Blog: ‘Greater the Profit...When Two Go Together” [Il. 10.224-5]: Homeric Adventures in Collaboration and Open Access Publishing
By Joel Christensen | March 12, 2020
Blog: Using Digital Methods to Explore the Material Remains of Ancient Religion
By urmilamohan | May 2, 2019
Scholars of religion have developed a framework for exploration of interactions between religion and tangible objects called "material religion." Over the past two decades, the focus within the study of material religion has emphasised object agency, aesthetics and networks. Disseminated in part by the journal Material Religion, a materialised study of religion explores religiosity as inseparable from a matrix of components including people, divine forces, institutions, things, places and communities. However, what still remains to be unpacked is a focus on the way material religion takes place globally.
Blog: Independent Scholarship: Process, Venues, and Social Media
By Edward Butler | March 7, 2018
In the thirteen years I have been active as an independent scholar, I have learned that the independent scholar is in effect the mirror of an independent scholarly readership composed of individuals who are dedicated consumers of scholastic literature without being either presently matriculated students or academics themselves. I have come to believe that we cannot speak of the genuine flourishing of independent scholarship without taking this into account.