M. Jan Holton
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300207620
- eISBN:
- 9780300220797
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300207620.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Longing for Home explores the psychological, social, and theological impact of forcibly losing one’s home place and asks two questions: What is it about home that makes its loss so profound? And, How ...
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Longing for Home explores the psychological, social, and theological impact of forcibly losing one’s home place and asks two questions: What is it about home that makes its loss so profound? And, How should we think about this theologically?
This book explores the notion of home and its loss from the perspectives of four very diverse groups who have suffered forced displacement: an indigenous tribe of Batwa in Uganda, refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Congo and Sudan, American soldiers struggling with PTSD, and homeless persons in the United States. The author uses her own experiences in the Ugandan mountains, ethnographic research in refugee camps in Congo and Sudan and internally displaced persons, published stories of American soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and life in a transitional facility for homeless persons as windows into these contexts and stories of forced displacement. Through these intense, sometimes tragic encounters, the psychological, social, and theological impact of living without home becomes clear as does the often exclusionary response of the communities in which they seek care. The author suggests that a moral obligation of care grounded in relational postures of hospitality—or predispositions toward the other that precede practices—are at the heart of breaking through social exclusion and helping each to lean into God in ways that invite home of a different kind. The book’s concrete experiences of communities of displacement add a unique element that both challenges and complements psychological and social theories. The end result is a constructive contribution to both practical and public theology.Less
Longing for Home explores the psychological, social, and theological impact of forcibly losing one’s home place and asks two questions: What is it about home that makes its loss so profound? And, How should we think about this theologically?
This book explores the notion of home and its loss from the perspectives of four very diverse groups who have suffered forced displacement: an indigenous tribe of Batwa in Uganda, refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Congo and Sudan, American soldiers struggling with PTSD, and homeless persons in the United States. The author uses her own experiences in the Ugandan mountains, ethnographic research in refugee camps in Congo and Sudan and internally displaced persons, published stories of American soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and life in a transitional facility for homeless persons as windows into these contexts and stories of forced displacement. Through these intense, sometimes tragic encounters, the psychological, social, and theological impact of living without home becomes clear as does the often exclusionary response of the communities in which they seek care. The author suggests that a moral obligation of care grounded in relational postures of hospitality—or predispositions toward the other that precede practices—are at the heart of breaking through social exclusion and helping each to lean into God in ways that invite home of a different kind. The book’s concrete experiences of communities of displacement add a unique element that both challenges and complements psychological and social theories. The end result is a constructive contribution to both practical and public theology.
Brigitte Weltman-Aron
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231172561
- eISBN:
- 9780231539876
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231172561.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Examining instances of unrequited love, denied hospitality, and non-invitation in Algeria, Cixous builds a symmetrical proposal, love as a force of disruption, infinite distance and separation, which ...
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Examining instances of unrequited love, denied hospitality, and non-invitation in Algeria, Cixous builds a symmetrical proposal, love as a force of disruption, infinite distance and separation, which is related to Levinas's rethinking of subjectivity and justice.Less
Examining instances of unrequited love, denied hospitality, and non-invitation in Algeria, Cixous builds a symmetrical proposal, love as a force of disruption, infinite distance and separation, which is related to Levinas's rethinking of subjectivity and justice.
Lowell Gallagher (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823275205
- eISBN:
- 9780823277247
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823275205.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Literature
Sodomscape presents a fresh understanding of Lot’s wife in the reception history of the Sodom story. Premodern biblical cultures found in the scene of abortive flight a monitory sign of improvident ...
