peter lang nov 2010 (347 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -To date, no text exists that focuses exclusively on the concept of postcolonial film as a framework for identifying films produced within and outside of various formerly colonized nations, nor is there a scholarly text that addresses pedagogical issues about and frameworks for teaching such films. This book borrows from and respects various forms of categorization ¿ intercultural, global, third, and accented ¿ while simultaneously seeking to make manifest an alternate space of signification. What feels like a mainstream approach is pedagogically necessary in terms of access, both financial and physical, to the films discussed herein, given that this text proposes models for teaching these works at the university and secondary levels. The focus of this work is therefore twofold: to provide the methodology to read and teach postcolonial film, and also to provide analyses in which scholars and teachers can explore the ways that the films examined herein work to further and complicate our understanding of «postcolonial» as a fraught and evolving theoretical stance. 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The 2008 U.S. election was arguably the most important election of our lifetime: the first African American president was elected to office; the candidacy of Sarah Palin marked only the second time that a major party ticket included a female; and the electoral performance of young citizens ¿ digital natives, greatly attracted by digital media ¿ signaled the highest turnout in a long time.Taking all these issues into consideration, this book offers a landmark examination of the 2008 election from a global perspective, with emphasis on the wide range of digital media utilized by the campaigners and how campaign communication influenced young citizens. The authors argue that the use of digital technologies in the campaign, and the success of Barack Obama in attracting young voters to his cause, provides an excellent case study ¿ perhaps something of a turning point in campaign communication ¿ for carefully examining the emerging role of digital political media, and a continuing renewal in young citizens¿ electoral engagement. The wide-ranging contributions to this volume provide a comprehensive examination of a historic political campaign and election. The book¿s findings offer revealing answers regarding the content and effects of various forms of political campaign communication, and raise questions and possibilities for future research.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book brings together three areas of current public debate ¿ sexuality, gender, and obesity ¿ that will be of interest to curriculum workers, critical educators, physical educators, and professionals working in the areas of health, recreation, and sport. The book provides a critical examination of discrimination based on sexuality, gender, and body size in Canadian physical education. It illustrates how students with queer bodies ¿ whether lesbian, gay, transgendered, or overweight or fat ¿ cope with homophobia, transphobia, and fat phobia in physical education. Drawing from qualitative interviews with forty people, the book reveals how students are marginalized, in a variety of ways, because they do not conform to taken-for-granted ideas about healthy or athletic bodies. Using psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theories, the book calls for critical educators to work toward ethical encounters with queer bodies in order to address these forms of discrimination in schools, physical education, and sport settings.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 176 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Over the past two decades, much attention has been given to the new media culture of video games, due to their unique features and pervasive nature among young people. This book critically examines the role of video games in education, arguing that they encourage strategic thinking, planning, communicating, negotiation skills, multi-tasking and group decision-making. It is also observed that video games promote higher levels of attention and concentration among players. The book contains multiple perspectives and presents thought-provoking ideas, innovative approaches, systemic exploration, exemplary and promising efforts, and future-oriented scenarios. The book draws together distinguished researchers, educational and curriculum planners, game creators, educational and social psychologists, and instructional designers to explore how video games can transform the future of education.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -When founded in 1911, Connecticut College for Women was a pioneering women¿s college that sought to prepare the progressive eräs «new woman» to be self-sufficient. Despite a path-breaking emphasis on preparation for work in the new fields opening to women, Connecticut College and its peers have been overlooked by historians of women¿s higher education. This book makes the case for the significance of Connecticut College¿s birth and evolution, and contextualizes the college in the history of women¿s education. «Eighth Sister No More» examines Connecticut College for Women¿s founding mission and vision, revealing how its grassroots founding to provide educational opportunity for women was altered by coeducation; how the college has been shaped by changes in thinking about women¿s roles and alterations in curricular emphasis; and the role local community ties played at the college¿s point of origin and during the recent presidency of Claire Gaudiani, the only alumna to lead the college. Examining Connecticut College¿s founding in the context of its evolution illustrates how founding mission and vision inform the way colleges describe what they are and do, and whether there are essential elements of founding mission and vision that must be remembered or preserved. Drawing on archival research, oral history interviews, and seminal works on higher education history and women¿s history, «Eighth Sister No More» provides an illuminating view into the liberal arts segment of American higher education.