Religion
Florence Nightingale’s Spiritual Journey: Biblical Annotations, Sermons and Journal Notes
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is widely known as the heroine of the Crimean War and the founder of the modern profession of nursing. She was also a scholar and political activist who wrote and worked ...
Parables of War
What makes the Book of Revelation so hard to understand?
How does the Book of Revelation fit into Judaism and the beginning of
Christianity?
John W. Marshall proposes a radical reinterpretation of ...
Edward Schillebeeckx and Hans Frei
What is “theological method”? Can there be more than one method? If so, how do you choose between them? How does method relate to experience?
Would experience affect your choice of method and method ...
Radical Difference
It is commonly assumed that all religions are essentially alike, that they are all common members of the genus Religion. But what if religions are not fundamentally similar after all? What if, on the ...
Religious Studies in Atlantic Canada
What is “Religious Studies” and what is its future in Atlantic Canada? How have universities founded by Roman Catholic and Protestant denominations, and public universities, differed as they approached ...
From Civil to Political Religion
Prompted by the shattering of the bonds between religion and the political order brought about by the Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau devised a “new” religion (civil religion) to be used by the ...
The Female Crucifix
Featuring more than twenty illustrations, including several works of art rediscovered by the author, The Female Crucifix provides a new perspective on a very old phenomenon.
The legendary bearded female ...
Locations of the Sacred
Where do Canadians encounter religious meaning? Not where they used to!
In ten lively and wide-ranging essays, William Closson James examines various derivations of the sacred in contemporary Canadian ...
Text and Artifact in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity
Can archaeological remains be made to “speak” when brought into conjunction with texts? Can written remains, on stone or papyrus, shed light on the parables of Jesus, or on the Jewish view of afterlife? ...
Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima
We know how the story of the Roman Empire ended with the "triumph" of Christianity and the eventual Christianization of the Roman Mediterranean. But how would religious life have appeared to an observer ...