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{"title":"Bible Story Teachings: A Survey of Children’s Bible Stories about Creation in 19th Century Britain","authors":"Alissa Droog","doi":"10.1080/10477845.2022.2087167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10477845.2022.2087167","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Every retelling of a story is an interpretation, and children’s Bible stories are no exception. This paper analyzes changes made to the Biblical story of creation in a collection of thirteen Bible stories published in 19th century Britain. The aim of this paper is to answer two questions: what purpose did the story of creation serve in Bible stories in 19th century Britain, and what changes were made to the story to serve this purpose? Common themes and changes made to the Bible stories discussed here suggest that the story was told to children for various reasons. For many, the creation narrative was used to familiarize young children with the story, and changes were aimed to simplify the story. For others, the original sin was closely tied to Jesus’ atonement, and in stories that stress this, Jesus often shows up as an additional character. Moreover, many versions of this story add lessons to impart moral or didactic advice to their audience. Overall, analyzing changes made to children’s Bibles stories reveals how authors changed the story of creation to influence their intended audiences.","PeriodicalId":35378,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religious and Theological Information","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48798233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Egyptian Muslims’ Information-Seeking Behaviour during Ramadan Fasting: A Survey","authors":"Essam A. H. Mansour","doi":"10.1080/10477845.2022.2063584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10477845.2022.2063584","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examines the information needs and fasting habits of Egyptian Muslims during Ramadan. This study, conducted April 13 to May 12, 2021, used a self-administered questionnaire which served as the survey instrument. Almost all respondents ranked topics related to health, fasting (such as Da’wah, E’tikaaf, and Taraweeh Prayer), as well as religious lectures and Islamic sermons, as the most important information. During Ramadan, respondents relied on a variety of fasting-related information sources, including print and non-print, as well as face to face and virtual conversations, and social media.. The most significant barriers affecting respondents’ search for information during Ramadan were fatigue and physical exhaustion, invasion of privacy, time constraints, and lack of trust in some sources. Despite its significance, respondents’ information-seeking behavior has received insufficient serious research on a local, regional, and even international scale. Gaps in the knowledge of the study of fasting and its effects can greatly assist healthcare professionals in developing a good understanding of religious fasting and its practitioners.","PeriodicalId":35378,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religious and Theological Information","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45156583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Searches among ATLA and Its Database Rivals: A Comparison Study of Search Results and Unique Results for Theological-Specific Research Questions","authors":"Bret David Fearrien","doi":"10.1080/10477845.2022.2047381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10477845.2022.2047381","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This original study formulates three hypothetical queries tailored to college-level theological research questions that focus on topics pertaining to biblical theology. The study runs searches for those queries in four religion-specific databases and two multidisciplinary databases in order to compare the total tally of peer-reviewed journal articles in each database along with the total unique results contained within each database. ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials performed best for both objectives. Meanwhile, Religion & Philosophy Collection (EBSCO) and Religion Database (ProQuest) proved helpful for some of the research queries. Consequently, Religion and Philosophy Collection (Gale) performed poorly for both objectives. The two multidisciplinary databases (Academic Search Complete and ProQuest Central) performed unevenly. ATLA represented the best choice if simply performing one search in a database; however, using all databases (other than Religion and Philosophy Collection, Gale), represented a stronger strategy for retrieving a high number of unique results, as the databases did not have a high number of shared resources.","PeriodicalId":35378,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religious and Theological Information","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43930095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing a Metadata Standard for Orthodox Christian Canon Law Description: OrthoCCL Metadata Standard Version 1.0","authors":"Dimitra Sarakatsianou, Georgia Koloniari","doi":"10.1080/10477845.2022.2038046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10477845.2022.2038046","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Canon Law, in the Orthodox Christian Church, is the body of Canons that regulates the lives of its members and has a two-fold meaning, legal and theological. Although for the Orthodox Christian Community these canonical texts play an important role in the life of its members, there is stagnation concerning, inter alia, their documentation, that is, the recording information required for their retrieval, organization, storage, use, and transmittal. Within this context, this article presents the first edition of a proposed Orthodox Christian Canon Law Metadata Standard, henceforth OrthoCCL Metadata Standard. This