Conclusion: The World Made Meme

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan M. Milner
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Creative Play ◽  
The World ◽  
The Hours ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Martin Luther King

Once in class—with the Photoshopped picture of Kanye West interrupting Martin Luther King, Jr. (figure 1.1) on the screen behind me—I asked my students to define internet meme. There was the usual desk staring and head scratching, until a student in the back spoke up. “It’s like … a nationwide inside joke,” she said. Her unconventional definition inspired chuckles. But as the hours wore on, I realized its poignancy. Like inside jokes between friends, internet memes—the multimodal texts created, circulated, and transformed by countless cultural participants—balance the familiar and the foreign. And like inside jokes, internet memes are at once universal and particular; they allow creative play based on established phrasal, image, video, and performative tropes. The difference, of course, is the scale of these inside jokes. Assessing that scale, this book has charted the vibrancy that emerges when expressive strands become interactional threads, which in turn weave vast cultural tapestries. In the end, ...

Toward Jerusalem: A journey of the eternal now (A Sermon)

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-107
Author(s):  
Richard Francis Wilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
The United States ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
As I Lay Dying ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Martin Luther King

This article is a theological-ethical Lenten sermon that attempts to discern the transcendent themes in the narrative of Luke 9-19 with an especial focus upon “setting the face toward Jerusalem” and the subsequent weeping over Jerusalem. The sermon moves from a passage from William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying through a series of hermeneutical turns that rely upon insights from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Will Campbell, Augustine, and Paul Tillich with the hope of illuminating what setting of the face on Jerusalem might mean. Tillich’s “eternal now” theme elaborates Augustine’s insight that memory and time reduce the present as, to paraphrase the Saint, that all we have is a present: a present remembered, a present experienced, and a present anticipated. The Gospel is a timeless message applicable to every moment in time and history. The sermon seeks to connect with recent events in the United States and the world that focus upon challenges to the ideals of social justice and political tyranny.

scholarly journals Editor’s Note: CSK Awards Celebrate Fifty Years

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Sharon Verbeten
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Book Publisher ◽  
The World ◽  
African American Authors ◽  
American Authors ◽  
Martin Luther King

The world was a very different place in 1969 when the Coretta Scott King Award was instituted to honor African-American authors. Dr. Martin Luther King had recently been assassinated. And there was no organized group to advocate for We Need Diverse Books.But, thankfully, several librarians and a book publisher came together to establish the CSK Award, which will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in 2019.

scholarly journals Testing the inescapable network of mutuality: Albert Luthuli, Martin Luther King Jr and the challenges of post-liberation South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan A. Boesak
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
The United States ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Faith Commitment ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethical Stance ◽  
Martin Luther King

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, 50 years ago on 04 April 1968, has been recalled in the United States with memorial services, conferences, public discussions and books. In contrast, the commemoration in 2017 of the death of Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, 50 years ago on December 1967, passed almost unremarked. That is to our detriment. Yet, these two Christian fighters for freedom, in different contexts, did not only have much in common, but they also left remarkably similar and equally inspiring legacies for South Africa, the United States and the world in the ways they lived their lives in complete faith commitment to ideals and ways of struggle that may guide us in the ongoing struggles to make the world a more just, peacable and humane place. For South African reflections on our ethical stance in the fierce, continuing struggles for justice, dignity and the authenticity of our democracy, I propose that these two leaders should be considered in tandem. We should learn from both. This article engages Martin Luther King Jr’s belief in the ‘inescapable network of mutuality’, applies it to the struggle for freedom in South Africa and explores the ways in which South Africans can embrace these ethical ideals in facing the challenges of post-liberation.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Azaransky
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The World ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
Independence Movements

The introduction describes a group of black Christian intellectuals and activists who looked abroad, even in other religious traditions, for ideas and practices that could fuel a racial justice movement in the United States. They envisioned an American racial justice movement akin to independence movements that were gaining ground around the world. The American civil rights movement would be, as Martin Luther King Jr., later described it, “part of this worldwide struggle.”

scholarly journals Inspired by Gandhi

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Anna Katalin Aklan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Dalai Lama ◽  
Independence Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
Martin Luther King

The leader of the Indian independence movement, Mahatma Gandhi, left an invaluable legacy: he proved to the world that it was possible to achieve political aims without the use of violence. He was the first political activist to develop strategies of nonviolent mass resistance based on a solid philosophical and uniquely religious foundation. Since Gandhi’s death in 1948, in many parts of the world, this legacy has been received and continued by others facing oppression, inequality, or a lack of human rights. This article is a tribute to five of the most faithful followers of Gandhi who have acknowledged his inspiration for their political activities and in choosing nonviolence as a political method and way of life: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Martin Luther King, Louis Massignon, the Dalai Lama, and Malala Yousafzai. This article describes their formative leadership and their significance and impact on regional and global politics and history.

Giving It All Away: Blues Harmonica Education in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
pp. 227-251
Author(s):  
Adam Gussow
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Trade Secrets ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Mentoring Relationship ◽  
The World ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
The Way

In 2007, the author uploaded his first video to YouTube, a badly-lit and amateurish blues harmonica tutorial. Within a decade, his Dirty-South Blues Harp Channel had accumulated 500 videos, 20 million views, and 70,000 subscribers, and his website, ModernBluesHarmonica.com was enjoying 750,000 annual page views from 192 countries around the world. This chapter seeks to understand the way in which insurgent digital technologies have impacted the pedagogy of blues harmonica, a coterie pursuit whose trade secrets and professional practices had previously been communicated through face-to-face teaching between masters and apprentices. Acknowledging the ethical dilemmas provoked by a white blues musician who makes the harmonica’s esoteric technique available to a global audience, the author also describes the way YouTube’s “comments” section brought him together with Brandon Bailey, a young Black harmonica player from Memphis. The mentoring relationship they formed helped Bailey win a “Star Search” competition and benefited both men’s careers in unanticipated ways, suggesting that contemporary blues culture, although troubled, is also, if unevenly, a transracial brotherhood—an “inescapable network of mutuality,” in Martin Luther King Jr.’s words.

Moral Politics and the Soul of the World

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Dorrien
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Moral Politics ◽  
Howard University ◽  
The World ◽  
Mystical Theology ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
Howard Thurman

Benjamin E. Mays and Howard Thurman differently exemplified the black social gospel as theologians, lecture circuit speakers, and academics. In their early careers they formed a social gospel trio with Mordecai Johnson at Howard University. Later they influenced Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Mays was an educator, theologian, and activist in the Johnson mode, while the later Thurman gave himself to mystical theology and ecumenical ministry.

scholarly journals HUMAN RIGHTS RELATED TO THE RIGHT TO RELIGION AND ECONOMY IN THE CONFLUENCE OF CULTURES

10.26458/1824 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-96
Author(s):  
Anca MAGIRU ◽  
Mihaela Lavinia CIOBANICA ◽  
Daniel DANECI-PATRAU ◽  
Octav NEGURITA
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Martin Luther King

The paper is focused on the authors’ opinion, based on deep research, that religion and education go side by side and could help a lot and should be the basic law for the development, rural or urban, against the background of the nowadays European challenges. Europe confronts today with oncoming waves of immigrants from all over the world who have been invading it for several years, bringing with them cultures, customs, observances, different in many ways from ours. Under these circumstances, the authors would like to highlight their point of view, mainly the idea that the words of Martin Luther King Jr.: “Hate paralyzes life; love releases it. Hate confuses life; love harmonizes it”, are much more true than ever. To keep an open mind on religious education, to be flexible, loving and understanding should be of vital importance in developing rural communities against the background of the European competitiveness.

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