Profile of Hans Rollmann

Biography

Dr. Hans Rollmann is a religious studies professor at Memorial University. His column appears monthly in The Weekend Telegram . His Web site address is http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~hrollman

All articles of Hans Rollmann

• Meditations for women with depression
  “Mysticism” and “mystics” may often convey a sense of exotic and extreme, if not fanatical, religion. Yet in the history of religions, mystics ...
• What lies hereafter
  Clint Eastwood’s new film, “Hereafter,” presents the encounter with death in three individuals: a psychic, played by Matt Damon, who considers ...
• Religion 400 years ago
  Twice this summer, I had the pleasure of visiting Cupids, which is celebrating the 400th anniversary of its beginning. In August, archeologist ...
• Shorter forms lead to census information shortage
  This week, at last, I had opportunity to see the new, shorter census forms crafted by the Harper government. They are indeed quickly answered, ...
• Quitting Christianity
  A few years ago, Rice had come out publicly as a “Christian” and had vowed to devote her writing from then on to religious and biblical topics. ...
• Last Station
  Recently I saw two biographical films of religious import. The first was "Creation," a treatment of the conflict between the religious ...
• Home away from home
  I have come here to Herrnhut, Saxony, in easternmost Germany, close to the Polish and Czech borders, ever since the Iron Curtain unzipped and the ...
• Queen Adelaide and Placentia
  Although Victoria Day remains a popular and much cherished holiday, the word "Victorian" often evokes feelings of mental, spiritual and cultural ...
• Righteous gentiles
  The Holocaust Mem-orial Service on Sunday, April 11, focused our attention on "righteous gentiles." The term once re-ferred to those resident ...
• Shouting and dancing with ecstasy
  Ever since the Reverend Laurence Coughlan, that outspoken and quarrelsome Irish-born Anglican missionary and founder of Newfoundland Methodism, ...
• The communion of saints
  After recognizing a second, "scientifically inexplicable" healing associated with Brother AndrÉ, the founder of St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, ...
• Eli and his book
  Last weekend I saw the Hughes brothers' recent film, "The Book of Eli," with Denzel Washington in the leading role as Eli and Gary Oldman as ...
• New beginnings
  Entering a new year and decade, we may find hope in a vision of new beginnings, just as others must have found a century ago, in 1910, or even ...
• Advent in Snooks Cove, 1871
  On the first Sunday in Advent, 1871, a group of Inuit gathered at the home of Jacobus and Salome in Snooks Cove, southwest of Rigolet. The couple ...
• October Revolution: 1989
  Last month, while visiting the eastern part of Germany, I was reminded many times of the peaceful revolution that shook the two Germanies in ...
• Newfoundland and Labrador sea monsters
  Sea monsters of various sizes and forms have inhabited the human imaginary universe and range in meaning from the profound to the curious. ...
• Thomas Campbell: advocate of Christian unity
  Two hundred years ago, in late summer 1809, a man in his mid-40s looks out of the second-storey window of a farm house in southwestern ...
• A trip to Captain Bartlett on West Turnavik
  This year we celebrate Capt. Bob Bartlett's Arctic exploration, notably his contribution to Commander Peary's expedition to the North Pole in ...
• John Calvin and Newfoundland
  July 10, 1509, 500 years ago this month, John Calvin, a theological giant and one of the shapers of the modern world, was born in Noyon, France. ...
• Neither angels nor demons
  Recently I saw Ron Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's bestselling novel "Angels and Demons," again with Tom Hanks in the lead role playing the ...
• Joey's religion
  With the recent focus on the 60th anniversary of Confederation, Joey Smallwood, the wedding planner of Newfoundland's marriage to Canada, has ...
• An educational innovator
  On this day, March 28, 1592, the wife of a humble miller in Southern Moravia, in the present-day Czech Republic, bore a son who would become ...
• A defining speech
  This month, 60 years ago, one minute before midnight - so that people might never call it an April Fools' Joke - on March 31, 1949, Newfoundland ...
• Labrador medical
  In 1709, 300 years ago, Sophie Agnes Waiblinger, wife of a Protestant minister in the Duchy of Wurttemberg, gave birth to a son, who received the ...
• A dark period remembered
  During the holidays I saw "Valkyrie," a new film starring Tom Cruise as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the central figure of the ...
• Advent
  Among the treasured memories of my childhood in the Eifel Mountains of Germany is celebration of the Christian Advent season. During Advent, the ...
• All about Advent
  Among the treasured memories of my childhood in the Eifel Mountains of Germany is celebration of the Christian Advent season. During Advent, the ...
• 'Religulous' ridiculous
  I must confess that I like Bill Maher's humor, his use of hatchet and scalpel on duplicitous politicians. I also admit to having cheered his ...
• Luther decade opened
  A few weeks ago, in the historic Castle Church of Wittenberg in Saxony, Lutherans from all over the world opened the "Luther Decade," ...
• Sarah Palin's religion
  With the announcement of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as Sen. John McCain's vice-presidential running mate, religion has once again surfaced as a ...