P. M. Fraser
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780197264287
- eISBN:
- 9780191753978
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264287.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
An analysis of the civic and regional terminology of Greek communal life, and especially the use of the term τὸ ἐθνικόν, is an essential preliminary to understanding how the Greeks considered ...
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An analysis of the civic and regional terminology of Greek communal life, and especially the use of the term τὸ ἐθνικόν, is an essential preliminary to understanding how the Greeks considered national and civic identity once the regular framework of polis-life was established. With the development of grammatical and linguistic analysis, words denoting membership of a community were called ἐθνικά, the nominal adjectival form which we find regularly in Stephanus of Byzantium and in lexica: τὸ ἐθνικόν (ὁ) δεῖνα. The history of the term formed a distinct branch of the traditional studies of the grammarians and lexicographers. This chapter is concerned with the ethnic significance of the adjective as a term used to denote nationality or origin (in the Greek sense), but inevitably it takes account of other meanings of the term when necessary.Less
An analysis of the civic and regional terminology of Greek communal life, and especially the use of the term τὸ ἐθνικόν, is an essential preliminary to understanding how the Greeks considered national and civic identity once the regular framework of polis-life was established. With the development of grammatical and linguistic analysis, words denoting membership of a community were called ἐθνικά, the nominal adjectival form which we find regularly in Stephanus of Byzantium and in lexica: τὸ ἐθνικόν (ὁ) δεῖνα. The history of the term formed a distinct branch of the traditional studies of the grammarians and lexicographers. This chapter is concerned with the ethnic significance of the adjective as a term used to denote nationality or origin (in the Greek sense), but inevitably it takes account of other meanings of the term when necessary.
Willard Spiegelman
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195368130
- eISBN:
- 9780199852192
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195368130.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This chapter criticizes English composer Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes. It examines how audiences viewed and partly misunderstood the character of Peter Grimes and discusses the problems ...
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This chapter criticizes English composer Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes. It examines how audiences viewed and partly misunderstood the character of Peter Grimes and discusses the problems concerning the recreation of a literary character in another medium and the dilemma of making retrospective connections along a literary lineage. It suggests that Peter Grimes' embedding of his identity in the life of the community is similar to Britten's own communal life which demonstrates a commitment to the social relationships upon which all identity depends.Less
This chapter criticizes English composer Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes. It examines how audiences viewed and partly misunderstood the character of Peter Grimes and discusses the problems concerning the recreation of a literary character in another medium and the dilemma of making retrospective connections along a literary lineage. It suggests that Peter Grimes' embedding of his identity in the life of the community is similar to Britten's own communal life which demonstrates a commitment to the social relationships upon which all identity depends.
Timothy C. Baker
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638123
- eISBN:
- 9780748651788
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638123.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter takes a look at Magnus, Brown's central work. It sheds some light on the way Brown imagines sacrifice as the centre of communal life. It studies Brown's rebalancing of the tension ...
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This chapter takes a look at Magnus, Brown's central work. It sheds some light on the way Brown imagines sacrifice as the centre of communal life. It studies Brown's rebalancing of the tension between spiritual and historical signification and his use of the framework of Magnus's life to study the relationship between individuals and the community. It examines the three primary narratives of the life and death of Magnus, along with the dangers of hagiography that Brown faced during his first major attempt at writing the Magnus narrative. It notes that the novel is a blend of modern and medieval styles, and looks at the nature of sacrifice and the ways Brown treats the moment of death.Less
This chapter takes a look at Magnus, Brown's central work. It sheds some light on the way Brown imagines sacrifice as the centre of communal life. It studies Brown's rebalancing of the tension between spiritual and historical signification and his use of the framework of Magnus's life to study the relationship between individuals and the community. It examines the three primary narratives of the life and death of Magnus, along with the dangers of hagiography that Brown faced during his first major attempt at writing the Magnus narrative. It notes that the novel is a blend of modern and medieval styles, and looks at the nature of sacrifice and the ways Brown treats the moment of death.
Teresa Shewry
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816691579
- eISBN:
- 9781452952390
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691579.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter develops a story about hope that takes form through the connections between human and nonhuman beings, specifically fish, against the backdrop of the rapid loss of fish through excesses ...
