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Jews and Urban Life

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Jews and Urban Life recognizes that throughout their long history, Jews have often inhabited cities. The reality of this urban experience ranged from ghetto restrictions to robust participation in a range of civic and social activities. Essays in this collection present relevant examples from within the Jewish community itself, moving historically from the biblical period to the modern-day State of Israel. Taking a comparative approach while recognizing the particulars of individual instances, authors examine these phenomena from a wide variety of approaches, genres, and media. Interdisciplinary and accessibly written, the articles display a multitude of instances throughout history showing the range of Jewish life in urban settings.Acknowledgments Editor’s Introduction Contributors Jews in Ancient Civic Life, by Gary Gilbert Urbanizing Jews: Agriculture, Slave Codes, and the Byzantine Empire, by Anthony Meyer Vienna’s Jewish Community, 1819–1826: Glimpses from Beethoven’s Conversation Books at the Dawn of a New Era, by Theodore Albrecht A Tale of Two Cities: Jewish Creativity in Venice and Prague, by Ori Z. Soltes The Cosmopolitan Jewish City: A Typology, by Alan Levenson The Social Role of Small Jewish Cultural Centers: The Case of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Menachem Keren-Kratz Jewish Urbanization and the Midsize City: The Case of Kaunas, Lithuania, by Motti Zalkin Kyiv as a Center of Soviet Jewish Culture in the 1920s–1930s, by Victoria Khiterer The Yiddish Press in Cleveland, by Sean Martin Jews Create Towns: An Examination of the Impact of Joseph Sondheimer on the Creation of Muskogee, Oklahoma, by Mara W. Cohen Ioannides Rescuing that Modest Mansion: The Contributions of Urban Jews to American Historic Preservation, by Barry L. Stiefel Comicus the Cosmopolite: Diasporic Cosmopolitics and the Promise of the City in Mel Brooks’s History of the World, Part I, by David J. Peterson and Joan Latchaw City in the Garden, Garden in the City: Clarence Stein, Moshe Safdie, and the Design of Urban Reform, by Martin H. Shukert
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Beyond Whiteness

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The concept of ethnicity, once in vogue, has largely gone out of fashion among twenty-first-century social scientists, now replaced by models of assimilation defined in terms of the construction of whiteness and white supremacy. Beyond Whiteness: Revisiting Jews in Ethnic America explores the benefits of reconfiguring the ethnic concept as a tool to analyze the experiences of twentieth-century American Jews—not only in relation to other “white” groups of European descent, but also African Americans and Asian Americans, among others. The essays presented here, ranging from comparative studies of Jews and Asians as “model minorities” to the examination of postethnic “Jews of color,” demonstrate that expanding ethnicity beyond the traditional Eurocentric frame can yield fresh insights into the character of Jewish life in the modern United States.FOREWORD INTRODUCTION: TWO CHEERS FOR ETHNICITY 1. Yiddish Leftists as Early Inter-Ethniks, by Elissa Sampson 2. From the Classroom to the Soapbox: Multiethnic Workers Schools and Leftist Parties, by Robert M. Zecker 3. Parkchester: A Suburb in a City and the Challenge to Ethnicity, 1940–circa 1970, by Jeffrey S. Gurock 4. Overrepresented Minorities: Comparing the Jewish and Asian American Experiences, by Jonathan Karp 5. “A bunch of blond meshugeners”: Mormons in the American Jewish Imagination, by Julian Levinson 6. Jewish American Writers and the J-Word, by Hana Wirth-Nesher 7. “I Didn’t Know There Were Epsteins in Puerto Rico”: Jewish Ethnicity in American Comedy, by Jarrod Tanny 8. Like Other (Mixed Parentage) Jews, Only More So: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Jews of Color, by Bruce A. Phillips ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE
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Affiche du document The Impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump on American Jewry and Israel

The Impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump on American Jewry and Israel

