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Author: Walter Andrew Shephard Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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ABSTRACT In 1993, cultural critic Mary Dery coined the term "Afrofuturism" as a means of describing a then nascent aesthetic movement emerging across a variety of media forms. As he defined the term: "Speculative fiction which treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth-century technoculture— and, more generally, African American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced future." As such, he primarily defines black speculative thought in relation to technology and privileges a forward-looking trajectory. While I consider Dery's intervention to be both an important and necessary one, I nonetheless wish to push back against this assumption. This is not in an antagonistic way, but in the interest of not privileging visions of the future over speculative works which engage in other modes of temporality. Works such as Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman (1898) or Samuel Delany's Neveryon stories set in a pre-modern secondary world, are not necessarily "futurist" per se, but I believe them to be just as vital to the black cultural imaginary as works which look beyond our contemporary moment. Moreover, these works serve as more than mere escapism. They serve the invaluable purpose of constructing a "usable past" to serve as the foundation for a more utopian future. This dissertation looks at this phenomenon in three different facets. The first would be stories about the African American folk magic tradition known as Conjure and the ways in which it serves as a means of resisting the culturally homogenizing forces of modernity by enabling the performance of a uniquely black ethnic identity. The second highlights speculative visions of Africa and the ways that they express a nostalgia for a homeland to which one has never been. And finally, speculative neo-slave narratives which address the eerie afterlife of slavery and ways in which its impact can be felt in the present day, in impactful if seemingly intangible ways. These speculative visions serve a purpose beyond mere escapism, they help lay the foundation for more utopian visions of the future by constructing a "usable past.".
Author: Walter Andrew Shephard Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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ABSTRACT In 1993, cultural critic Mary Dery coined the term "Afrofuturism" as a means of describing a then nascent aesthetic movement emerging across a variety of media forms. As he defined the term: "Speculative fiction which treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth-century technoculture— and, more generally, African American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced future." As such, he primarily defines black speculative thought in relation to technology and privileges a forward-looking trajectory. While I consider Dery's intervention to be both an important and necessary one, I nonetheless wish to push back against this assumption. This is not in an antagonistic way, but in the interest of not privileging visions of the future over speculative works which engage in other modes of temporality. Works such as Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman (1898) or Samuel Delany's Neveryon stories set in a pre-modern secondary world, are not necessarily "futurist" per se, but I believe them to be just as vital to the black cultural imaginary as works which look beyond our contemporary moment. Moreover, these works serve as more than mere escapism. They serve the invaluable purpose of constructing a "usable past" to serve as the foundation for a more utopian future. This dissertation looks at this phenomenon in three different facets. The first would be stories about the African American folk magic tradition known as Conjure and the ways in which it serves as a means of resisting the culturally homogenizing forces of modernity by enabling the performance of a uniquely black ethnic identity. The second highlights speculative visions of Africa and the ways that they express a nostalgia for a homeland to which one has never been. And finally, speculative neo-slave narratives which address the eerie afterlife of slavery and ways in which its impact can be felt in the present day, in impactful if seemingly intangible ways. These speculative visions serve a purpose beyond mere escapism, they help lay the foundation for more utopian visions of the future by constructing a "usable past.".
Author: Genevià ̈ve Fabre Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253109108 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 405
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The Harlem Renaissance is rightly considered to be a moment of creative exuberance and unprecedented explosion. Today, there is a renewed interest in this movement, calling for a re-evaluation and a closer scrutiny of the era and of documents that have only recently become available. Temples for Tomorrow reconsiders the period -- between two world wars -- which confirmed the intuitions of W. E. B. DuBois on the "color line" and gave birth to the "American dilemma," later evoked by Gunnar Myrdal. Issuing from a generation bearing new hopes and aspirations, a new vision takes form and develops around the concept of the New Negro, with a goal: to recreate an African American identity and claim its legitimate place in the heart of the nation. In reality, this movement organized into a remarkable institutional network, which was to remain the vision of an elite, but which gave birth to tensions and differences. This collection attempts to assess Harlem's role as a "Black Mecca", as "site of intimate performance" of African American life, and as focal point in the creation of a diasporic identity in dialogue with the Caribbean and French-speaking areas. Essays treat the complex interweaving of Primitivism and Modernism, of folk culture and elitist aspirations in different artistic media, with a view to defining the interaction between music, visual arts, and literature. Also included are known Renaissance intellectuals and writers. Even though they had different conceptions of the role of the African American artist in a racially segregated society, most participants in the New Negro movement shared a desire to express a new assertiveness in terms of literary creation and indentity-building.
Author: Catherine R. Osborne Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022656116X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 288
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In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete. But how did an institution like the Catholic Church, so often seen as steeped in inflexible traditions, come to welcome this modernist trend? Catherine R. Osborne’s innovative new book finds the answer: the alignment between postwar advancements in technology and design and evolutionary thought within the burgeoning American Catholic community. A new, visibly contemporary approach to design, church leaders thought, could lead to the rebirth of the church community of the future. As Osborne explains, the engineering breakthroughs that made modernist churches feasible themselves raised questions that were, for many Catholics, fundamentally theological. Couldn’t technological improvements engender worship spaces that better reflected God's presence in the contemporary world? Detailing the social, architectural, and theological movements that made modern churches possible, American Catholics and the Churches of Tomorrow breaks important new ground in the history of American Catholicism, and also presents new lines of thought for scholars attracted to modern architectural and urban history.