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Sodomscape presents a fresh understanding of Lot’s wife in the reception history of the Sodom story. Premodern biblical cultures found in the scene of abortive flight a monitory sign of improvident curiosity and rooted inhospitality. This book’s cross-cutting array of texts and images—a fifteenth-century illuminated miniature, a group of Counter-Reformation devotional paintings, a Victorian lost-world adventure fantasy, a Russian avant-garde rendering of the flight from Sodom, Albert Memmi’s career-making first novel (The Pillar of Salt), and a contemporary excursion into the Dead Sea healthcare tourism industry—shows how the repeated desire to reclaim Lot’s wife, across millennia and diverse media, turns the cautionary emblem of the mutating woman into a figural laboratory for testing the ethical bounds of the two faces of hospitality – welcome and risk – in diverse cultural locations. Sodomscape—the book’s name for this gesture—revisits touchstone moments in the history of figural thinking (Augustine, Erich Auerbach, Maurice Blanchot, Hans Blumenberg) and places these in conversation with key artisans of the hospitality question, particularly as it bears on the phenomenological condition of attunement to the unfinished character of being in relation to others (Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt). The book’s cumulative perspective identifies Lot’s wife as the resilient figure of vigilant dwelling between the substantialist dream of resemblance and the mutating dynamism of otherness. The radical in-betweenness of the figure discloses counter-intuitive ways of understanding what counts as a life in the context of divergent claims of being-with and being-for.Less
Sodomscape presents a fresh understanding of Lot’s wife in the reception history of the Sodom story. Premodern biblical cultures found in the scene of abortive flight a monitory sign of improvident curiosity and rooted inhospitality. This book’s cross-cutting array of texts and images—a fifteenth-century illuminated miniature, a group of Counter-Reformation devotional paintings, a Victorian lost-world adventure fantasy, a Russian avant-garde rendering of the flight from Sodom, Albert Memmi’s career-making first novel (The Pillar of Salt), and a contemporary excursion into the Dead Sea healthcare tourism industry—shows how the repeated desire to reclaim Lot’s wife, across millennia and diverse media, turns the cautionary emblem of the mutating woman into a figural laboratory for testing the ethical bounds of the two faces of hospitality – welcome and risk – in diverse cultural locations. Sodomscape—the book’s name for this gesture—revisits touchstone moments in the history of figural thinking (Augustine, Erich Auerbach, Maurice Blanchot, Hans Blumenberg) and places these in conversation with key artisans of the hospitality question, particularly as it bears on the phenomenological condition of attunement to the unfinished character of being in relation to others (Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt). The book’s cumulative perspective identifies Lot’s wife as the resilient figure of vigilant dwelling between the substantialist dream of resemblance and the mutating dynamism of otherness. The radical in-betweenness of the figure discloses counter-intuitive ways of understanding what counts as a life in the context of divergent claims of being-with and being-for.
Thibaut Raboin
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780719099632
- eISBN:
- 9781526121011
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719099632.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
The afterword reflects on the book’s findings and asks: what are the changes in the structure of public discourses about LGBT asylum in the UK that could empower asylum seekers, allow for a greater ...
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The afterword reflects on the book’s findings and asks: what are the changes in the structure of public discourses about LGBT asylum in the UK that could empower asylum seekers, allow for a greater fairness in decision-making, and decolonise queer hospitality? It identifies several issues in public discourses, starting with a queer/race fragmentation which makes it harder for the voices that do not articulate their politics using the dominant liberal or universalist modes to be heard and disseminated in public arenas. A second suggestion is that freer testimonial practices should be fostered so that asylum-seekers can re-appropriate the hermeneutical function of self-narration in order to start a process of self-crafting that eschews homonationalist narrative. Finally, opening up public arenas to the complex and often challenging stories told in queer refugee performance could also enable the emergence of political propositions that are anti-racist, anti-homo and transphobic and attentive to the particular challenges of migrant experiences at the nexus of political and administrative subjection, ethno-racial, gendered and sexualised violence.Less
The afterword reflects on the book’s findings and asks: what are the changes in the structure of public discourses about LGBT asylum in the UK that could empower asylum seekers, allow for a greater fairness in decision-making, and decolonise queer hospitality? It identifies several issues in public discourses, starting with a queer/race fragmentation which makes it harder for the voices that do not articulate their politics using the dominant liberal or universalist modes to be heard and disseminated in public arenas. A second suggestion is that freer testimonial practices should be fostered so that asylum-seekers can re-appropriate the hermeneutical function of self-narration in order to start a process of self-crafting that eschews homonationalist narrative. Finally, opening up public arenas to the complex and often challenging stories told in queer refugee performance could also enable the emergence of political propositions that are anti-racist, anti-homo and transphobic and attentive to the particular challenges of migrant experiences at the nexus of political and administrative subjection, ethno-racial, gendered and sexualised violence.
