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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing a Sibling Rivalry: In Seeking Effective Christian–Muslim Relations, to What Extent Can Comparative Theology Contribute? An Evangelical Christian Perspective

open access: yesReligions
There is a long and complex history of Christian–Muslim engagement, one which is fraught by socio-political tensions and complicated by fear. Theological tensions likewise contribute to the sibling rivalry between these Abrahamic faiths.
Joy S. Hadden
doaj   +1 more source

Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
wiley   +1 more source

The Obligations of Exempt Monasteries: The Practice in England

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This note draws on the extensive sources surviving from the fourteenth century to examine, in the light of debates about the medieval papacy, the observance by English houses of papal obligations imposed on exempt monasteries. It concludes that these arrangements, reflecting the complex history of exemption, were more fluid, negotiable and ...
Peter McDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Nature's Ambiguous Sex: The Body as a Feminist Resource in German Naturism Around 1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While gender relations around 1900 were generally marked by sharp dichotomies grounded in nature and the body, the case of naturism appears paradoxical. An influential movement in Germany, it promoted a reform of the body according to natural principles.
Johannes Bosch
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: The Son of God

open access: yesTheoLogica, 2019
For as long as the Christian church has been working out its understanding of the second person of the Trinity, it has employed analytic philosophical reflection to sharpen theological comprehension.
Matthew Owen, Fred Sanders
doaj   +1 more source

Thinking With Care About Animals in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine: Gender and the Politics of Care in Scotland, 1910–30

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, we ‘think with care’ about gender in Scotland in the early twentieth century, undertaking an ethnographic approach to the archive of OneKind, formerly the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection (SSPV), which has only recently been catalogued.
Elizabeth Vander Meer, Alette Willis
wiley   +1 more source

Feminist economic theology and gender justice: The case of fisherwomen in Moluccas

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
This article evaluates feminist economic theology as embodied by fisherwomen in the Moluccas, Indonesia. These women, who support families and communities, remain largely invisible in both economic and theological discourses.
Margaretha M.A. Apituley   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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