Best Sven A Schmidt Podcasts (2025)

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Sven Trakulhun, "Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2024) 40:54

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Siam had been dealing with Christian missionaries for centuries, but from the 1830s a new wave of Protestant missionaries began to work in Siam, just as the European imperial powers were encroaching on Southeast Asia. They brought with them modern science and technology, which was of interest to the Siamese elite, but at the same time they challeng…

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Ryan Klejment-Lavin, "Evil: A North Korean Christian Refugee Perspective" (American Society of Missiology, 2024) 46:02

9d ago46:02

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The purpose of Evil: A North Korean Christian Refugee Perspective (American Society of Missiology, 2024) is to describe how the North Korean refugee understanding of evil can shape missionary practice in the Korean Peninsula. The central research question guiding this study is, How do North Korean Christian refugees describe evil based on their liv…

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57: How many of the same packages can we pick? 45:57

13d ago45:57

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Join us for another episode of Swift Package Indexing where we cover the status of Swift 6.1 compatibility and the latest "Ready for Swift 6" results, discuss xtool, and of course pick some packages to talk about! News Ready for Swift 6 xtool on the Swift forums xtool package The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies Packages Redline by Robb Böh…

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Alan Strathern, "Converting Rulers: Global Patterns, 1450-1850" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:21:01

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Why did so many rulers throughout history risk converting to a new religion brought by outsiders? In his award-winning Unearthly Powers (2019), Dr. Alan Strathern set out a theoretical framework for understanding the relation between religion and political authority based on a distinction between two kinds of religion - immanentism and transcendent…

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Astrid von Schlachta, "Anabaptists: From the Reformation to the 21st Century" (Pandora Press, 2024) 1:05:51

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The Anabaptists, alongside the Lutheran and Reformed churches, were the third major current in the sixteenth century Reformation movements. From their beginnings, the Anabaptists were highly diverse and yet they shared some central beliefs and practices for which they were quickly persecuted – for example, defenselessness and nonresistance, the ref…

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Stephanie Schmidt, "Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain: Missionary Narratives, Nahua Perspectives" (U Texas Press, 2025) 51:20

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A cornerstone of the evangelization of early New Spain was the conversion of Nahua boys, especially the children of elites. They were to be emissaries between Nahua society and foreign missionaries, hastening the transmission of the gospel. Under the tutelage of Franciscan friars, the boys also learned to act with militant zeal. They sermonized and…

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56: By the next time we record, it'll definitely be there… 38:35

1M ago38:35

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Join us for another episode where we cover our slightly unusual rollout of Swift 6.1 support on the Swift Package Index, the Swift Fundraising cooperative, the multiple fabulous projects written by Kashikawa Katsumi, and of course, give our regular package picks. News The Swift Fundraising Cooperative Kashikawa Katsumi SwiftRegex.com Swift AST Expl…

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Las G. Newman, "To Die in Africa’s Dust: West Indian Missionaries in Western Africa in the Nineteenth Century" (Langham, 2024) 1:32:52

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Christian mission in the modern era has generally been conceptualized as a Western endeavor: “from the West to the rest.” The rise and explosive growth of world Christianity has challenged this narrative, emphasizing Christian mission as “from everywhere to everywhere.” Dr. Las Newman contributes to this revitalized perspective, interrogating our u…

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55: The solution is always to write more tests 46:04

2M ago46:04

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Join us as we chat about enabling parallelising our tests with Swift Testing, what your plan should be for any CocoaPods projects you still work on, more thoughts on open-source funding based on a recently published paper, and of course the usual package picks! News Mastodon Post: The Value of Open Source Software Paper: The Value of Open Source So…

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#195 - Sven Rittau über erfolgreiches E-Commerce und die Entwicklung unserer Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft! 1:16:40

2M ago1:16:40

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🔗 Ticket zur K5 Konferenz sichern 🔗 MARVYA GmbH Mit Expertise, Erfahrung und persönlichem Engagement begleiten wir Dich bei der erfolgreichen Finanzierung und zum ergiebigen Verkauf Deines Unternehmens. 🔗 https://eser.capital/erstgespraech/ ________________________________________________________________________ SichtbarerWerden GmbH ist unser Exkl…