Chekitan S. Dev
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801452031
- eISBN:
- 9780801465703
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801452031.003.0002
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Marketing
This chapter distills important lessons from the Cornell Hospitality Brand Management Roundtable at Cornell University's Center for Hospitality Research (CHR), a one-day, interactive, high-level ...
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This chapter distills important lessons from the Cornell Hospitality Brand Management Roundtable at Cornell University's Center for Hospitality Research (CHR), a one-day, interactive, high-level discussion among a select group of thirty brand executives, consultants, and professors who shared their experience and knowledge on a variety of key brand management topics. The roundtable featured provocative presentations of cutting-edge research studies by leading scholars collaborating with industry partners. The goal of the first CHR Brand Management Roundtable was to provoke change and push the status quo. Brand-related issues addressed during the roundtable include global brand building, branding by amenity, brand value, promoting brands over the Internet, brand rights, and branding by design.Less
This chapter distills important lessons from the Cornell Hospitality Brand Management Roundtable at Cornell University's Center for Hospitality Research (CHR), a one-day, interactive, high-level discussion among a select group of thirty brand executives, consultants, and professors who shared their experience and knowledge on a variety of key brand management topics. The roundtable featured provocative presentations of cutting-edge research studies by leading scholars collaborating with industry partners. The goal of the first CHR Brand Management Roundtable was to provoke change and push the status quo. Brand-related issues addressed during the roundtable include global brand building, branding by amenity, brand value, promoting brands over the Internet, brand rights, and branding by design.
Gerald Moore
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748642021
- eISBN:
- 9780748671861
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748642021.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
The conclusion considers various attempts to categorise and thematise French poststructuralism around themes including difference, anti-foundationalism, hospitality and what Alain Badiou has called ...
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The conclusion considers various attempts to categorise and thematise French poststructuralism around themes including difference, anti-foundationalism, hospitality and what Alain Badiou has called ‘antiphilosophy’. An alternative is to read the history of French theory in broad terms of the tension between hostility to (philosophical) ‘Anthropology’ and the openness to (the discipline of) anthropology through which philosophers would be brought into dialogue with their various others. There has perhaps been a philosophical tendency to see the problems of politics sublated by the power of philosophical thought; to see politics occurring only in the failure or absence of philosophy. But this begins to dissipates once philosophy starts to reinvent itself through engagement with the emerging social sciences. Poststructuralism is marked by an eternal return to the problematic of the gift, and to the question of the relationship between philosophy and politics that it opens up.Less
The conclusion considers various attempts to categorise and thematise French poststructuralism around themes including difference, anti-foundationalism, hospitality and what Alain Badiou has called ‘antiphilosophy’. An alternative is to read the history of French theory in broad terms of the tension between hostility to (philosophical) ‘Anthropology’ and the openness to (the discipline of) anthropology through which philosophers would be brought into dialogue with their various others. There has perhaps been a philosophical tendency to see the problems of politics sublated by the power of philosophical thought; to see politics occurring only in the failure or absence of philosophy. But this begins to dissipates once philosophy starts to reinvent itself through engagement with the emerging social sciences. Poststructuralism is marked by an eternal return to the problematic of the gift, and to the question of the relationship between philosophy and politics that it opens up.
RICHARD KEARNEY and KASCHA SEMONOVITCH
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823234615
- eISBN:
- 9780823240722
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823234615.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
There seems to be some indiscernible and subtle relation between the thought of hospitality toward an absolute stranger, and the syntagm “awaiting death.” What is more, this relation seems to inform ...