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This chapter develops a story about hope that takes form through the connections between human and nonhuman beings, specifically fish, against the backdrop of the rapid loss of fish through excesses in fishing in a nineteenth century penal colony. The chapter moves to an archipelago at the border of the Pacific Ocean, Tasmania, and to Australian writer Richard Flanagan’s novels Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (2001) and The Unknown Terrorist (2006). In reading these novels, I come to understand hope as a relation with the present world and future that is accessible only to particular characters and yet that always exists within a broader ecology involving intimacies between people, fish, and the ocean. I reflect on the catastrophic material realities that sometimes come to be apprehended in terms of hope, including empire, incarceration, and fishing. Although such realities may evoke a future involving survival for some, they mean devastation for others. In Flanagan’s writings, people’s passionate interactions with each other and with fish spark new hopes, based on struggles for a communal life better defined by the expressions of nonhuman beings.Less
This chapter develops a story about hope that takes form through the connections between human and nonhuman beings, specifically fish, against the backdrop of the rapid loss of fish through excesses in fishing in a nineteenth century penal colony. The chapter moves to an archipelago at the border of the Pacific Ocean, Tasmania, and to Australian writer Richard Flanagan’s novels Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (2001) and The Unknown Terrorist (2006). In reading these novels, I come to understand hope as a relation with the present world and future that is accessible only to particular characters and yet that always exists within a broader ecology involving intimacies between people, fish, and the ocean. I reflect on the catastrophic material realities that sometimes come to be apprehended in terms of hope, including empire, incarceration, and fishing. Although such realities may evoke a future involving survival for some, they mean devastation for others. In Flanagan’s writings, people’s passionate interactions with each other and with fish spark new hopes, based on struggles for a communal life better defined by the expressions of nonhuman beings.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804770569
- eISBN:
- 9780804776523
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804770569.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
The Revolution of 1848 ushered Jewish emancipation, which required the dissolution of autonomous Jewish communities. This brought new challenges to Christian-Jewish relations and placed new strains ...
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The Revolution of 1848 ushered Jewish emancipation, which required the dissolution of autonomous Jewish communities. This brought new challenges to Christian-Jewish relations and placed new strains on the institutions of Jewish communal life. This chapter focuses on the promulgation of the Provincial Township Law, which treated Jews as equal individuals in the emerging civil state. It then examines the effects of the revolution on Jewish communal life, focusing on the financial crisis that took place in 1848 to 1850. Finally, the chapter discusses the reorganization of Moravia's Jewish communities.Less
The Revolution of 1848 ushered Jewish emancipation, which required the dissolution of autonomous Jewish communities. This brought new challenges to Christian-Jewish relations and placed new strains on the institutions of Jewish communal life. This chapter focuses on the promulgation of the Provincial Township Law, which treated Jews as equal individuals in the emerging civil state. It then examines the effects of the revolution on Jewish communal life, focusing on the financial crisis that took place in 1848 to 1850. Finally, the chapter discusses the reorganization of Moravia's Jewish communities.
Graham Neville
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198269779
- eISBN:
- 9780191683794
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269779.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This chapter describes Edward Hicks's work as a parish priest as it related to his belief that his social and political convictions arose, no less than his pastoral ministry, from his understanding ...
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This chapter describes Edward Hicks's work as a parish priest as it related to his belief that his social and political convictions arose, no less than his pastoral ministry, from his understanding of the gospel. It observes that the peculiar conditions of the appointment of residentiary canons at Manchester, imposing heavy parochial responsibilities on those who were also responsible for the cathedral, correspond with the two aspects of Hicks's understanding of the Christian faith. It observes that it demanded an unsparing personal ministry, together with responsibility in a democratic society for the conditions of communal life, and the political decisions which Hicks's believed to be right did not arise from theoretical considerations but rather they were specifically the consequences of his experience of the miseries of the poor in his parishes. It discusses Hicks's appointment to residentiary canonry, and the incumbency of St Philip's, Salford — one of the most demanding parishes with a population of over 10,000.Less
This chapter describes Edward Hicks's work as a parish priest as it related to his belief that his social and political convictions arose, no less than his pastoral ministry, from his understanding of the gospel. It observes that the peculiar conditions of the appointment of residentiary canons at Manchester, imposing heavy parochial responsibilities on those who were also responsible for the cathedral, correspond with the two aspects of Hicks's understanding of the Christian faith. It observes that it demanded an unsparing personal ministry, together with responsibility in a democratic society for the conditions of communal life, and the political decisions which Hicks's believed to be right did not arise from theoretical considerations but rather they were specifically the consequences of his experience of the miseries of the poor in his parishes. It discusses Hicks's appointment to residentiary canonry, and the incumbency of St Philip's, Salford — one of the most demanding parishes with a population of over 10,000.