standard is based on Dublin Core, and more specifically it reuses its elements and at the same time expands them to cover the current needs of this work. The first version of the standard includes 23 elements and 61 element refinements that comprise the metadata terms of the template. A part of the terms was formed and organized based on a semiotic methodology. We expect this documentation standard to form the basis for any future work related to the annotation and exchange of Canon Law data on the Orthodox Christian Religion.","PeriodicalId":35378,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religious and Theological Information","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47995772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Classification Systems for Jewish Libraries and Bibliographies – Philosophy, Warrants and Relation to non-Jewish Bibliographic Practice","authors":"Joacim Hansson","doi":"10.1080/10477845.2022.2038047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10477845.2022.2038047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article analyzes bibliographic classification systems for Jewish libraries and Judaica from a cultural perspective, partly detached from their function as document retrieval tools. Theoretically and methodologically, the study refers to the significance of warrants as formulated in Library and Information Science. With specific interest in the relation between Jewish and non-Jewish classification and bibliography, examples are given of systems from Europe and the USA, primarily from the twentieth century. Results indicate that bibliographic classification systems not only represent documents but reproduce cultural and ideological preferences of both designers and historical situations. In their effort to document religion in a bibliographic context, the example systems help to formulate various aspects of Judaism through both hierarchical structuring and subject definition.","PeriodicalId":35378,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religious and Theological Information","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44457798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Depicting Heavenly Reality”: Non-Textual Objects as Inscriptions of Belief","authors":"Héctor M. Varela Rios","doi":"10.1080/10477845.2022.2038045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10477845.2022.2038045","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract That religious objects document religion is usually construed as fact. In this paper, I also confirm that fact via five “object stories” of believers, that is, the complex and diverse lived religion displayed through my informants’ (and my own) relationship with religious objects garnered through open-ended interviews and personal reflection, and also via material culture analysis using Jules David Prown. But what is *it* that religious objects document? Since the key word is document, I begin with Maurizio Ferraris’ “documentality” and its constitutive rule “Object = Inscribed Act.” I also realized during the interview process that my informants were describing and explaining beliefs in varying ways. To elucidate, I turn to David Morgan’s typology of belief. Construing belief as a social act, I formulate the “Ferraris-Morgan” constitutive rule of religious documentality: Religious Object = Inscribed Belief. My informants’ witness suggest that these objects are documents of belief: belief rediscovered, belief nurtured, belief distributed, belief used, belief identified—belief “depicted,” as one informant said. Yet, how authentic are these documentalities of belief? I use Orlando O. Espín to authenticate the “sensus fidei” depicted in these religious documents. Espín will also be helpful to ascertain what is at stake: the subversiveness they present to “official” Catholicism in general yet the preeminence they represent to everyday flourishing of believers.","PeriodicalId":35378,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religious and Theological Information","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43951727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction","authors":"Evan F. Kuehn","doi":"10.1080/10477845.2022.2038048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10477845.2022.2038048","url":null,"abstract":"In her classic work What is Documentation?, Suzanne Briet writes, “Is a star a document? Is a pebble rolled by a torrent a document? Is a living animal a document? No. But the photographs and the catalogues of stars, the stones in a museum of mineralogy, and the animals that are cataloged and shown in a zoo, are documents.” (Briet et al. 2006, p. 10). We might similarly say of religion that it is not itself a document, although it can be documented, perhaps through some technology of recording or testimony, perhaps even through display and observation, as an antelope in a zoo, and certainly through the enormous source literature of textual documentation produced by the world’s religions. Bringing religious studies and theology into conversation with documentation studies seems obvious: religious scribes were among the first professional document makers, and religious law, incantations, holy writ, and sacred genealogies all have long documentary histories. The semiotics of the Apostle Paul and Augustine of Hippo are easily traced to discussion of indexicality and aboutness in 20th and 21st century theories of documentation, as well as theories of documentality (see Ferraris 2013, pp. 281–286). In addition to being obvious, the field of religious documentation is necessary because of the new problems and opportunities it suggests. Significant work has already been done on religious documentation. To name only a few exemplary recent studies, Rachel Muers and Rhiannon Grant have proposed a documentary theology approach in research on Quaker history (Muers and Grant 2018). Tim Gorichanaz’s phenomenological research on sacred documents (Gorichanaz 2016), and