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There seems to be some indiscernible and subtle relation between the thought of hospitality toward an absolute stranger, and the syntagm “awaiting death.” What is more, this relation seems to inform any scene of hospitality — be the other family, friend, or foreigner. In Of Hospitality, Jacques Derrida situates the question of hospitality in relation to the absolute anonymous other who washes up on the shore bereft of the cosmopolitical rights that distinguish the legitimate foreigner. This chapter retraces Derrida's thinking and interprets Of Hospitality in relation to Aporias, finding in both texts a story of the visitation by death. Absolute hospitality — awaiting and attending to the absolute Other — bears striking resemblance to the event of “awaiting death.” Such hospitality compares to a divine “visitation” wherein the guest is uninvited and uninvitable. The chapter cites stories of visitations illustrating and amplifying Derrida's account in Dante's biography, a poem by D. H. Lawrence, and the Katha Upanishad.Less
There seems to be some indiscernible and subtle relation between the thought of hospitality toward an absolute stranger, and the syntagm “awaiting death.” What is more, this relation seems to inform any scene of hospitality — be the other family, friend, or foreigner. In Of Hospitality, Jacques Derrida situates the question of hospitality in relation to the absolute anonymous other who washes up on the shore bereft of the cosmopolitical rights that distinguish the legitimate foreigner. This chapter retraces Derrida's thinking and interprets Of Hospitality in relation to Aporias, finding in both texts a story of the visitation by death. Absolute hospitality — awaiting and attending to the absolute Other — bears striking resemblance to the event of “awaiting death.” Such hospitality compares to a divine “visitation” wherein the guest is uninvited and uninvitable. The chapter cites stories of visitations illustrating and amplifying Derrida's account in Dante's biography, a poem by D. H. Lawrence, and the Katha Upanishad.
Annedith Schneider
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781784991494
- eISBN:
- 9781526115348
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784991494.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter argues that part of settling in and making a new home is being able to tell one’s own story and to have others listen. It also argues that in such situations humour is a particularly ...
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This chapter argues that part of settling in and making a new home is being able to tell one’s own story and to have others listen. It also argues that in such situations humour is a particularly effective way of winning over an audience. In her one-woman performance, C’est pratique pour tout le monde, Ayşe Şahin adopts the perspective of a devout young immigrant recently arrived from Turkey, who finds herself working in the cloakroom of a sex club. Like Montesquieu’s wide-eyed Persians, Şahin’s character at first sees everything as exotic and new. Yet as she copes with the exploitative business practices of her employer or the sexual particularities of the customers, the heroine takes control of the situation – and the narrative, thus demonstrating the constructive power of humour for immigrants as they create homes for themselves. As Şahin’s character breaks the fourth wall of the stage and interacts with the audience, she occupies the position of host, inviting the audience into and explaining both the world of her immigrant background and the world of the sex club where she works. Assuming this position of knowledgeable insider, Şahin’s character inverts the usual hierarchy between misplaced immigrant and settled native.Less
This chapter argues that part of settling in and making a new home is being able to tell one’s own story and to have others listen. It also argues that in such situations humour is a particularly effective way of winning over an audience. In her one-woman performance, C’est pratique pour tout le monde, Ayşe Şahin adopts the perspective of a devout young immigrant recently arrived from Turkey, who finds herself working in the cloakroom of a sex club. Like Montesquieu’s wide-eyed Persians, Şahin’s character at first sees everything as exotic and new. Yet as she copes with the exploitative business practices of her employer or the sexual particularities of the customers, the heroine takes control of the situation – and the narrative, thus demonstrating the constructive power of humour for immigrants as they create homes for themselves. As Şahin’s character breaks the fourth wall of the stage and interacts with the audience, she occupies the position of host, inviting the audience into and explaining both the world of her immigrant background and the world of the sex club where she works. Assuming this position of knowledgeable insider, Şahin’s character inverts the usual hierarchy between misplaced immigrant and settled native.
Michael Naas
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823229581
- eISBN:
- 9780823235162
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823229581.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
This chapter recounts the first meeting of the author with Derrida, in the context of an analysis of one of Derrida's works on the theme of hospitality, including Of ...
