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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Religion and Diaspora: Islam as Ancestral Heritage in Mauritius on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
Orientation towards a point of political and historical allegiance outside the boundaries of the nation-state is often taken to be a defining quality of diasporas, and this aligns with the ubiquitous tendency of Islamic practice to engage with sources of long- distance, or indeed global, religious authority. In this article, I shall investigate…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoIn this chapter I discuss how contests about religious language have revolved around a contrast between, on the one hand, a preference for literalism, with its emphasis on reference and denotation; and on the other hand, a valuation of the poetic functions of language and its material properties. Turning to the issue of electronically mediated…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoIn this chapter I discuss how contests about religious language have revolved around a contrast between, on the one hand, a preference for literalism, with its emphasis on reference and denotation; and on the other hand, a valuation of the poetic functions of language and its material properties. Turning to the issue of electronically mediated…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoIn this chapter I discuss how contests about religious language have revolved around a contrast between, on the one hand, a preference for literalism, with its emphasis on reference and denotation; and on the other hand, a valuation of the poetic functions of language and its material properties. Turning to the issue of electronically mediated…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
In this chapter I discuss how contests about religious language have revolved around a contrast between, on the one hand, a preference for literalism, with its emphasis on reference and denotation; and on the other hand, a valuation of the poetic functions of language and its material properties. Turning to the issue of electronically mediated…[Read more]
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Joshua Mostafa's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 12 months ago
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Gregory Afinogenov deposited Cold War Creatures: Soviet Science and the Problem of the Abominable Snowman in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoExamines the role of the yeti in shaping Cold War popular science networks and relations between official and popular scientific practices in the Soviet Union.
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Gregory Afinogenov deposited Cold War Creatures: Soviet Science and the Problem of the Abominable Snowman in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoExamines the role of the yeti in shaping Cold War popular science networks and relations between official and popular scientific practices in the Soviet Union.
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Gregory Afinogenov deposited Cold War Creatures: Soviet Science and the Problem of the Abominable Snowman on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
Examines the role of the yeti in shaping Cold War popular science networks and relations between official and popular scientific practices in the Soviet Union.
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Little India: Diaspora, Time and Ethnolinguistic Belonging in Hindu Mauritius in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoLittle India is a rich historical and ethnographic examination of a fascinating example of linguistic plurality on the island of Mauritius, where more than two-thirds of the population is of Indian ancestry. Patrick Eisenlohr’s groundbreaking study focuses on the formation of diaspora as mediated through the cultural phenomenon of Indian ancestral…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Little India: Diaspora, Time and Ethnolinguistic Belonging in Hindu Mauritius in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoLittle India is a rich historical and ethnographic examination of a fascinating example of linguistic plurality on the island of Mauritius, where more than two-thirds of the population is of Indian ancestry. Patrick Eisenlohr’s groundbreaking study focuses on the formation of diaspora as mediated through the cultural phenomenon of Indian ancestral…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Little India: Diaspora, Time and Ethnolinguistic Belonging in Hindu Mauritius on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months ago
Little India is a rich historical and ethnographic examination of a fascinating example of linguistic plurality on the island of Mauritius, where more than two-thirds of the population is of Indian ancestry. Patrick Eisenlohr’s groundbreaking study focuses on the formation of diaspora as mediated through the cultural phenomenon of Indian ancestral…[Read more]
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Csaba Szabó's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoSounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice, as a site…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoSounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice, as a site…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World in the group
Historical Soundscape Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoSounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice, as a site…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoSounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice, as a site…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
Sounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice, as a site…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
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Gregory Afinogenov deposited Review of How the Jesuits Survived Their Suppression. The Society of Jesus in the Russian Empire (1773-1814) by Marek Inglot S. J. on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
A review of Marek Inglot, S.J., How the Jesuits Survived Their Suppression. The Society of Jesus in the Russian Empire (1773-1814), ed. and trans. D. L. Schlafly (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2015), Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 85, Fasc. 169.
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