the late Alease Brown’s research on protest speech, hashtags, and tattoos as articulating religious confession (Brown 2020) are recent examples of the generative possibilities of document studies both for sacred texts and non-text objects. All seek to show how religious life can be understood through communicative objects it generates, whether or not these objects are textual and independent of what their texts directly communicate. This special issue of JRTI contributes to the existing literature with three https://doi.org/10.1080/10477845.2022.2038048","PeriodicalId":35378,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religious and Theological Information","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46105032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What Can the Prophet Muhammad Teach Us about Pandemics?","authors":"Abdulaziz BinTaleb, Ahmad Aseery","doi":"10.1080/10477845.2021.2017552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10477845.2021.2017552","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper presents a review of the Prophet Muhammad’s traditions and teachings on pandemics. Relevant hadiths (the Prophet’s sayings) were identified through a systematic search based on the two authentic sources of Sunnah (prophetic traditions): Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. Of the 1,087 hadiths identified, 11 were included in this review. They were thematically analyzed, yielding five main themes: faith and pandemics; balancing faith with reason; the practice of cleanliness; isolating from others or quarantining; and patience, perseverance and optimism. The study found that the Prophet’s teachings regarding pandemics are full of wisdom and they have similarities with modern health advices and recommendations. In addition, the study suggests that learning about these traditions, is an introductory and creative way of learning about Islam and will help narrowing the information gap that separates the West and Islam.","PeriodicalId":35378,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religious and Theological Information","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43221850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Islamic Voices","authors":"Wendell Johnson","doi":"10.1080/10477845.2021.2015974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10477845.2021.2015974","url":null,"abstract":"In his introduction to the multi-volume reference work Voices of Islam, Vincent J. Cornell wrote: “It has long been a truism to say that Islam is the most misunderstood religion in the world. However, the situation expressed by this statement is more than a little ironic because Islam is also on of the most studied religions in the world, after Christianity and Judaism” (Cornell, 2007, vii). The Editorial Board of the Journal of Religious and Theological Information is pleased to announce this special double issue devoted to Islam. Included in this special issue are five studies devoted to the history and phenomenology of religion from an Islamic perspective: Early Muslim Scholars in Religionswissenchaft: A Study of Zoroastrianism in Islamic Religious Traditions (Muhammad Azizan Subjan), Resisting Anthropomorphism: Evaluation of Abū Sulaymān Al-Khaṭṭābī’s (D. 388/998) Approach to Ṣifāt Traditions (Umar Muhammad Noor and Usman Abur Hamdi), The Symbolic Efficacy of Plants in Rituals and Socio-Religious Ceremonies in Morocco, Northwest of Africa (Noureddine Chaachouay and Lahcen Zidane), Presence, Manifestation, and Visitation in Abrahamic Religions: The Notion of “Presence” in Shi’ism (Seyed Amir Hossein Asghari), Analysis of Friday Sermon Duration: Intellectual Reflection of Classical and Contemporary Islamic Scholars (Usman Abur Hamdi and Azwar Iskandar) and What Can the Prophet Muhammad Teach us About Pandemics? (Abdulaziz BinTaleb and Ahmad Y. Aseery). Researchers looking further for authentic voices describing their Islamic faith can be referred to “What is Sunni Islam?”, “What I Shiite Islam?”, and “What is Sufism?”, all of which can be found in the first volume of Cornell’s work.","PeriodicalId":35378,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religious and Theological Information","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45914603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Resisting Anthropomorphism: Evaluation of Abū Sulaymān Al-Khaṭṭābī’s (D. 388/998) Approach to Ṣifāt Traditions","authors":"Umar Muhammad Noor, Usman Abur Hamdi","doi":"10.1080/10477845.2021.1979304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10477845.2021.1979304","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract How ṣifāt traditions (hadiths with explicit anthropomorphic content) should be construed remains contentious in the history of Islamic theology. Contrary to most other Islamic scholars, the Hanbalites and modern Salafis prohibit all forms of interpretation, especially ta’wīl (figurative reading). In their perspective, ta’wīl reflects rationalistic epistemology that prefers reason to revelation. They claimed that all hadith authorities held a negative perception of ta’wīl until Ash’arī theologians altered their opinion in the 4th/10th century. This article argues that ta’wīl acceptance made by hadith scholars was not caused by the theologian’s rationalistic influence. Instead, it was a response to ahl al-ḥadīṭh’s radical anti-rationalism, which amounted to anthropomorphism. Through examining the thought of Abū Sulaymān al-Khaṭṭābī (d. 388/998), a prominent scholar of hadith in the 4/10 century in dealing with ṣifāt traditions, this study demonstrates how ta’wīl played a vital role in a reform effort that aimed at eliminating the anthropomorphism tendency within traditionists and aṣḥāb al-ḥadīth in 4/10 century.","PeriodicalId":35378,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religious and Theological Information","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44429525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}