The Semi (06-08-1981)

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Rose and Apple—Original Gifts?

Carol Rose begins and ends her distinctive, wry commentary on gift and exchange with the idea that the only thing we really understand is larceny. Her presentation is delightfully grounded and lucid, with touches of humor to remind readers of her realistic context. The argument proceeds through ostensible game-theoretic musings, with hints of puzzles which she later turns into conundrums. The pace is even, clear, and inhabited by examples from property law which invite the reader along. In Giving, Trading, Thieving and Trusting: How and Why Gifts Become Exchanges, and (More Importantly) Vice Versa, the title gives the agenda of Rose’s movement away. She proceeds through the tangible areas of property and contract law associated with gift and exchange, relentlessly pursuing the aspects of those legal areas that affirm the movement of freedom that gift entails. She questions the motives of first gift, the exchange, to see if either is guilty of larceny. She follows game theory to its logical conclusions and finds something contrary to the logic of exchange—the underlying relational realm of ongoing trust

Protestant Observers of Vatican II: A Bibliography

This bibliography is a working draft, insofar as no authoritative bibliography of observers (whether as formal periti or informally invited scholars) exists at this time. An additional difficulty is conclusively to identify particular writers as Protestant Christians. For example, newspaper and other media reporters might have been formally Protestant (whether closely affiliated or distantly related), but did not identify their writings or observations as relevant to or influenced by any Protestant point of view. As a result, this bibliography lists entries whose authors in some sense identified themselves as Protestants, or representing the viewpoints of Protestant churches and organizations. The appended, additional bibliography lists discussions of and responses to Karl Barth’s response to the Second Vatican Council, taken as a whole, in 1965. Health prevent Barth from attending the sessions as a peritus or unofficial observer, but his reflections published following his meeting with Pope Paul VI occasioned discussion in theological circles of the time. They are there most relevant to shaping Protestant historical memories and reflections upon the work of the Council, and the ongoing issues that it identified

Menorah Review (No. 21, Winter, 1991)

Van Gogh: A Case History in Religion and Art -- Book Briefings -- Lesson From the Holocaust -- Evil Is Alive and Well -- Religion and State: The Israel Model -- Book Briefing

Xavier University Newswire

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Att analysera och teoretisera kön och religion. Förslag till nytt religionsbegrepp

While specialists in gender studies often refer to religion they seldom have recourse to carefully conceived definitions of it. The problem of definition is explored here in terms of its plurality of expressions and interpretation, internal tensions and change, and similarities and relations which cross traditions which are often perceived as being separate and distinct. Myth and ritual are taken to be of central importance, both being understood as gendered and bodily constituted. Theoretical inspiration is drawn from Wittgenstein's understanding of meaning as being constituted contextually and bodily and thus inseparable from social life. In this persepctive, religious language is a more or less precise act whose meaning will differ depending on the context, agents and agendas involved. Specific arguments relating to meaning and action are also drawn from the work of M. Douglas and L. Bäckman, both of whom have deconstructed and discussed (post-)colonial conceptualizations of culture. Their elaboration of potentiality and change has been of special interest. In sum, religion is regarded as (1)a dynamic and ambiguous field of meanings that is continuously created and constituted through human interaction (2) always gendered (3)bodily expressed and constituted (4) composed of myth, ritual and time concepts (5) a cource of continuity as well as of change in present social interaction (6) transmitted and renewed through mytho-poets, and (7)subject to analysis in terms of power, with reference to social interaction, socioeconomic conditions and the wider context