«Philos»: A Designation for the Jesus-Disciple Relationship
Extraits
Critique littéraire
Lettres à ses disciples argentins
En 1939, Witold Gombrowicz débarque à Buenos Aires au terme de ce qui devait être un voyage d'agrément. La guerre éclate quelques jours après : il restera vingt-quatre ans en Argentine et ne reverra jamais la Pologne. Il compose la majeure partie de son oeuvre durant ces années, et noue des relations avec nombre de jeunes artistes et écrivains argentins. La centaine de lettres qui composent ce recueil ont été écrites par Gombrowicz entre 1957 et 1969, année de son décès. La plupart sont rédigées après 1963, date de son retour en Europe. En grande partie inédites, elles sont un témoignage unique sur l'homme, ses liens avec sa patrie d'adoption, son rapport à son oeuvre ; toujours drôles, parfois caustiques, jamais condescendantes, elles offrent un point de vue nouveau sur l'un des auteurs les plus inclassables du XXe siècle.
10/2019
Anglais apprentissage
Encountering the Chinese. A Guide for Americans, Second Edition
To fathom the complex culture of China is a daunting task, but Hu Wenzhong and Cornelius Grove, in this substantially revised and updated edition of their popular book, have risen to the challenge. They provide a practical and sensitive cross-cultural analysis of Chinese culture along with insights into how best to communicate and interact with Chinese people. As the economic and diplomatie climate in China has changed, the frequency of contact between Chinese and Americans has increased in all areas : business, academic, scientific, professional, personal and cultural, making this book even more valuable. Relying on Hu's knowledge of his native Chinese culture and Grove's American perspective from his substantial experience in China, Encountering the Chinese will enable Westerners to establish more productive and rewarding relationships with the Chinese, both inside and outside the PRC. As in the first edition, the authors retain fondamental information on basic Chinese values, cultural norms, and mindsets and identify the cross-cultural factors that often lead to failed business negotiations, embarrassing faux pas and misunderstandings when Americans and other Westerners encounter the Chinese. In this second edition they have added a discussion of economic changes and the gradual demise of state-owned companies, and they give special attention to the shift among young urban professionals and businesspeople from traditional collectivist values toward individualism and a market economy mentality. There is also a new section for American women working in China.
01/1999
Non classé
The German Naturalists and Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann's relationship to Naturalism has repeatedly been a subject of controversy. To clarify his position, this study analyses both published and unpublished opinions of his contemporaries within Naturalism. Following an outline of Naturalism based on the authors' own views of the often conflicting concepts related to the movement, emphasis is placed upon Naturalist critical response to Hauptmann's early works and upon the works of other Naturalist dramatists in relation to Hauptmann, underlining the authors' dependence upon his dramas as a model for literary success.
12/1982
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
The Undergrowth of Science. Delusion, self-deception and human frailty
Walter Gratzer's themes in the stories he relates in The Undergrowth of Science are collective delusion and human folly. Science is generally seen as a process bound by rigorous rules, which its practitioners must not transgress. Deliberate fraud occasionally intrudes, but it is soon detected, the perpetrators cast out and the course of discovery barely disturbed. Far more interesting are the outbreaks of self-delusion that from time to time afflict upright and competent researchers, and then spread like an epidemic or mass-hysteria through a sober and respectable scientific community. When this happens the rules by which scientists normally govern their working lives are suddenly suspended. Sometimes these episodes are provoked by personal vanity, an unwillingness to acknowledge error or even contemplate the possibility that a hard-won success is a will o' the wisp; at other times they stem from loyalty to a respected and trusted guru, or even from patriotic pride; and, worst of ail, they may be a consequence of a political ideology which imposes its own interpretation on scientists' observations of the natural world. Unreason and credulity supervene, illusory phenomena are described and measured, and theories are developed to explain them - until suddenly, often for no single reason, the bubble bursts, leaving behind it a residue of acrimony, recrimination, embarrassment and ruined reputations.
