Cultural Studies

Reality and fiction are basic ontological categories, but they are not only subjects for philosophy. Theorizing in various fields of the humanities has developed an understanding of these categories and has put them in a dynamic relationship. The articles in this volume investigate the synchronic and diachronic variation in their relationship.

This handbook brings together both classic and cutting-edge methods for interpreting the New Testament. Chapters on historical-critical, literary, and reader-response approaches showcase the wide methodological range through which the text's original setting and its contemporary significance can be explored.

Luther used and coined a rich arsenal of battle names and pejorative terms with which he labelled his 'radical' opponents and through which he marked 'deviation' from his own position. Thomas Hahn-Bruckart explores these and other strategies of linguistic inclusion and exclusion to trace how identity and alterity was marked and contoured in the early Wittenberg Reformation.

The speeches, essays and newspaper articles of Marianne Weber (1870-1954) gathered here allow her to step out from her famous husband Max's shadow to reveal a campaigner who fought tirelessly for the education of women and their equal rights and pay during the transition from the German Empire to the Weimar Republic. As this volume amplifies, it is time for her voice to be heard.