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Ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust memory
No full textEditorial for issue 28(1) of Scandinavian Jewish Studies, 'Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Memory'
Recent Developments in Animal Law in Kazakhstan
Get PDFThis note follows up on our survey of animal law in Kazakhstan published in the Global Journal of Animal Law in 2013. The last five years in Kazakhstan have been particularly fruitful in terms of legislative innovations in animal law, with about 100 new legal acts. The sectors which were most affected are regulations about agricultural animals and regulations about companion animals. Some new legal acts concern animals in general. This increase in legislation is connected with Kazakhstan’s membership in the WTO and in the Eurasian Economic Union, and with a qualitative leap in animal protection activism
Vattnet ovanför. Om den himmelska hydraulikens ikonografi
Get PDFTitle: The Waters Above. The Iconography of Heavenly HydraulicsEarly Christianity had no cosmology of its own and fell back on the ancient Hebrew one, described in Genesis I, where the firmament is understood as a solid (lat. firmus) dome-like structure that separates the water into two parts: the waters above and those below. Beyond the firmament is an immense expanse of water held at bay only by the firmness of the celestial dome, on the inside of which the sun, the moon and the stars are fixed. – From the beginning, however, this primitive worldview had to compete with a very different and more sophisticated cosmos: the Greek. At least since 500 BC they had imagined the earth as spherical and surrounded by the moving spheres of the celestial bodies. The stars were fixed to the outermost, crystal sphere – the equivalent of the Hebrew firmament. Beyond this was the infinite region of fire (or aether), where Christian and Muslim philosophers later installed the empyrean heaven, the dwelling of God. – No such spherical division is found in the Bible, and it was only with Constantine’s legalization of Christianity (313) that the need to visualize the biblical narrative emerged. This article deals with the struggle of artists to concretize and visualize the biblical texts in contexts increasingly dominated by Greco-Roman culture – and to find a place for the waters above
Pericope Adulterae ja historiallinen Jeesus – tulkinta ja merkitys
Get PDFVaikka Pericope Adulteraeta on tutkittu usein tekstikriittisin menetelmin, tekstillä on annettavaa myös historiallisen Jeesuksen tutkimukselle
The aesthetics and ethics of performative Holocaust memory in Poland
No full textThis article addresses the performative dimension of the post-1989 Polish memorial culture of the Holocaust, characterised by a collaborative and audience-participatory model of remembering the Jewish victims. In this model participants are invited to become creators and owners of public memory, rather than silent observers or witnesses to commemorations performed by others. The article offers a critical and theoretical understanding of performativity in Holocaust commemoration through the examples of educational memorial actions Listy do Henia (‘Letters to Henio’) and Kroniki sejneńskie (‘The Sejny Chronicles’) led by the Polish grassroots institutions Ośrodek Brama Grodzka (‘Grodzka Gate-NN Theatre Centre’) in Lublin and Ośrodek Pogranicze (‘Borderland Foundation’) in Sejny. Drawing mainly on Polish perspectives on memory, the article examines the aesthetic and ethical value of these actions. It further probes how a performative model of engagement can serve to expose the complex past of Polish–Jewish relations, to bring the historical past vividly into current consciousness, and to facilitate a sense of belonging to a moral community of memory among younger generations of Poles
Traditional and modern crossing process exchange in a Buddhist–Muslim society
No full textEconomic exchange in the Zangskar valley (in the high Indian Himalayas) was a tightly integrated element of the social and political network of this Buddhist–Muslim society . Accordingly people of the lower stratum could not take part in the exchange and circulation of wealth coming from farming; the only way to have a role in the circulation of goods is by using cash.
Since 1970, paid civil servants and the development of tourism and facilities have opened up cash exchange. Nowadays being able to procure manufactured goods by integrating into the Indian monetary exchange system has become synonymous with social success.
Based on an ethnographical study carried out since 2000, this article proposes to show how the use of goods and green or stamped money for economic exchange impacts on and is impacted by the religious diversity of the population of Zangskar, which is not immune to influences emanating from the wider social, political and economic environment
Landscape, boundaries, and the limits of representation
No full textThe article discusses the commemorative concept of Gunter Demnig’s ongoing art project Stolpersteine, which is considered one of the world’s largest decentralised Holocaust memorials. Stolpersteine are small, cobblestone-size memorial stones in urban spaces which are dedicated to individual victims of Nazism; it is the project’s aim to install the stones in the pavement in front of an individual’s last-known place of residence. The article aims to analyse the commemorative facets of the project’s spatial dimension in relation to the concept of the ‘residential’. The value of dwelling, presented in Demnig’s project as a common ground for the commemoration of all victims as individual citizens, forms a predominant component in public reception. It contributes to a synthesising perception of each stone as being part of a vast commemorative landscape. This landscape, however, is semantically marked by an immanent concept of border, which suggests a polarising separation between included civil spaces and excluded heterotopias. By deviating from the project’s general principles of placement and inscription, certain individual stones render visible this implicit borderline, thereby also critically reflecting on concepts of ‘inside’ and ‘outside’
Summaries of the Presentations at the EGALS Seminar 2017 at Katowice University, Poland
Get PDFSummaries of the presentations given at the seminar of the Educational Group of Animal Law Studies
Comparing 'religious diversities'
No full textThis paper aims at reopening the debate regarding ‘religious diversity’ in religious studies. A review of (recent or ancient) literature demonstrates that we have not finished with the complexity of the issue of ‘diversity’, whether in academic or social debates. Furthermore, diversity must not only be taken seriously, but impels us towards a comparative methodology in order to highlight the variations of the forms, dynamics, effects and contexts of diversity. As such, Asian countries represent a very interesting location for an epistemological deconstruction of the Western-style and monotheistic-centred concept of ‘religious diversity’, as it is often used in religious studies and the social sciences