Cultural Studies

The contributors to this volume explore the future of EU Cohesion Policy, one of the main pillars of the EU budget. With contributions from 15 experts, the volume focuses on the rationale of Cohesion Policy, its economic impacts over 30 years, effectiveness factors, and ways to enhance performance and evaluations.

In this volume, the Munich and Vienna-based theologian Falk Wagner's work in the fields of philosophical theology, sociology and lived religion is taken up for the first time against the backdrop of current theological and philosophical controversies.

Trademarks that are devoid of any distinctive character, that are descriptive or represent a common designation cannot be registered. However, these obstacles can be overcome if a trademark has gained distinctiveness through being used. Norman Dauskardt examines the highly controversial requirements set out for this instrument in German and European trademark law.

This volume explores Dewi Z. Phillips' contemplative philosophy of religion in an intense and lively discussion, showing how the description of religious faith and the access to its practice and language change unexpectedly and provocatively in this way of thinking.