Digital archives are transforming the Humanities and the Sciences. Digitized collections of newspapers and books have pushed scholars to develop ne...

Debates about the possibility of an open culture – or indeed about the possibility of an open debate about the openness of culture – often turn on ...

Biodiversity should not be understood in biological terms only and as a thing apart from society, but rather as biocultural diversity present in th...

Societies have culturally framed and interacted with historical climate variability or anthropogenic climate change and climatic extremes, thereby ...

So far, human-machine encounters have primarily been tested and monitored in controlled laboratory settings. However, the first robots that are use...

Comparisons affect various ways of perceiving and interpreting the world, characterized by distinct legitimization strategies and knowledge applica...

Digital Humanities is a transformational endeavor that not only changes the perception, storage, and interpretation of information but also of rese...

How has faith developed in the US and German societies across the last decades? In a three-wave longitudinal investigation of faith development, th...

The richness of social and cultural theory in the humanities offers countless opportunities for using theory-informed concepts in data-based analys...

Across the globe, a growing number of social movements, such as demonstrations in support of equal civil status or reproductive freedom and against...

Why did »equality« become prominent in European societies based on hierarchy during the Enlightenment? What does »equality« imply for societies, po...

Socio-ecological conflicts about land use in Latin America are complex: they involve various actors and flare up due to the dynamics of colonizatio...

Faith Development Interviews offer great insight into people's ways of (non-)religious meaning-making, and of looking at their life and relationshi...

How do socio-environmental conflicts and entanglements relate to small and large-scale mining and energy projects? Volume V of the “Handbook of the...

As a powerful tool in the production of knowledge, comparing plays a crucial part in the sciences and the humanities. This volume explores the rela...

The work of Pierre Rosanvallon has increasingly found itself at the center of debates in democratic and political theory – although only few of his...

Practices of comparing shape how we perceive, organize, and change the world. Supposedly innocent, practices of comparing play a decisive role in f...

Hate is being reinvented. Over the last two decades, online platforms have been used to repackage racist, sexist and xenophobic ideologies into new...

How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? How do street-level bureaucrats deal with competing rationalities and demands for...

Religious studies have long discussed the comparative notion of »holy« beyond religious, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. In this book, Thomas ...

What distinguishes an adventure novel from a historical novel? Can the same text belong to several genres? More to one than to another? Have some e...

Luhmann's theory is fascinating and complex. It offers incomparably enlightening insights, references and research opportunities, but reveals its u...

Throughout the history of the Americas, sentiments toward the environment have been problematized and aestheticized through visual representations ...

Conflicts and struggles like urbanization processes and the productive use of water have impacted the relationship of Latin American and Caribbean ...