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Wafik W. Wahba, "Global Christianity and Islam: Exploring History, Politics, and Beliefs" (InterVarsity Press, 2025) 1:03:54

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Together, the adherents of Christianity and Islam make up over half of the world's population, and their numbers are expected to keep growing. The influence of these two faiths—and their relations with each other—is seen in politics, economics, and social interactions. Religious identity and aspirations remain powerful and appealing to people aroun…

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54: Pick a test that you know is complicated and start there 38:27

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Join us as we chat about the Swift team joining Bluesky and Mastodon, data race safety numbers on Swift Package Index Package pages, Swift on Raspberry Pi, and of course our usual package picks! News Swiftlang: Social media expansion to Mastodon and Bluesky Bluesky account Mastodon account Leverage by Matt Massicotte Issue: Ready for Swift 6 false …

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Sejong Chun, "Paul’s New Creation: Vision for a New World and Community" (Lexington Books, 2023) 30:10

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In Paul’s New Creation: Vision for a New World and Community (Lexington Book, 2023), Sejong Chun presents inter(con)textual readings of Paul’s new creation passages from the perspective of the Korean immigrant church in America. Chun focuses on Paul’s new creation’s cosmic dimension and ecclesiastical character and proposes the ekklēsia as a tangib…

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Martyn Percy, "The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England" (Hurst, 2025) 49:48

3M ago49:48

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The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England (Hurst, 2025) by Dr. Martyn Percy offers a bold and unsettling truth: the British Empire and Great Britain are primarily English constructions, and the Church of England benefited from English enterprise and exploitation, serving as the spiritual arm of the impe…

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Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky, "Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the 'Ricci Maps'" (U Hawaii Press, 2024) 50:27

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When we think of the sixteenth-century arrival of European missionaries in East Asia, there is a tendency to imagine this meeting as a civilizational clash, a great meeting of two fixed cultures. This clash is symbolized in the ‘Ricci map(s)’: a map created by a Jesuit missionary to bring scientific cartography to East Asia. Remapping the World in …

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Colleen C. B. Weaver, "The Fruits of Listening: Applying Qualitative Research Methods in the Design of Contextually Responsive Theological Education" (Wipf and Stock, 2024) 52:56

4M ago52:56

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Theological seminaries and Bible institutes find themselves at the crossroads of preserving biblical faithfulness and of maintaining contextual relevance. What does faithful contextual relevance look like? How can theological institutions steer a course that will engage and serve the church through the men and women they equip for ministry and serv…

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Erik Freas, "Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods" (Routledge, 2024) 1:15:48

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Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods (Routledge, 2024) provides an historical overview of Palestine's Christian communities and their role in the Palestinian nationalist movement during the late Ottoman and British mandatory periods. More than being a history of Palestine's Christian Arabs, the bo…

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Glen L. Thompson, "Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China" (Eerdmans, 2024) 1:07:45

4M ago1:07:45

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Many people assume that the first introduction of Christianity to the Chinese was part of nineteenth-century Western imperialism. In fact, Syriac-speaking Christians brought the gospel along the Silk Road into China in the seventh century. Glen L. Thompson introduces readers to the fascinating history of this early Eastern church, referred to as Ji…

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53: It's not a topic I thought many people would care about, but here we are 47:48

4M ago47:48

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Join us for our first episode in 2025 with news of a community Swift on Android working group, the announcement of swift-build at FOSDEM, a discussion of making open source funding easier, how to get feedback on Swift Evolution proposals from people outside the Swift forums, and of course our usual package picks! News Swift on Android Working Group…

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Stephen T. Pardue, "Why Evangelical Theology Needs the Global Church" (Baker Group, 2024) 1:02:33

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Christian theologians and students are aware that evangelicals in the Majority World now outnumber those in North America and Europe, and many want to know more about emerging voices in the global church. At the same time, these voices are largely absent from Western evangelical theology. In Why Evangelical Theology Needs the Global Church (Baker G…

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David G. Hunter et al., "Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity: Authors, Texts, and Ideas" (Brill, 2024) 52:00

