Humanities & Social Sciences

This book scrutinises religion in education in ten countries. It reveals much about the tension between religion and education in secular countries, and the blending between religion and education in religious countries, such as Iran and Malaysia, as well as secular countries such as the Netherlands. It also shows the important role the church currently plays in education in developing countries, such as Tanzania.

If from 2nd post-war period and for following 20 years coastal space has maintained even a minimal break with anthropized spaces, starting from the 1970s rapid industrial development has increasingly occupied coasts. These changes along costal space can be understood referring to maritime-coastal region, which are places between land and sea, profoundly different by integration of resources. The chapter focuses its attention on one of the most symbolic maritime cultural assets: lighthouses. They are distributed along the European coastlines, responding to same historical function, and evoking a common past.

This essay aims to reflect on the political and ecological future of Europe, starting with the figure and the democratic values of David Sassoli.

Ecclesiology is the study of the church and has two focal points; the one is the historical and doctrinal perspective on the church, and the other is the church as situated in a local context in the sense of the local practices of actual congregations. The ecclesiology or, more correctly, the ecclesiologies of this volume mainly focuses on the second aspect, i.e., understanding the local congregation or parish as a community of believers. A congregation may firstly be described by posing a theological question: What is the local missional church or congregation all about? This question may be answered from different perspectives, but it remains essential to answer it from a theological perspective. The first five chapters in this book focus mainly on a theological understanding of the congregation. This is done from different disciplines within the study field of theology. Congregations are, secondly, social realities and should be described and analysed through an analytical or empirical lens, or, to answer the question attached to the first empirical-descriptive task of practical theology, “What is going on?”. The remaining chapters use a quantitative and qualitative lens and give an empirical analysis of the congregation. The intention is to critically reflect on the church and congregations’ ecclesiology from a theological and analytical perspective with an emphasis on the South African context. It wants to map markers for the development of contemporary ecclesiologies, and the different chapters are meant as mirrors to look in and reflect on the theological and contextual relevance of denominations and congregations in South Africa.

Expressive Networks convenes an urgent conversation on digital media and the social life of contemporary poetry. Tracing how poems circulate through online spaces and how capitalized platforms have come to pattern the reading and writing of poetry, contributors emphasize both the expressivist cast of digital literary culture and the deep-running ambivalence that characterizes aesthetic and critical responses to platformed cultural production. The volume features chapters on Pan- African spoken word programs, Singaporean Facebook groups, decolonial hemispheric networks, and Japanese media-critical poetries as well as platforms such as Twitter/X, Instagram, and Amazon. Though contributors write from a variety of methodological positions and address themselves to a range of archives, they share the primary conviction that the impact of Web 2.0 on literary practice is far-reaching, far from self-evident, and far more variegated and unpredictable than easy summations of social media’s influence suggest. Expressive Networks asks after poetry’s present and future by examining what poems themselves express about the social make-up of networked platforms. Edited by Matthew Kilbane with contributions from Cameron Awkward-Rich, Micah Bateman, Andrew Campana, Sumita Chakraborty, Scott Challener, C.R. Grimmer, Tess McNulty, Michael Nardone, Seth Perlow, Anna Preus, Susanna Sacks, Carly Schnitzler, Melanie Walsh, and Samuel Caleb Wee.

This edited volume [The Road to Parliament: Candidates’ Resources, Campaigning and Political Values in the 2023 Finnish Parliamentary Elections] offers a research-based portrait of the conditions under which parliamentary candidates set out to compete for a place at the heart of Finnish political power. It leads readers into the core of Finland’s candidate centred election system: how candidates craft their campaigns, where their support originates, which values and attitudes guide their choices, whom they believe they represent, and how today’s shifting political and technological landscape shapes their path. Intensifying social polarization, the rise of the social media era, the steady migration of campaigning into digital spaces, and the accompanying increase in electoral harassment, combined with Finland’s strongly candidate oriented electoral system, create a complex terrain in which access to financial and social resources is far from evenly distributed. Grounded in the Finnish Parliamentary Election Candidate Survey 2023, the book sheds light on candidates’ campaign priorities, social media strategies and political values, including their views on democracy. Its findings highlight the enduring strengths of Finnish democracy while also revealing early signs of developments that could, in the coming years, narrow the breadth and diversity of political representation.

This volume examines the veritable explosion of serialized formats in all of forms representation, from painting to printing throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, and the way in which these formats encouraged experiments with the series form and raised questions of truthfulness.

Die demokratische Revolution in der DDR und die anschließende politische, wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Transformation stellten die Menschen in Ostdeutschland vor zahlreiche Herausforderungen, die bis heute nachwirken. Die Beiträger*innen nehmen die Bereiche Landwirtschaft, Bahn und Metallindustrie in den Blick und fragen nach der Rolle der Gewerkschaften bei der Bewältigung dieser Transformationsprozesse. Dabei betrachten sie auch die betriebliche Mitbestimmung, ihre Entwicklung und die Folgen der Transformation für die Gewerkschaften und zeigen so die genutzten Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten, aber auch deren Grenzen auf.

