JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY最新文献

{"title":"“Places of Memory”: Working with Roman Catholic Archives","authors":"Nicholas Schofield","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13077","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13077","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Roman Catholic Church has always been aware of its history and has developed a theology of the past. A document produced by the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Patrimony of the Church in 1997, <i>The Pastoral Function of Church Archives</i>, brought together some of its central principles. Nevertheless, in practice, the Catholic community has followed these ideals to different degrees of success. This short article presents several case studies in the United Kingdom and Rome, and surveys the challenges facing Catholic archives. If religious archives are “places of memory,” the “memory” is often only occasionally tapped. There is always a real danger of historical amnesia. Religious archives should be confident in demonstrating that valuing the past means illuminating the present and believing in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"311-316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.13077","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141742328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Past and Present, Religious and Secular in Religious Archives","authors":"John Wolffe","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13072","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13072","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This introductory article surveys the situation of religious archives, locating the UK experience in a wider international context. It surveys existing literature on religious archives, noting concerns about the failure of many religious organisations to keep archives and the challenges of preservation and accessibility for those that do. There is a particular need to ensure the preservation of the archival record of religious groups with shorter but now significant histories and to respond to the opportunities and challenges of digitisation. Three key creative tensions for religious archives are then explored. First, archives are records of the past, but they are also shaped by present concerns, both those of the past present in which they were collected and the present and future present of ongoing curation and interpretation. Second, “religious” archives also evidence “secular” activity, from mundane but historically revealing details of daily life to the involvement of religious leaders in national politics and international relations. Conversely, much evidence regarding religion is to be found in “secular” archive collections. Finally, religious archives serve a variety of constituencies, including the institution that generated them, academics and the general public. Herein lie tensions, but also rich complementarities.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"261-271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141742331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The New Testament Church of God Heritage Centre: A Site of Remembering: Sharing our Stories and their Impact on our Institutional Memory*","authors":"Phyllis Thompson","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13073","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13073","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This case study presents some of the significant learning outcomes in gathering, interpreting, sharing stories and the impact on our institutional memory. It places this article in a learning context; learning from past expressions and experiences for a better future. To this end it highlights the virtues associated with notions of what is commonly associated with the aims and objectives of a “Learning Organisation.” The case study emphasises the value of a “bottom up” story and not just telling it from the “big man's” perspective, from the point of view of a male dominated hierarchical organisation and in so doing, it recognises the valued contribution of our diverse demography. Sharing our stories within the context of heritage enables us to look at our Pentecostal tradition with respect and honesty whilst at the same time being open to new ways of seeing and thinking about our legacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"317-326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141742329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emily Conroy-Krutz: Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2024; pp. xi +338.","authors":"Clifford Putney","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13090","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13090","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 4","pages":"493-494"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141646561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Jewish Archives in the UK","authors":"Tony Kushner,&nbsp;Karen Robson","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13083","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13083","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As the longest established non-Christian minority group in the UK, the history of Jewish archives in this country has a particular significance. Following the readmission of the Jews to England in the 1650s, Jewish created archives exist, though through communal neglect and the blitz they are uneven in coverage until the later eighteenth century. Only by the end of the nineteenth century were conscious efforts made by British Jewry to preserve its own heritage. Our chapter focuses on the formal efforts post-1945 to locate, collect and preserve Jewish archives from slow and uncertain beginnings to the situation in the first decades of the 20 first century when there are major collections of Jewish archives in the University of Southampton and the London Metropolitan Archives, successful local and regional initiatives, as well as projects enabling a more inclusive Jewish archive such as that of the Liberal Synagogue's Rainbow Jews to document and record the LGBTQ+ experience. It concludes that Jewish archive preservation in the UK is a story more of success than failure.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"327-332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.13083","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141614398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Dissenter in the Ranks: Barzillai Quaife's Mission to New Zealand","authors":"Paul Moon","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13087","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13087","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The arrival of the Congregationalist minister Barzillai Quaife in New Zealand in 1840 casts a new light on the established historiography on the role of missionaries in the colony at this time, revealing substantial (imported) divisions between Anglicans and Dissenting sects, resulting in a level of antipathy that (ironically) exceeded that which existed between Protestants and Catholics in the country at this time. Quaife's presence also illuminates the overlapping roles of the Anglican mission as a branch of state polity as well as a distinct religious entity in the colony, how this othered Quaife's Congregationalist mission, and the potential for misconstruing individual personality traits with strongly-held theological opinions.