Results 51 to 60 of about 1,292 (260)

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
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

The Obligations of Exempt Monasteries: The Practice in England

Journal 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

Bringing faith to the public: Positioning church communities for social good in sub-Saharan Africa

Theologia Viatorum
The Christian faith must move beyond private belief and engage more actively in public issues to promote societal well-being. Churches, as key actors in the public sphere alongside for-profit institutions and political bodies, have the potential to ...
Patrick Nanthambwe, Vhumani Magezi
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Towards understanding Church-State relations and socio-political context in Zimbabwe – Implications for public pastoral care

Theologia Viatorum
This article explores the complex history of Church-State relations in Zimbabwe, which have shifted between collaboration, co-option, and resistance. These dynamics have left significant social and political impacts.
Vhumani Magezi, Priviledge Tafirei
doaj   +1 more source

MUSIKALISCHE ABDRÜCKE DER BESTREBUNG SKRJABINS NACH MYSTISCHER SELBSTVERWIRKLICHUNG

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Musica, 2018
Musical Reflections of Scriabins Aspiration for Mystical Self-Fulfillment. This paper focuses on the artistic innovations of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, and examines the religious-philosophical ideology which influenced his life, and which ...
Miklós FEKETE
doaj   +1 more source

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

Gender &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