Author: Domenik Ackermann
Publisher: Association Public Religion and Intellectual Life
ISBN: 9781469677293
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The topic "land" informs a variety of religious traditions. On the one hand, land can be understood as soil, ground, or territory in which people live. From this perspective, land is matter, defined by characteristics such as porosity, consistency, or boundaries. On the other hand, some traditions attach land to their particular identity. In this sense, land and identity become inseparable. These different understandings highlight that land is not just one firm object or territory. Instead, they challenge us to rethink concepts of land and space that implicate views of the divine, the other, and the earth and bring them into a conversation with our own respective traditions. Broad questions that inform this special issue of CrossCurrents are: How can theologies of land be brought into fruitful and constructive dialogue across religious traditions? What are the implications of those theologies for comparative theological studies? What might an emphasis on land offer to theologies of liberation? To efforts at decolonizing theology? In the March 2023 issue of CrossCurrents: "Comparative Theology On and In Place: An Introduction to the Special Issue" by Paul Hedges "Mosaic Tiles: Comparative Theological Hermeneutics and Christian-Jewish Dialogue About the Land" by Domenik Ackermann "The Paradoxes of Place: Cultivating Particularity and Planetarity Amid Climate Catastrophe" by O'neil Van Horn "The Batak-Christian Theology of Land: towards a Postcolonial Comparative Theolog" by Hesron H. Sihombing "Spirit(s) and the Land: A Comparative Theological Exploration of Two Contemporary Indigenous Visions" by Michelle Voss Roberts "Conclusion" by Domenik Ackermann "For Jane, On Her Nephew's Birthday", and "For Jane, Three Days After Her Brother's Passing", poetry by Shannon Hardwick "Little Syria, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music" reviewed by Richard McCallum "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Drawings in Smoke" by Irina Sheynfeld "Impossible Voyages: Wangechi Mutu at Storm King" reviewed by Irina Sheynfeld
Author: S Brent Rodriguez-Plate
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781469677316
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice. In the September 2023 issue of CrossCurrents: "Re-Reading the Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38): Towards Comprehensive Sexuality Education" by Telesia Musili "Mystery and the Problem of Election in Judaism and Christianity" by Malka Z. Simkovich "Halakha vs. Capitalism" by Allen Lipson "Who Do Our Methods Serve and Protect? Pedagogical and Meta-Ethical Challenges in Teaching Breonna Taylor" by Andrew Stone Porter "Anointed" by Mindy Misener "Olthuis, James H. 2022. Dancing in the Wild Spaces of Love: A Theopoetics of Gift and Call, Risk and Promise" reviewed by Ben Brazil "Thistlethwaite, Susan. 2022. Walls of Fear: A Kristin Ginelli Mystery" reviewed by Christine Meyer "Jill Freedman: an artist with a story to tell" reviewed by Irina Sheynfeld "Homrighausen, Jonathan. Planting Letters and Weaving Lines: Calligraphy, The Song of Songs, and the Saint John's Bible" reviewed by David Simonowitz
Author: S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate
Publisher: Association Public Religion and Intellectual Life
ISBN: 9781469677309
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice. In the June 2023 issue of CrossCurrents: "Our Sounds Reach the Other World: Sacred Musical Instruments and Their Spiritual Roles" by Cara R. Schreffler "A Brief History of Jewish Victimhood Identity" by Marc J. Rosenstein "Setting the Table: A Baha'i geographer reflects on faith, fieldwork, and farmworkers" by Anisa Kline "Echoes of a Method: Inductive Christian Social Ethics, Social Practices, and the Radical Social Gospel" by Aaron Stauffer "A Sacred Disease" by Robin Root "Being Jain: South Indian Art Meets Climate Ethics at Zurich's Rietberg Museum" reviewed by Melanie Barbato "The Brooklyn Museum's Arts of the Islamic World" reviewed by Rayyan Mikati "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: What It Takes to Craft a Life" reviewed by Irina Sheynfeld "Emily Dumler-Winckler, Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent" reviewed by Elizabeth Ursic
Author: Eugene Korn
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Israel and the Nations: The Bible, The Rabbis, and Jewish-Gentile Relations explores the Jewish theology and law (Halakhah) relating to non-Jews. It analyzes biblical, talmudic, medieval, and contemporary Jewish writings about gentiles and their religions. The Bible challenges the Jewish people to be “a blessing for all the families of the earth.” Yet throughout history, Jewish experience with gentiles was complex. In the biblical and talmudic eras most gentiles were assumed to be idolators. In the Middle Ages most rabbis considered their Christian neighbors idolators, and Christian enmity sharpened the otherness Jews felt toward their Christian hosts. Muslims were monotheists, but Jewish-Muslim relations were sometimes positive and at other times difficult. With the advent secular tolerance in modernity, Jews found themselves in a new relationship with their gentile neighbors. How should Jews relate to gentiles today, and what are the bounds of Jewish tolerance and religious pluralism? The book will interest both Jewish laypersons familiar with Jewish tradition as well as scholars of theology and interfaith relations
Author: Eric Ziolkowski
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004423907
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Religion and Literature: History and Method considers the history, methods, institutionalization, globalization, and future of the study of religion and literature, focusing on its emergence from the “field” of theology and literature, and its relations to myth criticism and biblical reception.
