Archiv für Januar 2014

Sheilas on the Move? Religion, Spirituality, and Tourism

How might we consider the emergent field of religion and tourism and its sub-field of spiritual travel? This review article engages with two recent publications that provide a mapping of this emergent territory. Yet is mapping a critical engagement? D…

Norman Simms: Alfred Dreyfus: Man, Milieu, Mentality and Midrash. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2012; pp. 332.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12093

Allan Anderson: To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and the Transformation of World Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013; pp. xvi + 311.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12129

Nick Trakakis: The End of Philosophy of Religion. London and New York: Continuum, 2008; pp. viii + 172.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12116

Geoffrey Troughton: New Zealand Jesus: Social and Religious Transformations of an Image, 1890–1940. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011; pp. 268.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12113

“Being Scorned by One’s Own is Perfect Joy”: The Strange Case of Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day has long been seen as an enigma in understandings of twentieth-century American Catholicism. With the publication of Dorothy Day’s extensive letters and diaries in 2008, the enigmatic character of Day’s relation to various fault lines of C…

Theology, Practice, and Policy at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century: the Papacy and Peter Lombard

Famously, the Fourth Lateran Council took place in 1215 and offered a bold new wave of papal legislation. Importantly, the Council confessed cum petro, with Peter Lombard. This was an unprecedented endorsement of a scholastic theologian. By confessing…

Andrew Preston: Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012; pp. xi + 815.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12125

The Reception of Gratian’s Tractatus de penitentia and the Relationship between Canon Law and Theology in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century

Canon law and theology were not distinct, well-developed fields in the twelfth century. In theory, many if not all scholars recognise this, and yet, in practice, much scholarship on the intellectual and institutional history of the century operates as…

Daniel J. Goldhagen: The Devil that Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism. New York: Little, Brown, 2013; pp. x + 486.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12120