165 research outputs found
Dorothee Soelle: mystic and rebel
No full textTitle: Dorothee Soelle : mystic and rebel : the biography Author: Renate Wind; Nancy Lukens; Martin Rumscheidt Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2012. ISBN: 978080069808
Creative Disobedience: Dorothee Sölle\u27s Political Theology and Ethics for U.S. Christian Contexts
No full textThis dissertation adapts Dorothee Sölle’s concept of creative disobedience to account for those histories of obedience to structures of domination and to foster moral agency that disrupts and dismantles structures of domination. The first two chapters contextualize and summarize Dorothee Sölle’s critique of obedience and her warning against the way in which the obedient social character yields a “Christofascist” society. Chapter II considers the extent to which Christofascism already exists in US society today through Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L. Perry’s study of the political and cultural prevalence of Christian nationalism. Chapter III contextualizes Dorothee Sölle’s theoretical critique of obedience through Erich Fromm’s concept of social character, Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza’s concept of kyriocentrism. In Chapter III, the author shows how histories and structures forming US white-Christian social character--white supremacy, coloniality and kyriarchy--require white-Christian obedience to the same Christian nationalist structures of power, boundaries and order. Chapter IV summarizes Sölle’s feminist theology which argues that creative disobedience is necessary for Christian moral agency. Finally, Chapter V adapts Sölle’s creative disobedience as an ethical process for progressive white-Christians in the US today. This chapter explains how moral agency defined by creative disobedience would foster habits and practices that lead to effective participation in political transformation, rather than reinforcing relationships and structures of domination
Deixis: Textdeixis
No full textGerman language is characterized by a frequent use of deictic expressions. Those expressions are used in different types of communicative settings. They also include the text, which may be conceptualized on the one hand as a space and on the other hand as a chronological arrangement of actions. Textdeictic devices belong to the strategies of reader orientation. They are usually embedded in comments of the author on textual organization and include different types of deictic (or paradeictic) expressions, such as demonstrative pronouns and adverbs.Die deutsche Sprache zeichnet sich durch einen reichen Strukturausbau in Hinblick auf den Bestand an deiktischen und deiktisch abgeleiteten Ausdrucksmitteln aus (Ehlich z.B. 2007c, Redder 2010a). Ausdrücke wie dieser, hier und jetzt gehören zum Kernbestand dieses deiktischen Inventars. Sie können auf unterschiedliche Verweisräume Bezug nehmen: Wahrnehmungsraum, Vorstellungsraum, Wissensraum, Diskursraum, Rederaum, Textraum (Redder 2000, Ehlich 1976). Auf den Textraum können sich ebenfalls Ausdrücke beziehen, die nicht im engeren Sinne als Verweisausdrücke gelten, im Textzusammenhang aber deiktisch funktionalisiert werden können (wie etwa zuvor oder eingangs). Auch Partizipien (wie anschließend) oder Nominalgruppen (wie zum Abschluss, im Folgenden) werden textdeiktisch verwendet ebenso wie zusammengesetzte, deiktisch abgeleitete Ausdrücke (wie danach, hiermit, sodann), die auch in Kombination mit Präpositionalphrasen vorkommen (im Anschluss daran) und zum Teil eine konnektive Funktion ausüben (Redder 2010b). Der Beitrag enthält neben einer Bestandsaufnahme der Behandlung textdeiktischer Phänomene in Übungsgrammatiken Anaysen zu ausgewählten Beispielen - auch in Hinblick auf den Einsatz in der Didaktik
Corrigendum to “Toward a molecular description of heterogeneous catalysis: transitional metal ions in zeolites” [J. Catal. 216 (2003) 324–332] ?