Author: Genevieve Fabre Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 352
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The Harlem Renaissance is rightly considered to be a moment of creative exuberance and unprecedented explosion. Today, there is a renewed interest in this movement, calling for a re-evaluation and a closer scrutiny of the era and of documents that have only recently become available. "Temples for Tomorrow" reconsiders the period - between two world wars - which confirmed the intuitions of W.E.B. DuBois on the 'colour line' and gave birth to the 'American dilemma', later evoked by Gunnar Myrdal. Issuing from a generation bearing new hopes and aspirations, a new vision takes form and develops around the concept of the New Negro, with a goal: to recreate an African American identity and claim its legitimate place in the heart of the nation. In reality, this movement organised into a remarkable institutional network, which was to remain the vision of an elite, but which gave birth to tensions and differences. This collection attempts to assess Harlem's role as a 'Black Mecca', as 'site of intimate performance' of African American life, and as focal point in the creation of a diasporic identity in dialogue with the Caribbean and French-speaking areas. Essays treat the complex interweaving of Primitivism and Modernism, of folk culture and elitist aspirations in different artistic media, with a view to defining the interaction between music, visual arts, and literature. Also included are known Renaissance intellectuals and writers. Even though they had different conceptions of the role of the African American artist in a racially segregated society, most participants in the New Negro movement shared a desire to express a new assertiveness in terms of literary creation and indentity-building.
Author: Karl Rahner Publisher: ISBN: Category : Catholic Church Languages : en Pages : 248
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Theological including the New Image of the Church, A Brief Theological Study on Indulgence, Marriage as a Sacrament, and On the Theology of Hope.
Author: Joseph Fewsmith Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: 0742567087 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 344
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In this timely book, a group of leading scholars provides a comprehensive assessment of China's polity, economy, and society. Taking the thirtieth anniversary of Beijing's adoption of reform and opening as an occasion to reflect on the course of development over the past three decades, the contributors consider where the country may be going in the future. Just as China has had enormous success in developing its economy, it continues to face equally enormous challenges across a wide variety of issues, including inequality, social protest, energy, the environment, and a resurgence of religion. Authoritative, accessible, and current, this book will be an invaluable resource for all readers interested in the fate of a rising global power.
Author: Lee Penn Publisher: Sophia Perennis ISBN: 9781597310000 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 516
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The interfaith movement, which began with the 1893 World¿s Parliament of Religions in Chicago, has grown worldwide. Although this movement has been largely unknown to the public, it now provides a spiritual face for globalization, the economic and political forces leading us all from nationalism to ¿One World¿. The most ambitious organization in today¿s interfaith movement is the United Religions Initiative (URI), founded by William Swing, the Episcopal Bishop of California. Investigative reporter Lee Penn, a Catholic ex-Marxist, exhaustively documents the history and beliefs of the URI and its New Age and globalist allies, the vested interests that support these movements, and the direction they appear to be taking. The interfaith movement is no longer merely the province of a coterie of little-heeded religious idealists with grandiose visions. The URI¿s proponents have ranged from billionaire George Soros to President George W. Bush, from the far-right Rev. Sun Myung Moon to the liberal Catholic theologian Hans Küng, and from the Dalai Lama to the leaders of government-approved Protestant churches in the People¿s Republic of China. The interfaith movement, including the URI, is being promoted by globalist and New Age reformers who favor erosion of national sovereignty, marginalization of traditional religions, establishment of ¿global governance¿, and creation of a new, Earth-based ¿global spirituality¿¿in effect, a one-world religion. Therefore, the URI and the interfaith movement are poised to become the spiritual foundation of the New World Order: the ¿new civilization¿ now proposed by Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union. In The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, French metaphysician René Guénon spoke of the ¿anti-tradition¿ (the forces of materialism and secular humanism) finally giving way to the ¿counter-tradition¿ (the satanic inversion of true spirituality), leading to the regime of Antichrist. The ¿anti-tradition¿ weakens and dissolves traditional spiritualities, after which the ¿counter-tradition¿ sets up a counterfeit in their place. Since Guénon¿s time, as is well known, anti-traditional forces have greatly advanced worldwide. It is less well-known that counter-traditional movements have also made great strides, and now stand closer to the centers of global political and religious power than ever before. The ¿counter-tradition¿ is making inroads on the political and cultural Right, as much as it is doing on the Left. False Dawn painstakingly documents these trends, and speculates on their future development. In so doing, the author takes investigative reporting to the threshold of prophecy, and gives us a stunningly plausible picture of the global religious landscape of the 21st century. This extraordinary project is the literary equivalent of turning over a flat rock. There is much to be seen and learned here¿all of it unsettling, disquieting, occasionally downright scary. ¿William Murchison, Radford Distinguished Professor, Baylor University When a bishop of a Christian church happily worships alongside a Wiccan invoking other gods, something has gone horribly wrong. In False Dawn, Lee Penn has produced a comprehensive and critical history of the United Religions Initiative. This book sounds a clear warning: Anyone who makes theological truth subservient to utopianism denigrates all religions. ¿Douglas LeBlanc, Editor, GetReligion.org
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