“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.

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.

Finding light in dark archives: using AI to connect context and content in email

Email archives are important historical resources, but access to such data poses a unique archival challenge and many born-digital collections remain dark, while questions of how they should be effectively made available remain. This paper contributes to the growing interest in preserving access to email by addressing the needs of users, in readiness for when such collections become more widely available. We argue that for the content of email to be meaningfully accessed, the context of email must form part of this access. In exploring this idea, we focus on discovery within large, multi-custodian archives of organisational email, where emails’ network features are particularly apparent. We introduce our prototype search tool, which uses AI-based methods to support user-driven exploration of email. Specifically, we integrate two distinct AI models that generate systematically different types of results, one based upon simple, phrase-matching and the other upon more complex, BERT embeddings. Together, these provide a new pathway to contextual discovery that accounts for the diversity of future archival users, their interests and level of experience.

Racism and Religious Intolerance: A Critical Analysis of the Coloniality of Brazilian Christianity

This article examines the persistence of religious intolerance experienced by practitioners of Afro-Brazilian religions. Drawing from recent reports and historical resources on religious intolerance, it approaches religious diversity in Brazil from a decolonial perspective, pointing to the contradiction between the image of Brazil as a place where religious change and plurality occurs with minimal conflict and the painful reality experienced by practitioners of Afro-Brazilian religions. Picturing religious intolerance and racism as two faces of the same coin, it argues that both must be resisted. The article concludes with a call for a religious-racial literacy which is intercultural in nature and promises a path to overcome the insidious persistence of racism and religious intolerance. Such a way forward, however, demands a de-centering of Brazilian Christianity, despite its religious majority status, in favor of an epistemic humility which gives full consideration to the knowledge, memories, and lived experience of Afro-Brazilian religious practitioners.

Ricky Stadium

<p>The population of Wainuiomata (figure 1) is set to increase by 35% following Hutt City Council plans to build 2000 new houses. This increase has the potential to further erode a sense of community already weakened by the decline of traditional sources of community identity, notably Wainuiomata’s Sports Clubs, Schools, and Churches. This thesis reconsiders architectures relationship with sport and how architecture can help to enhance a sense of community identity. It employs an architecture derived from the formal and spatial qualities of a sports field to establish a range of programs and activities. Through a series of design iterations this thesis asks, how can Architecture’s relationship with the Sports Field be reconsidered to intensify (social) connections between sport and community? A mixed method research approach was used to obtain data from a broad range of sources including; historical resources, photographs, personal observations, statistical sources, council plans and documents, and local publications and through websites (see appendix 1). Data collected was interpreted into a series of diagrams, revealing relationships and links within the Wainuiomata Community, enabling it to be understood spatially. This data was analysed through a series of design tests which determined ways it could inform the design of a building. This analysis was used to develop a brief for the building which informed a series of design iterations, and ultimately a developed design. These designs developed an understanding of how a ‘sports field’ can be intensified as a spatial and programmatic proposition. The resulting design is a sport and education facility defined by overlapping surfaces which create a dialogue between sports field as a formal condition and a range of programs. Architecture, in this role, acts to connect a diverse range of community groups facilitating social interaction and enhancing local community.</p>

Ricky Stadium

<p>The population of Wainuiomata (figure 1) is set to increase by 35% following Hutt City Council plans to build 2000 new houses. This increase has the potential to further erode a sense of community already weakened by the decline of traditional sources of community identity, notably Wainuiomata’s Sports Clubs, Schools, and Churches. This thesis reconsiders architectures relationship with sport and how architecture can help to enhance a sense of community identity. It employs an architecture derived from the formal and spatial qualities of a sports field to establish a range of programs and activities. Through a series of design iterations this thesis asks, how can Architecture’s relationship with the Sports Field be reconsidered to intensify (social) connections between sport and community? A mixed method research approach was used to obtain data from a broad range of sources including; historical resources, photographs, personal observations, statistical sources, council plans and documents, and local publications and through websites (see appendix 1). Data collected was interpreted into a series of diagrams, revealing relationships and links within the Wainuiomata Community, enabling it to be understood spatially. This data was analysed through a series of design tests which determined ways it could inform the design of a building. This analysis was used to develop a brief for the building which informed a series of design iterations, and ultimately a developed design. These designs developed an understanding of how a ‘sports field’ can be intensified as a spatial and programmatic proposition. The resulting design is a sport and education facility defined by overlapping surfaces which create a dialogue between sports field as a formal condition and a range of programs. Architecture, in this role, acts to connect a diverse range of community groups facilitating social interaction and enhancing local community.</p>

