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Joseph

Adele Reinhartz

in Jesus of Hollywood

This chapter looks at the ways in which the Gospels, on the one hand, and the movies on the other, handle the embarrassment of Mary's pregnancy out of wedlock. Whereas Joseph has only a minor role in ... More

This chapter looks at the ways in which the Gospels, on the one hand, and the movies on the other, handle the embarrassment of Mary's pregnancy out of wedlock. Whereas Joseph has only a minor role in the Gospels and in most Jesus biopics, some films explore the relationship between Joseph and Jesus in great detail, and attribute to Joseph a formative role in Jesus' development into adulthood and into a mature understanding of his own mission.Less

Mary

Adele Reinhartz

in Jesus of Hollywood

This chapter looks at the portrayal of Mary, Jesus' mother, in the Gospels and in the Jesus biopics. The films ask two major questions: What was Mary's role in Jesus' infancy and childhood? And, what ... More

This chapter looks at the portrayal of Mary, Jesus' mother, in the Gospels and in the Jesus biopics. The films ask two major questions: What was Mary's role in Jesus' infancy and childhood? And, what sort of relationship did Mary and Jesus have in his adulthood? It concludes that Mary's cinematic portrayal is affected by the conventional psychological assumptions of modern western society: the connection between childhood experiences and adult identity, and the notion that one of the marks of a mature adult is the quality of her or his relationship with parents and other family members. Also crucial is the role of Mary in Christian, particularly Catholic, theology. While Mary's role in film may be empowering for some women, she is generally cast in a supportive and secondary role.Less

Bourgeois and Proletarians

G. A. Cohen

Jonathan Wolff (ed.)

in Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy

This chapter explores the question of the nature of the alienation of the bourgeoisie under capitalism. In particular, it considers the distinction made by Karl Marx in The Holy Family between the ... More

This chapter explores the question of the nature of the alienation of the bourgeoisie under capitalism. In particular, it considers the distinction made by Karl Marx in The Holy Family between the alienation endured by the worker and the alienation endured by the capitalist in bourgeois society. According to Marx: “The possessing classes and the class of the proletariat present pictures of the same human self-estrangement. But the former class feels at home in and confirmed by this self-estrangement.” The chapter analyzes the meaning of this passage by focusing on a characterization of the human essence in The German Ideology and on the doctrine of alienation articulated in the Paris Manuscripts. It also discusses the worker's alienation in his relation to the machine, and the capitalist's alienation in his relation to money, as well as the latter's relation to his capital. Finally, it restates the contrast between bourgeois and proletarian.Less

The Traditions of the Holy Family and the Development of Christianity in the Nile Delta

Ashraf Alexandre Sadek

in Christianity and Monasticism in Northern Egypt: Beni Suef, Giza, Cairo, and the Nile Delta

After traveling through the Sinai, the Holy Family, according to tradition, walked from east to west through the Nile Delta. The various written and oral traditions mention eight place names ... More

After traveling through the Sinai, the Holy Family, according to tradition, walked from east to west through the Nile Delta. The various written and oral traditions mention eight place names associated with this journey in the Delta: Tell Basta, Musturud/Mahamma, Bilbeis, Daqadus, Samannud, Burullus (St. Damiana), Sakha (Bikha Issous), and Wadi al-Natrun. This chapter examines whether the memory of the coming of the Holy Family has had an impact on the development of Christian life in the Nile Delta. To this end, it draws for each site a parallel between the traditions of the Holy Family and the history of Christian communities on this site; this should enable us to measure, to some extent, the impact of the Holy Family traditions on the history of the Christian Church in the Nile Delta.Less

‘A model for many homesteads’: Marian devotion, the Holy Family and Catholic conceptions of marriage and sexuality

Alana Harris

in Faith in the family: A lived religious history of English Catholicism, 1945-82

This chapter offers a detailed study of Marian devotion and the reverence for St Joseph expressed in the context of the Holy Family. It explores the ways in which these heavenly personages functioned ... More

