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Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?
The application of digital technologies to historical newspapers have changed the research landscape historians were used to. An Eldorado? Despite undeniable advantages, the new digital affordance of historical newspapers also transforms research practices and confronts historians with new challenges. Drawing on a growing community of practices, the impresso project invited scholars experienced with digitised newspaper collections with the aim of encouraging a discussion on heuristics, source criticism and interpretation of digitized newspapers. This volume provides a snapshot of current research on the subject and offers three perspectives: how digitisation is transforming access to and exp...
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
"James Tent recounts how these men and women from all over Germany and from all walks of life struggled to survive in an increasingly hostile society, even as their Jewish relatives were disappearing into the East. It draws on extensive interviews with twenty survivors, many of whom were teenagers when Hitler came to power, to show how "half-Jews" coped with conditions on a day-to-day basis, and how the legacy of the hatred they suffered still lingers in their minds."
Managing Global Innovation
Based on empirical research from over 240 interviews, the authors present new concepts and trends in global R&D management. Case studies from 18 best-practice companies give detailed answers to the most pressing challenges for mastering international innovation.
Complicity in the Holocaust
In one of the darker aspects of Nazi Germany, churches and universities - generally respected institutions - grew to accept and support Nazi ideology. Complicity in the Holocaust describes how the state's intellectual and spiritual leaders enthusiastically partnered with Hitler's regime, becoming active participants in the persecution of Jews, effectively giving Germans permission to participate in the Nazi regime. Ericksen also examines Germany's deeply flawed yet successful postwar policy of denazification in these institutions.
Die Ökumene und der Widerstand gegen Diktaturen
In der Darstellung des Widerstandes gegen die Diktaturen des 20. Jahrhunderts wird haufig eine internationale und zugleich uber-nationale Perspektive vernachlassigt: die der Okumene. Der in Deutschland viel zu wenig bekannte Einsatz namhafter okumenischer Personlichkeiten fur den europaischen Widerstand gegen die NS-Diktatur und die Bedeutung der okumenischen Bewegung als Gesprachsforum auch und gerade fur Vertreter des deutschen Widerstandes werden in diesem Band an wichtigen Einzelbeispielen vorgestellt. Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt bildet die Auseinandersetzung des Okumenischen Rates der Kirchen mit den kommunistischen Diktaturen wahrend des Kalten Krieges. Dazu werden unterschiedliche Sichten und Antworten formuliert, bezogen auf die Rolle und das Verhalten des ORK gegenuber kommunistischen Regierungen und Kirchen in ihrem Machtbereich, gegenuber staatlicher Repression und Verfolgung und vor allem gegenuber jenen dissidenten Christen, die offentlich fur Religionsfreiheit und Menschenrechte eintraten.
The Dangerous God
At the heart of the Soviet experiment was a belief in the impermanence of the human spirit: souls could be engineered; conscience could be destroyed. The project was, in many ways, chillingly successful. But the ultimate failure of a totalitarian regime to fulfill its ambitions for social and spiritual mastery had roots deeper than the deficiencies of the Soviet leadership or the chaos of a "command" economy. Beneath the rhetoric of scientific communism was a culture of intellectual and cultural dissidence, which may be regarded as the "prehistory of perestroika." This volume explores the contribution of Christian thought and belief to this culture of dissent and survival, showing how religi...
Wounded Visions
Jonas Jonson, who was directly involved with the ecumenical movement for forty years, offers in this book an inside perspective on an ever-changing global Christianity. Reviewing developments in ecumenism from the 1960s to the present, Jonson discusses the decolonization of mission, interreligious relations, God s preferential option for the poor, and unity in diversity. He also maps the global ecumenical landscape and presents the Fourth Church — comprising charismatic, Pentecostal, and evangelical movements of the twentieth century. How did the ecumenical movement respond to the fall of communism, the opening of China, and the globalization of financial markets? Why did so many big churches, caught in the whirlwind of change, retreat from their ecumenical commitments in order to promote and protect their own interests? Jonson addresses these questions and more in this comprehensive review of global Christianity and the ecumenical movement.
