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Rita Singer

It's publication day!

Enwogion o fri: Diversity Project 2023-2025

Our free #DiversityProject anthology for the #Bywgraffiadur has just dropped on KC Works. Over 40 authors contributed more than 60 articles about the most fascinating people in #Welsh #history you could possibly imagine.

We've covered #BAMEHistory #LGBTQ_ and #DisabilityHistory, #WomensHistory, #ArtHistory, the #HistoryOfScience, #HistoryOfReligion and #Wales

Frankly, there's not a single article in this collection that's not bound to be of interest to someone.

Get your own copy here as PDF or epub. And because we're in Wales, we even offer you two versions.

English: works.hcommons.org/records/dtb
Cymraeg: doi.org/10.17613/mmwvm-ryh93

Book cover for Enwogion o fri, showing two African and South Asian students of Harlech College in the 1960s. They're reading a piece of paper -- and clearly enjoy it.
#BlackHistory#OA#OpenAccess
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Rita Singer

📢 NEW ARTICLE 📢

SHOSHI MUKHI DASS (1868 - 1921), missionary, teacher and nurse

'In Glasgow, she was actively involved with the Welsh National Union while further south, in Wales, she delivered several public lectures to Methodist audiences. Wearing a sari to demonstrate the typical dress of women in north-east India, she spoke in English about the history and culture of her country, her education and missionary work, and sang hymns in Bangla. During her second year in Britain, she frequently lectured together with Kate E. Williams, Pwllheli, to crowded audiences. These appearances were part of the qualification process for outgoing missionaries to India for the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church. Shoshi had been accepted by the General Assembly at Bootle by May 1893.' -- Rita Singer

Read the full story here: biography.wales/article/s15-DA

Image: flic.kr/p/CUGosM
#Bywgraffiadur #DiversityProject #Wales #India #Bangladesh #HistoryOfReligion #Mission #histodons

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Christina Dongowski

Mein erstes Buch (aber da wusste ich noch nicht, dass es ein "Projekt" werden wird) im #apokalyptischlesen #endtimesreading war Catherine Keller, Facing Apocalypse. Climate, Deomocraxy and other last chances. Hier meine Goodreads Rezension dazu. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ . review is in english.
#theology #historyofreligion #apocalypse #Revelations #reading #nonfiction #lesen #sachbuch
@bookstodon @lesekreis
goodreads.com/review/show/5850

www.goodreads.comChristina Dongowski's review of Facing Apocalypse4/5: I found this book in an omnibus review on recent literature on the apocalypse and apocalyptical discourse in a German sociological review, and I was intrigued that it was by a theologian. (I didn't knew than that Keller is a very eminent theologian ;) I assumed this would be the standard eco-writing fare on climate change, but informed by theological view and religious history. Surprise, surprise: This is not such a book. It's very personal and very based in Keller's own faith, but on the other side very knowledgable and informative. I really learned a lot about the history of the Book of R...
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IHC

🗣 The call for papers of the international conference "Religious Consciences and Colonialism: Experiences and Legacies" was extended until 21 October.

The meeting will explore religious figures and institutions which raised their voices and took action again colonialism and the dictatorship of the Estado Novo.

ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/reli

@histodons
@africanstudies

Poster for the call for papers of the international congress “Religious Consciences and Colonialism: Experiences and Legacies”, organised under the framework of the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of Carnation Revolution. It will take place at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon between 17 and 19 January 2024. The deadline for proposal submission is 21 October 2023. The poster includes an uncredited photograph by José Chambel of a “pagan altar” in São Tomé and Príncipe.
#Histodons#Colonialism#HistoryOfReligion
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Rita Singer

According to a letter from a cousin, Elisha Khamis, to a #WelshMethodist preacher in #USA, Issac was killed in 1915 in an anti-Christian massacre in the Ottoman Empire, broadly in the Kurdistan region. It looks as if Elisha later emigrated and settled in the US.

Judging from the way in which the 1890s articles report about Issac's lectures, he was genuinely welcomed by the #Welsh congregations and held quite dear.

If anyone might have any further info on Issac Kamis, who also spoke under the name of "Isaac of Persia" during his lecturing tours in #Wales and #England, please get in touch.

Sources:
newspapers.library.wales/view/

newspapers.library.wales/view/

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newspapers.library.walesIsaac o Persia yn Mlaenau Ffestiniog,|1891-01-08|Y Cymro - Welsh NewspapersSearch 15 million Welsh newspaper articles
#histodons#HistoryOfReligion
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Rita Singer

It feels a little like following a closely laid trail from one ninteenth-century #Welsh #missionary to another.

Rev. Rai Bhajur, born into a small village in the Khassia Hills, India. He converted to Christianity as a teen, studied and took up a job as a school inspector in India before leaving his employment and become a missionary. During his stay in the UK, he studied medicine at Liverpool and extensively travelled around #Wales speaking about the work of the Welsh Mission in India and collecting funds before returning home to continue his spiritual work and continue his links with the Welsh ministers.

He is one of the good number of new contenders to have his biography added to the #Bywgraffiadur. Would YOU like to write his life for us?

Short contemporary bio: cylchgronau.llyfrgell.cymru/vi

Image source: cylchgronau.llyfrgell.cymru/vi

Group image of five bewhiskered Calvinist reverends and dignitaries. The gentleman standing on the right in the second row is the Rev. Rai Bhajur, who appears more youthful when compared to his white colleagues. His hair is short, a little tousled and he wears a mustache. His clothes are of the typical sober style of a Methodist man of the cloth.
#histodon#HistoryOfReligion#India
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World History Encyclopedia

Ulrich Lehner’s book successfully addresses the historiographical gaps of the Catholic Enlightenment from the lenses of theology and history. Due to its brevity, topics like controversies that shook Catholicism as well as early modern authors and works, information about popes, and religious orders are left out, giving readers the room to simultaneously explore other books on these topics. Lehn... worldhistory.org/review/332/th #CatholicChurch #CatholicReform #HistoryOfReligion #History

www.worldhistory.orgThe Inner Life of Catholic Reform: From the Council of Trent to the Enlightenment (Review)Ulrich Lehner’s The Inner Life of Catholic Reform: From the Council of Trent to the Enlightenment came into fruition after Lehner published several works on the...
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t mortimer

to be honest, i'm not really sure what i'm into anymore.

i like #gardens and #gardenhistory.

i'm into #classicalmusic but i'm quite picky.

i like trawling #newage and #kankyoongaku (#環境音楽) releases online (although most are bad to average).

#shakuhachi (#尺八).

VERY secular #buddhism (#theravada #mahayana #zen).

#historyofreligion #historyofphilosophy #arthistory ...

#nonfiction recommendations

... anything that enables me to cool my increasingly staunch antinatalist tendencies for a few minutes essentially ...

#wetlands #mangroves ... 🤷

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