This chapter offers a detailed study of Marian devotion and the reverence for St Joseph expressed in the context of the Holy Family. It explores the ways in which these heavenly personages functioned as ideals and models for rightly ordered, but societally adaptive, understandings of femininity, masculinity and the conjugal relationship. It then concentrates on an aspect of married life, sexuality, which underwent rapid transformation in the post-war period. It illuminates the shifting understandings, across the theological spectrum, of gender roles and married life from the 1950s onwards, and the way in which the sacramental model of the ‘body of Christ’ was mobilised as a more flexible and workable resource than the ‘Holy Family’ in responding to, and reconstructing, a Catholic perspective on the role of sex within married life. During a period of intense gender transition from the late 1960s onwards, Marian devotions slipped out of the institutional frame, but moving into the papacy of John Paul II they were increasingly reinterpreted and repackaged by the church and the laity in ways that might again resonate with gender roles and social expectations towards the end of the century.Less

Childhood on the Color Line in West Oakland:: Day Nurseries during the Interwar Years

Marta Gutman

in A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950

The Sisters of the Holy Family and Northern Federation of California Colored Women’s Clubs answered the demand for childcare by repurposing houses in West Oakland. Welfare officials were wary of any ... More

The Sisters of the Holy Family and Northern Federation of California Colored Women’s Clubs answered the demand for childcare by repurposing houses in West Oakland. Welfare officials were wary of any intervention that made it easier for a mother to work outside her home, and white supremacists could not be put out of mind in the 1920s, with the Ku Klux Klan organizing nearby. Colored clubwomen, from the Beth Eden congregation, angered at the whites-only policy in children’s institutions, crossed the color line to locate the Fannie Wall Children’s Home and Day Nursery next to the St. Vincent’s Day Home, the segregated Catholic day care center. With clubwomen committed to racial uplift during the Great Migration, intra-racial conflict exploded about the politics of respectability in the home, especially as it fell into disrepair. The building was cleared and the property given to St. Vincent’s Day Home, enlarged and racially integrated.Less

The Place of Qusqam in the Textual Data on the Flight into Egypt

Ashraf Alexandre Sadek

in Christianity and Monasticism in Middle Egypt

Dayr al-Muharraq could very well be the most blessed place in Egypt for Christian Egyptians. The fame of Dayr al-Muharraq is linked to its history—a history that is very much dependent on the ... More

Dayr al-Muharraq could very well be the most blessed place in Egypt for Christian Egyptians. The fame of Dayr al-Muharraq is linked to its history—a history that is very much dependent on the traditions of the Holy Family's sojourn on the spot, Qusqam, where the monastery now stands. On what grounds did such traditions develop? This chapter examines fifty texts that may be considered as textual “sources” of the traditions on the coming of the Holy Family to Egypt. These texts have only two points in common: they mention at least one aspect of the legend of the Flight into Egypt, and they all have their origin before the eighth century. Apart from that, they are extremely different and belong to four main categories: the apocryphal infancy gospels; reports of pilgrims and travelers during antiquity and the early Middle Ages; Church Fathers in early anti-Christian literature; and Coptic textual evidence. The first part of the chapter is dedicated to the presentation of these texts; the second part deals with the events or facts they mention.Less

The Holy Family and the Santuario Today

Brett Hendrickson

in The Healing Power of the Santuario de Chimayó: America's Miraculous Church

This chapter brings the history of the Santuario and debates over religious ownership into the present. In 1959 Father Casimiro Roca (of the Sons of the Holy Family) becomes the first full-time ... More

This chapter brings the history of the Santuario and debates over religious ownership into the present. In 1959 Father Casimiro Roca (of the Sons of the Holy Family) becomes the first full-time priest at the Santuario in its history, and under his leadership, the place grows from an important regional site of devotion to an international pilgrimage and tourism destination. His legacy continues at the Santuario as various groups, from the archdiocese to Chimayó’s local residents to tourists, articulate different visions for the Santuario’s future. The chapter also includes an analysis of devotees’ letters to the Santuario concerning their miraculous cures from the dirt.Less

