scholarly journals The Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History

1967 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmer Ringgren
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Rudolf Steiner ◽  
Complete Collection ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Egyptian Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
True Knowledge ◽  
The University ◽  
Philosophical Questions

This paper presents the history of the Donner Institute. The Donner Institute is an institution for the study of the history of religion and culture at the university of Åbo Akademi (Åbo, Finland). It was founded in 1957 following a stipulation in the last will of Mr. and Mrs. Uno Donner of Helsingfors, who died in 1958 and 1956 respectively. Uno Donner had shown an early interest in philosophical questions. During a visit to Egypt at the beginning of this century both he and his wife were impressed by ancient Egyptian culture and certain mysterious aspects of religion. They both seem to have had a firm conviction that intuition is an important way to true knowledge. When, in 1913, an artist friend of theirs, Henry Collison, introduced them to the thinking of Dr. Rudolf Steiner, their interest was easily kindled, and they became eager students of anthroposophy. They visited Dornach near Basel, the center of the anthroposophic movement, several times and made the personal acquaintance of Dr. Steiner. When an Anthroposophic Society was established in Finland in 1922, Uno Donner became its president. The library of the institute possesses an almost complete collection of Dr. Steiner's works and all available works of various anthroposophic authors.

scholarly journals Museum cultural collections: pathways to the preservation of traditional and scientific knowledge

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 618-634
Author(s):  
Angela J. Linn ◽  
Joshua D. Reuther ◽  
Chris B. Wooley ◽  
Scott J. Shirar ◽  
Jason S. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Alaska Native ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University

Museums of natural and cultural history in the 21st century hold responsibilities that are vastly different from those of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the time of many of their inceptions. No longer conceived of as cabinets of curiosities, institutional priorities are in the process of undergoing dramatic changes. This article reviews the history of the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks, Alaska, from its development in the early 1920s, describing the changing ways staff have worked with Indigenous individuals and communities. Projects like the Modern Alaska Native Material Culture and the Barter Island Project are highlighted as examples of how artifacts and the people who constructed them are no longer viewed as simply examples of material culture and Native informants but are considered partners in the acquisition, preservation, and perpetuation of traditional and scientific knowledge in Alaska.

Towards a Chronology of the Eritrean Red Sea Port of Adulis (1st – Early 7th Century AD)

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Zazzaro ◽  
Enzo Cocca ◽  
Andrea Manzo
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Coastal Site ◽  
Related Material ◽  
Architectural Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chronological Sequence ◽  
The University

The Eritrean coastal site of Adulis has been known to archaeologists since the second half of the 19th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Italian archaeologist Roberto Paribeni conducted extensive excavations in different areas of the site which uncovered the remains of monumental buildings, churches and houses, as well as rich deposits of related material culture. Since then, archaeological investigations have been limited to the activities of Francis Anfray in 1961–62 and to a survey conducted by the University of Southampton in 2003–04. Our team’s first excavations in stratified deposits began in 2011, and soon revealed a complex chronological sequence of great importance for the understanding of the cultural history of the southern Red Sea region and the Horn of Africa. The project’s main efforts were directed towards the identification of the main phases of occupation at Adulis, the establishment of a typological sequence of pottery, and the analysis of architectural change.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

1978 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-43
Author(s):  
Michael L. Berger ◽  
Gene Grabiner ◽  
Susanne McNally ◽  
Eugene Lubot ◽  
David DeLeon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
American History ◽  
Indian Policy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Science Education ◽  
The University ◽  
Lincoln University

