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Show/Hide Abstract The Fuggers of Augsburg : pursuing wealth and honor in Renaissance Germany (2012)
Mark Häberlein
As the wealthiest German merchant family of the sixteenth century, the Fuggers have attracted wide scholarly attention. In contrast to the other famous merchant family of the period, the Medici of Florence, however, no English-language work on them has been available until now. The Fuggers of Augsburg offers a concise and engaging overview that builds on the latest scholarly literature and the author’s own work on sixteenth-century merchant capitalism. Mark Häberlein traces the history of the family from the weaver Hans Fugger’s immigration to the imperial city of Augsburg in 1367 to the end of the Thirty Years’ War in 1648. Because the Fuggers’ extensive business activities involved long-distance trade, mining, state finance, and overseas ventures, the family exemplifies the meanings of globalization at the beginning of the modern age. The book also covers the political, social, and cultural roles of the Fuggers: their patronage of Renaissance artists, the founding of the largest social housing project of its time, their support of Catholicism in a city that largely turned Protestant during the Reformation, and their rise from urban merchants to imperial counts and feudal lords. Häberlein argues that the Fuggers organized their social rise in a way that allowed them to be merchants and feudal landholders, burghers and noblemen at the same time. Their story therefore provides a window on social mobility, cultural patronage, religion, and values during the Renaissance and the Reformation.
Show/Hide Abstract From Text to Practice - The role of the Bible in daily living of African people today (2013)
Joachim Kügler Masiiwa Ragies Gunda Lovemore Togarasei Solomon Olusola Ademiluka Francis Machingura Stephanie Feder Obvious Vengeyi Solomon B. Nkesiga Joachim Kwaramba
That the Bible is a manual for daily living is attested in almost all Christian denominations, how this role is transformed into practice is clearly an area that remains a contested terrain among Christians. This volume is our modest contribution to looking at the relationship between the Bible and our practices. The central question that the articles in this volume respond to is: how is the Bible related to our daily life? This question is especially important on the African continent where religion appears to be gaining influence. Without taking anything away from western biblical scholars, African biblical scholars must also engage with the question: how do we put into practice the teachings of the Bible? This volume contains papers presented at the International Bible Symposium 2009 in Bamberg (Germany) and additional contributions.
Plotting justice : narrative ethics and literary culture after 9/11 (2012)
Georgiana Banita
Show/Hide Abstract HIV/AIDS and the Bible in Tanzania. A Contextual Re-reading of 2 Samuel 13:1-14:33 (2012)
Mussa Simon Muneja
This volume was passed as doctoral thesis by the University of South Africa (UNISA). The author contends throughout the book that it is arguably clear that the AIDS epidemic has infected and affected our world in radical ways. Although every sector, including Biblical Studies, has come to its ‘senses’, by realising the urgency to respond; there still appears to be inadequate contextual engagement with the biblical text to stimulate empowering and transformative readings of the Bible. The author presents his interpretative case aimed to contribute to scholarship by determining the extent to which the church, the academy and Persons with HIV have adhered to stigmatising interpretations. He uses reader response method theoretical framework as applied within the context of African theology because it is socially located. Unlike many books, this one emerges from empirical findings. The data was collected through focus groups and personal interviews. The purposive sampling included 70 participants, who were divided into three key categories: academic theologians, university students and persons with HIV. All participants in the study re-read 2 Samuel 13:1-14:33 in order to ascertain if the characters therein could be relevant to the context of AIDS. Towards the end, the author sums up his case by endorsing that, characters from 2 Samuel 13:1-14:33 can provide an empowering message in the context of AIDS. Although this biblical text has often been misused to promote stigma, this study confirmed that it was nonetheless possible to use the same text to unearth redemptive and empowering interpretations. Therefore the book recommends that the move towards an HIV/AIDS Biblical Hermeneutics invites socially engaged scholars along with ordinary readers to read the text together for transformative purposes.
Shakespeare. Satire. Academia. : Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Weiss (2012)
Uwe Meyer Sonja Fielitz
Inclusion and Exclusion in the Liberal Competition State : The Cult of the Individual (2012)
Richard Münch
The social welfare function of forests in the light of the theory of public goods (2012)
János Seregi Zsuzsanna Lelovics László Balogh
English historical linguistics : an international handbook (2012)
Gabriele Knappe Julia Schlüter Manfred Krug
Fund managers: Why the best might be the worst – On the evolutionary vigor of risk-seeking behavior (2011)
Björn-Christopher Witte
Temporal information gaps and market efficiency: a dynamic behavioural analysis (2009)
Björn-Christopher Witte

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