Five essays (in German and English) by Jörg Rüpke have been published by Books on Demand under the title "Christmas in town". In it, he traces how Christmas has changed again and again historically and the many different ways in which people…
The Campus publishing house has published a new book by Bettina Hollstein entitled “Was hält unsere Gesellschaft zusammen?” (What Holds Our Society Together?). In this volume, volunteers at an East German soup kitchen report on their experiences,…
A new book by Jörg Oberthür and Bettina Hollstein has just been published by Suhrkamp. "Resonanz und Kritik" (Resonance and Criticism) is dedicated to perspectives on a sociology of our relations to the world.
After several years of research, Markus Vinzent, together with an international team from Digital Humanities, has for the first time presented a Greek reconstruction of the oldest collection of ten Pauline letters. According to early Christian…