Author: Bertram Kaschek File Type: pdf Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion offers new insight into the religious dimension of Bruegels art. With a number of highly original and thorough case studies, the volume illuminates Bruegels inventive and multifaceted engagement with the contemporary religious concepts and practices of his day and age. Religion remains a vital question in the life and career of Bruegel, because it was so long believed to be more or less absent from his work. As a pioneer of the new genres of landscape and peasant scenes, Bruegel was heralded as a ground-breaking secular painter. This volume highlights the most recent scholarship on the artist, offering a much more nuanced portrait of Bruegels engagement with the dynamic religious landscape of the mid-sixteenth century. Contributors are Jessica Buskirk, Ralph Dekoninck, Bertram Kaschek, Walter S. Melion, Jurgen Muller, Anna Pawlak, Gerd Schwerhoff, Larry Silver, and Michel Weemans.
Author: Kenneth E. Kovacs
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The work of practical theologian James E. Loder, Jr. (1931-2001) deserves a wider audience. For more than forty years, he developed and exercised an interdisciplinary methodology that identified patterns of correlation in the fields of psychology, educational theory, phenomenology, epistemology, and physics, producing a compelling theological vision that centers on the person and work of the Holy Spirit engaging and transforming human life. At his untimely death in November 2001, Loder was the Mary D. Synnott Professor of Philosophy of Christian Education at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he lectured primarily in the areas of human development and the philosophy of education. This book introduces and examines, explores and untangles the complexity of Loders thought in order to make it more accessible to a broader audience. At the core of Loders work is a relational phenomenological pneumatology of inestimable value to the theologian engaged in the ongoing renewal of the church. The Christian life is preeminently relational, distinguished by a relationship with God constituted by Jesus Christ, and sustained by the Holy Spirit. Relationality, Loder claims, takes place in and through the life of the Holy Spirit who operates within a complementary relationship with the human spirit, through an analogia spiritus a profound, transformational interrelation of the Holy Spirit and the human spirit. The Holy Spirit, intimately connected to the person and work of Christ, takes up and extends the work begun in the incarnation by enfleshing the presence of Christ, thus transforming human life. Loder is distinctive for articulating a pneumatology that incorporates how the self participates in the relationship and the way the self, through the relationship, comes to have a full knowledge of itself, the world, and God. It is precisely the logic of this Christomorphic dynamic that has extraordinary implications for the way we attempt to fathom the depths and convey the meaning of Christian experience. Loders relational phenomenological pneumatology contains rich and principally unrecognized resources for providing new frameworks for the Christian life. **
Author: Susan M. Dodd
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Hegel has had a remarkable, yet largely unremarked, role in Canadas intellectual development. In the last half of the twentieth-century, as Canada was coming to define itself in the wake of World War Two, some of Canadas most thoughtful scholars turned to the work of G.W.F. Hegel for insight. Hegel and Canada is a collection of essays that analyses the real, but under-recognized, role Hegel has played in the intellectual and political development of Canada. The volume focuses on the generation of Canadian scholars who emerged after World War Two James Doull, Emil Fackenheim, George Grant, Henry S. Harris, and Charles Taylor. These thinkers offer a uniquely Canadian view of Hegels writings, and, correspondingly, of possible relations between situated community and rational law. Hegel provided a unique intellectual resource for thinking through the complex and opposing aspects that characterize Canada. The volume brings together key scholars from each of these five schools of Canadian Hegel studies and provides a richly nuanced account of the intellectually significant connection of Hegel and Canada.
Author: Red Pine
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A Zen Buddhist masterpiece, winner of the 2018 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation. The Platform Sutraoccupies a central place in Zen (Chan) Buddhist instruction for students and spiritual seekers worldwide. It is often linked withThe Heart SutraandThe Diamond Sutrato form a trio of texts that have been revered and studied for centuries. However, unlike the other sutras, which transcribe the teachings of the Buddha himself,The Platform Sutrapresents the autobiography of Hui-neng, the controversial 6th Patriarch of Zen, and his understanding of the fundamentals of a spiritual and practical life. Hui-nengs instruction still mattersthe 7th-century school of Sudden Awakening that he founded survives today, continuing to influence the Rinzai and Soto schools of contemporary Zen. Red Pine, whose translations ofThe Heart SutraandThe Diamond Sutrahave been celebrated and widely received, now provides a sensitive and assured treatment of the third and final sutra of the classic triumvirate. He adds remarkable commentary to a translation that, combined with the full Chinese text, a glossary, and notes, results in a Mahayana masterpiece sure to become the standard edition for students and seekers alike. **Review Winner of the 2018 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation About the Author Red Pine lives and work in Taiwan. He is the translator of The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain and of The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma.
Author: Chris Thornhill
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This book sets out a new reading of the much-neglected philosophy of Karl Jaspers. By questioning the common perception of Jaspers either as a proponent of irrationalist cultural philosophy or as an early, peripheral disciple of Martin Heidegger, it re-establishes him as a central figure in modern European philosophy. Giving particular consideration to his position in epistemological, metaphysical and political debate, the author argues that Jasperss work deserves renewed consideration in a number of important discussions, particularly in hermeneutics, anthropological reflections on religion, the critique of idealism, and debates on the end of metaphysics.