Here, then, are radiations, measured with high precision yet existing only in the minds of those who observed them; the Russian water, which some thought might congeal the oceans: phantom diseases which called for heroic surgery; monkey testis implants that restored the sexual powers of ageing roués and of tired sheep; truths about genetics and about the nature of matter, perceptible only to Aryan scientists in the Third Reich or Marxist ideologues in the Soviet Union; and much more. The Undergrowth of Science explores, in terms accessible to the lay reader, the history of such episodes, up to our own time, in ail their absurdity, tragedy and pathos.
01/2000
Sociologie
Experiencing Same-Sex Marriage
This book provides an understanding of how the legal and cultural debates and advances and limitations on same-sex marriage are experienced by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) people, same-sex couples, and their social networks. Using data collected from hundreds of GLBT people, same-sex couples, and their social networks over the past decade, the book examines the following topics : same-sex marriages' impact on how GLBT individuals view their relationships and community ; same-sex couples' decision making regarding whether to marry or not ; the interactions between same-sex couples and members of their families-of-origin regarding same-sex marriage ; the same-sex marriage experiences of understudied members of the GLBT community ; and the interactions between same-sex couples and members of their social networks in locations with restrictions against legally recognized same-sex marriage. These findings are examined through the lens of the social scientific study of relationships. They are based on a communication studies perspective on personal relationships, and therefore emphasize communication concepts and theories relevant to the understanding of same-sex marriage experiences.
01/2014
Droit international
Hidden dividend distributions & hidden capital contributions, 2e édition. A technical guide
Luxembourg companies have a legal personality that is separate from that of their shareholder(s). Consequently, they may enter into agreements with their shareholders as they do with third parties. However, when the terms and conditions of those agreements do not adhere to the arm's length standard, tax adjustments may be required in accordance with the concepts of hidden dividend distribution and hidden capital contribution. Both concepts aim at a separation of the sphere of the company (which is itself subject to corporate income tax on its worldwide income) from that of its shareholders. As such, the concepts of hidden dividend distribution and hidden capital contribution are cornerstones of Luxembourg's transfer pricing rules. In addition, in the context of associated enterprises (in a group of companies), tax adjustments might be required under Article 56 of the Luxembourg Income Tax Law ("LITL"). Hence, a clear distinction must be made between agreements that adhere to the arm's length principle and agreements that, motivated by the shareholding relationship, shift advantages from the company to the shareholder or vice versa. Therefore, each contractual relationship between a company and its shareholder(s) must be considered. Luxembourg tax law does not provide for exhaustive definitions of hidden dividend distributions and hidden capital contributions. Both concepts have their origins in case law of the German Reich Tax Court (Reichsfinanzhof) and have been carefully extended and refined through the years by the German Federal Tax Court (Bundesfinanzhof). Since the publication of the first edition of this book back in 2011, the Luxembourg Courts had to decide in numerous cases involving both concepts. This book offers a one-of-a-kind, practical insight into the tax treatment of hidden dividend distributions, hidden capital contributions and triangular cases. Charts, case studies and checklists aid the reader in identifying and assessing the various cases in which hidden dividend distributions and hidden capital contributions may arise. A new chapter with practical case studies considers situations that may occur in the context of multinational groups, Luxembourg alternative funds and individual shareholders. Reading this thorough guide is indispensable for an in-depth understanding of the concepts of hidden dividend distribution and hidden capital contribution. Tax advisers, practitioners and tax students should gain substantially from the insights provided in this book.
