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This rich ethnographic and socio-historical account uncovers how toxicity and safety are expressed transculturally in a globalizing world. For the first time, it unpacks the "pharmaceutical nexus" of mercury in Tibetan medicine (Sowa Rigpa) where, since the thirteenth century, it has mainly been used in the form of tsotel. Tsotel, an organometallic mercury sulfide compound, is added in small amounts to specific medicines to enhance the potency of other ingredients. In concordance with tantric Buddhist ideas, Tibetan medical practitioners confront and tame poisonous substances, and instead of avoiding or expelling them, transform them into potent medicines and elixirs.

Recently, the UN Environment Programme's global ban on mercury, the Minamata Convention, has sparked debates on the use of mercury in Asian medicines. As Asian medical traditions increasingly intersect with biomedical science and technology, what is at stake when Tibetan medical practitioners in India and Nepal, researchers, and regulators negotiate mercury's toxicity and safety? Who determines what is "toxic" and what is "safe," and how? What does this mean for the future of traditional Asian medical and pharmaceutical practices? - Diese umfassende ethnografische und sozio-historische Forschungsarbeit zeigt, wie verschiedene Sichtweisen von Toxizität und Sicherheit in einer globalisierenden Welt transkulturell zum Ausdruck kommen. Das Buch untersucht erstmalig den "pharmaceutical nexus" von Quecksilber in der tibetischen Medizin (Sowa Rigpa). Dort wird es seit dem 13. Jahrhundert hauptsächlich in Form von tsotel, einer metallorganischen Quecksilbersulfidverbindung verwendet, welches in kleinen Mengen bestimmten Arzneimitteln zugesetzt wird, um die Wirksamkeit anderer Inhaltsstoffe zu verbessern. In Übereinstimmung mit tantrisch-buddhistischen Ideen setzen sich tibetische Ärzte mit giftigen Substanzen auseinander und verwandeln sie durch "Zähmung" in wirksame Medikamente und Elixiere, anstatt sie zu vermeiden oder auszuleiten.

Seit kurzem löst das vom Umweltprogramm der Vereinten Nationen initiierte weltweite Minamata-Übereinkommen Debatten über die Verwendung von Quecksilber in asiatischen Arzneimitteln aus. In diesem Zusammenhang interagieren asiatische Medizintraditionen zunehmend mit biomedizinischer Wissenschaft und Technologie. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, was auf dem Spiel steht, wenn tibetische Ärzte in Indien und Nepal, Forscher und Aufsichtsbehörden die Toxizität und Sicherheit von Quecksilber unterschiedlich definieren. Wer bestimmt, was "giftig" und was "sicher" ist, und wie? Was bedeutet dies für die Zukunft der traditionellen asiatischen medizinischen und pharmazeutischen Praxis?

This open access volume surveys the state of the field to examine whether a fifth wave of deterrence theory is emerging. Bringing together insights from world-leading experts from three continents, the volume identifies the most pressing strategic challenges, frames theoretical concepts, and describes new strategies. The use and utility of deterrence in today's strategic environment is a topic of paramount concern to scholars, strategists and policymakers. Ours is a period of considerable strategic turbulence, which in recent years has featured a renewed emphasis on nuclear weapons used in defence postures across different theatres; a dramatic growth in the scale of military cyber capabilities and the frequency with which these are used; and rapid technological progress including the proliferation of long-range strike and unmanned systems. These military-strategic developments occur in a polarized international system, where cooperation between leading powers on arms control regimes is breaking down, states widely make use of hybrid conflict strategies, and the number of internationalized intrastate proxy conflicts has quintupled over the past two decades. Contemporary conflict actors exploit a wider gamut of coercive instruments, which they apply across a wider range of domains. The prevalence of multi-domain coercion across but also beyond traditional dimensions of armed conflict raises an important question: what does effective deterrence look like in the 21st century? Answering that question requires a re-appraisal of key theoretical concepts and dominant strategies of Western and non-Western actors in order to assess how they hold up in today's world. Air Commodore Professor Dr. Frans Osinga is the Chair of the War Studies Department of the Netherlands Defence Academy and the Special Chair in War Studies at the University Leiden. Dr. Tim Sweijs is the Director of Research at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda.

