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Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine reveals how and why religion has become a pivotal political force in a society struggling to overcome the legacy of its entangled past with Russia and chart a new future. If Ukraine is "ground zero" in the tensions between Russia and the West, religion is an arena where the consequences of conflicts between Russia and Ukraine keenly play out. Vibrant forms of everyday religiosity pave the way for religion to be weaponized and securitized to advance political agendas in Ukraine and beyond. These practices, Catherine Wanner argues, enable religiosity to be increasingly present in public spaces, public institutions, and wartime politics in a pluralist society that claims to be secular. Based on ethnographic data and interviews conducted since before the Revolution of Dignity and the outbreak of armed combat in 2014, Wanner investigates the conditions that catapulted religiosity, religious institutions, and religious leaders to the forefront of politics and geopolitics.

Un análisis de la obra de Alfonso Reyes deja ver, desde los textos juveniles, numerosos testimonios del interés que siempre tuvo por los problemas de la creación poética, el lenguaje y la naturaleza de la literatura. Esta preocupación por el fenómeno literario impulsa algunos de sus ensayos, si bien todo esto se encuentra disperso, y en ocasiones oculto, entre los temas y asuntos desarrollados en diversos estudios y trabajos.

Quinto y la crisis de la alcabala (1580-1600) intenta comprender la lógica del desarrolló de este capítulo que la historiografía ecuatoriana juzga a menudo decisivo para el devenir nacional, pero que no ha sido jamás objeto de un estudio preciso. A pesar de la enorme cantidad de documentos de origen diverso que existen sobre el tema, nada nuevo se había hecho desde González Suárez y su célebre Historia General de la República del Ecuador. Bernard Lavallé reconstruve el juego complejo de los ...

With a focus on migrant narratives, or the storytelling about migration, this volume considers the ways in which migration is and has been shaped by individual and collective experiences of agency, belonging and community. Driven by an agenda of deep listening, each chapter presents a narrative directly derived from qualitative research, an outline of the methodological framing as well as narrative analysis. Through close attention to the narrative, its performative aspects and its ruptures and silences, authors identify patterns and material in the fabric of such telling and retelling of stories that open up new perspectives on the migrant experience. This book develops a methodology of ""dwelling with stories"" that allows for sustained and slow interrogation of the migrant experience and the accompanying decisions that shape narratives around mobility across borders. Its structure is innovative by emphasising the migrant voice and reflecting on the scholars’ positionality, while also offering new theoretical contributions that will advance the field of narrative analysis. The book will appeal to academics, students and practitioners in a wide range of subject areas within the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, sociology, human geography, migration/refugee/diaspora studies and oral history.

Biomolecular self-assembly provides a green, facile, and highly effective method to synthesize various functional nanomaterials that have exhibited considerable potential in the fields of nanotechnology, materials science, biomedicine, tissue engineering, food science, energy storage, and environmental science. In this collection of articles, we presented recent advance in the synthesis, characterization, and applications of self-assembled bio-nanomaterials. In a comprehensive review article, the controlled self-assembly of biomolecules including DNA, protein, peptide, enzymes, virus, and biopolymers via internal interactions and external simulations is introduced and discussed in detail. In other research articles, the self-assembly of DNA, protein, peptide, bio-drugs, liquid crystal polycarbonates, and diblock copolymers to various biomimetic/bioinspired nanomaterials and their potential applications in nanopatterning, sensors/biosensors, drug delivery, anti-parasite, and water purification are demonstrated.

