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Embracing and Engaging Holistically: A pastoral response to youth (or anyone) struggling with anxiety and depression
Get PDFFollowing Richard Osmer’s framework for practical theological interpretation, this paper’s overall task seeks to examine the question of how to engage and encourage youth who are struggling with anxiety and depression to seek counsel. Separated into four sections, the descriptive task invites the reader into the author’s personal experience before drawing attention to the larger societal issue at hand. The interpretive task invites psychologist Erik Erikson’s identity development into the conversation, inviting more questions and possible solutions. The third section, a theological interpretation and analysis examines the Rule of St. Benedict and the pastoral implications of the incarnation. Finally, the final section invites the reader to a pastoral response rooted in empathy, listening, and dialogue
Saint Patrick: A Hagiographical Study
Get PDFReflecting on her semester abroad in Galway, Ireland, the author was inspired to write about the conflicting images of St. Patrick’s personal writings and various accounts of his life written by hagiographers in the centuries following his death. This essay is an attempt to articulate the intersection of fact and fiction, and how they play a role in shaping the Irish saint
Catholic Reformation Hymnody
No full textChapter 6 in hymns and Hymnody: Historical and Theological Introductions: Volume II: From Catholic Europe to Protestant Europe, edited by Mark A. Lamport, Benjamin K. Forrest, and Vernon M. Whaley
Digital Possibilities: Open Education Resource
No full textPart of the Digital Technologies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference hosted by CSB/SJU Librarie
Digital Pedagogy: Podcast
No full textPart of the Digital Technologies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference hosted by CSB/SJU Librarie
Review of Cahuilla Nation Activism and the Tribal Casino Movement
Get PDFIn this highly accessible book, anthropologist Theodor Gordon tackles settler society’s deep deficit of knowledge about the tribal casino industry’s legal and historical underpinnings. At the core of his analysis are the Cahuilla nations and homelands situated in present day Southern California, the “epicenter of the tribal gaming movement” (p. 19). The fourth title in University of Nevada’s “The Gambling Series,” this study contributes new texture to the embryonic field of tribal gaming studies and is an especially welcome addition to the meager corpus of California-based tribal gaming ethnographies. Yet this hardly describes the breadth of its scholarly relevance. As the author demonstrates, exercises in tribal nation sovereignty are historically situated and legally anchored within multiple contiguous, overlapping, and competing spheres of power. Thus, of necessity, the book transcends its Cahuilla moorings to shed clarity on the sociopolitical interactions and economic interdependence of multiple polities and “places”—including distinct, federally-acknowledged Native nations numbering in the hundreds, Native California, Indian Country, the U.S. settler colonial state, the State of California, and Southern California under Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. colonial rule. Gordon deftly unveils and explicates these matryoshka-like provinces of power in relation to the possibilities and limits they have posed over the long arc of Cahuilla nation activism