प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा संपादित पुस्तक “महिषासुर एक जननायक” का उद्देश्य यह स्पष्ट करना है कि आखिर महिषासुर नाम से शुरू किया गया यह आन्दोलन है क्या? इसकी आवश्यकता क्यों पड़ी? इसके निहितार्थ क्या हैं? इस पुस्तक में प्रश्न उठाया गया है कि जब असुर एक प्रजाति है तो उसकी हार या उसके नायक की ह्त्या का उत्सव किस सांस्कृतिक मनोवृत्ति का परिचायक…[Read more]

महिषासुर से संबंधित बहुजन समाज के मिथकों व परंपराओं , पौराणिक मिथकों और आधुनिक युग में गढे़ गए मिथकों के अर्थों को खोलने वाली इस पुस्तक का संपादक प्रमोद रंजन ने किया है। इस पुस्तक में पहली बार महिषासुर शहादत/स्मरण दिवस की विस्तृत सैद्धांतिकी भी प्रस्तुत की गई है तथा इस संबंध में उठने वालो सभी सवालों के उत्तर प्रस्तुत किये गये हैं।…[Read more]

यह किताब बहुजन डाइवर्सिटी द्वारा 2007 से शुरू की गई भारत की ज्वलंत समस्याएं शृंखला की है। पुस्तक में समय समय पर उद्भव होने वाली कुछ ख़ास समस्याओं, जिनसे राष्ट्र का जीवन बुरी तरह प्रभावित होता है एवं जिन्हें मीडिया के अल्पकालिक प्रभाव के चलते लोग एक अंतराल के बाद विस्मृत कर समस्याओं के अम्बार में घिरे देश की दूसरी समस्याओं में खो जाते हैं, को यद…[Read more]

सच्ची रामायण, पेरियार ई. वी. रामासामी की बहुचर्चित और सबसे विवादास्पद कृति रही है। पेरियार रामायण को एक राजनीतिक ग्रंथ मानते थे। उनका कहना था कि इसे दक्षिणवासी अनार्यों पर उत्तर के आर्यों की विजय और प्रभुत्व को जायज ठहराने के लिए लिखा गया और यह गैर-ब्राह्मणों पर ब्राह्मणों और महिलाओं पर पुरुषों के वर्चस्व का उपकरण है। यह किताब हिंदी में 1968में ‘स…[Read more]

This essay focuses on territorial conflicts between European masonic bodies outside Europe, and on the impact of these conflicts on inner-European masonic relations. The period between c. 1870 and c. 1930 marks the height of the European expansion respectively the age of ‘high imperialism’. It also marks the first wave of decolonization. The tid…[Read more]

This article demonstrates the interplay between national, international and transatlantic dimensions within fraternalism. From the late nineteenth century, masonic lodges took part in the broader push towards the formation of transnational organisations and institutions. They were mainly based in western and southwestern Europe. However,…[Read more]

proofs, to be published in a volume 2023

Gotteshäuser en miniature? Architekturbezug, Funktion und Medialität der sogenannten Tempelmodelle der südlichen Levante, in: Jens Kamlah/Markus Witte (Hg.), Sacred Architecture in Ancient Palestine from the Bronze Age to Medieval Times (ADPV 49), Wiesbaden 2023, 153-234.

The Greek addition to Daniel Susanna and Chariton of Aphrodisias’ Callirhoe are early examples of novels/novella. These works reflect on legal protocol and the place of women vis-à-vis the law and the household, exposing female bodies to make their point. This article connects these features to ancient novelists’ utilisation of female bodies. Cont…[Read more]

Moroccan linguistic situation goes back to the ancient times of colonization. The country has suffered a lot during this era from political, economic, and even social influences. As a result, this made Morocco distinctive and diversified in its sociolinguistic phenomena. We can find Diglossia, code-switching, borrowing, bilingualism, Triglossia,…[Read more]

This chapter examines how historical and critical modalities of reading sacred scripture became central to modern biblical studies. It examines what “criticism” was, whence it came, what it did, and which critiques it sustained, before considering its prospects for future historical and literary analysis of the Bible.

This chapter examines how historical and critical modalities of reading sacred scripture became central to modern biblical studies. It examines what “criticism” was, whence it came, what it did, and which critiques it sustained, before considering its prospects for future historical and literary analysis of the Bible.

This article analyzes the nexus between collective violence, temple violation, and military glory in 1 and 2 Maccabees by comparing two festivals established in the context of revolt and guerilla warfare; namely, Hanukkah and Nicanor’s Day. It argues that the accounts of the origins of these two festivals in 1 and 2 Maccabees reinforce the close c…[Read more]

This article analyzes the nexus between collective violence, temple violation, and military glory in 1 and 2 Maccabees by comparing two festivals established in the context of revolt and guerilla warfare; namely, Hanukkah and Nicanor’s Day. It argues that the accounts of the origins of these two festivals in 1 and 2 Maccabees reinforce the close c…[Read more]

The period of masonic internationalism in the last third of the 19th and first third of the 20th centuries saw the most visible – and controversial – attempts to organisationally model the “cosmopolitan imperative” of freemasonry. The various freemasonries in Europe saw themselves as links in a world-spanning “chain of brothers” forged by the…[Read more]

The American Religious Sounds Project (ARSP) Site Coordinator Manual was compiled in 2019 to assist researchers and their students in following the ARSP procedures for site selection, recording, and archiving sounds. The topics covered in the ARSP manual include: project summary and history; site selection and fieldwork, using recording equipment,…[Read more]

Freedom of or from religion. Freemasonry as an international testing ground for fundamental societal issues (c. 1850–1930)
In masonic internationalism, key framework parameters of masonic activity were negotiated. They concerned the fundamental societal issue of how religious freedom (freedom to practise religion) and liberty of conscience (…[Read more]

Several documents from Egypt and Ḫatti (especially the Amarna letters and the Egyptian-Hittite correspondence) mention envoys and messengers in charge of diplomatic contacts between the two countries. Cuneiform and hieroglyphic transcriptions of Egyptian names at Ugarit hint at an actual presence (in Ugarit and Karkemish) of officials coming f…[Read more]

Based on a discussion of the theoretical contributions of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Pierre Clastres, this article explores social relationships as more than a human dimension. Though strongly analysed by both anthropologists, these relationships appear to involve indigenous societies’ whole ecological and cosmological system. In this sense, re…[Read more]

It is my modest goal in this essay to trace how Nock uses conversion to produce religion(s) and then to explore its similarities to and differences from an analogous construction of religion-through-conversion in late antiquity.