshop, with participants from ...
Hariwaṅśa
(1950)
Indonesia
Development of Writing Skills in Individuals with Learning Difficulties
(2017-11-01)
This volume highlights writing development and its relation to other cognitive domains, such as language and reading, for individuals who struggle to acquire writing proficiency, including those with specific learning ...
The Netherlands Indies and the Great War, 1914-1918
(2007)
World War I had just broken out, but colonial authorities in the Netherlands Indies heaved a sigh of relief: The colonial export sector had not collapsed and war offered new economic prospects; representatives from the ...
A literary mirror; Balinese reflections on modernity and identity in the twentieth century
(2011)
A literary mirror; Balinese reflections on modernity and identity in the twentieth century
I Nyoman Darma Putra
A literary mirror is the first English-language work to comprehensively analyse Indonesian-language ...
The Organization of the Pyramid Texts (2 vol. set): Typology and Disposition
(2012)
The ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts form the oldest sizable body of religious texts in the world. Discovered in the late nineteenth century, they had been inscribed on the interior stone walls of the pyramid tombs of ...
Healers on the colonial market; Native doctors and midwives in the Dutch East Indies
(2011)
Healers on the colonial market is one of the few studies on the Dutch East Indies from a postcolonial perspective. It provides an
enthralling addition to research on both the history of the Dutch
East Indies and the ...
The Carib Language
(1968)
Indonesia
Chapter 2 Galen in Late Antique Medical Handbooks
(2019)
This chapter explores the use and adaptation of the
Galenic corpus in the hands of late antique medical compilers. It is divided
into two main sections dealing with Greek and Latin authors respectively.