HASTAC Commons | Stefano Villani | Group Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/ucrasvi/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Stefano Villani is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:30:07 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bc68de8524e411bcab1f7000eb1fd104 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/groups/the-renaissance-society-of-america/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:54:04 +0000 <p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> 0 f14d7ddd6420de2dfc2663f89f9a66f5 Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/religious-studies/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-5/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:17:45 +0000 Dear all,

We would like to invite you to take part in an anonymous online survey exploring how the growing use of generative AI tools (including ChatGPT) is reshaping user practices and expectations in relation to searching, discovering, and interpreting digitised and born-digital archival records.

The survey forms part of a research project…[Read more]

]]> 0 90e62bbd39941c5fed85d51ad2997fdd Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) https://hcommons.org/groups/emodir-early-modern-religious-dissents-and-radicalism/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim-7/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:13:33 +0000 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on “Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire” that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for further details. The deadline for submissions is December 19th, 2025.

I am…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b34632df8b320903afc1736e431282d Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:35:22 +0000 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on “Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire” that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for more details. <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>The deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 0 638e7e0117ad13579f2e48d1d9b07b13 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:05:25 +0000 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> 0 65cb1ad1cd5d4f8cf3b379511141841e Osama S Qatrani posted an update in the group Religious Studies: I’ve recently written a response to Frank Zindler’s ess […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1926129/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 22:10:03 +0000 I’ve recently written a response to Frank Zindler’s essay “An Islamic Tale of Cartoons, Cartoonacy, and Cartoonatics” (2006).
The paper critiques his methodological reductionism and orientalist framings, while emphasizing that censorship and propaganda are universal, not limited to Islam. It also calls for resisting Islamophobic narratives disguis…[Read more]

]]> 0 95b7704e6faf7a0689eea2dd325c3243 Chuck Choi started the topic Architectural Photography/Art Photography for your field of interest. in the forum The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/groups/the-renaissance-society-of-america/forum/topic/architectural-photography-art-photography-for-your-field-of-interest/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:00:12 +0000 <span style=”font-family: Gill Sans;”>Dear RSA Member

Are you in need architectural photographs for your research topic, or for publication or teaching purposes?

I am an architectural photographer of over 25 years.  I have worked for contemporary architects such as Foster and Partners, Renzo Piano, Rogers Stirk Harbour, and others.  You may s…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8379afe605651c33052960cab24f839 Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-9/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:42:10 +0000 Dear All,

 

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

 

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

]]> 0 7faec064c61184f67fa3656dcc3a4bd1 Albert R Haig deposited The Word in the Soul and its Counterparts: World, Body, Mind, and Soul in Plotinus in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901225/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:00:15 +0000 This book chapter represents a comprehensive discussion of the theory of cognition found in the ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus. Plotinus was the founder and most significant exponent of Neoplatonism, which represented the interpretation of Plato that was prevalent in late antiquity. His thought had a considerable impact on all three Abrahamic…[Read more]

]]> 0 b2ad442f9fd5013d69c74becccd005c2 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screens as Anthropomorphic Interfaces: How AI Changes Shakespearean Theatrical Publics," Shakespeare Bulletin 41.4 (Winter 2023): 529-553 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900897/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:23:44 +0000 Whom does the screen interface serve, and how do artificial intelligence (AI) tools affect theatrical publics across both the playing space and the playgoing space? Screens are a site where cultural and performative meanings are generated and negotiated. This article draws on interface theories to analyze the roles of screens in regulating…[Read more]

]]> 0 f45f7dd9fe27752c1e55eb70d3990df8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900891/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:15:56 +0000 How do we enhance the trustworthiness of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to foster students’ curiosity to learn about humanities subjects in higher education? This study analyzes what conversational AI tools can realistically accomplish in the humanities higher education context and what the substantive, rather than hyped, c…[Read more]

]]> 0 51a24bdc98ad9f3f6df8c7f10e2d8c28 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Encountering global Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait and China," in Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Arden Bloomsbury, 2024), pp. 285-294 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900886/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:08:07 +0000 This chapter consists of Alexa Alice Joubin’s interview of a scholar and educator who has practiced global Shakespeare around the globe. Katherine Hennessey has had the unique experiences and privilege of teaching Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait, China, and elsewhere. She has lived and worked in eight very different countries over the past fifteen…[Read more]

]]> 0 d4e5e031726d1ac5910ecb54eb93cb87 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900084/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:07:53 +0000 Focusing on the modern period, this book employs a site-specific lens to examine global performances of Shakespeare onstage and onscreen. Heterotopia and thick description as methodologies help us capture, rather than flatten, cultural spaces and their dynamic interplay. The global is a set of geographical and cultural sites created by artistic…[Read more]

