CrossCurrentsPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/cro.2023.a904524
Melanie Barbato
{"title":"Being Jain: South Indian Art Meets Climate Ethics at Zurich’s Rietberg Museum","authors":"Melanie Barbato","doi":"10.1353/cro.2023.a904524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2023.a904524","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"222 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":"115717348","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.a904522
Aaron Stauffer
{"title":"Echoes of a Method: Inductive Christian Social Ethics, Social Practices, and the Radical Social Gospel","authors":"Aaron Stauffer","doi":"10.1353/cro.2023.a904522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2023.a904522","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Christian social ethics emerged out of and in conversation with major social movements in U.S. history and today is defined by a commitment to studying these movements. The radical social gospelers who helped found the field argued that the best way to study modern social problems was to study these problems in the places where they were most painfully experienced and in the movements where people were building power to overcome them. Many organizers were (and still are) drawn to Christian social ethics to enhance their organizing work. Today, this inductive approach echoes through the field as scholars argue about the role of ethnography and social anthropology. Some argue that this is the work of political theology. I argue that many social ethicists fail to recognize the methodological legacy of the social gospel and in turn how this approach to social ethics offers a rich future that is deeply connected to organizing movements.","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"73 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":"128935482","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.a904526
Irina Sheynfeld
{"title":"Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: What It Takes to Craft a Life","authors":"Irina Sheynfeld","doi":"10.1353/cro.2023.a904526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2023.a904526","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"55 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":"133527847","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.a904521
A. Kline
{"title":"Setting the Table: A Bahá’i geographer reflects on faith, fieldwork, and farmworkers","authors":"A. Kline","doi":"10.1353/cro.2023.a904521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2023.a904521","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:For my PhD dissertation, I surveyed agricultural guestworkers, also known as H-2A workers, in Ohio. In the summer of 2022, a research assistant and I drove around Ohio, knocking on doors and surveying the people who agreed to participate. In the end, we drove over 10,000 miles and spoke with 285 male, Spanish-speaking H-2A workers throughout the state. My larger project was focused on gathering demographic data and learning more about the men’s working and living experiences in Ohio. The results of the study have been published elsewhere. This is a personal essay recounting some of my experiences in the field and reflecting on the dialectical relationship between my identity as a Bahá’i and the fieldwork experience. Specifically, I reflect on how my faith informed my approach to fieldwork and how the Bahá’i concept of the oneness of humanity helps me connect with, or at least more clearly see, the “Other.”","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"10 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":"127561534","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.a904520
Marc J. Rosenstein
{"title":"A Brief History of Jewish Victimhood Identity","authors":"Marc J. Rosenstein","doi":"10.1353/cro.2023.a904520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2023.a904520","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:One key obstacle in the quest for Israel-Palestine reconciliation is each nation’s firm belief that it is the victim of the other’s cruel and immoral behavior. This competitive victimhood suppresses empathy and fosters a sense of powerlessness. This study examines the historical and theological roots of Jewish victimhood identity and offers historical explanations as to why it persists even in the face of the twentieth century “Jewish emergence from powerlessness” (the establishment of Israel). Based on this analysis, practical suggestions are offered for escaping victimhood identity in order to make reconciliation possible.","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"47 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":"132185000","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.a904527
Elizabeth Ursic
{"title":"Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent by Emily Dumler-Winckler (review)","authors":"Elizabeth Ursic","doi":"10.1353/cro.2023.a904527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2023.a904527","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"157 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":"123210017","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.a904519
Cara R. Schreffler
{"title":"Our Sounds Reach the Other World: Sacred Musical Instruments and Their Spiritual Roles","authors":"Cara R. Schreffler","doi":"10.1353/cro.2023.a904519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2023.a904519","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The deliberate production of special sounds, whether culturally defined as music or not, plays a vital role in virtually all global religious and spiritual beliefs. Sometimes, a particular instrument is used specifically for sacred purposes and to manifest religiosity. In many cases, those musical instruments can serve as a physical representation of belief; a form of sacred text and a link between the natural, the human, and the supernatural. These musical instruments are often recognized as having their own independent agency and, frequently, are credited with supernatural powers. These powers fall within the constraints of belief: they have power because of their association with religious or spiritual practice. This paper discusses examples of musical instruments that have specifically religious, spiritual, or miraculous powers. Examples are found in multiple cultures throughout the world, and their existence helps to illuminate the role of musical instruments in religion and spirituality, as well as how those instruments, and the broader context of music, integrate into both sociocultural and religious paradigms.","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"1 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":"130555683","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 : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1353/cro.2022.0029
Patricia Guernelli Palazzo Tsai
{"title":"Universal Responsibility as a Key Concept for an Interreligious Dialogue with the Mahāyāna Geluk Tradition","authors":"Patricia Guernelli Palazzo Tsai","doi":"10.1353/cro.2022.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cro.2022.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In a world polarized by politics, social injustice, identity issues, and gender-based violence, it is difficult to promote interreligious dialogue. While there has been a rise in attempts to promote dialogue, they typically still occur between a small group of religions, leaving others aside. Even though the fourteenth Dalai Lama was invited to take part in interreligious dialogue with the Holy See two decades ago, it seems that this now is only part of a fading memory, probably connected to political issues regarding Chinese backlash. This article proposes the use of discernment as a basis for an interreligious dialogue, starting with the discussion of discernment from Buddhist and Christian views, but not limiting the dialogue between these two. The scope of the article is to present universal responsibility (Tib. སྤྱི་སེམས་; Wyl. spyi sems) as a key concept to understanding and dialoguing with Mahāyāna Geluk Buddhism, and the reasons why it is important, not only from an interreligious perspective, but because of the importance of building bridges between religious and nonreligious sectors.","PeriodicalId":109838,"journal":{"name":"CrossCurrents","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114981457","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}