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This chapter recounts the first meeting of the author with Derrida, in the context of an analysis of one of Derrida's works on the theme of hospitality, including Of Hospitality and Voyous (Rogues). It also provides a eulogy, in which it does not denote that someone had died or someone mourns, but showing signs and affirmations of life, as what Derrida wants.Less
This chapter recounts the first meeting of the author with Derrida, in the context of an analysis of one of Derrida's works on the theme of hospitality, including Of Hospitality and Voyous (Rogues). It also provides a eulogy, in which it does not denote that someone had died or someone mourns, but showing signs and affirmations of life, as what Derrida wants.
Bill Williams
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719085499
- eISBN:
- 9781781703311
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719085499.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, Social History
A revival of interest in refugees within the Manchester B'nai Brith Women's Lodge, following the collapse of its Hospitality Committee in 1935, was apparently sparked off by the same chain of ...
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A revival of interest in refugees within the Manchester B'nai Brith Women's Lodge, following the collapse of its Hospitality Committee in 1935, was apparently sparked off by the same chain of international events and those same pressures from Woburn House which had brought the MJRC into being. Later, the MJRC, found a viable plan, agreeable to the lodge, the committee, Woburn House and the Home Office, for the financing and management of a children's hostel with accommodation for a maximum of twenty-two children between the ages of thirteen and sixteen.Less
A revival of interest in refugees within the Manchester B'nai Brith Women's Lodge, following the collapse of its Hospitality Committee in 1935, was apparently sparked off by the same chain of international events and those same pressures from Woburn House which had brought the MJRC into being. Later, the MJRC, found a viable plan, agreeable to the lodge, the committee, Woburn House and the Home Office, for the financing and management of a children's hostel with accommodation for a maximum of twenty-two children between the ages of thirteen and sixteen.
Jean-Michel Rabaté
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780748647316
- eISBN:
- 9780748684380
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748647316.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
In ‘Party Joyce: From the “Dead” to When We “Wake”’, Jean-Michel Rabaté traces Joyce’s ‘party vector’ from the Morkan sisters’ annual dinner-dance to the Christmas dinner of A Portrait of the Artist ...
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In ‘Party Joyce: From the “Dead” to When We “Wake”’, Jean-Michel Rabaté traces Joyce’s ‘party vector’ from the Morkan sisters’ annual dinner-dance to the Christmas dinner of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) to the sexualised references to ‘picnic parties’ in Ulysses (1922) to the revelries in the Chapelizod pub where most of Finnegans Wake (1939) takes place, to the mythical ‘wake’ of Tim Finnegan. Further positioning these parties as ambivalent representations of traditional Irish hospitality, Rabaté argues that the ‘constant tension between the ecumenism of the “party” and the fractiousness of antagonistic political parties’ allows a politicised reading of Joyce’s oeuvre. Accordingly, Rabaté links the ‘Aesopian language’ of Lenin, who was writing Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917) in Zurich at the same time as Joyce was working there on Ulysses, with the dream-language of Finnegans Wake. Rabaté also underlines the affinities of the Irish funeral-party (wake) with Bakhtinian carnivalesque. The party that Joyce keeps rewriting entails an ‘embrace of death’ by a festive life on the brink of excess. This is Joyce’s means of approaching the drive of all drives, Freud’s death drive, which alone permits feeling fully alive.Less
In ‘Party Joyce: From the “Dead” to When We “Wake”’, Jean-Michel Rabaté traces Joyce’s ‘party vector’ from the Morkan sisters’ annual dinner-dance to the Christmas dinner of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) to the sexualised references to ‘picnic parties’ in Ulysses (1922) to the revelries in the Chapelizod pub where most of Finnegans Wake (1939) takes place, to the mythical ‘wake’ of Tim Finnegan. Further positioning these parties as ambivalent representations of traditional Irish hospitality, Rabaté argues that the ‘constant tension between the ecumenism of the “party” and the fractiousness of antagonistic political parties’ allows a politicised reading of Joyce’s oeuvre. Accordingly, Rabaté links the ‘Aesopian language’ of Lenin, who was writing Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917) in Zurich at the same time as Joyce was working there on Ulysses, with the dream-language of Finnegans Wake. Rabaté also underlines the affinities of the Irish funeral-party (wake) with Bakhtinian carnivalesque. The party that Joyce keeps rewriting entails an ‘embrace of death’ by a festive life on the brink of excess. This is Joyce’s means of approaching the drive of all drives, Freud’s death drive, which alone permits feeling fully alive.