]]> 0 707279b2fe2a151e1dd5c74372378d03 Meredith Warren deposited There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899809/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:47 +0000 Few of the parables found in the gospels have received more attention than the parable of the man with two sons, commonly known as the parable of the Prodigal Son. In this paper, I argue that discourses of queer futurity can help make new sense of the parable, highlighting its use of family structures and its assumptions about time, and attending…[Read more]

]]> 0 d480c3a397df301e743f9bb947585c5f Adam DJ Brett deposited REL 500/600: The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M'Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896637/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:00:35 +0000 In a series of Papal Bulls from the 15th century developed what is now known as the “Doctrine of Christian Discovery” (DoCD). These documents granted land title to Christian explorers when they entered the territories not ruled by a Christian Prince. While there have always been localized expressions of intolerance and hatred toward other cul…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff5dff169c352d1e59083749813861e0 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895617/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:30 +0000 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ea71e3753e0a630240f4040208a0d21 James A Benn deposited “‘Action Buddhism’ in the Medieval Chinese Empire,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894296/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:26 +0000 This essay will focus mostly on the Tang dynastic empire (618–907 CE), a “second
wave” empire as defined in the Introduction to this volume, and its relations with
Buddhism, although it will be necessary to say something about earlier Chinese dynasties
and about other religions. As we shall see, an awareness of history permeates
the relat…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1373b0fccd123da762614f8c2dd6933 James A Benn deposited “Is Buddhist Self-Immolation a Form of Asceticism?” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894294/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:17 +0000 I am grateful for this opportunity to revisit some issues that remain
unresolved after my earlier publications on Buddhist self-immolation.

]]> 0 715797b49000554d3a2b87090d635fce James A Benn deposited “Some East Asian Buddhist Attitudes Towards non-Buddhist Practitioners in India,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894292/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:03 +0000 Abstract: The early eighth-century Chinese Buddhist apocryphal scripture
known as Lengyan jing or Śūraṃgama sūtra contains some vivid and
lengthy descriptions of demonic states that may arise for the practitioner in
deep states of meditation. In some of these states, the practitioner is said to
experience profound mis-perceptions of real…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a4c4705317f203981f385de3ffca5c9 James A Benn deposited “Princess Miaoshan, Self-immolator?” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893757/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:34 +0000 In this paper, I offer a new reading of the popular narrative of
Princess Miaoshan in Chinese religion, placing it within the larger context
of self-immolation as found in Buddhist narratives and the actions of selfimmolators.
The acts of extreme violence done to Miaoshan by her father
and herself (she stabs the inside of her mouth with a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6268f5e4b349d9bcefe182bed3ecbe15 James A Benn deposited “China II: Buddhism in the Sui, Tang (and Zhou) Dynasties,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893755/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:22 +0000 This is the final submitted version of my chapter for Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Some changes have been made in the published version and that version should be cited. I am sharing this version in accord with the copyright policy for Brill, which allows sharing of the accepted manuscript but not of the published .pdf. Full publication d…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0d1acda6f8698a3dc98be0ffcbc4207 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891697/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:06:12 +0000 Artificial intelligence is a feminist issue, and technologies often have colonial implications. In fact, technologies as disruptive agents are inherently queer. This course examines the long history of technologies leading up to the public release of ChatGPT. We will chart the Western societies’ apprehension of and faith in, as the case may be, t…[Read more]

]]> 0 d10f75e3ad36d109c2fc29239f83e28a Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891476/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:33 +0000 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 979feb4f497ce72fafae4925b086f1b4 Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891475/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:26 +0000 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f217e53b07a66e9ad7db7277826e711 Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891473/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:16 +0000 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 70fcf8064a2c01347aca265f94f847b8 Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891472/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:10 +0000 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc6bb4fbf1ba2941fac5b3a11718d4b4 Stanislav Panin deposited Translating Esotericism: Russian in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890335/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:12:48 +0000 An overview of the history of Russian terminology related to esotericism. This article is a part of the special issue of the journal Correspondences dedicated to the ways in which people speak about esotericism in different cultures.

]]> 0 5374a10a192da8a5a86362dfcf2a1d43 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889652/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:00 +0000 In the past decades, historians have emphasized the multidisciplinary nature and conceptual disparateness of the atomist revival in the early modern sciences. However, they have not investigated how medicine, and specifically the authority of Galen, has contributed to the emergence of this revival. Indeed, despite Galen’s rejection of atoms and c…[Read more]

]]> 0 f8bdd323ba2c09b7194d78df457d47b1 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Our Lady of Struggle: Marian Devotion and Organized Labor in "Salt of the Earth" (1954) in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888694/ Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:01:06 +0000 “Salt of the Earth” (1954) is viewed as one of the major examples of working-class cinema in the United States, yet its portrayal of the deep connection between the plight and struggle of Latino workers and Catholicism has not been developed in critical discussions of the film. This paper aims to address this aspect of the film. “Salt of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 28366b3b6babbc3a1c665997332d6ec3 Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Kemp y Juan Rana: reconstrucción e implicaciones culturales del gesto dancístico en la Inglaterra y España de la modernidad temprana in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887548/ Thu, 30 May 2024 03:00:06 +0000 Comparative study examining the dance of Will Kemp (England) and Juan Rana (Spain), in the theatrical context of early modern Europe.

