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...Graham Ward 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Graham Ward Michel de Certeau’s ‘‘Spiritual Spaces’’ The phrase ‘‘spiritual space’’ is used by Michel...

...Maristan Chapman Volume XXI OCTOBER, 1922 Number 4 The South Atlantic Quarterly The South s Spiritual Grace Maristan Chapman Jacksonville, Florida With her growing prosperity, her new cities, her vast natural resources that are only just being developed, and with her rapidly expanding commercial...

... the disenchantments of modernity. Central to Pentecostal spirituality is the prophetic—a sense that God speaks to (and into) our social orders. The confluence of these presents an opportunity to reconsider prophetic critique. But does the prophetic voice in global Pentecostalism yield prophetic critique? On the one...

...Willie James Jennings The idea of tradition has become in many ways a religious vision that reaches beyond its origin in Christian thought to now exist as a way to narrate identity quests, frame one’s spirituality, and especially situate the intellectual life. It has become a theology itself...

...Jeremie Caribou This essay reveals the true history of my people. It demonstrates our highly developed social, spiritual, and political governance structures. Our use of the water systems underscores the ecological integrity of sustainable development that we fostered for thousands of years. Yet...

... necessary for survival. A focus on how Black transwomen live, despite continued physical, spiritual, socioeconomic, political, and cultural annihilation, remains critically important given the myriad indicators (low average life expectancy, low annual income, disproportionally high murder rate, etc...

...Larissa Behrendt The concept of “home” is multifaceted and complex. This is especially so for Aboriginal people who are forcibly removed from their land, retain deep spiritual and cultural attachments to their traditional homes, but have been forced to create new communities. This essay looks...

... to a spiritual level (Plato). But the church fathers taught that they must rise above intellectual contemplation to union with God through perfected desire. However, we cannot reach this union through our own efforts; God must reach graciously down to us. But when he does so, he reaches down into our entire...

... for an experiment with the possibility of going beyond such limits. I will focus on Foucault’s notion of political spirituality and suggest that it signals an important shift from the critical project of denaturalization and historicization to the more constructive task of political imagination. My third aim (iii...

... onwards, a newly practical-political orientation tasked with an interventionist mandate—the practice of ‘truth-telling’, ‘political spirituality’, and an ethics of the ‘care of the self’, a self-transformation through revolution. But in between these periods and problematics lies a peculiar moment between...

...—relationship to modernity’s theological protocols, whose scripts are often hidden under the veil of what has come to be called the secular. Thus, blackness names an ecumenical mode of existence, a spirituality, an imagination that is always already in flight. This is to say, paratheologically understood...

... the countercultural specificities of psychedelic trance music to appreciate how it became singularly popular in the state of Israel. It turns out the spirituality and hedonism of psytrance do not stand in opposition to the militarism of Israel but form an articulation of its disavowed settler‐colonial fabric...

.... The late poet laureate of England said: Man is a spiritual being; the proper work of his mind is to interpret the world according to his highest nature, to conquer the material as­ pects of the world so as to bring them into subjection to the spirit. Those words seem to me to define very simply Religion...

... of metaphors of thirst to ex­ press spiritual yearnings, it is difficult not to read in such a passage a reminiscence of John 4:14 . . whosoever drinketh of the waters that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting...

...Arif Dirlik Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Spiritual Solutions to Material Problems: The "Socialist Ethics and Courtesy Month in China Arif Dirlik On February 28 [1981], a sunny early spring day, Party Chairman Hu Yaobang and other Party and state leaders kicked off...

... relate centrally to his spiritual restoration. From the moment Crusoe is cast up on the island, he confronts a world in which circumstantial detail has acquired unprecedented im­ portance. He carefully enumerates the success of his foragings: In the Carpenter s Stores I found two or three Bags full...

... a more complete and concise treatment of the transcendental theory than is to be found in the works of other New England transcendentalists is no doubt due to the greater role assumed in his philosophy by the understanding. If spiritual truths written in the human heart are to be discovered invariably...

... the decision by which he overcomes his self-destructive pride and resolves his conflict. Following the chorus, Becket says he has found the right reason for the right deed of martyrdom.2 Since the critical and dramatic effect of Becket within the play depends on the believa­ bility of his spiritual decision...

... for the last three decades, an alternative field of discussion concerns the civic role played by aca­ demic literary culture as a particular ethos or style of life. The way to this field goes through a genealogy of modern criticism as a distinctive spiritual exercise or practice of the self. Before mapping...

...Luther L. Bernard Copyright © 1928 by Duke University Press 1928 THE FUNDAMENTAL VALUES OF FARM LIFE LUTHER L. BERNARD Tulane University I. THE FUNDAMENTAL values of farm life are mainly spiritual. Much has been said by the politician and the Fourth of July orator about the imperial...