The Tübingen Collaborative Research Centre 1391 Different Aesthetics examines texts, images, and objects from pre-modern Europe and focuses on the ways in which they determine their own aesthetic status. It seeks to offer new perspectives on the contribution of 2000 years of cultural history before the 18th century to our understanding of the aesthetic. The proceedings of the Collaborative Research Centre 1391 Different Aesthetics are published with De Gruyter in two book series. The book series Andere Ästhetik – Studien (AÄS) ( Different Aesthetics – Studies ) mainly comprises monographs and collections of scholarly articles that address the research programme of the Collaborative Research Centre 1391 in a disciplinary perspective. The book series Andere Ästhetik – Koordinaten (AÄK) ( Different Aesthetics – Coordinates ) of the Collaborative Research Centre 1391 comprises volumes that address key aspects of a pre-modern aesthetics in an interdisciplinary and transcultural perspective. Copyright information cover images, series cover „Andere Ästhetik – Studien" Top row Horrea Epagathiana et Epaphroditiana, Ostia, © Archivio Fotografico del Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica David und Goliath, aus: Bristol Psalter, 11. Jh., © The British Library Board (Add MS 40731, fol. 231v) Pieter van der Heyden nach Pieter Bruegel d. Ä., Der heilige Jakobus und der Zauberer Hermogenes, 1565, Kupferstich, 221 x 293 mm, © Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Foto: Herbert Boswank Middle row Fragment eines Ehrenbogens, 70–80 n. Chr., Sandsteinrelief, © GDKE/Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, Foto: Thomas Zühmer Notenseite aus: Meliora Muheim, Ein nüw Lied in Badenfaerten lustig zesingen: in der Wyss, es taget underm holen Stein, schynt uns der Mon darein. [Zürich?]: [Bodmer?] getruckt im Jar 1617, S. 1, Zentralbibliothek Zürich, 18.2016,17, https://doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-35423 / Public Domain Mark Gorgo Medusa mit dem geflügelten Pferd Pegasos, um 575 v. Chr., Terrakottarelief, 56 x 50 cm, Syrakus, Museo Archeologico Regionale © akg images Manuskriptseite aus: Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia, ca. 1335 © The British Library Board (Royal MS 6 E IX, fol. 12v) Bottom row Manuskriptseite aus: Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse), ca. 1300–1340, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 848, fol. 81r, gemeinfrei Hans Bock d. Ä., Das Bad zu Leuk (?), 1597, Öl auf Leinwand, 78,4 x 109,6 cm, Kunstmuseum Basel, gemeinfrei Insel Thule, aus: Olaus Magnus, Carta Marina et descriptio septemtrionalium terrarum, 1539, Uppsala University Library, gemeinfrei Siebenarmiger Leuchter, Braunschweiger Dom, 12. Jh., Bronze, Höhe: 4,80 m, © Foto: PtrQs, Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.de)

It has become increasingly clear that Numbers is the litmus test for new ideas relating to the formation of the Pentateuch. At the same time the profusion of ideas has only resulted in a corresponding lack of agreement between scholars. In the present study, Jordan Davis grants significant attention to the geographical references found at the end of the book of Numbers, combining archaeological, historical and literary critical insights, in the attempt to arrive at more "verifiable" results. With a detailed view at the Transjordan conquest traditions (Num 21:21-35; 32; Deut 2:24-3:20*) and the twin legal narratives relating to Zelophehad's daughters (Num 27; 36), the author argues for the historical catalysts underlying these traditions and then points to the ideological motivation behind their redactional expansion.

This open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire. While these approaches to governance varied from company to company, each sought to regulate the behaviour of their personnel, as well as the numerous communities and faiths which fell within their jurisdiction. This book provides a crucial reassessment of the seventeenth-century foundations of British imperial governance.

This volume brings together the reflections sparked by the symposium “Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Writing Competence and Sociolinguistic Dynamics,” held as part of the PRIN project "Writing Expertise as a Dynamic Sociolinguistic Force: The Emergence and Development of Italian Communities of Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages and Their Impact on Languages and Societies". The essays collected here provide a closer examination of the theoretical concepts of communities of practice, textual communities, and communities of discourse, as well as their applicability to the specific contexts of analysis—namely, Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. This volume aims to present the outcome of a collective discussion that emerged within the project, thanks to which it was possible to compare, within a common framework, theoretical reflections and methodological proposals used in the study of realities that are, in some cases, quite distant from one another.

In Life at the Center, Erica Caple James traces how faith-based and secular institutions in Boston have helped Haitian refugees and immigrants attain economic independence, health, security, and citizenship in the United States. Using the concept of “corporate Catholicism,” James documents several paradoxes of assistance arising among the Catholic Church, Catholic Charities, and the Haitian Multi-Service Center: how social assistance produces and reproduces structural inequalities between providers and recipients; how these inequities may deepen aid recipients’ dependence and lead to resistance to organized benevolence; how institutional financial deficits harmed clients and providers; and how the same modes of charity or philanthropy that previously caused harm can be redeployed to repair damage and rebuild “charitable brands.” The culmination of more than a decade of advocacy and research on behalf of the Haitians in Boston, this groundbreaking work exposes how Catholic corporations have strengthened—but also eroded—Haitians’ civic power.