The analysis of origin-destination traffic flows may be useful in many contexts of application (e.g., urban planning, tourism economics) and have been commonly studied through the gravity model, which states that flows are proportional to ''masses" of both origin and destination, and inversely proportional to distance between them. Using data on the flow of mobile phone SIM among different aree di censimento, recorded hourly basis for several months and provided by FasterNet in the context of MoSoRe project, in this work we characterize and model the dynamic of such flows over the time in the strongly urbanized and flood-prone area of the Mandolossa (western outskirts of Brescia, northern Italy), with the aim of predicting the traffic flow during flood episodes. Whereas a traditional "static" mass explanatory variable is represented by residential population (Pop), or by gross domestic product (GDP), here we propose to use a most accurate set of explanatory variables in order to better account for the dynamic over the time. First, we employ a time-varying mass variable represented by the number of city-users by area and by time period, which has been estimated from mobile phone data (provided by TIM) using functional data approach and already adopted to derive crowding maps for flood exposure. Secondly, we include in the model a proper set of factors such as areal and time dummies, and a novel set of indices related to (e.g.) the number and the type of streets, the number of offices, restaurants or cinemas, which may be retrieved from OpenStreetMap. The joint use of these two novel sets of explanatory variables should allow us to obtain a better linear fitting of the gravity model and a better traffic flow prediction for the flood risk evaluation.

This book provides a new evolutionary perspective on outsourcing. The traditional prioritization of continuous outsourcing has resulted in increased hidden costs that have sabotaged business profits. As a result of undisciplined outsourcing, businesses have lost a defining characteristic of their success: decision control. In contrast, the ability to combine outsourcing with backsourcing is a winning strategy for business leaders across a broad range of industries. In this book, the author traces the essence of the outsourcing industry as it has evolved over the past two centuries. With compelling case studies from the pharmaceutical, aviation, insurance, and cookware industries, this book moves beyond theorizing. It highlights key insights from some of the leading outsourcing pioneers who helped to define the industry. The case studies demonstrate the evolution of outsourcing, from a past marked by a costly outsourcing approach to a future fueled by the diversification of sourcing for optimal business success. Through the provision of decision models and best practices, this book provides academics and practitioners with tangible steps to implement successful outsourcing and backsourcing strategies. Lazaro A. Mederos is a global strategy leader and outsourcing executive with more than 20 years of international experience helping businesses thrive. He managed country-wide client engagements with IBM Strategic Outsourcing, and ultimately led an IBM organization comprised of more than 700 resources worldwide. Dr. Mederos is the President of the Board of Directors at the Backsourcing Advisory, a think tank community of global outsourcing leaders. He is also deeply engaged in community outreach to support the development of future business leaders. In recognition of his contributions, he was awarded the United States President's Volunteer Service Award, as well as the 2018 South Florida Community Leadership Award. Dr. Mederos attained a BBA from Florida International University, USA; MBA from Nova Southeastern University, USA; and a Doctorate of Business Administration from Grenoble École de Management, France.

Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book argues that the controversy surrounding mass migration and physical borders runs in parallel and is closely connected to the debates surrounding the symbolic boundaries people need to guide on the issues of everyday life. Numerous commentators claim that borders have become irrelevant in the age of mass migration and globalisation. Some go so far as to argue for No Borders'. And it is not merely the boundaries that divide nations that are under attack! The traditional boundaries that separate adults from children, or men from women, or humans from animals, or citizens and non-citizens, or the private from the public sphere are often condemned as arbitrary, unnatural, and even unjust. Paradoxically, the attempt to alter or abolish conventional boundaries coexists with the imperative of constructing new ones. No-Border campaigners call for safe spaces. Opponents of cultural appropriation demand the policing of language and advocates of identity politics are busy building boundaries to keep out would-be encroachers on their identity. Furedi argues that the key driver of the confusion surrounding borders and boundaries is the difficulty that society has in endowing experience with meaning. The most striking symptom of this trend is the cultural devaluation of the act of judgment, which has led to a loss of clarity about the moral boundaries in everyday life. The infantilisation of adults that runs in tandem with the adultification of children offers a striking example of the consequence of non-judgmentalism. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in cultural sociology, sociology of knowledge, philosophy, political theory, and cultural studies.

