De Gruyter Brill on the Wire
Episodes
Di Luo, "Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945" (Brill, 2022)
16 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945 (Brill, 2022) focuses on the role of literacy in building a modern nation-st...
Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov, "Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia" (Brill, 2022)
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The world as seen by a Qur’an specialist in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov's book Muslim Subjectivity i...
Sara Koplik, "A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan" (Brill, 2015)
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan (Brill, 2015) by Sara Koplik describes the situation of Jews in that country during the ...
Joshua D. Schendel, "The Necessity of Christ's Satisfaction: A Study of the Reformed Scholastic Theologians William Twisse (1578-1646) and John Owen (1616-1683)" (Brill, 2022)
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The seventeenth century Reformed Orthodox discussions of the work of Christ and its various doctrinal constitutive elements were rich and multifaceted...
Miriam Bak Mckenna, "Reckoning with Empire: Self-Determination in International Law" (Brill, 2022)
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Miriam Bak McKenna is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University (Denmark). Her first monograph, ...
Golda Akhiezer, "Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism Among the Karaites of Eastern Europe" (Brill, 2017)
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Golda Akhiezer's Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism Among the Karaites of Eastern Europe (Brill, 2017; translated by David Greenber...
Kobi Peled, "Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin" (Brill, 2022)
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For generations, the composition and recitation of poetry has been a key mode of expression among Bedouin populations in the Middle East, reflecting s...
Wout J. van Bekkum, "The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.)" (Brill, 2022)
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wout J. van Bekkum's The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.) (Brill, 2022) is a comprehensive edition of Hebrew hym...
Amanda Wangwright, "The Golden Key: Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949)" (Brill, 2020)
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The first monograph devoted to women artists of the Republican period, The Golden Key: Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (191...
Jane Stevenson, "Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2022)
10 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Stevenson’s newest book, Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period (Brill, 2022), tracks the history and historiography of women Latinists i...
Jeremy Bangs, "New Light on the Old Colony: Plymouth, the Dutch Context of Toleration, and Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration" (Brill, 2019)
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Duperteis Bangs, a leading expert in the history of the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony, overturns stereotypes with exciting new analyses of ...
Bartholomew Ryan, "Kierkegaard's Indirect Politics: Interludes with Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin and Adorno" (Brill, 2014)
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1848, as political movements and events were sweeping Europe and Marx and Engels penned their famous Communist Manifesto, Kierkegaard wrote in a l...
Jacque Lynn Foltyn and Laura Petican, "In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity" (Brill, 2022)
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There has been no greater surge in global fashion trends and expressions of personal style than in the contemporary era of social media fashion influe...
Gerald Lalonde, "Athena Itonia: Geography and Meaning of an Ancient Greek War Goddess" (Brill, 2019)
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Athena Itonia: Geography and Meaning of an Ancient Greek War Goddess (Brill, 2019) Gerald V. Lalonde offers a comparative study of the social, po...
P. De Vries, "The Kābôd of Yhwh in the Old Testament: With Particular Reference to the Book of Ezekiel" (Brill, 2015)
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is the function and meaning of the Kābôd of the LORD in the Old Testament, and how is it integral to the Book of Ezekiel especially? Pieter d...
Writing/Reading the Bible in Postcolonial Perspective
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The intricacies of imperialism and colonialism within the context of the Bible are nuanced and varied. Understanding the legacy of European Imperialis...
Lucía Fernández-Amaya, "A Linguistic Overview of Whatsapp Communication" (Brill, 2022)
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Digital discourse has become a widespread way of communicating worldwide, WhatsApp being one of the most popular Instant Messaging tools. A Linguisti...
Francine Friedman, "Like Salt for Bread: The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Brill, 2021)
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Francine Friedman's Like Salt for Bread: The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Brill, 2021) is the only comprehensive treatment in any language of a r...
Annette G. Aubert and Zachary Purvis, "Transatlantic Religion: Europe, America, and the Making of Modern Christianity" (Brill, 2021)
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Annette G. Aubert and Zachary Purvis' edited volume Transatlantic Religion: Europe, America, and the Making of Modern Christianity (Brill, 2021) off...
