For scholars of religion and others interested in the practice, pedagogy, history, and theory of religious studies.
Albert Roland Haig deposited Dying and living with Christ: A sketch of a participatory theory of the atonement founded in Platonic realism and an Irenaean “soul-making” theodicy in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 days, 11 hours agoA theory of the atonement is outlined which is grounded in an appropriation of the Platonic doctrine of participation, and an Irenaean theodicy. The purpose of Christ’s life and death was to enable humans to destroy the sinful aspects of their character, and to manifest Christ’s righteousness, by means of participation in the same Form. The the…[Read more]
Boban Dedovic deposited “Inanna’s Descent to the Netherworld”: A centennial survey of scholarship, artifacts, and translations in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 2 days agoAn ancient Sumerian proverb may be read as “good fortune [is embedded in] organisation and wisdom.” The present centennial survey is solely about organizing the last one hundred years of scholarship for a Sumerian afterlife myth named “Inanna’s Descent to the Netherworld.” The initial discovery of artifacts with snippets of the myth can be dated…[Read more]
Amod Lele deposited Disengaged Buddhism in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoContemporary engaged Buddhist scholars typically claim either that Buddhism always endorsed social activism, or that its non-endorsement of such activism represented an unwitting lack of progress. This article examines several classical South Asian Buddhist texts that explicitly reject social and political activism. These texts argue for this…[Read more]
James L. Smith deposited Rural Waterscape and Emotional Sectarianism in Accounts of Lough Derg, County Donegal in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 weeks agoThe story of Lough Derg in Ireland’s County Donegal is arranged around clusters of sectarian narratives in juxtaposition, synthesis and conflict. The Sanctuary of Saint Patrick sits on Station Island, a small rocky islet set within the waters of the lake. The site became well known in the early Middle Ages as the place of Saint Patrick’s del…[Read more]
Paul Hagouel deposited 2019_Ιουδαίοι στο Ισραήλ (Jews in Israel _ in Greek)- Καθηγήτρια Νίκη Παπαγεωργίου, Θρησκείες και Κοινωνίες της Μέσης Ανατολής, ΑΠΘ in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 5 days agoΑριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης, Θεολογική Σχολή, Τομέας Ηθικής και Κοινωνιολογίας, Καθηγήτρια Νίκη Παπαγεωργίου της Κοινωνιολογίας της Θρησκείας
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Θρησκείες και Κοινωνίες της Μέσης Ανατολής
στην Εισαγωγική Κατεύθυνση Μουσουλμανικών Σπουδών
Καλημέρα σας,
Δράττομαι της ευκαιρίας να ευχαριστήσω την Καθηγήτρια κυρία Νίκη Παπαγεωρ…[Read more]-
Paul Hagouel deposited 2019 _ Εβραίοι Έλληνες: Διδάσκοντας για τους γνωστούς – αγνώστους. Σχόλια & addenda στα κείμενα των Φακέλων του Μαθήματος των Θρησκευτικών για τον Ιουδαϊσμό & α. Ιουδαίοι στο Ισραήλ – β. Ο Μεσσίας στον Ιουδαϊσμό in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 6 days ago2019 _ Εβραίοι Έλληνες: Διδάσκοντας για τους γνωστούς – αγνώστους. Σχόλια & addenda στα κείμενα των Φακέλων του Μαθήματος των Θρησκευτικών για τον Ιουδαϊσμό & α. Ιουδαίοι στο Ισραήλ – β. Ο Μεσσίας στον Ιουδαϊσμό Παρασκευή, 10 Μαΐου 2019 Καθηγητής Παναγιώτης Παχής & Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια Αγγελική Ζιάκα Θεολογική Σχολή ΑΠΘ Πωλ Ισαάκ Χάγου…[Read more]
Dima Hurlbut started the topic CfP: IJAHS, Special Issue: Prophets and Prophecy in Postcolonial Africa in the discussion
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month agoCALL FOR PAPERS
International Journal of African Historical Studies
Special Issue: Prophets and Prophecy in Postcolonial AfricaGuest Editors:
Dima Hurlbut, Boston University
Andreana Prichard, University of OklahomaThis is a call for papers for a special issue of the International Journal of African Historical Studies (IJAHS), a p…[Read more]
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Dima Hurlbut deposited “Materials for the Study of Postcolonial Africa in the LDS Church History Library: Oral Histories,” Working Papers in African Studies, no. 270 (2018): 1-19. in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month agoThis is working paper published by the African Studies Center at Boston University.
