Humanities
Friday Aug 31st, 2012
How and why do myths arise?
It is trite to say that one’s pet subject is interdisciplinary. These days what subject isn’t? The prostate? But myth really is interdisciplinary. For there is no study of myth as myth, the way, by contrast, there is said to be the study of literature as literature or of religion as religion. Myth is studied by other disciplines, above all by sociology, anthropology, psychology, politics, philosophy, literature, and religious studies. read more »
Tuesday May 21st, 2013
The marginalized Alexander Pope
Dr. Robert V. McNamee on re-reading his poetry in historical context
Thursday May 16th, 2013
The missing children of early modern religion
Alec Ryrie on childhood in histories of early modern religion
Wednesday May 1st, 2013
Saints and sinners, politicians and priests, and the 2013 local elections
The Archbishop is wrong: pinning hopes on individuals is not always a mistake.
Tuesday Apr 30th, 2013
Celebrating Kierkegaard’s bicentenary
Daphne Hampson looks at what we can learn from Kierkegaard two hundred years after his birth
