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Join Jung Eun Sophia Park on her personal quest for God and her
true self through the writings of Thomas Merton. Approaching Merton
as an Asian immigrant feminist in the postcolonial era, Park's
perspective is a unique one, and in this dance sometimes it is her
and sometimes Merton who leads. Throughout, Eastern and Western
spirituality are organically woven together in reflection on
Merton's narratives and in the examination of late capitalism,
poverty, beauty, and violence. These reflections are insightful,
provocative, and illuminating, particularly with regard to his
androcentric spirituality, especially as it relates to his
relationships with women.
This volume is a collection of essays by former students of Judith
Berling based on her revolutionary interreligious pedagogy. Her
pedagogy can be summarized as a student centered, collaborative,
and engaging teaching and learning process sparked by various ways
of boundary-crossing. In this enterprise, each chapter explores the
importance of understanding and negotiating "differences" through
dialogue. The authors provide theoretical frameworks for
engagements across conventional borders, and explore how the
collaborative teaching model can be utilized in various teaching
settings. As an example of her dialogical approach, Judith Berling
herself provides a response to the chapters.
Dislocation, which involves moving from a familiar place to an
unknown place, is a common experience in this era of globalization
yet it can cause a deep sense of alienation - people feel
invisible, voiceless, and anonymous. A Hermeneutic on Dislocation
as Experience: Creating a Borderland, Constructing a Hybrid
Identity employs socio-rhetorical criticism from a postcolonial
perspective, providing a hermeneutic on the experience of
dislocation from the perspective of Asian immigrant women. The
author's focus on Asian immigrant women's spirituality is
interwoven with different texts such as the story of a woman caught
in adultery (Jn. 7: 53-8:11), Asian immigrant women's stories in
the novels Dictee and Crossings, and stories of Korean shamans
encountered in the author's ethnographic fieldwork. This book
suggests that people who experience dislocation can create a
borderland where their own marginality gains power and voice. In
that borderland, they are able to construct a hybrid identity as a
result of deep engagement with one another. In particular, the
author's fieldwork on Korean shamans reveals how the shamanic
ritual itself functions as a borderland, wherein the marginalized
Korean shamans gain hybrid identity. A Hermeneutic on Dislocation
as Experience is a valuable resource for classes in Asian studies,
ethnography, cultural anthropology, biblical spirituality, women's
spirituality, and interdisciplinary courses.
Join Jung Eun Sophia Park on her personal quest for God and her
true self through the writings of Thomas Merton. Approaching Merton
as an Asian immigrant feminist in the postcolonial era, Park's
perspective is a unique one, and in this dance sometimes it is her
and sometimes Merton who leads. Throughout, Eastern and Western
spirituality are organically woven together in reflection on
Merton's narratives and in the examination of late capitalism,
poverty, beauty, and violence. These reflections are insightful,
provocative, and illuminating, particularly with regard to his
androcentric spirituality, especially as it relates to his
relationships with women.
Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices
since the dawn of the human race. In the ancient Roman world, for
example, it was common practice to build channels from the tops of
graves into the crypts themselves, and mourners would regularly
pour offerings of food and drink into these conduits to nourish the
dead while they waited for the afterlife. Funeral cookies wrapped
with printed prayers and poems meant to comfort mourners became
popular in Victorian England; while in China, Japan, and Korea, it
is customary to offer food not only to the bereaved, but to the
deceased, with ritual dishes prepared and served to the dead. Dying
to Eat is the first interdisciplinary book to examine the role of
food in death, bereavement, and the afterlife. The contributors
explore the phenomenon across cultures and religions, investigating
topics including tombstone rituals in Buddhism, Catholicism, and
Shamanism; the role of death in the Moroccan approach to food; and
the role of funeral casseroles and church cookbooks in the Southern
United States. This innovative collection not only offers food for
thought regarding the theories and methods behind these practices
but also provides recipes that allow the reader to connect to the
argument through material experience. Illuminating how cooking and
corpses both transform and construct social rituals, Dying to Eat
serves as a fascinating exploration of the foodways of death and
bereavement.
Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices
since the dawn of the human race. In the ancient Roman world, for
example, it was common practice to build channels from the tops of
graves into the crypts themselves, and mourners would regularly
pour offerings of food and drink into these conduits to nourish the
dead while they waited for the afterlife. Funeral cookies wrapped
with printed prayers and poems meant to comfort mourners became
popular in Victorian England; while in China, Japan, and Korea, it
is customary to offer food not only to the bereaved, but to the
deceased, with ritual dishes prepared and served to the dead. Dying
to Eat is the first interdisciplinary book to examine the role of
food in death, bereavement, and the afterlife. The contributors
explore the phenomenon across cultures and religions, investigating
topics including tombstone rituals in Buddhism, Catholicism, and
Shamanism; the role of death in the Moroccan approach to food; and
the role of funeral casseroles and church cookbooks in the Southern
United States. This innovative collection not only offers food for
thought regarding the theories and methods behind these practices
but also provides recipes that allow the reader to connect to the
argument through material experience. Illuminating how cooking and
corpses both transform and construct social rituals, Dying to Eat
serves as a fascinating exploration of the foodways of death and
bereavement.
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