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The Trump presidency has resulted in a fundamentally disruptive moment in this nation’s political culture. Not only were there different policy options and directions, but the cultural artifacts of politics changed because of how this president dramatically challenged the existing norms of political behavior and action. As we have shifted from a period of American liberalism to a time of political populism, deep fissures are dividing Americans in general and Jews in particular.The Impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump on American Jewry and Israel unpacks President Donald Trump’s distinctive and unique relationship with the American Jewish community and the State of Israel. Addressing the various dimensions of his personal and political connections with Jews and Israel, this publication is designed to provide an assessment of how the Trump presidency has influenced and altered American Jewish political behavior. Writers from different backgrounds and political orientations bring a broad range of perspectives designed to examine various aspects of this presidency, including Trump’s particular impact on Israel-US relations, his special connection with Orthodox Jews, and his complex and uneven relationship with Jewish Republicans.For liberal American Jews, these four years represented a fundamental revolution, overturning and challenging much that a generation of activists had fought to achieve and protect. For Trump’s supporters, it afforded them an opportunity to advance their priorities, while joining the forty-fifth president in changing the American political landscape. The “Trump effect” will extend well beyond his four-year tenure, creating an environment that has fomented the politics of hate and exposed a deeply embedded presence of anti-Semitism. How Americans understand this moment in time and the ways society will adapt can be reflected through the prism of the Jewish encounter with Trumpism that this volume seeks to explore.FOREWORD EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION Consonance or Dissonance: American Jewry in a Post-Trump Era, by Gary Phillip Zola Donald Trump and the Jews: Bad for America, Bad for the Jews, Wonderful for the Netanyahu-Led Government of Israel and Potentially Dangerous to Israel’s Future, by Michael Berenbaum Trump: Friend Extraordinaire to Israel and the Jewish People, by Morton A. Klein and Elizabeth A. Berney, Esq. The Jewish Community and Younger Generations: Challenges, Opportunities, and Long-Term Impacts of the Trump Era, by Adam Basciano and Shanie Reichman The American Jewish Community: A Divergence of Political Perspectives, by Saba Soomekh Orthodox Jews and Trump, by Gilbert N. Kahn Seeing Mar-A-Lago from Jerusalem: Perceptions of President Trump in Israel, by Ehud Eiran How the Jewish Press Saw, by Rob Eshman Why Donald Trump’s Vision Repelled American Jews, by Mark Mellman They Said It Couldn’t Be Done: Historic Achievements of President Donald Trump, by Matthew Brooks and Shari Hillman Trump and the Jews: What Did We Learn?, by Dan Schnur Reflections on Donald Trump’s Presidency and American Jewry, by Steven F. Windmueller ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE
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Jews and Gender

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Jews and Gender features sixteen authors exploring the history and culture of the intersection of Judaism and gender from the biblical world to today. Topics include subversive readings of biblical texts; reappraisal of rabbinic theory and practice; women in mysticism, Chasidism, and Yiddish literature; and women in contemporary culture and politics. Accessible and comprehensive, this volume will appeal to the general reader in addition to engaging with contemporary academic scholarship.Acknowledgments Editor’s Introduction Contributors The Heroines of Everyday Life: Ancient Israelite Women in Context, by Cynthia Shafer-Elliott An Ironic/Satirical, Subversively Proto-Feminist Reading of the Daughters of Zelophehad in Numbers 27 and 36, by Jay Caballero Constructing Gender Bride by Bride: Rabbinic Ideas of Citizenship in Light of Gender, by Susan Marks Gendering Emotion in Genesis Rabbah, by Joel Gereboff The Legalization of Modesty: Sources and Significance, by Emmanuel Bloch Marriage, Motherhood, and the Matriarchs in the Zohar, by Margaret Gurewitz Smith Chasidism and Gender through a New Reading of a Feminist Story of R. Nachman of Breslov, by Roni Bar Lev Jewish Homesteader Memoir: A Woman’s Story, by Mara W. Cohen Ioannides “He Wanted to Make Them into Educated, Enlightened People”: Jewish Immigrants, Acculturation, and Gender Stereotypes in A. D. Oguz’s Di fraydenker, by Matthew H. Brittingham Locking Up Al Levy: Jewish Masculinity in the Early Civil Rights Movement, by Jeannette Gabriel Golda Meir, Sarojini Naidu, and the Rise of Female Political Leaders in British India and British Mandate Palestine, by Joseph R. Hodes Jewish Feminism as a Model for Judaism as a Choice, by Hannah Kehat The Pioneering American Jewish Women Directors: From Elaine May to Claudia Weill, by Lawrence Baron “When You’re a Funny Girl”: Confirming and Complicating Accepted Cultural Images of Jewish Femininity in the Films of Barbra Streisand, by Samantha Pickette “Schlemiel Feminism”: Jewish Humor and Activism on Broad City, by David Gillota Poskot in the Palace of Torah: A Preliminary Study of Orthodox Feminism and Halachic Process, by Gail Labovitz
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Affiche du document New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society

