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The article reviews the book "Lokalpressen: Danmarks Lokale Ugeaviser og Distriktsblade 1850-2003/The Local Press: Denmark's Local Weeklies and District Papers 1850-2003: A Handbook," by Jette Drachmann Søllinge.

This book review discusses "Women, Preachers, Methodists," a collection of papers that explore the contributions of women preachers to Methodist worship. The first part focuses on Susannah Wesley, offering a nuanced and rounded picture of her place in Methodist history. The second part examines the legacy of Susannah Wesley in women preachers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, highlighting the challenges they faced and the rejection they experienced. The third part includes reflective papers from female presbyters, discussing the ongoing struggle for women's ministry and the importance of role models. The review concludes by noting the need for further research and reflection on the experiences of women preachers today. [Extracted from the article]

I review the book "Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years." I discuss all the papers in the book and highlight some recurrent issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nevertheless, by propounding a primordialist theory of nationalism, Putin's understanding of Ukrainian history is fundamentally mistaken: by assuming that legitimate nationalism must have ancient roots, Putin implies that twentieth-century developments somehow do not count. Speaking shortly after the invasion, Snyder argued, among other things, that: Mr. Putin is telling... a basically fascist story, it's a story about how once upon a time nothing was fragmented, there was purity, someone got baptized, there was water, they were purified, everything was purified, and his name was Vladimir, and my name is also Vladimir. The field of nationalism studies encompasses many subfields, reflecting the multi-faceted nature of nationalism itself, but understanding war lies at the heart of the discipline. The Russian invasion of Ukraine provides nationalism theorists with a concrete opportunity to reflect on the role of nationalism theory in contemporary politics. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Local Workshops-Foreign Connections: Late Medieval Altarpieces from Transylvania," by Emese Sarkadi Nagy.

Published anonymously in 1814, Waverley; Or ‘Tis Sixty Years Hence is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott which unfolds the story of a young English soldier, Edward Waverley, and his journey to Scotland. Regarded as the first historical novel, it contains elements of modernity, heralding a new upcoming era in England. Scott obviously displays the concept of the modern/modernity differently from the perception that writers are conveying today, but he hints at the emergence of a society detached from feudal customs in several aspects through the issue of union between England and Scotland. Highlighting the modern characteristics of Walter Scott’s Waverley, this paper argues that Scott employs elements of modernity in his novel long before their disclosure in literature and politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper deals with the volume of studies Stadt-Land-Fluss. Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Deutschlandreise (Ed. Flegel, Silke, Hoffmann, Frank). The book offers a journey through the history and present time of Germany focusing on such national heritage areas as: literature, language, industrial and structural change, environmental protection, federalism, as well as remembering "the past". The 216-page volume includes twelve essays on German cultural areas and sites of memory: Leipzig, Halle, Munich, Berlin and Frankfurt - as well as regions like the Ruhr and Sachsen-Anhalt. Major streams, such as the Rhine or the Elbe, are also taken into consideration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews several books, articles, and papers including the "Nordic Television: History, Politics and Aesthetics," edited by Francesco Bono and Ib Bondebjerg, the article "Centralized Decentralization in Norwegian Cultural Policy," by Marit Bakke, and the paper "Global Television and National Citizenship," by Michael Brutin Andersen.

This paper gives a critical view to the collective volume Etudes à la loupe... Optikinstrumente und Literatur, edited at the Stefan cel Mare University publishing house Suceava. The contributors propose an ample incursion into optics as a literary motif, opening a multitude of points of view, which serve as guiding cues for interdisciplinary research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews several books including "Speech Culture in Finland," edited by Richard Wilkins and Pekka Isotalus, "Sound Media: From Live Journalism to Musical Recording," by Lars Nyre, and "Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories: Self-representations in New Media," edited by Knut Lundby.