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Despite its tradition as a dominantly Christian country, Brazil is the host of the largest community of Japanese-descended people outside of Japan. This is the result of a long-lasting immigration process that started in 1908 and led to... more
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This essay examines the formative history of the cakras of tantric yoga through a genealogy of the "wheel of the navel" (nābhicakra) and "lotus of the heart" (hṛdayapuṇḍarīka, etc.). Both expressions appear in the Pātañjalayogaśāstra and... more
The global rise of heritage tourism has intensified struggles over the ownership, meaning, and spatial governance of religious sites, yet the contested interplay of ideology, power, and sacred space remains understudied. This article... more
Jan Assmann's Achsenzeit: Eine Archäologie der Moderne (2018) is the most thorough presentation of thinkers who reflected on the Axial Age available today. Although the label "Axial Age" was coined by Karl Jaspers in 1946, other scholars... more
Petridou, G. (2024) ‘Communicating with Gods, Offering Bodies, and the Antonine Plague’, in Clelia Martínez Maza, Antón Alvar Nuño, and Jaime Alvar Ezquerra (eds.), Calling Upon Gods, Offering Bodies Strategies of Human-Divine... more
El neologismo Utopía, creado por Tomás Moro para su ensayo literario, ha dado lugar a diversas interpretaciones y acepciones contradictorias a lo largo del tiempo. Así también originó un género literario, cultivado hasta la actualidad,... more
Petridou, G. (2024) ‘Between Pergamum, Athens, and Eleusis: Illness and Initiation in Aelius Aristides’, in G. Woolf, I. Bultrighini, and C. Norman (Eds.), Sanctuaries and Experience: Knowledge, Practice and Space in the Ancient World,... more
Pain is a strange beast. The assessment and understanding of pain presents the greatest of challenges for students of pain and patient history (ancient and modern alike). The lived experience of pain evades the historian of disability,... more
This paper looks afresh at the socio-religious practice of gift-giving to the divine in the critical context of illness. In terms of methodology, this study draws inspiration from Rosa’s sociological theory of resonant self–world... more
Petridou, G. (2023) ‘Epiphany and Divination Reconsidered: the case-study of the iamata from Imperial Pergamum’, in Elsa G. Simonetti and C. Hall (eds.), Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 136-158.
« Ophtalmologie divine : de Sainte Paraskevi à Déméter et Korè» : Cet article compare les objets votifs grecs modernes et antiques liés aux maladies ophtalmologiques. il examine le rôle et la typologie des tamata (« objets votifs » en... more
Petridou, G. and Rüpke, J. (2021) ‘The Impact of Textual Production on the Organisation and Proliferation of Religious Knowledge in the Roman Empire’ , in J. Rüpke and G. Woolf (eds.), Religion in the Roman Empire, Kohlhammer Verlag, Die... more
This study calls for a reconsideration of the infused with mystery imagery and terminology narratives in the Hieroi Logoi (henceforth HL), and argues that a close and careful re-examination of this rich material may yield valuable... more
En su De viris illustribus, Isidoro de Sevilla incluye al obispo hispano Itacio de Ossonoba, conocido adversario de Prisciliano, y uno de los principales responsables de su decapitación en Tréveris en el año 385. El testimonio del obispo... more
En esta edición, HiSTOReLo. Revista de Historia Regional y Local (Nro. 38) celebra la diversidad y profundidad de la historia regional y local, reconociendo la importancia de las tradiciones, la identidad y la variación cultural que... more
En esta edición, HiSTOReLo. Revista de Historia Regional y Local (Nro. 38) celebra la diversidad y profundidad de la historia regional y local, reconociendo la importancia de las tradiciones, la identidad y la variación cultural que... more
Paracelsus, a 16th-century physician, is considered the father of modern therapy due to his extensive metaphysical and medical speculations. His doctrine of sympathies, based on the idea that like attracts like, forms the basis for a... more
The Greek name for the pig is ὕς, once called θῦς from the verb θῦειν, that is, 'to sacrifice' (Varro, Rust. 4.9) Excavations in the Roman cemetery near the Legio VI Ferrata base, dated to the secondthird centuries CE, exposed a pit... more
L'Enciclica papale Laudato s/'del 2015, dedicata ai gravi problemi ambientali dei nostri tempi, rispecchia valori della tradizione giudaico-cristiana, ma altresì principi e regole rintracciabili nel diritto romano. [The 2015 Papal... more
'Building bridges': Polyglot, diplomat Pope Leo XIV speaks language of majority of world's Catholics
Pope Francis appointed Robert Prevost in 2023 to lead the Vatican office that vets bishop nominations—one of the Church’s most powerful roles. And now, Prevost, 69, has become Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff. A Chicago native and... more
The relationship between the State and religion, expressed primarily by its legal framework, is one of the most important indicators of the maturity of a democratic State. Religious freedom was one of the slogans chanted in the squares of... more
A presentation to inspire imagination while outlining Japan's history and religions: Shintō, Buddhism, Folk Religions, and Syncretism (mixing and matching religions). It starts with what the earliest settlers over 30,000 years ago must... more
Review of: Céline Debourse, Of Priests and Kings: The Babylonian New Year Festival in the Last Age of Cuneiform Culture. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 127. Leiden, Boston 2022. xi + 512 pp. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis 81... more
The purpose of the article. The publication attempts to determine the iconography, the manner of painting and dating of the folk art monuments from the wooden church decoration of the Central Ukraine in the first half of the XVIII... more
Pre-copyedited front matter from a collection of essays due to be published in Fall 2025.