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 280 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book presents the results of the GMLS II conference on «Implications of GM-Crop Cultivation at Large Spatial Scales», held in Bremen in March 2010. The meeting was a platform to discuss ecological, agricultural and economic implications of genetically modified organisms (GMO) and to present new developments in risk assessment and monitoring. Approaches in co-existence regulations and nature protection standards are presented as well as legal challenges and resolutions on national and on EU-level. The book collects 30 contributions written by specialists in science, administration and jurisprudence from Europe as well as Africa, Central America, and Russia. 138 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Traditional detective fiction celebrates the victory of order and reason over the senseless violence of crime. Yet in spite of its apparent valorization of rationality, the detective genre has been associated from its inception with three paradoxical motifs ¿ the double, the labyrinth and the locked room. Rational thought relies on binary oppositions, such as chaos and order, appearance and reality or truth and falsehood. Paradoxes subvert such customary distinctions, logically proving as true what we experientially know to be false. The present book explores detective and crime-mystery fiction and film from the perspective of their entrenched metaphors of paradox. This new and intriguing angle yields fresh insights into a genre that has become one of the hallmarks of postmodernism.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 196 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -El Duende Especulativo sobre la Vida Civil (1761) es considerado como el primer periódico espectador en España. Publicado bajo el seudónimo de Don Juan Antonio Mercadàl, El Duende Especulativo es el precursor de una serie de periódicos tales como El Pensador (1762-1767) y El Censor (1781-1787). Los 18 números ofrecen una crítica de costumbres del siglo XVIII, privilegiando los temas de la moda y de la transformación de la relación entre hombre y mujer. 276 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznä (Poland), in November 2009. The papers cover a wide range of approaches to the issue of the afterlife, heaven and hell in Old and Middle English as well as post-medieval literature. 138 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book is an examination of how American mass media, including advertising, presents Otherness ¿ anyone or anything constructed as different from an established norm ¿ in terms of gender, race, sex, disabilities, and other markers of difference. Using a mythological lens, the book looks below the surface of media content to explore the psychological, social, and economic underpinnings of a system of beliefs that result in prejudice, discrimination, and oppression. Designed to raise awareness of the foundations of historically-based inequities in the American social, cultural, and economic milieu, the author shows how inequalities are maintained, at least in part, by mass media, popular culture, and advertising representations of Otherness. The book aims to increase awareness of stereotyping in the media, and expose how the construction of people as Others contributes to their marginalization. Written in an accessible and engaging style, with student-friendly discussion questions and resources, this book is suitable for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 472 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -When family members experience a diagnosis of a chronic disease (e.g., cancer) or a health crisis (e.g., postpartum depression), not only the diagnosed individuals but entire families experience immediate and long-term stress as a consequence. Families with members dealing with serious health conditions may be confronted with significant challenges posed by treatment regimes, impacts on day-to-day activities, disruption of family roles, the threat of possible death, and a host of psychosocial challenges. This book is about families facing these challenges, uncertain about what to do, how to help, or how the condition will affect their daily life. Providing a coherent discussion of original research that examines communication patterns and processes involved in the day-to-day management of health conditions, this book lays bare the raw emotional experiences of families communicating with one another amid uncertainty and, for some, in the face of death.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 464 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -La obra aúna, de una parte, el resumen automático como nueva tecnología de la traducción y, de otra, la evaluación analítica y holística de traducciones. El objetivo principal es demostrar mediante estudios empíricos con traductores semiprofesionales que el resumen automático, en concreto el programa Term-Based Summariser (TBS), facilita la traducción en ambos sentidos (directa e inversa) de textos especializados (artículos de investigación del ámbito jurídico-tecnológico) en tres lenguas de trabajo (español, inglés y francés). Los resultados obtenidos se han comprobado, por un lado, con criterios cuantitativos, principalmente mediante la evaluación de traducciones con nuestras propias plantillas analíticas y holísticas, y, por otro lado, con criterios cualitativos empleando encuestas electrónicas como herramientas. En todos ellos, las traducciones realizadas con ayuda del programa TBS han obtenido mejores resultados que las traducciones llevadas a cabo sin dicho programa, lo cual corrobora que el resumen automático constituye una ayuda documental y terminológica significativa para los traductores. 