#Histodons and other scholarly #Humanities folks --

Has anyone done any serious work on Charles Erskine Scott Wood's religious thought and life? (Or anti-religious, as the case may be...)

I may be overlooking something obvious and don't have all my books with me... I could see him potentially surfacing in Leigh Eric Schmidt's work on religious liberalism, for instance, or maybe even Lears' No Place Of Grace.

But off the top of my head, I don't recall anything extensive.

Spent part of the morning reading excerpts from CESW's long poem "The Poet in the Desert," and while the work is super stodgy, the thought is fascinating, esp. alongside his "Heavenly Lectures." I'd love to read something that tries to place him in a broader intellectual/religious context.

Any tips are welcome, feel free to boost.

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Have a student who is looking for access to Southern Baptist Convention constitutions and bylaws from the 1970s but is having trouble finding them, in physical or digital formats.

Anyone know where they might look, or what (exactly) to look for?

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In a gesture of procrastination, I grabbed this book of Jonathan Z Smith interviews off the shelf and started reading. I have owned it for a while but never read it - and the first interview (from UChicago's newspaper in 2008) has me over here absolutely rolling on the floor w/laughter.

https://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780190879082.html

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The long version:

In the Secular City Debate volume (1966), in addition to a response to the collected essays from others, Harvey Cox also offers a short essay: "Beyond Bonhoeffer - The Future of Religionless Christianity."

In it, Cox suggests Bonhoeffer foreshadowed and was enlivened by many of the issues animating/bedeviling American theologians in the radical 1960s. But what's interesting is that Cox is a bit embarrassed to suggest Bonhoeffer as an important source to continue to study and learn from (quote on next toot):

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Big Friday is the time I remind everyone Ecclesia Sancti Sepulchri is my favourite.
Looks small and poor, but the spirit is inside. It goes deep downward into the mountains, contains different altars and staircases.
So many tongues and sounds.
Haven’t been there since 2017.

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The only link I could think of, regarding Passover and Qingming crossover that’s happening today is ancient graves of ancient Egyptian royalty.
(By the way, The Pyramids were not built by slaves!)

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People who understand #religion and particularly #islam , are muslims allowed to smoke tobacco? I often see women wearing hijab and smoking cigarettes and it made me wonder, if alcohol is prohibited, what about tobacco? And what makes believers be strict about the first more than the latter?

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The ninth day of the first month (Zheng month 正月) of the Chinese Lunar calendar is the birthday of Yüdi 玉帝 (The Jade Emperor) the ruler of the heavens.

I guess wishing him 万岁 is pointless.
Happy birthday, I guess.

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#taoism
#daoism
#folkreligion
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