New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society

David N. Myers

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Who are Haredim? And why are they the source of both increasing attention and continuing misunderstanding? New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society draws on the innovative research of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines—including history, religious studies, demography, linguistics, and geography—to trace the growing prominence of Haredi (often called ultra-Orthodox) Jews in Jewish life. Haredi Jews are committed to preserving a measure of segregation from the rest of society consistent with the guiding principles of their forebears; yet increasingly, they are appearing more visibly and assertively in public spaces. Demographic analysis suggests that they will constitute a much larger share—nearly one-quarter—of the world Jewish population over the next twenty years. By examining the evolution of political, cultural, and social trends in Haredi communities across the globe, this interdisciplinary and transnational volume sheds important light both on Haredi communities and on the societies of which they are part.FOREWORD EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION PART I: CULTURE AND SOCIETY A “Demographic Hybrid”: Haredi Demography in the Early Twenty-first Century, by Daniel Staetsky Serving the Jews, Serving the Empire: Discursive Hierarchy and Messianic Temporality in Russian Chabad, by Galina Zelenina Innovation and Conservatism in Hasidic Pop Culture and Language, by Chaya R. Nove Communal Self-Regulation and State Law: The Case of the “Kosher Cellphone in Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Community”, by Shuki Friedman Stuck in Neutral: Some Ethnographic Reflections on Haredim, Education, and the State, by Lea Taragin-Zeller PART II: POLITICS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Kosher Socialism? A History of Haredi Judaism and the Left, by Nathaniel Deustch Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and the State of Israel: New Perspectives, by Itamar Ben Ami From a Negligible Minority to a Rising Force: Three Formative Events in Post-1977 Haredi History, by Benjamin Brown The Haredi Parties and the Rightist Camp in Israel 1948–2022: From Preference to Default, by Nissim Leon Politics, National Identity, and Democracy: A Comparison of Haredi Political Attitudes and Behavior in the United States and Israel, by Nechumi Malovicki-Yaffe, David N. Myers, Mark Trencher, and Chaya Lehrfield-Trop ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE
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Affiche du document Le centre d’interprétation dans tous ses ses états

Le centre d’interprétation dans tous ses ses états

Marc Terrisse

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L’expression « centre d’interprétation » demeure assez largement méconnue. Né en Amérique du Nord, cet équipement a longtemps été défini comme un espace d’exposition sans collections utilisant des processus de médiation immersifs. Le terme devient pourtant de plus en plus usité car un nombre croissant de centres d’interprétation fleurit en France, à l’image de la cité des civilisations du vin de Bordeaux ou de Lascaux IV. Compte tenu du développement de ce phénomène relativement peu étudié, il semblait nécessaire de concevoir un ouvrage de synthèse sur les caractéristiques de ces équipements à la frontière du monde des musées et de celui du parc d’attractions. Ce livre a pour finalité d’aider les chercheurs, les professionnels de la culture, du tourisme et des loisirs ainsi que les décideurs politiques à mieux comprendre les spécificités des centres d’interprétation aussi bien au niveau muséographique que dans le domaine de la gestion, des coûts de fonctionnement ou des ressources humaines. La problématique de la durabilité d’un tel équipement, au regard de l’utilisation de médiateurs utilisant les technologies de l’image et du son, est également abordée. Ce travail a été réalisé sur la base d’une large enquête menée auprès de plusieurs gestionnaires de centres d’interprétation en France. Des entretiens avec des spécialistes en muséologie et des consultants ont, en outre, contribué aux analyses présentées.
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Affiche du document Margaret Sanger: an Autobiography

