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Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20 (2021)
Book Chapter
O'Loughlin, T. (2021). Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20. In Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019. Volume 22: Liturgica, Tractatus symboli; Orientalia; Critica et Philologica (31-38). Peeters

If our paradigm of the early churches is one of variety in practice preceding uniform ‘accepted’ forms, then we need to look again at many instances where early evidence for practice was by-passed as aberrant or sectarian. The sequence of eucharistic... Read More about Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20.

Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice (2021)
Journal Article
Hutchings, T., Benoit, C., & Shillitoe, R. (2021). Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice. Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, 23, 8-28. https://doi.org/10.18792/jbasr.v23i0.54

This article builds on Worldview-A Multidisciplinary Report (Benoit, Hutchings and Shillitoe, 2020), a publication commissioned by the RE Council of England and Wales to outline the academic history of the study of worldviews. We focus on three parti... Read More about Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice.

“There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures (2021)
Journal Article
Tsikandilakis, M., Yu, Z., Kausel, L., Boncompte, G., Lanfranco, R. C., Oxner, M., Bali, P., Urale Leong, P., Qing, M., Paterakis, G., Caci, S., Milbank, A., Mevel, P. A., Carmel, D., Madan, C., Derrfuss, J., & Chapman, P. (2021). “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures. Perception, 50(12), 1027-1055. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066211055983

The theory of universal emotions suggests that certain emotions such as fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise and happiness can be encountered cross-culturally. These emotions are expressed using specific facial movements that enable human communic... Read More about “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures.

Victory as Defeat: Narrative Subversion of Omride Strength in 1 Kings 20 (2021)
Journal Article
Quine, C. (2021). Victory as Defeat: Narrative Subversion of Omride Strength in 1 Kings 20. Journal of Theological Studies, 72(2), 620-633. https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flab061

This paper argues that 1 Kings 20 is a literary composition that creates an idealized picture of kingship and military victory wherein the king combines with the elders, prophets, and deity to reject the impositions of vassalage and defeat their enem... Read More about Victory as Defeat: Narrative Subversion of Omride Strength in 1 Kings 20.

The Social Functionality of Multiple Religious Belonging in Modern China (2021)
Journal Article
Chu, C. (2021). The Social Functionality of Multiple Religious Belonging in Modern China. Review of Religion and Chinese Society, 9(1), 27-43. https://doi.org/10.1163/22143955-08020001

Multiple religious belonging refers to the idea that individuals can belong to more than one religious tradition. This article aims to explore the concept of multiple religious belonging in modern China, focusing on its pattern as well as the social... Read More about The Social Functionality of Multiple Religious Belonging in Modern China.

Incarnation, Posthumanism and Performative Anthropology: The Body of Technology and the Body of Christ (2021)
Journal Article
Burdett, M. S. (2022). Incarnation, Posthumanism and Performative Anthropology: The Body of Technology and the Body of Christ. Christian Bioethics, 28(3), 207-216. https://doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbab009

This essay argues that a Christian incarnational response to posthumanism must recognize that what is at stake isn't just whether belief systems align. It seeks to relocate the interaction between the church and posthumanism to how the practices of p... Read More about Incarnation, Posthumanism and Performative Anthropology: The Body of Technology and the Body of Christ.

Josephus' Adaptation of the Athaliah Narratives (2021)
Journal Article
Quine, C., & Scales, J. (2022). Josephus' Adaptation of the Athaliah Narratives. Vetus Testamentum, 72, 93-108. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685330-bja10041

Athaliah in Josephus is rarely studied. This paper thus seeks to build on Christopher Begg’s text-critical work by discussing the literary effect of Josephus’ embellishments to the Athaliah narratives. Athaliah in Josephus is shown to be more explic... Read More about Josephus' Adaptation of the Athaliah Narratives.

Social Media as Tools of Social Activism: Public Theology of the Umbrella City Cyberchurch (2021)
Book Chapter
Chu, C. (2021). Social Media as Tools of Social Activism: Public Theology of the Umbrella City Cyberchurch. In F. Yang, & C. White (Eds.), Christian Social Activism and the Rule of Law in China. Rowman & Littlefield

With the rise of digital media as a tools to exchange information in the Umbrella Movement, Umbrella Cyberchurch (UCC) established as a way to facilitate theological dialogue. This chapter will start with the definitions of social activism and public... Read More about Social Media as Tools of Social Activism: Public Theology of the Umbrella City Cyberchurch.

Zephaniah (2021)
Book Chapter
Quine, C. (2021). Zephaniah. In J. M. O'Brien (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Minor Prophets. Oxford University Press

This article discusses the key topics for the study of the Book of Zephaniah, including structure, authorship, date, central themes, Zephaniah’s relationship with the Book of the Twelve and the Hebrew Bible. Themes explored include the day of Yahweh,... Read More about Zephaniah.

“Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness, and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality (2021)
Journal Article
Tsikandilakis, M., Leong, M. Q., Yu, Z., Paterakis, G., Bali, P., Derrfuss, J., Mevel, P. A., Milbank, A., Tong Mun Wai Tong, E., Madan, C., & Mitchell, P. (2022). “Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness, and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality. Psychological Research, 86(1), 37-65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01461-7

Psychological theory and research suggest that religious individuals could have differences in the appraisal of immoral behaviours and cognitions compared to non-religious individuals. This effect could occur due to adherence to prescriptive and invi... Read More about “Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness, and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality.