This is the new and final version of the book, Performing Prowess: Essays on Localized Hindu Elements in Southeast Asian Art from Past to Present. It explores Hindu elements which have been localized in Southeast Asian art and culture from the ancient to contemporary periods.

This research it isn’t confined to António Joaquim Padrão (c. 1730-71) – marginal personality in the portuguese capital artistic scene, yet with a independent workshop operating in the city during the third quarter of the eighteenth century, working has a painter and engraver – historical-biographical reconstruction, nor to his artistic corpu…[Read more]

Anarchism is a set of ideas and practices focused upon the elimination of hierarchies (political, economic, social), and prioritizes creating horizontal, self-managing, cooperative, egalitarian, and empowered communities. Anarchist movements have been active since the mid-Nineteenth century and have pursued insurrectionary, mass-organizing, and…[Read more]

अष्टभुजा शुक्ल की अनेक कविताओं का कथ्य भी बहुत समस्याग्रस्त है। उनमें प्रतिक्रियावादी मूल्य भरे पड़े हैं। इन कविताओं को पढ़ते हुए लगता है कि वे समाज को पीछे ले जाने वाले कवि हैं। इस लेख में उनकी कविता की प्रतिगामिता पर चर्चा की गई है।

अष्टभुजा शुक्ल की अनेक कविताओं का कथ्य भी बहुत समस्याग्रस्त है। उनमें प्रतिक्रियावादी मूल्य भरे पड़े हैं। इन कविताओं को पढ़ते हुए लगता है कि वे समाज को पीछे ले जाने वाले कवि हैं। इस लेख में उनकी कविता की प्रतिगामिता पर चर्चा की गई है।

A short peer-reviewed essay exploring my pedagogical approach at teaching a required Introduction to New Testament course for students at a Criminal Justice program. It outlines creative ways to engage students in biblical material by focusing attention on those aspects of it that directly relate to the legal profession and sensibility.

Our earliest Christian sources suggest that it was common for Christian communities in the first and second century to disregard or ignore statements by Jesus that were perceived to be problematic, even at times claiming they originated with their enemies. This paper turns attention to this early Christian phenomenon of rejecting Jesus’ sayings, e…[Read more]

An article that explores the theology of Sabbath keeping, and the biblical arguments for when God wishes his laws to be violated. A theology of the Sabbath, if it is to serve God’s desire in Scripture, must focus on the why of Sabbath, not the when. It cannot rely on arguments from authority or the Law as a cheap excuse for not engaging in a…[Read more]

The passage of Genesis 22 is reviewed and examined through four interpretive lenses: Narrative Criticism, Canonical Criticism, Historical Criticism, and a Hermeneutic of Confrontation. After reviewing extensively the history of child sacrifice in Ancient Israel, the argument of Omri Boehm’s reconstructed text (lacking the angelic speeches), and…[Read more]

Discussions about the history of the reception of the Apocrypha within Protestantism are often mired by blanket negative presumptions that differ markedly from the actual beliefs attested to in available historical sources. This chapter seeks to rectify such historical misrepresentations by presenting an initial attempt to summarize the entire…[Read more]

The book deals with the wide background and context of early Christianity. Particularly, it highlights the rise of Jewish national identity and the influence of the Essene Yahad, seeing the New Testament in the light of cultural conditioning and regarding as central the divinization doctrine. in the last section it delves into doubt, faith, and mysticism.

A fresh attempt to explain the suicide of Judas and the death of Ananias and Sapphira as imagined consequences of an allegedly deadly excommunication.