01/2024
Mouvements artistiques
Real Families. Stories of Change
What is a family ? And how is family experienced ? These questions, explored through artists' eyes, are at the heart of the exhibition, Real Families : Stories of Change, a collaboration between the Fitzwilliam Museum and the University of Cambridge Centre for Family Research. The book provides a catalogue of the exhibition in four sections, containing twelve illuminating essays that discuss the concept of the family. Real Families : Stories of Change focuses on art produced in the past 50 years, a period of significant change in how families are created and structured, with historical works woven into the exhibition to examine what is genuinely new, and what has remained the same, about the family. The catalogue includes reproductions of paintings, photography and sculpture. In the first section, 'What is a Family ? ', artists portray new forms of family, including families formed by assisted reproduction and families with LGBTQ+ parents, as well as families affected by divorce, adoption and infertility. The works prompt viewers to consider stereotyped beliefs about what makes a family and society's prejudice against childlessness. Second, 'Family Transitions' starts with artists' representations of motherhood, followed by an examination of the positive role that fathers play. Works on siblings speak to the dynamic and intense relationships that exist between siblings, and those on grandparents and grandchildren highlight the benefit of having each other in their lives. Artists also convey their complex feelings about their ageing parents. 'Family Dynamics' explores positive and negative relationships between couples, parents and children, and extended family, with works that foreground affection and rejection, comfort and conflict, enmeshment, estrangement and not fitting in. The works also examine the wider social, cultural and political influences on family relationships. Finally, 'Family Legacies' highlights the importance to many people of a sense of connection and belonging. This section explores the transmission of family from one generation to the next through genetic inheritance, social and cultural practices, language and objects, which can forge emotional connections and give rise to family memories.
11/2023
Critique littéraire
Mobilité dans Praisesong For The Widow
La mobilité est un concept polyvalent ; son emploi varie d'une discipline à une autre. Elle n'est ni exclusive aux déplacements spatiaux, ni l'apanage des changements de situation socioéconomique. Dans l'imaginaire littéraire africain-américain, où les auteurs noirs revendiquent avec perspicacité de nouveaux territoires culturels à travers des procédés discursifs ingénieux, la mobilité est figurative ; son occurrence textuelle est plus symbolique. Dans Praisesong for the Widow, Paule Marshall incorpore des ancrages culturels hétéroclites ; certains appartiennent à l'Afrique, d'autres aux Caraïbes et à l'Amérique. Sur le plan narratif, l'auteure innove ; elle opère un choix stylistique en imbriquant dans son texte plusieurs réalités sociales. A partir de cette hétérogénéité, elle transgresse les frontières traditionnelles et invente de nouveaux mécanismes esthétiques, notamment la mise en relief des Noirs engagés dans une dynamique de reconstruction identitaire. Dès l'entame du roman soumis à l'étude, des personnages dépeints comme des profanes et déracinés, apparaissent au fil du récit comme des initiés et régénérés. De façon plus plausible, il y a transformation d'état, la mobilité se déploie ainsi, par le spirituel et le transculturel. L'examen critique de ces variations sémantiques reste significatif. Mais pour mener à bien cette étude, il importe d'indiquer le cadre théorique spécifique qui sied et les points à interroger. Connue pour l'intérêt qu'elle accorde au sens profond des figures textuelles, la sémiotique narrative guidera cette réflexion. Il s'agit d'interpréter le processus de conversion/reconversion des Noirs, le transculturel et l'hybridité.
04/2020
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
Wait for the storm to pass
Dernière année de lycée pour Kale, énième déménagement. Il n'a qu'une envie, que cette année se termine, pour pouvoir tourner la page et partir loin. Très loin. Mais sa voisine, la jolie et populaire Joana, l'intrigue. Elle l'attire. Il l'interpelle. Il ne peut pas la vouloir, son monde est trop sombre. Elle le veut, malgré sa noirceur et les ténèbres qui l'entourent. Entre amour, jalousie, rivalités et noirceur, leur amour sera-t-il assez fort pour braver l'orage qui se dirige droit sur eux ? Bienvenue à Lexington Hight School !
01/2023
Musique, danse
Stoner. Blues for the red sun
C'est à deux heures de route de Los Angeles, entre Palm Desert et Joshua Tree, niché dans des canyons ou des sites en ruine, que naît le stoner à l'occasion des premières generator parties à la fin des années quatre-vingt. Comme le grunge, cousin de contrées plus humides, le mot renvoie à l'argot des années soixante-dix décrivant un état de défonce ; il désigne aussi une scène musicale qui embrasse à la fois les racines du metal plombé, Black Sabbath en tête, et des inclinations plus psychédéliques. Entre raves punk et jam sessions clandestines sous influences, outre les figures populaires comme Kyuss ou les Queens Of The Stone Age, cette anthologie explore toute la richesse du genre, jusqu'au Japon ou en Scandinavie.
