This PhD research examined contemporary perceptions of Female Genital Cutting (FGC) through the lens of competing authoritative discourses. It maintained a particular focus on conceptualizations of the relation between FGC and religion, ...read more
The topic of this PhD thesis is “Equilibrium – An Empirical Study of Buddhist Monastic Practices in Taiwan: Master Chan Yun’s Eight Precepts”. The research focuses on the religious experiences ...read more
Lusoga (JE16) is a largely undocumented Great Lakes Bantu language and only primers and basic grammatical descriptions were available at the beginning of this study. At the time, the existing ...read more
Izmir is a metropolitan Turkish city located at Aegean Sea connected with Mediterranean Sea. Parallel to global developments in tourism many local organisations are looking for making Izmir a brand ...read more
Conducted within the interdisciplinary Ghent Urban Studies Team [GUST], this research stands midway between literary and urban studies. 'Eutopia Unbound' lays the foundation for a method of analyzing the narrative ...read more
The present research has three aims. The first is to explore how far extant monastic institutions maintain a sense of continuity vis-à-vis the three above-mentioned historical codices, in both theory ...read more