Inception and Ibn \u27Arabi

Many philosophers, playwrights, artists, sages, and scholars throughout the ages have entertained and developed the concept of life being a but a dream. Few works, however, have explored this topic with as much depth and subtlety as the 13thC Andalusian Muslim mystic, Ibn \u27Arabi. Similarly, few works of art explore this theme as thoroughly and engagingly as Chistopher Nolan\u27s 2010 film Inception. This paper presents the writings of Ibn \u27Arabi and Nolan\u27s film as a pair of mirrors, in which one can contemplate the other. As such, the present work is equally a commentary on the film based on Ibn \u27Arabi\u27s philosophy, and a commentary on Ibn \u27Arabi\u27s work based on the film. The paper explores several points of philosophical significance shared by the film and the work of the Sufi sage, and their relevance to contemporary conversations in philosophy, religion, and art

Failure : Perspectives and prospects in marketing and consumption theory

Author's accepted version (postprint).This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Sage in Marketing Theory on 11/02/2021.Available online: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1470593121992539Failure is ubiquitous in popular and consumer culture. In this commentary, we interrogate discourses around failure and outline potential avenues of inquiry for the marketing and consumption theory disciplines. We begin by synthesizing how failure has hitherto been conceptualized in marketing theory. Then, we discuss how recent rethinking of failure in other disciplines can be meaningful for marketing thought, and propose a new agenda for marketing scholars for studying failure, that moves beyond studying failure as a primarily destructive phenomenon that arises predominantly in service encounters.acceptedVersio

Caritas in Veritate: Updating Catholic Social Teachings for Macromarketing and Business

In an effort to assess the latest thinking in the Roman Catholic Church on economic matters, this communications note briefly highlights the recent publication of a new encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth). Core ethical values, consistent with previous examples of Catholic Social Teaching (CST), are retained. However, some important nuances are added to previous treatments and certain points of emphasis are shifted to account for recent global developments. Key areas that relate to abiding marketing issues are spelled out and some brief commentary on matters of importance to macromarketing is offered

Differentiated instruction in teacher education : a case study of congruent teaching

Teachers are supposed to use forms of differentiated instruction to anticipate the differences among their students. However, the adaptation of teaching to the diversity of the group often takes place with difficulty. Teacher education is blamed for not preparing student teachers adequately for differentiated instruction. Several authors suggest that congruent teaching in teacher education might be an adequate solution to this problem. This case study aims to investigate the (congruent) realization of differentiated instruction in teacher education using ethnographic tools. The results indicate that the observed teacher educator demonstrated limited forms of differentiation, largely without providing meta-commentary. Therefore, she is not a role model on the subject of differentiated instruction in the view of student teachers. These results are discussed in depth, and form a basis for further research and suggestions for practice in teacher education

Menorah Review (No. 66, Winter/Spring, 2007)

A Collection by MR\u27s Poet Laureate -- Examining Historiography -- Revisiting Jewish Radicalism -- The World of Rabbi Nathan -- Why a Dictionary of Antisemitis

Menorah Review (No. 65, Summer/Fall, 2006)

A Rebbe in Skirts -- By Way of Introduction: Reflections on Israeli Women\u27s Studies: A Reader -- Israeli Literature and Israeli Politics -- More in than Out -- Revisiting Old Themes Through a Contemporary Lens -- The World of Rabbi Nathan -- Noteworthy Book

Integral Samnyasa ? Adi Shankaracharya and Liberation Hermeneutics

Writing in the Women\u27s Bible Commentary, Carolyn Osiek offers five conflicting interpretations of this controversial passage and its significance for women\u27s liberation. At one end of the spectrum stand those who insist that the text endorses an end to sexism of every kind, a difficult view to square with other statements of the apostle Paul. At another extreme stand those who ascribe it exclusively to a future transformation at the end of time, with no contemporary relevance

Food security and food sovereignty: Getting past the binary

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820614537159, The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Dialogues in Human Geography, 4(2), June 2014 published by SAGE Publishing, All rights reservedThe terms food security and food sovereignty originally emerged as separate terms to describe different things. The former is a concept that describes a condition regarding access to adequate food, while the latter is more explicitly a political agenda for how to address inadequate access to food and land rights. Over the past decade, the critical food studies literature has increasingly referred to these terms as being oppositional to each rather than relational to one another. This commentary reflects on the emergence and rationale behind this binary and argues that the current oppositional frame within the literature is problematic in several ways. First, critics of food security have inserted a rival normative agenda into what was originally a much more open-ended concept. Second, the grounds on which that normative agenda is assigned to food security are shaky on several points. Given these problems, the commentary argues that the juxtaposition of food security and food sovereignty as competing terms is in many ways more confusing than helpful to policy dialogue on questions of hunger and the global food system