The subject of this study is the design of major road infrastructures, usually motorways or dual carriageways, as borderline cases in the controversial dichotomy between landscape and infrastructure. It retraces around a century of constructions and theories from the perspective of landscape, which is conceived in the broadest possible sense of system, and in all its cultural, ecological and perceptive aspects. The aim is to identify a method, or more precisely a basic design philosophy, that can guide the transformations in terms of quality. The infrastructure is thus no longer in opposition to the landscape, but rather an integral part of it.

This book presents the outcomes of an educational project carried out within the courses Pedagogy of Childhood and Art and Image Education, offered as part of the Single-Cycle Degree Programme in Primary Teacher Education at the University of Florence. Throughout this experience, a pathway of in-depth theoretical study and practical teaching experimentation took shape, aimed at strengthening in the students (future teachers in early childhood and primary school) an awareness of the close connection between the artistic and the educational dimensions. More broadly, it aimed to highlight how attention to expressive language entrusted to images can reinforce and foster children's creativity, curiosity, desire to discover, and their learning.

Wie wirkmächtig ist die kritische Moralphilosophie Kants heute? Im Foucault'schen Sinne einer kritischen Ontologie fragt Tatjana Schönwälder-Kuntze nach dem für unsere Gegenwart so bedeutenden Konstrukt und zeigt, dass in der modernen Bestimmung von Freiheit und Subjektivität der Denkraum aufgespannt worden ist, innerhalb dessen nicht nur die Praktische Philosophie bis heute gedacht wird (und gedacht werden darf). Zudem bietet die Studie eine umfassende Konstruktionsanalyse der Kantischen Moralphilosophie, die den Fokus auf deren durch die Problemstellung bedingte Genese sowie auf die so entstandene Architektur legt.

Nell’epoca moderna, la dissidenza religiosa in ambito cattolico e riformato ha instaurato un dialogo fecondo con la filosofia e suscitato interrogativi importanti, fino a sollecitare un ripensamento complessivo della categoria ‘Cristianesimo’. Dello scambio intenso e fecondo tra dissidenza religiosa e filosofia questo volume intende dare una testimonianza attraverso una raccolta di saggi incentrati su problemi, opere e personaggi celebri o ancora poco noti della crisi della coscienza europea.

Das Marginale ist ein immanenter Bestandteil der Lebenswirklichkeit. W.G. Sebald und Orhan Pamuk widmen sich ihm in ihrer Prosa auf vielfältige Weise: Randfiguren, politische und geografische Peripherien, eine verdrängte Vergangenheit sowie marginale Objekte wie Ruinen, Verfallenes und scheinbar wertlose Gegenstände sind wesentlicher Gegenstand ihrer Werke. Ersin Münüklü eruiert ihre emphatische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Marginalen als ein poetologisches Prinzip ihrer Erzählungen. Das Marginale wird hier mit Sinnhaftigkeit besetzt und erscheint als ein in ethisch-ästhetischer Hinsicht wertvolles Erkenntnismodell: eine Poetik des Marginalen.

The Routledge Handbook of Information History offers a definitive, inclusive, and far-reaching study of how information practices have influenced—and have been influenced by—society, politics, culture, and technology over millennia. Information is often considered a defining characteristic of modern society, but it is far from a modern phenomenon. In the last decades, historians have started to ask new questions about how information was understood in the past, suggesting that it has a history which is long, complex, and multifaceted. This influential volume is the first large-scale collection to use the term Information History as its titular focus, situating ""information"" within the historiography of the field.The boo showcases a diverse assembly of over forty international contributors who explore information practices from antiquity to the contemporary world, with geographical coverage ranging accoss Europe, Africa, Asia, as well as North and South America. Including overview chapters alongside a wide range of in-depth empirical studies, this ground-breaking collection will appeal to scholars and students across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, offering readers unique insights into how historical practices have influenced the understanding and role of information in our modern world.

Die Entzifferung des Genoms und zuletzt die Entwicklung moderner Sequenzierungsverfahren lassen viele Menschen befürchten, dass dadurch ihre „Individualität“ verlorengehen könnte. Was damit genau gemeint ist, welches Selbstverständnis des Individuums dem zugrunde liegt und inwieweit die Sorge berechtigt ist, untersucht der vorliegende Band im interdisziplinären Diskurs zwischen Humangenetik und Recht. Die Beiträge resultieren aus einem interdisziplinären Workshop des Göttinger Instituts für Humangenetik in Kooperation mit dem Zentrum für Medizinrecht im Januar 2012. Ergänzende Beiträge sowohl aus humangenetischer als auch juristischer Perspektive verbreitern die Faktenbasis und geben einen vertieften Einblick in den aktuellen Sachstand.