Margaret Sanger: an Autobiography

Margaret SANGER

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Sanger's general interest in sex education and women's health focuses on family, marriage and motherhood. As a nurse she saw graphic examples of the toll taken by frequent childbirth, miscarriage, and self-induced abortion. With access to contraceptive information prohibited on grounds of obscenity by state and federal laws, Sanger realized that many less well-off women did not have freedom from the physical hardships, fear, and dependency inherent in unwanted pregnancy. Awakened to the connection between contraception and working-class empowerment, Sanger became convinced that liberating women from the risk of too many unwanted pregnancies would effect fundamental social change in allowing women to claim their reproductive rights. She was never an advocate of abortion but of birth control. Sanger launched a campaign challenging governmental censorship of contraceptive information by embarking on a series of law-defying confrontational actions designed to force birth control into the center of public debate and eventual accessibility for all women.
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La société des invisibles

Cyril Desjeux

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Les traumatismes crâniens et les accidents vasculaires cérébraux sont les premières causes de handicap acquis. Or, le handicap est politique. Il dépend de choix sociétaux et des priorités que se donnent nos gouvernements, mais il est également une manière de signifier des rapports de pouvoir fondés sur les différences perçues entre les personnes en termes de déficiences, de troubles, d’incapacités et de limitations. Le handicap est aussi performatif car il produit lui-même des parcours, des manières de faire et d’être et il auto-réalise certaines représentations que l’on peut avoir du handicap et de la lésion cérébrale. Enfin, il opère une logique de tri, de classement et de sélection entre certaines particularités et spécificités. Aussi, le handicap inclut une pluralité de situations et en écarte d’autres. « La société des invisibles » dresse un état des lieux et, par des exemples concrets, montre que des territoires et des services s’organisent pour répondre au mieux à ces handicaps malgré un système de contraintes denses et une raréfaction des ressources. Il invite à les comprendre et à promouvoir de nouveaux modèles adaptés à l’accompagnement des personnes cérébrolésées et à leurs proches aidants. Il invite à penser la complexité des situations non plus uniquement au regard de la personne, mais de son environnement et de la manière dont celui-ci se donne les moyens d’y répondre.
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Getting Out Alive

Tommy Dick

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Nineteen-year-old Tommy Dick was killed, only to resurface. Born into a Hungarian family who had converted from Judaism, Tommy soon found out that in the eyes of the Nazis, he was still a Jew, still a target for murder. On the run and in disguise, Tommy was chased by death as much as he was by luck. Getting Out Alive is a vivid and gripping account of how the courageous acts of others, unshakeable friendships and Tommy’s own extraordinary quick wit conspired to save the life of this adventurous and determined young man in the cruellest of times.
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W Hour

Arthur Ney

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Arthur Ney, a twelve-year-old smuggler outside the Warsaw ghetto walls when the ghetto uprising began in the spring of 1943, fled to the countryside with false papers to work on a farm. Almost a year later, he returned to Warsaw and faced the realization that his family was gone. Under the protection of the Salesian Fathers as a “Christian” boy, he struggled with loneliness, guilt, fear and indecision regarding his “dual identity.” When the Warsaw Uprising began on August 1, 1944, then fourteen-year-old Arthur Ney joined the barricades and fought the Germans – W Hour is the code name for the Uprising.
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Inside the Walls

Eddie Klein

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An idealist and a dreamer, young Icchok Klein writes poetry in the Lodz ghetto, a talent that leads to him to be rescued by a tight inner circle, where he comes under the protective wing of the chairman of the Council of Elders, Mordechai Rumkowski. In a flash, Icchok’s life takes a decidedly different path, giving him a birds-eye view of a house of privilege and a polarizing, controversial figure. But in August 1944, Icchok’s fate spirals when he is among those transported from the ghetto and he is forced to face, alone, each precarious moment.
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Affiche du document In Fragile Moments / The Last Time

