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The Ministry of The Sisters of the Order St. Benedict in the Province of Alberta 1955 to 2011
No full textNotes - A history of the Sisters of the Order St. Benedict in Oyen, AB from 1955 to 2011 (2 pages
Interview with Benedict Anderson
No full textOn October 1, 2008, Benedict Anderson presented a talk at Columbia University in which he discussed his upcoming book, a biography of the Chinese-Indonesian journalist Kwee Thiam Tjing. Having found a book of Kwee’s writings in a second-hand bookshop in Indonesia in 1962, Anderson describes his surprise that no one could identify the pseudonymous author, who wrote what Anderson considers to be “the greatest piece of prose written in the first half of the 20th century by anybody in Indonesia.” For years after Kwee’s death, Anderson explains, details of the journalist’s life and work were forgotten. It was only recently that Anderson was himself able to write about the author, in the process considering the role of cosmopolitanism in the life of the colonial subject
Misconceived Configurations of Ruth Benedict
No full textRuth Benedict has been the subject of a number of studies in both Japan and America. However, these studies have, up until now, maintained their international borders and avoided any cross-fertilization of knowledge. In America, three full length biographies, along with numerous other articles, have been devoted to the work and life of Benedict. In contrast, Japanese attention has mainly focused on Benedict's famous study of the Japanese, the Chrysanthemum and the Sword. Thus, on the Japanese side few have pursued the motivations of the author behind this book, whereas in America, Benedict the cultural anthropologist tends to figures large, leaving little room for discussion of Chrysanthemum.
Douglas Lummis, however, has attempted to straddle both sides of the fence with his piece A New Look at the Chrysanthemum and the Sword. Unfortunately, for his background knowledge on Benedict, he turns to Margaret Mead but fails to realise that the intricate relationship between Mead and Benedict has greatly influenced the portrait painted by her. The result is a rather heavy-handed attempt to prove that Chrysanthemum is merely a piece of "political literature" penned by a poet inhabiting the facade of a cultural anthropologist. Nevertheless, this image created by Lummis has managed to colour a large number of subsequent comments on both the book and author in Japan.
This paper will identify some of Lummis' major arguments against the background of the material he has used to formulate his arguments. Lummis' ideas derive from Mead's biography of Benedict, but by re-examining this biography and comparing it with other biographies on Benedict--and Mead--it becomes obvious that Mead's interpretation of Benedict's complex life was but one side of story. Thus, Lummis' use of Mead must also be considered when assessing the validity of his interpretation of Benedict
Benedict XVI’s Interpretation of the Psalms
No full textThis article aims to analyze the way Pope Benedict XVI quotes and interprets biblical psalms. In the introductory section, the author presents statistics and the ways in which Benedict XVI quotes Book of Psalms, and then offers a general, introductory look at psalms and their analysis in papal catechesis. In subsequent sections of the article, the author focuses on the pope’s historical-critical exegesis and linguistic analyses of the psalms, followed by the pope’s Christological, ecclesiological, Mariological, and actualizing reading of the Psalms. In the concluding section, the author discusses the relationship of the psalms to prayer, the pope’s references to the Fathers of the Church and recalls Benedict XVI’s most personal statements on the Psalms
Misconceived Configurations of Ruth Benedict
No full textRuth Benedict has been the subject of a number of studies in both Japan and America. However, these studies have, up until now, maintained their international borders and avoided any cross-fertilization of knowledge. In America, three full length biographies, along with numerous other articles, have been devoted to the work and life of Benedict. In contrast, Japanese attention has mainly focused on Benedict's famous study of the Japanese, the Chrysanthemum and the Sword. Thus, on the Japanese side few have pursued the motivations of the author behind this book, whereas in America, Benedict the cultural anthropologist tends to figures large, leaving little room for discussion of Chrysanthemum.
Douglas Lummis, however, has attempted to straddle both sides of the fence with his piece A New Look at the Chrysanthemum and the Sword. Unfortunately, for his background knowledge on Benedict, he turns to Margaret Mead but fails to realise that the intricate relationship between Mead and Benedict has greatly influenced the portrait painted by her. The result is a rather heavy-handed attempt to prove that Chrysanthemum is merely a piece of "political literature" penned by a poet inhabiting the facade of a cultural anthropologist. Nevertheless, this image created by Lummis has managed to colour a large number of subsequent comments on both the book and author in Japan.
