"Thinking Bodies - Shaping Hands focuses on the critical as well as historical dimension of the handling of the brush and of the resulting appearance of colour on the painted surface in art and art theory from the middle of the 17th (above all from 1660) to the dawn of the 18th …
"'A single bullet took one life and shattered three others. Mine, among them. My brother shot my father. My mother heard the shot. Approximately 1400 kilometers away, in the Armed Forces Medical College at Pune, where I was pursuing a postgraduate course in pathology while servi…
"Isaac Luria (1534-1572) is one of the most extraordinary and influential mystical figures in the history of Judaism, a visionary teacher who helped shape the course of nearly all subsequent Jewish mysticism. Though he lived only briefly in the Galilean city of Safed, his name b…
"Isaac Luria (1534-1572) is one of the most extraordinary and influential mystical figures in the history of Judaism, a visionary teacher who helped shape the course of nearly all subsequent Jewish mysticism. Though he lived only briefly in the Galilean city of Safed, his name b…
The principal conflicts in Mark's Gospel, between Jesus and the religious authorities and between Jesus and his disciples, have most often been treated in previous Markan scholarship in isolation from one another, and have been read largely as means to historical or theological …
Taalibe Baay, or Disciples of the Senegalese Shaykh `Ibrāhīm (Baay) Ñas, form a transnational network defined primarily by relations of religious apprenticeship and co-discipleship. Whereas several major Islamic adherences in Senegal arose as quasi-political intermediaries betwe…