Byron L. Sherwin
- Published in print:
- 1983
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197100516
- eISBN:
- 9781800340886
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9780197100516.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
Judah Loew, better known as the Maharal of Prague, was a pivotal personality in late medieval European Judaism. Best known from the popular legend that credited him with the creation of a golem—an ...
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Judah Loew, better known as the Maharal of Prague, was a pivotal personality in late medieval European Judaism. Best known from the popular legend that credited him with the creation of a golem—an artificial human with superhuman powers—his true importance lay in his comprehensive exposition of a unique expression of Jewish mystical theology, his call for a reformation of Jewish communal life, and his influence on subsequent Jewish life and thought. This book, a lucid exposition of the life, legend, works, and ideas developed in Loew's massive writings, “reveals the concealed” by unravelling the often obscure nature of his mystical theology, his polemical jousts against past and contemporary Jewish scholars, and his innovative program for social and educational reform.Less
Judah Loew, better known as the Maharal of Prague, was a pivotal personality in late medieval European Judaism. Best known from the popular legend that credited him with the creation of a golem—an artificial human with superhuman powers—his true importance lay in his comprehensive exposition of a unique expression of Jewish mystical theology, his call for a reformation of Jewish communal life, and his influence on subsequent Jewish life and thought. This book, a lucid exposition of the life, legend, works, and ideas developed in Loew's massive writings, “reveals the concealed” by unravelling the often obscure nature of his mystical theology, his polemical jousts against past and contemporary Jewish scholars, and his innovative program for social and educational reform.
Martin Land
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823282005
- eISBN:
- 9780823284795
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823282005.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter begins by tracing the assertions that link the predominance of Jews in critical discourses to Jewish marginality to a 1919 essay by Thorstein Veblen. Veblen does not argue that ...
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This chapter begins by tracing the assertions that link the predominance of Jews in critical discourses to Jewish marginality to a 1919 essay by Thorstein Veblen. Veblen does not argue that creativity and innovation thrive on the margins but, rather, that marginal groups like the Jews are better able than their European contemporaries to hold to a position of detachment and alienation from tradition and received wisdom, transforming their marginality into a critical perspective from which they are able to question, as it were, both themselves and the European social and economic systems. Recent critics of Veblen have pointed at his blindness toward the cultural and economic characteristics of Jewish communal life. In their critique, however, they take the disproportionate success of American Jews as their prime measure, supplanting Veblen's intellectual value with monetary value. From this perspective, Jews are no longer marginal but, on the contrary, central to the ever-expanding social order of capital.Less
This chapter begins by tracing the assertions that link the predominance of Jews in critical discourses to Jewish marginality to a 1919 essay by Thorstein Veblen. Veblen does not argue that creativity and innovation thrive on the margins but, rather, that marginal groups like the Jews are better able than their European contemporaries to hold to a position of detachment and alienation from tradition and received wisdom, transforming their marginality into a critical perspective from which they are able to question, as it were, both themselves and the European social and economic systems. Recent critics of Veblen have pointed at his blindness toward the cultural and economic characteristics of Jewish communal life. In their critique, however, they take the disproportionate success of American Jews as their prime measure, supplanting Veblen's intellectual value with monetary value. From this perspective, Jews are no longer marginal but, on the contrary, central to the ever-expanding social order of capital.
David H. Weinberg
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781906764104
- eISBN:
- 9781800340961
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781906764104.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter focuses on the Cold War, which split both Europe and its Jews into two camps. The Cold War imposed new barriers, both literally and figuratively. For the Jews of western Europe in ...
