The volume addresses the question of the effect the Reformation had on everyday culture, how the people of the 16th century reacted to this revolutionary event and how it shaped their environment…

Martina Kumlehn undertakes the first study of the chequered history of the reception accorded to St John’s Gospel in 20th century conceptions of religious education; in five individual…

For some years now there has been talk of phenomenological approaches in the discussions around religious education and practical theology. Multi-faceted concepts such as lifeworld ('Lebenswelt…

It is generally assumed that with the Christianisation of Palestine in the 4th century, the Jewish population of the country was progressively driven back and disenfranchised. If, however, one…

The vision of the millennium in the Book of Revelation is not intended to offer comfort to Christians in a time of persecution, but to serve as a warning to them not to be too ready to…

Nazism had a vocabulary of its own. What did it look like, how was it used, where did it come from, and - does it perhaps live on into the present? In this comprehensive reference work Cornelia…

'How should I live?'This fundamental question of philosophy calls us to decide how we wish to shape our entire life. We always live with the knowledge of a past that forms our present and future…

The present conference volume is based on lectures that were given on May 19/20, 2006 at the symposium of the Hanns-Martin Schleyer-Stiftung in Kiel on questions of German and international…

Cognitive grammar transforms insights from the cognitive sciences into grammatical descriptions and attempts to use the grammar of natural languages to understand human thinking. The presentation…

This study is the first to essay an appreciation and analysis of the scientist Alexander von Humboldt as a writer. Its focus is literary, and it inquires into the historical preconditions,…

The book is concerned with a particular set of Indo-European sounds, the laryngeals, and the effect they had on the sounds, forms and etymologies of the Germanic languages. It contains detailed…

The book deals with the question if the demand for restitution of Jewish collectors can be based on the prescription of § 985 of the BGB. Sabine Rudolph, Rechtsanwältin, Dresden.

Working from a discourse analysis perspective, Müller examines how a national art history was constituted through its linguistic construction and transmission. The study demonstrates how…

In Germany, the prohibition of discrimination under Community law is transposed through the General Equal Treatment Act ('Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz'). The new Act is introduced, and its…

No other text in the New Testament uses Old Testament quotations so explicitly in its arguments as the Letter to the Hebrews. The present study examines this reception of the Old Testament. In it…

This conference volume on the German-Japanese colloquium “Transformations or Erosion of Private Autonomy?” carries the debate on the subject into the area of contract law that is…

Yvonne Wübben examines a tract on ghosts published in 1747 by the Enlightenment figure and aestheticist G.F. Meier from Halle. She reveals the topical conditions behind its creation, together with…

In the first part of his study, the author describes the rules for hyphenating German words in such a way that the surprisingly complex interaction between the rules becomes clear; in this, his…

Which spelling rules require less grammatical knowledge - the 'old' ones or the reformed ones? Sabine Mayr examines the rules given in three popular 'old' and 'new' spelling dictionaries (Duden,…

Imo undertakes an empirical analysis of constructions with ten verbs capable of being used in matrix sentences to combine the approaches of 'Conversation Research', 'Conversational Analysis' and '…

River and stream as images of time and fate are as ancient as spring and stream as metaphors of inspiration and song. Processes of crossing and dissolving boundaries, of transmission and exchange…

Do popular forms of representing politics in the media endanger the quality of public communication? Or do they provide an appropriate modern entertaining way of putting politics across to wide…

German civil law political theory is not in high demand these days. However, political theory is important for establishing an overall picture of German civil law and portraying an image of German…

The study examines the five prayers known as Jeremiah’s confessions (Jer 11,18-12,6; 15,10-21; 17,14-18; 18,18-23; 20,7-18) in their immediate and wider context. Are they older or younger…

Few problem areas of the disciplines concerned with textual interpretation have led to such intensive and controversial discussion as the relationships between literature and knowledge. This…

Providing public access to educational material from schools and universities, research and teaching is viewed politically as a means of survival for industrialized countries that have few natural…

Der 1934 von Eugen Claassen und Henry Goverts gegründete H. Goverts Verlag konnte, anders als andere Verlage bürgerlich-liberaler Provenienz, bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges fortbestehen und…

Inherent to a reflective liberalism are its many requirements and preconditions. It demands that personal liberties and public welfare be preserved simultaneously; that the responsibility to self-…

This book is a standard work for modern narrative theory. It is a German translation and expansion of the Russian work Narratologija (Moscow 2003) and presents a comprehensive foundation for…

This is a textbook for German Studies and a critical linguistic analysis of texts; it provides a semantics of the sentence and a theory of sentence contents, and thus complements a grammatical…

The 'classic' introduction to the study of German personal names is now re-available in a completely revised and updated version. It provides a popular overview of the variety of aspects,…

The first volume of Troeltsch-Studien, Neue Folge presents the results of the 8th international congress of the Ernst-Troeltsch-Gesellschaft, which was dedicated to the analysis of the trio of…

This highly respected commentary on German stock corporation law (AktG) is unparalleled in its comprehensiveness. Intellectually rigorous yet practically written, the fourth edition features top…

The aim of the presentation is to critically evaluate the importance of German insolvency law as an instrument for overcoming the financial and economic crisis and to develop reasonable reform…