Knowledge Commons | Oleh Pravets | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/pravetso/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Oleh Pravets is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:57:13 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 ffb23860363e5c36c08b8aced078ceb1 Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Biblical Studies via email https://hcommons.org/groups/biblical-studies/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-11/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:26:29 -0500 Dear all,

We would like to invite you to take part in an anonymous online survey exploring how the growing use of generative AI tools (including ChatGPT) is reshaping user practices and expectations in relation to searching, discovering, and interpreting digitised and born-digital archival records.

The survey forms part of a research project…[Read more]

]]> f14d7ddd6420de2dfc2663f89f9a66f5 Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/religious-studies/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-5/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:17:45 -0500 Dear all,

We would like to invite you to take part in an anonymous online survey exploring how the growing use of generative AI tools (including ChatGPT) is reshaping user practices and expectations in relation to searching, discovering, and interpreting digitised and born-digital archival records.

The survey forms part of a research project…[Read more]

]]> 65cb1ad1cd5d4f8cf3b379511141841e Osama S Qatrani posted an update in the group Religious Studies: I’ve recently written a response to Frank Zindler’s ess […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1926129/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 22:10:03 -0400 I’ve recently written a response to Frank Zindler’s essay “An Islamic Tale of Cartoons, Cartoonacy, and Cartoonatics” (2006).
The paper critiques his methodological reductionism and orientalist framings, while emphasizing that censorship and propaganda are universal, not limited to Islam. It also calls for resisting Islamophobic narratives disguis…[Read more]

]]> 0 5939088aab7a4f118ec0665d4ef031ac Patrick Wilson started the topic Divine Trust (God Trusting Humanity) in the forum Theology https://hcommons.org/groups/theology/forum/topic/divine-trust-god-trusting-humanity/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:17:35 -0400 I recently wrote an essay/article hybrid which explores the idea that God trusts non-Divine beings. I'm sharing the title and abstract below alongside a url link to the article and a PDF attachment. Even if you don't have time to read it, I would still like to hear people's thoughts. Is there room in your theological tradition to affirm a God who…[Read more]

]]> 3e84ae5b2b3587ff89acf10631095ead Meredith Warren deposited St Paul of the Thorns: A Note on Disability, Visual Criticism, and 2 Corinthians 12:7b–10 in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902583/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:26 -0400 In this note, we introduce readers to St Paul of the Thorns, a painting by Elizabeth Tooth, which is part of an exhibition entitled Reimagining Paul. Using visual arts interpretive methodologies, disability studies, exegesis of 2 Corinthians, and exhibition visitor feedback, we consider the distinctive contribution of visual art to discussions of…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a76225dcc83a80fe5cd3a1d2c803b03 Meredith Warren deposited A Metanarrative of Disability in John 5 in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902580/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:19 -0400 Within Johannine texts, impairment carries associated meanings to the point that the narrative figure is reduced to the impairment rather than having an independent and/or complex identity. A metanarrative of disability exists within these texts, regarding assuming that attitudes, capabilities or attributes relate to particular impairments. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 525ac4042d5e261744a1e48ba5ff7297 Meredith Warren deposited Epilepsy as Punishment from God: A Disability Reading of 2 and 3 Maccabees in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902577/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:12 -0400 A surprising consensus among scholars working on 3 Maccabees is that the story of Philopator’s supernatural intervention appears strikingly similar to an epileptic seizure. Likewise, the same observations have been made by others about Heliodorus’s episode in 2 Maccabees. Surprisingly, none of these scholars appear to be self-aware that this is…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad0db98f5a3b3ed9502887c24bddb6af Meredith Warren deposited Davidic Kings with Disability: Illness, Disability, and Ideal Monarchs in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902574/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:01 -0400 Royal illness and disability recur as motifs within the accounts of the Davidic monarchs provided in the books of Samuel and Kings. Recent work done on the intersection of disability studies and the Hebrew Bible provides a framework for tracing this motif throughout the history of the southern kingdom in 1 and 2 Kings. Under this framework, kings…[Read more]

]]> 0 46fd0954e37595df8fd6d145bd49803d Nick Posegay deposited From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit in the group Hebrew Bible / Old Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902156/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:01:07 -0400 This collection of essays celebrates 50 years since the founding of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. Three generations of scholars contributed their research and memories from their time at the GRU, stretching back to 1974. Their work comprises 18 articles on medieval Jewish History, Hebrew and Arabic…[Read more]

