Douglas Fitzhenry Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Fitzhenry Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas Fitzhenry |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES D F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8603-273X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Teaching New Religious Movements Historically
Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn from the discipline of early‐modern history. Doing so, I argue, allows the instructor to make an end run aro…
Shaping the Stranger Churches
Shaping the Stranger Churches: Migrants in England and the Troubles in the Netherlands, 1547–1585. Silke Muylaert. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 224. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xii + 268 pp. $123. - Volume 78 Issue 2
The Living Sense of Scripture
Everard appears frequently in studies of English antinomianism. His sermons, printed posthumously in 1653, reveal a startling array of influences, from Maimonides to Nicholas of Cusa, and a propensity for extravagant glosses on scripture. Notably, Everard saw the gospel as an allegory for the spiritual regeneration of the reader. The literal or ‘living’ sense of scripture played out in the annihilation and resurrection of the individual conscienc…
Mischievous Information
The Family of Love met with considerable controversy in Elizabethan England. This article examines a series of confessions given by members and ex-members of the group before Protestant authorities. Such testimonies are less straightforward than they seem. Specifically, Familists and their opponents used confessions as an opportunity to refine their religious identities. Both sides fought to establish themselves as simple, transparent Christians …
Debating the Literal Sense in England
For a relatively brief period in the 1570s and '80s, the Family of Love was one of the most hated religious movements in England. This was due in large part to a series of polemical works by a handful of reform-minded Protestants who saw Familism as a reprise of Catholic allegorical interpretation. Members of the movement were accused of extending their loose approach to scripture to loose living and political subversion. This article examines th…
Reading “New” Religious Movements Historically
This article surveys the relationship of the Heaven's Gate movement to the cultural context of science fiction while also engaging broader issues in the retrospective account of violence in new religious movements. Against theories that see violence as the consequence of social isolation and the escalating confusion of representation and reality, I argue that members of Heaven's Gate were not only “tapped in” to the reality outside the group but …
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Reading “New” Religious Movements Historically
This article surveys the relationship of the Heaven's Gate movement to the cultural context of science fiction while also engaging broader issues in the retrospective account of violence in new religious movements. Against theories that see violence as the consequence of social isolation and the escalating confusion of representation and reality, I argue that members of Heaven's Gate were not only “tapped in” to the reality outside the group but …
Debating the Literal Sense in England
For a relatively brief period in the 1570s and '80s, the Family of Love was one of the most hated religious movements in England. This was due in large part to a series of polemical works by a handful of reform-minded Protestants who saw Familism as a reprise of Catholic allegorical interpretation. Members of the movement were accused of extending their loose approach to scripture to loose living and political subversion. This article examines th…
Mischievous Information
The Family of Love met with considerable controversy in Elizabethan England. This article examines a series of confessions given by members and ex-members of the group before Protestant authorities. Such testimonies are less straightforward than they seem. Specifically, Familists and their opponents used confessions as an opportunity to refine their religious identities. Both sides fought to establish themselves as simple, transparent Christians …
The Living Sense of Scripture
Everard appears frequently in studies of English antinomianism. His sermons, printed posthumously in 1653, reveal a startling array of influences, from Maimonides to Nicholas of Cusa, and a propensity for extravagant glosses on scripture. Notably, Everard saw the gospel as an allegory for the spiritual regeneration of the reader. The literal or ‘living’ sense of scripture played out in the annihilation and resurrection of the individual conscienc…
Shaping the Stranger Churches
Shaping the Stranger Churches: Migrants in England and the Troubles in the Netherlands, 1547–1585. Silke Muylaert. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 224. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xii + 268 pp. $123. - Volume 78 Issue 2
Teaching New Religious Movements Historically
Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn from the discipline of early‐modern history. Doing so, I argue, allows the instructor to make an end run aro…
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