In Fragile Moments / The Last Time

Zsuzsanna Fischer Spiro

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Born two hundred kilometres away from each other and two years apart, Zsuzsanna Fischer and Eva Steinberger are both thrown into chaos when Germany occupies Hungary and destroys their peaceful childhoods. In the spring of 1944, as Zsuzsanna and Eva are sent into ghettos and then to Auschwitz, they each take refuge in the one constant in their lives – their older sisters. While Zsuzsanna frantically documents the end of the war in her diary, pages that she will return to when faced with the trauma of post-war revolution in Hungary, Eva barely escapes death and, shattered by so many tragedies, dreams of finding freedom and family. Two stories etched in pain and hope, In Fragile Moments and The Last Time mirror the remarkable differences of similar paths of survival.
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God Hates Fags

Michael Cobb

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2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAt the funeral of Matthew Shepard—the young Wyoming man brutally murdered for being gay—the Reverend Fred Phelps led his parishioners in protest, displaying signs with slogans like “Matt Shepard rots in Hell,” “Fags Die God Laughs,” and “God Hates Fags.” In counter-protest, activists launched an “angel action,” dressing in angel costumes, with seven-foot high wings, and creating a visible barrier so one would not have to see the hateful signs.Though long thought of as one of the most virulently anti-gay genres of contemporary American politics and culture, in God Hates Fags, Michael Cobb maintains that religious discourses have curiously figured as the most potent and pervasive forms of queer expression and activism throughout the twentieth century. Cobb focuses on how queers have assumed religious rhetoric strategically to respond to the violence done against them, alternating close readings of writings by James Baldwin, Tennessee Williams, Jean Toomer, Dorothy Allison, and Stephen Crane with critical legal and political analyses of Supreme Court Cases and anti-gay legislation. He also pays deep attention to the political strategies, public declarations, websites, interviews, and other media made by key religious right organizations that have mounted the most successful regulations and condemnations of homosexuality.
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When Animals Speak

Eva Meijer

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Winner, 2020 ASCA Book Award, given by the Amsterdam School of Cultural AnalysisA groundbreaking argument for the political rights of animals In When Animals Speak, Eva Meijer develops a new, ground-breaking theory of language and politics, arguing that non-human animals speak—and, most importantly, act—politically. From geese and squid to worms and dogs, she highlights the importance of listening to animal voices, introducing ways to help us bridge the divide between the human and non-human world. Drawing on insights from science, philosophy, and politics, Meijer provides fascinating, real-world examples of animal communities who use their voices to speak, and act, in political ways. When Animals Speak encourages us to rethink our relations with other animals, showing that their voices should be taken into account as the starting point for a new interspecies democracy.
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Unsung Heroes: Animal Welfare

Steele MacDonald Lisa

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Read the inspirational stories of six animal advocates from very different backgrounds who have found ways to be heroes for animals. Learn how you can follow in their footsteps and be a hero, too! Packed with fun facts and fascinating sidebars, this full-color informational text explores contemporary issues through high-interest content. Featuring TIME© content and images, this nonfiction book has important text features such as a glossary, an index, and a table of contents to engage students in reading as they build their comprehension, vocabulary, and reading skills. The Reader''s Guide and extended Try It! activity increase understanding of the material, and develop higher-order thinking. Check It Out! offers print and online resources for additional reading. Keep students reading from cover to cover with this captivating text!
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Transcendent in America

Lola Williamson

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Yoga, karma, meditation, guru—these terms, once obscure, are now a part of the American lexicon. Combining Hinduism with Western concepts and values, a new hybrid form of religion has developed in the United States over the past century. In Transcendent in America, Lola Williamson traces the history of various Hindu-inspired movements in America, and argues that together they constitute a discrete category of religious practice, a distinct and identifiable form of new religion.Williamson provides an overview of the emergence of these movements through examining exchanges between Indian Hindus and American intellectuals such as Thomas Jefferson and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and illuminates how Protestant traditions of inner experience paved the way for Hindu-style movements’ acceptance in the West.Williamson focuses on three movements—Self-Realization Fellowship, Transcendental Meditation, and Siddha Yoga—as representative of the larger of phenomenon of Hindu-inspired meditation movements. She provides a window into the beliefs and practices of followers of these movements by offering concrete examples from their words and experiences that shed light on their world view, lifestyle, and relationship with their gurus. Drawing on scholarly research, numerous interviews, and decades of personal experience with Hindu-style practices, Williamson makes a convincing case that Hindu-inspired meditation movements are distinct from both immigrant Hinduism and other forms of Asian-influenced or “New Age” groups.
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Becoming Rasta

