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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

An unmissable pearl from Prof. Bouke de Vries, the one who selected the "race realist" philosopher Nathan Cofnas as collaborator of an ERC project at the University of Gent... www.boukedevries.net/.../lowering...

"Lowering Toilet Seats: Why It Should Be the Norm", a "scientific" article published by Dr. Bouke de Vries in 2022

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

NEW PUBLICATION Paolo Aranha, "The Keichō Embassy and the Holy See: Interventions by the Nuncio in Madrid, the Roman Inquisition and Cardinal Borghese", in "Archivum Franciscanum Historicum" 118/3-4 (2025): 313-356 www.academia.edu/167538750/

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The Keichō Embassy and the Holy See: Interventions by the Nuncio in Madrid, the Roman Inquisition and Cardinal Borghese

Paolo Aranha, "The Keichō Embassy and the Holy See: Interventions by the Nuncio in Madrid, the Roman Inquisition and Cardinal Borghese", in "Archivum Franciscanum Historicum" 118/3...

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

In memory of Prof. Diogo Sassetti Ramada Curto (22.4.1959-11.4.2026) Portuguese Asia was one of the central interests of this outstanding scholar, whose student I was privileged to be. Here there is an obituary published by the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa: www.unl.pt/en/noticias/...

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

"The Targeting of the German Academia". This is what this shameful act of censorship shows.

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

And the #NobelPeacePrize goes to... a supporter of the illegal Zionist occupation of Palestine! Hurrah!

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

"Catholicity and Missionary Accommodation: the Apostolic Symbol in the Portuguese Translation by Baltasar da Costa (1661) of Roberto Nobili’s Ñāṉōpatēcam" I've just uploaded an informal English translation of an article that I've published recently in Italian. www.academia.edu/143363607

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Catholicity and Missionary Accommodation: the Apostolic Symbol in the Portuguese Translation by Baltasar da Costa (1661) of Roberto Nobili’s Ñāṉōpatēcam

English translation of Paolo Aranha, “Cattolicità e accomodazione missionaria: Il Simbolo apostolico nella traduzione portoghese di Baltasar da Costa (1661) dello Ñānōpatēcam di Roberto Nobili,” in Il...

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

NEW Aranha, Paolo. “Introducir la Trinidad y evitar la Trimūrti: La recepción de la doctrina trinitaria del Credo niceno- constantinopolitano en la India durante los primeros tiempos modernos.” Concilium: Revista internacional de Teología, no. 409 (Febrero 2025): 33–44 www.academia.edu/128531875

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Introducir la Trinidad y evitar la Trimūrti: La recepción de la doctrina trinitaria del Credo niceno-constantinopolitano en la India durante los primeros tiempos modernos

Aranha, Paolo. “Introducir la Trinidad y evitar la Trimūrti: La recepción de la doctrina trinitaria del Credo niceno- constantinopolitano en la India durante los primeros tiempos modernos.” Concilium:...

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

An amazing essay by Margherita Trento, by far the greatest expert on early modern Tamil Catholicism!

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#onmydesktoday: a book about #earlymodern communication networks, postal infrastructure and the beginnings of European journalism. With mailbags, couriers, and so many postal routes. From @rmidura.bsky.social! This one is for #NewsHistory and #Skystorians with an interest in communication flows.

Book cover of „Postal Intelligence“ from Rachel Midura.

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

ENGLISH version of my new article Aranha, Paolo. “Introducing Trinity and Avoiding Trimūrti: The Reception of the Trinitarian Doctrine of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed in Early Modern India.” Concilium: International Journal of Theology, no. 1 (2025): 30–39. www.academia.edu/128286793/

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Introducing Trinity and avoiding Trimūrti: The reception of the Trinitarian doctrine of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed in Early Modern India

Aranha, Paolo. “Introducing Trinity and Avoiding Trimūrti: The Reception of the Trinitarian Doctrine of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed in Early Modern India.” "Concilium: International Journal of...

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

P. Aranha “Die Einführung der Trinität und die Vermeidung von Trimūrti: Die Rezeption der trinitarischen Lehre des Nizäno-Konstantinopolitanischen Glaubensbekenntnisses im Indien der frühen Neuzeit.” Concilium: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie 61/1 (2025): 23–30. www.academia.edu/128278392/

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Die Einführung der Trinität und die Vermeidung von Trimūrti: Die Rezeption der trinitarischen Lehre des Nizäno-Konstantinopolitanischen Glaubensbekenntnisses im Indien der frühen Neuzeit

Aranha, Paolo. “Die Einführung der Trinität und die Vermeidung von Trimūrti: Die Rezeption der trinitarischen Lehre des Nizäno-Konstantinopolitanischen Glaubensbekenntnisses im Indien der frühen Neuze...

