Hard to read this and not cheer for Luther. (That said, I tend to cheer for Luther in general, save for when he's being an ad hominem asshole which is admittedly not infrequently)

#religioushistory #books

Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, citing Febvre and Martin's The Coming of The Book

Hard to read this and not cheer for Luther. (That said, I tend to cheer for Luther in general, save for when he's being an ad hominem asshole which is admittedly not infrequently)

#religioushistory #books

Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, citing Febvre and Martin's The Coming of The Book

Part two of the divine apparitions blogpost I felt that this account deserved a post of its own with commentary as it touched me while reading it.

https://memorablehistories.blogspot.com/2023/07/divine-apparitions-part-2.html

#folklore #blog #treatises #16thcentury #strangeness #Deathfolklore #HighStrangeness #histodon #history #religioushistory #religion

Continuation on yesterday's post about demonic apparitions. Today we continue with a two part post on 16th century divine apparitions.

https://memorablehistories.blogspot.com/2023/07/divine-apparitions.html

#folklore #blog #treatises #16thcentury #strangeness #Deathfolklore #HighStrangeness #histodon #history #religioushistory #religion

The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart marched at Selma in 1965 & the Women's March in 2018 + they've never stopped fighting for justice.

If you'd like to use Rebel Hearts about these radical nuns to teach with film in your classroom, my friends at Journeys in Film put together a free teaching guide for the film. (It's free for everyone, not just teachers.)

Get it here https://journeysinfilm.org/product/rebel-hearts/

@edutooters
#Edutooters #ReligiousStudies #ReligiousHistory #USHistory #GenderEquity #Feminism 2/2

So, I set up a little list for folks interested in #ReligiousHistory : any period, any faith, anywhere.

Mention @religioushistory and it will boost your post.

Follow @religioushistory to see posts in your home feed.

All boosts appreciated to spread the word.

I’ve been researching aspects of paganism for much of my life, but regularly still come across odd survivals and remnants. The imaginative excesses of 19th and 20th century research are, if anything, less interesting than reality.

For instance, many churches from the late Medieval and early Renaissance periods had rooms called (ex)conjuratories where priests drew on the power of the true cross to perform rituals warding off weather, disease, etc. from the community. Here’s a Spanish conjuratory ‘prayer’:

“Stay, O cloud, stay put, don't fall over me;
save the bread, save the wine,
preserve the fields in blossom”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjuratory

#Paganism #ReligiousHistory #CulturalHistory #Architecture #Medieval

I’ve been researching aspects of paganism for much of my life, but regularly still come across of survivals and remnants. The imaginative excesses of 19th and 20th century research are, if anything, less interesting than reality.

For instance, many churches from the late Medieval and early Renaissance periods had rooms called (ex)conjuratories where priests drew on the power of the true cross to perform rituals warding off weather, disease, etc. from the community. Here’s a Spanish conjuratory ‘prayer’:

“Stay, O cloud, stay put, don't fall over me;
save the bread, save the wine,
preserve the fields in blossom”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjuratory

#Paganism #ReligiousHistory #CulturalHistory #Architecture #Medieval

This hypothesis of a cryptojudaic origin for the Sator word square is fascinating.

https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_RHR_2232_0003--the-hidden-judaism-of-the-satorsquare.htm?contenu=article

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square

#Acrostic #Pompeii #Judaism #Pythagoreanism #Puzzle #CulturalHistory #ReligiousHistory

Anyone with an interest in #heritage #materialculture #architecturalhistory #conservation #landscape #religioushistory #convents #IrishHistory might find this report on The Cultural Heritage of Convents useful. https://gillianobrien.net/blog/the-cultural-heritage-of-convents #nuntastic

#introduction for the new server - this may be wildly different to what was on my previous server because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ who even am I, really

Basically here’s a list of things I’m always up to talk about

#UKPolitics
#CrossStitch
#Severance (Team Burving)
#Succession (Team Tom)
#BetterCallSaul
#TwinPeaks or anything #DavidLynch
#MaritimeHistory
#PolarExploration
#LastPodcastOnTheLeft #LPOTL
#NonFiction books - specifically #politics #history and #ReligiousHistory (from an agnostic POV)