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This chapter focuses on the Cold War, which split both Europe and its Jews into two camps. The Cold War imposed new barriers, both literally and figuratively. For the Jews of western Europe in particular, Soviet and American threats of unleashing nuclear missiles raised the prospect of a posthumous victory for Adolf Hitler over his ideological and ‘racial’ enemies. Divisions also arose in the communities themselves, reviving political debates from the interwar period that threatened to undo the fragile unity that leaders had attempted to forge after 1945. Yet rising East–West tensions did not totally paralyse west European Jewish communal life. Despite the formidable obstacles, both non-communist left-wing elements in the European Section of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and mainstream leaders in western Europe worked diligently to steer a middle path between the demands of local political militants and leaders of Jewish organizations in the United States.Less
This chapter focuses on the Cold War, which split both Europe and its Jews into two camps. The Cold War imposed new barriers, both literally and figuratively. For the Jews of western Europe in particular, Soviet and American threats of unleashing nuclear missiles raised the prospect of a posthumous victory for Adolf Hitler over his ideological and ‘racial’ enemies. Divisions also arose in the communities themselves, reviving political debates from the interwar period that threatened to undo the fragile unity that leaders had attempted to forge after 1945. Yet rising East–West tensions did not totally paralyse west European Jewish communal life. Despite the formidable obstacles, both non-communist left-wing elements in the European Section of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and mainstream leaders in western Europe worked diligently to steer a middle path between the demands of local political militants and leaders of Jewish organizations in the United States.
Chaim I. Waxman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781906764845
- eISBN:
- 9781800343450
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781906764845.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
The author of this book is one of the keenest observers of American Jewish society. In illustration of how Orthodoxy is adapting to modernity, the author presents a detailed discussion of halakhic ...
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The author of this book is one of the keenest observers of American Jewish society. In illustration of how Orthodoxy is adapting to modernity, the author presents a detailed discussion of halakhic developments, particularly regarding women's greater participation in ritual practices and other areas of communal life. The book shows that the direction of change is not uniform: there is both greater stringency and greater leniency, and it discusses the many reasons for this, both in the Jewish community and in the wider society. Relations between the various sectors of American Orthodoxy over the past several decades are also considered.Less
The author of this book is one of the keenest observers of American Jewish society. In illustration of how Orthodoxy is adapting to modernity, the author presents a detailed discussion of halakhic developments, particularly regarding women's greater participation in ritual practices and other areas of communal life. The book shows that the direction of change is not uniform: there is both greater stringency and greater leniency, and it discusses the many reasons for this, both in the Jewish community and in the wider society. Relations between the various sectors of American Orthodoxy over the past several decades are also considered.
Tom Clark, Robert D. Putnam, and Edward Fieldhouse
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719082771
- eISBN:
- 9781781702901
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719082771.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter assesses whether diversity has a tendency to lead to more conflict or to friendly contact in Britain and the United States, evaluates the effect of diversity for whites and for ...
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This chapter assesses whether diversity has a tendency to lead to more conflict or to friendly contact in Britain and the United States, evaluates the effect of diversity for whites and for minorities, and studies the connection between diversity in a locality and how community-minded and communally active its citizens are. It also discusses communal life in both countries and measures the combined effect of the potential channels, which could weaken or strengthen community life.Less
This chapter assesses whether diversity has a tendency to lead to more conflict or to friendly contact in Britain and the United States, evaluates the effect of diversity for whites and for minorities, and studies the connection between diversity in a locality and how community-minded and communally active its citizens are. It also discusses communal life in both countries and measures the combined effect of the potential channels, which could weaken or strengthen community life.
David H. Weinberg
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781906764104
- eISBN:
- 9781800340961
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781906764104.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter assesses how the Jews of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands dealt with the unprecedented religious, educational, and cultural needs of their diverse constituents. The sharp increase in ...
