This white paper was used in part for a successful course development grant proposal from the Music Library Association. The resulting deliverable from the grant work was a 15-week syllabus and accompanying course materials, published as an open education resource on OER Commons (access at https://oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/104427). The…[Read more]

The NEMLA Music Librarianship Course working group developed a syllabus for a course that is centered around the principles of critical music librarianship with a particular focus on social justice and antiracist practices. This initiative is unique from general music librarianship courses offered in LIS programs currently, because we specifically…[Read more]

Eric Mascall was one of the most prominent and prolific theologians in the Church of England in the postwar period. This article examines a series of polemical works, in which Mascall attempted to assess, and largely reject, several trends in liberal theology in the 1960s and 1970s. Mascall detected a systemic crisis in the whole relationship of…[Read more]

This is lesson plan for a seminar that forms part of a course on modernism. It draws on Jamie Callison’s monograph ‘Modernism and Religion’ and T. S. Eliot’s ‘Little Gidding’. It uses the rise of silent retreats as a form of religious practice to explore the challenges of the modernist city and the way in which these challenges contributed to…[Read more]

This is a lesson plan for a seminar that forms part of a modernism course. It draws on Jamie Callison’s monograph ‘Modernism and Religion’, T. S. Eliot’s essay ‘Religion and Literature’ and David Jones’s poem ‘In Parenthesis’. It explores changing notions of religious poetry as a way of understanding broader processes of religious change in the…[Read more]

This lesson plan for a seminar within a modernism course explores the complicated interactions between religious concerns and the literary epiphany. It makes use of Jamie Callison’s monograph ‘Modernism and Religion’ and poetry from early and late in H.D.’s career.

This lesson plan for a literature and religion class draws on Jamie Callison’s monograph ‘Modernism and Religion’, H.D.’s poem ‘Helen in Egypt’ and David Jones’s poem ‘The Grail Mass’ to explore key features of a secular outlook and the challenge modernist poetry posed for it..