Thomas Bremer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Bremer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Bremer |
| SIGNATURE | BREMER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes College |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-4137-4550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Do We Know What The "Russian World" Is? Some Remarks On a Disputed Term
This draft law has many aspects. It proposes different ways of banning a religious organization which is either “affiliated” with a religious community in Russia, or which meets other conditions. Some of its phrasing and formulations have been criticized for being so unclear that applying their criteria would be tricky. Among them is the “Russian World ideology.“ In the latest draft of the law, a religious community can be banned if it is used fo…
Russische Welt heute und morgen
At the end of March 2024, the World Russian People’s Council published an instruction that caused a stir: it declared the “special military operation” in Ukraine a “holy war”, called for a demographic change in Russia, and for the first time attempted to define the Russian world (russkij mir). It is understood as a “spiritual and cultural-civilizational phenomenon” whose borders transcend those of “great historical Russia”. The Russian world is c…
Der Fall Olavide und Europa
Der Text will das Dreiecksverhältnis Deutschland-Frankreich-Spanien und den Begriff der Grenze nicht wirklich wörtlich, sondern eher metaphorisch verstehen und danach fragen, wie sich Wissen und dessen Bewertung grenzüberschreitend zwischen den drei Kulturen entwickeln. In gewisser Weise werden dabei Bücher als Reisende verstanden, die Grenzen überqueren. Der letzte große Inquisitionsskandal in Spanien, der Fall Olavide (1775) und seine Folgen, f…
Mythos „Russische Welt“
The goal of creating and defending a “Russian world” is sometimes cited as a motive that moved Russia’s leadership to start the war against Ukraine and led the Russian Orthodox Church to support it. This interpretation is untenable. The concept of the “Russian World” is vague in terms of content and history. Indisputably, there are historical similarities between Russia and Ukraine. But to consider these a normative factor for political action to…
Zeit der Wirren
The religious and spiritual appeal of national parks
Travel to the parks promised nineteenth-century visitors sublime experiences bordering on the spiritual and religious. The religious aspect in visitors’ experiences of American national parks has not lessened since nineteenth-century pilgrims first journeyed to Yellowstone and the other early parks. The literature on national parks is extensive. An impressive book on pilgrimage to the national parks uses a religious studies approach that combines…
Black Robes and the Book of Heaven
Protestant and Catholic sources tell different stories about four Nez Perce emissaries from beyond the Rocky Mountains who arrived in St. Louis in the fall of 1831. Although their respective historical accounts reveal little about why native peoples would find it advantageous to send a delegation to an American frontier town asking for help, they reveal much about the contrasts between these rival groups of American Christians in the nineteenth c…
Materiality and literature
The field of materiality and literature can be differenciated in two directions. Materiality of literature refers to book design, printing formats and typography. Materialty in literature, however, analyzes the way, ‘things that speak’ are integrated in fictional and non-fictional texts. The introduction reflects the international critical discussion of the field in the last years and situates the contributions of this number in it
Shoulda, coulda, woulda – missed opportunities, lost chances, bad options for the Moscow Patriarchate
In the Ukrainian ecclesial crisis, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) plays an important role. It claims Ukraine as its canonical territory and dismisses any action by the Ecumenical Patriarchate (EP) regarding Ukraine as illegal. The ROC therefore suspended communion with the EP when the latter granted autocephaly to the newly founded Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Nevertheless, the majority of Orthodox bishops in Ukraine belong to the Church in com…
Gerechtigkeit im späten Zarenreich
„Gerechtigkeit bildet einen zentralen Grundsatz des gesellschaftlichen Lebens überhaupt und ist aus der moralischen Reflexion sowie aus der normativen Gestaltung des menschlichen Zusammenlebens nicht wegzudenken.“ Weil dem so ist, haben sich Menschen schon immer und ohne, dass das Thema jemals an Aktualität eingebüßt hätte, mit der Frage beschäftigt, was Gerechtigkeit sei und wie sie sich verwirklichen lasse.Das betrifft die Frage nach einem gere…
Churches in the Ukrainian Crisis
Churches in the Ukrainian Crisis
Eastern Orthodox Encounters of Identity and Otherness
From diverse international and multi-disciplinary perspectives, the contributors to this volume analyze the experiences, challenges and responses of Orthodox Churches to the foundational transformatio
A Touristic Angle of Vision
Studying religions through the framework of tourist studies destabilizes conventional notions of 'religion' and introduces new questions for historians and other scholars who study religions in the Americas as well as for the academic study of religions more broadly. This essay briefly reviews key themes in regard to religious tourism, then considers some of the methodological and theoretical advantages of employing a touristic approach to the st…
Das „Neue Serbische Forum" im Kontext der Antikriegsinitiativen in Jugoslawien und Deutschland / The "New Serbian Forum" in the Context of Anti-War Initiatives in Yugoslavia and Germany
Article Das „Neue Serbische Forum“ im Kontext der Antikriegsinitiativen in Jugoslawien und Deutschland / The “New Serbian Forum” in the Context of Anti-War Initiatives in Yugoslavia and Germany was published on April 1, 2013 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 61, issue 4)
Religion and the Conceptual Boundary in Central and Eastern Europe