"Teaching Law and Criminal Justice Through Popular Culture: A Deep Learning Approach in the Streaming Era shows how university and college professors can create an engaging environment that encourages students to take a deep approach to learning through the use of popular culture stories in law school and in criminal justice classrooms. The use of popular culture (films, TV shows, books, songs, etc.) can enhance the deep learning process by helping students develop cognitive skills, competencies, and practices that are essential for the professional practice of law and criminal justice and which are often neglected in traditional law school and criminal justice curricula. The book covers such topics as: Critical thinking skills in legal and criminal justice education The role of popular culture in educating for rapid cognition, factors that foster intrinsic motivation, using storytelling in law and criminal justice, teaching with popular culture stories, popular culture and media literacy in the classroom, lawyers and criminal justice agents and their dealings with the press Influence of popular culture stories in the legal and criminal justice fields, regulations for the use of media texts in the legal and criminal justice fields, how stereotyping is influenced by popular media, how to prepare a promising syllabus or course outline. Key features: Explains an original concept on creating a deep learning environment that will enhance teaching and learning through popular culture, , includes engaging examples from popular culture to explain the main aspects of the deep learning environment Incorporates empirical research but gives concrete and specific ideas to use in the classroom, describes in detailed form a law course taught entirely through popular culture. This unique book is the result of the author's many years of teaching as well as of many meaningful discussions in seminars and teaching and learning workshops that he facilitated. This very easy-to-read and entertaining volume will show readers how to enhance their classes by creating a motivating and engaging environment that will foster students' deep learning experiences."--

"The traditional story of how we do social policy in this country reveals a disconnect between the research community, that is producing hundreds of studies relevant to public policy, and the policy community, that is making hundreds of decisions that would benefit from research evidence. This second edition tells an even stronger, more substantiated story of all it will take to connect researchers and policymakers: A fresh look into what policymakers and the policy process are like, as told by policymakers themselves and the researchers who study and work with them An elaboration of Community Dissonance Theory, which points to culture as the culprit for why conflicts and miscommunication occur between researchers and policymakers New insights on the purposes for which policymakers use research Innovative best practices for engaging policymakers from those who excel at doing it and studying it Guiding questions for deciding whether to approach policymakers as an advocate or educator This book brings new ways of thinking about evidence-based policymaking- by advancing two theories, one that predicts policymakers' use of research and another that explains why research is underutilized in policymaking. This book holds the potential to advance the study of evidence-based policymaking- by proposing how policymakers use research for achieving policy ends, and also for achieving more immediate means to accomplish their long-term ends. This book also envisions a new future for evidence-based policy- by looking to the roots of what it would take to create cultural competence now and in the preparation of the next generation of researchers. This story is compelling because much of it is told in the voice of policymakers themselves by drawing on an unusual new study of state legislators. Moreover, it includes the studies and stories of two authors who have spent their university careers with one foot planted in research and the other in outreach"--

"Traditional governance, even when it is functioning effectively and fairly, often produces clear winners and clear losers, leaving smoldering resentments that flare up whenever there is a shift in the balance of power. Over the past two and a half decades, a new style of governance has arisen to disrupt some of that winner-takes-all dynamic, offering parties a means to collectively navigate their interests in a highly focused and democratic way. Collaborative Governance is the first true textbook on the topic, presenting a solid grounding in relevant theory while also focusing on case studies, process design, and practical tools. While existing books on collaborate governance focus on environmental and natural resource conflict resolution, this book also draws on case studies involving collaborative, community-based project implementation and cases that focus on human services and social equity. Bringing together theory and tools from the fields of negotiation and mediation, as well as political science and public administration, this book introduces students and practitioners to the theory of collaborative governance in the context of practical applications. Coverage includes: A connection of the practices of collaborative governance with the field's theoretical underpinnings Tools for students and practitioners of collaborative governance-as well as public administrators and other possible participants in collaborative governance processes-to discern when collaborative governance is appropriate in politically complex, real-world settings A roadmap for students, practitioners, and process participants to help them design-and effectively participate in-productive, efficient, and fair collaborative governance processes An exploration of constitutional democracy and the ways in which collaborative governance can be used as a tool in building a more just, fair, and functional society. Collaborative Governance is an ideal primary textbook in public administration, planning, and political science courses, as well as a jargon-free primer for professionals looking to learn more about the theory and practice of this important field"--

