University of Groningen Press
Not a member yet
29910 research outputs found
Sort by
Holistic Pasifika Approaches to God, Creation, the Church, and Climate Change
No full textThis article argues that indigenous philosophies and concepts are valuable partners in addressing climate change with believers in Christ, particularly those communities marked by colonial dualisms separating the spiritual and the material. Drawing on key concepts in indigenous, Pasifika theology, the article describes how preachers can better relate the sacred and the secular in climate justice advocacy. “The relationality of all life” and a “whole of life philosophy” are aspects of Tuvaluan Christianity that decenter humanity as the primary focus of creation. They underscore the interconnected web of created life and its relation to faith in God. After describing these concepts, the article provides an example of how such indigenous concepts might inform a biblical hermeneutic for climate justice preaching. A translated sermon transcript, originally preached in the Tuvaluan language, is provided in the article’s appendix
The Journey Towards a Socially and Politically Engaged Theatre by the Cantieri Meticci Collective
No full textThe performing arts have become a meeting point for cultures, stimulating reflections on migration and identity. Artistic hybridization reflects the complexity of migratory experiences and the evolution of the arts in the Italian context. The company Cantieri Meticci is an example of this, transforming theatre into a space for intercultural experimentation and actively involving migrants, refugees, and artists. In doing so, the collective creates a laboratory of resistance against marginalization, invisibility, and hegemonic narratives that stereotype migrants, while promoting profound social and cultural change. Their political approach gives a voice to those on the margins, fostering the construction of an inclusive community and new shared narratives
Habima’s Displacements: Reframing Theatre Historiography and Archival Studies
No full textThe section convenor of From the Archives, José Pedro Sousa, introduces the contribution by Olga Levitan. Levitan’s article ‘An Archival Novelty: Theatre Habima’s Telegram to Joseph Goebbels’ offers a compelling case study of Habima’s attempt to perform in Nazi Germany. Tracing the company’s transnational journey from post-revolutionary Moscow to interwar Paris and Berlin, Levitan reconstructs a complex narrative of exile, cultural diplomacy, and artistic survival. At the heart of this story lies an unsettling document: a 1937 telegram sent by Habima to Joseph Goebbels, requesting permission to perform in Berlin
Relaxing the confirmatory factor model in the Big Five: Exploratory, Bayesian, and machine learning approaches
No full textConfirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) is a critical component of a psychologist’s assessment toolbox. CFA posits that the covariance between a large number of items can be explained with a smaller number of latent variables. The downside of CFA is that it makes often overly restrictive demands of the data with no cross-loadings. Three methods have been devised to relax this assumption: Exploratory Structural Equation Model (SEM), Bayesian SEM, and Regularized SEM. Each of these allow for the existence of cross-loadings, but a direct comparison of these methods is missing from the literature. The present compares results of these three methods using a sample of over 300 adults who completed the Big Five Inventory. The models were compared with regards to model fit, factor loadings, and factor correlations. All three of these methods provided substantially better fit to the data than the CFA model did, while producing lower factor correlations. However, these methods did not always demonstrate agreement in which items cross-loaded on which factors. Implications for the use of these methods to relax the overly restrictive assumptions in CFA is discussed
Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Stephen Laker & Anne Tjerk Popkema (eds.), Perspectives on Old Frisian Philology
No full textDesigning a critical digital literacies virtual exchange experience to engage and reinvent multimodal texts
No full textThis manuscript explores a 7-week, asynchronous, virtual exchange between American and Ukrainian education graduate students (n=58; 12 American Literacy PhD and Master’s students, 15 American TESOL Master\u27s students, and 31 TEFL Master’s Ukrainian students). The critical digital literacies study aimed to understand how students could engage multimodal texts to interrogate cultural and political underpinnings of modes and media across five online modules. Working and communicating globally in heterogeneous groups in Google Classroom and/or WhatsApp, students documented their group interactions, which they submitted weekly. The exchange culminated in individual reinventions of multimodal texts, which is an essential tenet of criticality. Students’ reflective surveys and interviews suggest that critical media literacy projects may offer unique affordances in promoting global awareness and challenge established biases
Jesaja en de biodiversiteitscrisis. Bijbellezen in ecologisch perspectief
No full textEcological hermeneutics stands for bringing an ecological perspective to biblical interpretation. This article compares the ecocritical reading advocated by the book Hemels groen with three common approaches in ecological hermeneutics. It then focuses on the issue of the enormous biodiversity loss caused by human beings. Based on a discussion of the seraphs’ exclamation in Isaiah 6:3b and the praise of the wild animals in Isaiah 43:20, it is argued that biodiversity loss has a profound theological and spiritual impact. Humanity directly harms God’s glory and deprives Him of a significant part of the praise due to Him. Despite its theocentric focus, Reformed theology has not sufficiently resisted this. As a result, creation has not been given adequate attention in Reformed religious practice and belief. Acknowledging and appreciating the place of creation in the theology of Isaiah helps to listen better to the language spoken by non-human creation today