SAH Commons | Shreena Niketa Gandhi | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/shreenaniketa/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Shreena Niketa Gandhi is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:40:41 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f14d7ddd6420de2dfc2663f89f9a66f5 Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/religious-studies/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-5/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:17:45 -0500 Dear all,

We would like to invite you to take part in an anonymous online survey exploring how the growing use of generative AI tools (including ChatGPT) is reshaping user practices and expectations in relation to searching, discovering, and interpreting digitised and born-digital archival records.

The survey forms part of a research project…[Read more]

]]> 0 410da9fd739a95f558e1834caf19dd23 Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/feminist-humanities/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-3/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:16:10 -0500 Dear all,

We would like to invite you to take part in an anonymous online survey exploring how the growing use of generative AI tools (including ChatGPT) is reshaping user practices and expectations in relation to searching, discovering, and interpreting digitised and born-digital archival records.

The survey forms part of a research project…[Read more]

]]> 0 65cb1ad1cd5d4f8cf3b379511141841e Osama S Qatrani posted an update in the group Religious Studies: I’ve recently written a response to Frank Zindler’s ess […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1926129/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 22:10:03 -0400 I’ve recently written a response to Frank Zindler’s essay “An Islamic Tale of Cartoons, Cartoonacy, and Cartoonatics” (2006).
The paper critiques his methodological reductionism and orientalist framings, while emphasizing that censorship and propaganda are universal, not limited to Islam. It also calls for resisting Islamophobic narratives disguis…[Read more]

]]> 0 7faec064c61184f67fa3656dcc3a4bd1 Albert R Haig deposited The Word in the Soul and its Counterparts: World, Body, Mind, and Soul in Plotinus in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901225/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:00:15 -0400 This book chapter represents a comprehensive discussion of the theory of cognition found in the ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus. Plotinus was the founder and most significant exponent of Neoplatonism, which represented the interpretation of Plato that was prevalent in late antiquity. His thought had a considerable impact on all three Abrahamic…[Read more]

]]> 0 c003ad223957587bd2c73f2eaa0e6c84 Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Reverse Scholarship as Solidarity After Progress in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900071/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 03:00:05 -0400 Is there a universal consensus among scholars regarding what counts as ‘progress’ in scholarly quality assessment through academic publishing? While consensus among scholars seems unlikely given the diversity of contexts and disciplines in which scholarship takes place, the higher education institutions on which most scholars depend, inc…[Read more]

]]> 0 707279b2fe2a151e1dd5c74372378d03 Meredith Warren deposited There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899809/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:47 -0400 Few of the parables found in the gospels have received more attention than the parable of the man with two sons, commonly known as the parable of the Prodigal Son. In this paper, I argue that discourses of queer futurity can help make new sense of the parable, highlighting its use of family structures and its assumptions about time, and attending…[Read more]

]]> 0 9bccc294722df3f4e93e86185d24317c Meredith Warren deposited There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899807/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:31 -0400 Few of the parables found in the gospels have received more attention than the parable of the man with two sons, commonly known as the parable of the Prodigal Son. In this paper, I argue that discourses of queer futurity can help make new sense of the parable, highlighting its use of family structures and its assumptions about time, and attending…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb303f7201179bafdca14410d75b75b2 Scout Calvert deposited Situated Data: Feminist Epistemology and Data Curation in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899194/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:00:41 -0400 Open science seeks to improve the reliability of science by making it possible to share tools and products of research, including data, more readily. Data sharing is said to promote scientific transparency, maximize the value of federal research support, create opportunities for reanalysis and reuse, discourage fraud, and provide a means for…[Read more]

]]> 0 a98fec8378aa26cc255cbe81562261ab Sonia D. Andras deposited Sonia D. Andras - Negotiations En Vogue: Interwar Romanian Women as Fashion Icons Represented in American Vogue (Conference Presentation, 2023) in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897241/ Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:00:04 -0400 Presentation of the paper “Negotiations En Vogue: Interwar Romanian Women as Fashion Icons Represented in American Vogue” from 15 June 2023 at the ‪@EDERAPCE‬ Conference Titled “Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts/Negocierile româno-americane în educație, știință, cultură și artă” [See details: https://eder…[Read more]

