The Journal of Religious History
@Journal_RH
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International double-blind peer-reviewed journal publishing high quality scholarship on the history of all religions & their relationship with human experience.
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Joined April 2021
We’re looking for a new co-editor to join @Sisto_Sesto for an initial 3-year term! Please RT and circulate across your networks. Deadline 17 Jan 2025.
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Chuffed that my article on female pilgrims in medieval Oxford has been recognised as a top viewed article in @Journal_RH ! 🥳
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Pleased to report the timely news that The Cambridge History of Papacy is now published and available online at Cambridge Core! Physical edition to follow in three weeks.
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Cambridge Core - European History: General Interest - The Cambridge History of the Papacy
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Become our new editor. Applications closing soon!
We’re looking for a new co-editor to join @Sisto_Sesto for an initial 3-year term! Please RT and circulate across your networks. Deadline 17 Jan 2025.
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I'm grateful to share that my article, "Women's Dharma: Parwati Soepangat and Buddhist Feminist Theology in Postcolonial Indonesia," has been published in the @Journal_RH. The article is available for open access at: https://t.co/uy4D3H5W6l A short thread 🧵 1/
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“The Sacrificial Economy: The Economic Conditions for the Development of Free Churches in Late Nineteenth-Century Sweden” by Anne Berg, now on early view (open access):
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Free church organisations were a vital part of Christian evangelical revivalism in the Nordic countries around the turn of the century in 1900. In this paper, a new piece is added to the puzzle...
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“Evangelical and Ecumenical? Irish Presbyterianism in the United Kingdom, 1938–47” by Matthew Houston, now on early view:
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From 1938 to 1947, a period of escalating international tensions and armed conflict, Christian intellectuals in Great Britain formed and engaged in various discussion groups, debating responses to...
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We, like most others, can be found in the other place as well as here on Twitter. We would love to see you there! @j-religioushist.bsky.social
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Statement from the Religious History Association condemning the Marsden fund cuts in Aotearoa New Zealand #humanities #highered #history
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Missed AHA President Michelle Arrow (@MichelleArrow1) on @RadioNational talking about the future of history at university? Listen here:
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Very pleased to have been a panelist in this week's edition of ABC Radio National's God Forbid. We discussed the circumstances of Archbishop Welby's resignation and the future of global Anglicanism:
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Can the Anglican Church recover after the resignation of Archbishop Justin Welby?
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We are saddened to learn of the passing of Dame Jinty Nelson. She was EHS President from 1993-1994 and a wonderful historian.
We are very sorry to learn of the death of Dame Jinty Nelson (1942-2024). As well as being a superb historian of the early medieval world, Jinty was the first female President of @RoyalHistSoc (2001-05), having been elected a Fellow in 1979. Her portrait hangs in our office 1/2
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"Treating Pox, Pests and Worms: Saints, Sympathy and Materiality in Late-Medieval English Charms." My new article just published in @Journal_RH. It's OA, so give it a whirl, even if you don't personally have itches and worms. https://t.co/A5tFca853G
#medievalhistory
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Charms were a commonplace form of medical intervention in late-medieval England, as they allowed afflicted and ailing devotees to seek the aid of saints and biblical figures. Those holy dead who had...
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My piece about the 18th-century Catholic Church's "War on Wigs" is out in next month's History Today. Read it here:
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Proposals are now invited for the 2025 'New Directions in Church History' online postgraduate conference (held with @ASChurchHistory). Conference: 7 March 2025 (online only) Abstract deadline: 15 November 2024
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My review of Owen Ware’s ‘Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany’ in the Journal of Religious History. Ware’s book foregrounds Modern Indian Philosophy & shows how much early 19th-century German philosophy rested on Indian philosophy https://t.co/MWf2HzNFCo
@kingstrs @Journal_RH
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Click on the article title to read more.
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I'm on this week's @ABCReligion "God Forbid" making the liberal case against blasphemy laws, offence taking, and competitive victimhood. Listen here:
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We’re all entitled to feel offended, but what happens when outrage is weaponised towards more cynical and sinister ends?
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