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Digital humanities takes public scholarship to the next level. Whether looking for the best tools or learning about new developments within the field, “The Download” can help you refine your work in digital religious studies. Professor Jeri Wieringa (University of Alabama) provides insight into this new mode of scholarship by highlighting the challenges and nuances of online platforms.

The digital turn impacts not only how scholars of religion present their research, but also how they conduct their research. Jeri Wieringa introduces readers to the digital humanities, the tools it employs, and the questions it raises for scholars of religion. While situating this subfield within the broad humanities, the essay highlights key examples demonstrative of how it manifests within religious studies.

This deposit contains materials for the Jekyll-based static site for The Programming Historian. The Programming Historian publishes novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive community of editors, writers, and readers. At the time of deposit, The Programming Historians hosts 67 lessons. To date in 2017 we published 11 new lessons and retired 3 existing lessons. 28 lessons were translated into Spanish. This deposit provides a citation for the project as it stands in November 2017. It is not intended to replace the Programming Historian website. This deposit supersedes the 2016 deposit (see 'Previous versions' for more info).