]]> 0 434a3be0b5f323df6ff4b716c6ad6f34 Albert R Haig deposited The Word in the Soul and its Counterparts: World, Body, Mind, and Soul in Plotinus in the group Theology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901226/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:00:25 -0400 This book chapter represents a comprehensive discussion of the theory of cognition found in the ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus. Plotinus was the founder and most significant exponent of Neoplatonism, which represented the interpretation of Plato that was prevalent in late antiquity. His thought had a considerable impact on all three Abrahamic…[Read more]

]]> 0 7faec064c61184f67fa3656dcc3a4bd1 Albert R Haig deposited The Word in the Soul and its Counterparts: World, Body, Mind, and Soul in Plotinus in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901225/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:00:15 -0400 This book chapter represents a comprehensive discussion of the theory of cognition found in the ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus. Plotinus was the founder and most significant exponent of Neoplatonism, which represented the interpretation of Plato that was prevalent in late antiquity. His thought had a considerable impact on all three Abrahamic…[Read more]

]]> 0 cac38539e3f3e7101d249227d0970367 Meredith Warren deposited Naming as Human Agency in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901080/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:00:31 -0400 In Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 comic novel Good Omens, names act as important signifiers of role and function; the act of naming can be an expression of power so strong and significant that it can literally shape reality. Here, I propose a reading of Good Omens that explores human agency through the process of naming. Focusing on the c…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a8e86d2f420750f71433ca105077124 Meredith Warren deposited Naming as Human Agency in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901079/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:00:30 -0400 In Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 comic novel Good Omens, names act as important signifiers of role and function; the act of naming can be an expression of power so strong and significant that it can literally shape reality. Here, I propose a reading of Good Omens that explores human agency through the process of naming. Focusing on the c…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c47e0d584c2d16c639062397d6ef0e1 Nick Posegay deposited The Illustrated Cairo Genizah in the group Hebrew Bible / Old Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900713/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:01:15 -0400 Almost one thousand years ago, the Jews of Old Cairo began to place their worn-out books and scrolls into a hidden storage room – a genizah – of their synagogue. Over the years, they added all sorts of writings to the pile, sacred and secular texts alike. When the chamber was emptied at the end of the 19th century, it held hundreds of tho…[Read more]

]]> 0 707279b2fe2a151e1dd5c74372378d03 Meredith Warren deposited There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899809/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:47 -0400 Few of the parables found in the gospels have received more attention than the parable of the man with two sons, commonly known as the parable of the Prodigal Son. In this paper, I argue that discourses of queer futurity can help make new sense of the parable, highlighting its use of family structures and its assumptions about time, and attending…[Read more]

]]> 0 9cab0efe12edcddd5f66d98aa4a9c707 Meredith Warren deposited There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899806/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:26 -0400 Few of the parables found in the gospels have received more attention than the parable of the man with two sons, commonly known as the parable of the Prodigal Son. In this paper, I argue that discourses of queer futurity can help make new sense of the parable, highlighting its use of family structures and its assumptions about time, and attending…[Read more]

]]> 0 d889d78c9d2854dee08d45499f7fc3e3 Mihail Khalid Qaramah deposited Contribuții la istoria ritului bizantino-slav al românilor. Liturghierul de la Mănăstirea Dealu (1646) in the group Theology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899598/ Tue, 24 Sep 2024 03:00:02 -0400 The study attemps to identify the sources of the Leitourgikon printed at Dealu Monastery (Wallachia) in 1646. Thus, this edition is here compared with some of the most important Ruthenian Sluzhebniki printed in the first half of the 17th century. The Wallachian Leitourgikon is not a simple reprint of a particular Ruthenian edition, having a table…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f91a38cc3b0ff5825bbdbca04c825ce Meredith Warren deposited Requiring Apologia? Merchants and Artisans in Acts of the Apostles in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898295/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 03:00:34 -0400 Christian merchants, artisans, and service providers were explicitly targeted by early critics of the movement, who felt, in line with contemporary prejudices, that such people were dirty, ignorant, and prone to the vices of greed and deceit. Detractors hoped to attack Christianity on two intersecting fronts: that the faith was morally bankrupt…[Read more]

]]> 0 99e72d495401d9215dcbd015abb9d52b Allan Savage deposited Metropolitan Community Churches: An Appraisal of Queer Consciousness and Religious Expression in the group Theology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897043/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 03:00:18 -0400 As a new theory in the humanities and social studies, Queer Theory is not limited to matters sexual. Queer theory is a broad understanding which encompasses any understanding that is anti-normativity and anti-fixed identity. It is often discussed as identity politics by contemporary academics, philosophers and social commentators. It is within…[Read more]