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The Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity: Authors, Texts, and Ideas (Brill, 2024) focuses on the history of early Christianity, covering texts, authors, ideas, and their reception. Its content is intended to bridge the gap between the fields of New Testament studies and patristics, connecting a number of related fields of study including Judais…

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Kent Michael Shaw, "Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary" (Pickwick, 2024) 47:46

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In Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary (Pickwick, 2024), Kent Michael Shaw I examines the lives and theology of early African American missionaries of the Antebellum and Reconstruction era. The enslaved and formerly enslaved constructed a hermeneutic and interpreted the sacred text thro…

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Paula Fredriksen, "Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years" (Princeton UP, 2024) 54:42

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The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to dominate the politics and piety of the late Roman Empire? In Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years (Princeton University Press, 2024), Dr. Paula Fredriksen traces the evolution of early Chris…

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Justin Tse, "Sheets of Scattered Sand: Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024) 1:35:00

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Justin K.H. Tse captures the voices of Cantonese Protestant Christians from the San Francisco, Vancouver, and Hong Kong metropolitan areas as they reflect on their efforts to adapt to secular communities while retaining their identity and beliefs. In the context of the transpacific region between Asia and the Americas, the “Pacific Rim” refers to a…

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Nathanael Homewood, "Seductive Spirits: Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism" (Stanford UP, 2024) 1:04:36

6M ago1:04:36

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In this fascinating interview, Nathanael J. Homewood discusses his new book,Seductive Spirits: Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism (Stanford University Press, 2024). Pentecostalism, Africa's fastest-growing form of Christianity, has long been preoccupied with the business of banishing demons from human bodies. Amo…

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Mou Banerjee, "The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India" (Harvard UP, 2025) 1:20:18

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An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century Bengal, where Protestant missionary activity spurred a Christian conversion “panic” that indelibly shaped the trajectory of Hindu and Muslim politics. In 1813, the British Crown adopted a policy officially permitting Protestant missionaries to evangelize among the …

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#194 - David Döbele über erfolgreiche Karrieren in High-Performance Berufen (Banking, Consulting, etc.) 1:05:43

6M ago1:05:43

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🔗 LinkedIn David Döbele 🔗 MARVYA GmbH Mit Expertise, Erfahrung und persönlichem Engagement begleiten wir Dich bei der erfolgreichen Finanzierung und zum ergiebigen Verkauf Deines Unternehmens. 🔗 https://eser.capital/erstgespraech/ ________________________________________________________________________ SichtbarerWerden GmbH ist unser Exklusivpartne…

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52: In the next episode we'll fix the NPM ecosystem 46:52

6M ago46:52

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Join us as we talk about the Python package ecosystem, the prospective vision to improve the approachability of data-race safety, and give our usual package recommendations. News Constraints are Good: Python's Metadata Dilemma Prospective Vision: Improving the approachability of data-race safety Announcement post on Mastodon The forum thread and Ti…

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#193 - Marven Hennecker über 7- und 8-stelliges AB-Testing von D2C Brands 53:24

6M ago53:24

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🔗 LinkedIn Marven Hennecker 🔗 MARVYA GmbH Mit Expertise, Erfahrung und persönlichem Engagement begleiten wir Dich bei der erfolgreichen Finanzierung und zum ergiebigen Verkauf Deines Unternehmens. 🔗 https://eser.capital/erstgespraech/ ________________________________________________________________________ SichtbarerWerden GmbH ist unser Exklusivpa…

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#192 - Simon Bladt über die Organisation hinter BEILMANN Marketing 59:48

6M ago59:48

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🔗 LinkedIn Simon Bladt 🔗 MARVYA GmbH Mit Expertise, Erfahrung und persönlichem Engagement begleiten wir Dich bei der erfolgreichen Finanzierung und zum ergiebigen Verkauf Deines Unternehmens. 🔗 https://eser.capital/erstgespraech/ ________________________________________________________________________ SichtbarerWerden GmbH ist unser Exklusivpartner…

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#191 - Andy Weinzierl über den Aufbau von SUSHI Bikes, die Höhen, Tiefen und das echte Unternehmertum! 1:12:39

