Dialogic Thickness in a Monologic Culture

2007 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Brueggemann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Mode Of Life ◽  
Imperial Politics ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Church

This essay considers the context of the contemporary church in the United States as an environment of monologue in which one-way communication is prized and practiced as religious authoritarianism, market ideology that has no interest in communication, and imperial politics that proceeds from the top down. In such an environment, a primal task of the church is to advocate and practice a mode of life that honors the thickness of human interaction and engages in faithful interaction with God as a two-way practice. A specific consideration of dialogic practice is a case study of Psalm 35 in which “the many selves of the self are given voice in discourse with God in a way that submits to and yet insists on leverage with the Holy One. This transaction may be a model for human transaction as well in the strange world where truth speaks to power.

The many voices of business: Framing the Keystone pipeline in US and Canadian news

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Wood
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Trade Associations ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Activist Organizations

Corporations rarely enter political battles alone. They have long partnered with trade associations to articulate industry views, and more recently have begun routinely creating their own activist organizations to act as allies. Amid this turn toward grassroots corporate organizing, how is the voice – or perhaps voices – of business articulated in the news? Using the case study of coverage of the Keystone bitumen pipeline, I offer a framing analysis of 480 news items from six outlets in the United States and Canada, showing which voices and frames dominate the debate. My data demonstrate that while corporations have a robust voice in news, trade associations participate only sparingly, and corporately funded grassroots campaigns are almost wholly omitted. Furthermore, key silences characterize corporations’ mediated voice, with companies neglecting to comment on issues such as climate change; anti-pipeline activists, meanwhile, maintain their own forms of strategic silence. Proponents and detractors alike promote their ‘owned issues’, offering discourse more akin to a shouting match than a debate.

The Public Psychiatrist as Educator

2020 ◽  
pp. 149-168
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Baker ◽  
Adam Brenner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
The Many ◽  
Training Opportunities

Among the many important educator roles of the public psychiatrist is that of teacher for the medical students, residents, and fellows who rotate through her public sector clinic or hospital. Using a case study as its basis, this chapter describes how a public psychiatrist can engage with an academic medical center’s department of psychiatry in order to offer training opportunities in the public sector. It also describes the process for developing medical student clerkships and resident rotations and includes examples from clerkships and resident rotations from throughout the United States.

The Hidden Legacies of Jewish Traditions and the Global Allure of Psychotherapy: A Case Study of the Israeli TV series Betipul

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-148
Author(s):  
Diana I. Popescu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representation Function ◽  
Global Consensus ◽  
Psychotherapy Practice ◽  
The Many

This chapter considers the Jewish origins of psychoanalysis, which points out Jewish as the preferred ethnicity of the psychoanalyst character for many filmmakers. It focuses on Israeli TV series Betipul as a prime example of an outstanding attempt to enter the reality of the psychotherapy practice. It also explores the symbolic significance of Betipul as an atypical mediation of a Jewish Israeli identity in crisis, including the function and responses to this mediation among Israeli audiences. The chapter describes the many remakes of Betipul in Europe and in the United States that reveal significant cultural differences in the approach to psychotherapy and variation on the representation of the therapist on global consensus. It explains what Betipul adds to the representation of the Jewish psychotherapist in popular culture and how the Jewish aspects of this representation function when they leave Jewish contexts.

Gendered differences in emigration and mobility perspectives among European researchers working abroad

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Highly Skilled

This paper focuses on gendered mobilities of highly skilled researchers working abroad. It is based on an empirical qualitative study that explored the mobility aspirations of Austrian scientists who were working in the United States at the time they were interviewed. Supported by a case study, the paper demonstrates how a qualitative research strategy including graphic drawings sketched by the interviewed persons can help us gain a better understanding of the gendered importance of social relations for the future mobility aspirations of scientists working abroad.

‘A Routh O’ Auld Nick-Nackets’ – the antiquarian collection of John Rae

2015 ◽  
Vol 36-37 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-183
Author(s):  
Paul Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
National Museums ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

John Rae, a Scottish antiquarian collector and spirit merchant, played a highly prominent role in the local natural history societies and exhibitions of nineteenth-century Aberdeen. While he modestly described his collection of archaeological lithics and other artefacts, principally drawn from Aberdeenshire but including some items from as far afield as the United States, as a mere ‘routh o’ auld nick-nackets' (abundance of old knick-knacks), a contemporary singled it out as ‘the best known in private hands' (Daily Free Press 4/5/91). After Rae's death, Glasgow Museums, National Museums Scotland, the University of Aberdeen Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, as well as numerous individual private collectors, purchased items from the collection. Making use of historical and archive materials to explore the individual biography of Rae and his collection, this article examines how Rae's collecting and other antiquarian activities represent and mirror wider developments in both the ‘amateur’ antiquarianism carried out by Rae and his fellow collectors for reasons of self-improvement and moral education, and the ‘professional’ antiquarianism of the museums which purchased his artefacts. Considered in its wider nineteenth-century context, this is a representative case study of the early development of archaeology in the wider intellectual, scientific and social context of the era.

Applying the Devil's Works in a Holy Cause: Working-Class Popular Culture and the Salvation Army in the United States, 1879-1900

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-223
Author(s):  
Lillian Taiz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Salvation Army ◽  
Public Meeting ◽  
The Many ◽  
Sunday Evening

Forty-eight hours after they landed in New York City in 1880, a small contingent of the Salvation Army held their first public meeting at the infamous Harry Hill's Variety Theater. The enterprising Hill, alerted to the group's arrival from Britain by newspaper reports, contacted their leader, Commissioner George Scott Railton, and offered to pay the group to “do a turn” for “an hour or two on … Sunday evening.” In nineteenth-century New York City, Harry Hill's was one of the best known concert saloons, and reformers considered him “among the disreputable classes” of that city. His saloon, they said, was “nothing more than one of the many gates to hell.”

Pentecostalism and African diaspora : a case study of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), in North America

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-92
Author(s):  
Rotimi Williams Omotoye
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Church

Pentecostalism as a new wave of Christianity became more pronounced in 1970's and beyond in Nigeria. Since then scholars of Religion, History, Sociology and Political Science have shown keen interest in the study of the Churches known as Pentecostals because of the impact they have made on the society. The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) was established by Pastor Josiah Akindayomi in Lagos,Nigeria in 1952. After his demise, he was succeeded by Pastor Adeboye Adejare Enock. The problem of study of this research was an examination of the expansion of the Redeemed Christian Church of God to North America, Caribbean and Canada. The missionary activities of the church could be regarded as a reversed mission in the propagation of Christianity by Africans in the Diaspora. The methodology adopted was historical. The primary and secondary sources of information were also germane in the research. The findings of the research indicated that the Redeemed Christian Church of God was founded in North America by Immigrants from Nigeria. Pastor Adeboye Enock Adejare had much influence on the Church within and outside the country because of his charisma. The Church has become a place of refuge for many immigrants. They are also contributing to the economy of the United States of America. However, the members of the Church were faced with some challenges, such as security scrutiny by the security agencies. In conclusion, the RCCGNA was a denomination that had been accepted and embraced by Nigerians and African immigrants in the United States of America.

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