Teemu Taira, "Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion" (Brill, 2022)
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Teemu Taira's book Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion (Brill, 2022) demonstrates through methodological ref...
Yin Cao, "From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945" (Brill, 2017)
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Shanghai became a cosmopolitan hub with communities of Japanese, British, Russians, Jews, and ot...
Sarah Irving et al., "'The House of the Priest': A Palestinian Life (1885-1954)" (Brill, 2022)
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
'The House of the Priest': A Palestinian Life (1885-1954) (Brill, 2022) presents and discusses the hitherto unpublished and untranslated memoirs of ...
Living in the United States as an Immigrant: A Collection of Stories
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today, millions of immigrants have found a home in the United States. But often, such people end up losing their individual cultures, languages, and i...
Charters Wynn, "The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936" (Brill, 2022)
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Charters Wynn's book The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936 (Brill, 2022)is English-language biography o...
Re-orienting the Diaspora–Development Nexus
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the outcomes of globalization is the growth of diasporic communities worldwide. This population has continued to face a lot of complexities due...
Maria Chiara Rioli, "A Liminal Church: Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946–1956" (Brill, 2020)
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The history of the Palestine War does not only concern military history. It also involves social, humanitarian and religious history, as in the case o...
Forced Labor and Human Trafficking in the Fishing Industry
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Forced labor and human trafficking in fisheries, albeit present in most parts of the world, have gone unnoticed for many years. Fishers at sea are out...
Central Asia Under Brussels’ and Moscow’s Eyes
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Soviet Republic once held tremendous sway over the politics of Central Asia as the grand hegemon of the region. But now, in the post-Soviet world,...
Yiddish in Europe
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Yiddish is part of the family of Germanic languages with influences of Hebrew and Aramaic and encompasses many dialects spoken in several parts of Eur...
Robert Barnett et al., "Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History Under Mao Retold : Essays and Primary Documents" (Brill, 2020)
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, history under him was retold: for example, the Cultural Revolution was rebranded as “Ten Years of Chaos” an...
Schengen Borders and Multiple National States of Emergency: From Refugees to Terrorism to COVID-19
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Schengen area consists of 26 European states, most members of the EU but some not, and consists of two main features: the absence of intra-Schenge...
Kelly Herold et al., "Growing Out of Communism: Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991-2017" (Brill, 2021)
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Growing Out of Communism: Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991-2017 (Brill, 2021) explores the rise of a new body of literature for child...
Slaving Zones in the Modern World
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries, slavery was prominent, driving economies and defining cultures. But in today’s socio-economically liberal world, it seems to have ret...
Hans Burger et al., "Covenant: A Vital Element of Reformed Theology" (Brill, 2021)
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Covenant theology has been a vital topic in both biblical studies and historic and systematic theology. Unfortunately, these disciplines rarely inters...
The Samaritans: A Biblical People
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Samaritans have been around since biblical times. They share history with the Jews, Christians, and Muslims; yet their identity is at odds with th...
Labor Exploitation and Human Trafficking in Businesses
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the modern world, human trafficking and slavery take various forms: one such example is forced labor. But understanding exactly how and where force...
Looking at Slave Trade through the Prism of Community
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The term “slavery” brings to mind transatlantic ships and human trade—both very disturbing visualizations of human experience. Historically, suc...
Religion and Politics: Exploring the Underbelly of Populism
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Populism has been at the center of academic and non-academic discussions over the past century and one may argue that there has been an upsurge in pop...
Edward Jones Corredera, "The Diplomatic Enlightenment: Spain, Europe, and the Age of Speculation" (Brill, 2021)
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Diplomatic Enlightenment: Spain, Europe, and the Age of Speculation (Brill, 2021) reconfigures the study of the origins of the Enlightenment in t...
Exploring Autonomy: A History of Jewish Self-Governance in Eastern Europe
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The emergence of self-government in the Jewish community in Eastern Europe has been a slow process, often encouraged by invitations of existing regime...
