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Sanskrit Medical Scholasticism III: Jajjaṭa’s Nirantarapadavyākhyā and Other Commentaries on the Carakasaṃhitā, Cikitsāsthāna 2.3
No full textThis paper is a continuation of “Sanskrit Medical Scholasticism II — Jajjaṭa’s Nirantarapadavyākhyā and Other Commentaries on the Carakasaṃhitā, Cikitsāsthāna 2.2 —” and offers a translation and analysis of the Carakasaṃhitā, Cikitsāsthāna Chapter 2, Quarter 3 (CaCi 2.3) along with the four commentaries
Exploring Sinophobic discourses during the COVID-19 pandemic: A corpus-assisted study of metaphor scenarios in editorials and reader comments
No full textThis study investigates the role of metaphors in COVID-19-related Sinophobic discourses, focusing on their functions in editorials and reader comments. While previous studies have highlighted the recurrence of specific frames (e.g. WAR, CRIME, etc.) when representing China (see Kim et al., 2022), little attention has been paid in the literature to the functions that metaphors perform in COVID-19-related Sinophobic discourses. This study addresses this gap by analysing the metaphorical representations of China in editorials and reader comments in one of Australia\u27s most-read newspapers, the Daily Telegraph. Metaphors are analysed referring to Musolff\u27s (2006) concept of scenarios. The results highlight that China is portrayed in both editorials and reader comments as an aggressive predator threatening Australia, as well as morally questionable and allegedly violating laws. Additionally, it is associated with ideological influence through communism, metaphorically compared to a contagious disease. Metaphors, especially in reader comments, seem to reflect perceptions of cultural superiority in Western societies by evaluating the out-group\u27s behaviour as inappropriate (see Li & Nicholson, 2021). While metaphorical frames are shared between the corpora, reader comments exhibit greater diversity in their linguistic realisations. The findings suggest that metaphors play a crucial role in reinforcing Sinophobic narratives
Focus. De oudtestamentische antropologie voor het voetlicht
No full textN.a.v.:
Jan Dietrich, Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg, Bernd Janowski en Ute Neumann-Gorsolke (red.), Handbuch Alttestamentliche Anthropologie (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024), xv + 756 p., € 149,00 (ISBN 9783161625190)
Boekbesprekingen, boekaankondigingen
No full textBoekbesprekingen:
Bijbelwetenschappen: Vern S. Poythress - Biblical Typology: How the Old Testament Points to Christ, his Church and the Consummation; Bruce K. Waltke/Fred G. Zaspel - How to Read and Understand the Psalms.
Kerk- en theologiegeschiedenis: Alfred C. Bronswijk - Het kruis; Marius A. van Willigen/Anthony Dupont (red.) - Ambrosiana Neerlandica: Context en Receptie van het Gedachtegoed van Ambrosius van Milaan; Günter Frank e.a. (red.) - Totus noster?; Timothy R. Scheuers - Consciences and the Reformation: Scruples over Oaths and Confessions in the Era of Calvin and His Contemporaries; Mirjam van Veen/Jesse Spohnholz - Dutch Reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1550-1620: A Reformation of Refugees; Johannes Schilling (red.) - Briefkultur der Reformationszeit; G.W.S. Mulder - Tussen tekst en toepassing: Onderzoek naar het tijdbetrokken element in de homiletiek van gereformeerde piëtisten in de Nederlanden 1600-1800; David Mark Rathel - Andrew Fuller and the Search for a Faith Worthy of All Acceptation: Exploring Fuller’s Soteriology in Its Historical Context; Herman Bavinck - Amsterdamse dogmatiekcolleges; Johan H. Hegeman - The Call of Conscience; Johan Snel - De zeven levens van Abraham Kuyper; Lukas Bormann/Manfred Gailus (red.) - Otto Dibelius: Neue Studien zu einer protestantischen Jahrhundertfigur.
Dogmatiek: Bram van de Beek - Bevrijding; Arnoud den Boer - Theodyssee; Peter Harrison/John Milbank (red.) - After Science and Religion; Rein den Hertog - Sharing the Body of Christ; Simon Maria Kopf - Reframing Divine Providence: New Perspectives from Aquinas on the Divine Action Debate; Jan Offringa - Frank en vrij geloven: De tien artikelen van een liberale dominee; Edgar Thaidigsmann - Gesehen werden und sehen.
Ethiek: Stanley Hauerwas en Hans S. Reinders (red.) - The Betrayal of Witness: Reflections on the Downfall of Jean Vanier.