]]> 0 b2e3e461fc85ab7e3aeaf98e4989f63d Gavin Herzig deposited Time Heals All Wounds: The Time Loop Beyond Groundhog Day, Disability, and Higurashi Gou and Sotsu (2020-21) in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896642/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:00:59 -0400 Linear time is out of joint with and oppressive to alternate bodies, minds, and lives in a plethora of ways. In recent years, critical interventions such as Alison Kafer’s crip time and Elizabeth Freeman’s chrononormativity have revealed the oppressive force of time on marginalised groups. The time loop structure inherently complicates the lin…[Read more]

]]> 0 d480c3a397df301e743f9bb947585c5f Adam DJ Brett deposited REL 500/600: The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M'Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896637/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:00:35 -0400 In a series of Papal Bulls from the 15th century developed what is now known as the “Doctrine of Christian Discovery” (DoCD). These documents granted land title to Christian explorers when they entered the territories not ruled by a Christian Prince. While there have always been localized expressions of intolerance and hatred toward other cul…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff5dff169c352d1e59083749813861e0 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895617/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:30 -0400 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ea71e3753e0a630240f4040208a0d21 James A Benn deposited “‘Action Buddhism’ in the Medieval Chinese Empire,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894296/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:26 -0400 This essay will focus mostly on the Tang dynastic empire (618–907 CE), a “second
wave” empire as defined in the Introduction to this volume, and its relations with
Buddhism, although it will be necessary to say something about earlier Chinese dynasties
and about other religions. As we shall see, an awareness of history permeates
the relat…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1373b0fccd123da762614f8c2dd6933 James A Benn deposited “Is Buddhist Self-Immolation a Form of Asceticism?” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894294/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:17 -0400 I am grateful for this opportunity to revisit some issues that remain
unresolved after my earlier publications on Buddhist self-immolation.

]]> 0 715797b49000554d3a2b87090d635fce James A Benn deposited “Some East Asian Buddhist Attitudes Towards non-Buddhist Practitioners in India,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894292/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Abstract: The early eighth-century Chinese Buddhist apocryphal scripture
known as Lengyan jing or Śūraṃgama sūtra contains some vivid and
lengthy descriptions of demonic states that may arise for the practitioner in
deep states of meditation. In some of these states, the practitioner is said to
experience profound mis-perceptions of real…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a4c4705317f203981f385de3ffca5c9 James A Benn deposited “Princess Miaoshan, Self-immolator?” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893757/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:34 -0400 In this paper, I offer a new reading of the popular narrative of
Princess Miaoshan in Chinese religion, placing it within the larger context
of self-immolation as found in Buddhist narratives and the actions of selfimmolators.
The acts of extreme violence done to Miaoshan by her father
and herself (she stabs the inside of her mouth with a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6268f5e4b349d9bcefe182bed3ecbe15 James A Benn deposited “China II: Buddhism in the Sui, Tang (and Zhou) Dynasties,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893755/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:22 -0400 This is the final submitted version of my chapter for Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Some changes have been made in the published version and that version should be cited. I am sharing this version in accord with the copyright policy for Brill, which allows sharing of the accepted manuscript but not of the published .pdf. Full publication d…[Read more]

]]> 0 4200f8eb2dc922e480ddc0ff20d1b5bd Meredith Warren deposited Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891072/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:00:12 -0400 In ancient Hebrew, the word for “hand” can also refer metaphorically to personal power—or be innuendo for the phallus. This observation serves as a key to the many appearances of “hands” in the book of Esther, from the king’s superlative “hand” to the ever-active “hands” of eunuchs. This abundance of hands has an ironic significance, alter…[Read more]