Author: Lisa Disch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190623616
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
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The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the globe, this collection delves into forty-nine subject areas, demonstrating the complexity of feminist challenges to established knowledge, while also engaging areas of contestation within feminist theory. Demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of feminist theory, the chapters offer innovative analyses of topics central to social and political science, cultural studies and humanities, discourses associated with medicine and science, and issues in contemporary critical theory that have been transformed through feminist theorization. The handbook identifies limitations of key epistemic assumptions that inform traditional scholarship and shows how theorizing from women's and men's lives has profound effects on the conceptualization of central categories, whether the field of analysis is aesthetics, biology, cultural studies, development, economics, film studies, health, history, literature, politics, religion, science studies, sexualities, violence, or war.
Author: Deborah Beth Creamer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199709076
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Attention to embodiment and the religious significance of bodies is one of the most significant shifts in contemporary theology. In the midst of this, however, experiences of disability have received little attention. This book explores possibilities for theological engagement with disability, focusing on three primary alternatives: challenging existing theological models to engage with the disabled body, considering possibilities for a disability liberation theology, and exploring new theological options based on an understanding of the unsurprisingness of human limits. The overarching perspective of this book is that limits are an unavoidable aspect of being human, a fact we often seem to forget or deny. Yet not only do all humans experience limits, most of us also experience limits that take the form of disability at some point in our lives; in this way, disability is more "normal" than non-disability. If we take such experiences seriously and refuse to reduce them to mere instances of suffering, we discover insights that are lost when we take a perfect or generic body as our starting point for theological reflections. While possible applications of this insight are vast, this work focuses on two areas of particular interest: theological anthropology and metaphors for God. This project challenges theology to consider the undeniable diversity of human embodiment. It also enriches previous disability work by providing an alternative to the dominant medical and minority models, both of which fail to acknowledge the full diversity of disability experiences. Most notably, this project offers new images and possibilities for theological construction that attend appropriately and creatively to diversity in human embodiment.
Author: William S. Burroughs
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140094563
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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From the legendary author of Naked Lunch, the conclusion of his trilogy that includes Cities of the Red Night and Palace of Dead Roads The Western Land is legendary Beat writer William S. Burrough’s profound, revealing, and often astonishing meditation on morality, loneliness, life, and death -- a Book of the Dead for the nuclear age. "Burrough's visionary power, his comic genius, and his unerring ability to crack the codes that make up the life of this century are undimished." -- J.G. Ballard, Washington Post Book World
Author: Valerie Mason-John
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1623175631
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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A spiritual, political, and interdisciplinary anthology of wisdom stories from Black liberation leaders and teachers. Afrikan Wisdom represents an intersectional, cross-pollinated exploration of Black life--past, present, and future. Award-winning author and editor Valerie Mason-John (Vimalasara)'s collection of 34 essays--written by an eclectic and inspirational group of Black thought leaders and teachers--reflects on the unique and multilayered experience of being Black in the world today. This anthology instills in readers the knowledge, awareness, validation, and spiritual tools necessary to nurture both individual and collective liberation. It is both an inspiration and a motivation for Black readers, as well as anyone else interested in reading about emerging spiritual voices. Topics include: • African and Afro-Diasporan cultures, histories, spiritualities, art, music, and literature • Black radical traditions of liberation and consciousness • Anticolonialism and antislavery • Buddhist philosophy • Social and environmental justice • The prison industrial complex and mass incarceration • (Kemetic) yoga, healing, and mindfulness • Intersections with Indigenous cultures • Addiction and recovery • Transgenerational trauma
Author: Paul Raskin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997837605
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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This inquiry builds a conceptual and strategic framework for understanding the contemporary global crisis and for shaping our world in transition. Its bedrock concern is the search for an organic planetary civilization, a vision that now opens before us as both possibility and exigency in an interdependent and dangerous century.