Charles Price

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An exploration into why and how Jamaicans become Rastafari in spite of increasing incrimination of the religionSo much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular understandings evoke images of dreadlocks, reggae, and marijuana, Rastafarians were persecuted in their country, becoming a people seeking social justice. Yet new adherents continued to convert to Rastafari despite facing adverse reactions from their fellow citizens and from their British rulers.Charles Price draws on in-depth interviews to reveal the personal experiences of those who adopted the religion in the 1950s to 1970s, one generation past the movement''s emergence. By talking with these Rastafari elders, he seeks to understand why and how Jamaicans became Rastafari in spite of rampant discrimination, and what sustains them in their faith and identity.Utilizing new conceptual frameworks, Price explores the identity development of Rastafari, demonstrating how shifts in the movement’s identity—from social pariah to exemplar of Blackness—have led some of the elder Rastafari to adopt, embrace, and internalize Rastafari and blackness as central to their concept of self.
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Empire of Sacrifice

Jon Pahl

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It is widely recognized that American culture is both exceptionally religious and exceptionally violent. Americans participate in religious communities in high numbers, yet American citizens also own guns at rates far beyond those of citizens in other industrialized nations. Since 9/11, United States scholars have understandably discussed religious violence in terms of terrorist acts, a focus that follows United States policy. Yet, according to Jon Pahl, to identify religious violence only with terrorism fails to address the long history of American violence rooted in religion throughout the country’s history. In essence, Americans have found ways to consider blessed some very brutal attitudes and behaviors both domestically and globally.In Empire of Sacrifice, Pahl explains how both of these distinctive features of American culture work together by exploring how constructions along the lines of age, race, and gender have operated to centralize cultural power across American civil or cultural religions in ways that don’t always appear to be "religious" at all. Pahl traces the development of these forms of systemic violence throughout American history, using evidence from popular culture, including movies such as Rebel without a Cause and Reefer Madness and works of literature such as The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Handmaid''s Tale, to illuminate historical events. Throughout, Pahl focuses an intense light on the complex and durable interactions between religion and violence in American history, from Puritan Boston to George W. Bush’s Baghdad.
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Affiche du document Savoirs et politiques de développement Questions en débat à l’aube du XXIe siècle

Savoirs et politiques de développement Questions en débat à l’aube du XXIe siècle

Gabas Jean-Jacques

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Affiche du document Domestication Gone Wild

Domestication Gone Wild

Heather Anne Swanson and Marianne Elisabeth Lien and Gro B. Ween (Editors)

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The domestication of plants and animals is central to the familiar and now outdated story of civilization's emergence. Intertwined with colonialism and imperial expansion, the domestication narrative has informed and justified dominant and often destructive practices. Contending that domestication retains considerable value as an analytical tool, the contributors to Domestication Gone Wild reengage the concept by highlighting sites and forms of domestication occurring in unexpected and marginal sites, from Norwegian fjords and Philippine villages to British falconry cages and South African colonial townships. Challenging idioms of animal husbandry as human mastery and progress, the contributors push beyond the boundaries of farms, fences, and cages to explore how situated relations with animals and plants are linked to the politics of human difference-and, conversely, how politics are intertwined with plant and animal life. Ultimately, this volume promotes a novel, decolonizing concept of domestication that radically revises its Euro- and anthropocentric narrative.Contributors. Inger Anneberg, Natasha Fijn, Rune Flikke, Frida Hastrup, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Knut G. Nustad, Sara Asu Schroer, Heather Anne Swanson, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Mette Vaarst, Gro B. Ween, Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme
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