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...Josef Sorett This essay tracks the evolving tensions between culture and politics in African American life to offer an account of how an idea of “church” shapes contemporary black literature and social activism. Although generally understood as a dramatic reimagining of the black past...

...Figure 5 Elevation drawings, St. Afrem’s Church, 1983. Source: Municipality of Södertälje ...

... and global broadcast (1980–present) into worship. In the process, the ministry designed a form of religious assembly uniquely suited to the material conditions of increasingly mobile and distributed social life. As a mediated congregation this church makes visible the process whereby a traditional cultural...

... a deepening estrangement of the Catholic Church from modern secular culture in the West. It is a common perception that thinkers like Cardinal Ratz- inger oppose this culture root and branch and are inclined to denounce it as a “cul- ture of death” or a “dictatorship of relativism.” And many self...

... and the Maine Photo Workshops. She received the 2004 Honorable Mention from the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman Foundation First Book Prize in Photography for her project“Heart in the Wound: Sexual Abuse from the Catholic Church to Civil Society” and the Award of Excellence from the 2002 Pictures...

... to Freedom .Elsa Barkley Brown 0n April 15, 1880, Margaret Osborne, Jane Green, Susan Washing- ton, Molly Branch, Sus;an Gray, Mary A. Soach and “over two hundred other prominent sisters of the church petitioned the Richmond, Virginia, First African...

...- lied into new forms of social and religious association. This generally means that they are induced through the actions of governments, church hierarchies, or other elites not only to adopt new structures but also, to some extent, to alter...

... in the basement of an African American church in Corona, Queens in New York City to discuss ways of improving intergroup relations. The committee, calling itself the Cultural Awareness Council, had been formed two years earlier in the wake of the racial attack on three black men by whites...

... entered. Only when you are outside are you told that you have just shaken the hands of the President, the ex-President, the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, the head of the Maronite Church, several members of Parliament, other dignitar- ies...

... of the same world — the world of anthropocentrism, of modernity, of humans who left religion, Church, God. ( Kutkovoi and Gal’perina 2004 ) The authors present a peculiar countermodernist polemic. An icon, they argue, should be viewed not as an aesthetic phenomenon but as the depiction of truth...

... the Christian history of the crusades, should the more peace-loving ethos of today’s Catholic Church also be interpreted as a sign of weakness? For the real issue is not historical: it is in the present world that Vatican theology claims...

... bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, Martin Luther King, Jr. increasingly realized and enhanced the most important of his gifts for leadership: oratory. Of the huge church rally that followed the first successful day of the Montgomery boycott, Branch writes: King would work on his...

... of producing national content now falls on the government, churches, and interested individu- als. Still very few private or public entities are equipped or motivated to respond. In what follows, I want to contrast the sorts of dramatic productions...

...-field of Shiloh— Over the field where April rain Solaced the parched ones stretched in pain Through the pause of night That followed the Sunday fight Around the church of Shiloh...

... evangelical churches. Analyzing these interrelated and complex phenomena is hazardous, to say the least. There is undoubtedly a longer history to these fraught intergenerational relationships, including a documented history of abuse within the educational system, to which agents of the psychological sciences...

... institutions and popular reactions are contributing to this: the churches including prayer groups, basic communities and healing churches (also called sects), as well as the Marches d’espoir (Marches of Hope), however repressed by the army (February and March 1992), and since then also people’s passive...