Crime and criminal justice processes -- Afghanistan: state and non-state oriented criminal justice systems -- Bangladesh : issues and introspections on crime and criminal justice -- Bhutan : penal laws, crimes and criminal justice processes -- India : a historical perspective of criminal justice system -- Maldives : towards the reformation of criminal justice system -- Nepal : institutions in the criminal justice system and the need for reforms -- Pakistan : criminal justice processes and issues of crime, policing, judiciary, and prisons -- Sri Lanka : criminal justice system and rule of law -- Historical perspectives of crime and justice -- Criminal justice tenets in manusmriti : a critical appraisal of the Ancient Indian Hindu Code -- Witchcraft accusation, victimization and demonology in Nepal -- Crime and justice in ancient South India (Sangam age) : gleanings from Tamil literature -- Goondas of Calcutta : crimes and policing in the colonial India -- Opium production in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan : historical milieu and counter measures -- Homicide in ancient, medieval, British and contemporary India -- Politics of crime and justice -- Terror and trafficking in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India : a routine activity approach -- War, crime, justice and social order in Afghanistan -- Organised crime, gangs and the complexity of group offending in Bangladesh -- War crimes in Sri Lanka -- Madaris and suicide terrorism in Pakistan : is there an association? -- Post-conflict crime and violence in Nepal : trends, dynamics and drivers -- Religious terrorism in Bangladesh : patterns, trends and causes -- Crime and justice policies -- Human trafficking in South Asia : regional cooperation and responses -- Religious, societal reflection and rights of transgender in India -- Transitional justice processes in Bangladesh -- "Nirbhaya incident" and juvenile justice policies in India : a situational analysis -- Crime among young offenders in Bhutan : trends, factors and determinants -- Victims and victimization -- Women victims of war and crime in Afghanistan -- Human trafficking in Nepal : a victimological perspective -- Political crime victimization in Bangladesh -- Traditional practices and victimization of women in Nepal : the case of Chhaupadi -- Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh : an examination of collective and secondary victimization -- Conclusion.

"Two eminent Deans Emeritus in two different continents unravel contemporary social and public policy issues that are seldom discussed in traditional textbooks. In a new Dickensian era, uplifting people's lives amidst faltering social institutions and massive cultural meltdowns, policy discourse is a crucial obligation; it's a discipline that entails pragmatic vision and prescient planning. Social Policy on the Cusp is a modest attempt to unravel the nexus of nihilism that thwarts even civilization-nations' efforts to promote inclusive diversity. Brij Mohan and Guy Backman have analyzed certain aspects and issues in American, European and Asian contexts that unravel intersectionality of problems, people, and policies. Brij Mohan, a policy gadfly, examines the human condition using Nietzschean, Foucautean and Gandhian thoughts that expose the hidden malaise of unhappiness, angst and anger in a globalized world. Social policy as a euphemism, he contends, sustains chaos and resentment without transforming oppressive systems. His five chapters offer penetrating insights into the problems that a therapeutic culture breeds. With an uncanny sagacity, he examines coloniality and post-colonialism as a womb that spells paroxysms of despair. Guy Bäckman has contributed five chapters, which are based on his research and findings on poverty and inequalities that plague the world today. The vision of a better, cohesive world has guided the design of the empirically oriented chapters in Part Two. Social policy, through the use of advanced technology and algorithmic solutions, promotes transformative policy actions based on preferred values and goals rooted in cultural conditions. In a new political economy, it could become the instructions we write to ourselves to navigate a society that is smarter, safer, and more just. Two invited contributions by Stan Weeber, USA and Eleni Makri, Greece, further narrate the tales of "smart city" and "workplace discrimination" in light of the failed public policies in a new brave world"--