316 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este libro estudia los primeros textos escritos por viajeras de lengua alemana sobre Canarias. Llegadas entre 1902 y 1914, nos dejaron las impresiones que les produjeron las Islas, su atmósfera y su historia. Un acercamiento a estos relatos pone de relieve el punto de vista europeo sobre un Archipiélago que se ha convertido en importante destino turístico. El lector encontrará en estas páginas no solo aspectos lingüístico-traductológicos como la investigación de fuentes o la presencia de hispanismos en textos alemanes, sino también un estudio del problemático género de la literatura de viajes con sus varios tipos formales y distintos tópicos de contenido. 342 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -1923 schrieb Carl Schmitt sein Werk «Die geistesgeschichtliche Lage des heutigen Parlamentarismus» in einem äußerst antiparlamentarischen Umfeld der Weimarer Republik. Auch wenn das Werk später den Nationalsozialisten zur Machtergreifung verhelfen sollte, ging es Schmitt insbesondere darum, den Parlamentarismus zu kritisieren, um das demokratische System zu stärken. Begriffe wie Ausnahmezustand, Freund und Feind, Volonté Générale und Staatsmythos flankieren seine Kritik am Parlamentarismus. Die Arbeit stellt nicht nur Schmitts Kritik heraus, sondern geht auch auf seine persönlichen Alternativen ein. Hierbei kommt es zur Beantwortung der zentralen Frage, ob die Demokratie sich in ihrem Kern nicht als ein utopisches Konstrukt herausstellt, unabhängig von der zeitlichen Verortung. 134 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Im gegenwärtigen Vertragswettbewerb um die ambulante Krankenversorgung droht einer Reihe gesetzlicher Krankenkassen die Zahlungsunfähigkeit. Dagegen hat der Gesetzgeber im «Gesetz zur Weiterentwicklung der Organisationsstrukturen in der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV-OrgWG)» Vorkehrungen getroffen; er sieht die Möglichkeit der Insolvenz mit der Folge ihrer Schließung vor. Zugleich regelt er die Haftung. Ob aber darin tatsächlich eine Fortentwicklung der GKV-Strukturen ¿ auch unter Wettbewerbsgesichtspunkten und in gemeinschaftsrechtlicher Perspektive ¿ liegt, ist innerhalb der Fachöffentlichkeit umstritten. Dieser Band setzt sich mit den Konsequenzen des gesetzgeberischen Eingreifens und den Handlungsoptionen auseinander.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das Buch stellt die Rahmenbedingungen, den Ansatz und die Ergebnisse eines unter dem Titel «Netzwerkstatt» durchgeführten innovativen Antizipationsprozesses von Herausforderungen für das tertiäre Bildungssystem in Niederösterreich dar. Im Rahmen der «Netzwerkstatt Bildungs- und Qualifikationsbedarf Niederösterreich» werden gemeinsam von ExpertInnen aus den Bereichen Bildung, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft zukünftige sozioökonomische Trends und ihre Auswirkungen auf das Bildungs- und Wissenschaftssystem antizipiert. Ziel des Buches ist es, einen Beitrag zur konstruktiven Gestaltung künftiger Entwicklungen im tertiären Bildungswesen zu leisten. 170 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das umfängliche und nicht leicht zugängliche Werk eines der wichtigsten serbischen Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts, Milo¿ Crnjanskis (1893-1977), der mit Ivo Andri¿ und Miroslav Krle¿a zu den bekanntesten Vertretern der jugoslawischen Moderne zählt, fand im deutschsprachigen Raum bisher kaum Beachtung. Diese Studie thematisiert die poetischen Visionen Crnjanskis, die sein gesamtes Schaffen prägten, und hat zudem den Anspruch, der bemerkenswerten Vielfalt in der Persönlichkeit und im Werk dieses großen europäischen Schriftstellers gerecht zu werden. Anhand exemplarischer Texte des Lyrik- und Prosaschaffens Crnjanskis werden die besonderen Merkmale seiner Poetik analysiert. Einen speziellen Schwerpunkt bilden dabei die Übersetzungen von neun ausgewählten Gedichten aus den Jahren 1920 bis 1956, darunter auch die Nachdichtungen der beiden berühmten Poeme Crnjanskis, Sträilovo und Lamento für Belgrad. 118 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Can aural training in music enhance your sound-discrimination abilities for languages The study sets off to answer this question by testing 50 German-speaking students of non-linguistic degrees for their abilities to discriminate between sounds in Finnish, a language previously entirely unknown to them. 25 randomly selected subjects then went through an aural training in music for two weeks before all the subjects were retested in their aural-perceptive abilities in the Finnish language by means of a similar test containing different test items. The hypothesised positive effect of the musical intervention could be partially proved by a statistically significant mean enhancement in the final scores achieved by the trained group compared to an insignificant enhancement achieved by the control group. 222 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The Principle of Subsidiarity in Catholic Social Thought: Implications for Social Justice and Civil Society in Nigeria provides a theoretical and practical framework for a just vision of society. It focuses on how support for individuals and social groups in Nigeria can foster the building of their communities through the practice of social justice. Social justice will ensure the building of trust across ethnic lines, challenge corruption, encourage accountability and servant leadership, protect minority tribes from larger ones, and promote grassroots self-help tribal, communal, religious, and non-governmental associations as agents of positive social change and development. These dynamics interact within a healthy federal structure that respects its constituent parts for the common good. This volume is recommended as a graduate text for courses in theology, religious education, and social philosophy, and for all interested in promoting the common good.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 262 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Gerüche haben eine starke Wirkung. Sie wirken anders als visuelle oder akustische Reize direkt auf das limbische System und damit auf die Emotionen. In dem Einsatz von Gerüchen stecken daher große Marketingmöglichkeiten. Dennoch werden Geruchsmarken bislang nicht als Wirtschaftsgüter genutzt. Es wurden bisher nur vereinzelt Versuche unternommen Gerüche als Marken eintragen zu lassen. Dies könnte an der zuletzt ablehnenden Rechtsprechung liegen und der damit verbundenen Scheu der Unternehmen, in diesen Bereich zu investieren. Diese Arbeit zeigt daher auf, dass sich Gerüche als Marken eignen und dem auch keine rechtlichen Bedenken entgegenstehen. Ferner werden Einsatzmöglichkeiten erwogen. 122 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Im gegenwärtigen Vertragswettbewerb um die ambulante Krankenversorgung droht einer Reihe gesetzlicher Krankenkassen die Zahlungsunfähigkeit. Dagegen hat der Gesetzgeber im «Gesetz zur Weiterentwicklung der Organisationsstrukturen in der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV-OrgWG)» Vorkehrungen getroffen; er sieht die Möglichkeit der Insolvenz mit der Folge ihrer Schließung vor. Zugleich regelt er die Haftung. Ob aber darin tatsächlich eine Fortentwicklung der GKV-Strukturen ¿ auch unter Wettbewerbsgesichtspunkten und in gemeinschaftsrechtlicher Perspektive ¿ liegt, ist innerhalb der Fachöffentlichkeit umstritten. Dieser Band setzt sich mit den Konsequenzen des gesetzgeberischen Eingreifens und den Handlungsoptionen auseinander. 116 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Die Ringvorlesung «Entwicklung in Afrika. Fortschritt oder Rückschritt » am Otto-Suhr-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin, die dieser Band dokumentiert, ist ein aktueller Beitrag zur entwicklungspolitischen Debatte. Es steht außer Frage, dass sich die Länder Afrikas ebenso wie andere Länder entwickeln. Zweifel gibt es jedoch, ob die Entwicklung der letzten Jahre positiv oder negativ zu bewerten ist. Die Experten streiten sich. Die im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung vorgenommene genauere Betrachtung zahlreicher Aspekte von Afrikas Entwicklung geht vor allem der Frage nach, wohin Afrika zukünftig steuert und welche Herausforderungen sich daraus auch für Europa ergeben. 230 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Corpora are among the hottest issues in translation studies affecting both pure and applied realms of the discipline. As for pure translation studies, corpora have done their part through contributions to the studies on translational language and translation universals. Yet, their recent contribution is within the borders of applied translation studies, i.e. translator training and translation aids. The former is the major focus of the present book.The present book in fact aims at providing readers with comprehensive information about corpora in translation studies in general, and corpora in translator education in particular. It further offers researchers and practitioners a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of studies done on corpora in translator education and provides a rich source of information on pros and cons of using different types of corpora as translation aids in the context of translation classrooms.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 156 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -With its rapidly growing population of Muslim citizens and migrant workers Russia is claiming its role in the Islamic world. This volume analyzes the complexity of Russian Islam, the conflicts between the conservative clerical institutions and the grass-roots radicals as well as the highly visible Islamization of daily life in some Muslim-inhabited regions. Russiäs experience with «native» Islam, whose roots go back to the Middle Ages, holds lessons for dealing with an evolving European Islam which is no longer based on immigration but is becoming a domestic phenomenon. 244 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This study was drafted during an eventful and turbulent period in terms of European fundamental rights. After about four decades of gradual development of a fundamental rights doctrine by an increasingly problem-oriented casuistry of the European Court of Justice, the way to a fundamental rights codification at the Community/Union level was paved with the adoption of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union on 7 December 2000, which today embodies the key subtance of the European acquis in the area of fundamental rights. Initially, this Charter was adopted as a mere solemn proclamation, without a direct legally binding effect. A new dimension was opened by the Lisbon Reform Treaty of 13 December 2007 (in force since 1 December 2009), into which the Charter was structurally incorporated by a cross-reference in the Treaty, which declares the Charter to be legally binding and of the same legal value as the Treaty law. On this basis, the second focal point, the institutional protection of fundamental rights, i. e., the system of judicial protection in the legal order of the Community/Union, is analysed. In conclusion, the theory is represented that the existing system of institutional protection can be adapted with minor adjustments in such a manner that it provides comprehensive and effective remedies for violations of individual fundamental rights. The creation of a specific fundamental rights complaint as a new, additional procedural Instrument with subsidiary character is, therefore, deemed to be unnecessary. 