For scholars of religion and others interested in the practice, pedagogy, history, and theory of religious studies.
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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 15 hours, 36 minutes 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 day, 15 hours 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 2 days, 15 hours 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 1 week 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 1 week, 1 day 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 1 week, 4 days 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 1 week, 4 days 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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Meredith Warren deposited ‘My heart poured forth understanding’ in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 4 days agoThis paper argues that 4 Ezra 14 represents the climax of the sensory revelations experienced by Ezra, and as such, that this is the episode which finally facilitates Ezra’s understanding of divine wisdom. In each of episodes one through six Ezra is incapable of making sense of what has been revealed to him, even though Ezra’s sensory rev…[Read more]
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Olalekan Adigun posted an update in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days agoI posted a piece on my Facebook wall about two emails I sent to two Research Institutes, one in Abuja (Nigeria) and the other in New York (USA). Despite the fact that Lagos (where I live) to Abuja is just about 300 km by road, I haven’t got a response, let alone have any assurance that my mail is being attended to. But, I have since gotten a r…[Read more]
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Guy Burneko deposited EcoHuman Flourishing and the Evolution of Consciousness in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 1 day agoThis essay develops interrelations and mutual implications foremost among Bernie Sanders’ book Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for our Common Home, and David Fideler’s Restoring the Soul of the World: Our Living Bond with Nature’s Intelligence. It proposes that the evolution of contempla…[Read more]
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Tom Head deposited Normal Mysticism: An Interdisciplinary Study of Max Kadushin’s Rabbinic Hermeneutic in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 1 day agoMax Kadushin (1895-1980) was a rabbi, professor, and preeminent figure in the history of American Conservative Jewish rabbinic thought. His hermeneutic system, which centers on the idea of organic religious value-concepts, has had a significant influence on the emerging Textual Reasoning movement … This interdisciplinary thesis presents…[Read more]
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Collin Cornell deposited What happened to Kemosh? in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 5 days agoWhat happened to Kemosh in the era after Moab’s loss of political independence? The present article first argues that this question is of interest to scholarship on the Hebrew Bible because Kemosh and Yhwh were initially twinlike: both were patron deities of Iron Age Levantine kingdoms and shared various similarities of profile. As such, c…[Read more]
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Collin Cornell deposited Holy Mutability: Religionsgeschichte and Theological Ontology in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 5 days agoThe Christian community characteristically confesses the constancy of God. But historians of religion know by contrast that the deity Yhwh evolved over time. How might scholars who belong to both these camps negotiate the disconnect? This essay seeks an answer by staging a moment of complementarity between Religionsgeschichte and OT theology.…[Read more]
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Collin Cornell deposited Cult Statuary in the Judean Temple at Yeb in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 5 days agoA revisitation of the Yeb archives with an eye to the question of cult statuary. The present article inventories the state of the question and makes several constructive suggestions. Its primary contributions are: to address the Yeb evidence, even preliminarily, to the debate over Yhwh statuary in the Jerusalem temple; to make a fresh…[Read more]
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Collin Cornell deposited Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period: Studies in the Religion and Society of the Judaean Community at Elephantine , written by Gard Granerød in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 5 days agoA review of Gard Granerød’s title, Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period.
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Marika Rose deposited ‘Not peace but a sword’: Dionysius, Žižek and the question of ancestry’ in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoIn this chapter I will, first, discuss the marriage of Christian theology and Neoplatonism which takes place in the mystical theology of Dionysius the Areopagite, and some of the problems which arise from this remarkably fruitful liaison. Then, second, I will trace the line of descent which leads from Dionysius to Žižek, who takes this i…[Read more]
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JILL CARRINGTON deposited Erudition, Devotion and Salvation in the Pietro Roccabonella Tomb in Padua in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoIn the original arrangement of the since-dismembered tomb, the costly life-size bronze panel of Roccabonella seated in his study faced the life-size bronze panel of the Virgin and Child adored by St. Francis and St. Peter; the two panels and their arrangement present Roccabonella’s erudition as well as his devotion to the holy figures depicted i…[Read more]
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Liesbeth Corens deposited Sermons, Sodalities, and Saints: the Role of Religious Houses for the English Expatriate Community in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoThis paper studies the interaction between clerical and lay English Catholics on the Continent in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In contrast with Protestant exiles, who established separate exile churches, Catholic expatriates did not create churches specifically for the exiled laity. Catholics abroad did nonetheless get support…[Read more]
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Liesbeth Corens deposited Saints beyond borders: Relics and the English Catholic Community in the Southern Netherlands in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoThis paper proposes a Catholic case study in a field dominated by studies on Protestant migrants. One of the main differences between the confessions was the institutional provision for the liturgical and devotional lives of laity abroad. Catholics did not found separate institutions similar to Protestant exile churches which channelled the sense…[Read more]
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Duncan McDuie-Ra deposited Religious actors, civil society and the development agenda: The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoThis article uses the World Bank’s engagement with religious actors to analyse their differentiated role in setting the development agenda raising three key issues. First, engagements between international financial institutions (IFIs) and religious actors are formalised thus excluding many of the actors embedded within communities in the South.…[Read more]
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