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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study focuses on 17 in‐service language teachers who graduated from a social justice‐oriented MA program in Teaching Languages to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Teaching Foreign Languages (TFL) at a US higher education institution. Drawing on multiple data sources that connect participants' pre‐service and in‐service experiences,
Deniz Ortactepe Hart
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ReligionsThis article examines the painted Torah ark as a form of material religion through which early modern rural Jewish communities shaped sacred space and articulated religious belonging.
Zvi Orgad
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The Modern Jewish Flood: Catastrophe and Fragile Continuity in Eastern European Jewish Culture
ReligionsIn modern Jewish thought in Eastern Europe, the biblical narratives of the Flood (Mabul) and Noah’s Ark took on new symbolic meanings. Although these narratives had long occupied a place in religious interpretation and storytelling, they gained renewed ...
Zvi Orgad
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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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El Lissitzky’s Red Wedge as the Hebrew letter Yud
Images, 2023 The analysis undertaken in this paper sets out with El Lissitzky’s 1919 revolutionary poster entitled Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge. This artwork, composed of simple geometric figures, in which an acute-angled red triangle splits the form of ...
Artur Kamczycki
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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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Buildings, 2022 The Jewish architectural heritage is and will remain an integral part of the local cultural heritage, but part of it still needs to be discovered, rehabilitated, maintained and valued.
Vasile Grama +10 more
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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“Tikkun Olam”: Helène Aylon’s ecofeminist ritual art
Journal of Aesthetics & CultureHelène Aylon (1931–2020) established herself in the 1980s as a prominent ecofeminist artist by developing large-scale participatory ritual artworks. The feminist and the activist aspects of her work have been acknowledged and discussed extensively, but ...
David Sperber
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Approaching Religion, 2016 Contemporary commentators are well aware that the Jewish tradition is not an aniconic one. Far from suppressing art, the Second Commandment produces it.
Melissa Raphael
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