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Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, and continuing to the promotion of intelligent design today, Michael Lienesch skillfully analyzes one of the most formidable political movements of the twentieth century. Applying extensive original sources and social movement theory, Lienesch begins with fundamentalism, describing how early twentieth-century fundamentalists worked to form a collective identity, to develop their own institutions, and to turn evolution from an idea into an issue. He traces the emerging antievolution movement through the 1920s, examining debates over Darwinism that took place on college campuses and in state legislatures throughout the country. With fresh insights and analysis, Lienesch retells the story of the 1925 Scopes "monkey" trial and reinterprets its meaning. In tracking the movement from that time to today, he explores the rise of creation science in the 1960s, the alliance with the New Christian Right in the 1980s, and the development of the theory of intelligent design in our own time.

In this paper, after a brief introduction of Towazugatari (A tale no one asked for, 1306), I focus on a particular scene of this work describing, an unusual kemari game played by a group of young ladies in waiting of the abdicated Emperor GoFukakusa (1243–1304). This scene very skillfully provides a picture of the world of politics in the Kamakura period (1185–1333), when using sex and gender to achieve political goals was a widely acknowledged social standard. Starting from the description of the kemari game, I analyze the role of ladies in waiting, the sexual culture at court, and the personal experience of Lady Nijō, whose sexuality was an exchange commodity among the men and even used as a gift. Her memoir, written in retrospect when she became a nun, presents the dramatic story of a woman whose life took a particular direction because of the dominant roles in the patriarcal society, where she was expected to obey the will of her father and his surrogate, GoFukakusa.

"Trude Dijkstra discusses how Chinese religion and philosophy were represented in printed works produced in the Dutch Republic between 1595 and 1700. By focusing on books, newspapers, learned journals, and pamphlets, this study sheds new light on the cultural encounter between China and western Europe in the early modern period. Form, content, and material-technical aspects of different media in Dutch and French are analysed, providing new insights into the ways in which readers could take note of Chinese religion and philosophy. This study thereby demonstrates that there was no singular image of Chinese religion and philosophy, but rather a varied array of notions on the subject"--

Auf der Basis intensiver Archivrecherchen gelingt Teichler eine Gesamtdarstellung der internationalen Sportpolitik des "Dritten Reiches" mit dem spektakulären Höhepunkt der Olympischen Spiele 1936. Der thematische Radius ist weit geschlagen: von den Erfolgen der "Silberpfeile" von Mercedes Benz und dem Pakt mit der Moderne (Technik, Medien), über Sport als Instrument der Besatzungspolitik und die versuchte "Gleichschaltung" des gesamten europäischen Sports, bis zur zentralen Stellung Hitlers in den Entscheidungsprozessen. Zur Bilanz gehören aber auch die zersplitterten Strukturen und rivalisierenden Interessengruppen in der Sport-Außenpolitik des nur scheinbar völlig "gleichgeschalteten" NS-Staates.