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This chapter assesses how the Jews of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands dealt with the unprecedented religious, educational, and cultural needs of their diverse constituents. The sharp increase in the number of alienated and unaffiliated Jews was a source of deep concern to rabbis and religious educators. In response, Orthodox institutions initiated liturgical changes that they hoped would make religious services more attractive. Liberal Judaism also made new inroads. Many young Jews had lived through the war years without any access to Jewish learning or Jewish communal life. In addressing the needs of this ‘lost’ generation, local Jewish educators not only had to develop innovative pedagogical techniques, such as informal classes, public lectures and discussion groups, and the use of radio, television, and film but also had to find ways of reintegrating young people into Jewish and general society. Thanks to funds received from the Claims Conference in the early 1950s and with the assistance of teachers and curricula supplied by American and Israeli agencies, Jewish pedagogues, rabbis, and administrators in western Europe not only formulated creative strategies to educate children, but also set about training new administrators, spiritual leaders, and schoolteachers.Less
This chapter assesses how the Jews of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands dealt with the unprecedented religious, educational, and cultural needs of their diverse constituents. The sharp increase in the number of alienated and unaffiliated Jews was a source of deep concern to rabbis and religious educators. In response, Orthodox institutions initiated liturgical changes that they hoped would make religious services more attractive. Liberal Judaism also made new inroads. Many young Jews had lived through the war years without any access to Jewish learning or Jewish communal life. In addressing the needs of this ‘lost’ generation, local Jewish educators not only had to develop innovative pedagogical techniques, such as informal classes, public lectures and discussion groups, and the use of radio, television, and film but also had to find ways of reintegrating young people into Jewish and general society. Thanks to funds received from the Claims Conference in the early 1950s and with the assistance of teachers and curricula supplied by American and Israeli agencies, Jewish pedagogues, rabbis, and administrators in western Europe not only formulated creative strategies to educate children, but also set about training new administrators, spiritual leaders, and schoolteachers.
Nina L. Khrushcheva
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300108866
- eISBN:
- 9780300148244
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300108866.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Vladimir Nabokov's “Western choice”—his exile to the West after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution—allowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture ...
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Vladimir Nabokov's “Western choice”—his exile to the West after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution—allowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture behind and arriving in the extreme openness of twentieth-century America. This book offers the hypothesis that because of this journey, the works of Russian-turned-American Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) are highly relevant to the political transformation under way in Russia today. The author of this book—a Russian living in America—finds in Nabokov's novels a useful guide for Russia's integration into the globalized world. Now one of Nabokov's “Western” characters herself, the author discusses the cultural and social realities of contemporary Russia that were foreseen half a century earlier. In Pale Fire; Ada, or Ardor; Pnin; and other works, Nabokov reinterpreted the traditions of Russian fiction, shifting emphasis from personal misery and communal life to the notion of forging one's own “happy” destiny. In the twenty-first century Russia faces a similar challenge, and Nabokov's work reveals how skills may be acquired to cope with the advent of democracy, capitalism, and open borders.Less
Vladimir Nabokov's “Western choice”—his exile to the West after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution—allowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture behind and arriving in the extreme openness of twentieth-century America. This book offers the hypothesis that because of this journey, the works of Russian-turned-American Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) are highly relevant to the political transformation under way in Russia today. The author of this book—a Russian living in America—finds in Nabokov's novels a useful guide for Russia's integration into the globalized world. Now one of Nabokov's “Western” characters herself, the author discusses the cultural and social realities of contemporary Russia that were foreseen half a century earlier. In Pale Fire; Ada, or Ardor; Pnin; and other works, Nabokov reinterpreted the traditions of Russian fiction, shifting emphasis from personal misery and communal life to the notion of forging one's own “happy” destiny. In the twenty-first century Russia faces a similar challenge, and Nabokov's work reveals how skills may be acquired to cope with the advent of democracy, capitalism, and open borders.
Jean-François Pradeau
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780859896535
- eISBN:
- 9781781380666
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780859896535.003.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy
This chapter provides the background to Plato's political philosophy, and states that the backbone of the Platonic political philosophy lies in speculative politics. It argues that politics need ...
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This chapter provides the background to Plato's political philosophy, and states that the backbone of the Platonic political philosophy lies in speculative politics. It argues that politics need speculation, as its analysis depends on what it means to live in a communal life, otherwise politics will be reduced to a life of conflict and power struggles. Plato's political philosophy also focuses upon the existence of cities, as he believes that humanity needs to belong in the same community, a single city united by the rule of law and language.Less
This chapter provides the background to Plato's political philosophy, and states that the backbone of the Platonic political philosophy lies in speculative politics. It argues that politics need speculation, as its analysis depends on what it means to live in a communal life, otherwise politics will be reduced to a life of conflict and power struggles. Plato's political philosophy also focuses upon the existence of cities, as he believes that humanity needs to belong in the same community, a single city united by the rule of law and language.
