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Suffer the Little Children
Examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American children’s literature Through close readings of selected titles published since 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what is at stake in portraying religious history for young people, particularly when the histories in question are traumatic ones. In the wake of the Holocaust and lynchings, of the Middle Passage and flight from Eastern Europe's pogroms, children’s literature provides diverse and complicated responses to the challenge of representing difficult collective pasts. In reading the work of various prominent authors, including Maurice Sendak, Julius Lester, Jane Yolen, Sydney Taylor, and Virginia Hamilton, Eichler-Levin...
Bible and Cinema
Bible and Cinema: An Introduction is a comprehensive examination of how the Bible has been used and represented in mainstream cinema to develop its plots, characters, and themes. The book considers two general types of films: Bible movies that retell biblical stories, such as the Exodus and the life of Jesus, and Bible-related movies that make use of biblical books, stories, verses, and figures, and Bibles themselves to tell non-biblical, often fictional, narratives. Topics covered include: the contribution of Bible and Bible-related movies to the history of the Bible’s reception; the ways in which filmmakers make use of scripture to address and reflect their own time and place; the Bible ...
Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural
This book is the first study to tackle the relationship between landscape and religion in-depth. Author Matthias Egeler overviews previous theories of the relationship between landscape and religion and then pushes this theorizing further with a rich case study: the supernatural landscape of the Icelandic Westfjords. There, religion and the supernatural--from churches to elf hills--are ubiquitous in the landscape and, as Egeler shows, this example sheds entirely new light on core aspects of the relationship between landscape, religion, and the supernatural.
Nowoczesność w polonistycznej eduk@cji
Cechą dzisiejszej humanistycznej edukacji powinien się stać polisemiczny wymiar interpretacji współczesnych zjawisk. Szkolnej polonistyce powinny towarzyszyć pluralizm i synkretyzm, a także wyważone proporcje między ekspansywną cyberkulturą a tradycją, która ciągle jeszcze jest fundamentem wiedzy. Jestem za edukacją, która pojmuje istotę poezji, ma świadomość sztuki i właściwie rozpoznaje nowe formy nowoczesności. W takim oto rozumieniu niniejszy tom – będący wielopłaszczyznową, interdyscyplinarną dyskusją, dialogiem wielowymiarowym – scala rozproszone, przywraca pojęciu nowoczesności wymiar pozytywnego, konstruktywnego, twórczego i kreatywnego działania. Ze Wstępu prof. dr hab. Anny Pilch Niniejszy tom przynosi wiele istotnych dla edukacji polonistycznej – czy szerzej: humanistycznej – spostrzeżeń, od zorientowanych antropologicznie, w których pojawia się refleksja nad miejscem oraz rolą szkoły (dawniej i dziś) w doświadczeniu kolejnych pokoleń i epok, po zagadnienia związane z formami i treściami kształcenia, zarówno literackiego, jak i językowego. Z recenzji dr hab. Elżbiety Wichrowskiej, prof. UW
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Moses among the Moderns
A historic lawgiver and founder of an ancient nation, Moses was powerful and pivotal in the imagination of modern Germany. The late eighteenth to early twentieth century was an intense period of religious controversy, especially on 'the Jewish question', with new models for understanding faith, science, and the past. This volume focuses on the identification of Jewish law, both Pentateuch and Talmud, with the figure of Moses to trace the fascinations and anxieties of the Bible in modern culture. Through diverse perspectives, it examines the representations and appropriations of Moses as a father of Judaism and framer of European civilization.
Imagining the Fetus
In contemporary Western culture, the word "fetus" introduces either a political subject or a literal, medicalized entity. Neither of these frameworks does justice to the vast array of religious literature and oral traditions from cultures around the world in which the fetus emerges as a powerful symbol or metaphor. This volume presents essays that explore the depiction of the fetus in the world's major religious traditions, finding some striking commonalities as well as intriguing differences. Among the themes that emerge is the tendency to conceive of the fetus as somehow independent of the mother's body — as in the case of the Buddha, who is described as inhabiting a palace while gestating in the womb. On the other hand, the fetus can also symbolically represent profound human needs and emotions, such as the universal experience of vulnerability. The authors note how the advent of the fetal sonogram has transformed how people everywhere imagine the unborn today, giving rise to a narrow range of decidedly literal questions about personhood, gender, and disability.
Real Sadhus Sing to God
In this groundbreaking book, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli examines the everyday religious worlds and lived practices of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the north Indian state of Rajasthan. Real Sadhus Sing to God is the first book-length study to explore the ways that female sadhus perform and create gendered views of asceticism through their singing, storytelling, and sacred text practices .
Curating Difficult Knowledge
This volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, bringing museum and heritage studies to bear on questions of transitional justice, memory and post-conflict reconciliation. As practitioners, artists, curators, activists and academics, the contributors explore the challenges of bearing witness to past conflicts.
Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films
Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films introduces a wide range of those movies - among the most important, critically-acclaimed and highest-grossing films of all time - which have drawn inspiration, either directly or indirectly, from the Bible.
