For scholars of religion and others interested in the practice, pedagogy, history, and theory of religious studies.
Dr. Steven D. Aguzzi deposited Millenarian and Amillennial Theologies of History in Relation to Supersessionism in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agoThe purpose of this essay is threefold. First we will attempt to define the problem of supersessionism (also known as ‘Replacement Theology’), both by responding to the calls of the Roman Catholic Church within Vatican II to change theologies of supersession, but likewise by addressing the current weaknesses in eschatological though within the Rom…[Read more]
Michael Miller deposited Journeys to the Otherworld: Jewish Traditions in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month agoEntry on Hekhalot literature
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Michael Miller deposited Jewish Traditions: Prophecy and Visions in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month agoHandbook entry on Medieval Jewish Prophecy as a form of prognostication
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Michael Miller deposited The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem: A Borderline Case in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month agoThe African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem are an expatriate black American community who have since 1969 lived in Israel. They claim to be the authentic descendants of the biblical Israelites and live by Mosaic law. They constitute an important New Religious Movement with 3,000– 5,000 members in Israel and large satellite c…[Read more]
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Michael Miller deposited The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem (Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements) in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month agoAn entry for the Centre for the Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements’ (CenSAMM) Dictionary: https://www.cdamm.org/
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Michael Miller deposited Ben Ammi’s Adaptation of Veganism in the Theology of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoThis article will look at the ideology of veganism in the AHIJ. Since the early 1970s their diet has been a core part of their ideology and of their message to the world. Acknowledging that a black/Jewish meat-free diet is far from the exclusive property of the group, let alone a new development on their part, I will argue that it is an expression…[Read more]
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Michael Miller deposited Name Theology: Judaism in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoAn entry for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception on the topic of Name Theology, how this has evolved in different Abrahamic religions from the scriptural origins.
Patrick Eisenlohr deposited From Race to Religion in a Creole Society: Mauritian Muslims, the Hindu-Muslim Interface, and the Question of Religion and Creolization in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoMauritian Muslims have undergone a long process of religious standardization and sectarian segmentation. How have sharp religious boundaries such as those that separate Muslims from Hindus and Christians, as well as those that divide Muslims internally along sectarian lines emerged in a creole society such as Mauritius? This article traces how…[Read more]
Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Religion and Film: Representation, Experience, Meaning in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoThis is a book review of Stefanie Knauss, “Religion and Film: Representation, Experience, Meaning” (Brill, 2020).
John Penniman deposited Fed to Perfection: Mother’s Milk, Roman Family Values, and the Transformation of the Soul in Gregory of Nyssa in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoPrompted by Michel Foucault’s observation that “salvation is first of all essentially subsistence,” this essay explores Gregory of Nyssa’s discussion of Christian spiritual formation as a kind of salvific and transformative feeding of infants. This article argues that the prominent role of nourishment—and specifically breast milk—in Gregory’s t…[Read more]
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John Penniman deposited The Health-Giving Cup: Cyprian’s Ep. 63 and the Medicinal Power of Eucharistic Wine in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoCyprian’s Epistle 63 represents the earliest extant account of the proper meaning and administration of the eucharistic cup. Against a group of Christians who were taking only water, Cyprian argues that wine is necessary for the ritual to be effective. While there has been much discussion surrounding the biblical references marshaled by Cyprian t…[Read more]
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John Penniman deposited Blended with the Savior: Gregory of Nyssa’s Eucharistic Pharmacology in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoHumankind, for Gregory of Nyssa, was poisoned through a primordial act of eating the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden. As a result, the toxin of sin and death has been blended into the body and soul of each person, dispersing itself throughout the component parts of their nature. If eating and drinking initiated the spiritual and physical…[Read more]
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John Penniman deposited How Gay Were the Early Christians? Or, The Perils of Hyperbole in Historiography in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoReview of Douglas Boin’s Coming Out Christian in the Roman World
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John Penniman deposited Feeding that Infinite Abyss Within in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoA review of the 2015 novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, by Alexandra Kleeman
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John Penniman deposited Review of Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoReview of Seducing Augustine, by Virginia Burrus, Karmen MacKendrick, and Mark Jordan (2010)
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John Penniman deposited “George Steiner” from the Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoEncyclopedia Entry
Albert R Haig deposited Dialectic as Ostension Towards the Transcendent: Language and Mystical Intersubjectivity in Plotinus’ Enneads in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoThe theory of language that underlies Plotinus’ Enneads is considered in relation to his
broader metaphysical vision. For Plotinus, language is neither univocal nor equivocal,
but is something in-between, incapable of precisely describing reality, but nonetheless
not completely useless. Propositional knowledge expressed discursively r…[Read more]Adam McDuffie deposited Review of Nelson Tebbe, Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoA brief review of Nelson Tebbe’s Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age, which seeks to resolve the the tension between the egalitarian impulse toward protections for the full rights of all individuals and the traditional American commitment to preservation of freedom to exercise sincerely held religious beliefs, even the beliefs of those who…[Read more]
Adam McDuffie deposited Review of Helge Ârsheim, Making Religion and Human Rights at the United Nations in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoThis brief review reflects on Helge Ârsheim’s recent work, Making Religion and Human Rights at the United Nations. The text explores, with great success, the role of religion in an institution which “does not ‘do’ religion.” Ârsheim provides an accessible and comprehensive resource for anyone researching the role of religion in global affairs.
Adam McDuffie deposited Law and Order in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoOver the last several months, the Republican party and its current leader have consistently trumpeted their strong commitment to law and order. Especially during this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests (and riots), as well as in response to calls for greater oversight of and a more limited role for police forces, many Republicans, political c…[Read more]
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