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Tag: religious history

  • Early Christian reactions to ‘cyberspace’

    I now have a new article published by the journal Internet Histories, which is available online. Here’s a summary. Alternatively, read the accepted version in full (Open Access PDF) Technology, ethics and religious language: early Anglophone Christian reactions to ‘cyberspace’ The article falls broadly into two halves, both concentrated not so much on the history…

  • What is religious history?

    [I wrote this little article in 2008, for an Institute of Historical Research project called Making History, on the development of the discipline in the twentieth century. Re-reading it now, it seems to stand up well enough, and so I republish it here unaltered, although there are nuances I might now add. The plea in…

  • Religion, politics and law in contemporary Britain: a web archive

    [This is an expanded version of a post first published in the UK Web Archive blog.] It has been over two years in the making, but I am delighted to be able to say that my own special collection in the UK Web Archive is now online. UKWA (for which I am engagement and liaison…