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Steven Paas, Johannes Rebmann: A Servant of God in Africa before the Rise of Western Colonialism (edition afem – mission academics 32). Bonn: VTR and…
2013
Something Mightier: Marginalization, Occult Imaginations and the Youth Conflict in the Oil-Rich Niger Delta
2011
This contribution examines the role of occult imaginations in the struggle against perceived socio-economic marginalization by youth militias from the Ijaw ethnic group in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It argues that the asymmetric power between the federal government/transnational oil corporations (TNOCs) and the militias may have privileged the invocation of the supernatural as a critical agency of strength and courage by the youth militias. The conflict in the region embodies a cultural revision which has been necessitated by both the uncertainty of the oil environment and the prevailing narratives of social injustice. Hence the Egbesu deity, seen historically as embodying…
“You are special”: othering in biographies of “GDR children from Namibia”
2017
ABSTRACTThe article analyses a historical case of politically induced flight. The so-called German Democratic Republic (GDR) children from Namibia are about 430 people brought to the GDR between 1979 and 1989. They came from Namibian refugee camps and were part of a solidarity project between South West African People’s Organization (SWAPO) and the GDR. They were educated to become the Namibian elite once the country had been liberated. Their stay was to be temporary, with the children identified as Namibian by SWAPO and GDR. The article reconstructs culturalist and biological-racist forms of othering as characteristic biographical experience of the young people which deny them belonging to…
WISING UP: THE EVOLUTION OF NATURAL THEOLOGY
2012
This essay is in response to Professor Celia Deane-Drummond's 2012 Boyle lectures. The first part calls attention to the value and significance of her “sophianic theo-drama hypothesis” for the contemporary engagement between Christian theology and evolutionary science. In a sense, her proposal itself is a religious “adaptation” to changes within an international, interdisciplinary academic environment. The second part of the essay explores the rapidly shrinking “niche” of Christian natural theology and briefly summarizes an alternative set of hypotheses from the biocultural sciences of religion.
Latvija
1926
Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls. 2021, Nr. 2 (114)
2021
LU Latvijas vēstures institūta LU ilgtermiņu saistību iepildei 2020.-2022. g. ("Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls")
Die livländische Schweiz in Wort und Bild: mit 26 Abbildungen nach photographischen Aufnahmen
1901
Untergang des deutschen Ordens in Livland und die Schicksale des Schlosses Wenden und der Ordenslaender bis 1583
1893
Vēsture: sociālpolitiskās vēstures jautājumi
1992
Rakstu krājumā skatīti Latvijas sociālpolitiskās attīstības jautājumi laikā no 19. gadsimta beigām līdz mūsdienām. Rakstu vairākums veltīts sociāldemokrātijas vēsturei.