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In post-pandemic Europe the topic of 'overtourism' is back on the policy agenda of many cities, towns and villages. How to deal with the negative effects of tourism on places and people? This edited volume brings together inspiring perspectives and detailed case studies from all over Europe to better understand the phenomenon of overtourism. Based on the challenges lying ahead, the book makes a call for tourism policies that are more balanced and argues for more interdisciplinary research.

What does it mean for the spirit world to be real? Scholars from different disciplines investigate this topic focusing on the role played by the spiritual realm in Pentecostalized Africa. The grammatical angle of their research proves to be a fruitful avenue to clarify the kind of reality or realities the spirit world has. This novel approach takes us beyond most existing research by investigating the often unaddressed assumption that we know what it means for the spirit world to be taken as real. This volume shows the importance of paying close attention to the grammar according to which people speak of spirits, Spirit, witchcraft, ancestors and other aspects of the spirit world.

This volume concentrates on all China-related Pulitzer Prize-winning articles and caricatures over the span of eighty years, 1941 - 2021. Main political phases of China's history from the nationalist movement of Chiang Kai-shek to the communist-totalitarian system of Xi Jinping are documented in this book.

This handbook aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the multi-faceted art law within the legal framework applicable to South Africa. In four 'phases', it provides answers to legal questions that arise from the initiation of an art project up to its exploitation. It is aimed at both law students who have an academic interest in an in-depth introduction to art law and practitioners from the art world, and is therefore equipped with numerous explanatory examples. The contents were prepared by students of the Art Law Clinic Stellenbosch and revised by the editors mentioned below.

In contrast to the Greek mainland, the Nazis occupied most of Crete between1941 - 45. After the German troops' defeat in North Africa, Crete wasturned into a fortress.This study examines the goals, methods and effectiveness of the Germanoccupation policy, the reactions of the Cretan administration and of thepopulation in particular, and also describes the opponents' combatoperations.The study is based not only on written papers, documents and files ofGreek, Cretan, British and German origin, but also on letters, manuscripts,expos'es and interviews by and with contemporary witnesses.Marlen von Xylander, Studies in History, Ethnology and Literature at Hamburg University;Master's degree, 1987; academic tenure at University of Crete, 1984 - 85;PhD at Hamburg University, 2009

Approaches to Monasticism in the Context of ChristianResponses to Modern Culture is a study of how the values andpractices of monasticism are being shaped by the shift to acultural understanding of Christianity in modern times. Thevalues and practices of traditional monasticism arecontrasted with those of various expressions of newmonasticism against the background of a multicultural andfluid social environment in an effort to find somereciprocal illumination. The study aims to describemonasticism in terms of authenticity and lived religion.Kevin Maddy was educated at CambridgeUniversity and has recently completed a PhD at RadboudUniversity, Nijmegen. He currently works in Canterbury as anAnglican parish priest, and is a probationary member of theSociety of the Resurrection.

The doctoral thesis about Hieratikon of priest Lucian Petroaia brings to the researchers' attention, the most important book of service of the orthodox priest. From a historical perspective, the author has carefully identified and investigated all editions of the Hieratikon printed in Romania, from 1508 to the present; from the point of view of analyzing the content of the Hieratikon, he follows the evolution of the order of the Holly Liturgy over 500 years, often comparing the text of the Romanian Hieratikon with that of the Greek Hieratikon and the Slavic Slujebnik. The interdisciplinary approach emphasizes the essential role that the Orthodox liturgical cult had for the assertion of Romanian culture, in the landscape of the European and Universal culture. Priest Lucian Petroaia is an associate professor in Liturgical Theology at the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology at "Lower Danube" University in Galaţi and at "Justinian Patriarch" Faculty of Orthodox Theology at University of Bucharest, Romania.

In this volume, the author, former Director of missiology and for may years professor of missiology, religious anthropology and interreligious dialogue at Saint Paul University, Ottawa, "goes spiritually throughout the whole world" in order to study the interplay between "white supremacy" and christianization of the poeples. Where does this interplay happen and under which conditions ..., slavery, colonialism, economical factors and so forth. A great difference in "doing mission" becomes visible between Asia, (India, China, Japan) and the rest of the world. Currently Dr.Thomas Mooren, Ofmcap, teaches in Papuanewguinea and the Philippines.