In this chapter, I differentiate the key terms in the study of African religions by returning to the well-established label of 'African Traditional Religion.' I historicize African Traditional Religion as a concept with a specific... more
Pre-copyedited front matter from the new edition (available summer 2025).
Türkiye'de din eğitimi, Tanzimatla birlikte başlayan ve cumhuriyetin kurulması ile birlikte devam eden farklı bir sürece girmiştir. Esasen bu süreci hazırlayan bir evveliyattan da söz etmek gerekir. Yani meselenin, Türkiye ve günümüzü... more
NOVEL AND MYSTERY. DISCOURSE, MYTH AND SOCIETY. Reinhold Merkelbach’s thesis that the ancient Greek and Latin novels are disguised “showings” of ancient mysteries has remained controversial. Essentially the problem revolves around the... more
Szent Anna kultuszának írásos emlékei a kora újkori Magyarországon * Kísérleti jelleggel kezdtem kutatni Szent Anna Kárpát-medencei tiszteletét. Vajon mi volt a szerepe Jézus nagyanyjának a barokk kor lelkiségében? Speciálisan a nagyanyák... more
Considering how Jesus healing the Cripple at the Bethesda Fountain reflects upon our own healing by the grace of God, especially during Easter season.
Jens Bulisch: Evangelische Presse in der DDR. "Die Zeichen der Zeit" 1947-1990 (Renate Hackel-de Latour)Michael Meyen/Maria Löblich: Klassiker der Kommunikationswissenschaft. Fach- und Theoriegeschichte in Deutschland (Franzisca... more
Xenobacillus glossophagii serves as a metaphorical construct within the framework of "pathogenic biolinguistics," blending microbiology and linguistics. The concept posits language as a contagious, transformative force akin to a pathogen,... more
Heresies : une construction d'identites religieuses Quelles sortes de communautes reunissent les hommes ? Comment sont-elles construites ? Ou est l'unite, ou est la multiplicite de l'humanite ? Les hommes peuvent former des... more
How can a person learn to see a mountain as a divine mandala, especially when—to the ordinary eye—the mountain looks like a pile of rocks and snow? This is the challenge that the Tibetan pilgrimage tradition poses to pilgrims, who are... more
The Council of Nicaea is a fundamental milestone in the development of Christian theology and, consequently, a significant factor in shaping Western culture. In the context of a new relationship with the Roman Empire, an intense... more
The colony' s population expanded in wartime after 1775 to no more than approximately 17,000, including the military, before the influx of about 29,000 Loyalist refugees in 1783. By 1800, when the gender balance in the colony was more... more
Here is the full text of Living, Minding World, published complete at last. The central project of this book was to investigate the implications of modern science for serious existential and religious thought, so its concluding chapter... more
L'azione politica del proletariato non solo è un'azione di classe tendente all'emancipazione e allo svincolamento di una classe dalla sua soggezione e schiavitù ad un'altra ma è anche, contemporaneamente e in una prospettiva più ampia,... more
PUC-SP) entre os dias 3 e 4 de dezembro de 2009, e teve como tema central a problemática urbana e as implicações dela decorrentes, agravadas, transformadas ou apenas parcialmente alteradas em sua constituição objetiva e simbólica.... more
During the last years of the Middle Ages and throughout the Early Modern period, a strange phenomenon occurred which has captured the attention of historians and anthropologists, as well as that of contemporary feminists and occultists:... more
O planet in its present form is several million years fold. To put it in perspective, visualise the human species a million years ago as composed of something like 100,000 inquisitive furry creatures living in the most fertile parts of... more
Este trabalho tem o objetivo de investigar o fenômeno religioso nos espaços públicos e privados, no âmbito educacional, social e político. No Brasil, desde o período colonial até os dias de hoje, o Ensino Religioso (ER) sofreu inúmeras... more
A cento anni dalla nascita e a dieci dalla scomparsa del grande storico francese, Daniela Romagnoli, infaticabile promotrice del lascito scientifico e civile di Jacques Le Goff (1924-2014), ha organizzato nel 2024 con la Casa della... more
use the term "Scottish Enlightenment" to describe the group of Scottish intellectuals clustered in Edinburgh in the 18 th century. All of the writers I focus on frequently met and corresponded with each other, and their works reflect a... more
This piece offers a systematic critique of Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky’s lecture series ‘Da Ma She-Tashiv’, likely the most thorough and structured articulation of 21st-century Ultra-Orthodox ideological defense (=apologetics) by a leading... more