Bøger i Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Europeennes serien

This book deals with reasons for the persistence of the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) among the Kurya in Tanzania. The study recommends intervention programmes based on in-depth cultural knowledge, and concludes that addressing the problem in its local context is crucial for efforts directed at stopping the practice.

The book focuses on Russian-Hebrew bilingual speech. It identifies, describes and accounts for diverse types of bilingual varieties spoken in the Russian immigrant community in Israel. Therefore an interdisciplinary approach was chosen, examining the structural aspects of the immigrants' speech under consideration of their personal social networks.

This book explores how emotions, ethnic or national belonging and digital technologies work together in constructing an apocalypticizing national self. Thus, it offers a complex analysis of far rightist apocalyptic narratives that imagine the Gypsification and Hungarization of Romania and the Islamization of Europe as irreversible change.

The Muslim festival of sacrifice, id al-adha, is celebrated all over the world annually in the month of pilgrimage. The book examines the foundations of this festival in the Qur'an and early Islamic history. In the analysis it applies ritual theories to the narratives about various sacrifices, esp. the role of Muhammad for the Muslim community.

Drawing upon theoretical and methodological paradigms from speech science and applied linguistics, this study advances our understanding of the factors that constrain attainment and assessment of second language pronunciation.

The island of Cebu, located in Central Philippines, appeared in Western documents basically due to two events in world history. Apart from these events in maritime history, Cebu played a significant role in interisland trading during the pre-Hispanic period. This book investigates, as an example, found pieces of a blacksmith's shop.

The legislative dynamic in post-Amsterdam era is increasingly challenging the Schengen Acquis as it leads to legal harmonization and fragmentation. This book focuses on theoretical considerations regarding various concepts of Europeanization, and on their effect on the multi-layered policy processes and actors implementing the Schengen complexes.

The book offers a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the occurrence and combinations of phonemes in Modern Standard Czech. It accounts for more than 500 combinations of consonants as well as combinations of vowels and consonants. It also presents a way to predict structurally possible but actually unattested combinations.

Incorporates the assumption that the 'human' in education is being threatened by certain processes. This title is argued that the debate on education is still dominated by the language of performance and global economic comparison.

This book is an exploration of the classical music stage within a framework of informal learning through the interactive concert performances of Fazil Say. It presents a detailed demonstration of such a space as a learning medium, and interprets its pedagogical meaning from both the artist's and the audience's perspectives.

This book brings the study of metaphorical language back to the heart of Psalm scholarship: The author carries out his research by analyzing a few selected Psalms (Pss 18; 19; 28; 31; 42; 62; 71; 73; 78; 89; 92; 94; 95; 144). It results that the address "God, my Rock" is a creative form of language and is a norm or standard when speaking of Yahweh.

Exchange Marriages in South Punjab, Pakistan

In 2004 tsunami waves caused huge economic losses along the coastline of Southern Thailand. These resulted from direct damages and the following economic downturn. This study investigates the factors that led to this vulnerable situation.

In what may seem as comparative religious studies, this title intends to undertake theological investigations in contemporary Black Africa with the Igbo tribe of south-east Nigeria as a case-study. It is based on J L Austin's concept of performative word, and to be analyzed in the context of sacramental theology and the Igbo traditional religion.

The book studies intensifiers and reflexive pronouns between two languages (English and Mandarin Chinese). It provides the full use of self, ziji and benren and is the first book that uses contrastive study to talk about intensifiers and reflexive pronouns. It is based on the most distinctive research of the latest 30 years in the linguistic field.

This study investigates the spatial behavior of the customers of a health-food store that is located at the mixed-use development "Park Place" in Irvine, CA. Using a POS-intercept survey and GIS, the author found that regular health-food shoppers indeed travel significantly farther distances than occasional health-food shoppers.

This work sheds a light on Nigeria's problems resulting from its creation and its makeup. The presence of many tribes and religions has created a constant security dilemma. The author presents education and religious dialogue as a solution which can finally lead to mutual understanding.

The treatise seeks to describe the encounter between Orthodoxy and psychoanalysis as discussed by Thermos. The interaction of these spheres of knowledge should solve the pastoral vocation problem and clergy ineffectiveness. Yet analysis of Thermos's concepts shows that agreement on this interaction will depend on more intra-Orthodox discussion.

Based on data from Kurdish-German pre-school bilingual children in Austria, this empirical study aims at giving an analysis of factors that constrain child code-switching. Children can exercise power relations or negotiate identity with their parents through choice of language and can manage language choices and rights-and-obligations balances.

This book reveals the silent replications of the myths inherent in cross cultural film narratives. Locating Germany as the metropolitan centre and Africa as the alternative space, the book raises questions on the best practice of telling the story of the other. It thus examines bodies and spaces and how they have been assigned or denied agency.

America during the seventies as portrayed by Wes Craven, Peter Watkins, Hubert Selby, Jr., Philip K. Dick, Gustav Hasford and George A. Romeo is analyzed. The rhetorical device allegory, Barthes's concept of mythology and Foucault's concept of power relations are utilized in order to expose a discussion of the body under siege.

This book is the result of ethnographic research carried out in the Academic College of Judea & Samaria, located in the West Bank of Israel/Palestine. The book deals with Israeli citizenship and identity, and examines the ways in which it is being understood and imagined by students and teachers.

The Apologetic thesis of Lukan scholarship should not be over exaggerated. The criticism of the powerful is clearly seen in the double work of Luke. The Magnificat, the Temptation of Jesus and the admonition to serve others within the last supper of the Gospel show the sensitivity of Luke in dealing with the powerful.

The topic of the book is the self-identity of Romanian managers, researched with qualitative and quantitative methods. It aims to explain and to make prognoses about managerial potential and managerial performance from an identity point of view. It proposes identity instruments for the evaluation, prognosis and growth of managerial performance.

This research is focused on professional development opportunities for young academics who teach in German universities. The analysis shows how academics reconstruct the relation between teaching and research under given structural conditions of the academic labor market, and how they make career decisions.

This volume deals with linguistic analysis and contains articles dealing with major grammatical techniques and strategies in Arabic dialects and with linguistic substitution as verbal dynamism. Ce volume traite de sujets de l'analyse linguistique et contient d'articles sur les techniques grammaticales et les strategies dans dialectes arabiques.

The author analyses notes in medieval books from the archive of the First Romanian School from Scheii Brasovului, a Romanian settlement outside Brasov. The notes reveal an educated society, passing on fragments of their way of thinking. The study shows the medieval book as a medium including glimpses of life, fragments of human emotions and events.

The book underpins the importance of the shepherd theme in Mark, which complements the other important motifs in the narrative such as way, nourishment, gathering etc. The theme even merges with the motif of way, when Jesus, who came on the way of the Lord, goes ahead of the disciples to Galilee.

This book proves the importance of performance measurement criteria to reflect the goal structures of organizations. The applications of Data Envelopment Analysis models in assessing the efficiency of banks with multiple behavior models and non-conventional goal structures provide evidences.

This book introduces new methodological developments of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) that satisfy the demands of business practice and provide a multidimensional point of view on the evaluation of organizational performance.