Digital Humanities and Libraries and Archives in Religious Studies: An Introduction

book: Digital Humanities and Libraries and Archives in Religious Studies

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Digital Humanities and Libraries and Archives in Religious Studies

An Introduction

Edited by: Clifford B. Anderson

In the series Introductions to Digital Humanities – Religion

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110536539

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How are digital humanists drawing on libraries and archives to advance research and learning in the field of religious studies and theology? How can librarians and archivists make their collections accessible to digital humanists?

The goal of this volume is to provide an overview of how religious and theological libraries and archives are supporting the nascent field of digital humanities in religious studies. The volume showcases the perspectives of faculty, librarians, archivists, and allied cultural heritage professionals who are drawing on primary and secondary sources in innovative ways to create digital humanities projects in theology and religious studies. Topics include curating collections as data, conducting stylometric analyses of religious texts, and teaching digital humanities at theological libraries.

The shift to digital humanities promises closer collaborations between scholars, archivists, and librarians. The chapters in this volume constitute essential reading for those interested in the future of theological librarianship and of digital scholarship in the fields of religious studies and theology.

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Clifford B. Anderson, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.

Reviews

"The volume is not and does not want to be a comprehensive introduction to the
field of digital humanities. Instead, it presents insights in this important, fast-developing
research field that can potentially transform current research practices. The contributions are
well-chosen demonstrations of the state of the art in the digital humanities. They provide novel perspectives for specialists and might as well inspire scholars from the humanities who are new to the field to test these methods in their own research." Christian Deisenroth in: Religious Studies Review, 2/2023

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Clifford B. Anderson Open Access Download PDF	1
I Methodological Approaches
Puritan Preachers in the Hands of Statisticians: The Stylometric Study of Colonial Religious Writings Michał Choiński and Jan Rybicki Open Access Download PDF	13
A Messianic Theory of Digital Knowledge: On Positivism and Visualizing Rosenzweig’s Archive Matthew Handelman Open Access Download PDF	31
Mining Eschatology in Seventh-day Adventist Periodicals Jeri E. Wieringa Open Access Download PDF	57
II The Database as Locus of Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities and the Interdisciplinary Database: Confronting the Complexity of Chinese Religious Architecture in the Academic Marketplace Tracy Miller Open Access Download PDF	79
Using XQuery and XSLT to Build an Aggregation of Metadata Records for Religious Texts and Non-Print Items Christine Schwartz Open Access Download PDF	95
III Digital Humanities Pedagogy
Defining Digital Pedagogy in Theological Libraries Richard Manly Adams Open Access Download PDF	111
An Introduction to the Beauty and Joy of Computing for Theological Librarians Clifford B. Anderson and Gayathri Narasimham Open Access Download PDF	123
IV Collaboration and Beyond
Library as Interface for Digital Humanities Open Access Download PDF	147
Index Open Access Download PDF	165

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Students and faculty members of theology and religious studies, archivists and librarians.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 167
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
- Coloured Illustrations: 5
- Tables: 2
Keywords: Digital humanities; religious studies; theology; librarianship

eBook

Published: February 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110536539

Paperback

Published: February 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110534320