Tag Archives: Religion

“Wittenberg” at the Arden Theatre

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Just heard some very good things about the play Wittenberg at the Arden Theatre playing through March 16. It features Dr. Faustus, Martin Luther, and Hamlet in October 1517, sort of a romp through the Protestant Reformation, evidently. “Finally – a decent Protestant Reformation comedy! [David] Davalos’ wordplay, plus his riffs on religion vs. philosophy, made me hanker for a script. The dialogue sometimes flies by, given director J. R. Sullivan’s effective lickety-split pacing in several scenes, and it’s obvious that Wittenberg would be as much fun to read as this production is to see.” –Philadelphia Inquirer [Read review] ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–

Pre-Modern Studies Colloquium at Temple

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The Pre-Modern Studies Colloquium at Temple just released its new web site: http://www.temple.edu/humanities/premodern/. roundtable.jpg“We hope that this website can serve as a useful addition to the growing interest and resources in Premodern studies at Temple University. Like the appearance of the grail to the fellowship of King Arthur’s Round Table (pictured to the left), a website can serve to instruct, guide, direct, and, most importantly, inspire, the study of premodernity from an interdisciplinary perspective.” Participating departments include Art History, Classics, Philosophy, and Religion. Check it out. Also have a look at this, The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, included in Oxford Reference Online. ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–

Before Zeus

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An interesting article in NYT Science on pre-Zeus worship site on Mount Lykaion in Greece: An Altar Beyond Olympus for a Deity Predating Zeus. Here’s a book from the library’s collection on pre-Hellenic Greek myths: Lost goddesses of early Greece : a collection of pre-Hellenic myths / Charlene Spretnak. ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–

Recent Lit Reviews in Web of Science

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You might find some of these recent literature reviews interesting. I get them through an RSS Feed. Let me know if you’d like me to help you set one up. Reflections on the field: Primatology, popular science and the politics of personhood Full Names: Rees, Amanda SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 37 (6): 881-907 DEC 2007 The gospel of science and American evangelism in late Ottoman Beirut Elshakry, Marwa PAST & PRESENT (196): 173-214 AUG 2007 Meta-scientific eliminativism: A reconsideration of Chomsky’s review of Skinner’s verbal behavior Collins, John BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 58 (4): 625-658 DEC 2007 Rock on art: petroglyph sites in the United Arab Emirates Ziolkowski, Michele C. ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY 18 (2): 208-238 NOV 2007 ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–

Try out EBSCO Religion & Philosophy Collection

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EBSCO, one of our largest database vendors, has given us free access to its Religion & Philosophy Collection, a subset of the large multidisciplinary database Academic Search Premier. This is how EBSCO describes the Religion & Philosophy Collection: “The Religion & Philosophy Collection is a comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. This database offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the database.” ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–

Oxford Scholarship Online Trial

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The library now has a trial for Oxford Scholarship Online, a platform for searching, browsing, reading, and printing chapters from Oxford scholarly books. Each book has abstracts at the title and the chapter level and you can search across books and collections. Faculty can link to individual chapters making it ideal for classroom use. Essentially, Oxford has turned these books into an article database. The trial lasts until February 22, 2008. Give it a try. Let me know what you think. Fred ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–

“Freedom: A Conversation with Talal Asad”

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talal-asad.jpgWed., Feb. 13, 2:30 pm Paley Library Lecture Hall “Freedom: A Conversation with Talal Asad” Please join Temple University Libraries, CHAT, and the General Education Program in welcoming Talal Asad. An anthropologist at the City University of New York, Prof. Asad has made important theoretical contributions to Post-Colonialism, Christianity, Islam, and Ritual Studies. Further information: dwatt7@temple.edu.

“Temple University receives gifts to support interfaith dialogue and Islamic studies”

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Story in Temple Today about the Religion Department receiving funding for interfaith dialogue and Islamic studies, two very important subjects here at Temple. “The first gift, for $1.5 million, will honor two scholars by creating the Leonard and Arlene Swidler Chair of Interreligious Dialogue at Temple. Leonard Swidler has been a Temple professor since 1966 and is a leading expert in ecumenism; Arlene Swidler has taught courses in the fields of literature, women’s studies and religion at a half-dozen universities, including Temple. The second gift from Halloran, for $300,000, is a challenge grant toward raising a total of $1.5 million to create a chair in Islamic studies.” ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–

Abstracts on Oxford Scholarship Online

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Oxford University Press is trying to move its books online using a very user-friendly interface called Oxford Scholarship Online. I’m trying to get a trial for classics, philosophy, and religion, but for now you can search this very rich database and view author-written abstracts at both the book and chapter level. Oxford has more or less turned 1800 books in thirteen broad areas into an article (i.e. book chapter) database, an idea that I think will eventually prove very popular. Search results show up listed on the book/chapter level. For each entry, you can easily view the abstract of the book and the individual chapter, very useful for reviewing and selecting books for courses and research. Check it out and let me know what you think. Fred ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–

Temple loses opportunity for endowed chair

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The Institute of Islamic Thought offered to endow a chair of Islamic Studies at Temple. After six months in which the university did not respond to the request, IIT withdrew the offer. Here are some articles about it: Donor cancels Islamic chair for Temple – The group offering a $1.5 million deal had been probed for terrorism. Trustees and others raised concerns. (Philadelphia Inquirer) Temple lost chair by sitting on the fence (Jewish Exponent)