Martelaren hebben in elke religie een bijzondere status. Het zijn 'helden', die hun leven geven voor hun idealen. Hun dood krijgt binnen de eigen religieuze traditie een symbolische betekenis en een eigen verhaal. Een vaste definitie van 'de' martelaar is er niet, mensen geven er in elke tijd en situatie een eigen betekenis aan. Maar de dood van de martelaar is altijd schokkend en creëert een diepe dualiteit. In Dan liever dood! gaan experts in op hoe we in de tradities van de vijf grote w...

The landmark World Council of Churches convergence text, The Church: Towards a Common Vision (2012), which has the potential to become this generation's Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry (1982), invites the churches to envision how their own distinctive visions of the church might have a place in the global church's imagination of the ecumenical future. Seeds of the Church: Towards an Ecumenical Baptist Ecclesiology is a collaborative effort by members of the Baptist World Alliance Commissio...

Monetary Stability through International Cooperation contains essays written by high ranking policy makers in the field of central banking and international finance, written in honour of André Szász, who has been Executive Director of De Nederlandsche Bank since 1973, responsible for international monetary relations. Colleagues from several other central banks, from finance ministries and from international institutions pay tribute to him by analysing the conditions fostering Euro...

This book provides a timely and thorough snapshot into the emerging and fast evolving area of applied genomics of foodborne pathogens. Driven by the drastic advance of whole genome shot gun sequencing (WGS) technologies, genomics applications are becoming increasingly valuable and even essential in studying, surveying and controlling foodborne microbial pathogens. The vast opportunities brought by this trend are often at odds with the lack of bioinformatics know-how among food safety and p...