Crime and criminal justice processes -- Afghanistan: state and non-state oriented criminal justice systems -- Bangladesh : issues and introspections on crime and criminal justice -- Bhutan : penal laws, crimes and criminal justice processes -- India : a historical perspective of criminal justice system -- Maldives : towards the reformation of criminal justice system -- Nepal : institutions in the criminal justice system and the need for reforms -- Pakistan : criminal justice processes and issues of crime, policing, judiciary, and prisons -- Sri Lanka : criminal justice system and rule of law -- Historical perspectives of crime and justice -- Criminal justice tenets in manusmriti : a critical appraisal of the Ancient Indian Hindu Code -- Witchcraft accusation, victimization and demonology in Nepal -- Crime and justice in ancient South India (Sangam age) : gleanings from Tamil literature -- Goondas of Calcutta : crimes and policing in the colonial India -- Opium production in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan : historical milieu and counter measures -- Homicide in ancient, medieval, British and contemporary India -- Politics of crime and justice -- Terror and trafficking in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India : a routine activity approach -- War, crime, justice and social order in Afghanistan -- Organised crime, gangs and the complexity of group offending in Bangladesh -- War crimes in Sri Lanka -- Madaris and suicide terrorism in Pakistan : is there an association? -- Post-conflict crime and violence in Nepal : trends, dynamics and drivers -- Religious terrorism in Bangladesh : patterns, trends and causes -- Crime and justice policies -- Human trafficking in South Asia : regional cooperation and responses -- Religious, societal reflection and rights of transgender in India -- Transitional justice processes in Bangladesh -- "Nirbhaya incident" and juvenile justice policies in India : a situational analysis -- Crime among young offenders in Bhutan : trends, factors and determinants -- Victims and victimization -- Women victims of war and crime in Afghanistan -- Human trafficking in Nepal : a victimological perspective -- Political crime victimization in Bangladesh -- Traditional practices and victimization of women in Nepal : the case of Chhaupadi -- Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh : an examination of collective and secondary victimization -- Conclusion.

Crime and criminal justice processes -- Afghanistan: state and non-state oriented criminal justice systems -- Bangladesh : issues and introspections on crime and criminal justice -- Bhutan : penal laws, crimes and criminal justice processes -- India : a historical perspective of criminal justice system -- Maldives : towards the reformation of criminal justice system -- Nepal : institutions in the criminal justice system and the need for reforms -- Pakistan : criminal justice processes and issues of crime, policing, judiciary, and prisons -- Sri Lanka : criminal justice system and rule of law -- Historical perspectives of crime and justice -- Criminal justice tenets in manusmriti : a critical appraisal of the Ancient Indian Hindu Code -- Witchcraft accusation, victimization and demonology in Nepal -- Crime and justice in ancient South India (Sangam age) : gleanings from Tamil literature -- Goondas of Calcutta : crimes and policing in the colonial India -- Opium production in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan : historical milieu and counter measures -- Homicide in ancient, medieval, British and contemporary India -- Politics of crime and justice -- Terror and trafficking in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India : a routine activity approach -- War, crime, justice and social order in Afghanistan -- Organised crime, gangs and the complexity of group offending in Bangladesh -- War crimes in Sri Lanka -- Madaris and suicide terrorism in Pakistan : is there an association? -- Post-conflict crime and violence in Nepal : trends, dynamics and drivers -- Religious terrorism in Bangladesh : patterns, trends and causes -- Crime and justice policies -- Human trafficking in South Asia : regional cooperation and responses -- Religious, societal reflection and rights of transgender in India -- Transitional justice processes in Bangladesh -- "Nirbhaya incident" and juvenile justice policies in India : a situational analysis -- Crime among young offenders in Bhutan : trends, factors and determinants -- Victims and victimization -- Women victims of war and crime in Afghanistan -- Human trafficking in Nepal : a victimological perspective -- Political crime victimization in Bangladesh -- Traditional practices and victimization of women in Nepal : the case of Chhaupadi -- Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh : an examination of collective and secondary victimization -- Conclusion.

