Published by De Gruyter

Introductions to Digital Humanities – Religion

Edited by: Claire Clivaz, Frederik Elwert, Kristian Petersen, Ortal-Paz Saar and Jeri Wieringa

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The Digital Humanities is a well-established, fast-growing, multidisciplinary field producing computational applications and analytical models that enable new kinds of research in both the Humanities and Computer Sciences. IDH Religion is a series of short introductions addressing specific areas of study at the intersection of Digital Humanities and Religion, offering an overview of current methodologies, techniques, tools, and projects as well as defining challenges and opportunities for further research. Volumes in the series seek to integrate construction and analysis as mutually influential aspects of research in the Digital Humanities and Religion and to explore the many ways in which digital media and the humanistic project present, explain, and challenge each other.

Book 2022

Digital Humanities and Material Religion

An Introduction

Emily Suzanne Clark, Rachel McBride Lindsey

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Building from a range of essays representing multiple fields of expertise and traversing multiple religious traditions, this important text provides analytic rigor to a question now pressing the academic study of religion: what is the relationship between the material and the digital?
Its chapters address a range of processes of mediation between the digital and the material from a variety of perspectives and sub-disciplines within the field of religion in order to theorize the implications of these two turns in scholarship, offer case studies in methodology, and reflect on various tools and processes. Authors attend to religious practices and the internet, digital archives of religion, decolonization, embodiment, digitization of religious artefacts and objects, and the ways in which varied relationships between the digital and the material shape religious life.
Collectively, the volume demonstrates opportunities and challenges at the intersection of digital humanities and material religion. Rather than defining the bounds of a new field of inquiry, the essays make a compelling case, collectively and on their own, for the interpretive scrutiny required of the humanities in the digital age.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110608755
ISBN:: 9783110608755
ISBN:: 9783110608175
ISBN:: 9783110604658
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Anthropology of Religion
Subject:: Religion and Media
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2022

Digital Humanities and Libraries and Archives in Religious Studies

An Introduction

Clifford B. Anderson

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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.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110536539
ISBN:: 9783110536539
ISBN:: 9783110534375
ISBN:: 9783110534320
Subject:: Library and Information Science, Book Studies
Subject:: Libraries and Library Science
Subject:: Archives and Museums
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Religion and Media
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Digital Humanities and Christianity

An Introduction

Tim Hutchings, Claire Clivaz

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This volume provides the first comprehensive introduction to the intersections between Christianity and the digital humanities. DH is a well-established, fast-growing, multidisciplinary field producing computational applications and analytical models to enable new kinds of research. Scholars of Christianity were among the first pioneers to explore these possibilities, using digital approaches to transform the study of Christian texts, history and ideas, and innovative work is taking place today all over the world.

This volume aims to celebrate and continue that legacy by bringing together 15 of the most exciting contemporary projects, grouped into four categories. “Canon, corpus and manuscript” examines physical texts and collections. “Words and meanings” explores digital approaches to language and linguistics. “Digital history” uses digital techniques to explore the Christian past, and “Theology and pedagogy” engages with digital approaches to teaching, formation and Christian ideas.

This volume introduces key debates, shares exciting initiatives, and aims to encourage new innovations in analysis and communication. Christianity and the Digital Humanities is ideally suited as a starting point for students and researchers interested in this vast and complex field.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110574043
ISBN:: 9783110574043
ISBN:: 9783110571882
ISBN:: 9783110559897
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Religion and Media
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2023

Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia

An Introduction

L.W.C. van Lit, James Harry Morris

Volume 3 in this series

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In pre-modern religions in the geographical context of Asia we encounter unique scripts, number systems, calendars, and naming conventions. These can make Western-built technologies – even tools specifically developed for digital humanities – an ill fit to our needs. The present volume explores this struggle and the limitations and potential opportunities of applying a digital humanities approach to pre-modern Asian religions. The authors cover Buddhism, Christianity, Daoism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism and Shintoism with chapters categorized according to their focus on: 1) temples, 2) manuscripts, 3) texts, and 4) social media. Thus, the volume guides readers through specific methodologies and practical examples while also providing a critical reflection on the state of the field, pushing the interface between digital humanities and pre-modern Asian religions into new territory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747607
ISBN:: 9783110747607
ISBN:: 9783110747751
ISBN:: 9783110747256
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: History of Religion
Subject:: Religion in Asia
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Digital Humanities and Research Methods in Religious Studies

An Introduction

Christopher D. Cantwell, Kristian Petersen

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This volume provides practical, but provocative, case studies of exemplary projects that apply digital technology or methods to the study of religion. An introduction and 16 essays are organized by the kinds of sources digital humanities scholars use – texts, images, and places – with a final section on the professional and pedagogical issues digital scholarship raises for the study of religion.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110573022
ISBN:: 9783110573022
ISBN:: 9783110571943
ISBN:: 9783110571608
Subject:: Library and Information Science, Book Studies
Subject:: Libraries and Library Science
Subject:: Archives and Museums
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Religion and Media
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Digital Humanities and Buddhism

An Introduction

Daniel Veidlinger

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IDH Religion provides a series of short introductions to specific areas of study at the intersections of digital humanities and religion, offering an overview of current methodologies, techniques, tools, and projects as well as defining challenges and opportunities for further research. This volume explores DH and Buddhism in four sections: Theory and Method; Digital Conservation, Preservation and Archiving; Digital Analysis; Digital Resources. It covers themes such as language processing, digital libraries, online lexicography, and ethnographic methods.

Erratum: Unfortunately there is a mistake in the print version in the last paragraph of page 14. READ is an open-source software system developed by a team consisting of Stefan Baums at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Andrew Glass in Seattle, Ian McCrabb at the University of Sydney and Stephen White in Venice (https://github.com/readsoftware/read).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110519082
ISBN:: 9783110519082
ISBN:: 9783110518399
ISBN:: 9783110518368
Subject:: Asian and Pacific Studies
Subject:: East Asia
Subject:: China
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Buddhism
Subject:: Religion and Media
Publisher:: De Gruyter