Author: David S. Cohen
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Abortion is a legal, common, and safe medical procedure that one in three American women will undergo. Yet ever sinceRoe v. Wade was decided in 1973, anti-abortion forces have tried nearly every tactic to eliminate it. Legislative and judicial developments dominate the news, but a troubling and all-too-common phenomenon-targeted vigilante action against individual abortion providers-is missing from the national discussion, only cropping up when a dramatic story like the murder of an abortion provider pushes it to the forefront. Every day, men and women who are associated with abortion care are harassed, threatened, stalked, picketed, sent hate mail, and otherwise terrorized. Those who seek help from the law are sometimes successful, but not always, either because there are insufficient protections built into the law, or because law enforcement officials fail to respond.In Living in the Crosshairs, the voices of these providers are heard for the first time, through extensive interviews that David S. Cohen and Krysten Connon conducted across the country. Abortion providers are targeted at home, at work, or in community spaces they can be harassed in person or online. Abortion opponents target not only the providers themselves but also may go after their families, neighbors, and others close to them. This kind of targeting happens anywhere in the country, not just in more conservative areas, and can victimize all providers, not just high-profile doctors. For some, being the victim of targeted harassment inspires significant fear and leads to changes in behavior for others, it has become a normal part of life and for yet others, it actively strengthens their resolve. The response of law enforcement at the federal, state, and local levels is spotty-though there are some strong laws on the books, especially at the federal level, abortion providers have had mixed experiences when it comes to legal recourse, and effectiveness varies. Drawing on ideas from the interviews, the authors propose several legal and societal reforms that could improve the lives of providers, foremost among them redefining targeted harassment as terrorism rather than protest. Living in the Crosshairs is a rich and humane portrait of womens health professionals who persist in their work despite harassment because they believe in what they are doing. These providers voices have not been heard in recent debates, leaving the public with a deficient understanding of exactly how abortion is limited in this country, yet their experiences illuminate the truth of the issue and offer us a path to a better policy.
Author: Peter Grindal
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Much is known about Britains role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century but few are aware of the sustained campaign against slaving conducted by the Royal Navy after the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807. Peter Grindal provides the definitive account of this little known yet important part of the British, European and American history. Drawing on original sources to provide a comprehensive and engaging narrative of the naval operations against slavers of all nations - in particular Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and Brazil, he describes how illegal traders sought to evade treaty obligations, reveals the obduracy of the USA that prolonged the slave trade, and shows how, despite inadequate resources, the Royal navys sixty-year campaign forced slavers to expend ever greater sums top conduct their business and confront the losses inflicted by capture and condemnation. A work that will transform our understanding of the Royal Navys campaign against the Atlantic slave trade. Comprehensively overhauls existing understanding of the Royal Navys campaign against the Atlantic slave trade - Professor Andrew Lambert, Kings College, London**ReviewComprehensively overhauls existing understanding of the Royal Navys campaign against the Atlantic slave trade - Professor Andrew Lambert, Kings College, London, codeThis is going to be the go-to reference work for anyone seeking information on the Royal Navys anti-slaving patrols - Professor Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University,codeSuch is its quality that it cannot fail to add immeasurably to our understanding of both the history of the 19th century Royal navy and the wider history of the slave trade. Opposing the Slavers is a fine example of meticulous academic research and writing, ... a magnificent achievement which thoroughly illuminates a previously misunderstood or even partially forgotten part of the history of Great Britain and the Royal Navy. There is no doubt it should be on the shelves of any serious student of naval history or the history of the transatlantic slave trade...a genuine work of scholarship - Nick Hewitt, Military History Review, `A work of immense scholarship ... I have to read a lot of books, rarely do I encounter books that have excellence running through them quite like this ... Peter Grindals book is a masterpiece. - Steven Haines, Naval Review Book Description Andrew Lambert is Laughton Professor of Naval History at Kings College, London.
Author: Alexander Alberro
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div contentInfoDiv Summer 2010, No. 40, Pages 6-23 Posted Online July 27, 2010. div (doi10.1162GREY_a_00001) 2010 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. div htmlContentp fulltexth1 arttitlediv hlFld-TitleStaging the Political Repetition, Difference, and Daniel Burens Cabanes Eclateesh1div artAuthorsdiv hlFld-ContribAuthorspan hlFld-ContribAuthor Alexander Alberrospanp fulltext nospacebAlexander Alberrob, Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History at Barnard College, is the author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (MIT, 2003). He has also edited and coedited a number of volumes, most recently Institutional Critique An Anthology of Artists Writings (MIT, 2009).span hlFld-ContribAuthor Nora M. Alterspanp fulltext nospacebNora M. Alterb is Chair and Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University. She is the author of Vietnam Protest Theatre The Television War on Stage (Indiana University, 1996), Projecting History Non-Fiction German Film (University of Michigan, 2002), and Chris Marker (University of Illinois, 2006) and coeditor with Lutz Koepnick of Sound Matters Essays on the Acoustics of Modern German Culture (Berghahn, 2004). She is completing a book on the international essay film and has begun research on a study devoted to sound.