Animal lives

The writer discusses the possibility of writing an animal's biography. It may be too simple to assume that anthropocentrism—a belief in the centrality and superiority of human beings—is the reason why the concept of biography has always been applied uniquely to humans. To write a “life” may not just be to present a series of “facts” but to bear testimony to that individual's capacity to communicate through language the subject's own self-understanding. Using this rationale, the subject of biography is always potentially the subject of autobiography. The exclusion of animals from the Dictionary of National Biography does not just demonstrate the ongoing anthropocentrism of history as a discipline, but it also demonstrates the continuation of a version of human selfhood that is, and always has been, created out of, in exclusion from, and by the naming of animals

Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 5, no. 2

A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: Women / Bilingual (French): 1. Biography of Émilienne Mboungou-Mouyabi (née Niangui Loubota), Congolese woman pastor, in ENGLISH and in FRENCH; 2. "Recovering the Lives of African Women Leaders in South Africa: The Case of Nokutela Dube" By Heather Hughes, chapter from African Christian Biography: Stories, Lives and Challenges, (D. L. Robert, editor); 3. "Notes on the Life History of the Reverend Canon Professor Emeritus John Samuel Pobee (1937 to 2020)"" by Casely Essamuah.; and, 4. "Theological Publishing and the Future of Christianity in Africa: African Theological Network Press" by Kyama Mugambi. 5. Book Notes, by Beth Restrick

Jesus: a revolutionary biography

Reviewed Book: Crossan, John Dominic. Jesus: a revolutionary biography. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994

Jesus: a revolutionary biography

Reviewed Book: Crossan, John Dominic. Jesus: a revolutionary biography. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994. Reviewed Book: Crossan, John Dominic. The historical Jesus: the life of a Mediterranean Jewish peasant. [S.l.]: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991

Agnes Dollan (1887-1966), suffragette and socialist

Biography of Agnes Dollan, suffragette and socialist

Clarice Marion Shaw (1883-1946) social reformer and politician

Biography of Clarice Marion Shaw, social reformer and politician