A. Whitney Sanford
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813168630
- eISBN:
- 9780813168951
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813168630.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
This chapter illustrates how intentional communities translate their bundled values of nonviolence, self-sufficiency, equity, and voluntary simplicity through producing and consuming food. These ...
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This chapter illustrates how intentional communities translate their bundled values of nonviolence, self-sufficiency, equity, and voluntary simplicity through producing and consuming food. These communities ask what constitutes violence in terms of food and make choices that accord with their specific contexts, goals and geographies, e.g., local vs organic. Catholic worker houses must balance goals of hospitality to the poor with their goals of sustainability. Food rescue helps them combat waste and feed the poor. Whether to eat meat and communal eating become two areas of tension in communities. This chapter explores first, how these communities perform these bundled values in their food practices, including what they eat, what they grow, and what they purchase or gather; and second, the processes and trade-offs of practicing these values.Less
This chapter illustrates how intentional communities translate their bundled values of nonviolence, self-sufficiency, equity, and voluntary simplicity through producing and consuming food. These communities ask what constitutes violence in terms of food and make choices that accord with their specific contexts, goals and geographies, e.g., local vs organic. Catholic worker houses must balance goals of hospitality to the poor with their goals of sustainability. Food rescue helps them combat waste and feed the poor. Whether to eat meat and communal eating become two areas of tension in communities. This chapter explores first, how these communities perform these bundled values in their food practices, including what they eat, what they grow, and what they purchase or gather; and second, the processes and trade-offs of practicing these values.
Edward William Lane and Jason Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9789774165603
- eISBN:
- 9781617975516
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774165603.003.0013
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
The first trait examined in this chapter is religion, as the author makes his case for the overt religiosity and zeal of Egyptian Muslims, as well as the honor and importance attached to piety. It ...
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The first trait examined in this chapter is religion, as the author makes his case for the overt religiosity and zeal of Egyptian Muslims, as well as the honor and importance attached to piety. It also points to specific ways in which Islam has shaped people’s outlook and defined social behaviour. It continues to list the, mainly positive, traits observed in Cairo, such as kindness to animals, hospitality, generosity, cheerfulness, cleanliness, as well as obstinacy and a habit of using obscene language. For these traits, this chapter recounts stories from the author’s experience of life in Cairo to illustrate them.Less
The first trait examined in this chapter is religion, as the author makes his case for the overt religiosity and zeal of Egyptian Muslims, as well as the honor and importance attached to piety. It also points to specific ways in which Islam has shaped people’s outlook and defined social behaviour. It continues to list the, mainly positive, traits observed in Cairo, such as kindness to animals, hospitality, generosity, cheerfulness, cleanliness, as well as obstinacy and a habit of using obscene language. For these traits, this chapter recounts stories from the author’s experience of life in Cairo to illustrate them.
Ashli Que Sinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496809186
- eISBN:
- 9781496809223
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496809186.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Chapter three introduces the idea of hospitality in the South through an exploration of drinks. Although the idea of Southern hospitality is emphasized in stereotypes of the region, there is also ...
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Chapter three introduces the idea of hospitality in the South through an exploration of drinks. Although the idea of Southern hospitality is emphasized in stereotypes of the region, there is also some basis in truth. The offering of food and drink is a traditional symbolic gesture of Southern hospitality and serves as a rhetorical opening for creating connections. In a region marked by division, however, race, class, and even religious differences have historically complicated Southern hospitality, inviting some in while keeping others out. The hospitality that is symbolic of the region was (and still is) limited to certain recipients. Events and homes remained segregated and hospitality might only be extended to those who shared characteristics with the host. Religion also plays an important role in defining part of the contradictions in Southern hospitality. Thus, the limitations of this part of Southern identity are explored in the chapter.Less
Chapter three introduces the idea of hospitality in the South through an exploration of drinks. Although the idea of Southern hospitality is emphasized in stereotypes of the region, there is also some basis in truth. The offering of food and drink is a traditional symbolic gesture of Southern hospitality and serves as a rhetorical opening for creating connections. In a region marked by division, however, race, class, and even religious differences have historically complicated Southern hospitality, inviting some in while keeping others out. The hospitality that is symbolic of the region was (and still is) limited to certain recipients. Events and homes remained segregated and hospitality might only be extended to those who shared characteristics with the host. Religion also plays an important role in defining part of the contradictions in Southern hospitality. Thus, the limitations of this part of Southern identity are explored in the chapter.
