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Does greater variation reside in the larger sex?
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Building a Community of Inquiry for Pluralistic Practice
No full textPluralism offers a means of recognising the value of multiple voices and perspectives and has emerged as an increasingly significant guiding framework for making sense of the complexity and diversity of contemporary social life. Pluralistic Practice is an open access journal created with the intention of supporting the development of a global community of inquiry within which practitioners, communities, and citizens can share knowledge, experience, and evidence around the challenges and benefits of working pluralistically to facilitate individual and collective well-being, solidarity, and justice. The present article offers an introduction to how the journal will operate and what it hopes to achieve and extends an invitation to be part of this endeavour
Beyond Synodal Listening: Theological Action Research and Cultures of Conversation
No full textIn the contemporary Catholic Church’s engagement with synodality listening has become the dominant emphasis; methods for “spiritual conversation” are designed to give priority to listening—to one another and, fundamentally, the Holy Spirit. This paper offers some critiques of this emphasis and seeks to explore conversation as the synodal fundamental. Conversation overly controlled by listening is, I argue, susceptible to subtle and unhelpful power dynamics. “Ordinary conversation”—interruptive, informal, spontaneous, and not always polite—has its own theological significance and must also find its place in a truly synodal church. Drawing on extensive experience of theological action research and insights from systems theory, the paper sets out why such “ordinary conversation,” distinct from what might be seen as “formal listening,” is ecclesiologically essential for a full realisation of church. By way of conclusion, key themes are identified whose development is needed for the further enrichment of synodal processes through attention to ordinary conversation
BertSent: Transformer-based model for Sentiment Analysis of Penta-class Tweet Classification
No full textRunning in Order to Stand Still:A Personal Reflection on Feminism in Times of Radical Change
No full textThis chapter explores how the author’s biography has influenced her research in feminist theology, gender theory, and intersectionality. She tracks her theological development through her positioning as a postcolonial Catholic woman who began academic studies the year her youngest child started school.Beattie argues that the appeal to experience in liberal feminist theologies of the 1980s failed to take sufficient account of the ways in which experiences are interpreted through sociolinguistic lenses. The ‘linguistic turn’ of the early 1990s offered insights into how gender and culture influence psycho-social conventions and behaviours, so that intersectional approaches informed by psychoanalytic and sociological theories can contribute to a deeper feminist understanding of the ways in which gender positions women in their personal, domestic, and social environments.However, this methodological shift risks the discursive dissolution of the sex/gender distinction in postmodern theory, making it difficult to focus on feminist questions of justice and representation. The author also applies this criticism to doctrinal developments in the Catholic understanding of sexual difference, arguing that a shift from hierarchical to complementary approaches to sexual difference in papal language has done little to change existing hierarchies. In Catholic ecclesiology, the idea of the Church as woman erases the incarnational significance of the female body.Despite an apparent conflict between Catholic ecclesiology and gender theory, both are shown to embrace concepts of woman that evict the female body from the house of language, so that she remains in a position of mute animality. This deflects attention away from the many abuses and struggles still experienced by women and girls on account of their sex. Women must keep running in order to stand still, lest even the small gains of feminism are taken away under the guise of new theoretical and theological approaches to gender
Urbá Terra Bartzelona [Screendance]
No full textIntrigued by collectively encountering the Catalan capital Bartzelona, three women immerse themselves in the vibrant atmosphere of this Mediterranean metropolis. In dialogue with street-art murals, colourful mosaics, avant-garde and historic architecture, the dancers are-being-moved by the design of public spaces and the flow of daily life of its inhabitants.US Premiere, with Live Performance, Merge Dance Company Concert “Timeless”, Harrison Theatre, TXST, SMT, 22nd February 202
