scholarly journals “It’s Your Breath in Our Lungs”: Sean Feucht’s Praise and Worship Music Protests and the Theological Problem of Pandemic Response in the U.S.

Religions ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Adam A. Perez
Keyword(s):  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Spiritual Power ◽  
Worship Music ◽  
The Social ◽  
Government Mandates ◽  
Congregational Singing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Praise And Worship ◽  
Historical Resources ◽  
The U.S

In response to U.S. government restrictions imposed as part of a nationwide response to the COVID-19 pandemic, charismatic worship leader Sean Feucht began a series of worship concerts. Feucht positioned these protests as expressions of Christian religious freedom in opposition to mandated church closings and a perceived double-standard regarding the large gatherings of protesters over police violence against Black and Brown persons. Government restrictions challenged the sine qua non liturgical act of encounter with God for evangelicals, Pentecostals, and Charismatics: congregational singing in Praise and Worship. However, as Feucht’s itinerant worship concerts traversed urban spaces across the U.S. to protest these restrictions, the events gained a double valence. Feucht and event attendees sought to channel God’s power through musical worship to overturn government mandates and, along the way, they invoked longstanding social and racial prejudices toward urban spaces. In this essay, I argue that Feucht’s events reveal complex theological motivations that weave together liturgical-theological, social, and political concerns. Deciphering this complex tapestry requires a review of both the history of evangelical engagement with urban spaces and the theological history of Praise and Worship. Together, these two sets of historical resources generate a useful frame for considering how Feucht, as a charismatic musical worship leader, attempts to wield spiritual power through musical praise to change political situations and the social conditions.

scholarly journals Forgotten Border Actors: the Border Reinforcers. A Comparison Between the U.S.–Mexico Border and South American Borders

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Grimson ◽  
Pablo Vila
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
El Paso ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ciudad Juarez ◽  
South American ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
History Of ◽  
Good Neighbor ◽  
The U.S

This article is a critique of two different types of essentialisms that have gained widespread acceptance in places as distant as the U.S.-Mexico border and different Mercosur frontiers. Both essentialisms rely on metaphors that refer to the concept of "union," and put their emphasis on a variety of "sisterhood/brotherhood" tropes and, in particular, the "crossing" metaphor. This kind of stance tends to make invisible the social and cultural conflict that many times characterizes political frontiers. The article wants to reinstall this conflictive dimension. In that regard, we analyze two different case studies. The first is the history of a bridge constructed between Posadas, Argentina and Encarnación, Paraguay. The second is the community reaction toward an operation implemented by the Border Patrolin 1993 ("OperationBlockade") in a border that for many years was considered an exemplar of the "good neighbor relationships" between Mexico and the United States, the frontier between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. Key Words: U.S.-Mexico border, Operation Blockade, Mercosur frontier, political frontier, Argentina, Paraguay, Mexico, United States, Posadas, El Paso , Encarnación, Ciudad Juárez, Border Patrol.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charissa J. Threat
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Male Nurses ◽  
Army Nurse Corps ◽  
The Social ◽  
Regular Army ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

This conclusion reflects on how the integration campaigns and the history of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) over a thirty-year period help scholars understand a more inclusive civil rights story and the evolution of nursing into a modern profession in the latter part of the twentieth century. It shows how the U.S. Army, and by extension the ANC, often found themselves at the forefront of the social upheavals and social justice activities taking place in civil society. It also considers how gender and racial tensions persisted as the Vietnam War reached its peak in the late 1960s, noting that the 1966 admittance of male nurses to the regular army did not diminish the scrutiny faced by men who served or wanted to serve as nurses. The chapter argues that the integration campaigns pursued by female and male nurses expose a civil rights movement beyond the question of race.

Psychology and Oppression

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wahbie Long
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Close Association ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

Psychology has always been a discipline immersed in the social and political currents of the day. At the level of psychological theory—whether one considers early pioneers such as Freud, Skinner, and Rogers, or, more recently, Seligman and the neuroscientific turn—its affinity with dominant socio-political concerns is easily demonstrated. Far from such individuals being calculating ideologues, however, they were interpellated—inevitably—by a field of power in which their personal and working lives were already embedded. On the other hand, it is equally true that Psychology’s phenomenal growth in the 20th century was built—most deliberately—on the alliances it formed with powerful bureaucratic elites. The discipline’s proximity to power, that is, meant not only that it could be co-opted ideologically but also that it would collude with oppressive regimes to enhance its own prestige. Project CAMELOT is one example where psychologists were willing to cooperate with the U.S. military in the service of a foreign policy that terrorized Latin America. The discipline also thrived under the Nazis with psychologists heavily involved in meeting the operational requirements of the Wehrmacht. Afrikaner psychologists in South Africa formed a close association with the apartheid state in both ideological and practical terms. More recently, the involvement of the American Psychological Association in a torture scandal has drawn attention once again to the discipline’s potential for collusion with institutional powers. In historiographic terms, some will take issue with the delivery of moral judgments when documenting the history of Psychology. However, the writing of history does not preclude such judgments, especially at a time when the exercise of power permeates disciplinary, institutional, and social life.

scholarly journals The Social Construction of the Soundscape of the Castilian Cities (15th and 16th Centuries)

Acoustics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-77
Author(s):  
Gisela Coronado Schwindt
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Combining Methods

