19Th Century
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Jasna Mažgon
A Historical Overview of Selected Action Research Concepts
The 20th century witnessed significant advancements in the domain of social sciences, characterised by methodological and epistemological discourses among positivist, critical-theoretical, and constructivist frameworks. Attempts to unify these sciences under a single framework gave rise to considerable tensions and the emergence of new […]
Michaela Schmidt
Rose Terry Cooke and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik
During a career that lasted for forty years, nineteenth-century American woman writer Rose Terry Cooke (1827 – 1892) published short stories, poems, and essays in such different magazines as prestigious literary monthlies, religious weeklies and childrens magazines. She was a multifaceted author, and yet only a small number of her works has […]
Tado Jurić
Big (Crisis) Data in Social Sciences and Humanities: Predicting Crises
Studien zur Demographie und Bevölkerungsentwicklung
The method of Big (Crisis) data holds promise to answer, among others, the questions to the main European challenge: (irregular) migration. By combining various big data sources, this approach offers insights into migration trends a year before official data sources.
It helps model future trends and answer the questions: [...]
Grazyna Liczbinska
Lutherans in the Poznan province
Biological dynamics of the Lutheran population in the 19th and early 20th centuries
HERODOT – Wissenschaftliche Schriften zur Ethnologie und Anthropologie
In contrast to the Lutheran communities of Western Europe, those settling in the Poznan province were culturally very diverse in terms of roots, traditions, customs, habits, lifestyles, and wealth. In Germany they were members of different local churches. On coming to the Poznan province, they brought with them religious practices […]
Frank Bruno Wild
Suizidäre Metaphern
Transzendente Melancholien im Zeitalter der Schwarzen Romantik
POETICA – Schriften zur Literaturwissenschaft
Die Schwarze Romantik gilt gemeinhin als Unterströmung der zwischen 1800 und 1830/50 sich erstreckenden Romantik und wird mit Schauergeschichten, Untoten, bösen Charakteren, fantastischen Traum- und Alptraumwelten, ja Vampiren und Fabelwesen in Verbindung gebracht.
Die handelnden Figuren schildern ihre Motivik differenziert und […]
Michaela Thurner-Uhle
The Representation and Function of Christmas in English Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Christmas is the most popular annual holiday in the Western world. Its popularity is reflected in English literature by the continual publication of Christmas poems, stories and carols, both old and new, as well as scholarly works on its cultural history and its social and psychological aspects. Considering this „Christmas boom“, the neglect of […]
Maria Lang
Alles im Wanken – Chaos und Ordnung in Novellen des bürgerlichen Realismus
POETICA – Schriften zur Literaturwissenschaft
Der Band rückt das im Zusammenhang mit Novellen des Realismus immer wieder auftauchende Begriffspaar „Chaos und Ordnung“ in den Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung. Um einen möglichst breiten Einblick in die Thematik geben zu können, beinhaltet das zugrunde liegende Textkorpus eine umfangreiche Menge von 300 Novellen – sowohl von bekannten […]
Solomon Okezie Obasi
Evangelisation and Modernity
Cultural Issues as Missiological Imperative in „Ecclesia in Africa“
THEOS – Studienreihe Theologische Forschungsergebnisse
This study brings to the fore that modernity offers enough (if not more than enough) materials for missiological consumption for the church in Africa. It stresses that the challenges of evangelisation in Africa in the Third Millennium, as Ecclesia in Africa specifies in its caption, can never be the same as the evangelisation of the 15th […]