]]> 0 d480c3a397df301e743f9bb947585c5f Adam DJ Brett deposited REL 500/600: The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M'Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896637/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:00:35 -0400 In a series of Papal Bulls from the 15th century developed what is now known as the “Doctrine of Christian Discovery” (DoCD). These documents granted land title to Christian explorers when they entered the territories not ruled by a Christian Prince. While there have always been localized expressions of intolerance and hatred toward other cul…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3fd02fd2d13370238516d1687ff58d5 Lloyd Graham deposited Rainbow serpents, dragons and dragon-slayers: Global traits, ancient Egyptian particulars, and alchemical echoes in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895886/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:29 -0400 Robert Blust has recently established that – globally – dragons evolved from rainbow serpents, which in turn represent a prehistoric understanding of rainbows. The present paper explores the “dragon-scape” of ancient Egypt in search of traits that may have survived from these earlier stages. The cryptic pD.tyw Sw and Iaau of Coffin Text 698 mig…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e44d51780b62d0af606152f25f6eb38 Lloyd Graham deposited False friends among the disease-demons? On the Egyptian nsy/nsyt and Latin/Slavic nessia/nežit in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895880/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:03 -0400 In ancient Egyptian medicine, the most common disease-causing demon is called nsy or nsyt. These names are phonetically close to those of a leading disease-causing demonic agent in medieval and early modern Europe, called nessia in Latin and nežit in Slavic languages. The demons of both regions were believed to invade the patient’s body to ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff5dff169c352d1e59083749813861e0 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895617/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:30 -0400 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ea71e3753e0a630240f4040208a0d21 James A Benn deposited “‘Action Buddhism’ in the Medieval Chinese Empire,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894296/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:26 -0400 This essay will focus mostly on the Tang dynastic empire (618–907 CE), a “second
wave” empire as defined in the Introduction to this volume, and its relations with
Buddhism, although it will be necessary to say something about earlier Chinese dynasties
and about other religions. As we shall see, an awareness of history permeates
the relat…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1373b0fccd123da762614f8c2dd6933 James A Benn deposited “Is Buddhist Self-Immolation a Form of Asceticism?” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894294/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:17 -0400 I am grateful for this opportunity to revisit some issues that remain
unresolved after my earlier publications on Buddhist self-immolation.

]]> 0 715797b49000554d3a2b87090d635fce James A Benn deposited “Some East Asian Buddhist Attitudes Towards non-Buddhist Practitioners in India,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894292/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Abstract: The early eighth-century Chinese Buddhist apocryphal scripture
known as Lengyan jing or Śūraṃgama sūtra contains some vivid and
lengthy descriptions of demonic states that may arise for the practitioner in
deep states of meditation. In some of these states, the practitioner is said to
experience profound mis-perceptions of real…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a4c4705317f203981f385de3ffca5c9 James A Benn deposited “Princess Miaoshan, Self-immolator?” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893757/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:34 -0400 In this paper, I offer a new reading of the popular narrative of
Princess Miaoshan in Chinese religion, placing it within the larger context
of self-immolation as found in Buddhist narratives and the actions of selfimmolators.
The acts of extreme violence done to Miaoshan by her father
and herself (she stabs the inside of her mouth with a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6268f5e4b349d9bcefe182bed3ecbe15 James A Benn deposited “China II: Buddhism in the Sui, Tang (and Zhou) Dynasties,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893755/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:22 -0400 This is the final submitted version of my chapter for Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Some changes have been made in the published version and that version should be cited. I am sharing this version in accord with the copyright policy for Brill, which allows sharing of the accepted manuscript but not of the published .pdf. Full publication d…[Read more]

]]> 0 a38499f49a06c8f954929d0d3464fa57 Meredith Warren deposited Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891070/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:00:05 -0400 In ancient Hebrew, the word for “hand” can also refer metaphorically to personal power—or be innuendo for the phallus. This observation serves as a key to the many appearances of “hands” in the book of Esther, from the king’s superlative “hand” to the ever-active “hands” of eunuchs. This abundance of hands has an ironic significance, alter…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc137830eefa8baa7a6cec89750c90cd Meredith Warren deposited Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891069/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:00:04 -0400 In ancient Hebrew, the word for “hand” can also refer metaphorically to personal power—or be innuendo for the phallus. This observation serves as a key to the many appearances of “hands” in the book of Esther, from the king’s superlative “hand” to the ever-active “hands” of eunuchs. This abundance of hands has an ironic significance, alter…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc6bb4fbf1ba2941fac5b3a11718d4b4 Stanislav Panin deposited Translating Esotericism: Russian in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890335/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:12:48 -0400 An overview of the history of Russian terminology related to esotericism. This article is a part of the special issue of the journal Correspondences dedicated to the ways in which people speak about esotericism in different cultures.