This paper seeks to develop some conceptual elements that articulated the social construction of the soundscape of the urban spaces of the kingdom of Castile (15th–16th centuries). We focus our attention on the revision of the normative spheres that structured the subjective universe of the Castilian inhabitants, in order to notice and spot the different sound representations that intervened in the spatial and social configuration of the cities, their possible conflicts, and levels of acoustic tolerance. This proposal is part of the so-called “sensorial turn” in the Social Sciences, defined by David Howes as a cultural approach to the study of the senses as well as a sensorial approach to the study of culture. The research is carried out through the analysis of the sensory marks present in a documentary corpus made up of normative documents (municipal ordinances, books of agreement, chapter acts, diocesan synods, and royal dispositions) and judicial documents (General Archive of Simancas) combining methods of discourse analysis and the history of the senses. In the article, we argue and remark that the sound dimension operated as a device that acted in the shaping of the identity of places, since it contributed to define and delimit their use. This was reflected in the importance given by the authorities to the normative regulation of the community, which included a textual dimension in which the historical soundscape was imprinted, revealing the multiple social interactions that integrated it.

scholarly journals Autism in the U.S.: Social Movement and Legal Change

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Caruso
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Legal Change ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

AbstractThe social movement surrounding autism in the U.S. has been rightly defined a ray of light in the history of social progress. The movement is inspired by a true understanding of neuro-diversity and is capable of bringing about desirable change in political discourse. At several points along the way, however, the legal reforms prompted by the autism movement have been grafted onto preexisting patterns of inequality in the allocation of welfare, education, and medical services. In a context most recently complicated by economic recession, autism-driven change bears the mark of political and legal fragmentation. Distributively, it yields ambivalent results that have not yet received systemic attention. This article aims to fill this analytical vacuum by offering, first, a synoptic view of the several legal transformations brought about or advocated for by the autism movement and, second, a framework for investigating their distributive consequences.

Ideal Theory and Historical Complexity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca M. McLennan
Keyword(s):  
Ideal Theory ◽  
Penal Policy ◽  
State Punishment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Penal Institutions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Competing Models ◽  
Theories Of Punishment ◽  
North And South ◽  
The U.S

After summarizing Fassin’s arguments, McLennan urges attention to five related questions. The first addresses the intersection between philosophy and the social sciences, specifically how, if at all, utilitarian, Kantian, and other ideal theories of punishment might usefully inform the study of past and present penal practices. Second, McLennan asks what in American history explains the particular brutality of state punishment in the U.S.—what she calls “delegated sadism”—notwithstanding many common features between French and American penal institutions. Building on this theme, she invites Fassin to reflect more on the nonlinearity of the history of penal policy in the U.S. and the ways in which penal welfarism and the slave plantation provided competing models for punishment in both North and South. Responding to Fassin’s call for the study of “penal theology,” McLennan suggests that nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christian theologies have not only fostered certain penal practices but generated radical critiques of incarceration and its effects. Finally, turning to mass incarceration’s more recent history, McLennan calls our attention to the gendered character of penal policy, especially in light of the fact that incarceration rates for women have risen much faster than for men.

scholarly journals Teaching the History of Human Rights and "Humanitarian" Interventions

2015 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 47-55
Author(s):  
Mary Nolan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Cold War ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
Humanitarian Interventions ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The U.S

This article explores how I teach about human rights and so-called humanitarian interventions to MA and Ph.D. students.  The course has three main themes or foci.  First, what are human rights and why have the social and economic human rights laid out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights been so neglected or rejected, especially by the U.S.  Second, how has American foreign policy used and abused human rights.  Third, why have liberal or humanitarian interventions of a militarized sort become so prevalent since the end of the Cold War and why are they so damaging.  The goal is to get students to look critically at the meaning and uses of human rights, about which many display a naive enthusiasm.

Novel Inventions

2021 ◽  
pp. 120-150
Author(s):  
Reed Gochberg
Keyword(s):  
National Museum ◽  
Patent Office ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Patent Applications ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Public Museum

Chapter 4 examines the distinctive history of the U.S. Patent Office gallery, which combined national repository, bureaucratic office, and public museum. Its collections included the models submitted by inventors with their patent applications, which offered tangible examples of new legal standards for novelty and utility. Tourists marveled at the model machines on display, connecting them to ideals of national progress and ingenuity, and the gallery’s collections sparked wider discussions of the relationship between nation, invention, and spectacle. Ralph Waldo Emerson drew on an imagined collection of machines to contemplate the relationship between technological novelty and literary originality, while Walt Whitman’s description of the gallery as a temporary Civil War hospital examined the social and human implications of such a strange spectacle. These accounts highlight broader debates about the place of new ideas in a national museum and how such contributions would be defined.

scholarly journals Review of Cogan, The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-426
Author(s):  
Mark Thornton
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

John Cogan's new book shows that entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid present enormous fiscal problems for the U.S. government, and damage those they are designed to help. The beneficiaries have often been government functionaries and others involved in the social services system. Often, subsidies are misdirected to the non-poor. Yet despite clear failures, solutions are vexing.

scholarly journals Designing for diversity and designing for disability: New opportunities for libraries to expand their support and advocacy for people with disabilities

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul T. Jaeger
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The U.S

Libraries have a long history of support for and commitment to disabled people, far longer than most other public institutions in society. In some communities in North America, dedicated library services for disabled people have been provided without interruption for over a hundred years. As the social and political climate becomes, once again, increasingly difficult for and hostile to disabled people, libraries have the opportunity to bring more focus to disability in the design of their own programs and to expand their roles as advocates andallies of disabled people beyond the walls of the library. This article is written in the contextof the U.S. and focuses primarily on the current U.S. situation, though a few international examples are also used to illustrate key points. While the U.S. is the primary focus, the implications and relevance of many discussed issues will resonate with the global community and echo the concerns of disabled individuals and library and information science professionals in other countries.

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