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In agreeing with Geertz’s claim that culture is experiential (1973), I aim to present an interpretation of a lived experience. It is an autoethnographic reflection of my experience as a volunteer radio host for the community radio station on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. At the heart of my argument is spoken language and its meaning. From a selection of themes of transcribed lifestory interviews, I aim to show that culture, diachronically shaped in the island’s collec...

The Brechin Diocesan Library was founded in Laurencekirk in 1792 and developed on the foundational collections of the books of eighteenth-century clergymen. This thesis examines the variety of episcopal identities, which were supported and preserved in the diocesan library, and the annotations in the books themselves. It demonstrates how the books of the diocesan library preserved a distinctive nonjuring identity, and contextualises this with a study of the library and marginalia of Alexander...

First paragraph: 本書收錄了「漢語神學」的領路人之一、中國大陸著名基督教學者 何光滬在 1994 年至 2020 年間有關「漢語神學」的論文、訪談及演 講稿，其中絕大部分都是已經發表過的文稿。儘管如此，用「新瓶 裝舊酒」來形容這本論文集似乎有失公允。正如繪畫領域的編年展 形式能夠令觀者更清晰地感受到畫家藝術風格的演進，本書作為何 光滬「漢語神學」思想的「編年展」，確令讀者得以一窺這位中國 宗教學界的大師級人物在過去二十餘年間對與中國問題、漢語語境 相關聯的基督宗教所進行的思考，以及這種思考的發展歷程。

This article draws on the concept of the "cabinet of curiosities", Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne atlas, and Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, to articulate a shared process of "distillation of affinities" whereby disparate items, texts, images, and concepts are juxtaposted together to generate rich and unexpected meanings which do not inhere in the chosen items separately. It then proposes that such a process could be applied to the practice of historical biography, explores the implications of t...