]]> 0 95347dbceba9a3bdf79e8a7eafdfbe59 Meredith Warren deposited Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891071/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:00:11 -0400 In ancient Hebrew, the word for “hand” can also refer metaphorically to personal power—or be innuendo for the phallus. This observation serves as a key to the many appearances of “hands” in the book of Esther, from the king’s superlative “hand” to the ever-active “hands” of eunuchs. This abundance of hands has an ironic significance, alter…[Read more]

]]> 0 c56d9df215e17208d490bc521b797932 Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Los zulos de la inclusión: reconocimiento, resentimiento y un paso atrás in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890990/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 03:00:09 -0400 Este ensayo relaciona, por una parte, el pensamiento inclusivo con la cuestión moral del reconocimiento y, por otra, con el problema existencial del resentimiento y la técnica en la globalización híper-industrial. Se contrastan e integran perspectivas como las de Anne Phillips, Axel Honneth, María Pía Lara, Bernard Stiegler y Cynthia Fleury, para…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae4db0021e774658a40f4718c64cfa75 Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Los zulos de la inclusión: reconocimiento, resentimiento y un paso atrás in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890989/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 03:00:08 -0400 Este ensayo relaciona, por una parte, el pensamiento inclusivo con la cuestión moral del reconocimiento y, por otra, con el problema existencial del resentimiento y la técnica en la globalización híper-industrial. Se contrastan e integran perspectivas como las de Anne Phillips, Axel Honneth, María Pía Lara, Bernard Stiegler y Cynthia Fleury, para…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc6bb4fbf1ba2941fac5b3a11718d4b4 Stanislav Panin deposited Translating Esotericism: Russian in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890335/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:12:48 -0400 An overview of the history of Russian terminology related to esotericism. This article is a part of the special issue of the journal Correspondences dedicated to the ways in which people speak about esotericism in different cultures.

]]> 0 f8bdd323ba2c09b7194d78df457d47b1 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Our Lady of Struggle: Marian Devotion and Organized Labor in "Salt of the Earth" (1954) in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888694/ Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:01:06 -0400 “Salt of the Earth” (1954) is viewed as one of the major examples of working-class cinema in the United States, yet its portrayal of the deep connection between the plight and struggle of Latino workers and Catholicism has not been developed in critical discussions of the film. This paper aims to address this aspect of the film. “Salt of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 06aa2edae6fec01c354b170de698d1b5 Cristina León Alfar created the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886886/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:25:35 -0400 0 77f5683885124c999238de7503375d02 Faizat Oladunni Asifat deposited Beyond Western Hegemony: Empowering African Voices in Knowledge Production: Critical Scholarships and Questions in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885798/ Fri, 10 May 2024 03:02:12 -0400 This essay aligns with broader discussions among scholars committed to advancing African knowledge and advocating for the centering of African perspectives. It acknowledges and discusses three impactful works by African scholars, emphasizing the transformative potential of African scholarship, the emergence of theories from the African community,…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0887d6894ca4307135a37115f08df88 C. Ren Morton deposited Warning: Capitalism has priced out motherhood. Get ready to sell your womb. in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885794/ Fri, 10 May 2024 03:01:14 -0400 The 4B worldwide movement has captivated the attention of many feminists and childfree women. The 4B movement calls for the refusal to date, marry, have sex with, or birth children for men. Starting in South Korea in 2019, the movement has quickly spread around the world. The 4B movement in the U.S. adds momentum from the legacy of the childfree…[Read more]

]]> 0 73ae00b222c09d11677b8c10862e39df Shannon Burth deposited Can media literacy be decolonial? A postcolonial, feminist critique of the film 'Killers of the Flower Moon' (2023) in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885143/ Sat, 04 May 2024 03:01:07 -0400 In this unpublished work, I set out to critically analyze the film ‘Killers of the Flower Moon.’ The purpose is to begin developing a framework that incorporates feminist, post-colonial critique into critical media literacy practices. While this is the first attempt to do so, this blog entry lays the groundwork for what this could look like in practice.

