Archiv für Juni 2013

U.S. Latina/o Muslims Since 1920: From “Moors” to “Latino Muslims”

This article provides a historical overview of the development of the U.S. Latina/o Muslim community. U.S. Latina/os have been converting to Islam since the 1920s. Early converts were primarily found in African-American-majority Islamic communities, t…

Isabel Best , ed.: The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012; pp. xxvi + 214.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12036

The Complexities of a New Faith: Xu Guangqi’s Acceptance of Christianity

Xu Guangqi (1562–1633) was one of the most important early Chinese Catholics closely associated with Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), the legendary founder of the Jesuit China mission. In spite of his widespread fame since the seventeenth century, the pr…

Undercover Acolytes: Honganji, the Japanese Army, and Intelligence-Gathering Operations

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, as the Japanese Army sought intelligence on the countries neighbouring Japan, the military made use of the Buddhist priesthood as a cover for intelligence gathering. In addition, elements of the Budd…

The Salvation Army in Sweden and the Making of Gender — Conversion Narratives 1887–1918

This article discusses how Swedish Salvationists wrote about femininity and masculinity in conversion narratives during the period 1887–1918; the “breakthrough” of modern Sweden. Through their religious conversion female Salvationists adopted a …

Lights and Shadows: The Inquisitorial Process Against the Jesuit Congregation of Nuestra Señora de la Luz on the Mariana Islands (1758–1776)

This article focuses on the controversy over the charges of sexual impropriety made against Father Franz Reittemberger within the context of worship of Nuestra Señora de la Luz (Our Lady of Light) in the mid-eighteenth century Mariana Islands. As is …

Strangers on the Seine: Immigration in Modern Paris

Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/39/4/807?rss=1

The Quest for Colonial Style in French West Africa: Prefabricating Marche Kermel and Sandaga

Marché Kermel and Marché Sandaga were established at the beginning of the twentieth century in the contemporary heart of colonial Dakar, Senegal, the capital of French West Africa (AOF). In terms of general size and buil…

Finding Historical Continuities in Berlin’s Cityscapes, Images, and Identities

Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/39/4/795?rss=1

Car Parking Matters: Adapting to Changing Customer Mobility in Neighborhood Town Centers of an Inner City Area of Sydney

The economic vitality of all town centers is highly dependent upon an ability to attract customers. With the popularization of the car in Australia, the travel decisions of shoppers impacted local centers in two significant ways—more demand for …