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Groene prediking als gereformeerde uitdaging
No full textThis article examines how the topic of climate crisis is addressed in Reformed preaching in the Dutch context. It explores a third way of ecotheology as revisionism between apologetics and reconstructionism. The textual material from several annual prayer services for the harvest functions as empirical case study. Concern for creation and dependence on God emerge as key themes, though their elaboration is often lacking in specificity. Using Walter Brueggemann’s Old Testament concept of reality, grief, and hope as prophetic dimensions, the article outlines how Reformed anthropology incorporates elements of reality and grief that can help foster hopeful preaching while acknowledging God as the creator of all life to which we are intrinsically connected
Abstracts of the International Science of Aphasia Conference, Nice, September 2023
No full textAbstracts of the International Science of Aphasia Conference, Nice, September 202
Temperamental overexcitability, household chaos, and lack of focused attention for academic learning
No full textIndividuals high in temperamental sensitivity are considered to orient their attention even to irrelevant stimuli in their current environments. Since this characteristic makes it more difficult for them to focus on the relevant stimuli in a situation, they should be more distractible than less sensitive individuals. However, how strongly this heightened distractibility results in actual distraction (i.e., lack of focused attention) should depend on the extent to which situations provide distracting stimulation. This study predicted that the relationship between university students’ overexcitability (i.e., an aspect of sensitivity) and lack of focused attention to academic learning was moderated by the degree of household chaos (i.e., potentially distracting noise and disorganization) in their homes during the lecture period. One hundred students approached on a Swiss university campus completed self-report measures on the variables of interest. Multiple regression analysis involving simple slope analyses revealed the expected interaction: The more intense the household chaos, the stronger the positive relationship between overexcitability and lack of focused attention for academic learning. The findings were robust when the current level of recovery was statically taken into account. The findings suggest practical implications for highly sensitive learners
Pathways linking the facets of conscientiousness to subjective well-being: Examining the role of cognitive flexibility and emotional intelligence
No full textThis study aimed to (1) investigate the potentially conflicting relationships between conscientiousness facets and subjective well-being (SWB), and (2) examine the mediating roles of cognitive flexibility (CF) and emotional intelligence (EI) in these relationships, thereby elucidating distinct motivational pathways underlying conscientiousness and its connection to well-being. Path analyses were calculate based on data from 459 Japanese employees (237 men, mean age = 42.35). Facets of conscientiousness were measured using both the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP)-300 and the IPIP-Abridged Big Five-Dimensional Circumplex (AB5C) to obtain robust results and assess possible instrument-specific effects. Both instruments revealed mixed positive and negative relationships between conscientiousness facets and SWB. Competence, self-discipline, and achievement-striving — components of the industriousness subdomain — showed positive associations with SWB. In contrast, orderliness, dutifulness, and cautiousness — components of the orderliness subdomain — exhibited negative associations. Mediation analyses identified CF and EI as critical factors enhancing the positive effects of industriousness and lower EI as a key factor contributing to lower SWB among cautious individuals. Conscientiousness demonstrates dual effects on well-being: proactive facets enhance, while inhibitory facets diminish well-being via cognitive-emotional pathways. Improving flexibility and social skills may enhance well-being by leveraging industriousness and mitigating the downsides of orderliness
Jarmila Mildorf, Life Storying in Oral History. Fictional Contamination and Literary Complexity
