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Mission studies, mission history, and the language of religious conversion
For those of us researching mission history, as much of my own research could appropriately be characterised, there are recurring questions about how to approach the issues raised. Coming as I do from a liberal Enlightenment university tradition, it is … Continue reading
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Tagged conversion, Critical Religion, culture change, language of Christianisation, liberal education, mission, mission history, power, university
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“Saving the Indiansʼ souls” in colonial Peru – Contributions to Religion at the Stirling Workshop on Andean Studies
On the 27th and 28th of May 2011 we held at Stirling University the first research workshop on Andean Studies in the UK, attended by senior and postgraduate colleagues in order to share and discuss their most recent research in … Continue reading
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Tagged Amerindian languages, Andes, colonial era, conversion, Critical Religion, culture, dead/death, language of Christianisation, mission, mission history, power, Quechua, religion, soul, translation
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Some thoughts on body shame and plastic surgery…
There is little if anything that is straightforward or indeed ‘natural’ about body. It is a cultural canvas constructed through metaphors: from Socrates’ and Plato’s view of it as a prison for the soul, to the Apostle Paul’s invocation of … Continue reading
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Tagged body, Christian, Critical Religion, gender, power
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