]]> 0 d900e2eedff63a715f5c9edd33b29fba Cristina León Alfar uploaded the file: Late Tudor and Stuart Drama to The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886890/ Wed, 22 May 2024 18:18:43 +0000 This series provides a forum for monographs and essay collections that focus on English drama from the late Tudor to the pre-Restoration Stuart periods (ca. 1550–1650). The editor is interested in intersectional and interdisciplinary feminist perspectives, broadly conceived, and encourages studies that investigate the discursive production of g…[Read more]

]]> 0 353e3276aeb475fee839c03ed58b4f2e Cristina León Alfar edited the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886884/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:19:23 +0000 0 692aa0918ce4eb45edb644e6ba5bcf89 Cristina León Alfar created the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886883/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:18:17 +0000 0 0c9a16de8c5dcbc1aa0a7de81e0da6a8 Martine van Elk deposited Politics, Authorship, and Philosophy: Teaching Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World in the Diverse Graduate Classroom in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886480/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:08:22 +0000 This essay explores how Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World works differently when taught and read on its own and in combination with Cavendish’s other works. Focusing specifically on the graduate classroom, I examine and present strategies for teaching the book alongside works by other early modern women and for teaching it in a sin…[Read more]

]]> 0 08b914c0c153e765b9eb49476787aa13 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare. General Editor: Alexa Alice Joubin; Co-editor: Natalia Khomenko; Guest Editor: Katherine Schaap Williams. Routledge, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886052/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:23:19 +0000 The fields of critical disability studies and global Shakespeare have a great deal to say to each other, which is why we are creating this opportunity for an interdisciplinary dialogue and reflection.

This year’s Shakespearean International Yearbook focuses on the theme of global disability performances of Shakespeare. Curated by K…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7646c172668a74d43f79f661e1ba260 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Performativity and Trans Literature," in The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, ed. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp (2024), pp. 29-39 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886047/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:13:00 +0000 Performativity—how language and nonverbal communication tacitly or overtly affects social actions—is the core of all utterances and imaginative literature. Building on J. L. Austin’s speech act theory, Judith Butler has developed, since the 1990s, a theory of gender performativity. It has been widely appropriated as a critical tool to under…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c333dd781cbe761022db5efcbd5a804 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Felt Connections Across the Indian Ocean: An Ethnographic Encounter with Grand Bassin, Mauritius in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884704/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:32:20 +0000 It is appropriate to understand the Mauritian Hindu state bourgeoisie’s diasporic politics based on Hindu connections to India as a strategy to consolidate their power. This strategy stands for the creation of a postcolonial nation in which such communities built on religious origins and transnational networks, Mauritian Hindus being by far the l…[Read more]

]]> 0 3474cbbee99a08e387664cb812fa6be4 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic atmospheres in Mauritian devotional Islam: Sensing transoceanic connections in a Creole society in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884701/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:32:01 +0000 Movement constitutes transoceanic spaces such as the Indian Ocean world. Sonic practices as atmospheres make such multilayered movements and connections palpable. The recitation of naʻt among Mauritian Muslims is an example of how sound and sonic practices can provide somatic evidence for transoceanic links in the Indian Ocean world. It is argued…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2a64cf1b098885a0e59fe1cd482a18c Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Twelver Shia Muslims’ right to the city: Public performance, media practices, and urban atmospheres in Mumbai in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884664/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:29 +0000 This chapter examines public religious performances and media practices among Twelver Shia Muslims in Mumbai. I argue that such practices produce intertwined claims of belonging on multiple levels. Public religious performances and their mediatic reproductions, particularly their sonic and movement-related dimensions, establish certain…[Read more]

]]> 0 ffeecaa9217ccb20b46dd5ed687dc129 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic religion: The analysis of atmospheric half-things in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884659/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:01 +0000 The chapter discusses work on sonic religion and the challenges it has encountered in coming to terms with sonic materiality. The study of material religion has so far been predominantly focused on objects, things, and images. The sonic, however, cannot be grasped by approaches suited to the latter phenomena. It is argued that its special kind of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6dd03a065b811919ebb76112db5a27e Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Die indische Diaspora in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884655/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:27:41 +0000 Als Diasporen werden gemeinhin Bevölkerungsgruppen bezeichnet, die auf eine Geschichte freiwilliger oder erzwungener Migration zurückblicken können. Dennoch ist das Vorhanden- sein der bloßen Tatsache einer Migration von A nach B nicht ausreichend für die Existenz einer Diaspora. Hinzukommen muss nämlich das Bewusstsein eines tatsächlichen oder e…[Read more]

