Performing the Material Self: Mordecai Kaplan and the Art of Journal Writing

AJS Review ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-131
Author(s):  
Ken Koltun-Fromm
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Journal Writing ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
American Judaism ◽  
American Jewish Identity ◽  
Long Life ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Professional Conflicts

Mordecai Kaplan's journals from 1913 to 1934 offer a window into the mind of a tormented and lonely Jewish thinker. As a pioneering theologian, sociologist, and teacher of American Judaism in the twentieth century, Kaplan (1881–1983) stood as a towering figure at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, where he worked for a good deal of his very long life. Yet even with the publication of his groundbreaking work Judaism as a Civilization (1934) and his popular following, he felt marginalized and embattled throughout his life. To help manage and defend those professional conflicts, Kaplan turned to his journal to record his personal struggles and anxieties. These diary entries offer important clues to the ways he discovered and created an American Jewish identity through the art of journal writing.

Union Theological Seminary and the Christian Church in China

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Yihua Xu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Reinhold Niebuhr ◽  
Union Theological Seminary

AbstractUnion Theological Seminary (Union) in New York City, established in 1836, has long been regarded as one of the best and most liberal Protestant theological seminaries in the United States. Served by prominent Christian theologians such as Harry Emerson Fosdick, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich, Union reached its peak development in the first half of the twentieth century, setting a standard of theological education in the United States and promoting the ecumenical movement around the world.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Forum on Dr. James H. Cone as Teacher and Mentor

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-80
Author(s):  
Pui-lan Kwok
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
York City ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Black Liberation Theology ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Transformative Impact

Dr. James H. Cone (1938-2018) is widely considered the founder of black liberation theology. He had a transformative impact on generations of his students at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. In the semester following his death in Spring 2018, six of his current and recent doctoral students were gathered to share brief reflections on their experience of Dr. Cone as an inspirational teacher. This Forum collects their edited presentations in six short essays by: Nkosi Du Bois Anderson, Adam Clark, Isaac Sharp, Colleen Wessel-McCoy, Thurman Todd Willison, and Jason Wyman.

Martin Luther King's Protesting Pastors

Worldview ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
Charles Teel
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
National Council ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Nonviolent Resistance ◽  
National Council Of Churches ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Martin Luther King

AbstractMartin Luther King, Jr., led many of us to recognize that pilgrimages of the mind can take place in turmoil as well as in tranquility. My own journey to understanding the connection between the transcendent and social change was facilitated by King's call to “the Movement.” That journey was shared by countless other churchmen of the 1960's. I have engaged in extended conversations with hundreds of Christian clergy who responded to King's call and were arrested for their nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience. Structured interviews took place in settings as varied as a Selma parsonage, an Atlanta jail cell, a Midwestern farmhouse, a penthouse suite atop the National Council of Churches building in New York City, and a sharecropper's cabin in Philadelphia, Mississippi. What follows is an abridged “profile” of these men of the cloth. The profile sharply challenges some common stereotypes.

Thoroughly Modern Middles

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-128
Author(s):  
Laura Tunbridge
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Jazz Age ◽  
Broadway Musical ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ticket Prices ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Young Millie Dilmount arrives in New York City during the jazz age, shingles her hair and looks for a job with a rich, handsome boss she can marry. The musical-film Thoroughly Modern Millie (dir. George Roy Hill, Universal, 1967) may have been a spoof of the 1920s but various twists and turns in its plot nonetheless reveal its middlebrow scaffolding. Social aspiration is written into the plot, as is the ambiguity of its signifiers: although Millie (Julie Andrews) falls for the penniless Jimmy Smith (James Fox), she sets her sights on the seemingly more appropriate Trevor Graydon (John Gavin) only to discover that, of course, Jimmy was a millionaire all along. This is a narrative as much about cultural and social as financial capital. Through its ‘second-order parody’ of racial, ethnic and gender stereotypes, Angelo Pao argues, Thoroughly Modern Millie – along with other American musicals – ‘has played a significant role in the formation of a national persona’. The middlebrow, though, is not necessarily about identity politics, storylines or style; it is also closely bound with modes of dissemination and their relative costs and, because of that, with questions of class. Indeed, the Broadway musical was (and continues to be) a mainly middle-class affair, from its makers to its consumers, who David Savran points out have long needed ‘a good deal of disposable income’, given that ticket prices have always outstripped cinema, spoken theatre – and, on occasion, opera.

XXIII.—American Editions of Shakespeare: 1753–1866

PMLA ◽  
1907 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 633-696
Author(s):  
Jane Sherzer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Fanny Burney ◽  
Hannah More ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Long Life

American criticism of Shakespeare began in 1753 with a New York woman, Charlotte Ramsay, best known as Mrs. Lennox. Until fifteen years of age she lived in America with her father, Colonel James Ramsay, Lieutenant-Governor of New York City. Thence she went to London and, being thrown upon her own resources, supported herself, both before and after marriage, by her literary labors. During her long life of eighty-four years (1720–1804) novels, poems, comedies, memoirs, and translations flowed from her prolific pen. That her intellect was of no mean order is known from Dr. Johnson's testimony. He considered her ability equal to that of Hannah More or Fanny Burney.

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