Himani Bannerji, "The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender" (Brill, 2020)
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand identity? What sort of politics are needed to address various forms of oppression and marginalization? Are knowledge and prac...
A Guide to Administering Distance Learning
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Pandemic led to a massive shift in the course of education as the world was forced to switch to distance learning. And with a new model comes new ...
Pandemic, Disruption and Adjustment in Higher Education
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic has rapidly changed the world, making it one rife with online activity and information abundance. Education systems must be modified to m...
How World Events are Changing Education
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Formal education became widespread only as recently as the end of the 19th century, as a way to train people for jobs created by the boom in industria...
Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Education is one of our main weapons in the fight against climate change. The need of the hour, therefore, is to enhance the world’s commitment to c...
Beate Kowalski and Susan E. Docherty, "The Reception of Exodus Motifs in Jewish and Christian Literature: "Let My People Go!" (Brill, 2021)
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The account of the exodus of Israel out of Egypt led by Moses has shaped the theology and community identity of both Jewish people and Christians acro...
Homeschooling: A Guidebook of Practices, Claims, Issues, and Implications
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past few years and especially now— with COVID-19-related lockdowns necessitating that families stay at home—an increasing number of paren...
Socially Responsible Higher Education: International Perspectives on Knowledge Democracy
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With radical changes being engineered in society, education systems everywhere need to match up. As part of our podcast, Humanities Matter, the all-ne...
Annegret Oehme, "The Knight Without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations" (Brill, 2021)
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This volume explores a core medieval myth, the tale of an Arthurian knight called Wigalois, and the ways it connects the Yiddish-speaking Jews and the...
Climate Change and Individual Moral Duties
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The global trends of increasing climate change are predicted to intensify over the next few decades. General consensus remains that climate change is ...
Alexander Chow and Emma Wild-Wood, "Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity: Historical Studies in Honour of Brian Stanley" (Brill, 2020)
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
‘Ecumenism’ and ‘independency’ suggest two distinct impulses in the history of Christianity: the desire for unity, co-operation, connectivity,...
War Stories: The Military Tactics of Ancient Egyptian Rulers As Illustrated by War Records
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The lives of ancient Egyptians were truly colorful, and of them, the royals led the most vivid lives. The military pharaohs have left behind many reco...
Bernard Scott, "Cybernetics for the Social Sciences" (Brill, 2021)
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, I have the great pleasure of finally getting to talk with one of the “unsung heroes” of cybernetics, whose work has finally begun...
Daniel Andrés López, "Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
23 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Hungarian Marxist philosopher George Lukács has long occupied a complicated place in the Marxist canon of thinkers, both his lived and theoretica...
Climate Change, Oceans and Gender
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Oceans are inextricably linked to the climate. Today, oceans are warming far more rapidly than they have in the past 65 million years, placing the spo...
Antonia M. Ruppel, "An Introductory Sanskrit Reader: Improving Reading Fluency" (Brill, 2021)
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An Introductory Sanskrit Reader: Improving Reading Fluency (Brill, 2021) aims to help students start reading original Sanskrit literature. When we st...
Ethnicity and Gender: What It’s Like to be a Gay Muslim
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Social and political conditions, in association with the self, can hardly be explained by one factor. Instead, they are shaped by several factors in d...
Mark Somos and Anne Peters, "The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea" (Brill, 2021)
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The phrase, “state of nature”, has been used over centuries to describe the uncultivated state of lands and animals, nudity, innocence, heaven and...
Ted Stolze, "Becoming Marxist: Studies in Philosophy, Struggle, and Endurance" (Haymarket, 2020)
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marxism is having a moment; higher workloads, stagnating wages, rising costs of living, a new economic crisis every few years, a warming climate and n...
Milieudefensie v. Shell: A Tipping Point in Climate Change Litigation against Corporations?
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2021, a landmark court order from a district court in the Netherlands ruled that Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest fossil fuel companies in...