No full textInternational audienceThe names Dorothee Berthomieu and Gerard Delahay were inadvertently omitted from the author line. The author line should read: Annick Goursot,* Bernard Coq, François Fajula, Dorothee Berthomieu, and Gerard Delaha
A prototype apparatus for very long baseline atom interferometry
No full textThe sensitivity of interferometers based on freely falling atoms depends on the time
atoms spend in the interferometer, i. e. the interrogation time. In a terrestrial experiment, this time is limited by the available free fall baseline. The Very Long
Baseline Atom Interferometry (VLBAI) facility in Hannover tackles this by employing
a 10.5m long vacuum tube, allowing for a total interferometry time of 2.55 s for
atoms launched from its bottom source chamber.
One of the most prominent applications of light pulse atom interferometers are measurements of accelerations. Next to the available free fall time, many other factors influence and limit the accessible sensitivity of the atom interferometer to measure the desired inertial effects. Therefore, accurate engineering of the atom source and interferometry setup are necessary to make use of the device’s long baseline. This work aims to describe the setup and initial commissioning of this source, presenting a system ready for operation in the VLBAI apparatus.
A Bose-Einstein condensate of rubidium is created in an all-optical sequence using
an optical dipole trap, targeting large atom numbers and short cycle times. The focus of this work will be on two key experiments conducted with the cold atoms: The characterization of Bragg atom optics processes required to perform atom interferometry and a method to reduce the expansion velocity of a cold rubidium ensemble in three dimensions in order to allow for a high contrast even after long free fall times.
The Bragg beam splitter experiments are performed as proof-of-principle measurements on a short baseline. A detailed analysis of experimental and simulated parameters allows us to use this as a basis for Bragg interferometry compatible with the requirements of the VLBAI facility.
In order to realise a reduction of expansion velocity in a trapped matter-wave lens,
the parameter space for 3D time-averaged optical dipole traps is explored, leading
to an improved quantitative understanding. The method is used to reduce the 3D
temperature of a cold rubidium ensemble by more than a factor of two while losing
less atoms than an equivalent evaporative cooling sequence. The challenges of time-averaged optical dipole traps especially in three dimensions are discussed in detail and alternative approaches to achieve effective sub-nanokelvin temperatures useful for atom interferometry are discussed
The desert shall bloom: A dialogue between experiences of supporting trauma survivors and Moltmann & Sölle’s theologies of suffering and hope
No full textFollowing the Second World War, a theological re-examination of ―suffering and hope‖ arose, led by authors such as Moltmann and Sölle; however, little has been written on the topic since the 1970s. Given this length of time, the question arose for me as to whether, in the light of a rapidly changing world, this past theology continues to provide a meaningful way of talking about suffering and hope. Would the reflections of contemporary Christians who have supported others in the depths of suffering have anything to add to how theologians explore the issue of suffering and hope?
In order to answer this, I decided to interview Australian Christians who had supported asylum seekers during a time of particularly severe immigration detention policies. Conditions experienced within Australia‘s detention centres have contributed to the distress of already traumatised refugees; thus advocates who supported them have a unique experience of suffering and hope.
Drawing on phenomenology, a social research methodology that seeks to explore the meaning made out of experiences, I systematically reviewed themes arising from the reflections of some advocates and compared these themes alongside the theologies of Moltmann and Sölle.
The themes, many and varied in their scope, have been divided into three sections. The first section explores the issue of suffering, including the necessity for Christian theology to hold the darkness of life without turning too quickly towards hope, and the nature of sin and evil. In the second section, hope is explored starting with the question of whether it is permissible for theologians from a relatively privileged background to write about hope and progressing to explore Christian anthropology, compassion and forgiveness. Finally, I consider the question of what can be learnt from these reflections about the nature of God
Student Project: Replication of Author, Author, & Author (201X, JDM, Study X) - Template
No full textThis project is an independent replication of Author, Author, & Author (201X, study X) conducted as part of the Hagen Cumulative Science Project
Author and Narrator in Lyric Poetry
No full textHillebrandt C. Author and Narrator in Lyric Poetry. In: Birke D, Köppe T, eds. Author and Narrator. Transdisciplinary contributions to a narratological debate . Linguae & litterae. Vol 48. Berlin: De Gruyter; 2015: 213-233
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