Bartholomew Dean
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813033785
- eISBN:
- 9780813038384
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813033785.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter discusses an introduction to the Chambira Basin, which is the ancestral “homelands” of the Urarina, the so-called people from downstream. It presents geographical and ecological ...
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This chapter discusses an introduction to the Chambira Basin, which is the ancestral “homelands” of the Urarina, the so-called people from downstream. It presents geographical and ecological contextualizations, which are followed by a summary of the major contours of Urarina social organization and a characterization of the daily rounds of communal life. It also addresses the formation of regional and ethnic identities by attending to the importance of the ribereño cultural identities.Less
This chapter discusses an introduction to the Chambira Basin, which is the ancestral “homelands” of the Urarina, the so-called people from downstream. It presents geographical and ecological contextualizations, which are followed by a summary of the major contours of Urarina social organization and a characterization of the daily rounds of communal life. It also addresses the formation of regional and ethnic identities by attending to the importance of the ribereño cultural identities.
Arthur J. Magida
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520245457
- eISBN:
- 9780520941717
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520245457.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
Agnosticism establishes an affiliation to religion, predominantly curious in nature, and at times borders on inquisitiveness. It is this link that prevents a collapse into atheism, but the actual ...
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Agnosticism establishes an affiliation to religion, predominantly curious in nature, and at times borders on inquisitiveness. It is this link that prevents a collapse into atheism, but the actual belief is absent in terms of its salient features. Humbling of the self to an assumed highest authority is largely absent. This chapter charts elements that sustain in a threadbare religious connection. The subject of inquiry is of Jewish descent. Most elements that characterize such kinds of affiliation are largely symbolic in nature and often practiced as parts of communal life, components of communal legacies. Modus operandi of the rituals chart the usual practices, most of which turn out to be only one-time formalities, never ever to be remembered in detail, in terms of their intricacies, reflecting the instrumental value of religion for individuals who ascribe a relative rather than absolute value to it.Less
Agnosticism establishes an affiliation to religion, predominantly curious in nature, and at times borders on inquisitiveness. It is this link that prevents a collapse into atheism, but the actual belief is absent in terms of its salient features. Humbling of the self to an assumed highest authority is largely absent. This chapter charts elements that sustain in a threadbare religious connection. The subject of inquiry is of Jewish descent. Most elements that characterize such kinds of affiliation are largely symbolic in nature and often practiced as parts of communal life, components of communal legacies. Modus operandi of the rituals chart the usual practices, most of which turn out to be only one-time formalities, never ever to be remembered in detail, in terms of their intricacies, reflecting the instrumental value of religion for individuals who ascribe a relative rather than absolute value to it.
Brian Sudlow
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719083112
- eISBN:
- 9781781703137
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719083112.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The conditions of individual secularisation posed two sets of moral problems for believers in France and England at that time. The first concerns the mapping out of human behaviour if belief in God ...
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The conditions of individual secularisation posed two sets of moral problems for believers in France and England at that time. The first concerns the mapping out of human behaviour if belief in God has become deistic or has collapsed into atheism. The second concerns the alternative moral criteria to counter the anthropocentrism transmitted by individual secularisation. These two sets of problems provide vital perspectives from which to read French and English Catholic literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many French and English Catholic writers depict the individual's relationship to God not as amorphous or anthropocentric but as circumscribed by grace (God's help) and virtue in a theocentric collaboration, which leads to a form of communal life between God and the human person. This chapter shows that religious porosity must itself be buffered in some way against the influence of secular society.Less
The conditions of individual secularisation posed two sets of moral problems for believers in France and England at that time. The first concerns the mapping out of human behaviour if belief in God has become deistic or has collapsed into atheism. The second concerns the alternative moral criteria to counter the anthropocentrism transmitted by individual secularisation. These two sets of problems provide vital perspectives from which to read French and English Catholic literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many French and English Catholic writers depict the individual's relationship to God not as amorphous or anthropocentric but as circumscribed by grace (God's help) and virtue in a theocentric collaboration, which leads to a form of communal life between God and the human person. This chapter shows that religious porosity must itself be buffered in some way against the influence of secular society.
