Pilgrimage: Key Terms and Typologies
Pilgrimage: Key Terms and Typologies Pilgrimage is not only about traveling to sacred temples or churches because it is a concept that has evolved in the twenty-first century to mean…
Pilgrimage: Key Terms and Typologies Pilgrimage is not only about traveling to sacred temples or churches because it is a concept that has evolved in the twenty-first century to mean…
Manufactured Movements: The Politics of Crafted Authenticity Leveraging Vernacular Language and Everyday Imagery to Shape Perceptions of Popular Support Some organizations intentionally adopt the speech, symbols, and style of ordinary…
Comparing Conversion, Discipleship, and Pilgrimage in the Abrahamic Faiths A scholarly overview of transformative and communal practices in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism Disclaimer: I am an Orthodox Jewish scholar and…
Phrases of Virtue, Dilemma, and Judgment: A Moral Lexicon From virtue to vice, phrases that shape our moral world. Since 2021, I have been compiling a list of phrases that…
Discovering Strengths: An Appreciative Inquiry into Women’s Pilgrimage Leadership Combining comparative religious studies, gender studies, and the twenty-first century historiographical turn toward the sacred matters for leadership studies, and ultimately,…
Soft Skills, Big Impact: How Women Shape Faith Through Pilgrimage When my husband asked me what my dissertation was about, I found myself in a familiar position: explaining my leadership…
Roman Calendars Without Privileging Western Chronologies Studying ancient societies is difficult, and it helps to begin with the most basic point. Ordinary people rarely appear in the record. This problem…
Questions & Approach: A Moment of Convergence and Conflict On April 18, 1933, a remarkable ceremony took place in Jerusalem. American Protestant missionaries, British Mandate administrators, Jewish residents and Zionist…
BS”D Brian and Judy Wallace are writing to address serious concerns that arose within the Orthodox Jewish community regarding language used on their blog website. Brian and Judy Wallace state…
Brian Wallace, Coadvisor to Yehudit Institute on Israel Heritage, Aliyah & Diaspora Affairs, and Combating Antisemitism. As a public speaker, marketer, and community organizer, it is my mission to adjoin…