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Despite being Ireland¿s national and first official language, Irish is marginalised and threatened as a community language. The dominant discourse has long dismissed the Irish language as irrelevant or even an obstacle to Ireland¿s progress. This book critiques that discourse and contends that the promotion of Irish and sustainable socio-economic development are not mutually exclusive aims.The author surveys historical and contemporary sources, particularly those used by the Irish historian J.J. Lee, and argues that the Irish language contributes positively to socio-economic development. He grounds this argument in theoretical perspectives from sociolinguistics, political economy and development theory, and suggests a new theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between language and development. The link between the Irish language and Ireland¿s socio-economic development is examined in a number of case studies, both within the traditional Irish-speaking Gaeltacht communities and in urban areas.Following the spectacular collapse of the Irish economy in 2008, this critical challenge to the dominant discourse on development is a timely and thought-provoking study. 498 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the writing of Monika Maron. Her biography charts a complex relationship with the GDR state, from initial ideological identification to sustained, radical rejection. Situating its reflections on her work against the backdrop of a changing critical landscape, this analysis takes account of the re-contextualisation of her writing necessitated by the collapse of the GDR.The author charts the development of a number of seminal themes in Maron¿s ¿uvre. The search for an authentic form of expression in her earliest texts gave way to a focus on the writing and the rewriting of history. The demise of the political system in 1989 led to an exploration in her work of more intimate themes. Maron¿s post-Wende writing makes an important East German contribution to debates on memory transmission and generational forgetting. Her most recent novels are concerned with the rupture and the ultimate refashioning of biographies in a post-GDR age.Rereading her texts in a post-Wende light, the author explores the complexity of Maron¿s relationship with the state from which she emerged and demonstrates how this complexity manifests itself in her writing before and after 1989. This study offers new perspectives on Maron¿s work and illuminates the significance of her contribution to contemporary German literature.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 206 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Cities are both real and imaginary places whose identity is dependent on their distinctive heritage: a network of historically transmitted cultural resources. The essays in this volume, which originate from a lecture series at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, explore the complex and multi-layered identities of European cities.Themes that run through the essays include: nostalgia for a grander past; location between Eastern and Western ideologies, religions and cultures; and the fluidity and palimpsest quality of city identity.Not only does the book provide different thematic angles and a variety of approaches to the investigation of city identity, it also emphasizes the importance of diverse cultural components. The essays presented here discuss cultural forms as various as music, architecture, literature, journalism, philosophy, television, film, myths, urban planning and the naming of streets.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 252 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The European linguistic diversity goes far beyond the official national languages of the present 27 member states of the European Union. In every country several languages of smaller or larger groups of speakers are used besides the official language or the languages of the majority population. These languages are autochthonous languages that have been used for a long time in the individual country as well as allochthonous languages of different groups of migrants and their descendants. The sometimes complicated relations between national, regional and minority languages within various countries are discussed in this volume. Besides reports on several countries, the general sociolinguistic and legal conditions are dealt with in overview contributions. In addition, the Dublin Declaration on the relationship between official languages and regional and minority languages in Europe is presented in 24 languages. 196 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book describes the fundamental tenets of Catholic Radicalism, defined as an understanding of Christianity from a perspective which dismisses the traditional supernatural image of God. The essentials of Catholic Radicalism are extracted from the works of Vito Mancuso, a lay Italian theologian, whose intention is to rebuild Christian theology starting from the natural and physical reality of this world. Mancuso insists that he is a Catholic theologian despite his conviction that God should be seen today in atheistic terms, which help us understand the world from a rational perspective. The use of reason in theology is compulsory for Mancuso in order for theology to make sense in the skeptical society of our times, which is characterized by a powerful lay consciousness. 218 pp. Englisch.