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A History of ‘Religious History’

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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Of Numbers and Frogs: Wending One's Way through the Mind Fields of Symbolic Interaction Identity

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Gary T. Marx
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal 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
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Jurisprudence and Theology: The Australian School

In recent years, a distinctive approach to law and religion scholarship has developed in Australia, characterised by direct engagement with theology in addressing legal and jurisprudential questions.
Neoh, Joshua,, Crowe, Jonathan,, Lee, Constance Youngwon,, Lee, Constance, Crowe, Jonathan, Tjandra, Jonathan, Neoh, Joshua   +6 more
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Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

Journal 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
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Does Comparative Theology have an Advantage over Religious Studies? [PDF]

, 2013
In this essay, I assess the prospects for Comparative Theology as some scholars proffered towards building a general theory of religion. I first acknowledge the relationship between the two disciplines; second, I examine the relationship between faith ...
Kumar, Pratap P
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A Ch'ixi Philosophy of History: Rivera Cusicanqui After Benjamin

Constellations, EarlyView.
Daniel Luna Jacobs
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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Carl Schmitt's International Order: A Decolonial Reappraisal

Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrea Mura
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Nature's Ambiguous Sex: The Body as a Feminist Resource in German Naturism Around 1900

Gender &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
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