The volume is the result of a Lecture Series onThe Levant, Cradle of Abrahamic Religions, whichengaged scholars on topics related to the cultural andreligious diversity of the historical Levant. Like a jigsaw, the studies contained within showcase interlock fragments ofthe historical encounters between faiths, religions andsocieties in a rich Levantine and Oriental space, in anattempt to render them more accessible to readers today byfocusing both on broader religious phenomena as well as onthe practical, liturgical and social interaction betweentraditions and mentalities, features representative of bothfaith and society at large. Catalin-Stefan Popa is Director of theHistory Department within The Institute for Advanced Studiesin Levant Culture and Civilization (ISACCL), Bucharest, Romania and Senior Researcher at the Romanian Academy.

This collection of case studies is concerned with tombs thattestify to transnational history. Special attention is givento tombs of Westerners and Russians still extant in GreaterChina, but also to those of some noted Chinese who wereinvolved in transnational history during the 20th century.Tombs have a special potential to cast familiar things in anew light. They also provide the possibility tocounter-check received narratives which might have beentailored along certain vested interests and circulated withspecific target groups in mind.Gotelind Müller is Professor of ChineseStudies at the University of Heidelberg.

Although there has not been war in Swedish territory for many years, this does not mean that the country has no veterans who have experienced the challenges of war zone deployments or suffer from combat trauma. The Invisible Wounded Warriors in a Nation at Peace gives a rare look at the international operations of the Swedish military, while offering the reader a unique and deeper understanding of life with PTSD. The book uses terms such as moral injury to further describe the complexity. Complex PTSD after deployment in a conflict zone is a uniquely complicated web of problems that can have medical, psychological, moral, existential and spiritual dimensions. The book discusses what this might mean from an identity and pastoral care perspective. Jan Grimell is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology at Uppsala University. He has also conducted postdoctoral research in spiritual care at the Unit for Research and Analysis within the Church of Sweden. He is affiliated with Linnaeus University and the Amsterdam Centre for the Study of Lived Religion at Vrije Universiteit.

This volume offers contributions to two basic questions of the study of the Tosefta: How can we describe the character and relationship of the Tosefta manuscripts? And how does the Tosefta relate to other rabbinic traditions and texts? It also sheds light on other topics of Tosefta research: "magic", emotions, and gender. The volume, based on two international colloquia in Munster in 2016 and 2017, marks the beginning of a new phase in the study of Tosefta, encouraging an international conversation between scholars on method and contents.Lutz Doering, Dr. theol. habil., since 2014 Professor of New Testament and Ancient Judaism and Director of the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum at the University of Münster.Daniel Schumann, Dr. theol., 2014 - 2018 Lecturer at the University of Münster, 2018 - 2020 Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford, since 2020 Lecturer at the University of Tübingen.

Essays collected in this volume deal with various problems from the philosophy of mathematics. What connects them are two questions: how mathematics is created and how it is acquired. In 'Three Worlds of Mathematics' we are familiarized with David Tall's ideas pertaining to the embodied, symbolic and formal worlds of mathematics. In 'Basic Ideas of Intuitionism', we focus on an epistemological approach to mathematics which is distinctive to constructive mathematics. The author focuses on the computational content of intuitionistic logic and shows how it relates to functional programming. 'The Brave Mathematical Ant' carefully selects mathematical puzzles related to teaching experiences in a way that the solution requires creativity and is not obtainable by following an algorithm. Moreover the solution gives us some new insight into the underlying idea. 'Degrees Of Accessibility Of Mathematical Objects' discusses various criteria which can be used to judge accessibility of mathematical objects. We find logical complexity, range of applications, existence of a physical model as well as aesthetic values.Jerzy Pogonowski, Faculty of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, AdamMickiewicz University, PoznańSzymon Chlebowski, Faculty of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, AdamMickiewicz University, PoznańBarbara Borkowicz, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, AdamMickiewicz University, Poznań

Social suffering commands increasing public attention in the wake of several historical processes that have changed the ways victims are perceived. In making suffering eloquent by rendering it in conceptual form, philosophy runs the risk of muting suffering, thereby neutralizing its ability to mobilize responses. In the experience of suffering philosophy finds a limit it must recognize as its own. Yet only by fulfilling its duty towards suffering - only by having the abolition of suffering as its ultimate goal - can philosophical thinking withstand a tacit complicity with injustice.José A. Zamora. Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy (Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research - CSIC), Madrid-Spain.Reyes Mate. Emeritus Research Professor at the Institute of Philosophy (Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research - CSIC), Madrid-Spain.