Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future
Abstract The United Church of Canada, founded in 1925, represents an ambitious experiment in church union that blends Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. Over the past century, the church has played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian society by advocating for social justice, Indigenous reconciliation, interreligious dialogue ...
Hyuk Cho
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Narrative and Belonging: The Politics of Ambiguity, The Jewish State, and the Thought of Edward Said and Hannah Arendt [PDF]
At the core of this thesis, I examine the difficulties of giving an account of oneself in modern associational life. By integrating the theory and political activism of both Edward Said and Hannah Arendt, I follow the Zionist response to European ...
Bessen, Jacob, Bessen, Jacob A
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Understanding revenge cognitions among Jewish women survivors of intimate partner violence in Canada
Abstract Background Revenge cognitions and behaviors are common responses following intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization, yet little is known about how survivors, particularly from religious minority communities, process these responses during recovery. Objective This study investigated how Jewish women IPV survivors conceptualize and navigate
Anat Vass
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Menorah Review (No. 81, Summer/Fall, 2014) [PDF]
Books in Brief: New and Notable -- candelabra gold -- Education: Yeshivah style -- Moreshet: From the Sources -- Mysteries of the Books of Job: From Elihu to Elie Wiesel -- Two Nations Are In Your Womb (Gen 25:23) -- When Rhetoric Dominates The Message --
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To Desire What Is Nothing: Simone Weil, Asceticism and Psychoanalysis
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Georgie Newson
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Framing ASL education: Perspectives from postsecondary ASL professionals
Abstract American Sign Language (ASL) education is experiencing significant growth and increased prominence in academic and public domains. ASL is now widely regarded as a valid option for fulfilling foreign language and general education requirements at postsecondary institutions across the US.
Jason D. Listman +3 more
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The Phenomenology of Affirmation in Nietzsche and R. Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbica
Nietzsche is the world’s most (in)famous atheist, bearer of the monumental tiding of the Death of God. His works contain biting critiques of Christianity and, to a lesser degree, of Judaism as well.
Herzl Hefter
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Reading and relating with Frieda Fromm‐Reichmann and Joanne Greenberg
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Joshua Pugh
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EIGENSINN AND DOMINATION IN LIBERAL AND ILLIBERAL SOCIETIES
ABSTRACT This article is a posthumously published text that was written by Alf Lüdtke and Alexandra Oeser but was left unfinished when Lüdtke died in February 2019. It examines two central notions—and their articulations—that Lüdtke and Oeser use differently in their work: domination and Eigensinn. On domination, it focuses on perspectives of Max Weber'
Alf Lüdtke, Alexandra Oeser
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Good Public Theology is Twilight Theology. A Constructive Deconstruction of Public Theology
Abstract The article outlines the basic features of a good public theology that is inspired by Paul’s description of the situation of the church and Christians: ‘The night has passed, the day is not far distant’ (Rom 13:12). In his analysis of the present, the author identifies eight specific challenges of contemporary culture – challenges that have so
Günter Thomas
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