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Disrupting Dichotomy: Shifting Representations of Muslims and Jews in Twenty-First Century Christian Zionist Discourse
Get PDFContributing to discussions around Christian Zionism’s increasingly contested narratives and counter-narratives, this thesis presents evidence of an emerging discursive shift in which the movement’s central assumptions and themes differ dramatically from those employed throughout its broader history. Through an analysis of source material from the world’s largest Christian Zionist organization, Christians United For Israel (CUFI), the author outlines the contours of this discursive shift, particularly as it relates to representations of Muslims and Jews. Because Christian Zionism from its inception operated within the epistemological framework articulated by Edward Said as “Orientalist” in the sharp distinction it drew between the “Judeo-Christian West” and, especially, the Muslim world, Jews were invariably portrayed as culturally Western, whereas Muslims, racialized as Arabs, served as a necessary foil within the theological and eschatological narratives of the movement. From the 2010s, however, CUFI has implemented programs and generated material that diverges sharply from this foundational understanding of East versus West, incorporating increasingly sympathetic language in reference to Arabs, Muslims, and Islam, while also highlighting the racial and cultural diversity of Israel’s Jewish population. This thesis posits that the two most significant factors in this discursive shift are (1) the growing success of anti-Zionist Palestinian Christian activism and (2) the rapidly changing political, social, and ideological allegiances among younger evangelicals. Finally, drawing upon social identity theory, the author argues that relaxing the rhetorical binary between East and West, good and evil, may lead to the overall destabilization of the movement
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
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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Islamic Sectarianism & Syncretism during the Reign of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah: A Critical Edition and Study of Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani’s Ma‘asim al-huda
No full textThis dissertation presents a critical edition of Maʿāṣim al-hudā wa-l-iṣāba fī tafḍīl ʿAlī ʿalā al-ṣaḥāba (“Strongholds of Guidance and Rectitude, Demonstrating ʿAlī’s Superiority Over the Companions”), the final extant unedited text of the famed Ismāʿīlī Shīʿī theologian, missionary, and spy Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī (d. ca. 1021 CE). It also features an accompanying study that contextualizes the work and expounds upon its significance. Although the text initially appears polemical, asserting as it does the superiority of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, the candidate favored by the nascent Shīʿī movement to succeed the Prophet Muḥammad, over Abū Bakr ibn Abī Quḥāfa, who would be favored by the Sunnīs, Maʿāṣim al-hudā is a remarkably ecumenical treatise, offering a far more positive portrayal of Abū Bakr and the other Companions of the Prophet thanany prior extant Ismāʿīlī text. The work thus offers a unique insight into the ways in which sectarian difference was navigated in the premodern Islamic context. This critical edition is based upon seven of the nine extant manuscript witnesses to the work. The accompanying study is divided into three chapters. The first offers an overview of al-Kirmānī’s life and works, an analysis of Maʿāṣim al-hudā’s form and contents, and a defense of the text’s authenticity. The second situates the text within the broader context of Fāṭimid Egypt, demonstrating its departure from previous approaches to the subject matter. It further contextualizes the work within the reign of the Fāṭimid caliph al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh (d. ca. 1021) and identifies Maʿāṣim al-hudā as the sole surviving primary source from a five-year period in which the caliph sought to merge Sunnī and Shīʿī elements into a syncretic Muslim tradition. The third chapter uses Maʿāṣim al-hudā to revisit an ongoing academic debate over whether al-Ḥākim intended to disinter the bodies of the Prophet Muḥammad and the first two caliphs and rehouse them in three sanctuaries he built between Cairo and Fusṭāṭ. It ultimately argues that newly revealed evidence from Maʿāṣim al-hudā renders the outright dismissal of this theory no longer tenable
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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