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Tom Bremer<p>This week I submitted the index for “Sacred Wonderland: The History of Religion in Yellowstone”—my final task before publication. I began work on the book more than 20 years ago, and at times I wasn’t sure it would get finished. But now, it’s done. I still hardly believe it.<br>The book will be published in July by University of Nebraska Press – more information at: <br><a href="https://www.sacredwonderland.us/sacred-wonderland-book/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sacredwonderland.us/sacred-won</span><span class="invisible">derland-book/</span></a><br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SacredWonderland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SacredWonderland</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Yellowstone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yellowstone</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NationalParks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalParks</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ReligiousHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReligiousHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ReligiousStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReligiousStudies</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Tom Bremer<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AbrahamLincoln" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbrahamLincoln</span></a> had a puzzling relationship to <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a>. For several years I had the privilege of researching the role of religion in his life for the Lincoln Home National Historic Site in <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Springfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Springfield</span></a>, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Illinois" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illinois</span></a>. In 2021, my research focused on religion in the early decades of Springfield’s history through the period of Lincoln’s residency there, which had a formative impact on Lincoln’s own religious faith.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ReligiousHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReligiousHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ReligiousStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReligiousStudies</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.sacredwonderland.us/religious-world-of-lincoln/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sacredwonderland.us/religious-</span><span class="invisible">world-of-lincoln/</span></a></p>
Annales HSS<p>The dossier on the history of early-modern and modern Islam, which <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/AnnalesHSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnnalesHSS</span></a> published in 2018, is now available in English. It was curated by Augustin JOMIER and Ismail WARSCHEID.</p><p>We will present the articles one by one over the next few days, but here is the table of contents:</p><p>➡️ For a History-Oriented Approach to Islamic Studies<br>the introduction to the dossier by A. Jomier and I. Warscheid<br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.6</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>➡️ “In Pursuit of Reform”: Historiographical Renewals and Debates on the Religious and Intellectual History of Islam from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century<br>by Catherine MAYEUR-JAOUEN<br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.7</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>➡️ The *Book of the Desert*: The Worldview of an Early Nineteenth-Century Muslim Scholar in the Saharan West<br>by Ismail WARSCHEID<br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>➡️ Islam, Purity, and Modernity: “Blameworthy Innovations” in the Maghreb, 1920–1950<br>by Augustin JOMIER<br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.9" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.9</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>➡️ Secularity, Sociology, and the Contemporary History of Islam<br>By James McDOUGALL<br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.10" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.10</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/AnnalesinEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnnalesinEnglish</span></a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/islam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>islam</span></a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/maghreb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maghreb</span></a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/sahara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sahara</span></a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/religioushistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religioushistory</span></a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/intellectualhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intellectualhistory</span></a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/secularism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>secularism</span></a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/islamicstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>islamicstudies</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Another informative piece by Joshua J. Mark (one of my sources for "Women in the Ancient World"). Also, ever wonder where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a> got some of their ideas about the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/afterlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>afterlife</span></a>? Pretty much, they took what they wanted (or what was popular), then banned the Rites.</p><p>The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EleusinianMysteries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EleusinianMysteries</span></a>: The Rites of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Demeter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Demeter</span></a></p><p>by Joshua J. Mark<br>published on 18 January 2012</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RitesOfEleusis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RitesOfEleusis</span></a>, or the Eleusinian Mysteries, were the secret rituals of the mystery school of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Eleusis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eleusis</span></a> and were observed regularly from c. 1600 BCE - 392 CE. Exactly what this mystic ritual was no one knows; but why the ancient Greeks participated in it can be understood by the testimonials of the initiated.</p><p>"The Eleusinian Mysteries, held each year at Eleusis, Greece, fourteen miles northwest of Athens, were so important to the Greeks that, until the arrival of the Romans, The Sacred Way (the road from Athens to Eleusis) was the only road, not a goat path, in all of central Greece. The mysteries celebrated the story of Demeter and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Persephone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Persephone</span></a> but, as the initiated were sworn to secrecy on pain of death as to the details of the ritual, we do not know what form these rituals took. We do know, though, that those who participated in the mysteries were forever changed for the better and that they no longer feared death.</p><p>"The rituals were based on a symbolic reading of the story of Demeter and Persephone and provided initiates with a vision of the afterlife so powerful that it changed the way they saw the world and their place in it. Participants were freed from a fear of death through the recognition that they were immortal souls temporarily in mortal bodies. In the same way that Persephone went down to the land of the dead and returned to that of the living each year, so would every human being die only to live again on another plane of existence or in another body."</p><p><a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/article/32/the-eleusinian-mysteries-the-rites-of-demeter/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">worldhistory.org/article/32/th</span><span class="invisible">e-eleusinian-mysteries-the-rites-of-demeter/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReligiousHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReligiousHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AncientGreece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientGreece</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AncientRome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientRome</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Eschatology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eschatology</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ImmortalSoul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImmortalSoul</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hallucinogens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hallucinogens</span></a></p>
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris<p>This is statue of Saint Bartholomew, an early Christian martyr who was allegedly skinned alive. Notice: that's not a robe that he’s holding. It's his dissected skin. This stunning statute is by the Italian sculptor Marco d’Agrate, c.1562.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/arthistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arthistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religious</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/religioushistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religioushistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/twitterstorians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twitterstorians</span></a></p>
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