Media Witnessing
Title | Media Witnessing PDF eBook |
Author | P. Frosh |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 231 |
Release | 2008-11-27 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 023023576X |
From the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us to reports of distant and horrifying events, experienced by strangers, and brought to us through media technologies. In this book leading scholars explore key questions concerning the truth status and broader implications of 'media witnessing'.
Cultures of Witnessing
Title | Cultures of Witnessing PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Lipton |
Publisher | Middle Ages |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780812253856 |
In Cultures of Witnessing, Emma Lipton considers the plays that were performed in the streets of York on the Feast of Corpus Christi from the late fourteenth century until the third quarter of the sixteenth and shows how civic performance and the legal theory and practice of witnessing promoted a shared sense of urban citizenship.
Commonplace Witnessing
Title | Commonplace Witnessing PDF eBook |
Author | Bradford Vivian |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2017-06-13 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 019061109X |
Commonplace Witnessing examines how citizens, politicians, and civic institutions have adopted idioms of witnessing in recent decades to serve a variety of social, political, and moral ends. The book encourages us to continue expanding and diversifying our normative assumptions about which historical subjects bear witness and how they do so. Commonplace Witnessing presupposes that witnessing in modern public culture is a broad and inclusive rhetorical act; that many different types of historical subjects now think and speak of themselves as witnesses; and that the rhetoric of witnessing can be mundane, formulaic, or popular instead of rare and refined. This study builds upon previous literary, philosophical, psychoanalytic, and theological studies of its subject matter in order to analyze witnessing, instead, as a commonplace form of communication and as a prevalent mode of influence regarding the putative realities and lessons of historical injustice or tragedy. It thus weighs both the uses and disadvantages of witnessing as an ordinary feature of modern public life.
The Ethics of Witnessing
Title | The Ethics of Witnessing PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Feldhay Brenner |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2014-06-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0810129752 |
Winner, 2015 USC Book Award in Literary and Cultural Studies, for outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the fields of literary and cultural studies The Ethics of Witnessing investigates the reactions of five important Polish diaristswriters—Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Maria Dabrowska, Aurelia Wylezynska, Zofia Nalkowska, and Stanislaw Rembek—during the period when the Nazis persecuted and murdered Warsaw’s Jewish population. The responses to the Holocaust of these prominent prewar authors extended from insistence on empathic interaction with victims to resentful detachment from Jewish suffering. Whereas some defied the dehumanization of the Jews and endeavored to maintain intersubjective relationships with the victims they attempted to rescue, others selfdeceptively evaded the Jewish plight. The Ethics of Witnessing examines the extent to which ideologies of humanism and nationalism informed the diarists’ perceptions, proposing that the reality of the Final Solution exposed the limits of both orientations and ultimately destroyed the ethical landscape shaped by the Enlightenment tradition, which promised the equality and fellowship of all human beings.
Anthropology for Christian Witness
Title | Anthropology for Christian Witness PDF eBook |
Author | Charles H. Kraft |
Publisher | Orbis Books |
Total Pages | 677 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1608332403 |
"Anthropology for Christian Witness serves as a thorough, basic introduction to the study of anthropology that has been designed specifically for those who plan careers in mission or cross-cultural ministry. The work of Charles H. Kraft, author of the classic Christianity in Culture, and widely acknowledged as one of the foremost Evangelical missionary anthropologists, this new work represents the synthesis of a lifetime of teaching and study. Kraft treats the very basics, including theories of culture and society; an assessment of the various anthropological schools; kinship and family structure, and cross-cultural communication."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Worldview for Christian Witness
Title | Worldview for Christian Witness PDF eBook |
Author | Charles H. Kraft |
Publisher | William Carey Publishing |
Total Pages | 609 |
Release | 2008-06-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 087808648X |
In Worldview for Christian Witness, Charles Kraft invites readers to understand REALITY as God sees it by learning to take seriously the insights of other societies. The diversity of cultures can seem obvious, but to really understand the significance of those surface level differences, one needs to understand the deep level assumptions on which they are based.
Can I Get a Witness?
Title | Can I Get a Witness? PDF eBook |
Author | Brian K. Blount |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | 172 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780664228699 |
In this accessible and provocative study, Brian Blount reads the book of Revelation through the lens of African American culture, drawing correspondences between Revelation's context and the long-standing suffering of African Americans. Applying the African American social, political, and religious experience as an interpretive cipher for the book's complicated imagery, he contends that Revelation is essentially a story of suffering and struggle amid oppressive assimilation. He examines the language of "martyr" and the image of the lamb, and shows that the thread of resistance to oppressive power that runs through John's hymns resonates with a parallel theme in the music of African America.