]]> 0 73c5a0472baad92fbdfe855961b3ce65 Amanda Kingston deposited Embodying Settler Memory: Elementary Oklahoma Land Run Re-Enactments in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885000/ Fri, 03 May 2024 03:00:24 -0400 In this previously unpublished scholarship, I hope to unpack the question of how land is narrated in K-12 spaces through the settler memory using the elementary Land Run reenactments as a case study. While this project is situated as part of my larger dissertation work, what I hope to offer here is how I am thinking about settler memory as an…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c333dd781cbe761022db5efcbd5a804 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Felt Connections Across the Indian Ocean: An Ethnographic Encounter with Grand Bassin, Mauritius in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884704/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:32:20 -0400 It is appropriate to understand the Mauritian Hindu state bourgeoisie’s diasporic politics based on Hindu connections to India as a strategy to consolidate their power. This strategy stands for the creation of a postcolonial nation in which such communities built on religious origins and transnational networks, Mauritian Hindus being by far the l…[Read more]

]]> 0 3474cbbee99a08e387664cb812fa6be4 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic atmospheres in Mauritian devotional Islam: Sensing transoceanic connections in a Creole society in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884701/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:32:01 -0400 Movement constitutes transoceanic spaces such as the Indian Ocean world. Sonic practices as atmospheres make such multilayered movements and connections palpable. The recitation of naʻt among Mauritian Muslims is an example of how sound and sonic practices can provide somatic evidence for transoceanic links in the Indian Ocean world. It is argued…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2a64cf1b098885a0e59fe1cd482a18c Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Twelver Shia Muslims’ right to the city: Public performance, media practices, and urban atmospheres in Mumbai in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884664/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:29 -0400 This chapter examines public religious performances and media practices among Twelver Shia Muslims in Mumbai. I argue that such practices produce intertwined claims of belonging on multiple levels. Public religious performances and their mediatic reproductions, particularly their sonic and movement-related dimensions, establish certain…[Read more]

]]> 0 ffeecaa9217ccb20b46dd5ed687dc129 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic religion: The analysis of atmospheric half-things in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884659/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:01 -0400 The chapter discusses work on sonic religion and the challenges it has encountered in coming to terms with sonic materiality. The study of material religion has so far been predominantly focused on objects, things, and images. The sonic, however, cannot be grasped by approaches suited to the latter phenomena. It is argued that its special kind of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6dd03a065b811919ebb76112db5a27e Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Die indische Diaspora in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884655/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:27:41 -0400 Als Diasporen werden gemeinhin Bevölkerungsgruppen bezeichnet, die auf eine Geschichte freiwilliger oder erzwungener Migration zurückblicken können. Dennoch ist das Vorhanden- sein der bloßen Tatsache einer Migration von A nach B nicht ausreichend für die Existenz einer Diaspora. Hinzukommen muss nämlich das Bewusstsein eines tatsächlichen oder e…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0d1589a71d5fed6cff5fd5ad8f7bee1 Christopher Griffin deposited Colonial Cisnationalism: Notes on Empire and Gender in the UK’s Migration Policy in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884632/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:25:34 -0400 Since 2023, the UK government’s response to the “migrant crisis” has revolved around two controversial flagship policies: the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, and the detention of migrants aboard a giant barge. In this short article, I examine the colonial and gendered dimensions of the two policies, finding them to be examples of the col…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad15c40f671da98226a043c7f4957f4d Erin Lane deposited Uncovering and Showcasing the Work of a 19th Century Botanist and Educator using Digital Humanities Tools in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884608/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:24:20 -0400 Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, one of the most influential botanists in the nineteenth century, grew to significance through her efficient leadership in the classroom as an educator, and through her widely successful writings on almost every scientific subject. Faced with alarmingly few resources for teaching botany, Phelps compiled her lesson plans,…[Read more]