The Father and the Son of God: Jesus in the Works of Yoel Hoffmann

Neta Stahl

in Other and Brother: Jesus in the 20th-Century Jewish Literary Landscape

Yoel Hoffmann (1937–) is one of the most important contemporary Israeli writers. This chapter demonstrates that Hoffmann's works provide a unique model for representing the figure of Jesus. In his ... More

Yoel Hoffmann (1937–) is one of the most important contemporary Israeli writers. This chapter demonstrates that Hoffmann's works provide a unique model for representing the figure of Jesus. In his works, Hoffmann puts forth a model in which Jesus is presented not as an Other, but rather as a figure that heals the estrangement of the Others. Jesus is a main theme in most of Hoffmann's prose-poetry work, but frequently he appears not as a protagonist, but rather as a metaphor symbolizing a certain mode of existence. Hoffmann colors the triviality of the mundane with the presence of Jesus in order to confer an aura of sanctity onto the world of his protagonists.Less

Mother of the Great Cherub of Light: The Book of Mary’s Repose

Stephen J. Shoemaker

in Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion

This chapter examines one apocryphal text that offers insights into the rise of Marian piety and cult within early Christianity: the Liber Requiei Mariae, or Book of Mary’s Repose. The Book of Mary’s ... More

This chapter examines one apocryphal text that offers insights into the rise of Marian piety and cult within early Christianity: the Liber Requiei Mariae, or Book of Mary’s Repose. The Book of Mary’s Repose is the earliest narrative from the so-called ‘Palm of the Tree of Life’ traditions, or ‘Palm’ traditions. It is a lengthy account of Mary’s Dormition and Assumption and bears early witness to belief in the power of Mary’s intercessions. This chapter analyzes the contents of the Book of Mary’s Repose, beginning with the opening scene in which Mary learns of her impending death from the Christ-angel and proceeds with a discussion of marital disagreement between Joseph and Mary, the restoration of harmony in the Holy Family, and the secret prayer that will enable the soul to pass through various ‘worlds’ during its ascent after death. It also discusses Jesus’s parable of the wormy trees, Mary’s funeral preparations, Mary’s Dormition and Assumption, and Marian apocalypse.Less

Elementals

Charles P. Bigger

in Between Chora and the Good: Metaphor's Metaphysical Neighborhood

This chapter examines Plato's view on the Virgin Mary and the Holy Family. It explains that Trinitarian pluralism can better accommodate Plato's Holy Family and that in his ... More

This chapter examines Plato's view on the Virgin Mary and the Holy Family. It explains that Trinitarian pluralism can better accommodate Plato's Holy Family and that in his Agathon Plato suggested that the birth of love meant that it has replaced the god's strife. The chapter suggests that in spite of fashionable relativisms, it is important to preserve the Good's absoluteness against the threat of nihilism, radical historism, and sophistry.Less

Liturgy of the Monastery of al-Muharraq

Youhanna Nessim Youssef

in Christianity and Monasticism in Middle Egypt

This chapter describes the unique characteristics of the liturgical services performed in the Monastery of al-Muharraq. Drawing from various traditions, both current ones and those known from ... More

This chapter describes the unique characteristics of the liturgical services performed in the Monastery of al-Muharraq. Drawing from various traditions, both current ones and those known from manuscripts, it analyzes the characteristics of these services and how they reflect the long history of the region. The liturgy in this monastery is characterized by four features: (i) a local hagiographical tradition through adding the names of many local saints to the memento sanctorum, such as Hermina, Isidore, and Sana; (ii) the presence of the Holy Family in the place; (iii) the rite for the Nile, which is performed on the Feast of the Cross, 17 Tut, when the priest offers incense at the highest point reached by the flood; and (iv) survival of the Greek language.Less