Steven B. Smith
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300198393
- eISBN:
- 9780300220988
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300198393.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Modernity has created an age of globalization. Immanuel Kant was the first writer to connect the Enlightenment’s belief in an age of reason and criticism with the emergence of a new international ...
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Modernity has created an age of globalization. Immanuel Kant was the first writer to connect the Enlightenment’s belief in an age of reason and criticism with the emergence of a new international order after the French Revolution. Kant was the architect of the human rights revolution that would later find expression in institutions like the United Nations and in charters like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Kant offered a road map to “perpetual peace” with his argument that when seen from a “cosmopolitan” perspective, humanity has been evolving, by fits and starts to be sure, to a condition of global governance overseen by international law. The chapter argues that Kant represents the high point of Enlightenment, yet he also dangerously underestimated the forces of nationalism and tribalism that would govern later modernity.Less
Modernity has created an age of globalization. Immanuel Kant was the first writer to connect the Enlightenment’s belief in an age of reason and criticism with the emergence of a new international order after the French Revolution. Kant was the architect of the human rights revolution that would later find expression in institutions like the United Nations and in charters like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Kant offered a road map to “perpetual peace” with his argument that when seen from a “cosmopolitan” perspective, humanity has been evolving, by fits and starts to be sure, to a condition of global governance overseen by international law. The chapter argues that Kant represents the high point of Enlightenment, yet he also dangerously underestimated the forces of nationalism and tribalism that would govern later modernity.
M. Jan Holton
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300207620
- eISBN:
- 9780300220797
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300207620.003.0009
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Forced displacement compels a response from communities of faith whose members affirm that social justice is a ground for the human moral obligation to care for the other. Christians, as are all ...
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Forced displacement compels a response from communities of faith whose members affirm that social justice is a ground for the human moral obligation to care for the other. Christians, as are all faith communities rooted in love, are challenged to live into becoming a hospitable community. This hospitality goes beyond traditional practices of welcoming in to what is familiar to us. Rather, by embracing posturesof hospitality, an ethos of relational commitment, we can step outside of what is familiar to learn what home is for the other and in the process invite transformative change to all in the encounter. This hospitality is modeled on the ministry of Jesus, who was a fierce advocate for the marginalized and displaced. He sacrificed home to move into the world and, in each act of his ministry, offered himself in hospitality to all of us.Less
Forced displacement compels a response from communities of faith whose members affirm that social justice is a ground for the human moral obligation to care for the other. Christians, as are all faith communities rooted in love, are challenged to live into becoming a hospitable community. This hospitality goes beyond traditional practices of welcoming in to what is familiar to us. Rather, by embracing posturesof hospitality, an ethos of relational commitment, we can step outside of what is familiar to learn what home is for the other and in the process invite transformative change to all in the encounter. This hospitality is modeled on the ministry of Jesus, who was a fierce advocate for the marginalized and displaced. He sacrificed home to move into the world and, in each act of his ministry, offered himself in hospitality to all of us.
Clinton Bailey
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780300121827
- eISBN:
- 9780300245639
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300121827.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
In describing its main early characters as nomads, the Hebrew Bible provides us with features of their material culture and social behaviour that correspond closely to facets of pre-modern Bedouin ...