6M ago1:12:39

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🔗 MARVYA GmbH Mit Expertise, Erfahrung und persönlichem Engagement begleiten wir Dich bei der erfolgreichen Finanzierung und zum ergiebigen Verkauf Deines Unternehmens. 🔗 https://eser.capital/erstgespraech/ ________________________________________________________________________ SichtbarerWerden GmbH ist unser Exklusivpartner im Digital Business Po…

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51: The skill of not picking of dependencies should also be honed 40:00

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Join us as we talk about the current state of Swift, Swift 6 concurrency, Swift-Java interoperability, and hear our regular package recommendations. News New sample: Tiny Swing program mixing Java and Swift celsius-converter iOS Dev Weekly Issue 685 on the current state of Swift Packages SwiftClaude by George Lyon JSONPatch by Peter Ringset Singapo…

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Alister E. McGrath, "The Nature of Christian Doctrine: Its Origins, Development, and Function" (Oxford UP, 2024) 41:42

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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: Its Origins, Development, and Function (Oxford UP, 2024) offers a groundbreaking account of the origins, development, and enduring significance of Christian doctrine, explaining why it remains essential to the life of Christian communities. Noting important parallels between the development of scientific theories a…

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#190 - E-Commerce Deep Dive mit Nico Frank von ECOZA 1:45:05

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🔗 MARVYA GmbH Mit Expertise, Erfahrung und persönlichem Engagement begleiten wir Dich bei der erfolgreichen Finanzierung und zum ergiebigen Verkauf Deines Unternehmens. 🔗 https://eser.capital/erstgespraech/ ________________________________________________________________________ SichtbarerWerden GmbH ist unser Exklusivpartner im Digital Business Po…

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Bruce Gordon, "The Bible: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2024) 1:16:58

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A “wonderful…highly comprehensive” (John Barton, author of A History of the Bible) global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesus’s departing instruction to go out into the world, the B…

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50: It has a learning curve like a brick wall 35:14

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Join us as we talk about the Server-side Swift Conference, Swift formatting, and hear our regular package recommendations. News Server-Side Swift Conference Swift and Interoperability by Tony Parker and Ben Cohen When to Make a Macro by Daniel Steinberg Leveraging structured concurrency in your applications by Franz Busch Stop worrying about routes…

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Boris Adjemian, "The Brass Band of the King: Armenians in Ethiopia" (Bloomsbury, 2024) 1:10:44

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In 1924, the crown prince and future emperor of Ethiopia, Ras Täfäri, on a visit to Jerusalem, called on forty Armenian orphans who had survived the genocide of 1915-1916 to form his empire's royal brass band. The conductor, who was also Armenian, composed the first official anthem of the Ethiopian state. Drawing on this highly symbolic event, and …

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Luke Clossey, "Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520" (Open Book, 2024) 34:44

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For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving …

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49: 64 bytes of guaranteed uniqueness 42:19

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Join us as we talk about The Server Side Swift meetup, the Server Side Swift conference, Wasm, new features in Swift Package Index, Hummingbird 2, Vapor 5, and hear our regular package recommendations. News SSWG Meetup #3 SwiftWasm WasmKit Server Side Swift Conference Why was there a lifesize printout of Dave at AltConf 2019? Contributions to Swift…

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Uroš Kovač, "The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon" (Berghahn Books, 2022) 1:15:27

8M ago1:15:27

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A compelling work that explores the lives and aspirations of young footballers with deep nuance and insight, The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon (Berghahn Books, 2022) shows how precarious masculinity, Pentecostal spirituality, and aspirations of prosperous futures are intertwining and i…

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#189 - Ex-Rocket Internet Marco Feelisch über e-Commerce Finance und sein Leben als Serial-Entrepreneur 1:02:02

8M ago1:02:02

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🔗 MARVYA GmbH Mit Expertise, Erfahrung und persönlichem Engagement begleiten wir Dich bei der erfolgreichen Finanzierung und zum ergiebigen Verkauf Deines Unternehmens. 🔗 https://eser.capital/erstgespraech/ ________________________________________________________________________ SichtbarerWerden GmbH ist unser Exklusivpartner im Digital Business Po…

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Iemima Ploscariu, "Alternative Evangelicals: Challenging Nationalism in Interwar Romania's Multi-ethnic Borderlands" (Brill, 2024) 48:52

