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Europe in the Caucasus, Caucasus in Europe
The book series „European Studies in the Caucasus” offers innovative perspectives on regional studies of the Caucasus. By embracing the South Caucasus as well as Turkey and Russia as the major regional powers, it moves away from a traditional viewpoint of European Studies that considers the countries of the region as objects of Europeanization. This first volume emphasizes the movements of ideas in both directions—from Europe to the Caucasus and from the Caucasus to Europe. This double-track frame illuminates new aspects of a variety of issues requiring reciprocity and intersubjectivity, including rivalries between different integration systems in the southern and eastern fringes of Europe, various dimensions of interaction between countries of the South Caucasus and the European Union in a situation of the ongoing conflict with Russia, and different ways of using European experiences for the sake of domestic reforms in the South Caucasus. Topics range from identities to foreign policies, and from memory politics to religion.
Religious NGOs in International Relations
Over the last 30 years, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly present in international discourses and active in international decision-making. Among the estimated several million NGOs in existence today, an increasingly visible number of organizations are defining themselves in religious terms – referring to themselves as "religious", "spiritual", or "faith-based" NGOs. This book documents the initial encounters between the particularly international segment of those organizations and the UN while at the same time covering the Protestant and Catholic spectrum that dominated the early years of their activities in the UN-context. This book focuses on the construct...
Georgia’s Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
The South Caucasus is the key strategic region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea and the regional powers of Iran, Turkey and Russia and is the land bridge between Asia and Europe with vital hydrocarbon routes to international markets. This volume examines the resulting geopolitical positioning of Georgia, a pivotal state and lynchpin of the region, illustrating how and why Georgia's foreign policy is 'multi-vectored', facing potential challenges from Russia, int ernal and external nationalisms, the possible break-up of the European project and EU support and uncertainty over the US commitment to the traditional liberal international order.
Europe in the Caucasus, Caucasus in Europe
This volume emphasizes the movements of ideas in both directions--from Europe to the Caucasus and from the Caucasus to Europe. This illuminates a variety of issues, including rivalries between different systems, interaction between the South Caucasus and the European Union, and different ways of using European experiences for domestic reform.
Religion and Soft Power in the South Caucasus
In the Caucasus region, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and their powerful neighbours Russia, Turkey, Iran and the EU negotiate their future policies and spheres of influence. This volume explores the role of religion in the South Caucasus to describe and explain how transnational religious relationships intermingle with transnational political relationships. The concept of ‘soft power’ is the heuristic starting point of this important investigation to define the importance of religion in the region. Drawing on a three-year project supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the book brings together academics from the South Caucasus and across Europe to offer original empirical research and contributions from experienced researchers in political science, history and oriental studies. This book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of post-Soviet studies, international relations, religious studies and political science.
Kunst und Religion im Zeitalter des Postsäkularen
Bilden sich durch die sogenannte Wiederkehr des Religiösen in der bildenden Kunst heilige oder auch unheilige Allianzen? Dieses Buch thematisiert die Zusammenhänge von zeitgenössischer Kunst und Religion im Zeitalter des Postsäkularen, indem es das Feld zwischen privater Religiosität und kritischer Theologie auslotet. Die Beiträge zeigen auf, wie sich religiöse Fragen im säkularen Hochschulkontext als ästhetische Herausforderungen auch im konfessionellen Sinn bearbeiten lassen und welche Bedeutung künstlerischer Arbeit für die Vermittlung von Religion außerhalb von Kirche und Politik zukommt. Damit richtet sich das Buch nicht nur an Künstler_innen, sondern auch an Kulturwissenschaft, Kunst- und Religionspädagogik, Theologie sowie Kuratorinnen und Kuratoren.
Raumkonstitution durch Sprache
Die Studie untersucht, mit welchen sprachlichen Mitteln englische Texte einen Vorstellungsraum vor dem ,inneren Auge' des Lesers konstituieren. Sie bezieht sich daher auf Textsorten wie Reiseführer oder geographische Sachtexte, die visuell wahrnehmbare Szenerien beschreiben. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Reihenfolge, in welcher die Bestandteile des Raums eingeführt werden, woraus eine Klassifikation von ,Blickführungstypen' abgeleitet wird. Auf dieser Basis werden entsprechende Effekte und Funktionen verschiedener Strategien der Raumkonstitution analysiert.
Religions in Global Society
Peter Beyer, a distinguished sociologist of religion, presents a way of understanding religion in a contemporary global society - by analyzing it as a dimension of the historical process of globalization. Introducing theories of globalization and showing how they can be applied to world religions, Beyer reveals the nature of the contested category of ‘religion’: what it means, what it includes and what it implies in the world today. Written with exceptional clarity and illustrated with lively and diverse examples ranging from Islam and Hinduism to African traditional religions and new age spirituality, this is a fascinating overview of how religion has developed in a globalized society. It is recommended reading for students taking courses on sociology of religion, religion and globalization, and religion and modernity.
The Figure of Knowledge
It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism. Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux. It is therefore paramount to ask what kind of knowledge has become important in the recent history of architectural theory and how the resulting figure of knowledge sets the conditions for the actual arguments made. The contributions in this volume focus on institutional, geographical, rhetorical, and other conditioning factors. They thus screen the unspoken rules of engagement that postwar architectural theory ascribed to.