]]> 0 c756cef34fb7c4f80ae049376e1fb2c3 Meredith Warren deposited What Exactly Did Mary “Conceive” in Her Womb? in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884604/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:32 -0400 The language Luke uses to depict conception in his infancy narrative calls upon established medical discourse for fertilisation. My argument in this philological study is that ancient gynaecology prompts us to give full weight to the literal meaning of Gabriel’s term sullambanein (“to conceive/grasp”) and to ask what grammatical and material objec…[Read more]

]]> 0 863ee4516a29c6cbe420ebc7d4decf64 Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited برابری‌خواهی جنسیتی در شعر پروین اعتصامی؟ in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884559/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:19:14 -0400 در بررسی شعر فمنیستی فارسی معمولاً به نام فروغ فرخزاد، سیمین بهبهانی، طاهره قره‌العین، زندخت شیرازی و اخیراً ژاله عالم‌تاج قائم‌‌مقامی برمی‌خوریم و نام پروین اعتصامی (1285-1320ش) در چنین مباحثی مطرح نمی‌شود. آنچه پژوهشگران تا به اکنون دربارۀ شعر او در کانون توجه قرار داده‌اند جنبه‌های اجتماعی اشعار این شاعر و تلاش وی برای به تصویر کشیدن…[Read more]

]]> 0 27b5cda50bd6f36dea689654517c5b25 Pramod Ranjan deposited वह प्लटॉनिक प्रेम [Her Platonic Muse] in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884534/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:07:08 -0400 यह संस्मरण प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा लिखित है। प्रमोद रंजन ने हिमाचल प्रदेश में रहकर कई वर्षों तक पत्रकारिता की। इस संस्मरण में हिमाचल प्रदेश से प्रकाशित दैनिक समाचार पत्र ‘दिव्य हिमाचल’ में उनकी सहकर्मी रही प्रिया आनंद और प्रसिद्ध हिंदी लेखक कमलेश्वर के बीच प्रेम का चित्रण है।

इसमें प्रिया आनंद के प्लेटोनिक प्रेम की कहानी को विस्तार से बत…[Read more]

]]> 0 5273bc34e62156a745dcc403fefc1dc0 Pramod Ranjan deposited टिकुली : प्रमोद रंजन की कविताएं [Tikuli: Poems by Pramod Ranjan] in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884478/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:03:02 -0400 आलोचक प्रमोद रंजन ने अपने लेखन के शुरुआती दिनों में कविताएं भी लिखीं, जो तत्कालीन चर्चित पत्रिकाओं – कथन, विपाशा, जन विकल्प आदि में प्रकाशित हुईं। गौरतलब है कि प्रमोद रंजन बिहार के रहने वाले हैं।

उनकी टिकुली शीर्षक कविता रमेश उपाध्याय द्वारा संपादित ‘कथन’ पत्रिका के जुलाई-सितंबर, 2005 अंक में प्रकाशित हुई थी। कवि प्रमोद रंजन टिकुली क…[Read more]

]]> 0 f12abad6f48e0a0fc82ac22c4de3673c Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Male Virility and Biblical Power Dynamics in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882939/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:03:09 -0400 This paper outlines an investigation into three instances within the Babylonian Talmud where biblical stories of sexual encounters are interpreted as multi-coital events involving figures like King David, Bathsheba, Zimri, Cozbi, Sisera, and Jael. Despite the absence of explicit descriptions of sexual encounters in the Bible, the Talmud…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ca9676e7ea022f493bb82624f2237c0 Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited A qualitative study on how traditional Yeshiva education prepares students for law school in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882935/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:02:50 -0400 This qualitative study explores the potential ways that a traditional Yeshiva education (TYE) helps prepare students for entering and succeeding in law school. The researcher interviewed five rabbi-law professors for their take on this phenomenon and compared the results of those findings with the scholarly literature on the topic to date. Much of…[Read more]

]]> 0 62231093f19e1360ca7409dbb4d9fe04 Urmi Parekh deposited Chapter Review for Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein's 'Data Feminism' in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881310/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:00:52 -0400 This is a chapter review of Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein’s Data Feminism – Chapter 4: What Gets Counted Counts.