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Today I talked to Iemima Ploscariu about Alternative Evangelicals: Challenging Nationalism in Interwar Romania's Multi-ethnic Borderlands (Brill, 2024). Evangelicals in interwar Romania were a vibrant mix of ethnicities, languages, and social statuses. Jews, Roma, Germans, Hungarians, Serbs, Ukrainians, and Russians sang, prayed, and preached in th…

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#188 - Matthias Schmidt über M&A im deutschen Versicherungsmarkt 1:20:18

9M ago1:20:18

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🔗 MARVYA GmbH Mit Expertise, Erfahrung und persönlichem Engagement begleiten wir Dich bei der erfolgreichen Finanzierung und zum ergiebigen Verkauf Deines Unternehmens. 🔗 https://eser.capital/erstgespraech/ ________________________________________________________________________ SichtbarerWerden GmbH ist unser Exklusivpartner im Digital Business Po…

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48: It’s not just CGPaths all the way down? 40:52

9M ago40:52

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Join us as we talk about the CocoaPods maintenance plans and Swift macro expansions in Visual Studio Code, as well as hear our regular package recommendations. News CocoaPods Support & Maintenance Plans Expansion of Swift Macros in Visual Studio Code Configuring Emacs for Swift Development Configuring Neovim for Swift Development Packages SVGPath b…

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#187 - Maurice Prüßner über maximale E-Commerce Retention, CLV und die Geheimnisse von 8- und 9-stelligen Brands 1:06:02

9M ago1:06:02

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🔗 MARVYA GmbH 🔗 LinkedIn von Maurice Prüßner 🔗 Homepage von Invisible Brands GmbH Mit Expertise, Erfahrung und persönlichem Engagement begleiten wir Dich bei der erfolgreichen Finanzierung und zum ergiebigen Verkauf Deines Unternehmens. 🔗 https://eser.capital/erstgespraech/ ________________________________________________________________________ Si…

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#186 - Valentin Abs über datengetriebenes eCommerce Design und Exzellenz als Dienstleister 1:01:37

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🔗 LinkedIn von Valentin Abs 🔗 Homepage von Valentin Abs Mit Expertise, Erfahrung und persönlichem Engagement begleiten wir Dich bei der erfolgreichen Finanzierung und zum ergiebigen Verkauf Deines Unternehmens. 🔗 https://eser.capital/erstgespraech/ ________________________________________________________________________ SichtbarerWerden GmbH ist un…

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Zoe Knox, “Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Secular World: From the 1870s to the Present” (Palgrave, 2018) 34:01

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Jehovah’s Witnesses are one of the most successful “new religious movements” to have emerged from the prophetic ferment within later nineteenth-century Protestantism. Always controversial, often persecuted, and well-known for their proselytising efforts, they have made a substantial contribution in terms of human rights, and they count numerous fam…

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#185 - Jannick Semmelhaack von VOIDS über B2B SaaS und die größten D2C Herausforderungen 55:34

10M ago55:34

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🔗 LinkedIn von Jannik Semmelhaack Mit Expertise, Erfahrung und persönlichem Engagement begleiten wir Dich bei der erfolgreichen Finanzierung und zum ergiebigen Verkauf Deines Unternehmens. 🔗 https://eser.capital/erstgespraech/ ________________________________________________________________________ SichtbarerWerden GmbH ist unser Exklusivpartner im…

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47: There are no open-source license police 44:24

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Join us as we discuss the latest Ready for Swift 6 results, and how we represent them on the site. We also chat about Open Source Software funding, homomorphic encryption, and of course, we include our regular package recommendations. News Issue with Swift 6 error counts Geomys project announcement AcknowList by Vincent Tourraine LicensePlist by Ma…

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#184 - Lukas Beilmann über Exzellenz im D2C Google-Marketing 1:14:20

10M ago1:14:20

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🔗 LinkedIn von Lukas Maria Beilmann Mit Expertise, Erfahrung und persönlichem Engagement begleiten wir Dich bei der erfolgreichen Finanzierung und zum ergiebigen Verkauf Deines Unternehmens. 🔗 https://eser.capital/erstgespraech/ ________________________________________________________________________ SichtbarerWerden GmbH ist unser Exklusivpartner …

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