Richard MammanaThe Torii Gates of TaipeiKarli Shimizu, Overseas Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire (Bloomsbury, 2023 hardcover, 2024 paperback), xi + 278…17h ago17h ago
Richard MammanaNot Quaker Oats: William Penn in JapanLinda H. Chance, Paul B. Reagan, Tetsuko Toda, Friendly Connections: Philadelphia Quakers and Japan since the Late Nineteenth Century…1d ago1d ago
Richard MammanaA Mennonite’s Mint and MercuryDonald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann, David Rittenhouse: Philosopher-Mechanick of Colonial Philadelphia and His Famous Clocks (Yale…Aug 1Aug 1
Richard MammanaBetween Pixels and PietyTimothy Recuber, The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality (New York University Press…Jul 28Jul 28
Richard MammanaThe American Revolution as a Liturgical EventLIKE ALL WARS FOUGHT BY RELIGIOUS PERSONS, the American Revolution sparked liturgical forms responsive to the needs of its belligerents…Jul 4Jul 4
Richard MammanaThe Joy Box of General ConventionTHE AMNESIA OF EPISCOPALIANS has a triennial half-life: we have forgotten half of what we knew, read, marked, learned, or inwardly digested…Jun 251Jun 251
Richard MammanaA letter to the organistYOU WERE BAPTIZED in the same German church in which I was baptized, and you were confirmed in the same English church in which I was…Jun 17Jun 17
Richard MammanaPhiladelphia Said No: The Anglo-Catholic Turf War of 1884CHURCH ARCHIVES COUGH UP moments of delight as though that is their only purpose. A fine example among many is the 1884–85 dispute between…Jun 9Jun 9
Richard MammanaThe Subarctic Trombones of Moravian LabradorTom Gordon, Called Upstairs: Moravian Inuit Music in Labrador (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023), ISBN…Jun 5Jun 5
Richard MammanaWhen a church becomes a church againI READ WITH THANKFULNESS earlier this year about the possibility that the historic Peace Church in south central Pennsylvania may return to…Jun 3Jun 3