For scholars of religion and others interested in the practice, pedagogy, history, and theory of religious studies.
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Oliver Dietrich deposited A short note on a new figurine type from Göbekli Tepe in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 days, 4 hours agoA short note on a 2012 find from Göbekli Tepe – a seated figurine with an animal on its shoulder.
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Tina Catania deposited Making Immigrants Visible in Lampedusa: Pope Francis, Migration, and the State in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 days, 5 hours agoIn July 2013, the recently elected Pope Francis chose Lampedusa for his fist pastoral visit. A tiny island, part of the Sicilian region yet closer to Tunisia than to Italy, Lampedusa has at times become hyper-visible in the media and national discourses surrounding immigration while at other times it is ignored — part of Italy’s geographic and soc…[Read more]
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Kyle Garton-Gundling deposited “Ancestors We Didn’t Even Know We Had”: Alice Walker, Asian Religion, and Ethnic Authenticity in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week agoRecent debates about the ethics of identity in a global age have dealt with how to prioritize conflicting local and global allegiances. Guided by these concerns, the fiction of Alice Walker develops a distinctive view of how local cultures and global movements can fruitfully interact. This vision depends on concepts from Asian religions, a major…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited Caring for the Body and Soul with Water: Guerric of Igny’s Fourth Sermon on the Epiphany, Godfrey of Saint-Victor’s Fons Philosophiae, and Peter of Celle’s Letters in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week agoThe use of water as an expressive trope of spiritual hygiene was widespread among monastic writers of the twelfth century, adapted for different uses in different genres. Aqueous imagery was particularly frequent within allegories or didactic figurae exploring the care of the soul as if it were a material body, with a constitution that could be…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited “So the satiated man hungers, the drunken thirsts” The Medieval Rhetorical Topos of Spiritual Nutrition in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 1 day agoThis article explores the representation of hunger and thirst as faculties within medieval spiritual allegory that existed at two forms. In their bodily form, hunger and thirst represented a feeling of lack indicating the need for sustenance. In their figurative moralised form these needs came to represent a longing for that which was missing…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited Europe’s confused transmutation: the realignment of moral cartography in Juan de la Cosa’s Mappa Mundi (1500) in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 1 day agoFollowing the voyages of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Alonso de Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci in the last decade of the fifteenth century, the New World of the Americas entered the cartographic and moral consciousness of Europe. In the 1500 mappa mundi of Juan de la Cosa, navigator and map-maker, we see Europe as a hybrid moral entity, a…[Read more]
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Chance Bonar deposited Review of Matthias Konradt, Israel, Church, and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days agoThe Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity series undertook this translation of a monumental synthetic study of ecclesiology in the Gospel of Matthew by notable German scholar Matthias Konradt. Israel, Church, and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew is a meticulously researched and provocative challenge to latent anti-Semitism and…[Read more]
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Chance Bonar deposited Review of Brian Britt, Biblical Curses and the Displacement of Tradition in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days agoVirginia Tech professor Brian Britt presents this far-reaching study on biblical curses and their reception history. Britt’s introduction clearly sets out his goals for the book, especially the importance of distinguishing between the general power of curses in the ancient world and the general profanity of curses in early modern modern Europe and beyond.
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Chance Bonar deposited Review of Kevin McGeough, Ancient Near East in the Nineteenth Century: Appreciations and Appropriations (3 vols.) in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days agoUniversity of Lethbridge professor Kevin McGeough presents a meticulous and thorough three-volume series on the reception of Near Eastern culture, his- tory, and art in nineteenth-century Europe and America. Both in the introduction to the first volume and throughout the series, McGeough makes clear the fascination held by Western entities such as…[Read more]
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Matthew Thiessen deposited Conversion, Jewish in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 5 days agoA dictionary length entry on conversion in early Judaism for the Oxford Classical Dictionary.
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simeon chavel deposited Biblical Law in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month agoIntroductory overview of the legal literature in the Bible
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simeon chavel deposited The Face of God and the Etiquette of Eye-Contact: Visitation, Pilgrimage, and Prophetic Vision in Ancient Israelite and Early Jewish Imagination in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month agoUses social poetics to analyze talk in the Bible of looking at Yahweh’s face
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Ian Brown deposited Mythmaking and Social Formation in the Study of Early Christianity in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoBurton Mack has made a number of important contributions to the study of early Christianity. One of, if not the most significant of these contributions is his use of the analytical categories of mythmaking and social formation in his construction of a social theory of religion. The analysis of mythmaking and social formation in early Christianity…[Read more]
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Hugo Lundhaug deposited Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott, The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices (STAC 97; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015) – Table of Contents in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoHugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott offer a sustained argument for the monastic provenance of the Nag Hammadi Codices. They examine the arguments for and against a monastic Sitz im Leben and defend the view that the Codices were produced and read by Christian monks, most likely Pachomians, in the fourth- and fifth-century monasteries of Upper Egypt.…[Read more]
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Phillip Long deposited Markus Bockmuehl, Ancient Apocryphal Gospels. Louisville.: Westminster John Knox, 2017 in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoThis new contribution to the Interpretation Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Early Church limits itself to apocryphal Gospels. Bockmuehl states in his introductory chapter his approach is both accessible and nonsensational (29), in contrast other recent books which describe this literature as suppressed by the establishment and containing…[Read more]
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Holger Szesnat deposited Gender-Based Violence and Ephesians 5 in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 4 weeks agoSzesnat, Holger. 2015. “Gender-Based Violence and Ephesians 5: Reflections on the Ethics, Hermeneutics and Didactics of a Community Bible Study in Suva, Fiji.” In: Oceanic Voyages in Theology and Theological Education: Reflections and Reminiscences in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Pacific Theological College, edited by Feleterika…[Read more]
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Néstor Vigil Montes deposited Las disputas entre el obispo y el cabildo de la catedral de Oviedo por el control de la notaría del señorío eclesiástico de Langreo in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months agoLa enorme complejidad de jurisdicciones medievales determina la existencia de una diversidad de diferentes modalidades de nominación de los escribanos públicos. Nuestro objetivo es analizar el caso concreto del notariado de Langreo, núcleo urbano asturiano que en el periodo bajomedieval perteneció a la jurisdicción compartida entre dos inst…[Read more]
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silvio azevedo deposited A ambigüidade do mal em Karl Barth e Paul Tillich in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months agoThe work aims to present texts and ideas of those two dialectical theologians as something we can handle to help ouserlves in the solution of the ethical problems of our time. I think there is too much stressing on metaphisical matters when considering Barth and Tillich’s theologies. Those we can call purists could say Theology is all that is…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited A Robe Like Lightning: Clothing Changes and Identification in Joseph and Aseneth in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week agoJoseph and Aseneth is a pseudepigraphic hellenistic romance novel that elaborates on the biblical character of Joseph and his wife aseneth. an expansion of genesis 41: 45, the text describes how aseneth is transformed into a radiant bride t for Joseph, and is thereby associated with his god.1 previous studies may have overstepped the limits of…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Teaching with Technology: Using Digital Humanities to Engage Student Learning in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week agoIn this article, I address the challenge of fostering better student engagement with ancient material, and discuss my experience with designing a course around creative use of technology. In my recent course, “The Ancient Christian Church: 54–604 CE,” I employed several tactics to encourage student engagement with ancient and modern sources, which…[Read more]
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