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Mapping the Academic Debate
This volume maps the international academic debate on secularity. It places seminal contributions from within ‘Western’ academia alongside less well-known texts from various parts of the world; in several cases this is the first time that they have been translated into English. The volume demonstrates that the academic debate on secularity was and is a global debate, with contributions from many regions. The collected texts relate to each other either directly or indirectly by referring to similar arguments – whether reinforcing or criticising them – and thus create a discourse. When speaking of global secularity, we therefore do not insinuate a uniform ‘world secularity’ resulti...
Taming the Messiah
In the history of the Ottoman Empire, the seventeenth century has often been considered an anomaly, characterized by political dissent and social conflict. In this book, Aslıhan Gürbüzel shows how the early modern period was, in fact, crucial to the formation of new kinds of political agency that challenged, negotiated with, and ultimately reshaped the Ottoman social order. By uncovering the histories of these new political voices and documenting the emergence of a robust public sphere, Gürbüzel challenges two common assumptions: first, that the ideal of public political participation originated in the West; and second, that civic culture was introduced only with Westernization efforts in the nineteenth century. Contrary to these assumptions, which measure the Ottoman world against an idealized European prototype, Taming the Messiah offers a new method of studying public political life by focusing on the variety of religious visions and lifeworlds native to Ottoman society and the ways in which they were appropriated and repurposed in the pursuit of new forms of civic engagement.
American Dirt
Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, reasonably comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy, two of them her favorites. Javier is erudite. He is charming. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city. When Lydia's husband's tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence.
Systems Convening: a Crucial Form of Leadership for the 21st Century
The book shines a light on the important work that many people are doing around the world. You may not have heard about them; what they do is rarely in their job description. You may not even be aware of what they do; they tend to act as enablers rather than taking credit or seeking the spotlight. But they are here-working to make a difference in complex social landscapes. We call them systems conveners. Systems conveners enable learning across boundaries, connect people across silos, and convene them to work on what they see can be achieved if a broader range of views are brought to bear. In this, they have a vital role to play in helping us address the complex challenges of the 21st centur...
Ortsfamilienbuch Untergeis
Erstmals urkundlich erwähnt wurde die Ortschaft Untergeis im Jahre 1259 in einer Urkunde des Klosters Blankenheim bei Bebra. Die darin erwähnten Besitzansprüche dieses Klosters in Niedern-Geisa gehen mit Sicherheit aber zurück bis vor 1229, denn in diesem Jahr wurde das damalige Auaer Nonnenkloster nach Blankenheim verleg Seit der hessischen Gebietsreform im Jahr 1971/2 zählt Untergeis zu den Ortsteilen der Gemeinde Neuenstein westlich der Kreisstadt Bad Hersfeld im nordosthessischen Landkreis Hersfeld - Rotenburg. In diesem Buch sind die in den seit 1663 geführten Kirchenbüchern notierten Daten bis zum Jahr 1950 (unter Beachtung der Datenschutzrichtlinien) erfasst und ausgewertet. Geburts-, Konfirmations-, Heirats- und Sterbeeintragungen von etwa 900 Familien und fast 3.600 Einzelpersonen wurden bearbeitet und zur weiteren genealogischen Erforschung digital übersichtlich zusammengestellt.