05/2019
Suspense romantique
Fallen for the devil Tome 1
Lorsqu'un tueur cruel croise la route d'une étudiante au caractère bien trempé, ce sont deux univers diamétralement opposés qui s'entrechoquent... pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Thea n'a pas froid aux yeux, à tel point que jouer au chat et à la souris avec un ex-membre d'un des gangs les plus dangereux des Etats-Unis ne l'impressionne pas le moins du monde. Ou si peu. Alors quand Kai, ce criminel aussi terrifiant que beau, cherche à faire de sa vie un enfer, la jeune femme ne se laisse pas déstabiliser. Car Thea n'est pas vraiment une étudiante ordinaire et sous son apparente innocence crépitent les braises d'un lourd passé... Lorsque deux âmes brisées par des démons tenaces rencontrent, elles font parfois naître du chaos l'amour et la lumière.
04/2024
Poésie
Epilepsy: the invisible pain
They say life is a long stretch of a calm river, but not for everyone ! She was for me until the day when everything rocked, the day my destiny was changed dramatically. People do not realize how life can be so sweet and so beautiful. They complain all day long for trivialities. They are not even aware that they have before their eyes the most beautiful wealth : the luck and happiness of living in good health. I was rich before. Now I am poor because my child has an incurable disease, that has currently no hope of being healed. As a parent, how can we accept that ? , How to continue living carrying the bundle of pain in my head ? , How to overcome this feeling of helplessness ? When I started speaking to my heart, I didn't know myself that this was the beginning of a new life : a rebirth as a poet. When I learnt that my 7-year-old daughter was suffering from the Dravet Syndrome, a rare genetic epileptic encephalopathy, this was like an earthquake in my life. Then, I needed to write in order to express my sorrow and my pain. Words and rhymes came naturally to my mind. This was obvious that poetry would be my survival weapon.
01/2019
Théâtre
Arrival of Mira, Love story between Bhojan and Mira
Arrival of Mira Foreword Arrival of Mira tells the story of a beautiful young woman who held true to her faith despite many severe hardships. Mira was still only a child when she decided that Ginidhara Gopal (Lord Krishna) was her 'husband' and that she wanted to devote her life to serving and worshipping him. Later, the now orphaned Mira was married to Bhojan, the prince of Mewar and son of Rana, the king of Chittoor. Bhojan fell in love at first sight but found it hard to understand Mira's utter devotion to Ginidhara. Mira suffered at the hands of her in-laws who could not understand the depth of her love for Ginidhara and wanted her to follow their worship of Kali (in the form of Durga). Mira suffered imprisonment in a haunted palace and then exile for her beliefs. Even her friends were persecuted because of her uncompromising love for Lord Krishna. Eventually Bhojan came to understand his wife's piety. The story is told in the form of a musical play where the love story is interwoven with delightful songs and dances. The character of Mira is one to win the hearts of all who read of her. Her gentle devotion and steadfast belief are an inspiration to everyone. Thank you, Dr Shuddhananda Bharati for having made this beautiful story available to us. Daye Craddock Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget
03/2013
Religion
Ils nous ont précédés en Galilée. Méditer avec les disciples de Jésus
Notre foi est apostolique. Nous vivons du témoignage de ceux qui, un jour en Palestine, ont rencontré Jésus sur leur route. Ce livre propose de retrouver une trentaine de ces personnages dont la vie a été bouleversée par cette rencontre : Pierre, Marie-Madeleine, Zachée, Pilate, Joseph et Marie, Paul... Tous nous donnent, chacun à sa mesure, la clef de Dieu, à travers le visage du Christ. Tous, ils nous invitent à devenir, à notre tour, un signe de la tendresse et de l'amour de Dieu.
