Aaron T Hollander
Biographic Data
| ID | 1198690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron T Hollander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron T |
| FAMILY NAME | Hollander |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLANDER A T |
| AFFILIATIONS | InterScience (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8555-9334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Earthquakes and Gardens
Introduction
This essay introduces the seven articles originally presented at the 2024 annual conference of the North American Academy of Ecumenists in Toronto, Ontario, September 27-29, 2024, pertaining above all to the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), to analogous processes of reckoning with Christian complicity in Indigenous abuse, marginalization, and genocide, and to broader areas of inquiry in which "memory," "truth," and "reconciliat…
Introduction
Decolonizing Churches as Emancipation and Exorcism
As urgently needed as decolonial theory, theology, psychology, and ecclesiology are in the churches that have had their lives and history constrained (or indeed their ecclesial formations given birth) by colonial power and knowledge relations, they are just as urgently needed in the churches that continue to benefit from those relations. The churches of the global North, and particularly those that have been the allies and moral architects of col…
Blessed Are the Legend-Makers
The twenty-first century has seen speculative fiction surge ever more vigorously into the mainstream, among which must be reckoned the remarkable renaissance of tabletop roleplaying games (Dungeons & Dragons especially), which generate fictional narratives through collaborative, improvisational, rule-constrained storytelling. D&D, this article argues, not only contains a remarkable array of politically and theologically implicative contents (such…
Hagiography Unbound
Hagiography is a scholarly category that has been used primarily to group textual sources that represent the lives of Christian saints. This article contends that the utility of hagiography and hagiographical far exceeds this commonplace usage, in terms of both the ways they entail broadly enacted cultural dynamics and their applicability beyond conventional disciplinary expectations of what constitutes representations of saints (or even religiou…
Fundamental Ecumenics Revisited
During the 1970's, at the Catholic Ecumenical Institute of Münster, a group of scholars strove to theorize the human processes of understanding, communication, identification, and institutionalization that animate (and all too often compromise) ecumenical dialogue. The Münster group, led by Peter Lengsfeld, published Ökumenische Theologie: Ein Arbeitsbuch in 1980. This work was ahead of its time, yielding a wealth of resources for interpreting th…
Comparison as Collaboration
A workshop on “comparative hagiology” over the course of three years at the American Academy of Religion has yielded not only a series of articles but an experimental methodology by which scholars hailing from different disciplines and working in different fields might collaborate in threshing out commonalities and entanglements in their respective treatments of holy figures. This article’s response to the workshop identifies three pillars of gen…
The Heromartyrs of Cyprus
In 1961, a “Museum of the Struggle” was created to remember and glorify the heroes of the Greek Cypriot anticolonial war (1955–1959). The museum functions, this article argues, as an apparatus of hagiographical mediation, rendering for local and international publics an aura of sanctification around the war’s fallen fighters. Such an impression is generated by the museum’s spatial mise-en-scène, its progressive orientation of visitors who move th…
Hagiography Unbound
Hagiography is a scholarly category that has been used primarily to group textual sources that represent the lives of Christian saints. This article contends that the utility of hagiography and hagiographical far exceeds this commonplace usage, in terms of both the ways they entail broadly enacted cultural dynamics and their applicability beyond conventional disciplinary expectations of what constitutes representations of saints (or even religiou…
Blessed Are the Legend-Makers
The twenty-first century has seen speculative fiction surge ever more vigorously into the mainstream, among which must be reckoned the remarkable renaissance of tabletop roleplaying games (Dungeons & Dragons especially), which generate fictional narratives through collaborative, improvisational, rule-constrained storytelling. D&D, this article argues, not only contains a remarkable array of politically and theologically implicative contents (such…
Comparison as Collaboration
A workshop on “comparative hagiology” over the course of three years at the American Academy of Religion has yielded not only a series of articles but an experimental methodology by which scholars hailing from different disciplines and working in different fields might collaborate in threshing out commonalities and entanglements in their respective treatments of holy figures. This article’s response to the workshop identifies three pillars of gen…
The Heromartyrs of Cyprus
In 1961, a “Museum of the Struggle” was created to remember and glorify the heroes of the Greek Cypriot anticolonial war (1955–1959). The museum functions, this article argues, as an apparatus of hagiographical mediation, rendering for local and international publics an aura of sanctification around the war’s fallen fighters. Such an impression is generated by the museum’s spatial mise-en-scène, its progressive orientation of visitors who move th…
Blessed Are the Legend-Makers
The twenty-first century has seen speculative fiction surge ever more vigorously into the mainstream, among which must be reckoned the remarkable renaissance of tabletop roleplaying games (Dungeons & Dragons especially), which generate fictional narratives through collaborative, improvisational, rule-constrained storytelling. D&D, this article argues, not only contains a remarkable array of politically and theologically implicative contents (such…
Hagiography Unbound
Hagiography is a scholarly category that has been used primarily to group textual sources that represent the lives of Christian saints. This article contends that the utility of hagiography and hagiographical far exceeds this commonplace usage, in terms of both the ways they entail broadly enacted cultural dynamics and their applicability beyond conventional disciplinary expectations of what constitutes representations of saints (or even religiou…
Fundamental Ecumenics Revisited
During the 1970's, at the Catholic Ecumenical Institute of Münster, a group of scholars strove to theorize the human processes of understanding, communication, identification, and institutionalization that animate (and all too often compromise) ecumenical dialogue. The Münster group, led by Peter Lengsfeld, published Ökumenische Theologie: Ein Arbeitsbuch in 1980. This work was ahead of its time, yielding a wealth of resources for interpreting th…
Decolonizing Churches as Emancipation and Exorcism
As urgently needed as decolonial theory, theology, psychology, and ecclesiology are in the churches that have had their lives and history constrained (or indeed their ecclesial formations given birth) by colonial power and knowledge relations, they are just as urgently needed in the churches that continue to benefit from those relations. The churches of the global North, and particularly those that have been the allies and moral architects of col…
Introduction
Earthquakes and Gardens
Introduction
This essay introduces the seven articles originally presented at the 2024 annual conference of the North American Academy of Ecumenists in Toronto, Ontario, September 27-29, 2024, pertaining above all to the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), to analogous processes of reckoning with Christian complicity in Indigenous abuse, marginalization, and genocide, and to broader areas of inquiry in which "memory," "truth," and "reconciliat…
Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (3 works)