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Spiritual Meaning and Experimental Piety in the Exegesis of Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards
No full textJan Stievermann and Ryan P. Hoselton consider the role of experiential piety in the exegesis of Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards. Both were deeply engaged in the new critical questions of their day, and both were also committed to nurturing religious piety—though they differed somewhat in how they handled these concerns. Although Mather was profoundly interested in the philological and historical issues in the Bible, he prioritized devotional and contemplative engagement with Scripture. Edwards, Stievermann and Hoselton argue, drew on the experimental language and philosophy of the Enlightenment to construct a case for the supernatural authority of the Bible against increasingly naturalistic arguments. Edwards held that one gains spiritual understanding as the Holy Spirit harmonizes the believer’s internal senses with the Word; this reconstruction affected Edwards’ approach to the emotive element in Scripture, the dynamism of typology, and the nature of the regenerate interpreter of the Bible.</p
Cotton Mather, Biblia Americana. America’s First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 1. Genesis. Edited, with an Introduction and Annotations by Reiner Smolinski, 2010 Reiner Smolinski and Jan Stievermann (éds), Cotton Mather and the Biblia Americana — America’s First Bible Commentary. Essays in Reappraisal, 2010
No full textBogaert Pierre-Maurice. Cotton Mather, Biblia Americana. America’s First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 1. Genesis. Edited, with an Introduction and Annotations by Reiner Smolinski, 2010 Reiner Smolinski and Jan Stievermann (éds), Cotton Mather and the Biblia Americana — America’s First Bible Commentary. Essays in Reappraisal, 2010. In: Revue théologique de Louvain, 43ᵉ année, fasc. 1, 2012. pp. 112-114
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Der Amerikanische Protestantismus und der Kulturkampf um die Evolutionslehre
No full textVortrag von Jan Stievermann, Professor für die Geschichte des Christentums in den USA an der Theologischen Fakultät und am Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) der Ruperto Carola, zum Thema "Der Amerikanische Protestantismus und der Kulturkampf um die Evolutionslehre", gehalten am 27. Mai 2013 im Studium Generale der Universität Heidelberg.
In seinem Vortrag erläutert Jan Stievermann, warum und wie es dazu kam, dass sich rund 150 Jahre nach dem Erscheinen von Charles Darwins „On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection“ (1859) eine stark anti-darwinistische Strömung innerhalb des amerikanischen Protestantismus entwickelte und die in Darwins Werke formulierte Evolutionslehre zu einem der Reizthemen wurde, an dem sich die tiefgreifende Polarisierung der US-amerikanischen Gesellschaft manifestiert. Insbesondere im Milieu des konservativen Evangelikalismus und Fundamentalismus, so Prof. Stievermann, lehnen heute nicht wenige Amerikaner den Darwinismus zugunsten eines strikten Kreationismus oder der sogenannten Intelligent-Design-Lehre ab. In seinem Vortrag beleuchtet Jan Stievermann die religions- und kulturgeschichtlichen Entwicklungen ebenso wie die verfassungsrechtlichen und politischen Gründe, die zu der gegenwärtigen Situation geführt haben
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Special Issue on William Hazlitt
No full textTharaud, Barry (Dogus Author)The Spring 2009 issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose (Volume 36, Number 1) is a special issue on William Hazlitt, guest-edited by James Mulvihili, who will join the Editorial Board of this journal beginning with the next issue. With the recent addition to the Editorial Board of Jan Stievermann from the University of Ttibingen, and the continuing long-standing member Martin Hewitt from Trinity and All Saints, University of Leeds, and the addition of Jim Mulvihill from the University of Alberta, the Board is gradually beginning to reflect the internationalist, transatlantic, and global perspectives that have become increasingly common in the humanities disciplines for quite some time
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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