E-SUPPLEMENT TO THE JOURNAL FOR CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS THEORY
The article is published in two installments. The first can be found here. Humans from the Hummus – life as royal gardeners It is generally recognised that the Garden story is more environmentally friendly. As Jewish scholar Ziony Zevit observes, agricultural themes are clearer in the Garden story.[1]As we saw earlier, Habel identifies it as […]
The article is published in two installments. Agriculture and the Anthropocene Earth history has entered a new geological era known as the Anthropocene.[1] The commonly agreed origin of this era was the 1950s with the “Great Acceleration,” a period of rapid economic growth.[2] With its onset, several key elements of the Earth system which represent […]
On October 4, 2023, Pope Francis published the apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum (“Praise God”), an 8000-word document advocating for urgent action to counter climate change.[1] Its date of publication is significant on two accounts. First, it was released on the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian mystic who is recognized as […]
The religious attitude of the West today demonstrates a consumerist ethos that would have been deeply foreign to the religious discourse of old. Perhaps one of the earliest forms of religion, Shamanism, provides the modern critic with a unique insight into the ethos of the spiritual man of the ancient world. Compared with the post-modern […]
The following is the third installment of a three part series. The first can be found here, the second here. It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in the latest issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (22.2). That knowledge of source languages is not the only problem is illustrated by citation practices. Axel, Fox, […]
The following is the second installment of a three part series. The first can be found here. It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in the latest issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (22.2). Another common scholarly position is that Nanak and his successors could not have created a separate religious tradition, because […]
The following article is the first of three installments. It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in the latest issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (22.2). Introduction The term “subaltern” comes from the work of Antonio Gramsci, and was used by South Asian historian Ranajit Guha to conceptualize “Subaltern Studies,” […]
The following is the first of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. It was originally published in issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Studies. The offer of the Pentecostal churches The growing expansion of Pentecostalism belies any prediction of progressive secularization,[1] and certainly shows that something significant keeps happening in […]
The following is the first of a two-part series. It was originally published in issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Studies. Introduction Facing the great diseases of our time – unemployment, traumatic experiences, unequal access to healthcare, racism, chronic diseases, social exclusion, alcoholism, violence, and everyday difficulties – conventional medicine often proves to be […]
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first portion can be found here. It was originally published in issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Studies. On a national level, a phrase that is oftentimes used in the last years to describe the change of the political landscape in Europe and globally […]