And the #NobelPeacePrize goes to... a supporter of the illegal Zionist occupation of Palestine! Hurrah!

A fascinating new essay in which Margherita Trento convincingly demonstrates that Tamil “freestanding didactic prose texts intended for a wide public” were not “a missionary or colonial invention.” www.academia.edu/144297619/

"Catholicity and Missionary Accommodation: the Apostolic Symbol in the Portuguese Translation by Baltasar da Costa (1661) of Roberto Nobili’s Ñāṉōpatēcam" I've just uploaded an informal English translation of an article that I've published recently in Italian. www.academia.edu/143363607

NEW Aranha, Paolo. “Introducir la Trinidad y evitar la Trimūrti: La recepción de la doctrina trinitaria del Credo niceno- constantinopolitano en la India durante los primeros tiempos modernos.” Concilium: Revista internacional de Teología, no. 409 (Febrero 2025): 33–44 www.academia.edu/128531875

An amazing essay by Margherita Trento, by far the greatest expert on early modern Tamil Catholicism!

#onmydesktoday: a book about #earlymodern communication networks, postal infrastructure and the beginnings of European journalism. With mailbags, couriers, and so many postal routes. From @rmidura.bsky.social! This one is for #NewsHistory and #Skystorians with an interest in communication flows.

ENGLISH version of my new article Aranha, Paolo. “Introducing Trinity and Avoiding Trimūrti: The Reception of the Trinitarian Doctrine of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed in Early Modern India.” Concilium: International Journal of Theology, no. 1 (2025): 30–39. www.academia.edu/128286793/

P. Aranha “Die Einführung der Trinität und die Vermeidung von Trimūrti: Die Rezeption der trinitarischen Lehre des Nizäno-Konstantinopolitanischen Glaubensbekenntnisses im Indien der frühen Neuzeit.” Concilium: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie 61/1 (2025): 23–30. www.academia.edu/128278392/

A new article Aranha, Paolo. “Introdurre la Trinità ed evitare la Trimūrti: La ricezione della dottrina trinitaria del Credo niceno-costantinopolitano nell’lndia moderna.” Concilium: Rivista internazionale di teologia 61, no. 1 (2025): 45–55. www.academia.edu/128260351/ #skystorians #bluestorians

Fantastic first day at UNESCO Routes of Enslaved People Conference. First conference I've been to opened by a head of state! If only politicians in the UK were so enthusiastic about history...

I’m thrilled to announce that my book, provisionally titled “Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade” is now under contract with @princetonupress.bsky.social. Excited for it to be out in the world in 2026!

Tamil Mauritius. The small Madurai Mariamen Temple sits nestled between a banyan tree and the M1 overpass. Often associated with indenture in the 19th century, the Indian presence in Mauritius is actually much older. Here are the signatures of skilled Tamil craftsman who lived in port Louis in 1777.

In this essay, I have analysed the Portuguese translation of an important catechetical work by the Jesuit missionary Roberto Nobili. I have sought to highlight how the concept of "Catholicity" could take on an "accommodationist" connotation in early modern South India. www.academia.edu/127918568/

Björn Schmelzer, 'The polyphony of nothingness', in the booklet of the CD by Graindelavoix & B. Schmelzer, "Ex nihilo: Polyphony beyond the order of things" (Glossa Platinum, 2024): 9. #polyphony #skystorians #bluestorians

L'Istituto Sangalli organizza un bel ciclo di presentazioni online di nuove monografie di storia religiosa. Si inizia giovedì 17 ottobre, con "Il governo dei pulpiti: Predicatori, potere e pubblico nell'Italia della prima età moderna" di Michele Camaioni. #Skystorians

A fascinating new article Jiang, Wei. ‘Funerary Emblems in Manila and the Rise of Devotion to Jerónima de La Asunción, OSC (1555-1630)’. Estudios de Historia Novohispana, no. 71 (2024): 85–116. doi.org/10.22201/iih....

I'm so curious to know what this "De comtemptu omnium vanitatum huius mundi" in Nahuatl actually says!

Emendemus in melius! #Lent #penance #Quadragesima youtu.be/SHxdN8gZlEQ?...

Events of this sort say a lot about the dire condition of certain Christian denominations in our time. It's no surprise if many in the Global South despise the West. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...

