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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International ...
The Languages and Linguistics of Africa
This innovative handbook takes a fresh look at the currently underestimated linguistic diversity of Africa, the continent with the largest number of languages in the world. It covers the major domains of linguistics, offering both a representative picture of Africa’s linguistic landscape as well as new and at times unconventional perspectives. The focus is not so much on exhaustiveness as on the fruitful relationship between African and general linguistics and the contributions the two domains can make to each other. This volume is thus intended for readers with a specific interest in African languages and also for students and scholars within the greater discipline of linguistics.
Mission und Macht im Wandel politischer Orientierungen
Das Verhaltnis christlicher Missionare und Missionsgesellschaften gegenuber den politischen Machthabern und Bewegungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert steht im Mittelpunkt des Sammelbandes. Die Beitrage analysieren sowohl die wechselseitigen Beziehungen der Leitungen von Missionsgesellschaften zu den jeweiligen Regierungen in Europa als auch das Verhaltnis ihrer Missionare - Manner und Frauen - auf den Arbeitsfeldern in Asien und Afrika zu den lokal bzw. regional maageblichen politischen Kraften (Kolonialmachte eigener oder fremder Nationalitat, souverane Staaten, lokale politische Systeme und Unabhangigkeitsbewegungen) in den einzelnen Facetten. Aus dem Inhalt C. Auffarth: aWeltreligiono als ein Leitbegriff der Religionswissenschaft im Imperialismus T. de Souza: D. Jose da Costa Nunes - a Patriarch who Cared for More than Souls: a Case of Caesaro-papism in Portuguese India, 1942-1953 R. Elphick: Dutch Reformed Missions and the Roots of the Apartheid Ideology W. Ustorf: Kairos 1933 - Occidentosis, Christofascism, and Mission K. Poewe: Liberalism, German Missionaries, and National Socialism u.a.
European Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa
This volume comprises case studies of five centuries of European encounters with and imaginations of Africa encompassing her triple religious heritage: African Traditional Religions, Christianity and Islam. The introductory chapters outline the challenges and present overviews; some of them also analyze the early accounts of European travelers and missionaries. The following contributions examine the lasting legacy of the European Enlightenment in employing an ambivalent language of human equality and universalism, while in actual fact consigning Africa to an inferior position. It has been difficult for western scholars to divorce themselves wholly from the perceptions thus established. However, there have been quite different approaches. This is indicated in the papers discussing the role and impact of influential European academics (scholars of religion, theologians, historians and social scientists) during the colonial and postcolonial period. Other contributions examine specific institutional centers of African religious studies in Europe. The concluding chapters critically assess European approaches and their use for the study of religion in Africa from an African perspective.
Islam and Nazi Germany’s War
With troops fighting in regions populated by Muslims from the Sahara to the Caucasus, Nazi officials saw Islam as a powerful force with the same enemies as Germany: the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Jews. David Motadel provides the first comprehensive account of Berlin’s ambitious attempts to build an alliance with the Islamic world.
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