Boom and Bust Archaeology

As a discourse analysis of historical resource assessment documents and interviews with professional archaeologists, this study aims to inspect and critique the production of value in the Alberta historical resource value (HRV) system. The system of evaluation for historical value creates what can be described as a presence-absence model of archaeological significance that limits the ability for archaeologists to interpret and subjectively determine the historical value of materials. In addition, current systems often rely on a contractual relationship between archaeologists and industry to produce these reports, and rarely incorporate indigenous perspectives of significance. With a focus on the assumptions and functional result of HRIA assessments, we can examine the repercussions of the contemporary archaeological evaluative model within Alberta. A goal of this nascent assessment is to provide the opportunity for evaluation of a system that largely exists below the surface of public interest but has vast implications for future access to shared historical resources.

Archives Serving Science: Historic Maritime Records as Sources for Indian Ocean Climate Change Research: Potential and Problems

Climate scientists have identified the establishment of historical baseline data from which to determine degrees of climate change as a significant challenge. In this article the use of ships’ logbooks and other sources for maritime history, to provide evidence of weather and climatic conditions pre-dating the era of modern meteorological data measurements, is discussed. The CLIWOC and TANAP projects utilising international archival resources to provide climatological and related information are examined. The discussion is then focused on the Indian Ocean rim countries and the archival and historical resources that may yield similar information. The article concentrates on sources in the Republic of South Africa, and sources in the Sultanate of Oman and Western Australia are discussed for comparative purposes. Utilising archival sources to provide historical climate-change related data aligns archivists and information scientists with the major imperatives of the South African Government. A beginning can also be made with developing south-south scientific and archival co-operation that can unlock new sources of historical and climatological knowledge.

Classification of cyber risks in accounting

The complexity of information processes in accounting and the improvement of computer and communication technologies led to the variation of accounting information cyber threats. The traditional classification of cyber threats does not include the multifaceted nature of accounting, and therefore is uninformative for the purposes oforganizingeffectivecybersecurityofenterprises.Purpose. The main aim is to improve the classification of cyber risks through thegeneralizationandsystematizationofcyberthreatsrelevanttoaccountinginformation.Methods.Intheprocessofthesystematizationofvariablecyberthreatsinaccounting,generalscientificempirical,logicalandhistoricalmethodsofcognitionofsocio-economicprocesses were used. The article is based on general methods of research of socio-economic information from the standpoint of accounting and cybersecurity. The informationbasis of scientific research is historical resources about the cyber threats classification,scientificworksofdomesticandforeignscientistsaboutdividingthreatsofaccountingintotypes.Results.Itisprovedthateffectivecyberprotectionofenterprisesrequirespromptandadaptiveconsiderationofvariablecyberthreatsinaccounting.Theclassificationofcyberthreatsofaccountinginformationhasbeenimprovedbydistinguishingclassificationcriteria:randomness,purposefulness,informationandfinancialinterest,territoriality,source,origin,objectivity,objectivity,scale,formofimplementation,criminality,aspect,prolongation,latency,andprobability.Theimportanceofusingtheaboveclassificationofcyberrisks,whichcomprehensivelycharacterizesthecyberthreatsofaccountinginformation,forthepurposesofdevelopingmeasurestoprevent,avoidandeliminatepotentialconsequences.Discussion. It is important to improve the classification of accounting information usersfor organize the enterprises cybersecurity, which requires further research and developmentofanactionssettoensurecyberprotectionoftheaccountingsystem.

Flying Below the Radar

Australian government administrators and private enterprise took full advantage of the opportunities made possible by civil aviation in Australia’s Northern Territory. Yet, there is a common perception among Territorians that there is more on display and known about the defence aviation heritage of the Territory. Considering the long-term impact civil aviation has had on Territorians and their way of life, this paper queries this representation of its aviation past. This is achieved through a heritage audit, alongside an exploration of primary and secondary historical resources, and other forms of presentation. This paper highlights existing gaps in the representation of civil aviation heritage in the Northern Territory and suggests a way forward so that this significant historical narrative is not forgotten.