This latest work by Asher Salah (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem) is an interesting contribution to the understanding of the religious and cultural history of Nineteenth century Italian Jewry: a field of research that has not yet been s…
For quite some time the narrative has been repeated that in the 1950s and 1960s very few Germans were willing to face up to the Nazi past and deal with the murdered Jews of Europe. Only during the 1970s, after the change of government and the protest m…
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Historians of science have become increasingly aware of the connections between religion and science in the early modern period. Science, or more strictly „natural philosophy,“ is understood as having pointed to the existence of a designing deity. Con…
This essay focuses attention on the cognitive and spiritual work of the dream and the devotional labor of the Jesuit missionary in seventeenth-century Quebec, and views these often passionately opposed spiritual efforts—performed by the various …
One of most surprising aspects of the shift from scholastic natural philosophy to the new mechanist natural philosophies in the early decades of the seventeenth century is the retention of a doctrinal conception of knowledge. There was an assumption n…
This essay traces shifts in meditative practice from Saint Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises to the experimental philosopher Robert Boyle’s Occasional Reflections, showing how Boyle’s text participates in the evolution of the concept of „attent…
The three volumes of Little Gidding Story Books—the first published in 1899, the last in 1970—are based on shorthand transcripts of the informal seminars held on feast days during the early 1630s by members of a quasi-monastic extended fam…
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