Book Review: Samuels, A. (2019). After the Tsunami: Disaster Narratives and the Remaking of Everyday Life in Aceh.
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Category: German
The Golden Mile Complex
The Golden Mile Complex is one of Singapore’s first shopping malls, built as part of the postcolonial government’s plan to expand and redevelop the urban center. Barely a decade into its existence, Thai eateries, shops, and remittance centers sprang up…
Sustainable Community-Based Tourism in Cambodia and Tourists’ Willingness to Pay
Community-Based Tourism (CBT) sites are often seen as a tool for poverty alleviation and eradication, especially in Least Developed Countries like Cambodia. CBT as a development tool has been critically examined in recent years in a development coopera…
Language and Community-Based Tourism
Language and tourism are essentially interconnected by the cross-border movement of tourists and the resulting encounters of people who often speak different languages. These relationships, however, have not been explored very much in the context of co…
Volunteer Tourists and the SDGs in Bali
Volunteer tourism is an ever-growing phenomenon and a multi-million-pounds industry, particularly in developing countries. Despite the manifold criticism for its neo-colonial nature – self-centered volunteers who romanticize the Global South as ‘poor b…
Local Tourism Businesses in Indonesia
The aim of this paper is to explore ways in which small tourism-based enterprises can offer a crisis-resilient pathway to sustainable development. Based on a mixed-embeddedness framework, this paper explores the multiple strategies that small enterpris…
Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals in Southeast Asia
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 goals adopted in 2015, are aimed at reconciling economic, social, and ecological progress at a global level – ensuring a sustainable future for developed and developing countries alike. Tourism in S…
Book Review: Dolezal, C., Trupp, A., & Bui, H. T. (Eds.). (2020). Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia.
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Indigenous Peoples, the State, and the Economy in Indonesia
Some communities in Indonesia’s margins have adopted indigenous identities to overcome stigmatization as ‘backward’. Following recent government efforts to develop Indonesia’s peripheral areas, these communities can also identify as entrepreneurs becau…
Deciphering the Development of Smart and Sustainable Tourism Cities in Southeast Asia
A recognized desire is noticeable within ASEAN nations to develop more sustainable approaches to urban development and tourism. One solution has been to promote the expansion of both smart cities and smart tourism pr…
Gold Rush Abroad
Sex work is part of Thailand’s tourism-based economic development model. The country’s global reputation as a ‘queer paradise’ is an important factor shaping Thailand’s sex tourism and linking it to the global sex industry. This paper addresses transna…
Aushandlungen von Schwangerschaftsverhütung im Kontext digitaler Selbstbeobachtung
Zahlreiche Menschen nutzen digitale Technologien zur alltäglichen Selbstdokumentation. Hannah Rotthaus untersucht am Beispiel von Schwangerschaftsverhütung, wie die digitale Selbstbeobachtung auch in intime Lebensbereiche eingebunden ist. In ihrer Anal…
15 | 2020 – Jahresausgabe 2020
Eine Einführung in das Religionsverständnis der zeitgenössischen chinesischen Religionswissenschaft [Volltext]
Jialu Zheng
Die »Sympathie mit dem Tode« [Volltext]
Felix Jueterbo…
14 | 2019 – Jahresausgabe 2019
Tagungsberichte
Conference Reports
Comptes-rendus de conférences
Multiple Religious Identities: Students’ Interviews with Keynote Speakers of…
13 | 2018 – Jahresausgabe 2018
Editorial [Volltext]
Anne Beutter, Annelie Schramm und Benedikt Erb
Sufismus als Esoterik [Volltext]
Cüneyd Yildirim
Religion(en) im Mittelalter und…
12 | 2017 – Jahresausgabe 2017
Editorial [Volltext]
Anne Beutter, Moritz Klenk und Stefan Schröder
Kryptozoologie als Legitimationsstrategie im Kreationismus [Volltext]
Fabian Thunig
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11 | 2016 – Jahresausgabe 2016
Editorial [Volltext]
Anne Beutter, Moritz Klenk und Stefan Schröder
Spirituality as peace work [Volltext]
Annalena Groppe
Grenzen religionswissenscha…
10 | 2015 – Jahresausgabe 2015
Editorial [Volltext]
Anne Beutter, Moritz Klenk und Stefan Schröder
Mein Jainismus, dein Jainismus? Unser Jainismus! [Volltext]
Mirjam Iseli
»Den Tau…
9 | 2014 – Jahresausgabe 2014
Editorial [Volltext]
Moritz Klenk, Vanessa Meier und Stefan Schröder
New Religious Spaces in the Megacity [Volltext]
Ricardo Amigo
Ancient Minds Not …
8 | 2013 – Jahresausgabe 2013
Editorial [Volltext]
Moritz Klenk, Vanessa Meier und Stefan Schröder
Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und populäre Geschichte im Frühen Judentum zwischen »Fortschrittsoptimismus« und »Kulturpessi…
7 | 2012 – Jahresausgabe 2012
Editorial [Volltext]
Moritz Klenk, Vanessa Meier und Stefan Schröder
The use of the »Brainwashing« Theory by the Anti-cult Movement in the United States of America, pre-1996 [Volltext]
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6 | 2011 – Jahresausgabe 2011
Hermann Hesse – Monte Verità [Volltext]
Martin Radermacher
Neugründung innerhalb der DVRW: der »Arbeitskreis Nachwuchs« [Volltext]
Anna Neumaier
Reze…