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 4","pages":"442-455"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.13087","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141585427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A.J. Berkovitz: A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023; pp. x + 263.","authors":"Eileen Schuller","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13088","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13088","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;In preparing this review, I chanced upon a short somewhat autobiographical essay by A. J. Berkovitz in &lt;i&gt;Ancient Jew Review&lt;/i&gt;, October 24, 2023. There he reflected on the memories and the questions that animated the research behind this book. He recalled how his mother read the complete book of Psalms cover-to-cover in English or in Yiddish every single week and his puzzlement at why she found this practice meaningful and important. As an academic scholar he was trained in the rabbinic tradition and specifically in reading texts in terms of midrashic exegesis so as to dissect and interpret verse-by-verse. Yet he came to realize that the book of Psalms had a much broader and richer “life” both in the past and in the present.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this book, instead of asking the more usual question “What meaning did the Jews produce from the Psalms?”, a question that focuses on interpretative methods and their results, Berkovitz reformulates the question to ask “How did the Jews encounter the Psalms?” (p. 11). He proposes that there are four major ways of engagement with the Psalter: as a material object, specifically a scroll; as songs to be sung in communal settings in the synagogue; as a book to be read for edification and consolation; and as an apotropaic defence against demonic powers. These modes of encounter are explored consecutively in the four chapters of the book.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Introduction carefully sets out the parameters for the study, with special attention to what is included and what is omitted. The book does not attempt to treat the psalms as they were used and experienced in their earliest life within the Jerusalem temple cult. Nor does it tackle the formation of the book of the Psalter during the Second Temple period in what Berkovitz describes as “the pre-canonical chaos” (p. 7). For the period under study, there is a “single, distinguishable, concretely canonical entity” (p. 7), a text called &lt;i&gt;Sefer Tehillim&lt;/i&gt;, the book of Psalms or the Psalter. The label “Late Antiquity” covers the late second century to mid-seventh century, that is, between the fall of Jerusalem and the rise of Islam, though the boundaries are porous on both ends. The geographical boundaries are Greco-Roman Palestine, Sassanian Persia and their environs; the linguistic focus is the Hebrew- and Aramaic-speaking Jews. The written sources are the classical literature of the rabbis. (Mishnah, Tosefta, tannaitic and amoraic midrash, Palestinian Talmud and Babylonian Talmud). Although occasional reference is made to Targum Psalms (the Aramaic translation) and to Midrash Psalms (a verse-by-verse commentary), these are not the focus since they probably are to be dated somewhat later than the period under consideration. A limited number of early Christian sources that touch on the use of the Psalter are introduced, especially in chapter four.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first two chapters collect and examine almost every instance in which rabbinic literature refers to a “book of Psalms.” In","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 4","pages":"491-493"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.13088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141552209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Animals, Wonder, and “Order Trouble” during the Jesuit Mission to Japan","authors":"Drisana Misra","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13064","url":null,"abstract":"When Jesuit missionaries began arriving in Japan in the sixteenth century, they brought not only a new religion, Christianity, but also several domestic and exotic animals. Not only did these animals provoke feelings of curiosity and wonder, but they became a site of epistemic contestation between Christian and Buddhist views on human‐animal relations. In Buddhist thought, humans and animals were conceived of as interrelated, as both were thought to be trapped in an endless cycle of death and rebirth. On the other hand, in Christian thought, humans and animals were stratified according to Aristotelian hierarchies, according to which the former were viewed as superior to the latter. After the Jesuits arrived in Japan, it soon became clear that their proselytes' pre‐existing modes of relating to and classifying the natural world would need to be converted to Aristotelian ones in order to propagate a Christian way of life. Thus, animals became a central part of Jesuit evangelism. Many of these creatures were deployed as tribute gifts, which altered the emotional landscape between the European and Japanese humans who used them as a buffer. This paper explores how animals, wonder, and religious epistemologies intersected to transform Japanese Christian attitudes towards animals during the Jesuit Mission to Japan.","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"154 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141530822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lambeth Palace Library: Historic Archives in a New Building","authors":"Rachel Cosgrave","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13071","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13071","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Lambeth Palace Library's new purpose-built premises were opened in 2021, uniting the collections previously held in the historic buildings at Lambeth (including the manuscript collection, papers of the archbishops of Canterbury, and holdings of early and modern printed books), and the extensive archives of other central Church bodies (including records of the Ecclesiastical/Church Commissioners) formerly held at the Church of England Record Centre. Together the collections encompass a wealth of information from the medieval to the modern period, which continue to develop as more material is added to the Library's holdings. The collections document the history of the central Church of England, but also support research into a multitude of other topics alongside this. The building will enable better preservation of the collections and provides expansion space for their development. It also presents greater opportunities to enhance access than was possible in the historic premises, via its Reading Room, exhibition area, and other spaces for public events, building on the Library's purpose originated at its foundation in 1610.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"304-310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wei, Wu: Esoteric Buddhism in China: Engaging Japanese and Tibetan Traditions, 1912–1949. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024; pp. 312.","authors":"Joshua Esler","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13085","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 4","pages":"489-491"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}