Jennifer Wallis
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Ellie Mackin Roberts deposited Weaving for Athena: The Arrhephoroi, Panathenaia, and Mundane Acts as Religious Devotion in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis article examines the young girls aged between seven and eleven year old who are elected to serve in the cult of Athena Polias, patron deity of Athens, in the classical period (roughly 5 th century, BC). I look at the creation of the dress given to Athena at the yearly Panathenaia festival, the creation of which is the main activity of their…[Read more]
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Ellie Mackin Roberts's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
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Ellie Mackin deposited Weaving for Athena: The Arrhephoroi, Panathenaia, and Mundane Acts as Religious Devotion on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
This article examines the young girls aged between seven and eleven year old who are elected to serve in the cult of Athena Polias, patron deity of Athens, in the classical period (roughly 5 th century, BC). I look at the creation of the dress given to Athena at the yearly Panathenaia festival, the creation of which is the main activity of their…[Read more]
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Peter Webster deposited Evangelicals, culture and the arts in the group
British History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoExamines evangelical encounters with the arts as: consumer and performer in the ‘neutral’ sphere of the home; as users of the arts in public worship; as evangelists; and as moralists and reformers of the pursuits of others. It deals mainly with music, literature, the visual arts and drama, and its examples are drawn chiefly from Britain and the…[Read more]
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Peter Webster deposited Evangelicals, culture and the arts on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
Examines evangelical encounters with the arts as: consumer and performer in the ‘neutral’ sphere of the home; as users of the arts in public worship; as evangelists; and as moralists and reformers of the pursuits of others. It deals mainly with music, literature, the visual arts and drama, and its examples are drawn chiefly from Britain and the…[Read more]
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Dr Jen Baker's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years ago
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Ellie Mackin Roberts's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months ago
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Peter Webster deposited Users, technologies, organisations: Towards a cultural history of world web archiving in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoIf 2015 marked the elapse of 25 years since the birth of the web, 2016 marked the 20th anniversary of web archiving: of systematic attempts to preserve web content and make it accessible to scholars and the public. As such, the time is ripe to make an initial assessment of the history of the movement, and the patterns into which it has already…[Read more]
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Peter Webster deposited Users, technologies, organisations: Towards a cultural history of world web archiving in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoIf 2015 marked the elapse of 25 years since the birth of the web, 2016 marked the 20th anniversary of web archiving: of systematic attempts to preserve web content and make it accessible to scholars and the public. As such, the time is ripe to make an initial assessment of the history of the movement, and the patterns into which it has already…[Read more]
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Peter Webster deposited Technology, ethics and religious language: early Anglophone Christian reactions to “cyberspace” in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThe very recent past has seen an upswing of scholarly interest not so much in the Internet and Web themselves but in the terms in which they have been discussed and understood. This article examines a remarkable effusion of writing in the 1990s that addressed the spiritual and ethical implications of “cyberspace”. Christian critics reacted in dif…[Read more]
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Peter Webster deposited Technology, ethics and religious language: early Anglophone Christian reactions to “cyberspace” in the group
British History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThe very recent past has seen an upswing of scholarly interest not so much in the Internet and Web themselves but in the terms in which they have been discussed and understood. This article examines a remarkable effusion of writing in the 1990s that addressed the spiritual and ethical implications of “cyberspace”. Christian critics reacted in dif…[Read more]
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Peter Webster started the topic Early Christian reactions to "cyberspace" in the discussion
AAR Artificial Intelligence and Religion Research Seminar on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoMembers might like to know that I recently added an article of mine to CORE, on the trajectories of response in the late 1990s among Christians to the potential (positive and negative) of cyberspace. It shows the continuities of these concerns with Christian reactions to earlier technological change, and so may be of interest in framing the…[Read more]
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Peter Webster deposited Users, technologies, organisations: Towards a cultural history of world web archiving on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
If 2015 marked the elapse of 25 years since the birth of the web, 2016 marked the 20th anniversary of web archiving: of systematic attempts to preserve web content and make it accessible to scholars and the public. As such, the time is ripe to make an initial assessment of the history of the movement, and the patterns into which it has already…[Read more]
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Peter Webster's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
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Peter Webster deposited Technology, ethics and religious language: early Anglophone Christian reactions to “cyberspace” on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
The very recent past has seen an upswing of scholarly interest not so much in the Internet and Web themselves but in the terms in which they have been discussed and understood. This article examines a remarkable effusion of writing in the 1990s that addressed the spiritual and ethical implications of “cyberspace”. Christian critics reacted in dif…[Read more]
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Dr Jen Baker's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
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Dr Jen Baker deposited CFP – Tales of Terror: Gothic and the Short Form in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThe aim of this special issue of Gothic Studies (23/3, to be published Nov 2021) is to bring together research that does not simply consider Gothic short fiction and its artistic and cultural brethren as incidental, but integral to the design and effect and/or cultural significance of the piece because the short form in the Gothic tradition has,…[Read more]
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Dr Jen Baker deposited CFP – Tales of Terror: Gothic and the Short Form in the group
Gothicists on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThe aim of this special issue of Gothic Studies (23/3, to be published Nov 2021) is to bring together research that does not simply consider Gothic short fiction and its artistic and cultural brethren as incidental, but integral to the design and effect and/or cultural significance of the piece because the short form in the Gothic tradition has,…[Read more]
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Dr Jen Baker deposited CFP – Tales of Terror: Gothic and the Short Form on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
The aim of this special issue of Gothic Studies (23/3, to be published Nov 2021) is to bring together research that does not simply consider Gothic short fiction and its artistic and cultural brethren as incidental, but integral to the design and effect and/or cultural significance of the piece because the short form in the Gothic tradition has,…[Read more]
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Dr Jen Baker's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
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