This volume concentrates on the 'conceptual boundary' through Europe which is determined by Western and Eastern Christianity. The chapters show that the boundary has never been a stable and defined di
Holy Hills of the Ozarks
Journal Article Holy Hills of the Ozarks: Religion and Tourism in Branson, Missouri. By Aaron K. Ketchell Get access Holy Hills of the Ozarks: Religion and Tourism in Branson, Missouri. By Aaron K. Ketchell. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 300 pages. $35.00. Thomas S. Bremer Thomas S. Bremer Rhodes College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Relig…
Modes de lecture dans l’Europe des Lumières
Roadside Religion
Les lectrices des Lumières dans la littérature française
Peut-on parler d’une révolution dans les images de lectrices au cours du XVIIIe siècle ? Le siècle paraît découpé en trois grands temps qui constituent une progression vers l’autonomie et la légitimité de la lectrice : celui des images de lectrices libertines de la première moitié du siècle, puis celui du succès des personnages de Rousseau, qui révolutionne les représentations et les discours sur l’éducation féminine dans les années soixante, cel…
Représentations picturales du livre et de la lecture dans l’Angleterre du XVIIIe siècle
La lecture se pratiquait selon des modes multiples (silencieuse, à la famille rassemblée...) et les sujets d’intérêt étaient extrêmement divers (Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, récits de voyage, biographies, essais économiques, fiction...). En peinture, la représentation d’eux-mêmes, de leurs maisons, de leurs chevaux et de leurs familles était le principal sujet d’intérêt des commanditaires de tableaux. Héritières des peintures hollandaises où figure…
Blessed with Tourists
Journal Article Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio Get access Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio. By Bremer Thomas S.. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii + 207 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Anthony P. Mora Anthony P. Mora Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Myths in Stone
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park
Tourists and Religion at Temple Square and Mission San Juan Capistrano
A comparative investigation of Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Mission San Juan Capistrano in southern California explores experience, authenticity, and authority at religious places that are also sites of intense tourist activity. This study of the Mormon holy site and the former Catholic mission established during the Spanish colonial era includes a contemplation of their respective strategies of allurement, proselytization efforts, …
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park
Shoulda, coulda, woulda – missed opportunities, lost chances, bad options for the Moscow Patriarchate
In the Ukrainian ecclesial crisis, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) plays an important role. It claims Ukraine as its canonical territory and dismisses any action by the Ecumenical Patriarchate (EP) regarding Ukraine as illegal. The ROC therefore suspended communion with the EP when the latter granted autocephaly to the newly founded Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Nevertheless, the majority of Orthodox bishops in Ukraine belong to the Church in com…
Tourists and Religion at Temple Square and Mission San Juan Capistrano
A comparative investigation of Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Mission San Juan Capistrano in southern California explores experience, authenticity, and authority at religious places that are also sites of intense tourist activity. This study of the Mormon holy site and the former Catholic mission established during the Spanish colonial era includes a contemplation of their respective strategies of allurement, proselytization efforts, …
A Touristic Angle of Vision
Studying religions through the framework of tourist studies destabilizes conventional notions of 'religion' and introduces new questions for historians and other scholars who study religions in the Americas as well as for the academic study of religions more broadly. This essay briefly reviews key themes in regard to religious tourism, then considers some of the methodological and theoretical advantages of employing a touristic approach to the st…
Seminar
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park
Tourists and Religion at Temple Square and Mission San Juan Capistrano
A comparative investigation of Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Mission San Juan Capistrano in southern California explores experience, authenticity, and authority at religious places that are also sites of intense tourist activity. This study of the Mormon holy site and the former Catholic mission established during the Spanish colonial era includes a contemplation of their respective strategies of allurement, proselytization efforts, …
Myths in Stone
Modes de lecture dans l’Europe des Lumières
Roadside Religion
Les lectrices des Lumières dans la littérature française
Peut-on parler d’une révolution dans les images de lectrices au cours du XVIIIe siècle ? Le siècle paraît découpé en trois grands temps qui constituent une progression vers l’autonomie et la légitimité de la lectrice : celui des images de lectrices libertines de la première moitié du siècle, puis celui du succès des personnages de Rousseau, qui révolutionne les représentations et les discours sur l’éducation féminine dans les années soixante, cel…
Représentations picturales du livre et de la lecture dans l’Angleterre du XVIIIe siècle
La lecture se pratiquait selon des modes multiples (silencieuse, à la famille rassemblée...) et les sujets d’intérêt étaient extrêmement divers (Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, récits de voyage, biographies, essais économiques, fiction...). En peinture, la représentation d’eux-mêmes, de leurs maisons, de leurs chevaux et de leurs familles était le principal sujet d’intérêt des commanditaires de tableaux. Héritières des peintures hollandaises où figure…
Blessed with Tourists