03/2015
Religion
Je suis n. Disciples de Jésus en terre d'islam, ils racontent
""Je suis n"? Qu'est-ce que cela signifie ? Lorsque les combattants de l'Etat islamique sont arrivés au nord de l'Irak, ils ont commencé à marquer les maisons des chrétiens ou leurs églises de la lettre "noun" en arabe (ce qui correspond à "n" en français). Cette simple lettre était à elle seule une accusation aux conséquences terribles : elle déclarait que les occupants du lieu étaient des "nazaréens", des personnes qui suivaient Jésus de Nazareth."" Ils viennent d'Egypte, d'Iran, du Nigeria, d'Asie centrale, de Syrie, du Pakistan et d'autres contrées lointaines... Ils s'appellent Ali, Jamil, Amina, Hussein, Suleiman, Nadia... Tous, ils persévèrent dans la foi au milieu d'un environnement hostile à l'Evangile. Loin de notre confort et de notre tranquillité, ils sont prêts à payer le prix pour demeurer fidèles à Celui qui a changé leur vie. Des témoignages saisissants, qui nous encouragent mais aussi nous bousculent et nous interpellent."
01/2018
Musique classique
Songs of Love. 12 Romances. 12 Lieder. Soprano (tenor) and piano.
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, she emerged as a virtuoso pianist and composer in the romantic tradition. She was associated with some of the great musicians of her day, including Balakirev and Auer. She performed in both Germany and the UK in the 1900s, but her career petered out after 1920. Songs of Love was first published in 1904. No evidence survives of any public performance in Kashperova's lifetime although it is very likely that they were performed at her regular 'musical evenings at home on Tuesdays' mentioned in her Memoirs. The transparency of the piano writing strongly suggests that she would accompany herself singing. Kashperova, by all accounts, possessed a fine voice, and in the summer of 1906 she decided 'to learn from the artistry', as she put it, of the tenor Raimond von Zur-Mühlen who was widely celebrated for having developed (with Clara Schumann) the Lieder-Abend tradition. His summer-schools on the Baltic coast were frequented by aspiring singers from all over Europe, even Japan and India. Kashperova herself was responsible for the poetic lyrics of Songs of Love (in both Russian and German), which may well have emerged from her own bittersweet experience of life and love ; she was not to marry until 1916 at the age of forty-four. That Kashperova is the author of both the music and the lyrics of Songs of Love would suggest that they express very personal sentiments. Instrumentation : soprano (tenor) and piano
12/2023
Généralités
From Vine to Wine.. Domaine Ponsot’s Vineyards: 150 Years of History (1872–2022)
Inspired by the microhistory trend, this book sets out to illustrate how 150 years of the unique history of a family of winegrowers is embedded in-and contributes to-the larger history of Burgundy crus. The book will explore the developments in techniques and knowledge about grapevines and wine that have taken place between 1872 to 2022, providing readers with a better understanding of the issues relating to designations of origin (appellations) and the notion of terroir. Readers will see how things were done in the past and how they are done today, and the approaches that will be adopted in the future by 'climatic' winegrowers, and will conclude that sometimes everything must change in order for everything to remain the same.
06/2022
Vie chrétienne
Les femmes dans l'Evangile de Luc (Lc 8, 1-3). Des disciples au service du Royaume
Cette étude, fruit d'une lecture du matériau féminin du troisième évangile et d'une enquête sur les conditions du disciple en Luc, met en pleine lumière la qualité du parcours des femmes avec Jésus. Elles acquièrent un statut nouveau dans son coeur, par l'avènement du Royaume du Christ qui fait tomber les barrières et libère les captifs. Au-delà du langage de Luc, les femmes sont des disciples dans l'intimité du coeur et de la volonté de Jésus ; des disciples engagées à servir le royaume de Dieu. Cette praxis de Jésus signe et annonce des communautés ecclésiales intégrées où hommes et femmes sont appelés à servir dans la diversité des charismes.
01/2023
Littérature française
Demandez à Jésus
Revenant sur plus d'un souvenir éminemment douloureux, Alice Gahunga Durand expose sa vie à travers celle de sa mère, dans le Rwanda tumultueux des années 1990. L'auteure fait le bilan d'une existence mouvementée, marquée par le caractère impitoyable du destin qu'elle a vaincu avec un espoir aux accents de bravoure. Une preuve que l'on peut choisir de surmonter les épreuves que l'on traverse et en ressortir grandi... en refusant la haine, tourné vers l'avenir. Artiste peintre, Alice Gahunga Durand est née au Rwanda et vit en France.
