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Praying to Portraits
In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and cultural significance of a crucial image type in the early modern Hispanic world: the sacred portrait. Across early modern Spain and Latin America, people prayed to portraits. They prayed to “true” effigies of saints, to simple portraits that were repainted as devotional objects, and even to images of living sitters depicted as holy figures. Jasienski places these difficult-to-classify image types within their historical context. He shows that rather than being harbingers of secular modernity and autonomous selfhood, portraits were privileged sites for mediating an individual’s relationship to the ...
A Glance at Nineteenth Century Concept of PHRENOLOGY: Skull Bumps are a Mirror of Brain Faculties!
A Glance at Nineteenth Century Concept of PHRENOLOGY: Skull Bumps are a Mirror of Brain Faculties! Phrenology was a nineteenth century endeavour to link personality traits with scalp morphology, which has been both influential and fiercely criticised, not least because of the assumption that scalp morphology can be informative of underlying brain function. Phrenology is the study of the shape of the head through the examination and measurement of the bumps on an individual's skull. Phrenology was one of the early biological theories of criminology and laid the foundation for the development of the biological school of criminology. Scientists discredited phrenology by the mid-1800s, althou...
Nostalgia Now
This volume explores the nature of nostalgia as an important emotion in contemporary society and social theory. Situated between the ‘sociology of emotions’ and ‘nostalgia studies’, it considers the reasons for which nostalgia appears to be becoming an increasingly significant and debated emotion in late-modern culture. With chapters offering studies of nostalgia at micro-, meso- and macro-levels of society, it offers insights into the rise to prominence of nostalgia and the attendant consequences. Thematically organised and examining the role of nostalgia on an individual level – in the lives of concrete individuals – as well as analysing its function on a more historical social level as a collective and culturally shared emotion, Nostalgia Now brings together the latest empirical and theoretical work on an important contemporary emotion and proposes new agendas for research. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory, psychology and cultural studies with interests in the emotions.
Autobiographical Traditions in Egodocuments
Using the Icelandic context, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon examines egodocuments as distinct and fascinating manifestations of microhistory, reflecting on their nature, the circumstances in which they originated, and their strengths and weaknesses for scholarly research. Autobiographical Traditions in Egodocuments successfully makes the case for egodocuments being an intriguing part of the material culture of their time, with ample consideration given to the role of the book within individual households and the impact a source such as autobiography has had on people's daily lives. Magnússon also provides an insightful historiographical account of how the egodocument has been used in historical works both in Iceland and elsewhere in the world since the 19th century.
Bavinck
Dutch Calvinist theologian Herman Bavinck, a significant voice in the development of Protestant theology, remains relevant many years after his death. His four-volume Reformed Dogmatics is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century. James Eglinton is widely considered to be at the forefront of contemporary interest in Bavinck's life and thought. After spending considerable time in the Netherlands researching Bavinck, Eglinton brings to light a wealth of new insights and previously unpublished documents to offer a definitive biography of this renowned Reformed thinker. The book follows the course of Bavinck's life in a period of dramatic social change, identifying him as an orthodox Calvinist challenged with finding his feet in late modern culture. Based on extensive archival research, this critical biography presents numerous significant and previously ignored or unknown aspects of Bavinck's person and life story. A black-and-white photo insert is included. This volume complements other Baker Academic offerings on Bavinck's theology and ethics, which together have sold 90,000 copies.
The Origins of the Individualist Self
This book traces the emergence of the concept of self-identity in modern Western culture, as it was both reflected in and advanced by the development of autobiographical practice in early modern England. It offers a fresh and illuminating appraisal of the nature of autobiographical narrative in general and of the early modern forms of biography, diary and autobiography in particular. The result is a significant and original contribution to the history of individualism. Michael Mascuch argues that the definitive characteristic of individualist self-identity is the personal capacity to produce a unified retrospective autobiographical narrative, and he stresses that this capacity was first demo...
The Rise of the Laity in Evangelical Protestantism
This comprehensive investigation into the involvement of ordinary Christians in Church activities and in anti-clerical dissent, explores a phenomenon stretching from Britain and Germany to the Americas and beyond. It considers how evangelicalism, as an anti-establishmentarian and profoundly individualistic movement, has allowed the traditionally powerless to become enterprising, vocal, and influential in the religious arena and in other areas of politics and culture.
赫尔曼・巴文克生平评述
荷兰加尔文主义神学家赫尔曼・巴文克（Herman Bavinck）是新教神学发展的重要人物，去世多年后依然影响深远。他的四卷本《改革宗教义学》是二十世纪最重要的神学著作之一。 恩雅各（James Eglinton）被誉为当今研究巴文克生平和思想的领军人物。他曾在荷兰深入研究大量未公开的一手文献，为这位著名的改革宗思想家撰写了权威传记。本书讲述巴文克的生平故事，他神学思想发展脉络所编织的个人叙事，探究了在风云变幻的世界中以正统方式生活的可能性。此生平评述揭示了巴文克许多被忽视或未为人知的事迹和性格特质。
Controlling Time and Shaping the Self
This book explores new questions and approaches to the rise of autobiographical writing since the early modern period. What motivated more and more men and women to write records of their private life? How could private writing grow into a bestselling genre? How was this rapidly expanding genre influenced by new ideas about history that emerged around 1800? How do we explain the paradox of the apparent privacy of publicity in many autobiographies? Such questions are addressed with reference to well-known autobiographies and an abundance of newfound works by persons hitherto unknown, not only from Europe, but also the Near East, and Japan. This volume features new views of the complex field of historical autobiography studies, and is the first to put the genre in a global perspective.
Geschichtskulturelle Transformationen
Historisches ist in der Öffentlichkeit omnipräsent und zugleich oft heftig umstritten. Geschichtskultur ist daher keine monolithische Einheit, sondern Ausdruck heterogener Orientierungs- und Identitätsbedürfnisse. Fortwährend konfrontieren uns verschiedene geschichtskulturelle Akteur:innen mit Historischem, stellen konkurrierende historische Deutungen zur Diskussion und tragen so dazu bei, dass Geschichtsvorstellungen sich immer wieder verändern. Diese Transformationsprozesse betreffen nicht nur bestimmte Themen, Konzepte und Kategorien, sondern auch das Selbstverständnis der Historiographie als akademischer Disziplin im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft, Politik und Öffentlichkeit. Der vorliegende Band thematisiert Bereiche der Geschichtskultur, die in jüngerer Zeit besonders starke Transformationen erfahren haben. Dabei werden sowohl Kontroversen in den Blick genommen, die sich daran entzündet haben, als auch die Akteur:innen und (Zeit-)Praktiken, die Teil dieser Veränderungen sind.