Joshua S. Mostow and Tokurō Yamamoto, "An Ise monogatari Reader: Contexts and Receptions" (Brill, 2021)
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An An Ise monogatari Reader: Contexts and Receptions (Brill, 2021) is the first collection of essays in English on The Ise Stories, a canonical li...
Forces of Production, Climate Change, and Canadian Fossil Capitalism
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we see in the news every day, climate change is already upon us. The climate crisis is no longer a bridge to be crossed in the future. It must be d...
Alan Shandro, "Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony: Political Practice and Theory in the Class Struggle" (Haymarket Books, 2015)
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Few figures stand as prominently in Marxist theory and history as V.I. Lenin. The revolutionary who played a pivotal role in one of the most important...
Gender Ideologies, Conservative Christianity, and Legislation in the U.S.
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gender, and regulations of and discourses on it, have historically been a cornerstone of the conservative Christian belief system. The stance of the C...
A Brief Look at the Life and Times of Fyodor Dostoevsky
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The rich and complex prose of the celebrated Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky provides a detailed look at the fabric of European literary and social d...
Exploring Perspectives on Imagination and Art through the Lens of Contemporary Theory
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Imagination is a fundamental trait of the human species. Given how our most commonplace experiences get filtered differently through the lens of our i...
Lorenzo Fusaro, "Crises and Hegemonic Transitions: From Gramsci's Quaderni to the Contemporary World Economy" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gramsci’s concept of hegemony is often invoked, but usually as a means of cultural critique and analysis. However, my guest Lorenzo Fusaro argues in...
Meryl Altman, "Beauvoir in Time" (Brill, 2020)
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meryl Altman's new book Beauvoir in Time, published by Brill Rodopi Press (2020), situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) in its histo...
Under the Arch of Titus: A Gateway to the Jewish Community
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Steven Fine, Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, Israel, discusses his new book Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem...
Gert Biesta, "Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society" (Brill, 2019)
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What should the relationship between school and society be? Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society (Brill, 2019) argues that education...
Martha Theodora Frederiks and Dorottya Nagy, "World Christianity: Methodological Considerations" (Brill, 2020)
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
World Christianity publications proliferate but the issue of methodology has received little attention. World Christianity: Methodological Considerat...
Tracing the Rich, Varied History of the Nordic Education System Through Textbooks
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The highest literacy rates worldwide, free universal healthcare, social security, strong economies —these are traits commonly associated with the No...
Peter Christiaan Bisschop and Yuko Yokochi, "The Skandapurána" (Brill, 2021)
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This interview features Drs. Peter Bisschop (Leiden University) and Yuko Yokochi (Kyoto University) and their work on the monumental Skandapurāṇ...
Jonathon D. Beeke, "Duplex Regnum Christi: Christ's Twofold Kingdom in Reformed Theology" (Brill, 2020)
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Duplex Regnum Christi: Christ's Twofold Kingdom in Reformed Theology (Brill, 2020), Jonathon D. Beeke surveys the development of thinking among ...
Gender and Diplomacy in the Time of COVID-19
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced people indoors and has moved even important businesses and interactions online. Diplomatic interactions are no except...
Silke Muylaert, "Shaping the Stranger Churches: Migrants in England and the Troubles in the Netherlands, 1547–1585" (Brill, 2020)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the mid-sixteenth century, English reformers invited a group of continental Protestant refugees to London and surrounding provinces. The eccle...
Martha Moffitt Peacock, "Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age" (Brill, 2020)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are joined by Martha Moffitt Peacock, Professor of Art History at Brigham Young University about her new book, Heroines, Harpies, and Housew...
Sven Saaler, "Men in Metal: A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan" (Brill, 2020)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In his pioneering study, Men in Metal: A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan (Brill, 2020), Sven Saaler examines Japanese public ...
Guilt and the Gay Identity: Emotions in South Asia through a Queer Lens
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Queer lives in semi-urban and rural India are typically required to conform to heteronormativity in a way that stands apart from Western and urban Ind...
William P. Brecher, "Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930" (Brill, 2021)
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 (Brill, 2021) traces the shifting nature of autonomy in early modern and modern Jap...
