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Islam, Christianity, and the Environmental Crisis
No full textWhat can religion offer for resolving the environmental crisis? How can we recover a sacred view of the universe? What resources can the Islamic and Christian traditions offer in response to the environmental crisis?
This lecture will examine the spiritual and intellectual origins of the environmental crisis, rooted in the desacralization of nature in the modern period. It will survey traditional Islamic and Christian views of nature and offer resources, from the Christian heritage and Islamic understandings of the relationship of God, humanity, and nature, that can address our contemporary environmental crisis and help recover a sacred view of the universe.
University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University, Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr is regarded as one of the leading Islamic thinkers in the world today. A pioneer in addressing the roots of the environmental crisis from a theological perspective, he has also published widely in the fields of Islamic studies, Islamic philosophy, Islamic art and spirituality, and religion and modernity.
This annual symposium is held in memory of Terence Nichols (1941-2014), who was a professor of systematic theology and founder of the Muslim-Christian Dialogue Center, which has now evolved into the Encountering Islam Initiative at the University of St. Thomas. This annual lecture is devoted to the broad-ranging intellectual pursuits of our beloved colleague
Simply Hemingway
No full textConcise introduction to Hemingway\u27s life and work from Oak Park to Ketchum. Hays follows Hemingway around the world, critically examining the author\u27s writings chronologically, beginning with early stories from In Our Time and concluding with posthumous works such as A Moveable Feast, Under Kilimanjaro, and The Garden of Eden. Hays\u27s combined biography/close reading situates the author and his works within their historical and cultural milieus, capturing succinctly the complexity of both the man and his art. Concludes with an assessment of Hemingway\u27s literary legacy and suggestions for further reading
Hemingway at Work: \u27Cat in the Rain
No full textThis essay is a meticulous study of the inspiration, context, and composition of Hemingway\u27s Cat in the Rain. It analyzes Hemingway\u27s time in Rapallo and the events that may (and may not) have inspired the story and offers a close examination of Hemingway\u27s condensed style and use of repetition in the story
Hemingway in Place: The Aging Warrior in Across the River and into the Trees
No full textExamines how the topography of Venice and vicinity become central character and major theme of Across the River and into the Trees. Suggests that Colonel Cantwell\u27s character is constantly revealed through his deep understanding and relation, both sensory and historically, to the terrain through which he moves. Explores the notion of Renata as metaphor: She is the Colonel talking to himself and in the process reliving-or reinventing-the past. Touches on ideas of place from other writers, such as Stephen Greenblatt and Martin Heidegger, and draws on numerous critical studies of the novel
We Have Very Primitive Emotions\u27: Cognitive Biases and Environmental Crises in Hemingway\u27s Green Hills of Africa
No full textIn the face of convincing scholarly agreement that Hemingway presents a divided self in Green Hills of Africa-Hemingway Library Edition-one who both cherishes nature and exploits it-Juraszek argues that cognitive dissonance is a way to understand the dichotomies at work in the text. Eight decades before the daily human concerns over climate change and loss of biodiversity, Juraszek finds Hemingway struggling with the emotional and intellectual predicament arising from his implication in despoiling Africa. He plumbs psychology (cognitive biases) and ecocritical studies to analyze how Hemingway presents in the book and elsewhere his self-image, behaviors, observations, and encounters with Africa\u27s people, animals, and natural landscape
\u27Well Then, Carry On\u27: Piercing Recalcitrant History in LaShonda Katrice Barnett\u27s Jam on the Vine
No full textExplicates a well-regarded contemporary novel (2015) that wrestles with African-American history, Jim Crow violence, and the sexual identity of its central character, a Black lesbian who becomes a prominent and outspoken journalist. Hemingway makes a cameo appearance as a young man from Illinois who lands a cub-reporting job at the Kansas City Star that the ambitious Ivoe Williams had also applied for. Ivoe soon starts her own newspaper for African-American readers. Rather than using Hemingway as a symbol of white repression, however, Barnett admires his influence as a writer and, in correspondence with McKible, holds him up as an inspiration, along with Toni Morrison and the crusading reporter Ida B. Wells. As McKible writes, Hemingway and Wells are guiding spirits in Jam on the Vine because they provide Barnett with examples of the clear prose, social activism, and perseverance that were needed by African American writers and journalists resisting Jim Crow, both at home and abroad
James Baldwin and Ernest Hemingway: The Expatriate Artist as Organic Intellectual
No full textProposes ways to think of the two, expatriate writers as self-made thinkers and individualist artists concerned with matters of justice and injustice, as Hemingway once put it in an interview, highlighted in an epigraph. Toumi\u27s theoretical framework leans on ideas of the intellectual vocation, exile, criticism, and other topics from the writings of Edward Said, Cornel West and other postmodern critics. Intertwines the parallel experiences and ideas that can be found in both authors: Hemingway and Baldwin believed that the artist/intellectual must always be on the side of the weak… Conclusion considers both writers in the context of recent American history and states they both recognized racial injustice as the nation\u27s existential wound. Extensive notes expand the author\u27s perspectives and sources
The Tangled Web of Mass Incarceration: Addressing the School-To-Prison Pipeline Through a Restorative Justice Approach
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The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is progressively increasing in Saudi Arabia. Tackling the common risk factors of NCDs is an urgent priority to ensure the population’s health. Even though healthcare is free of charge in Saudi Arabia, the issue of non-compliance or non-adherence from the public still exists. The current research addressed the factors that affect Saudi’s health related attitudes and behavior, which has so far been lacking in the scientific literature. This qualitative case study provided an in-depth analysis of Saudis’ health consciousness phenomena. The findings are based primarily on themes that emerged from the data analysis of 1618 qualitative survey responses and 18 personal interview transcripts. Major themes that emerged from this study were: health beliefs, health awareness, health motivation, and health barriers. The data described the participants’ health-related knowledge, practices, and challenges. Participants correctly identified the relation between healthy lifestyles and disease prevention. Yet, many participants failed at maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The data clearly presented a dichotomy between Saudis’ health-related knowledge and practice. Saudis’ health understanding is based on a broad range of cultural domains, and not solely on health perceived knowledge. Hence, Saudis’ health behavior is influenced by personal, social, environmental, and economic factors. Saudis must reflect on their health reality, by addressing the influential factors, and change the myth or the misunderstood health concepts. Understanding the concept of health consciousness as a personal attribute will have greater power in predicting diverse health behaviors among Saudis. The Health Conscientization Model calls for a need to foster critical health consciousness to build collective action to improve the health status of the Saudi population. It is only by reaching critical health consciousness that the health status of Saudis will improve. The model defined Saudis’ ability to recognize and analyze influential forces shaping health status and their willingness to change unhealthy behaviors. The Health Conscientization Model speaks to health policymakers, leaders, educators, and the Saudi community at large to empower Saudis in changing their risky behaviors to improve their health.
Keywords: Saudis’ health, health attitude, health behaviors, health consciousness, Saudi Arabia healthcare system, health awareness, health information, healthcare utilization, Paulo Freire’s notion of level of consciousness, critical consciousness, Health Conscientization Model