Filosofie: André van der Braak - Ayahuasca as Liquid Divinity: An Ontological Approach.
Cultuur: Hans Schnitzler - De mens, de machine & de therapeut.
Boekaankondigingen:
Rosaria Butterfield - Vijf leugens ontmaskerd;
Sam Janse - Groene catechismus;
Jeremy L. Sabella - Reinhold Niebuhr;
Paul Schenderling - Er is leven na de groei.
A Quartet of Diplomatic Memoirs
No full textThe diplomatic memoir is a peculiar subgenre of life writing. Diplomats are trained to be circumspect and occasionally economical with the truth, yet their writing is meant, in principle, to be candid, honest, and thorough. Diplomatic memoirists continue serving their profession but invert diplomatic practice, and the subgenre, in enacting a private, professional language in public with their memoirs. This essay examines the memoirs of four diplomats – an American, Englishman, Pakistani, and Turk – alongside their lives, families, style, and literary as well as historical significance.
Wartime Diaries: Diaristic Forms of Recording Borderline Situations
No full textThe author focuses on the Second World War, but draws attention to the deep genealogy of the phrase “wartime diaries,” treating them as a special form of recording borderline situations in which a person is confronted with violence and death, which go beyond the ways of coping with these experiences, and the community is faced with the horror of mass extermination. Culture and civilization are in a state of catastrophe, destruction and collapse. Examples of records of such experiences in the past include plague logs and pogrom chronicles. The concept of “wartime diaries” has two basic features: 1. they are written in borderline situations and contain a record of limit experiences; 2. the primary distinguishing criterion is the proximity of the record and the experience. The author presents the topography of diaristic records and the circles of experience they testify to. As for the topography of writing, the observation field was narrowed only to the area of the Warsaw, Łódź, Kraków, Vilnius and Kaunas ghettos. From the various experiences within the thematic spectrum of the diaries, the author presents the hunger in the ghettos. The article proposes to expand the genological area of the diaries and draw attention to diaristic borderlands and genological hybrids. This broadened spectrum of forms would fit between the diary and the chronicle, and between the letters and the diary. There are also “texts in extremis”, which can be considered a unique “ultimate diaristic record”. This separate group consists of various types of inscriptions on the walls of torture rooms and prisons, places where convicts are held. The act of writing and the moment of experience merge
Building virtual bridges between Japan and Taiwan through a short-term virtual exchange workshop
No full textVirtual exchanges (VEs) promoting engagement among students in different countries and advancing intercultural understanding have become widespread. However, challenges such as class scheduling and time-zone differences, course and institutional requirements, mean it is not always possible to conduct exchanges over extended periods. We describe a short-term synchronous VE undertaken over two two-hour sessions on consecutive afternoons between college students in Japan and Taiwan. The primary objectives of this VE were to provide students with opportunities to practice English in an international context, gain intercultural understanding, and evaluate the feasibility of future short-term exchanges. With a focus on our assessments and reflections as the instructors who planned and implemented the exchange, we conclude by presenting a general outline for other educators and students with limited timeframes wishing to offer meaningful experiences through international intercultural VEs
‘To Bring Them into Dialog’: A Conversation about Life Narrative and the Digital
No full textThis conversation, which originally formed part of the two-day workshop-and-conference “Life Narrative and the Digital 2023” at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, brings together historians, literary and auto/biography scholars, and digital humanists to address the intersections of life-narrative scholarship and digital humanities. They offer different disciplinary perspectives on the possibilities and challenges posed by the increasing prevalence of digital tools and methods in auto/biographical research and practice and jointly explore the following questions: How will digital technologies and methods shape the future of auto/biography studies as a field? How can theoretical concepts from traditional life-narrative research enrich the field of digital humanities? How can the divide between traditional and digital humanities be overcome? Pointing out opportunities as well as problem areas, the exchange opens up new pathways towards a fruitful, critical, and, ultimately, mutually enriching disciplinary dialogue between life-narrative research ad digital humanities
From the Politics of Recognition to the Politics of Resentment
No full textAxel Honneth’s response to the objections that his theory of recognition has received from Althusserian-inspired perspectives invites us to consider what Honneth calls an insurmountable “social-ontological” difference. Insofar as it is Spinoza’s ontology that is at the basis of Althusser’s theory of ideology, we seek in this article to explore some of the problems that arise from the association of Spinoza’s thought with a philosophy of recognition. The concern at the basis of this essay is the way in which the absence of recognition and contempt tend to spread in the current global conjuncture