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Lenny Hodges @lrhodges.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Fantastic first day at UNESCO Routes of Enslaved People Conference. First conference I've been to opened by a head of state! If only politicians in the UK were so enthusiastic about history...

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Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I’m thrilled to announce that my book, provisionally titled “Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade” is now under contract with @princetonupress.bsky.social. Excited for it to be out in the world in 2026!

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Lenny Hodges @lrhodges.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Tamil Mauritius. The small Madurai Mariamen Temple sits nestled between a banyan tree and the M1 overpass. Often associated with indenture in the 19th century, the Indian presence in Mauritius is actually much older. Here are the signatures of skilled Tamil craftsman who lived in port Louis in 1777.

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

In this essay, I have analysed the Portuguese translation of an important catechetical work by the Jesuit missionary Roberto Nobili. I have sought to highlight how the concept of "Catholicity" could take on an "accommodationist" connotation in early modern South India. www.academia.edu/127918568/

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Cattolicità e accomodazione missionaria: Il Simbolo apostolico nella traduzione portoghese di Baltasar da Costa (1661) dello Ñānōpatēcam di Roberto Nobili

Aranha, Paolo. “Cattolicità e accomodazione missionaria: Il Simbolo apostolico nella traduzione portoghese di Baltasar da Costa (1661) dello Ñānōpatēcam di Roberto Nobili.” In "Il Simbolo nella t...

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Björn Schmelzer, 'The polyphony of nothingness', in the booklet of the CD by Graindelavoix & B. Schmelzer, "Ex nihilo: Polyphony beyond the order of things" (Glossa Platinum, 2024): 9. #polyphony #skystorians #bluestorians

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

L'Istituto Sangalli organizza un bel ciclo di presentazioni online di nuove monografie di storia religiosa. Si inizia giovedì 17 ottobre, con "Il governo dei pulpiti: Predicatori, potere e pubblico nell'Italia della prima età moderna" di Michele Camaioni. #Skystorians

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

A fascinating new article Jiang, Wei. ‘Funerary Emblems in Manila and the Rise of Devotion to Jerónima de La Asunción, OSC (1555-1630)’. Estudios de Historia Novohispana, no. 71 (2024): 85–116. doi.org/10.22201/iih....

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Emblemas funerarios en Manila y el inicio de la devoción a Jerónima de la Asunción, OSC (1555-1630) | Estudios de Historia Novohispana

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Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social · 04/05/2024

Stolen from a colleague…

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

I'm so curious to know what this "De comtemptu omnium vanitatum huius mundi" in Nahuatl actually says!

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

Events of this sort say a lot about the dire condition of certain Christian denominations in our time. It's no surprise if many in the Global South despise the West. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...

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‘Profane’ or ‘innocent’? Row over Canterbury Cathedral silent disco

Critics say dance event sends message that ‘Christians do not take their faith or their holy places seriously’

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Digitization & cataloging is complete for the manuscript collection of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Diocese of Duhok, #Iraq. More information: hmml.org/collections/news/47-manuscripts-from-the-chaldean-catholic-church-diocese-of-duhok-in-iraq-are-now-available-in-reading-room

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

A further dimension in the genocidal violence unleashed by the State of Israel against the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip.

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

But wouldn't be more social and ethical to pay palaeographers ti undertake such a specialised intellectual work? Volunteer, unpaid work in cultural heritage is a quite problematic concept.

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

The same Habeck who would now like to ban the AfD as a threat to democracy, in November warned all migrants that they wouldn't be welcome in Germany unless they embraced the Zionist ideology and justified Israel's war crimes. www.bbc.com/news/world-e... www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...

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AfD plans to turn Germany into authoritarian state, vice-chancellor warns

Robert Habeck tacitly backs calls to ban far-right party after it participated in meeting to discuss mass deportations

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

"In light of Germany's inability to draw lessons from its horrific history"... The statement of the Namibian President is a powerful indictment against the self-righteousness of a State that is actively enabling and justifying an ongoing genocide.

