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We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity's busy labor throughout the ages. Spanning China, India, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, Lucassen looks at the ways in which humanity organizes work: in the household, the tribe, the city, and the state.

Jan Assmann, geboren 1938 in Langelsheim, ist Ägyptologe und Kulturwissenschaftler. Zusammen mit seiner Frau, der Literaturwissenschaftlerin Aleida Assmann, erhält er im Oktober 2018 den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels.Dieses Hörbuch enthält ein Gespräch und einen Vortrag: 1. Jan Assmann, Dieter Borchmeyer, Ludwig Finscher: Die Zauberflöte - Oper und Mysterium; Redaktion/Gesprächsleitung: Ursula Nusser; Inhalt: Man kann sich der Zauberflöte über die Mysterienliteratur annähern, über die Mysterien der Isis.

Based in the idea that social phenomena are best studied through the lens of different disciplinary perspectives, Empty Churches studies the growing number of individuals who no longer affiliate with a religious tradition. Coeditors Jan Stets, a social psychologist, and James Heft, a historian of theology, bring together leading scholars in the fields of sociology, developmental psychology, gerontology, political science, history, philosophy, and pastoral theology.