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What does it mean for the spirit world to be real? Scholars from different disciplines investigate this topic focusing on the role played by the spiritual realm in Pentecostalized Africa. The grammatical angle of their research proves to be a fruitful avenue to clarify the kind of reality or realities the spirit world has. This novel approach takes us beyond most existing research by investigating the often unaddressed assumption that we know what it means for the spirit world to be taken as real. This volume shows the importance of paying close attention to the grammar according to which people speak of spirits, Spirit, witchcraft, ancestors and other aspects of the spirit world.

This volume concentrates on all China-related Pulitzer Prize-winning articles and caricatures over the span of eighty years, 1941 - 2021. Main political phases of China's history from the nationalist movement of Chiang Kai-shek to the communist-totalitarian system of Xi Jinping are documented in this book.

This handbook aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the multi-faceted art law within the legal framework applicable to South Africa. In four 'phases', it provides answers to legal questions that arise from the initiation of an art project up to its exploitation. It is aimed at both law students who have an academic interest in an in-depth introduction to art law and practitioners from the art world, and is therefore equipped with numerous explanatory examples. The contents were prepared by students of the Art Law Clinic Stellenbosch and revised by the editors mentioned below.

In contrast to the Greek mainland, the Nazis occupied most of Crete between1941 - 45. After the German troops' defeat in North Africa, Crete wasturned into a fortress.This study examines the goals, methods and effectiveness of the Germanoccupation policy, the reactions of the Cretan administration and of thepopulation in particular, and also describes the opponents' combatoperations.The study is based not only on written papers, documents and files ofGreek, Cretan, British and German origin, but also on letters, manuscripts,expos'es and interviews by and with contemporary witnesses.Marlen von Xylander, Studies in History, Ethnology and Literature at Hamburg University;Master's degree, 1987; academic tenure at University of Crete, 1984 - 85;PhD at Hamburg University, 2009

Approaches to Monasticism in the Context of ChristianResponses to Modern Culture is a study of how the values andpractices of monasticism are being shaped by the shift to acultural understanding of Christianity in modern times. Thevalues and practices of traditional monasticism arecontrasted with those of various expressions of newmonasticism against the background of a multicultural andfluid social environment in an effort to find somereciprocal illumination. The study aims to describemonasticism in terms of authenticity and lived religion.Kevin Maddy was educated at CambridgeUniversity and has recently completed a PhD at RadboudUniversity, Nijmegen. He currently works in Canterbury as anAnglican parish priest, and is a probationary member of theSociety of the Resurrection.

The doctoral thesis about Hieratikon of priest Lucian Petroaia brings to the researchers' attention, the most important book of service of the orthodox priest. From a historical perspective, the author has carefully identified and investigated all editions of the Hieratikon printed in Romania, from 1508 to the present; from the point of view of analyzing the content of the Hieratikon, he follows the evolution of the order of the Holly Liturgy over 500 years, often comparing the text of the Romanian Hieratikon with that of the Greek Hieratikon and the Slavic Slujebnik. The interdisciplinary approach emphasizes the essential role that the Orthodox liturgical cult had for the assertion of Romanian culture, in the landscape of the European and Universal culture. Priest Lucian Petroaia is an associate professor in Liturgical Theology at the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology at "Lower Danube" University in Galaţi and at "Justinian Patriarch" Faculty of Orthodox Theology at University of Bucharest, Romania.

In this volume, the author, former Director of missiology and for may years professor of missiology, religious anthropology and interreligious dialogue at Saint Paul University, Ottawa, "goes spiritually throughout the whole world" in order to study the interplay between "white supremacy" and christianization of the poeples. Where does this interplay happen and under which conditions ..., slavery, colonialism, economical factors and so forth. A great difference in "doing mission" becomes visible between Asia, (India, China, Japan) and the rest of the world. Currently Dr.Thomas Mooren, Ofmcap, teaches in Papuanewguinea and the Philippines.