Farabi Fakih, "Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia's Early Independence Period" (Brill, 2020)
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There has been a resurgent global interest in the origins and formation of authoritarian regimes as many states around the world drift away from liber...
Domenico Losurdo, "Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet" (Haymarket Books, 2021)
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche stands among the canon’s most-cited figures, with aphorisms dotting texts on a variety of to...
Reshaping the Lost Wax Casting Technique: The Methods of Medardo Rosso
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Key to the revolutionary ideas of 19th century Italian modernist sculptor Medardo Rosso are his materials and technique. But for a long time, scholars...
Peter Drucker, "Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism" (Brill, 2015)
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The last several decades have seen tremendous political and cultural strides forward for the LGBTQ+ community with both the legislative and cultural r...
Christopher Joby, "The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan" (Brill, 2020)
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan (Brill,...
Brendan McNamara, "The Reception of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Britain: East Comes West" (Brill, 2020)
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brendan McNamara, who teaches religion at University College Cork, Ireland, has published an excellent new book on the expansion of the Bahá’í fai...
Imitating Viruses: How Technology Can Help Us Be Better Prepared For Pandemics
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Viruses are not very different from machines that process information, and thus, how the virus functions can be simulated on a computer. This ability ...
An Intercultural Friendship in the Context of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amidst the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Dr. Daniel J.N. Weishut, psychologist and lecturer at Hadassah Academic College in Israel, developed ...
Francesco Quatrini, "Adam Boreel (1602-1665): A Collegiant's Attempt to Reform Christianity" (Brill, 2020)
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The debate about the origins of Enlightenment haven’t paid as much attention as they should have done to the radical religious cultures of the Dutch...
L. Ferlier and B. Miyamoto, "Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832" (Brill, 2020)
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832 (Brill, 2020) explores the printscape – the mental m...
Bringing the Story to the Streets: If God is Dead, How Does the Passion Survive?
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the Passion of Christ has lived through the ages in the Netherlands despite secularism growing in the popular narrative of the nation. In...
A Road into the Past: Reading a 19th-Century Illustrated Map of the Himalayas
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The British Library preserves a unique collection of pictorial maps and descriptions of places and cultures along the road from Lhasa to Leh. But find...
A Glimpse into the Emotional Abilities of Teachers: Handling Stress, Anger, and Shame (Part 2)
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There is no doubt that teaching is a meaningful profession, but teachers often find themselves in stressful, emotionally challenging situations. How d...
Ana Beatriz Ribeiro, "Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises: A Global Studies Perspective on Brazil-Mozambique Development Discourse" (Brill, 2020)
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense? As a member of Brazil's upper middle class, An...
Anne K. Bang, "Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (c.1880-1940): Ripples of Reform" (Brill, 2014)
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the period c. 1880-1940, organized Sufism spread rapidly in the western Indian Ocean. New communities turned to Islam, and Muslim communities turne...
A Glimpse into the Emotional Abilities of Teachers: Handling Stress, Anger, and Shame (Part 1)
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There is no doubt that teaching is a meaningful profession, but teachers often find themselves in stressful, emotionally challenging situations. How d...
Antonia Bosanquet, "Minding their Place: Space and Religious Hierarchy in Ibn al-Qayyim’s Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma" (Brill, 2020)
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How was the relationship between Muslim and non-Muslim communities theologically and spatially imagined in the premodern world? How did religious hier...
Filling the Gaps in Animal Ethics: What Has Been Neglected and What Can Be Done
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sociocognitive abilities of animals have been studied over the past few decades, but there is still a huge gap in research looking at animal ethics. W...
Agnès Delahaye, "Settling the Good Land: Governance and Promotion in John Winthrop’s New England" (Brill, 2020)
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Agnès Delahaye’s new book, Settling the Good Land: Governance and Promotion in John Winthrop’s New England (Brill, 2020), is the story of John Wi...
The Fight Against COVID-19: Humanities Matter Amidst a Pandemic Too
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the world has turned to science for effective solutions. However, using scientific research to influenc...