]]> 0 051f6a5f48dfdee7015e3e1a3fb13d23 Lloyd Graham deposited From Egyptian barque oracles to Artificial Swarm Intelligence via the Ouija (or wDA?) board in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889910/ Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Ancient Egyptian barque oracles had a recent counterpart in the phenomenon of “table-turning”, an occult process experienced in Nineteenth-Century Spiritualist séances. The séance table’s small-scale successor, the Talking Board, ensured that oracular locomotion persisted throughout the Twentieth Century; its best-known embodiment – the Ouija boa…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed4f16743bd7fb46df8bcbb96e65a138 Dr Guy D. Middleton deposited Bang or whimper? in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889850/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:01:31 -0400 The evidence for collapse of human civilizations at the start of the recently defined Meghalayan Age is equivocal

]]> 0 ba1ff800d008d5bcdf581f2f13f88270 Dr Guy D. Middleton deposited Reading the thirteenth century BC in Greece: Crisis, decline, or business as usual? in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889847/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:00:58 -0400 How we interpret the period preceding a collapse is important both in the desire to achieve historical accuracy and in that it affects the way we understand the collapse itself1. Intuition tells us that there must have been problems of some kind, crises or decline, prior to any collapse – enemies at the gate, structural issues in the functioning o…[Read more]

]]> 0 cde97abcd3e43ed2170a418e7b07a482 Dr Guy D. Middleton deposited I Will Follow You into the Dark: Death and Emotion in a Mycenaean Royal Funeral in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889844/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:00:23 -0400 Despite many years of intensive research into burial and funeral practices in Late Bronze Age (LBA) Greece, emotion remains largely absent from the discussion. Yet death and the emotions it provoked would have been familiar aspects of daily life in Mycenaean Greece. The dead had to be dealt with and moved on through various rites until they became…[Read more]

]]> 0 f8bdd323ba2c09b7194d78df457d47b1 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Our Lady of Struggle: Marian Devotion and Organized Labor in "Salt of the Earth" (1954) in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888694/ Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:01:06 -0400 "Salt of the Earth" (1954) is viewed as one of the major examples of working-class cinema in the United States, yet its portrayal of the deep connection between the plight and struggle of Latino workers and Catholicism has not been developed in critical discussions of the film. This paper aims to address this aspect of the film. "Salt of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8bb8a0db8f61a7a5b51294f52f2af5c Marika Rose deposited Love Your Enemy: Theology, Identity and Antagonism in the group Theology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887446/ Wed, 29 May 2024 03:00:34 -0400 The central problem of the doctrine of creation - why did God create the world? - has important parallels with the central problem of the fall - how did sin enter the world? Both problems are essentially problems of freedom, of inexplicable decision - problems, that is, of sovereignty. This chapter will explore these parallel problems of creation…[Read more]

]]> 0 82e29c70aef17757c6a7e187cc780d96 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El «Discurso a Diogneto», a través de una nueva lectura y reinterpretación. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887283/ Mon, 27 May 2024 03:00:29 -0400 In this text, Eliseo Ferrer carries out a revision of the positions maintained in a previous work on the “Discourse to Diognetus”. A supposedly Christian text in which the figures of Christ or Jesus do not appear (nor anything related to the Gospel story) and that, with all certainty, was manipulated at an undetermined time by the Roman Chu…[Read more]

]]> 0 95de0496ad185b77d16e41a275edab51 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El «Discurso a Diogneto», a través de una nueva lectura y reinterpretación. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887282/ Mon, 27 May 2024 03:00:27 -0400 In this text, Eliseo Ferrer carries out a revision of the positions maintained in a previous work on the “Discourse to Diognetus”. A supposedly Christian text in which the figures of Christ or Jesus do not appear (nor anything related to the Gospel story) and that, with all certainty, was manipulated at an undetermined time by the Roman Chu…[Read more]

]]> 0 ac50be2b004e6b0026767bd6ed101a70 Jonathan Valk deposited Who are the Arameans? A Selective Re-examination of the Cuneiform Evidence for the Earliest Arameans in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885670/ Thu, 09 May 2024 03:00:47 -0400 This study challenges the 19th-century nationalist assumptions that have informed modern views of Aramean peoplehood in the first half of the first millennium BCE. I revisit the cuneiform sources, which offer the bulk of the existing evidence on the earliest Arameans, and demonstrate that they conceive of Arameans not as a single coherent people,…[Read more]

]]> 0 510c2adc6a4aa36f74ee0c1786ab2804 Jonathan Valk deposited Reflections on the Dynamics of Cuneiform Knowledge Production in the Ancient Near East in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885668/ Thu, 09 May 2024 03:00:09 -0400 Very brief overview of the parameters of demand and supply for cuneiform knowledge production.

