Reinhold Niebuhr in Theory and Practice: Christian Realism and Democracy in America in the Twenty-First Century. By Peter B. Josephson and R. Ward Holder. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. xiv + 229 pages. $95.00.

Horizons ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-175
Author(s):  
Ki Joo Choi
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
First Century ◽  
Reinhold Niebuhr ◽  
Christian Realism ◽  
Democracy In America ◽  
Twenty First Century

Feminism

2021 ◽  
pp. 410-426
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty
Keyword(s):  
Christian Ethics ◽  
First Century ◽  
Christian Realism ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Contemporary Context

This chapter examines three feminist responses to Reinhold Niebuhr’s thought and contemporary Christian Realism—conflict, integration, and conversation. The chapter emphasizes the need for future conversation between feminists, realists, and ethicists across a wide variety of fields with people living in the most vulnerable and precarious economic circumstances in the US and around the world. More attention and exploration of Christian concepts of sin and redemption relevant within the contemporary context are worthy of attention. Fostering more intentional conversation across established disciplinary boundaries and with the world’s most vulnerable people will chart a new course in Christian ethics and nurture a more authentic American moral conscience in light of the greatest moral and theological problems of the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Cosmopolitan pleasures and affects; or why are we still talking about yellowface in twenty-first-century cinema?

2018 ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Felicia Chan
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
First Century ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Artistic Theory ◽  
Academic Discourses ◽  
Cameron Crowe

It is now widely acknowledged that the postracial fantasies ushered in by Barack Obama’s two-term election success are now in tatters. Yet debates on yellowface casting practices in contemporary Hollywood (also said to have evolved into “whitewashing” practices), in such films as The Last Airbender (M. Night Shyamalan, 2010), Aloha (Cameron Crowe, 2015), Doctor Strange (Scott Derrickson, 2016), Birth of the Dragon (George Nolfi, 2016), and Ghost in the Shell (Rupert Sanders, 2017), have resurfaced in recent times. These press controversies seem almost anachronistic after a generation of “intercultural” artistic theory and practice, “diversity” management training, and numerous academic discourses on otherness and difference, including those on cosmopolitan theory and practice. This article reviews yellowface practices and debates in contemporary times and puts them in dialogue with cosmopolitan aspirations of being “open to difference”, and argues that the latter cannot be taken as self-evident. It offers a way of thinking about yellowface practice via cosmopolitan pleasures evoked largely through modes of consumption, which “hollow out” the subjectivity of the character being depicted. On the site of the intersection between representation and subjectivity is where the identity politics occurs, yet, rather than universalising the issue, the article argues that a cosmopolitan approach should take on board localised conditions and contexts of production and reception in ways that acknowledge the multilayered complexity of the issues at hand.

Die Bedeutung von Tradition und Geheimnis für praktizierende Magier des 21. Jahrhunderts: Ergebnisse einer Interviewstudie The Meaning of Tradition and Secrecy for Magical Practitioners in the 21st Century: Results of an Interview Study

Aries ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-138
Author(s):  
Gerhard Mayer
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
First Century ◽  
Secret Societies ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Esoteric Knowledge ◽  
Twenty First Century

AbstractThis article addresses the question of the significance of tradition and secrecy for magical practitioners from various occult groups of the twenty-first century. The observations are based upon the results of an interview study alongside an analysis of contemporary literature concerning the practice of magic. The significance which is attached to the “occult” tradition, the transmission of esoteric knowledge and the figure of the person teaching this knowledge correlates very strongly with the spiritual alignment of the magical practice. This is especially pronounced among mystery schools which are oriented towards “white magic”. These concepts, however, play only a relatively marginal role. The same is not true with regard to aspects of secrets and secrecy. Although the distinct influence of a postmodern relativisation can be ascertained here, secrecy nevertheless remains significant in both theory and practice. The social functionality of secrecy such as was characteristic of the secret societies of the Enlightenment can, however, no longer be taken for granted. In this regard, the cultural situation of the twenty-first century has changed too much.

Race, Class, and Revolution in the Twenty-First Century

2018 ◽  
pp. 440-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walda Katz-Fishman ◽  
Jerome Scott
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
First Century ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Twenty First Century

We analyze class, race, and revolution in the United States through Marxist theory and philosophy, and the experience and lessons from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (League) in the auto and related plants and community in Detroit in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The League brought the black liberation movement to the point of production. They grasped the dialectics and interpenetration of class exploitation and racial oppression within capitalism, and the strategic centrality of white supremacy for ruling-class profit and control. Their struggle embodied the unity and interrelation of theory and practice and the necessity of becoming proletarian intellectuals. The League came to Marxism-Leninism as the theory most closely related to their practice as workers at the point of production. Armed with the weapon of Marxism, former League members stayed the course through the stages of capitalist development—from Detroit as the epicenter of global capitalism in the 1950s and 1960s, through the technological shift from labor-enhancing to labor-replacing automation and robotization in the plants, to the deepening capitalist crisis, economic, ecological, and social destruction, and intensifying militarism and fascism in the twenty-first century. For over fifty years, they were part of the leadership of the multiracial, multinational, and multigendered working class in the 1960s, and they remain active within the twenty-first century’s rising movement. Former League members consistently lift up the strategic direction and class unity necessary for revolutionary transformation in the interests of the working class, and for the survival of humanity and the planet.

A Novel Twist to Tocqueville: Competing Visions of Democracy in Parrot and Olivier in America

2017 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-285
Author(s):  
Joel Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
First Century ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Democracy In America ◽  
Twenty First Century

AbstractPeter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America is a fictionalized version of Tocqueville's travels through the young United States. Unlike Tocqueville, Olivier de Garmont is accompanied by Parrot Larrit, an English servant who offers a bold egalitarian counterpoint to Olivier's aristocratic liberalism. This article compares Carey's work with Tocqueville's on the consequences of democracy for political institutions, education, and art; discusses Carey's technique of using alternating narration between Olivier and Parrot to capture the complexities of American democracy; and concludes with thoughts about being a friendly critic of democracy in the twenty-first century. Although Parrot and Olivier is no substitute for Democracy in America, it addresses Tocqueville's concerns in a creative and subtle manner, prompting reflection on whether—to use Olivier's terms—democracy has “ripened well.”

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