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Priyraj Maheshkar deposited बौद्ध धम्मदिक्षित स्त्रियांचे सक्षमीकरण in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoEmpowerment of Buddhist women
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Priyraj Maheshkar deposited महात्मा गांधींच्या रचनात्मक कार्यक्रमाची प्रासंगिकता in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe relevance of Mahatma Gandhi’s creative program
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Priyraj Maheshkar deposited मानव अधिकार और बुद्ध धम्म in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoHuman rights and the Buddha Dhamma
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Thomas Bolin deposited The Role of Exchange in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Its Implications for Reading Genesis 18–19 in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis article reads Genesis 18-19 in the light of the principal of exchange at work in ancient religious belief concerning divine justice. Genesis 18.1-15 and 19.1-29, as examples of the well-worn tale of the divine visitor, are narrative expressions of confidence in a divine justice that rewards the kind and punishes the inhospitable. In the…[Read more]
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Thomas Bolin deposited The Role of Exchange in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Its Implications for Reading Genesis 18–19 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis article reads Genesis 18-19 in the light of the principal of exchange at work in ancient religious belief concerning divine justice. Genesis 18.1-15 and 19.1-29, as examples of the well-worn tale of the divine visitor, are narrative expressions of confidence in a divine justice that rewards the kind and punishes the inhospitable. In the…[Read more]
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Thomas Bolin deposited Rivalry and Resignation: Girard and Qoheleth on the Divine-Human Relationship in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis article looks at the repeated gnomic phrase in the Book of Qoheleth, “All is vanity and a chasing after wind” (NRSV) and reads it as a disjunctive parallelism in which the terms lbh and jwr denote mortality and the divine spirit, respectively, thus showing the sense of the phrase to be, “All is mortal, but strives for immortality”. Using R…[Read more]
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Carlo Morelli deposited Homologous Ipseitic Metanoias of Saint Paul and Doctoral Learners: A Biblical Exegesis Comparing the Transformative Journeys of Saint Paul and Doctoral Researchers in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThis article presents biblical exegesis and parallel synthetic thematic analysis comparing the transformative journeys of Saint Paul and doctoral researchers concluding the religious conversion of Saint Paul of Tarsus and the identity-transforming journey a student undergoes from burgeoning researcher to doctoral scholar represent parallel…[Read more]
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Dr. Rakshit Madan Bagde deposited जागतिकीकरण आणि डॉ.आंबेडकरांचे शेतीविषयक तत्वज्ञान in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoजागतिकीकरण आणि डॉ.आंबेडकरांचे शेतीविषयक तत्वज्ञान
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited ‘The Female Rumi’ and Feminine Mysticism: ‘God’s Weaver’ by Parvin Iʿtisami in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoParvin Iʿtisami (1907–1941), the first important twentieth-century woman poet of Iran, was well versed in classical Persian poetry. Her knowledge of English language and education at the American school for girls as well as her father’s translations from foreign literature contributed to her appreciation of modern ideas, including women’s rights…[Read more]
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Dr. Rakshit Madan Bagde deposited “An Evaluation of Dr. Ambedkar’s Economic Thought on Agriculture in the context of Globalization” in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoBharat Ratna Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: an eminent socio-economic thinker and epoch-maker shaped the economic destiny of India by introducing many tenets of the State Socialism into the Constitution of free India. He was a post-graduate of Columbia University (U.S.) and obtained his doctoral degree in economics from there in 1917 and D.Sc. degree in…[Read more]
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Travis Proctor deposited Environmental Change, the Acts of John, and Shifting Cultic Landscapes in Late Antique Ephesus in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe city of Ephesus experienced a marked civic transformation in Late Antiquity. After having centered its settlements and economic fortunes on its proximity to a deep-water harbor for over a millennium, late antique Ephesus gradually shifted to an inland, fortified settlement on Ayasoluk Hill. While several factors undoubtedly informed this civic…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Niloofar Haeri. Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThrough offering an ethnography of a group of educated, middle-class women who “had been attending weekly Qur’an and classical poetry classes for years” (xii), the volume shows that poetry and prayer are companions in the cultural history of Iran. It attempts to answer the question, “What does this companionship mean for forms of religio…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited The iconography on the Paphos IAEW-amulet may draw upon the apotropaic ‘All-Suffering Eye’ motif in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe paper proposes that the Egyptian-style design on a 5-6th century CE magical amulet discovered at Nea Paphos in Cyprus (Inv. no. PAP/FR 44/2011) draws upon an apotropaic design against the Evil Eye known as the “All-Suffering Eye,” which dates back to the time of the early Roman Empire and is common on Byzantine “Holy Rider” medallions. [No…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Two Carolingian Redactions of Isidore’s Etymologiae from St. Gallen in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe Abbey of St. Gallen was the foremost centre for the study of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville in the Carolingian period. Not only can more than twenty early medieval manuscripts transmitting material from the Etymologiaebe associated with Carolingian St. Gallen, but its scriptorium also produced two scholarly redactions of Isidore’s e…[Read more]
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Peter Matthews Wright started the topic CFP: Muslim Futurism 2021: Definitions, Explorations & Future Directions in the discussion
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoPlease see attached!
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Meredith Warren deposited The Old Gods Are Fighting Back: Mono- and Polytheistic Tensions in Battlestar Galactica and Jewish Biblical Interpretation in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe representations of religious tension between the polytheistic humans and the monotheistic Cylons in the Sci Fi (now Syfy) channel’s hit series Battlestar Galactica (2003–2009) is nowhere more evident than in the human “convert” to monotheism, Gaius Baltar, who struggles to proselytize his minority beliefs to other humans. Ancient Jewish…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited “Suspicion Is More Likely To Keep You Alive Than Trust:” Affective Relationships with the Bible in Octavia Butler’s Parables in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoOctavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents provide readers with often radical re- visions and critiques of biblical texts. This article asks how the principal characters’ affective engagements with Scripture vary, and considers the extent to which fiction may “play” with the Bible, despite its authoritative distanc…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited The Women of Noah in Early Twentieth-Century Science Fiction in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoModern science fiction writers often draw upon the biblical flood story as inspiration for their own narratives. It is not uncommon to find humans fleeing on space arks to escape some cosmic disaster. In the process of adapting the biblical narrative to contemporary circumstances, these writers also frequently transform the unnamed female…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Call it Science: Biblical Studies, Science Fiction, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoIn the virtual world elaborated in Marvel’s movies (the “Marvel Cinematic Universe” or MCU), “science” is creatively, strategically confused with “magic” and/or “religion.” Key supernatural/magical elements of the franchise’s comic-book source material are “retconned” (retroactively granted new narrative coherence and continuity) as advanced…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited “In You All Things”: Biblical Influences on Story, Gameplay, and Aesthetics in Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Zero Dawn in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis article considers several instances of biblical reception in the science-fiction role-playing game Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony, 2017). The game’s characterisation of technology, science, and religion has led some commentators to understand Horizon Zero Dawn as presenting a firm rejection of religious narratives in favour of s…[Read more]
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