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Thomas überall. Ein kommentierter Reisebericht auf den Spuren der Thomaschristen in Indien. Mitteilungen zur Christlichen Archäologie|Mitteilungen zur Christlichen Archäologie 27 27|
No full textIn 2019, a group of Viennese students visited India’s St. Thomas Christians. The places visited offer a view of the diverse state of Christianity in India today and of its complex historical development. The St. Thomas Christians trace their origins to the missionary activity of the Apostle Thomas himself, and to this day remain deeply connected with the Syrian liturgical tradition. A process of Latinization began with the arrival of the Portuguese in the 15th/16th centuries, which engendered resistance and gave rise to numerous divisions amongst the Indian Christians. Anglican missionaries also made their mark, so that there are today a number of discrete St. Thomas Christian Churches. It is clear that ecumenical dialogue is enlivened by personal contact and encounter, as well as scientific engagement; this study trip itself took a step in this direction
»Eager to Go to the Desert«: Ambiguous Views on Ascetic Women’s Holy Travels in Late Antiquity. Medieval Worlds|Urban Agencies: Reframing Anatolian and Caucasian Cities (13th-14th Centuries) & Movement and Mobility in the Medieval Mediterranean: Changing Perspectives from Late Antiquity to the Long-Twelfth Century, II - Volume 14. 2021 medieval worlds Volume 14. 2021|
No full textStarting with the fourth century, when religious travels to the Holy Land had gained popularity, Greek and Latin male Christian writers expressed their views on pilgrimages by women. While some of them advised their spiritual daughters to focus rather on the internal spiritual journey towards the Jerusalem of the heart, others acknowledged the merits of physical presence in holy places. The aim of this paper is to contextualize these views in order to explain why they varied
Time is Money: Could Deferred Graduate Retirement Finance Higher Education?
No full textHigher education is never free - the question is: who should pay for it? Current policy debates in Europe are increasingly focusing on raising the share of private funding. To date, policy discussions have centred on a relatively small number of alternatives, namely full public funding, tuition fees, either up-front or delayed and income-contingent, or a surtax on graduate incomes. Here, I present an alternative that, to my knowledge, has not been suggested previously, but sidesteps some important objections against other forms of private contributions. The basic idea explored here is to increase the statutory retirement age for higher education graduates relative to non-graduates. In principle, the resulting decrease in future public pension liabilities can be converted into increased funds for present spending on higher education. In this first discussion of the above proposal I consider important caveats, perform an order-of-magnitude estimate of financial feasibility, i.e. whether deferred graduate retirement (DGR) could potentially raise sufficient funds to replace tuition fees, and discuss advantages and disadvantages compared to more established policy options. I conclude that, at least in the European context, DGR is potentially feasible both financially and politically, has a number of desirable properties compared to the alternatives, and deserves more serious investigation
Property, Law and Politics: Response to Emily Mackil. Akten der Gesellschaft für Griechische und Hellenistische Rechtsgeschichte|(28) Symposion 2019 Akten der Gesellschaft für griechische und hellenistische Rechtsgeschichte Band 28|
No full textSupplementary Table 2 – Examples of the conservation, development and logistical support functions from Borsdorf et al. (2020). eco.mont (Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management)|eco.mont Vol. 13 special issue 2021|
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III. The acquisition and processing of (mor)phonotactic consonant clusters in German. Veröffentlichungen zur Linguistik und Kommunikationsforschung|Experimental, Acquisitional and Corpus linguistic Approaches to the Study of Morphonotactics Veröffentlichungen zur Linguistik und Kommunikationsforschung Band 33|
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