]]> 0 c756cef34fb7c4f80ae049376e1fb2c3 Meredith Warren deposited What Exactly Did Mary “Conceive” in Her Womb? in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884604/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:32 +0000 The language Luke uses to depict conception in his infancy narrative calls upon established medical discourse for fertilisation. My argument in this philological study is that ancient gynaecology prompts us to give full weight to the literal meaning of Gabriel’s term sullambanein (“to conceive/grasp”) and to ask what grammatical and material objec…[Read more]

]]> 0 f12abad6f48e0a0fc82ac22c4de3673c Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Male Virility and Biblical Power Dynamics in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882939/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:03:09 +0000 This paper outlines an investigation into three instances within the Babylonian Talmud where biblical stories of sexual encounters are interpreted as multi-coital events involving figures like King David, Bathsheba, Zimri, Cozbi, Sisera, and Jael. Despite the absence of explicit descriptions of sexual encounters in the Bible, the Talmud…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ca9676e7ea022f493bb82624f2237c0 Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited A qualitative study on how traditional Yeshiva education prepares students for law school in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882935/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:02:50 +0000 This qualitative study explores the potential ways that a traditional Yeshiva education (TYE) helps prepare students for entering and succeeding in law school. The researcher interviewed five rabbi-law professors for their take on this phenomenon and compared the results of those findings with the scholarly literature on the topic to date. Much of…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f750d48f18f9833c4ac2c6f9fbe8e86 Patrick Hart deposited From Pulpit to Parish: Preaching Dance and Parish Dances in England and Scandinavia, 1300-1700 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881706/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:00:12 +0000 This article considers English and Scandinavian sermon tales alongside accounts of parish practice from 1300-1700, focusing on dance among the laity. It posits that the negative perspective of Scandinavian Protestants towards dance was a result of the medieval North Sea networks that brought England’s approach to dance to Nordic parishes, s…[Read more]

]]> 0 89ac8895aba3324b69cfcda7aa22d6ff Patrick Hart deposited From Pulpit to Parish: Preaching Dance and Parish Dances in England and Scandinavia, 1300-1700 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881705/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:00:04 +0000 This article considers English and Scandinavian sermon tales alongside accounts of parish practice from 1300-1700, focusing on dance among the laity. It posits that the negative perspective of Scandinavian Protestants towards dance was a result of the medieval North Sea networks that brought England’s approach to dance to Nordic parishes, s…[Read more]

]]> 0 400e9380f9c113e3d9623bbf3d1e6e3d Joel Bordeaux deposited From Bauddha Deśa to Śākta Pīṭha: Re/Locating the Hindu Goddess Tārā in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881081/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:02:24 +0000 The incorporation of the goddess Tārā into the Hindu pantheon appears to have begun around the turn of the first millennium, a couple of centuries after her first mentions in Buddhist sources. The earliest Hindu texts concerned with Tārā tend to acknowledge this through a narrative wherein the Vedic sage Vasiṣṭha must travel to ‘Greater China’ to…[Read more]

]]> 0 d436c311aa084704e4e09e79d6209765 Michael Miller deposited Black Hebrew Israelites in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879672/ Sat, 16 Mar 2024 03:00:08 +0000 The Black Hebrew Israelite movement claims that African Americans are descendants of the Ancient Israelites and has slowly become a significant force in African American religion. This Element provides a general overview of the BHI movement, its diverse history/ies, ideologies, and practices. The Element shows how different factions and trends…[Read more]

]]> 0 8217e094f70df2f12069b2139668f0ce Thomas Bolin deposited Eternal Delight and Deliciousness: The Book of Jonah After Ten Years in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879325/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:01:34 +0000 The first part of this article reviews significant scholarly contributions on the Book of Jonah for the last ten years. Looking specifically at the work of Serge Frolov, Yvonne Sherwood, Ehud Ben Zvi, Lowell Handy and T.A. Perry demonstrates that exegesis of Jonah has entered a very fruitful period, free of the anti-Jewish biases characteristic of…[Read more]

]]> 0 5906c0397eff53ab714b72f7740c503a Christian Frevel deposited … SCHÖN GESTALTET WIE SÄULEN AM BAU EINES PALASTES? GYNAIKOMORPHE ARCHITEKTURELEMENTE IN DER KLEINKUNST DER SÜDLICHEN LEVANTE UND DIE DEUTUNG VON PS 144,12 in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878175/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 03:00:09 +0000 erschienen in: Stefan Münger, Nancy Rahn, Patrick Wyssmann (Hgg.), ‘Trinkt von dem Wein, den ich mischte!’ ‘Drink of the Wine which I have Mingled!’, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 303, Leuven 2023, 124–152.

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