This paper will identify some of Lummis' major arguments against the background of the material he has used to formulate his arguments. Lummis' ideas derive from Mead's biography of Benedict, but by re-examining this biography and comparing it with other biographies on Benedict--and Mead--it becomes obvious that Mead's interpretation of Benedict's complex life was but one side of story. Thus, Lummis' use of Mead must also be considered when assessing the validity of his interpretation of Benedict.departmental bulletin pape
Political Power In The Pope Benedict XVI’s Teaching
No full textPrzedmiot niniejszego artykułu stanowi nauczanie społeczne Kościoła katolickiego ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem interpretacji i wkładu weń papieża Benedykta XVI. Autor pragnie dokonać rekonstrukcji stanowiska papieża Benedykta odnośnie władzy politycznej. W ramach artykułu autor analizuje sposób, w jaki zjawisko władzy politycznej interpretowane jest w katolickiej nauce społecznej oraz sposób, w jaki papież Benedykt XVI interpretował i rozwijał nauczanie Kościoła dotyczące tej problematyki. Dodatkowo rozbudowany został fragment dotyczący stosunku Benedykta XVI do systemu politycznego demokracji.The subject of this article is catholic social teaching including its interpretation and contribution of Pope Benedict XVI. Author tries to reconstruct the point of view of Benedict XVI about political power. In the article, the author analyzes how catholic social teaching interprets political power problem as well as the problem of how Benedict XVI’s interpretation and developing of catholic social teaching refer to the issue of political power. Additionally, the author analyzes the problem of attitude of Benedict XVI to political system of democracy
Henri Temianka Correspondence; (benedict)
No full textThis collection contains material pertaining to the life, career, and activities of Henri Temianka, violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and author. Materials include correspondence, concert programs and flyers, music scores, photographs, and books.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/temianka_correspondence/1140/thumbnail.jp
References to classical pre-Christian sources in Benedict XVI’s teaching
No full textKs. Tadeusz GaciaThe author focuses on the references to pre-Christian sources of the teaching
of Pope Benedict XVI. The material under discussion includes homilies, the
Wednesday catecheses, the Sunday noon speeches and some other selected
texts. Addressing different people at various intellectual level, generally believers,
Benedict XVI uses single terms or simple Greek and Latin phrases. He
explains them and reflects on them. He also uses, in the same function, quotations
from the ancient literature and refers to history or even mythology. In
his speeches addressed to the representatives of science, culture or politics,
the Pope refers to the arguments made by outstanding Greek philosophers,
especially Plato, Socrates and Aristotle. According to the author of the article,
Benedict XVI’s love for Latin and his profound knowledge of the ancient literature
helps him not only to convey the theological content effectively, but
also to defend the Christian culture against the Western trends in reasoning,
deaf to religious argumentation.Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski12/151
Development of composite calibration standard for quantitative NDE by ultrasound and thermography
No full textInspection of aircraft components for damage utilizing ultrasonic Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) is a time intensive endeavor. Additional time spent during aircraft inspections translates to added cost to the company performing them, and as such, reducing this expenditure is of great importance. There is also great variance in the calibration samples from one entity to another due to a lack of a common calibration set. By characterizing damage types, we can condense the required calibration sets and reduce the time required to perform calibration while also providing procedures for the fabrication of these standard sets. We present here our effort to fabricate composite samples with known defects and quantify the size and location of defects, such as delaminations, and impact damage. Ultrasonic and Thermographic images are digitally enhanced to accurately measure the damage size. Ultrasonic NDE is compared with thermography.This proceeding may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing.
This proceeding appeared in Dayal, Vinay, Zach G. Benedict, Nishtha Bhatnagar, and Adam G. Harper. "Development of composite calibration standard for quantitative NDE by ultrasound and thermography." In AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1949, no. 1, p. 060006. AIP Publishing LLC, 2018, and may be found at
DOI: 10.1063/1.5031552.
Copyright 2018 The Author(s).
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On a common misconception of Ruth Benedict\u27s moral relativism
No full textIn philosophy textbooks for undergraduates the cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict is often cited as a proponent of moral relativism, and her writings are not infrequently excerpted to illustrate the view that the individual\u27s moral values are culturally determined. Because Benedict established that significant differences can exist in the underlying cultural patterns of different societies, her work is commonly construed as providing evidence for the arbitrary and non-rational basis of morals. The author of the present essay argues that this popular reading of Benedict is mistaken. He draws a distinction between two different forms of moral relativism - the objective and the subjective - and then contends that Benedict is widely viewed as a subjective relativist when in fact her relativism was of the objective variety. He shows that her position actually has much in common with the pragmatic meliorism of John Dewey and George Herbert Mead. © Teaching Philosophy, 2012. All rights reserved
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