...Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy Duke University Press 2002 THE FUTURE OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS In Light of the Visit of Pope John Paul II to the Holy Land Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy The celebration of the Jubilee Year...

...Benoît Fliche Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Bowman Glenn , ed., Sharing the Sacra: The Politics and Pragmatics of Intercommunal Relations around Holy Places ( New York : Berghahn , 2015 ), 196 pp. Li tt le R ev ie w s 1 8 1Glenn Bowman, ed., Sharing the Sacra...

...Sara Lipton Nisse Ruth , Jacob’s Shipwreck: Diaspora, Translation and Jewish-Christian Relations in Medieval England ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2017 ), 235 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 1 8 2 did not radically break...

...Kenneth J. Gergen Duke University Press 2007 S y m p o s i u m : A “ D i c t a t o r s h i p o f R e l a t i v i s m ” ? RELATIVISM, RELIGION, AND RELATIONAL BEING Kenneth J. Gergen There was a time of my life in which, by common...

... of identity, what then might its politics be? By comparing Strathern's Melanesian case with ethnographic examples in Corsica and Mongolia, a novel relational modality of “intensive ethnicity” may be identified, one that differs qualitatively from the “extensive ethnicity” with which anthropologists have...

...Morten Nielsen This article opens with the questions, What is on the inside of a relation? Might we imagine the inner workings of a relational form detached from the elements that it connects? Then, through an ethnographic examination of ancestral interventions among residents in a neighborhood...

...-relations theorist Todd Pittinsky's argument that, since tolerance is not logically the antithesis of negative feelings toward out-groups, even long-established traditions of toleration are inadequate to prevent intergroup aggression. Pittinsky proposes that tolerance be replaced, as a principle...

... work is not noteworthy, Hirschman argues, self-critque is crucial in relation “to one’s own generalizations or constructs.” But self-criticism and interpretive changes do “not in the end cancel out or refute the earlier findings”; rather, they help to define domains of the social world where originally...

...Alexander Solzhenitsyn; Jamey Gambrell; Jeffrey M. Perl This essay is a translated excerpt from the first volume of Solzhenitsyn’s controversial history of Russian-Jewish relations, Dvesti let vmeste: 1795 – 1995 , which was first published in Russian in 2001 and 2002. Solzhenitsyn writes from...

..., analogous institutional paradigms, and authors' own memories of captivity have gradually declined in influence. Although not wholly absent, their place has been taken by an emphasis on intergenerational trauma, international relations (especially those involving the 1995 commemoration of the end of the war...

... relations; these form the foundation of postdevelopment action in this part of the world and orient actors' “postures of attention” to power relations. Second, this commentary raises questions concerning arrows—archetypal of the protentive element of Amerindian “speculative ontology” and, as such, symbolic...

... in the context of the related effort of Louis Dumont, which involved a sustained critique of Eurocentricism, in which he saw anthropological comparativism as hitherto being bound. A question is raised concerning the extent to which Strathern has escaped the kind of criticism that Dumont developed. Additionally...

... to certain ends or quasi-ends, and—when the “ought” is only pro tanto —to certain aspects of, or opportunities within, a situation. These judgments are often intuitive in that they do not derive from the application of a principle. Fittingness is an anthropocentric relation that holds within some human...

...Joseph Leo Koerner This essay finds its departure point in a title page that Aby Warburg (1866 – 1929) drafted for his lecture on the Pueblo Indians. Through the labyrinthine thought pathways evidenced by this much-amended and overwritten typescript, it explores the relation between reason...

...), suggest different angles of perception, but all represent fuzzy modes, modes that would seem to have no place in science, especially in climate science, which is pressed to be ever more precise. Yet an analysis of the genealogy of these terms and, in particular, of the differential relation between...

...” of cultural analysis. The essay includes a tribute to Anne Marie Meyer (1919 – 2004), Warburg scholar and long-time affiliate of the Institute, with special emphasis on the question that she uniquely raised: “Exactly what was the relation between [Aby] Warburg's research on paganism in the Renaissance and his...

... the history of Jews’ relations with Christians and Muslims. Abraham Geiger, one of the founders of the reform movement, which sought to modernize Judaism by simplifying its ritual and making it more amenable to European society, was also a scholar of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Geiger presented Muhammad...

... from discussion of current Israeli politics and the power relations between teachers and students. historiography teacher-student relations Roll of Ahimaaz Jewish Chronicles of the Crusades academic “Ethics Code” of Israel Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

...Marina Vanzolini; Translated by Julia Sauma; Jeffrey M. Perl With special reference to the Tupi-speaking Aweti people, this article reconsiders the nature of Xinguan pacifism in an analysis of sorcery and its relation to war in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil. It is argued that the mechanism...