]]> 0 3c333dd781cbe761022db5efcbd5a804 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Felt Connections Across the Indian Ocean: An Ethnographic Encounter with Grand Bassin, Mauritius in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884704/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:32:20 -0400 It is appropriate to understand the Mauritian Hindu state bourgeoisie’s diasporic politics based on Hindu connections to India as a strategy to consolidate their power. This strategy stands for the creation of a postcolonial nation in which such communities built on religious origins and transnational networks, Mauritian Hindus being by far the l…[Read more]

]]> 0 3474cbbee99a08e387664cb812fa6be4 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic atmospheres in Mauritian devotional Islam: Sensing transoceanic connections in a Creole society in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884701/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:32:01 -0400 Movement constitutes transoceanic spaces such as the Indian Ocean world. Sonic practices as atmospheres make such multilayered movements and connections palpable. The recitation of naʻt among Mauritian Muslims is an example of how sound and sonic practices can provide somatic evidence for transoceanic links in the Indian Ocean world. It is argued…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2a64cf1b098885a0e59fe1cd482a18c Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Twelver Shia Muslims’ right to the city: Public performance, media practices, and urban atmospheres in Mumbai in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884664/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:29 -0400 This chapter examines public religious performances and media practices among Twelver Shia Muslims in Mumbai. I argue that such practices produce intertwined claims of belonging on multiple levels. Public religious performances and their mediatic reproductions, particularly their sonic and movement-related dimensions, establish certain…[Read more]

]]> 0 ffeecaa9217ccb20b46dd5ed687dc129 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic religion: The analysis of atmospheric half-things in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884659/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:01 -0400 The chapter discusses work on sonic religion and the challenges it has encountered in coming to terms with sonic materiality. The study of material religion has so far been predominantly focused on objects, things, and images. The sonic, however, cannot be grasped by approaches suited to the latter phenomena. It is argued that its special kind of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6dd03a065b811919ebb76112db5a27e Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Die indische Diaspora in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884655/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:27:41 -0400 Als Diasporen werden gemeinhin Bevölkerungsgruppen bezeichnet, die auf eine Geschichte freiwilliger oder erzwungener Migration zurückblicken können. Dennoch ist das Vorhanden- sein der bloßen Tatsache einer Migration von A nach B nicht ausreichend für die Existenz einer Diaspora. Hinzukommen muss nämlich das Bewusstsein eines tatsächlichen oder e…[Read more]

]]> 0 c756cef34fb7c4f80ae049376e1fb2c3 Meredith Warren deposited What Exactly Did Mary “Conceive” in Her Womb? in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884604/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:32 -0400 The language Luke uses to depict conception in his infancy narrative calls upon established medical discourse for fertilisation. My argument in this philological study is that ancient gynaecology prompts us to give full weight to the literal meaning of Gabriel’s term sullambanein (“to conceive/grasp”) and to ask what grammatical and material objec…[Read more]

]]> 0 f85c3a300f135c9a2f9aaa30e6a4c725 Meredith Warren deposited What Exactly Did Mary “Conceive” in Her Womb? in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884602/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:22 -0400 The language Luke uses to depict conception in his infancy narrative calls upon established medical discourse for fertilisation. My argument in this philological study is that ancient gynaecology prompts us to give full weight to the literal meaning of Gabriel’s term sullambanein (“to conceive/grasp”) and to ask what grammatical and material objec…[Read more]

]]> 0 b964dd7e5981f01f67a78e7215bcd5f6 Meredith Warren deposited What Exactly Did Mary “Conceive” in Her Womb? in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884601/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:21 -0400 The language Luke uses to depict conception in his infancy narrative calls upon established medical discourse for fertilisation. My argument in this philological study is that ancient gynaecology prompts us to give full weight to the literal meaning of Gabriel’s term sullambanein (“to conceive/grasp”) and to ask what grammatical and material objec…[Read more]

]]> 0 f9cee781744b83a75c0a179f772fbb1d Meredith Warren deposited Bearing a “Jewish Weight”: A New Interpretation of a Greek Comedic Papyrus About Athletics (CPJ 3.519) in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884598/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:10 -0400 This article offers a new interpretation of the phrase “Jewish weight,” especially as it is used in the Greek papyrus known as CPJ 3.519. The Roman-era papyrus preserves part of a work of otherwise unknown fiction, probably a script of a comedic mime about an athletic contest in a gymnasium. Contrary to previous interpreters, a new reading of the…[Read more]

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