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‘Fundamentalism’ and ‘fundamentalist’ semantically considered: their lexical origins, early polysemy, and pejoration
(OASIS, 2013)
The words fundamentalist (as both a noun and an adjective) and fundamentalism were coined
in 1920 within the Northern Baptist Convention when that and other American Protestant
denominations were experiencing theological ...
The first scholarly South African interpretation of Wagner? Ramsden Balmforth's Fabian analysis of the Ring and Parsifal
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
2013 marks both the bicentenary of Richard Wagner’s birth and the centenary of performances
of his Ring cycle in Cape Town, which contemporary critics hailed as a noteworthy advance in
the cultural life of the Mother ...
Motivating the great betrayal in Egon Fridell's Die Judastragödie
(Sabinet, 2013)
In 1923 the eminent Viennese philosopher, playwright, cultural historian, and theatre critic Egon Friedell turned to what by then had become an evergreen theme in European literary history by publishing his Judastragödie ...
The radicalisation of a Swedish ecclesiastical critic of apartheid-Gunnar Helander
(Scriber Editorial Systems, 2011)
From the 1950s through the 1980s, both the government of
Sweden and various non-governmental agencies in that country
stood at the forefront of the international campaign against
apartheid. To a considerable extent, ...
Public issues perceived from the theological left flank: the social ethics of Ramsden Balmforth in the Union of South Africa
(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012)
For decades research into the history of Christian social ethics
in South Africa has illuminated responses within a broad spectrum
of major denominations to public issues, but has thus far
shed considerably less light ...
Literary criticism from a Cape Town pulpit: Ramsden Balmforth's explications of modern novels as parables revealing ethical and spiritual principles
(AOSIS, 2017)
Literary criticism evolved slowly in southern Africa. One of the first commentators to write about this topic was the Unitarian minister, Ramsden Balmforth (1861-1941), a native of Yorkshire and Unitarian minister who ...
The Gospel contra Nietzsche: a South African literary critique of Wille zur Macht
(University of the Free State, 2017)
A century of scholarship has shed countless photons of light on the reception of Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas in numerous countries. Still largely unilluminated, however, are South African reactions to his scepticism and ...
From a comedy of errors to tragedy: the cessation of Italian opera in Cape Town in 1877
(South African Society for Cultural History, 2016)
The history of grand Italian opera (opera seria) in South Africa remains largely unwritten. With regard to the pre-Union period, the few scholarly investigations into this topic have revealed that European touring companies ...
Italian grand opera at the Cape of Good Hope : the 1875 and 1876 Cagli seasons
(South African Society for Cultural History, 2015)
The history of Italian grand opera (opera seria) remains a woefully underexplored topic in the cultural historiography of South Africa. The present article is intended to fill one of the many gaps by exploring the first ...
Forecasting the future of religion in the 1920s: Ramsden Balmforth's post-orthodox prognostications
(The Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015)
Standing at the apogee of post-Protestant theological liberalism, the scholarly Unitarian minister Ramsden Balmforth, who served the Unitarian Church in Cape Town from 1897 until 1937, responded to a broad spectrum of ...