Digitization & cataloging is complete for the manuscript collection of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Diocese of Duhok, #Iraq. More information: hmml.org/collections/news/47-manuscripts-from-the-chaldean-catholic-church-diocese-of-duhok-in-iraq-are-now-available-in-reading-room

A further dimension in the genocidal violence unleashed by the State of Israel against the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip.

But wouldn't be more social and ethical to pay palaeographers ti undertake such a specialised intellectual work? Volunteer, unpaid work in cultural heritage is a quite problematic concept.

The same Habeck who would now like to ban the AfD as a threat to democracy, in November warned all migrants that they wouldn't be welcome in Germany unless they embraced the Zionist ideology and justified Israel's war crimes. www.bbc.com/news/world-e... www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...

@m-azzolini.bsky.social , this seems quite promising! www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

"In light of Germany's inability to draw lessons from its horrific history"... The statement of the Namibian President is a powerful indictment against the self-righteousness of a State that is actively enabling and justifying an ongoing genocide.

A new, very meritorious project of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library: the digitisation of the manuscripts in the library of the Rajas of Mahmudabad, Lucknow. hmml.org/stories/wher...

#SavetheDate Gastvorlesung "'Entsprechend den Sitten und Gebräuchen einheimischer Christen'. Kulturelle Vielfalt in der Geschichte des außereuropäischen Christentums 1450 – 2000" von Klaus Koschorke am 25.1. am Theologischen Forschungskolleg www.uni-erfurt.de/universitaet...

Is it normal that the digital version of an article published on a scholarly journal has a size of 155 MB?

On the myth of "the most moral army in the world", it's useful to read this book: Eastwood, James. Ethics as a Weapon of War: Militarism and Morality in Israel. Cambridge - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Thanks to fellow scholar of the Deccan and of regions Swathi Shivanand for a very perceptive review and engagement with /Scripts of Power/ in the latest Biblio: A Review of Books.

"Venite adoremus (3) Dominum" Latin perfectly transcribed in Kannada script, used by the Konkani Christians of South Kanara, Karnataka, South India. Global Christianity greetings for a Merry and Holy Christmas to everyone!

My book is here! In my hands! I’m so grateful to @ucpress.bsky.social for the beautiful work they did with it, and I really hope it does some justice to the stories I tried to tell.

"Fluidity in German", but certainly without English fluency...

Pretty accurate, isn't it?

The "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" published a rabid article against Dr. Saida Mirsadri, Visiting Professor at Univ. Zurich, on account of her Iranian nationality, alleged connections with the "Mullah regime" and support of Palestine. The West likes only unveiled Iranian women. www.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonnt...

New photo added.

Happy to be one of the Jewish writers who's signed this letter. "We refuse the false choice between Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom; between Jewish identity and ending the oppression of Palestinians. In fact, we believe the rights of Jews and Palestinians go hand-in-hand."

The resonance of slogans and the framing of phrases has them mean different things to different audiences. But it's at least worth trying to understand the origins of slogans, and not uncritically repeating one interpretation of them. forward.com/opinion/4152...

🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!

Invoking divine blessings on our dangerous navigation. Music by Gian Piero Alloisio (1956) on the poem of an anonymous Genoese author (floruit 1270-1311). www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhIu...

My first Zoom lecture, in fact...

Over 1300 dead children in Gaza. Israel has dropped as many bombs in 10 days as the US did in an entire year in Afghanistan. Staff at hospitals are reporting that they're drinking IV bags because there's no water or power. Horrors beyond comprehension with the West's support

Gaza has been levelled every year without fail for the 18 years ive been an adult. Every palestinian i speak to or hear is so shocked at what is happening. There’s nothing left to say and yet there is so much to say.

CUNY staff & faculty reject the efforts of @ChancellorCUNY & other campus presidents to censure solidarity with the Palestinian people amidst an impending genocide. Sign: tinyurl.com/signcunyPEle... Statement with regularly updated list of signatories: tinyurl.com/cunyPEletter

Sky News UK just reported the hospital that was hit in Gaza was doing surgery without anesthesia because of the lack of supplies. They cited Doctors Without Borders.

I hope Netanyahu is tried at the Hague

Manchester student says 15 relatives have died in Gaza

Here's Iris Hefetz getting arrested. Currently Germany criminalizes any Jew, Palestinian or Israeli who speaks out against Israeli apartheid and the killing of innocent civilians in Gaza. It's time to stop this type of Botox McCarthyism. I’m so utterly ashamed to be a citizen of this country