]]> 0 400e9380f9c113e3d9623bbf3d1e6e3d Joel Bordeaux deposited From Bauddha Deśa to Śākta Pīṭha: Re/Locating the Hindu Goddess Tārā in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881081/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:02:24 -0400 The incorporation of the goddess Tārā into the Hindu pantheon appears to have begun around the turn of the first millennium, a couple of centuries after her first mentions in Buddhist sources. The earliest Hindu texts concerned with Tārā tend to acknowledge this through a narrative wherein the Vedic sage Vasiṣṭha must travel to ‘Greater China’ to…[Read more]

]]> 0 6bf1f6050609ab7d3ad6b6f8b9a761c5 Abby Cole deposited Book Review- Data Feminism in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880302/ Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:00:45 -0400 Book review of Data Feminism through a critical journalism lens.

]]> 0 d436c311aa084704e4e09e79d6209765 Michael Miller deposited Black Hebrew Israelites in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879672/ Sat, 16 Mar 2024 03:00:08 -0400 The Black Hebrew Israelite movement claims that African Americans are descendants of the Ancient Israelites and has slowly become a significant force in African American religion. This Element provides a general overview of the BHI movement, its diverse history/ies, ideologies, and practices. The Element shows how different factions and trends…[Read more]

]]> 0 8217e094f70df2f12069b2139668f0ce Thomas Bolin deposited Eternal Delight and Deliciousness: The Book of Jonah After Ten Years in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879325/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:01:34 -0400 The first part of this article reviews significant scholarly contributions on the Book of Jonah for the last ten years. Looking specifically at the work of Serge Frolov, Yvonne Sherwood, Ehud Ben Zvi, Lowell Handy and T.A. Perry demonstrates that exegesis of Jonah has entered a very fruitful period, free of the anti-Jewish biases characteristic of…[Read more]

]]> 0 5906c0397eff53ab714b72f7740c503a Christian Frevel deposited … SCHÖN GESTALTET WIE SÄULEN AM BAU EINES PALASTES? GYNAIKOMORPHE ARCHITEKTURELEMENTE IN DER KLEINKUNST DER SÜDLICHEN LEVANTE UND DIE DEUTUNG VON PS 144,12 in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878175/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 03:00:09 -0500 erschienen in: Stefan Münger, Nancy Rahn, Patrick Wyssmann (Hgg.), ‘Trinkt von dem Wein, den ich mischte!’ ‘Drink of the Wine which I have Mingled!’, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 303, Leuven 2023, 124–152.

]]> 0 3630cfc76e1938bf5301bdd5b4592e44 Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/feminist-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2025-2/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:42:52 -0500 I’m sharing a CFP for a proposed panel for MLA 2025. Here’s the brief (35-word limit) CFP as posted. Below, you can see a slightly longer abstract. Please reach out if this might be of interest to you. Thanks.

MLA CFP Link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26442.html

Working Title: Reconstructing Narratives, Ref…[Read more]

]]> 0 6cab10db7f718cb10d759f2c01e114a5 Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited The Gift of Gender: Ivan Illich, Feminism, Infrapolitics in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877412/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:01:43 -0500 With the aim of exploring the relevance of Ivan Illich’s thinking for infrapolitical reflection, this article focuses on his book Gender (1982) and what it suggests about feminism today, at a time of perishing (Williams). Beyond problematizing, as academic feminism did swiftly at the time of the book’s publication, Illich’s seemingly nosta…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c3ae578ad0672b6c3f5e1ab51d7cd99 Matthew Korpman deposited The Biblical Case for Faithful Disobedience: Learning from Exodus 32 | Adventist Today 32.1 (2024): 26-29 in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876994/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 03:00:44 -0500 For many Christians, the two words in the English language that don’t seem possible to combine are “faithful” and “disobedience.” For Adventists especially, who have too often grown up hearing an emphasis solely on obeying the commandments of God, such ideas are all too unthinkable. If God says it, the saying goes, that settles it. Yet, Ellen Whi…[Read more]

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