"The volume is the key outcome of the Arctic Crashes project (full title: Arctic People and Animal Crashes: Human, Climate and Habitat Agency in the Anthropocene). It was implemented in 2014-2016 by a team of scholars at the Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies Center, in collaboration with their colleagues and indigenous partners from the U.S., Canada, Denmark, Greenland, and the Netherlands, supported by the Smithsonian Grand Challenges Consortia grant. The 'Arctic Crashes' team introduced a new vision to explore human-animal-climate interactions, including rapid animal declines ('crashes') in the North that-unlike earlier top-down models that tied changes in species' abundance and ranges to alternating warmer and cooler, or high ice/low sea-ice regimes across the polar zone-analyzed such relations primarily at regional and local scale. This approach is closer to Arctic peoples' traditional view that animals, like people, live in 'tribes' and they could 'come and go' according to their relations with the local human societies. As Arctic climate changes and climate/sea-ice/ecotone boundaries shift, we increasingly observe diverse responses by people and animals to environmental stress. In some species we can also document the sustained effects of commercial over-exploitation during the 17th - 20th centuries, which varied across sub-populations. The emerging record may be best approached as a series of localized human-animal disequilibria ('crashes') interpreted from different angles by population biologists, Arctic indigenous people, and anthropologists, rather than top-down climate-induced collapses. This new understanding also highlights varying rates of change-in the physical, animal, and human domains. Besides six keystone polar game species (the Pacific and Atlantic walrus; harbor seal, harp seal, bowhead whale, and caribou) the volume examines the status of polar bear and narwhal in the Canadian Arctic, Pribilof Island fur seal, Atlantic cod in Greenland, presenting a diversity of historical, archaeological, evolutionary, and cultural/spiritual perspectives on Arctic 'crashes.'"--

Despite multiple past efforts, fragile Sub-Saharan African economies such as those of Mali, Chad, Niger, and Guinea still rank among the least diversified worldwide, with natural resources constituting a high share of their gross domestic product or exports. Large-scale production of gold for Mali, oil for Chad, uranium for Niger, and bauxite for Guinea offers substantial opportunities, but also has major shortcomings. Conclusive evidence shows poor economic performance by resource-rich but fragile Sub-Saharan African countries. The primary reason is not only their high vulnerability to external shocks, but the greed or grievances that typically lead to rents appropriation by a small group of elites in countries that are prone to conflict. This publication explores the following questions: What are Mali's, Chad's, Niger's, and Guinea's main constraints to export diversification as perceived by key exporting firms? How it could be beneficial for these countries to target certain emerging export products? Are their current interventions to promote global value chain (GVC) adequate? What lessons can be extracted from specific cases? How can trade and logistic policies favor (or hamper) export diversification led growth. The book lays the groundwork for effective step-by-step multidimensional policies to propel export diversification in fragile economies that are hindered not only by poor governance and weak institutions, but also by their landlocked position (except Guinea), small domestic markets, and business-unfriendly environments. Recognizing that traditional project interventions in these countries have had limited success, mainly due to their unidimensional focus on single components of an agricultural value chain, the book proposes a GVC 2.0 cluster-based approach to export diversification, in which complementary efforts attract foreign firms and public investment in support of agribusiness. Promising pilot examples of joint implementation plans among multiple donors, risk-sharing facilities, and agribusiness clusters provide valuable insights into recent global value chain developer interventions

The most comprehensive scholarly survey of Karl Barth's theology ever published. Karl Barth, arguably the most influential theologian of the 20th century, is widely considered one of the greatest thinkers within the history of the Christian tradition. Readers of Karl Barth often find his work both familiar and strange: the questions he considers are the same as those Christian theologians have debated for centuries, but he often addresses these questions in new and surprising ways. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth helps readers understand Barth's theology and his place in the Christian tradition through a new lens. Covering nearly every topic related to Barth's life and thought, this work spans two volumes, comprising 66 in-depth chapters written by leading experts in the field. Volume One explores Barth's dogmatic theology in relation to traditional Christian theology, provides historical timelines of Barth's life and works, and discusses his significance and influence. Volume Two examines Barth's relationship to various figures, movements, traditions, religions, and events, while placing his thought in its theological, ecumenical, and historical context. This groundbreaking work:* Places Barth into context with major figures in the history of Christian thought, presenting a critical dialogue between them * Features contributions from a diverse team of scholars, each of whom are experts in the subject * Provides new readers of Barth with an introduction to the most important questions, themes, and ideas in Barth's work * Offers experienced readers fresh insights and interpretations that enrich their scholarship * Edited by established scholars with expertise on Barth's life, his theology, and his significance in Christian tradition. An important contribution to the field of Barth scholarship, the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth is an indispensable resource for scholars and students interested in the work of Karl Barth, modern theology, or systematic theology.