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

A new, very meritorious project of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library: the digitisation of the manuscripts in the library of the Rajas of Mahmudabad, Lucknow. hmml.org/stories/wher...

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Where We’re Working: Lucknow

“HMML’s preservation work in India began in 2008 with the manuscript collections of...”

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Universität Erfurt @unierfurt.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

#SavetheDate Gastvorlesung "'Entsprechend den Sitten und Gebräuchen einheimischer Christen'. Kulturelle Vielfalt in der Geschichte des außereuropäischen Christentums 1450 – 2000" von Klaus Koschorke am 25.1. am Theologischen Forschungskolleg www.uni-erfurt.de/universitaet...

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Is it normal that the digital version of an article published on a scholarly journal has a size of 155 MB?

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

On the myth of "the most moral army in the world", it's useful to read this book: Eastwood, James. Ethics as a Weapon of War: Militarism and Morality in Israel. Cambridge - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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Ethics as a Weapon of War

Cambridge Core - Middle East Studies - Ethics as a Weapon of War

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Prachi Deshpande @prarochana.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Thanks to fellow scholar of the Deccan and of regions Swathi Shivanand for a very perceptive review and engagement with /Scripts of Power/ in the latest Biblio: A Review of Books.

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

"Venite adoremus (3) Dominum" Latin perfectly transcribed in Kannada script, used by the Konkani Christians of South Kanara, Karnataka, South India. Global Christianity greetings for a Merry and Holy Christmas to everyone!

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Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

My book is here! In my hands! I’m so grateful to @ucpress.bsky.social for the beautiful work they did with it, and I really hope it does some justice to the stories I tried to tell.

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

"Fluidity in German", but certainly without English fluency...

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

The "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" published a rabid article against Dr. Saida Mirsadri, Visiting Professor at Univ. Zurich, on account of her Iranian nationality, alleged connections with the "Mullah regime" and support of Palestine. The West likes only unveiled Iranian women. www.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonnt...

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Zürcher Uni Professorin mit Kontakten zu Mullah-Regime im Iran

Eine Gastprofessorin an der Universität Zürich führt einen Lehrstuhl an einer iranischen Universität mit Verbindungen zur Revolutionsgarde und zum Hizbullah. Nun zieht sie sich zurück. Das zeigen...

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Happy to be one of the Jewish writers who's signed this letter. "We refuse the false choice between Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom; between Jewish identity and ending the oppression of Palestinians. In fact, we believe the rights of Jews and Palestinians go hand-in-hand."

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A Dangerous Conflation

We are Jewish writers, artists, and activists who wish to disavow the widespread narrative that any criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic. Israel and its defenders have long used this rhetoric...

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

The resonance of slogans and the framing of phrases has them mean different things to different audiences. But it's at least worth trying to understand the origins of slogans, and not uncritically repeating one interpretation of them. forward.com/opinion/4152...

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Opinion | ‘From The River To The Sea’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means

As a Palestinian American and a scholar of Palestinian history, I’m concerned by the lack of interest in how this phrase is understood

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Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!

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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Invoking divine blessings on our dangerous navigation. Music by Gian Piero Alloisio (1956) on the poem of an anonymous Genoese author (floruit 1270-1311). www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhIu...

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Noi che semper naveghemmu

Provided to YouTube by Naxos Digital ServicesNoi che semper naveghemmu · Constantinople · Kiya Tabassian · Marco Beasley · Gian Piero AlloisioIl Ponte di Leo...

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Over 1300 dead children in Gaza. Israel has dropped as many bombs in 10 days as the US did in an entire year in Afghanistan. Staff at hospitals are reporting that they're drinking IV bags because there's no water or power. Horrors beyond comprehension with the West's support

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Gaza has been levelled every year without fail for the 18 years ive been an adult. Every palestinian i speak to or hear is so shocked at what is happening. There’s nothing left to say and yet there is so much to say.

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Ajantha Subramanian @ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

CUNY staff & faculty reject the efforts of @ChancellorCUNY & other campus presidents to censure solidarity with the Palestinian people amidst an impending genocide. Sign: tinyurl.com/signcunyPEle... Statement with regularly updated list of signatories: tinyurl.com/cunyPEletter

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Sky News UK just reported the hospital that was hit in Gaza was doing surgery without anesthesia because of the lack of supplies. They cited Doctors Without Borders.

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