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            Rembrandts Mann mit dem Goldhelm entstand in der Technik des Impasto.

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Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Der Herr der Ringe: Die Rückkehr des Königs, Peter Jackson, NZ 2003)

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Bibliography

A bibliography must be added at the end of the article, containing all works cited (sorting criterion primarily surname of the main author, secondarily year of publication). Journal and series titles should not be abbreviated, but written out. For citation style and punctuation, please follow the examples given here:

Monographies:

Castoriadis, Cornelius (2007), Figures of the Thinkable, Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press.

Duncan, Carol (2007) [1995], Civilizing Rituals. Inside Public Art Museums, London: Routledge, 2. Aufl.

Eisele, Wilfried (Hg.) (2013), Gott bitten? Theologische Zugänge zum Bittgebet, Freiburg i. Br.: Herder (Quaestiones Disputatae 256).

Articles in books:

Calhoun, Craig (2011), Secularism, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere, in: Calhoun, Craig / Juergensmeyer, Mark / Van Antwerpen, Jonathan (Hg.), Rethinking Secularism, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 75–91.

Hall, Stuart (2004), Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation, in: Simpson, Philip / Utterson, Andrew / Shepherdson, K. J. (Hg.), Film Theory. Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, Bd. 3, London/New York: Routledge, 386–397.

Englert, Rudolf (2003), Was bringt uns Bildung?, in: Pohl-Patalong, Uta (Hg.): Religiöse Bildung im Plural. Konzeptionen und Perspektiven, Schenefeld: EB-Verlag, 19–29.

Articles in journals:

Herbert, David E. J. (2011), Theorizing Religion and Media in Contemporary Societies. An Account of Religious “Publicization”, European Journal of Cultural Studies 14, 6, 626–648.

Online publications:

Kolata, Gina (2015), Federal Panel Backs Approval of New Drug to Fight Heart Attacks, The New York Times, 9. Juni 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/health/cholesterol-levels-ldl-drugs-heart-attacks-fda-panel.html?emc=edit_th_20150610&nl=todaysheadlines& nlid=46541870&_r=0 [10.06.2015].

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