CrossCurrentsPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/cro.2023.a915434
T. Musili
{"title":"Re-Reading the Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38): Towards Comprehensive Sexuality Education","authors":"T. Musili","doi":"10.1353/cro.2023.a915434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2023.a915434","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Christianity should be a liberating and transformative resource in the defense of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights. Yet, Christianity's patriarchal grounding often invalidates the equal dignity and worth of women and girls. This paper seeks to re-read the annunciation story through the lens of African Women's theologies to unearth how scriptural texts and cultural values intersect to inhibit or affirm women's rights regarding sexual and reproductive health. The Church's focus on Mary's virginity as the rationale for perfect womanhood has resulted in control and shaming of women's sexuality. I ask, what needs to be done to ensure women's agency so that they feel empowered to reconfigure cultural and Christian values so that their sexual and reproductive health needs are attended to? What can be done to ensure that all genders have equal opportunities with regard to reproduction? The defense of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights is inherently an important ethical value within religion. It is thus hoped that the analysis will not only promote tolerance in accommodating various forms of sexualities and deconstructing patriarchal gender barriers to reproductive liberation and gender justice but also stir religious and cultural gatekeepers to partner with the other stakeholders in advocating for Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE).","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"35 1","pages":"247 - 274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CrossCurrentsPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/cro.2023.a915439
Ben Brazil
{"title":"Dancing in the Wild Spaces of Love: A Theopoetics of Gift and Call, Risk and Promise by James H. Olthuis (review)","authors":"Ben Brazil","doi":"10.1353/cro.2023.a915439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2023.a915439","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"13 1","pages":"334 - 340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CrossCurrentsPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/cro.2023.a915440
Christine Meyer
{"title":"Walls of Fear: A Kristin Ginelli Mystery by Susan Thistlethwaite (review)","authors":"Christine Meyer","doi":"10.1353/cro.2023.a915440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2023.a915440","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"51 1","pages":"341 - 344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CrossCurrentsPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/cro.2023.a915437
Andrew Stone Porter
{"title":"Who Do Our Methods Serve and Protect? Pedagogical and Meta-Ethical Challenges in Teaching Breonna Taylor","authors":"Andrew Stone Porter","doi":"10.1353/cro.2023.a915437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2023.a915437","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Introductory courses in Christian ethics ordinarily survey deontological, teleological, and virtue ethics, testing each against case studies. In spring 2021, this author followed the customary approach, but our case was a claim made by Sgt. John Mattingly of Louisville Metro Police Department, who was involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor. In an e-mail to over 1,000 LMPD colleagues, Mattingly claimed, \"I know we did the legal, moral and ethical thing that night.\" Mattingly's striking assertion raises epistemological and meta-ethical questions. In what sense was killing Ms. Taylor the right thing to do? Was this action virtuous? Did it proceed from a worthy intention toward a valid goal? Was it done in accordance with duty/ies? Did it produce good consequences? Was it conducive toward liberation? While the methods are necessary, none is fully adequate; the article argues that they should be supplemented by responsibilist ethical lenses adapted from Darryl Trimiew and Iris Marion Young.","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"40 1","pages":"304 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CrossCurrentsPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/cro.2023.a915435
Malka Z. Simkovich
{"title":"Mystery and the Problem of Election in Judaism and Christianity","authors":"Malka Z. Simkovich","doi":"10.1353/cro.2023.a915435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2023.a915435","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the early Common Era, followers of Jesus approached their contradictory truth claims by arguing that God's nature is enveloped in mysterion, and is ultimately unknowable. Rabbinic writers, however, treated their own truth claims through the lens of sod, a word that denoted a secret body of knowledge that was hidden from most but accessible to some. In the wake of the Enlightenment, and particularly after the Second Vatican Council produced Nostra Aetate in 1965, Jewish theologians have begun to engage with Catholic theology, and in particular with the idea of how mystery can be activated as a meaningfully Jewish category that addresses contradictions related to the claim of Jewish election.","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"25 1","pages":"275 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139345383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CrossCurrentsPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/cro.2023.a915436
Allen Lipson
{"title":"Halakha vs. Capitalism","authors":"Allen Lipson","doi":"10.1353/cro.2023.a915436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2023.a915436","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Medieval Jewish economic law was in many ways fundamentally inhospitable to early capitalism. Practice ultimately changed, and law with it, but not without bitter dissent from some towering rabbinic authorities, or poskim. To be clear, these protagonists are by no stretch of the imagination leftist; their views on society and gender often run against the grain of progressive sensibilities, to put it mildly. But they do express with passion and clarity the stakes of capitalism's growth, and hold out the hope of another way. The goal here is not to restore the premodern ghetto, but to salvage a usable past from it for the daunting political road ahead.","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"121 1","pages":"293 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139345523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CrossCurrentsPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/cro.2023.a915442
David Simonowitz
{"title":"Planting Letters and Weaving Lines: Calligraphy, The Song of Songs, and the Saint John's Bible by Jonathan Homrighausen","authors":"David Simonowitz","doi":"10.1353/cro.2023.a915442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2023.a915442","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"33 1","pages":"353 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CrossCurrentsPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/cro.2023.a915441
Irina Sheynfeld
{"title":"Jill Freedman: An artist with a story to tell","authors":"Irina Sheynfeld","doi":"10.1353/cro.2023.a915441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2023.a915441","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"61 1","pages":"345 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CrossCurrentsPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/cro.2023.a904525
Rayyan Mikati
{"title":"The Brooklyn Museum’s Arts of the Islamic World","authors":"Rayyan Mikati","doi":"10.1353/cro.2023.a904525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2023.a904525","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"354 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125639245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}