12/2019
Bibles
Jésus a dit
Paroles des évangiles Qu'appelle-t-on "évangiles" ? Voilà une question à laquelle on répond un peu facilement : "Des récits qui racontent la vie de Jésus" . Et pourtant, c'est inexact, car l'objectif des évangélistes ne consistait pas à élaborer une simple biographie du Christ. Ni Marc, le plus ancien, ni Jean, le plus récent, n'ont accordé une ligne à ce qui précède le début de la prédication de Jésus. Matthieu ne fait exception que pour la visite des mages et la Fuite en Egypte. Luc commence avant la naissance, mais reste muet sur ce qui suit la douzième année. Alors ? Les évangélistes ont voulu essentiellement transmettre le message de Jésus, tel qu'il apparait aussi bien dans ses actes que dans ses paroles. C'est cela, la "Bonne Nouvelle" (traduction littérale du grec "euangelion"). On dira qu'une nouvelle vieille de deux millénaires n'est plus si "nouvelle" que cela. Assurément, l'expression française est équivoque. On devrait dire "bon message" , "bonne annonce" . En langage très contemporain : on se trouve là devant une info qui ne peut pas devenir ringarde. Des paroles pour tout le monde Du reste, Jésus parlait simple, cela se sent surtout dans les trois premiers évangiles. Parce qu'il s'adressait essentiellement à des gens simples, simples de culture ou simples de coeur. Il prenait en compte les situations et les choses de la vie quotidienne, que nous rencontrons encore dans notre existence à nous au bout de deux millénaires. Cela n'empêchait pas qu'il réponde avec science et autorité aux théologiens de son temps, soit quand ils venaient lui poser des questions souvent piégées, soit quand ils venaient, comme Nicodème, recueillir son enseignement. Bien sûr, les évangélistes qui nous rapportent les propos de Jésus étaient tous chrétiens, professant la foi dans la résurrection du Christ. Mais les gens à qui parlait Jésus ne l'étaient pas, eux. Forcément : on ne peut pas adhérer à l'annonce de la résurrection d'un personnage qui n'est pas encore mort. Comme lui-même, comme les apôtres, comme les disciples, la plupart des auditeurs de Jésus étaient juifs. Mais la population de ce qu'on appelait alors la Palestine comportait aussi de très nombreux païens : Romains des troupes d'occupation et de l'administration impériale, marchands grecs ou levantins, cananéens des pays voisins. Sans compter les Samaritains, monothéistes et reconnaissant la Torah comme les juifs, mais considérés par ceux-ci comme schismatiques. Les paroles de Jésus, qui que nous soyons, nous sont encore destinées. L'accueil des rejetés Il est clair que Jésus ne méprisait pas dans leur ensemble les élites sociales, morales et religieuses de son temps. Mais il épinglait volontiers l'autosatisfaction, voire l'hypocrisie d'individus "comme il faut" qui en faisaient partie. En retour, ces derniers n'aimaient guère son attitude accueillante à l'égard de gens considérés comme non fréquentables. Parmi ces derniers, les publicains, c'est-à-dire des juifs qui percevaient sur leurs compatriotes les impôts réclamés par l'occupant romain (païen ! ), se montrant ainsi traîtres à leur Dieu comme à leurs concitoyens, car ils exigeaient plus qu'ils ne devaient et empochaient la différence. Jésus faisait scandale en allant jusqu'à manger chez eux. Il ne jetait pas l'anathème sur les prostituées, ce qui ne revient pas à dire qu'il encourageait la prostitution. Il ne fuyait pas les lépreux, dont on considérait que leur maladie était une punition du Ciel pour leurs péchés. "Je ne suis pas venu juger le monde". , dit-il. Pourquoi ce livret ? Les citations qu'il contient sont toutes des passages où les propos de Jésus sont rapportés au style direct. Aussi courts que possible, pour qu'une longue lecture n'en dilue pas la saveur et pour qu'il soit facile de les méditer. Ils n'ont pas été choisis parmi ceux qui fondent les dogmes du christianisme et qui pourraient poser des difficultés à des personnes dont c'est le premier contact. Ces paroles sont faites pour être livrées à toutes les personnes qui, d'une manière ou d'une autre, peuvent y puiser un enrichissement personnel et à qui il ne viendrait pas forcément à l'idée de se mettre à leur recherche dans un gros livre.
