Review of Life Histories of Bahá’í Women in Canada: Constructing Religious Identity in the Twentieth Century by Lynn Echevarria

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 87-90
Author(s):  
Deborah K. Van Den Hoonard
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Life Histories

How American Newspaper Comic Strips Portray God, Angels, and Humans

2020 ◽  
pp. 398-413
Author(s):  
Leonard Greenspoon
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Comic Strip ◽  
Comic Strips ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Texts

The comic strip as a mainstay of print and more recently online media is an American invention that began its development in the last decades of the 1800s. For many decades in the mid-twentieth century, comic strips were among the most widely disseminated forms of popular culture. With their succession of panels, pictures, and pithy perspectives, comics have come to cover an array of topics, including religion. This chapter looks at how the Bible (Old and New Testament) figures in comic strips, focusing specifically on three areas: the depiction of the divine, renderings of specific biblical texts, and how comic strips can function as sites in which religious identity and controversies play out. Relevant examples are drawn from several dozen strips. Special attention is also paid to a few, like Peanuts and BC, in which biblical imagery, ideology, and idiom are characteristically portrayed in distinctive ways.

Power and the Reproduction of History: Twentieth-Century Histories of Abortion in the Ancient Mediterranean World

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Tara Baldrick-Morrone
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Mediterranean World

Abstract This essay explores issues of identity and power in twentieth-century scholarship on abortion in the ancient Mediterranean world. I consider how two scholars, John T. Noonan, Jr. and Beverly Wildung Harrison, approach the same ancient Christian sources from different theoretical frameworks: narrative historiography and feminist liberation ethics, respectively. While Noonan’s historical narrative on ancient Christian opposition to abortion demonstrates the “moral supremacy” of Christianity, Harrison’s historical counternarrative reads the ancient sources as borne out of the “sex-negativism” of a minority of ancient Christians. In this analysis I focus on the ways in which the production of history manufactures power by means of authority and legitimacy, particularly for each scholar’s own religious identity and views on the morality of abortion in America. In conclusion, I consider the interests of the respective authors in the production of these histories.

Public Theology as Religious Practice: Anglican Mission and Interreligious Encounter

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-282
Author(s):  
William L. Sachs
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Public Theology

The concept of a public theology must balance emphasis on Christianity's theological grounding with recognition of religious pluralism. Where Christians are in the minority, interreligious encounter frames public presence. This article argues that the basis of both faithful religious identity and substantive encounter with non-Christian traditions lies in forms of religious practice. The point is illustrated with reference to the Anglican encounter with Islam. In Egypt during the first half of the twentieth century, the careers of Temple Gairdner and Constance Padwick opened an emphasis upon prayer as a basis for appreciative encounter. Informed by this example, Kenneth Cragg developed a basis for Christian-Muslim relations. He articulated a Christian public theology that is both faithful and constructive in pluralist settings. Following Gairdner and Padwick, Cragg featured matters of practice as the basis for understanding.

Migrants of the British Diaspora Since the 1960s

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. James Hammerton
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social History ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Women Migrants ◽  
Migration History ◽  
Serial Migration ◽  
The 1960S

This is the first social history to explore the experience of British emigrants from the peak years of the 1960s to the emigration resurgence of the turn of the twentieth century. It scrutinises migrant experiences in Australia, Canada and New Zealand alongside other countries. The book challenges the assumption that the ‘British diaspora’ ended in the 1960s, and explores its gradual reinvention from a postwar migration of austerity to a modern migration of prosperity. Building on previous oral histories of British emigration to single countries in postwar years, it offers a different way of writing migration history, based on life histories but exploring mentalities as well as experiences, against a setting of deep social and economic change. The book charts the decade-by-decade shift in the migration landscape, from the 1970s loss of Britons’ privilege in destination countries and the 1980s urgency of ‘Thatcher’s refugees’, to shifting attitudes to cosmopolitanism and global citizenship by the 1990s. Key moments are the rise of expatriate employment, changing dynamics of love and marriage, the visibility of British emigrants of colour, serial migration practices, enhanced independence among women migrants and ‘lifestyle’ change ambitions. These are new patterns of discretionary and nomadic migration, which became more common practice generally from the end of the twentieth century.

Can One Person Belong to Two Faiths? The Experience of Three Catholic Monks

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-123
Author(s):  
Enrico Beltramini
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
South India ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Catholic Priests ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Roman Catholic Priests ◽  
To Receive

In the last decade, the question of multireligious identity has begun to receive academic attention. In particular, scholars are beginning to explore examples of people who have experienced two religious traditions equally seriously – that is, the experience of ‘double religious belonging’. This paper reframes, in the light of the notion of double belonging, the lives and experiences of three Roman Catholic priests and monks who moved from Europe to India in the twentieth century and are regarded as ‘founders’ of the Saccidananda Ashram in South India, while providing insights on how we understand double religious identity and the process of religious identity formation.

scholarly journals Revising Mary Queen of Scots: from Protestant Persecution to Patriarchal Struggle

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. DeSilva ◽  
Emily K. McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Female Leadership ◽  
Elizabeth I ◽  
Third Wave Feminism ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Female Directors ◽  
Gendered Politics ◽  
Queen Elizabeth I

Since Mary Queen of Scots’ execution in 1587, she has become a symbol of Scottish identity, failed female leadership, and Catholic martyrdom. Throughout the twentieth century, Mary was regularly depicted on screen (Ford, 1936; Froelich, 1940; Jarrott, 1971) as a thrice-wed Catholic queen, unable to rule her country due to her feminine nature and Catholic roots. However, with the rise of third wave feminism and postfeminism in media, coupled with the increased influence of female directors and writers, Mary’s characterization has shifted from portraying female/emotional weakness and religious sacrifice to female/collaborative strength in hardship and a struggle against patriarchal prejudice. Josie Rourke’s film Mary Queen of Scots (2018) and CW’s Reign (2013-2017) present a queen who is no longer limited to her religious identity as a Catholic martyr, and consequently a weak ruler. Instead religious division is mostly sidelined, and gendered politics is the central struggle, highlighting similarities between Mary and Queen Elizabeth I of England, where previous films presented opposites. Together, these two productions transform Mary’s narrative from fragility and religion, into a struggle against misogynistic control of powerful women.

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