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AbstractBy analysing the Church of England's 1985 report Faith in the City (FITC), this article demonstrates that the church played a decisive role in shaping the discourse on British 'inner cities'. Following a brief historical contextualization, the article examines the FITC report itself, how it came about and what arguments the Church of England introduced into the national debate on inner cities, as well as the media and political discussion that followed its publication and the reactions in the religious field. The article argues that the publication was a turning point in the inner cities discourse of the 1980s. It examines how the church succeeded in (re)directing national attention to the topic thereby countering the territorial stigmatization and replacing it with a more positive view focused on the potential of the residents living in the inner cities.

The increasing popularity and presence of cryptocurrencies challenge regulators in providing adequate policy tools to handle the borderless, decentralized virtual assets. This paper examines the impact of EU regulatory announcements on Bitcoin trading through an event study on a unique data set. A bnormaltrading volumes of Bitcoin following key regulatory announcement are analyzed and show statistically significant impact on trading activity. The impact depends on the crypto-fiat currency pair and is observed to decrease BTC/EUR trading, while the opposite is detectable for BTC/USD. These results suggest that crypto currencies rely on centralized, regulated financial intermediaries, which bring them within reach of regulation

Das Ruhrgebiet war für die Nationalsozialisten in den Jahren vor 1933 ein schwieriges Terrain. Um den zahlreichen Toten in den Auseinandersetzungen mit den Kommunisten scheinbar Sinn zu verleihen, wurden jene zu Märtyrern gemacht. Sarah Thieme zeigt eindrücklich auf, wie sich die regionale NS-Bewegung im Märtyrerkult als eigenständiger Glaubensanbieter positionierte und die Aktivisten mit Formen "sakralisierter Politik" ansprach. Zugleich belegt die Studie, dass die NS-Bewegung im Ruhrgebiet christlich geprägt blieb. Religion und Moderne: Herausgegeben von Thomas Großbölting, Detlef Pollack, Barbara Stollberg- Rilinger und Ulrich Willems im Auftrag des Centrums für Religion und Moderne