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The Effectiveness of Arts in Trauma Intervention
No full textWith many people throughout the world struggling with traumatic experiences often leading to to Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), different ways of treating those symptoms have emerged. Expressive arts therapy is the method of utilizing different modalities of art to address specific issues. By framing PTSD and the role of the arts through Abraham Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs,” relevant research literature is discussed on the compatibility of the two beyond the level of self-actualization. By looking at three populations with high PTSD rates - refugees, victims of sexual violence, and incarcerated individuals - different art interventions are discussed along with their effectiveness. The literature review found that using the arts is effective among PTSD populations, especially as an enhancer of regular therapy. Several recommendations for further research are given, including the creation of a suitable measurement tool that effectively captures both the quantitative results with qualitative results in addition to ensuring culturally competent therapies
Sheila E. McGinn, Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan, and Ahida Calderón Pilarski, eds, By Bread Alone: The Bible through the Eyes of the Hungry
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Introduction to the Essays of the Consultation on Preaching and Postcolonial Theology
No full textThe essays that follow were first presented as part of a consultation on preaching and postcolonial theology at Boston University in October, 2014, sponsored by the BU Center for Practical Theology. The consultation was an opportunity to bring together a leading scholar in postcolonial theology, Dr. Kwok Pui-lan of Episcopal Theological Seminary; two homileticians who have already started to grapple with postcolonial theory and theology in their work, Drs. Pablo Jiménez and Sarah Travis; and two Ph.D. students, Revs. Tim Jones and Lis Valle, from BU and Vanderbilt respectively. The goal of this interdisciplinary consultation was to jump start a wider conversation on today’s postcolonial context in North American homiletics for the sake of the practice of preaching. As an ad hoc research team for the fall term of 2014, we editors named above were all pleased to help bring this consultation together and are now excited to bring its fruits to you, the international and diverse body of homileticians based in North America, the Academy of Homiletics.
*Note: Special thanks go to Drs. Shelly Rambo, Cristian De La Rosa, and Sung Jung Oh, who together with Revs. Yohan Go and Duse Lee, responded to the papers at the consultation in October, 2014. Their responses were crucial in the process of revising these papers for publication
The iIllegal Immigration Law: A Regime of Law, Discourses, and Police Practices
No full textThe article reflects on three levels of illegality embedded in the immigration control regime in Italy: the illegality of the law, the discourse on illegal immigrants, and the non–legal space of police practices. The illegality of the regime does not emerge from one level or the other, but from the complex relationships among them: the Italian immigration law is an illegal one, and it founds its legitimacy on discourses claiming about the illegality of undocumented immigrants; police practices occur in a non-legal space, and it is the law itself that sets the boundaries of that space. Through history of the law, analyses of the discourses, and one case study I made about the interaction between undocumented immigrants and police officers in Bologna (Italy), I argue that we need focus on the links among the three levels, in order to effectively address the illegality of the regime. However, the link between police practices and legal discourses turns out to be especially very problematic, and raises the question about how to use empirical research to undermine the legitimacy of the illegal immigration control regime