Journal Article Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio Get access Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio. By Bremer Thomas S.. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii + 207 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Anthony P. Mora Anthony P. Mora Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Religion and the Conceptual Boundary in Central and Eastern Europe
This volume concentrates on the 'conceptual boundary' through Europe which is determined by Western and Eastern Christianity. The chapters show that the boundary has never been a stable and defined di
Holy Hills of the Ozarks
Journal Article Holy Hills of the Ozarks: Religion and Tourism in Branson, Missouri. By Aaron K. Ketchell Get access Holy Hills of the Ozarks: Religion and Tourism in Branson, Missouri. By Aaron K. Ketchell. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 300 pages. $35.00. Thomas S. Bremer Thomas S. Bremer Rhodes College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Relig…
Das „Neue Serbische Forum" im Kontext der Antikriegsinitiativen in Jugoslawien und Deutschland / The "New Serbian Forum" in the Context of Anti-War Initiatives in Yugoslavia and Germany
Article Das „Neue Serbische Forum“ im Kontext der Antikriegsinitiativen in Jugoslawien und Deutschland / The “New Serbian Forum” in the Context of Anti-War Initiatives in Yugoslavia and Germany was published on April 1, 2013 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 61, issue 4)
Eastern Orthodox Encounters of Identity and Otherness
From diverse international and multi-disciplinary perspectives, the contributors to this volume analyze the experiences, challenges and responses of Orthodox Churches to the foundational transformatio
A Touristic Angle of Vision
Studying religions through the framework of tourist studies destabilizes conventional notions of 'religion' and introduces new questions for historians and other scholars who study religions in the Americas as well as for the academic study of religions more broadly. This essay briefly reviews key themes in regard to religious tourism, then considers some of the methodological and theoretical advantages of employing a touristic approach to the st…
Churches in the Ukrainian Crisis
Churches in the Ukrainian Crisis
Gerechtigkeit im späten Zarenreich
„Gerechtigkeit bildet einen zentralen Grundsatz des gesellschaftlichen Lebens überhaupt und ist aus der moralischen Reflexion sowie aus der normativen Gestaltung des menschlichen Zusammenlebens nicht wegzudenken.“ Weil dem so ist, haben sich Menschen schon immer und ohne, dass das Thema jemals an Aktualität eingebüßt hätte, mit der Frage beschäftigt, was Gerechtigkeit sei und wie sie sich verwirklichen lasse.Das betrifft die Frage nach einem gere…
Materiality and literature
The field of materiality and literature can be differenciated in two directions. Materiality of literature refers to book design, printing formats and typography. Materialty in literature, however, analyzes the way, ‘things that speak’ are integrated in fictional and non-fictional texts. The introduction reflects the international critical discussion of the field in the last years and situates the contributions of this number in it
Shoulda, coulda, woulda – missed opportunities, lost chances, bad options for the Moscow Patriarchate
In the Ukrainian ecclesial crisis, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) plays an important role. It claims Ukraine as its canonical territory and dismisses any action by the Ecumenical Patriarchate (EP) regarding Ukraine as illegal. The ROC therefore suspended communion with the EP when the latter granted autocephaly to the newly founded Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Nevertheless, the majority of Orthodox bishops in Ukraine belong to the Church in com…
The religious and spiritual appeal of national parks
Travel to the parks promised nineteenth-century visitors sublime experiences bordering on the spiritual and religious. The religious aspect in visitors’ experiences of American national parks has not lessened since nineteenth-century pilgrims first journeyed to Yellowstone and the other early parks. The literature on national parks is extensive. An impressive book on pilgrimage to the national parks uses a religious studies approach that combines…
Black Robes and the Book of Heaven
Protestant and Catholic sources tell different stories about four Nez Perce emissaries from beyond the Rocky Mountains who arrived in St. Louis in the fall of 1831. Although their respective historical accounts reveal little about why native peoples would find it advantageous to send a delegation to an American frontier town asking for help, they reveal much about the contrasts between these rival groups of American Christians in the nineteenth c…
Zeit der Wirren
Der Fall Olavide und Europa
Der Text will das Dreiecksverhältnis Deutschland-Frankreich-Spanien und den Begriff der Grenze nicht wirklich wörtlich, sondern eher metaphorisch verstehen und danach fragen, wie sich Wissen und dessen Bewertung grenzüberschreitend zwischen den drei Kulturen entwickeln. In gewisser Weise werden dabei Bücher als Reisende verstanden, die Grenzen überqueren. Der letzte große Inquisitionsskandal in Spanien, der Fall Olavide (1775) und seine Folgen, f…
Mythos „Russische Welt“
The goal of creating and defending a “Russian world” is sometimes cited as a motive that moved Russia’s leadership to start the war against Ukraine and led the Russian Orthodox Church to support it. This interpretation is untenable. The concept of the “Russian World” is vague in terms of content and history. Indisputably, there are historical similarities between Russia and Ukraine. But to consider these a normative factor for political action to…
Do We Know What The "Russian World" Is? Some Remarks On a Disputed Term
This draft law has many aspects. It proposes different ways of banning a religious organization which is either “affiliated” with a religious community in Russia, or which meets other conditions. Some of its phrasing and formulations have been criticized for being so unclear that applying their criteria would be tricky. Among them is the “Russian World ideology.“ In the latest draft of the law, a religious community can be banned if it is used fo…
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