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Open Science encompasses practices that make the scientific process more transparent, accessible, and the output reusable. Despite comprehensive...

In view of the profound upheavals in the course of the current media revolution - triggered by 'intelligent' algorithms and advancing digitaliza...

Women matter. They conceive, bear new life, and are mostly responsible for raising their children. So how can it be that it is still mainly men’...

The question of the conditio humana must be posed anew today under the conditions of the almost fantastic dimensions of the media-techn...

The present volume is the first in a series that provides an introductory treatment of central topics in linguistics. Its aim is to offer studen...

The collective publication is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Styrian Art History project at the University of Graz. Authors from all o...

With its numerous references to the First Testament, the Magnificat recalls the saving power of God in the face of historical counter-experience...

Which kind of music do I listen to and which not? Can I go to a classical music concert if I have never been to one? Can I, as a pop music fan, ...

Awareness of history, learning about history and narrative are concepts that have become an integral part of the didactics of history. These ter...

The 1st Austrian Library Congress, which took place in Innsbruck in May 2023, marked a significant milestone in the cooperation between the Asso...

Interest in traditional school languages such as English, French, Italian, and Spanish has changed considerably in  the tertiary education secto...

The deaf-blind poet Irene Ransburg (1898-1944) and the blind German philology student Gisela Kaufmann (1907-1941) were two extraordinary women i...

Curiosity and commitment are driving forces of the cultural sciences and anthropology – but they also serve as buzzwords within the Janus-faced ...

Since its foundation in 1778, the Faculty of Law in Graz can look back on a remarkable success story, written by numerous renowned academics who...

This book introduces and explains essential prerequisites for understanding, applying, researching, and further developing the tools currently d...

The “Handbuch Repositorienmanagement” (Handbook of Repository Management) offers comprehensive help and a working basis for all those who deal w...

The alchemical laboratory was a seminal site for the birth of modern science. Before their institutionalization, chymical laboratories were typi...

The Irreverse is the world we live in. It is a world defined by the inability to go back, undo or rewind. Even when we retrace ou...

What defines moral disagreements, and how should we respond to them? This book answers these questions through an intuitionist theory. It does s...

The focus of this anthology is on linguistic action patterns as socially elaborated forms of acts and on text types as tried and tested procedur...

At the center of the promise of a new covenant in Jer 31:31–34 is YHWH’s promise that he himself will one day write his Torah on Israel’s heart....

Rev 21:1–22:5 describes in a great final vision the completion of salvation in the image of the new creation and the heavenly Jerusalem. The art...

Wort-Schatz Bibel – das heißt: biblische Texte und Erzählungen wissenschaftlich konzise bearbeitet, kontextsensibel interpretiert, lebens- und p...

Wort-Schatz Bibel – das heißt: biblische Texte und Erzählungen wissenschaftlich konzise bearbeitet, kontextsensibel interpretiert, lebens- und p...

The calling of two pairs of brothers to follow Jesus is the first individual event in Jesus‘ public ministry reported in Mark‘s Gospel. The Gosp...

The publication focuses on the topic of nature as a transdisciplinary phenomenon in the context of cultural studies, with a focus on the fores...

The calling of two pairs of brothers to follow Jesus is the first individual event in Jesus’ public ministry reported in Mark’s Gospel. The Gosp...

English Language Teaching (ELT) has become an integral part of the Austrian education system and as such comes with its own demands and challeng...

The theologian and professor of religious studies F. Claus Schedl CSsR (1914–1984) was not only a renowned scholar and university teacher in Mau...

While the discourse of peace and conflict research is already very broad, the field of academic engagement with the phenomena of peace and confl...

Is depression the companion of the modern individual? Does it predominantly affect the – female – youth? And what role does neoliberalism play i...

This paper “The Code-Switching of bilingual Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, German-speaking children – a linguistic study of preschool children with a...

At the center of the promise of a new covenant in Jer 31:31–34 is Yhwh’s promise that he himself will one day write his Torah on Israel’s heart....

In contrast to abundant evidence of active participation of women in teaching and communal leadership in the Pauline epistles, according to 1 Co...

Until today, the creation texts in Genesis influence the human world-relationships in a very strong manner: the relationship to inanimate creati...

How do literary sounds convey violence in postcolonial literature? And how does the literary imagination of sound generate meaning  on a politic...

This book examines memory cultures within italophone migration literature. Starting with a definition of the genre ‘migration literature’ and it...

This work presents an investigation of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s speech production in his first language (L1), Austrian German, and his second lan...

This thesis is dedicated to cinematic adaptations of literature. For this, two works shall be analysed: the story IHR GLÜCKLICHEN AUGEN by Ingeb...

The Association of Austrian Librarians will celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2021. On the initiative of Bruno Bauer, articles on the VÖB and it...

The 34th Austrian Librarians’ Conference focused on “artificial intelligence in libraries”. Austrian and international experts reported on and d...

After presenting the content and structure of the Old Testament Book of Exodus, the exegesis of Exodus 3, 1–17 forms the centre of this article....

Isaiah 6 is unique: This narrative of a prophetic vocation does not stand at the beginning, as e. g. Jeremiah 1 or Ezekiel 1–3. God is called th...

Paul’s seven authentic letters show Christian congregations where women have equal rights to men, playing an active part in preaching the gospel...

The best-known texts of the entire Gospel literature, the parables of the lost sheep, the lost drachma and the prodigal son in Lk 15, are first ...

The parting of the Sea and the Iraelites’ crossing are among the iconic moments of the Old Testament. However, strictly speaking this well known...

The narration of the almost fulfilled sacrifice of Isaac, commanded by God, leads theology towards a climax and, at the same time, towards the l...

Isa 7,1–17, one of the most discussed biblical passages in the history of interpretation, belongs to the oldest part of the book of Isaiah. In t...

Students are often referred to as "digital natives" who are assumed to be competent in the use of digital technologies. The fact that university...