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Michelle Voss Roberts\u27 Dualities
Get PDFDualities is an important book. It represents a contribution to the field of Hindu Christian studies, but it also adds considerably to women\u27s studies in religion and to the emergent field of comparative theology. Michelle Voss Roberts has managed to treat with sensitivity and creativity two enigmatic figures, each from long ago and far away (from us and from each other), and each from two dramatically different religious traditions. What is remarkable about this study is that Voss Roberts manages to introduce us to the basic shape of both of these women\u27s thought while at the same time pursuing a very contemporary, sophisticated stream of theological reasoning relevant to postmodern concerns about multiplicity, relationality and change as constitutive characteristics of divinity. A dedicated scholar of either one of these figures -- or of the tradition and time she inhabited -- may object that Voss Roberts is dabbling in anachronism by putting her figures to work in a theological agenda that neither woman would recognize. This is true. But the same can be said of biblical texts, patristic figures, and other ancient writers who labor in the pages of contemporary theologies. The fact that such use seems more obvious in a comparative theological project -- due perhaps to the inevitable disjunctures between the philosophical and religious presuppositions at work between the different traditions and cultures -- does not negate the mining of ancient texts for contemporary projects, it just illuminates the challenges of doing so
Introduction: A Place for Comparative Theology in Christian Systematic Reflection
No full textThe editor, Michelle Voss Roberts, introduces the history and methods of comparative theology and argues for its importance in the study of systematics. The essays in the volume represent the best practices of comparative theology, exciting new approaches to it, and fresh perspectives on familiar topics in Christian systematic theology. The introduction suggests four uses for the volume: 1) as a way into Christian systematic theology; 2) as a way to test theological categories; 3) as proposals for doctrinal reflection; and 4) as an invitation to the reader to take up the activity of comparative reading.</p
Playing in the Flood of Love: A Response to Michelle Voss Roberts\u27 Dualities: A Theology of Difference
Get PDFAs John Thatamanil confesses in his Foreward to Michelle Voss Roberts\u27 Dualities, I too, as a nondualist theologian, was initially apprehensive about Voss Roberts\u27 title. However, I quickly came to find that the plural emphasis of dualities and the private emphasis of non-dualism actually speak to similar concerns over the inadequacies of both monism and dualism. The dualism denied by non-dualism and the multiplicity and relationality affirmed by dualities are more harmonious than dissonant
Embodiment, Anthropology, and Comparison
No full textMichelle Voss Roberts takes to heart the simple insight that theologians are in fact always drawing on various ways of knowing; comparative theology is no exception, and its multifaceted epistemology expects corresponding complexities in theological anthropology. Accordingly, she devotes the core of her essay to the constructive development of such an anthropology with respect to the human faculties by Thomas Aquinas and the Kashmir Saiva theologian Abhinavagupta. His system resonates with Aquinas’s anthropology, generating resonances that are enhanced by their epistemologies’ nuanced and flexible epistemological contribution to theologies of the body, the senses, and other faculties. In this light, constructive comparative theology can be seen as a practice of thinking-feeling with the categories and questions of another tradition. At the conclusion of her essay, Voss Roberts highlights the value of attending to various embodied faculties, including reason itself, awareness of the elements, the physical senses, the emotions, and even limit cases such as apophatic unknowing.</p
Author Response
Get PDFI am humbled and honored by the engagement of these four scholars, all of whom have significantly influenced my thinking. Francis Clooney\u27s pioneering work first interested me in the practice of comparative reading. Lance Nelson\u27s reflections on the ecological implications of a non-dualism provided a springboard for much of chapter three. Laurel Schneider\u27s radical push toward multiplicity has challenged my constructive thinking. Conversations with Brad Bannon, a new dialogue partner, have generated new springs of insight. I am grateful to each of them for the gift of their response to Dualities. I also owe a debt of gratitude to the Society of Hindu-Christian Studies, and especially to John Thatamanil, who was the impetus behind the panel and also presided at it
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Michelle Voss Roberts
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Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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