OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2021)The five volumes provide a compendium of the history of and discourse about antisemitism - both as a unique cultural and religious category. Antisemitic stereotypes function as religious symbols that express and transmit ...
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(2021)This volume brings together historical research on classical antiquity and early medieval Europe with the study of eastern Christianity. To this end, it examines concepts of good rulership, especially of good Christian ...
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(2021)Featuring chapters by well-established interreligious peacebuilders from around the world, this volume examines the challenges and implications faced by religious and interreligious peacebuilders and provides new models ...
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(2021)The COVID-19 pandemic has hooked us all into digital networks as our access to cities, work and social gatherings is restricted and reconfigured. Weaving together cultural history, aesthetics, and urban and digital studies, ...
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(2021)This study proposes that Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct cultural moment or historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa – as signifier, as real ...
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(2021)Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Thaʿālibī was a poet, critic, lexicographer, historian of literature, prolific scholar, and one of the most important literary figures in the tenth-eleventh centuries. This work of his entitled Khāṣṣ ...
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(2021)Through an ethnographic account of Isthmus Zapotec language advocates in Oaxaca, Mexico, this study illuminates a repertoire of advocacy strategies that are bringing linguistic equality closer to reality.
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(2021)Will historians become programmers? How do historians collaborate with experts from computational domains? At the centre of the book is the question how historians are affected by such ongoing interactions. By following ...
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(2021)Several of the most known and discussed concepts of the digital age predated the digitalization itself and have been previously used in the “analogue times”. Other concepts were coined for the digital society but have ...
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(2021)One of the reasons for the social significance of pop-cultural formats like TV series is how they are communicatively processed in interactions. This book uses video recordings of conversations between students about series ...
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(2021)Meng Haoran (689-740) was one of the most important poets of the "High Tang" period, the greatest age of Chinese poetry. In his own time he was famous for his poetry as well as for his distinctive personality. This is the ...
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(2021)This study analyzes the discursive construction strategies that structured the cognitive model of Mexican national identity in four generations of textbooks (1960–2009). Using tools from the fields of Cognitive Linguistics ...
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(2021)There was a special relationship between the papacy and the Swiss Confederacy in the early modern period. The "Romans" were not confronted with the usual monarchic-aristocratic structures. Taking a nuncio’s outside view ...
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(2021)Knowledge about "happiness" means power. For the self-portrayal of a nation and its moral system, knowledge about happiness can be used and reinterpreted as an emotional-political instrument of power. Isabelle Haffter ...
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(2021)A theory of prose does not exist yet. This volume aims to free prose from its invisibility as a medium for forms or genres devoid of characteristics. It redefines prose as a structure that works in latency, as a mysterious ...
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(2021)The volume offers in-depth analyses of contact situations between Spanish and other languages, showing how language variation and change are part of the complex linguistic dynamics that characterize contact areas. Aimed ...
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(2021)Poetas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas: poéticas y metapoéticas (Siglos XX–XXI) reúne estudios sobre las poéticas –fundamentalmente las «poéticas explícitas de poetas» (Demmers), con la inclusión de las artes poéticas–, ...
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(2021)How and why did the African elite turn from loyal intermediaries into opponents of the colonial state? This book wants to help better understand the dramatic political and cultural processes of decolonization in the Belgian ...
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(2021)In ancient myths, the sky is a numinous space. What comes from it is of outstanding importance. This transdisciplinary volume by the Collegium Mythologicum explores myths that involve transfers from the sky. The volume ...
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(2021)This volume of collected essays seeks to tackle the question of scepticism in an Early Jewish context, including Ecclesiastes and other Jewish Second Temple works, rabbinic literature, and reflections of Jewish thought in ...