Douglas D. Adler and Glenn M. Linden, eds. Teaching World History: Structured Inquiry Through a Historical-Anthropological Approach. Boulder, Colorado: Social Science Education Consortium, Inc., 1976. Pp. iii, 164. Paper, $6.50; Glenn M. Linden and Matthew T. Downey, eds. Teaching American History: Structured Inquiry Approaches. Boulder, Colorado: Social Science Education Consortium, Inc., 1975. Pp. iii, 110. Paper, $4.95. Review by James F. Marran of New Trier Township High School West (Northfield, Illinois). John G. Clark, David M. Katzman, Richard D. McKinzie, and Theodore A. Wilson. Three Qenerations in Twentieth Century America: Family, Community, and Nation. Homewood, Illinois: Dorsey Press , 1977. Pp. xx, 529. Cloth , $13 . 95. Review by Donn Neal of the Great Lakes Colleges Association. Leonard L. Richards. The Advent of American Democracy, 1815-1848. Scott, Foresman American History Series. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1976. Pp. 182. Paper, $4.95; Edward Pessen, ed. Jacksonian Panorama. American Heritage Series. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1976. Pp. xli, 502. Paper, $6.95 Review by Davis D. Joyce of the University of Tulsa. Ronald N. Satz. American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1975. Pp. xii, 343. Paper, $4.25; M. Thomas Bailey, Reconstruction in Indian Territory: A Story of Avarice, Discrimination, and Opportunism. Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1972. Pp. 225. Cloth, $11.50; Francis Paul Prucha, ed. Documents of United States Indian Policy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1975. Pp. ix, 278. Cloth, $14.95; paper, $4.95; Britton Davis. The Truth About Geronimo. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976. xxv, 253. Paper, $3.75. Review by Leonard F. Ralston of SUNY, Cortland. Charles S. Campbell. The Transformation of American Foreign Relations, 1865- 1900. New American Nation Series. New York: Harper and Row, 1976. Cloth, $15.00; paper, $5.95. Review by Frank J. Rader of Empire State College, Saratoga Springs Center. Robert Sklar. Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies. New York: Vintage Books, 1975. Pp. vii, 340. Paper, $5.95. Review by Jack W. Berryman of the University of Washington. Jesse Lemisch. On Active Service in War and Peace: Politics and Ideology in the American Historical Profession. Toronto: New Hogtown Press , 1975: Pp. ix, 150. Paper, $3.00. Review by David DeLeon of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. John F. Cady. The Southeast Asian World. St. Louis, Missouri: Forum Press, 1977. Pp. 80. Paper, $1.95; William J. Miller. The Japanese World. St. Louis, Missouri: Forum Press, 1977. Pp. 81. Paper, $1.95. Review by Eugene Lubot of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Basil Dmytryshyn. A History of Russia. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. , 1977. Pp. xvii, 645. Cloth, $14.95; Adam B. Ulam. A History of Soviet Russia. New York: Praeger, 1976. Paper, $5.95. Review by Susanne McNally of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. C. W. Cassinelli. Total Revolution: A Comparative Study of Germany under Hitler, the Soviet Union under Stalin, and China under Mao. Santa Barbara: Clio Books, 1976. Pp. 252. Cloth, $19.75; paper, $6.25. Review by Gene Grabiner of SUNY, Buffalo. Jules R. Benjamin. A Student's Guide to History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975. Pp. 122. Cloth, $10.95. Review by Michael L. Berger of St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Social History in Serbia: The Association for Social History

2008 ◽  
Vol 34-35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 369-381
Author(s):  
Radina Vučetić ◽  
Olga Manojlović Pintar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
The University

This review essay provides a brief overview of the research and publication activity of the Udruženje za društvenu istoriju/Association for Social History, an innovative scholarly organization established in 1998 in Belgrade, Serbia. The association promotes research on social history in modern South-Eastern Europe, with a focus on former Yugoslavia, and publishes scientific works and historical documents. The driving force behind the activity of the association is a group of young social historians gathered around Professor Andrej Mitrović, at the University of Belgrade. Prof. Mitrović’s work on the “social history of culture” has provided a scholarly framework for a variety of new works dealing with issues of modernization, history of elites, history of ideas, and the diffuse relationship between history and memory. Special attention is given to the Association’s journal, Godišnjak za društvenu istoriju/Annual for Social History, which published studies on economic history, social groups, gender issue, cultural history, modernization, and the history of everyday life in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. Methodologically routed in social history, these research projects are interdisciplinary, being a joint endeavor of sociologists, art historians, and scholars of visual culture.

The Shared Descent of Semitic and Aryan in Christian Bunsen’s History of Revelation

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 270-295
Author(s):  
Tuska Benes
Keyword(s):  
Common Ancestor ◽  
European Language ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Racial Category ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Methods

The desire to uphold monogenesis encouraged Christian Bunsen (1791-1866) to bridge the Semitic and Indo-European language families. Bunsen’s identifying ancient Egyptian as a linguistic bridge had implications for the supposed history of God’s revelation to humankind, as well as for German conceptions of “Semitic” as a racial category in the 1840s. The rise of Sanskrit as a possible Ursprache, as well as new critical methods and the rationalist critique of revelation, altered the position Egypt once held in ancient wisdom narratives. However, the gradual decipherment of hieroglyphs and efforts to historicize ancient Egyptian encouraged Bunsen to rethink the history of religion. His faith in monogenesis and Bunsen’s deriving Aryans and Semites from a common ancestor did not inhibit the racialization of “Semitic” as a category or reverse the loss of status Hebrew antiquity suffered as other scholars located primordial revelation in the Aryan past. Instead religion itself became racialized.

A Cultural History of Religion in America

1982 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 1150
Author(s):  
William A. Clebsch ◽  
James G. Moseley
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
History Of

A Civic Debate on Florentine Higher Education (1460)

1981 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gene Brucker
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University

The recent publication by Armando Verde of a collection of documents on the Pisan Studio (1473-1503) has been recognized as a major contribution to the cultural history of Florence in the late Quattrocento. The yield from years of painstaking research in Florentine and Pisan libraries and archives is made available in four massive volumes, which document the history of the university after its transfer from Florence to Pisa in 1473. Verde has identified the professors who taught, and the 1600 students who were taught, at Pisa and Florence; he has also provided documentation, largely from archival sources, concerning the faculty and the student body: their background and education, their academic and professional careers. He has also collected information on more than one thousand young scholars who were identified in the Florentine tax records (catasto) of 1480 as having been enrolled in schools.

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