Moses O. Biney
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814786390
- eISBN:
- 9780814789810
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814786390.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter examines the nature of spirituality in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana in New York (PCGNY). It also assesses how the congregation's spirituality fosters communality and helps maintain ...
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This chapter examines the nature of spirituality in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana in New York (PCGNY). It also assesses how the congregation's spirituality fosters communality and helps maintain or reshape its identity by examining some of the theological and ethical beliefs which underpin the church's communal life and how these are expressed. It shows that the church's spirituality is a tapestry crafted from aspects of Ghanaian cultural values, biblical interpretation, interpretations of nineteenth-century missionary theological beliefs and practices inherited through the Basel, Scottish, and Moravian missionaries, and the realities of the congregants' lives as immigrants in the United States of America. This spirituality is what currently defines, and in many ways provides authority for moral action and sanction in the community life of the PCGNY. On the other hand, this spirituality is given expression to and is also shaped by the church's community life.Less
This chapter examines the nature of spirituality in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana in New York (PCGNY). It also assesses how the congregation's spirituality fosters communality and helps maintain or reshape its identity by examining some of the theological and ethical beliefs which underpin the church's communal life and how these are expressed. It shows that the church's spirituality is a tapestry crafted from aspects of Ghanaian cultural values, biblical interpretation, interpretations of nineteenth-century missionary theological beliefs and practices inherited through the Basel, Scottish, and Moravian missionaries, and the realities of the congregants' lives as immigrants in the United States of America. This spirituality is what currently defines, and in many ways provides authority for moral action and sanction in the community life of the PCGNY. On the other hand, this spirituality is given expression to and is also shaped by the church's community life.
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804741590
- eISBN:
- 9780804783088
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804741590.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter traces the history of the growth and development of the Jewish community in Pinsk from the Chmielnicki persecutions of 1648–1649 until the Peace of Andruszow. Topics discussed include ...
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This chapter traces the history of the growth and development of the Jewish community in Pinsk from the Chmielnicki persecutions of 1648–1649 until the Peace of Andruszow. Topics discussed include the 1648–1649 persecutions in Pinsk; the Jews of Pinsk during the 1648–1649 persecutions; loss of life; renewal and rehabilitation of communal life; Pinsk during the Polish–Muscovite War (1655–1659); the capture of Pinsk by Mikhail Kurhan; the second Muscovite occupation; and restoration of Polish rule 1660–1667.Less
This chapter traces the history of the growth and development of the Jewish community in Pinsk from the Chmielnicki persecutions of 1648–1649 until the Peace of Andruszow. Topics discussed include the 1648–1649 persecutions in Pinsk; the Jews of Pinsk during the 1648–1649 persecutions; loss of life; renewal and rehabilitation of communal life; Pinsk during the Polish–Muscovite War (1655–1659); the capture of Pinsk by Mikhail Kurhan; the second Muscovite occupation; and restoration of Polish rule 1660–1667.
Roger Hart
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847421845
- eISBN:
- 9781447301813
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847421845.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
This chapter is based directly on a lecture that the author gave in Swansea in 2006, and introduces the overarching themes of spaces for children to self-organise and the ways in which they can or ...
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This chapter is based directly on a lecture that the author gave in Swansea in 2006, and introduces the overarching themes of spaces for children to self-organise and the ways in which they can or cannot exercise control over their lives. It reviews forty years of ‘progress’ in children's participation, suggesting that the same period has seen an erosion of children's visibility in public space and of their opportunities to organise for themselves, and a reduction in their interaction with adults. It develops a model for mapping children and young people's participation visually, and argues for a move away from looking simply at ‘participation’ as currently defined, to focus more broadly on how public and communal life can be revived for all generations.Less
This chapter is based directly on a lecture that the author gave in Swansea in 2006, and introduces the overarching themes of spaces for children to self-organise and the ways in which they can or cannot exercise control over their lives. It reviews forty years of ‘progress’ in children's participation, suggesting that the same period has seen an erosion of children's visibility in public space and of their opportunities to organise for themselves, and a reduction in their interaction with adults. It develops a model for mapping children and young people's participation visually, and argues for a move away from looking simply at ‘participation’ as currently defined, to focus more broadly on how public and communal life can be revived for all generations.