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When misery and metaphysics collide: William James on 'the problem of evil'. [PDF]

Med Hist, 2011
Sutton EK.
europepmc   +1 more source

A Crisis of Representation: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this symposium contribution, we subject John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State to the scrutiny warranted by its contribution. While the book offers a rich categorisation of the myriad forms of mundane agency one can observe in the underbelly of the democratic state, we seek to extend the argument by situating it in some ...
Liam Stanley, Dillon Wamsley, Joseph Ward   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

William E. Hughson to James C. Furman

A one page letter and envelope from William E.
Hughson, William E.
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James Taylor to William H. Thomas, August 10, 1864

, 2018
In this letter of August 10, 1864, Captain James Taylor writes to Colonel William H. Thomas of the Confederate army. Captain Taylor discusses regiment conditions, supply issues, and the town they are protecting from Union attack and ...
Taylor, James M. (James Madison), 1821-1907;
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Reverend William J. Hard to James C. Furman

A one page letter and envelope from Reverend William J.
Hard, William J.
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Portrait of James William Barrett, University of Melbourne, circa 1939.

, 1939
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Barrett, James W.
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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
wiley   +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

James C. Furman to William E. Bailey

A two page letter and envelope from James C.
Furman, James Clement
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