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Dima Hurlbut deposited “Materials for the Study of Postcolonial Africa in the LDS Church History Library: Manuscripts,” Working Papers in African Studies, no. 272 (2019): 1-18. in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month agoThis is working paper published by the African Studies Center at Boston University.
Olivier Dufault deposited Review of Nicolaidis (ed.) Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoReview of Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity. Edited by EFTHYMIOS NICOLAIDIS. Pp. 198, illus., index. Brepols: Turnhout. 2018. £72. ISBN: 978-2-503-58191-0.
Jonathan H. Harwell started the topic Theology & protest music in the discussion
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoIs anyone interested in the intersection of theology and protest music, both broadly defined across religions and genres? I’m thinking of co-editing a volume on this for Rowman & Littlefield’s Theology & Pop Culture series, and I’m looking for a co-editor with a doctoral degree.
Olivier Dufault deposited Mōt in the Phoenician History of Philo of Byblos as a Reference to the Late Representation of the Egyptian Goddess Mut as Demiurge in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoThe article discusses the presence of a generative principle called Mōt in a short cosmogony found in the Phoenician History of Philo of Byblos (c. 100 CE). The Phoenician History’s Mōt has been usually understood as the euhemeristic interpretation of a Semitic god of death, which is well documented in late Bronze Age documents from Ugarit. I a…[Read more]
Olivier Dufault deposited Problems Related to the Use of the Category of Magic in the Writing of Greek and Roman History in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoThis paper was originally prepared for a meeting of the Methodology Seminar of the Distant Worlds Graduate School (LMU, Munich) and was meant as an introduction to the use of the category of magic in the study of ancient Greek and Roman religions offered to a group of scholars coming from different disciplines.
The study of ancient magic is…[Read more]
Rachel Rafael Neis deposited Interspecies and Cross-species Generation: in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoThis article treats late ancient rabbinic texts (ca. 1st-early 3rd cents. CE), reading them as biology, and following their ideas about the limits and possibilities of reproductive and species variation. I read sources from the tractates of Niddah, Kil’ayim, and Bekhorot, in the Mishnah and Toseta, as expressions of a science of generation, or a b…[Read more]
Glen M Golub deposited How the Aleph-Bet Got Its Shape in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months agoThis thesis follows my earlier work on Aurignacian rock art by drawing a clear line between cave painting in the south of France and the holiest Hebrew script Ktav Ivrit or STA”M. This is an in depth study detailing relationships between Language, Mysticism and Kabbalah, as well as Religious Dogma that answers the question, “Why do all religions…[Read more]
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Glen M Golub deposited Strategies and Methods in Archeo Art History in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months agoThis is a series of brief paradigms that suggest ways of manipulating abstraction, such as Art Language Religion and Politics, for use with a Carlos Ginzburg Evidentiary Paradigm, or other multivariate analysis. The tables in this appendix accompany the Index of Deities and Demons and How the Aleph-Bet Got Its Shape.
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Glen M Golub deposited Methods and Strategies in Archeo Art History in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months agoThis thesis describes the evolution of the alphabet from Upper Paleolithic to present. We draw a direct line from Aurignacian rock art to Hebrew STA”M script and from Auriginal Paganism to Kabbalah using a Ginzburg Evidentiary Paradigm. Provides strategies for quantifying concepts, belief, and abstraction such as Art, Language, Religion, and…[Read more]
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Dima Hurlbut deposited “The History of Christianity in Nigeria: A Bibliography of Secondary Literature,” Working Papers in African Studies, no. 269 (2017): 1-46. in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months agoThis is a working paper published by the African Studies Center at Boston University.
Janelle Peters deposited Suffering the Good: Theodicies in Scripture and Therese of Lisieux in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week agoTheodicies in Scripture and Therese of Lisieux
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Dima Hurlbut deposited “LDS Materials for the Study of Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 52, no. 2 (2019): 301-310. in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoThis is an article published in the International Journal of African Historical Studies 52, no. 2 (2019): 301-310.
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