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In describing its main early characters as nomads, the Hebrew Bible provides us with features of their material culture and social behaviour that correspond closely to facets of pre-modern Bedouin life in the same areas: the Negev, Sinai, and the hills and deserts of eastern Canaan. These parallels are particularly evident when seen against the reasons that engendered them, explaining, for example, why the early Israelites dwelled in tents during their migrations and thatched booths at the end of summer, ate unleavened bread, quail, and manna, gave names to desert places, utilized stars in the desert sky and desert plants, and extended hospitality to travellers. The patriarch Abraham’s reception of the angels disguised as men who had come to announce the forthcoming motherhood of his barren wife, Sarah, for example, recalls Bedouin hospitality in all its detail.Less
In describing its main early characters as nomads, the Hebrew Bible provides us with features of their material culture and social behaviour that correspond closely to facets of pre-modern Bedouin life in the same areas: the Negev, Sinai, and the hills and deserts of eastern Canaan. These parallels are particularly evident when seen against the reasons that engendered them, explaining, for example, why the early Israelites dwelled in tents during their migrations and thatched booths at the end of summer, ate unleavened bread, quail, and manna, gave names to desert places, utilized stars in the desert sky and desert plants, and extended hospitality to travellers. The patriarch Abraham’s reception of the angels disguised as men who had come to announce the forthcoming motherhood of his barren wife, Sarah, for example, recalls Bedouin hospitality in all its detail.
Clinton Bailey
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780300121827
- eISBN:
- 9780300245639
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300121827.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
Dwelling in dispersion and far from any governmental law enforcement agencies that could provide them security, nomadic desert dwellers needed ways to protect themselves from violations such as ...
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Dwelling in dispersion and far from any governmental law enforcement agencies that could provide them security, nomadic desert dwellers needed ways to protect themselves from violations such as murder, assault, insult, and theft. They achieved this security mainly by forming groups based on blood kin, or people of common descent, people whom they believed would honor claims of common loyalty and cooperation when problems with others arose. Each group they organized had a specific security function. The tribal structure of the Israelites as randomly noted in the Bible bears several similarities to that of the Bedouin. This chapter explores these similarities as well as their impact on the status and roles of the genders and on the institution of matrimony in both societies.Less
Dwelling in dispersion and far from any governmental law enforcement agencies that could provide them security, nomadic desert dwellers needed ways to protect themselves from violations such as murder, assault, insult, and theft. They achieved this security mainly by forming groups based on blood kin, or people of common descent, people whom they believed would honor claims of common loyalty and cooperation when problems with others arose. Each group they organized had a specific security function. The tribal structure of the Israelites as randomly noted in the Bible bears several similarities to that of the Bedouin. This chapter explores these similarities as well as their impact on the status and roles of the genders and on the institution of matrimony in both societies.
Jessica Yirush Stern
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469631486
- eISBN:
- 9781469631509
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631486.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
Southeastern Indian leaders and colonial leaders used gifts to try to control their neighbors. The colonists assumed that Indians who received British gifts would use those gifts (usually guns) to ...
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Southeastern Indian leaders and colonial leaders used gifts to try to control their neighbors. The colonists assumed that Indians who received British gifts would use those gifts (usually guns) to forward British interests. Southestern Indian leaders hoped that by consuming Indian gifts colonists would act as peaceful neighbors.Less
Southeastern Indian leaders and colonial leaders used gifts to try to control their neighbors. The colonists assumed that Indians who received British gifts would use those gifts (usually guns) to forward British interests. Southestern Indian leaders hoped that by consuming Indian gifts colonists would act as peaceful neighbors.
Øyvind Vågnes
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781496802217
- eISBN:
- 9781496802262
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496802217.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
ØyvindVågnes’s essay is the first in the book to focus on Sacco’s story “The Unwanted,” and Vâgnes demonstrates how one of Sacco’s central devices--the portrait of an interview subject--functions as ...
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ØyvindVågnes’s essay is the first in the book to focus on Sacco’s story “The Unwanted,” and Vâgnes demonstrates how one of Sacco’s central devices--the portrait of an interview subject--functions as a means to represent the harms of “bare life” and to imagine an ethics of hospitality.Less
ØyvindVågnes’s essay is the first in the book to focus on Sacco’s story “The Unwanted,” and Vâgnes demonstrates how one of Sacco’s central devices--the portrait of an interview subject--functions as a means to represent the harms of “bare life” and to imagine an ethics of hospitality.