The volume is the result of a Lecture Series onThe Levant, Cradle of Abrahamic Religions, whichengaged scholars on topics related to the cultural andreligious diversity of the historical Levant. Like a jigsaw, the studies contained within showcase interlock fragments ofthe historical encounters between faiths, religions andsocieties in a rich Levantine and Oriental space, in anattempt to render them more accessible to readers today byfocusing both on broader religious phenomena as well as onthe practical, liturgical and social interaction betweentraditions and mentalities, features representative of bothfaith and society at large. Catalin-Stefan Popa is Director of theHistory Department within The Institute for Advanced Studiesin Levant Culture and Civilization (ISACCL), Bucharest, Romania and Senior Researcher at the Romanian Academy.

This collection of case studies is concerned with tombs thattestify to transnational history. Special attention is givento tombs of Westerners and Russians still extant in GreaterChina, but also to those of some noted Chinese who wereinvolved in transnational history during the 20th century.Tombs have a special potential to cast familiar things in anew light. They also provide the possibility tocounter-check received narratives which might have beentailored along certain vested interests and circulated withspecific target groups in mind.Gotelind Müller is Professor of ChineseStudies at the University of Heidelberg.

Although there has not been war in Swedish territory for many years, this does not mean that the country has no veterans who have experienced the challenges of war zone deployments or suffer from combat trauma. The Invisible Wounded Warriors in a Nation at Peace gives a rare look at the international operations of the Swedish military, while offering the reader a unique and deeper understanding of life with PTSD. The book uses terms such as moral injury to further describe the complexity. Complex PTSD after deployment in a conflict zone is a uniquely complicated web of problems that can have medical, psychological, moral, existential and spiritual dimensions. The book discusses what this might mean from an identity and pastoral care perspective. Jan Grimell is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology at Uppsala University. He has also conducted postdoctoral research in spiritual care at the Unit for Research and Analysis within the Church of Sweden. He is affiliated with Linnaeus University and the Amsterdam Centre for the Study of Lived Religion at Vrije Universiteit.

This volume offers contributions to two basic questions of the study of the Tosefta: How can we describe the character and relationship of the Tosefta manuscripts? And how does the Tosefta relate to other rabbinic traditions and texts? It also sheds light on other topics of Tosefta research: "magic", emotions, and gender. The volume, based on two international colloquia in Munster in 2016 and 2017, marks the beginning of a new phase in the study of Tosefta, encouraging an international conversation between scholars on method and contents.Lutz Doering, Dr. theol. habil., since 2014 Professor of New Testament and Ancient Judaism and Director of the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum at the University of Münster.Daniel Schumann, Dr. theol., 2014 - 2018 Lecturer at the University of Münster, 2018 - 2020 Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford, since 2020 Lecturer at the University of Tübingen.

Essays collected in this volume deal with various problems from the philosophy of mathematics. What connects them are two questions: how mathematics is created and how it is acquired. In 'Three Worlds of Mathematics' we are familiarized with David Tall's ideas pertaining to the embodied, symbolic and formal worlds of mathematics. In 'Basic Ideas of Intuitionism', we focus on an epistemological approach to mathematics which is distinctive to constructive mathematics. The author focuses on the computational content of intuitionistic logic and shows how it relates to functional programming. 'The Brave Mathematical Ant' carefully selects mathematical puzzles related to teaching experiences in a way that the solution requires creativity and is not obtainable by following an algorithm. Moreover the solution gives us some new insight into the underlying idea. 'Degrees Of Accessibility Of Mathematical Objects' discusses various criteria which can be used to judge accessibility of mathematical objects. We find logical complexity, range of applications, existence of a physical model as well as aesthetic values.Jerzy Pogonowski, Faculty of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, AdamMickiewicz University, PoznańSzymon Chlebowski, Faculty of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, AdamMickiewicz University, PoznańBarbara Borkowicz, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, AdamMickiewicz University, Poznań

