Books in the Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Europeennes series

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.

This work contributes to a better understanding of DEA twofold: (i) it offers a normative solution to the zero-value weight problem and (ii) it provides the first experimental results on behavioral DEA based on an original taxonomy of cognitive biases related to performance evaluation. Behavioral DEA is a completely new research area.

South Africa was a divided society under apartheid, which also shaped the churches ethnically. The legacy of apartheid continues to cause division between people through inequality, injustice, skewed power relations, and marginalisation. This book deals with the relationship between the catholicity of the Church and the ethnicity.

This study investigates possible differences between fictional portrayals of the British Raj by Anglo-Indian authors who lived in the colony and writers who never saw the country. In an attempt to challenge Said's assumptions outlined in Orientalism, the results of the comparison will be used to discuss how consistent the colonial discourse was.

The author describes the linguistic and discursive behavior of students and teachers from the same educational level from different countries (Germany and Brazil). She analyzes how similarities and differences in individual behavior explain the institutional culture of school.

The author applies international relations theory to frame Kyrgyzstan's identity crisis: The ruling elite has to manage tensions between their strong dependency on Russia as main donor and security provider and domestic challenges in their pursuit of a national identity.

Das Werk behandelt die durch das Bundesverfassungsgericht gepragte Beobachtungs- und Nachbesserungspflicht des Gesetzgebers im Strafrecht. Die Arbeit setzt sich mit dem Inhalt und der Reichweite der Beobachtungspflicht sowie der Nachbesserungspflicht auseinander und schlagt die Gesetzesfolgenabschatzung als ein Modell zur Pflichterfullung vor.

Related Party Transactions werden im Ausland speziellen Regelungen unterworfen, die die (Minderheits-)Gesellschafter schutzen sollen. Ausgehend von einem Rechtsvergleich australischen und englischen Rechts, deckt der Autor den Regelungsbedarf im deutschen Recht auf und diskutiert moegliche Regelungsansatze.