No full textIn Life Storying in Oral History. Fictional Contamination and Literary Complexity (2023), Jarmila Mildorf examines oral storytelling as a complex rhetorical enterprise. Her overarching frame of reference is ‘fictional contamination’, a term she coins to describe what she views as an in-built fictionalization tendency of narrative, its ‘potential for fictionalization’ (6). Mildorf displays broad, cross-disciplinary theoretical knowledge, and deftly connects a detailed analysis informed by narrative theory, linguistics, and social research with reflections on larger topics like identity construction, cultural story templates, the manipulative use of narrative, and the dynamics of family storytelling. The central concept of fictional contamination, though, suffers from overreach, which raises ethical as well as theoretical issues. Nevertheless, this does not diminish the book’s many merits, not least for scholars of life writing
“I Live in the Middle Land Somewhere”: An Interview with Feminist Writer Margarita Tavera Rivera
No full textConducted before the author’s death in December 2023, this interview sees Margarita Tavera Rivera reflect upon what being a Chicano/a writer means and what implications self-labeling herself as one carries. Despite explaining why being a woman had a more profound influence on her work than the cultural aspects of being a Chicana, the feminist writer gives an insight into which Chicano/a authors she met in her lifetime and how they influenced her writing. Best known for her play La condición (1991) and her short story ‘Sed’ (1993), Tavera Rivera discusses the content of her works, the inevitable consequences that arise from literary translation as well as relating her writings to her newest undertaking of painting
Decolonised Hermeneutics of Lived Religion: Conceptualising Preaching in the Context of Ecological Sustainability
No full textThis study deals with the interface between decolonised hermeneutics of lived religion and ecological sustainability. It demonstrates that preaching becomes a transformative medium for ecological consciousness and justice when conceptualised through a decolonised framework. Beyond technological interventions, transformative shifts in values, behaviours, and policies have been recognised as essential for addressing ecological crises. In this regard, religion has emerged as a crucial force capable of inspiring and sustaining these deeper transformations toward ecological sustainability. However, despite the expanding scholarship at the intersection of religion, ecology, development, and sustainability, there remains a lack of clarity regarding how religion concretely contributes to ecological sustainability and which theoretical frameworks or contextual epistemologies best explain its role in this process. Drawing on Grab’s decolonised hermeneutics of lived religion, the study situates preaching as a contextual narrative capable of shaping environmental values and activism. The paper demonstrates that preaching, when decolonised, functions as a theological act of resistance against exploitative theologies and the commodification of nature, repositioning preaching at the centre of reimagining a participatory, justice-oriented, and earth-conscious future
De Pianoplaag. De gynaecologie van muziek en menstruatie in de negentiende eeuw
No full textIn de negentiende eeuw maakten medici zich steeds vaker zorgen over de kwalijke invloed van muziek – het luisteren én maken ervan – op de reproductieve gezondheid van vrouwen. Muziek paste in die tijd bij de middenklassecultus van huiselijkheid en bij de rol van de vrouw om gezelligheid te bevorderen. Hoewel historici aandacht hebben besteed aan de medische debatten over de toegang van vrouwen tot de universiteit, is er nog weinig historisch onderzoek naar ideeën over de relatie tussen muziek en de vrouwelijke gezondheid. In de negentiende eeuw ontstond er een serieuze medische discussie over de mogelijke gevaren van muziekonderricht voor meisjes.
 
“Geef uzelf geen kans u zielig te voelen”. De Nederlandse omgang met menopauze in de jaren zestig
No full textIn de jaren zestig adviseerde Robert Wilson, een Amerikaanse gynaecoloog, om alle vrouwen met hormoontherapie te behandelen, vanaf hun puberteit tot aan het graf. In de VS was hij succesvol, met stijgende aantallen hormoonrecepten, maar in Nederland bleef zulk succes uit. Hoe kan dit verschil worden verklaard? Wilsons werk werd vertaald naar het Nederlands, en zijn behandeling werd besproken in kranten en medische tijdschriften. In dit artikel beargumenteer ik dat Wilsons langdurige hormoontherapie niet aansloeg in Nederland vanwege een andere opvatting over menopauze en vrouwelijkheid. Waar Wilsons visie van vrouwelijkheid biologisch was, gebaseerd op hormonen, was de Nederlandse kijk op vrouwelijkheid sociaal-cultureel, en kon het dus niet afnemen tijdens de menopauze. De oplossing voor de menopauze lag dan ook niet in hormonen, maar in houding en cosmetica