Social suffering commands increasing public attention in the wake of several historical processes that have changed the ways victims are perceived. In making suffering eloquent by rendering it in conceptual form, philosophy runs the risk of muting suffering, thereby neutralizing its ability to mobilize responses. In the experience of suffering philosophy finds a limit it must recognize as its own. Yet only by fulfilling its duty towards suffering - only by having the abolition of suffering as its ultimate goal - can philosophical thinking withstand a tacit complicity with injustice.José A. Zamora. Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy (Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research - CSIC), Madrid-Spain.Reyes Mate. Emeritus Research Professor at the Institute of Philosophy (Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research - CSIC), Madrid-Spain.

The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) was launched in 2008 as the largest civilian mission under the Common Security and Defence Policy of the European Union. The book presents a personal and professional story told by an EULEX-Kosovo International judge. V. S. Kanev is a Bulgarian magistrate who worked (2008 - 2016) for the EU Rule of Law Mission. His Narration is both memoir and documentary. Main part of the storyline is conveyed from a personal angle. The author has shared his diary, and the narrative is focused on the author's personal actions and duties. The book also contains useful information on the reasons leading to deployment of the mission, the mission's mandate as well as political and social difficulties of its day-to-day performance. The description of political conflicts and legal problems may be helpful for studies of modern nation building and rule of law evolution. Stories of the ethnic and religious conflicts portray a post-conflict society struggling to salvage their future from the dooms of the past.

This anthology presents the Nordic folk high school teacher through thirteen research articles combined under three themes: identity, work, and education, each part capped by overarching summary chapters. The folk high schools are given a central role in the democratic development of the Nordic region and are described as a significant influence on adult education globally, but there have been few regional research projects describing the schools. The inclusion of research covering five Nordic countries in a peer reviewed anthology makes this publication a unique portrayal, both of the schools' common identity and their national variations.

This volume reconstructs the jury decisions during the annual selection processes leading to the Pulitzer Prize winners in International Reporting 1917 to 2017, representing about thirty American news organizations. Based on unpublished jury reports and award winning press materials located in the Pulitzer Prize Collection at Columbia University, New York, stories are covered from the following countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Cambodia, Canada, China, Congo, Croatia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Mexico, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mali, Mexico, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Rwanda, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, Vietnam and Yugoslavia.

This volume is the result of an international research project that drew together perspectives from three countries in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe: Croatia, Lithuania, and Poland. It explores the under-researched phenomenon of immaterial values and resources that returning migrants bring with them, as they have the potential to contribute to economic development, together with the social, political, and cultural change in their countries of origin. The authors explore the mechanisms, challenges, and successes of the process of social remitting by returnees to these countries.

The similarities between traditional games in different regions of the world, from past to present, arouse both awe and curiosity. The playful - yet educational - discovery of these practices offers the opportunity to observe the experience of play as a space for similarities between cultures. When research on play conducted with children is enriched by the recollections of play from parents and grandparents, especially in the context of a multicultural classroom, a choral narrative emerges, laying down the basis for intercultural education. Children discover the 'shared space of play', where they can meet and relish, together with teachers, the richness of cultural diversity, and also learn more about prejudice and Othering processes.Francesca Berti is a Junior Researcher at the Faculty of Education of the Free University of Bolzano/Bozen. Her research focuses on Play-based Learning and Heritage Education.

What is Philosophy for/with Children and its challenges around the world today? This book contributes to the discussion about the main issues regarding Philosophy for/with Children. Among them: Communication Discourse and Education Discourse; Philosophy for/with Children in an Inevitable Conflict; The "Shadow Adults Cast over Childhood" and the "Pedagogy of Fear"; Philosophy for/with children as a social activism encourager; Self-Determined Learning in Philosophy with Children; Philosophical Inquiry Concepts in Teacher Education/Training and Philosophical Inquiry in Virtual Communities.