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Worshipping the Ideal King: On the Social Implications of Medieval Jaina Conversion Stories (2010)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2010). Worshipping the Ideal King: On the Social Implications of Medieval Jaina Conversion Stories. In P. Schalk, M. Deeg, O. Freiberger, C. Kleine, & A. van Nahl (Eds.), Geschichten und Geschichte: Historiographie und Hagiographie in der asiatischen Religionsgeschichte (357-432). Uppsala

The article argues that not only Jaina poetic fiction, but also the genres of Jain history, even ‘plain’ chronologies, are shaped by the imperatives of religious pragmatics. It demonstrates how through the rhetorical device of ‘communicative self-ref... Read More about Worshipping the Ideal King: On the Social Implications of Medieval Jaina Conversion Stories.

Heidegger’s Approach to Being: Man as the Fundament of Ontology (2010)
Journal Article
Imafidon, E. (2010). Heidegger’s Approach to Being: Man as the Fundament of Ontology. Kaygı (Bursa), 14, 27-43

In contrast to the metaphysics of presence or substance ontology of traditional metaphysical thinking, this paper is an analysis of Martin Heidegger’s approach to Being where the individual or Dasein is the route to, the illuminator of, and the sheph... Read More about Heidegger’s Approach to Being: Man as the Fundament of Ontology.

Ricoeur’s Translation Model as a Mutual Labour of Understanding (2010)
Journal Article
Scott-Baumann, A. Ricoeur’s Translation Model as a Mutual Labour of Understanding. Theory, Culture and Society, 27(5), 69-85. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276410374630

Ricoeur has written about translation as an ethical paradigm. Translation from one language to another, and within one’s own language, provides both a metaphor and a real mechanism for explaining oneself to the other. Attempting and failing to achiev... Read More about Ricoeur’s Translation Model as a Mutual Labour of Understanding.

Making Sense Of Strange Places: Mining And Railway Construction In Burma And The Gold Coast In The Early Twentieth Century (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2010, September). Making Sense Of Strange Places: Mining And Railway Construction In Burma And The Gold Coast In The Early Twentieth Century. Presented at University of Michigan Center for Southeast Asian Studies Public Lectures, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1636 SSWB/International Institute

Deciding whether or not the colonial state was interested in supporting economic development depends upon the interpretation of a vast and often internally contradictory range of correspondence and government decisions in numerous offices, the field... Read More about Making Sense Of Strange Places: Mining And Railway Construction In Burma And The Gold Coast In The Early Twentieth Century.

The Dogs of Ninkilim, part two: Babylonian rituals to counter field pests (2010)
Journal Article
George, A., Taniguchi, J., & Geller, M. J. (2010). The Dogs of Ninkilim, part two: Babylonian rituals to counter field pests. Iraq, 72, 79-148. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021088900000607

This article presents editions of all the extant Babylonian incantations against field pests. The sources date to the first millennium BC and many have not been published before. They are mostly tablets of the Neo-Assyrian period, from Ashurbanipal's... Read More about The Dogs of Ninkilim, part two: Babylonian rituals to counter field pests.