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND license. In Capitalism Reloaded, Peter Bloom charts a pivotal shift from the well-known military-industrial complex to a new ‘Authoritarian-Financial Complex’. Unlike its predecessor, which centred on armaments and defence, this emerging power structure fuses financial interests with advanced surveillance and digital control, turning social repression into a lucrative industry. Bloom introduces a ground breaking theory of ‘complex power', where control itself becomes a central driver of capitalism, shaping economies and societies. Bloom explores how this insatiable demand for security and profit extends beyond traditional authoritarian regimes, permeating everyday life and eroding democratic freedoms. This book challenges readers to confront the deep entanglements of modern capitalism before they solidify into a techno-authoritarian order.

Der Aufbau fachinhaltlicher und fachmethodischer Kompetenzen ist ein zentrales Ziel naturwissenschaftlicher Bildung. Ein effektiver Ansatz zur Förderung dieser Kompetenzen ist die explizite Thematisierung zugehöriger Kenntnisse. Im Unterricht scheinen aber vor allem fachinhaltliche und nur selten fachmethodische Kenntnisse explizit thematisiert zu werden. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass dieser Unterschied u.a. durch die Überzeugungen von Lehrkräften bedingt ist, wurden mit einem Fragebogen die Überzeugungen zum Lehren und Lernen von Fachinhalten und Fachmethoden von N = 175 Lehrkräften erfasst. Zusätzlich wurde eine Teilstichprobe von n = 16 Lehrkräften im Rahmen von Interviews u. a. zum Planen einer Stunde zum Aufbau fachmethodischer Kompetenzen aufgefordert und die Umsetzung expliziter Thematisierung inhaltsanalytisch untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen graduelle Unterschiede in den zielspezifischen Überzeugungen von Lehrkräften. So sind diese z.B. häufig der Überzeugung, dass das explizite Thematisieren von Kenntnissen zwar für beide Ziele wirksam ist, aber für das Lehren und Lernen von Fachinhalten nützlicher als für das von Fachmethoden. Diese Überzeugungen werden nur z.T. konsistent umgesetzt, da die explizite Thematisierung fachmethodischer Kenntnisse kaum wesentlicher Bestandteil der geplanten Stunden ist. So scheinen die Überzeugungen zur Bedeutsamkeit expliziter Thematisierung eine notwendige, aber keine hinreichende Bedingung für deren Umsetzung zu sein. Insgesamt legen die Befunde nahe, dass es wichtig ist, die Überzeugungen von Lehrkräften zielspezifisch zu untersuchen.

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a highly polymorphic and diverse multigene locus in all jawed vertebrate species that has an integral role in adaptive/innate immune systems, transplantation, and infectious and autoimmune diseases. The MHC supra-locus in mammalian vertebrates is usually partitioned into three distinct regions, known as classes I, II, and III, which, to varying extents, can be found conserved in nonmammalian jawed vertebrates, such as bony fish, amphibians, and bird lineages. The MHC gene region is characterized particularly by the expression of class I and class II glycoproteins that bind peptides derived from intracellular or extracellular antigens to circulating T-cells. While this expressed antigenic specificity remains the predominant interest with respect to MHC function and polymorphism in a population, a broader concept has emerged that examines the MHC as a multifunctional polymorphic controller that facilitates and regulates genome diversity with a much greater array of functions and effects than just MHC-restricted antigen recognition. This volume of 19 reprints presented by various experts and collected from the Special Issue of Cells on “MHC in Health and Disease” covers a broad range of topics on the genomic diversity of the MHC regulatory system in various vertebrate species, including MHC class I, II, and III genes; innate and adaptive immunity; neurology; transplantation; haplotypes; infectious and autoimmune diseases; fecundity; conservation; allelic lineages; and evolution. Taken together, these articles demonstrate the immense complexity and diversity of the MHC structure and function within and between different vertebrate species.

London’s Waterfront and its World, 1666–1800 presents the results of archaeological excavations of 1974 to 1983 in the central waterfront area of the City of London. The archaeology of the port of London is considered on a wide scale, from the City down the Thames to Deptford. The Great Fire of London in 1666 prompted some changes to the topography of streets and buildings, but there were also many continuities in life and work. The waterfront changed during the 18th century as warehousing replaced houses. This process is illustrated by archaeological excavation, documentary study and the survival of plans of properties surveyed for land-owning institutions. The artefacts and pottery recovered from these sites include many pieces from overseas, and London’s waterfront can be compared with those of other port cities in Europe, North America and the Caribbean. Perhaps in late 17th- and 18th-century London we can study urban tastes and consumption from an archaeological viewpoint. During this period London became the hub of the new British empire, but contributed to the exploitation of people from other lands known as slavery. The waterfront on both sides of the Thames was at the centre of the new empire.