Plans from 1733 already suggested equipping the University of Göttingen with a natural history collection. Only in 1773, however, did the Georgia Augusta obtain a so called Academic Museum. Its collection contained ...

This qualitative-hermeneutic study about contemporary neo-paganism on the internet explores the effect the medium World Wide Web has on neo-pagans and their construction of identity. The following three issues are elaborated ...

Four manuscripts defending the Sa`dīya are believed to be the foundation for this study of belief, doctrine, and practices as exhibited by the Islamic Sufi Order. The manuscripts date from the 18th and 19th centuries ...

The religion of Yārıstān (Ahl-e Haqq) - is an Iranian religion, which is peculiarly revealed in religious Holy poems and speeches, songs and rituals in the Middle East. The fact that the author contacted the noted Yārıstān ...

"The city as we imagine it, the soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on ...

Migration literature is often analyzed with a focus on identity, while the aspect of integrity finds no consideration. But certain parts of one`s identity start playing a dominat role when ...

The new Edition of De figuris sententiarum et verborum of Alexander is divided grosso modo in two parts. The first part is the preface, which explains the autor Alexander Numeniu, the work De figuris, the history of ...

Speaking is an extremely complex cognitive task. Therefore it is not surprising that errors occur during the process of speech production. One of the most intriguing problems is the socalled Tip-of-the-Tongue phenomenon, ...