02/2024
Non classé
Hymns: The Making and Shaping of a Theology for the Whole People of God
The theological potential of hymns has never been fully exploited. This study shows how hymns communicate theology and enable those without a formal theological education to enter into theological debate. A nineteenth century collection of English hymns and some contemporary Bemba hymns from the Zambian Copperbelt are examined and compared, within their theological, cultural and social contexts, to discover their response to death, judgement, heaven and hell. From this comparison and a study of how hymns are used in these churches, a model emerges whereby hymns can be used to make and shape theology. This model is observed in a Zambian parish and is also shown in practice in an English parish. Finally, there is a reflection on the implications of this model for Missiology and Ecclesiology showing, among other things, the need for a radical reassessment of the relationship between professional theologians and the rest of the Church.
01/1991
Monographies
Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick. Plays, Painting and Performance
In London in 1770 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) remarked, 'What a work could be written on Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick ! There is something similar in the genius of all three. ' Two-and-a-half centuries on, Robin Simon's highly original and illuminating book takes up the challenge. William Hogarth (1697-1764) and David Garrick (1717-1779) closely associated themselves with Shakespeare, embodying a relationship between plays, painting and performance that had been understood since Antiquity and which shaped the rules for history painting drawn up by the Académie royale in Paris in the seventeenth century. History painting was considered the highest form of art : a picture illustrating a moment drawn from just a few lines in a revered text. Hogarth's David Garrick as Richard III (1745) transformed those ideas because, although it looked like a history painting, it was also a portrait of an actor in performance. With it, Hogarth established the genre of theatrical portraiture, a new and distinctively British kind of history painting. This book offers a fresh examination of theatrical portraits through close analysis of the pictures and of the texts used in performance. It also examines the central role of the theatre in British culture, while highlighting the significance of Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick in the European Enlightenment and the rise of Romanticism. In this context another trio of genius features prominently : Lichtenberg, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Denis Diderot. Familiar paintings and performances are seen in an entirely new light, while unfamiliar pictures are also introduced, including major paintings and drawings that have never been published. The final chapter shows that the inter-relationship between plays, painting and performance survived into the age of cinema, revealing the pictorial sources of Laurence Olivier's legendary film Richard III.
06/2023
Non classé
«In the Interest of Democracy»
Until recently, there has been little concrete evidence linking the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to the U.S. government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In this book, based upon recently opened archival collections, the author investigates this controversial and complicated early Cold War relationship. Contrary to arguments that the AFL's international activities were entirely controlled by the U.S. government to the detriment of the independent international labor movement, or that the AFL acted on its own without government involvement to foster legitimate anti-communist trade unions, the author's examination of the archival sources reveals that the AFL and the CIA made an alliance of convenience based upon common goals and ideologies, which dissolved when the balance of power shifted away from the AFL and into the hands of the CIA. In addition to tracing the complicated historical threads which resulted in an apparently unlikely relationship, three specific examples of how the AFL worked with the CIA are investigated in this book : the development of the anti-communist trade union federation Force Ouvrière in France ; the AFL campaign against the Soviet Union's use of "slave labor" at the UN ; and labor's role in the activities of the National Committee for a Free Europe, including Radio Free Europe and the Free Trade Union Center in Exile.
07/2011
Islam et christianisme
Musulmane, disciple du Christ
L'autrice a grandi dans une famille indo-musulmane, petite dernière de 8 enfants et fille de mollah chiite, à Madagascar. Puis, la famille s'installe sur l'île Maurice, et enfin sur l'île de La Réunion. Convertie au christianisme sans avoir jamais renié une seule facette de son identité travaillée par de multiples cultures et d'un tissage de deux religions, l'autrice est consciente qu'en refusant de choisir, en rejetant l'assignation à l'une ou l'autre de ses appartenances, elle avance sur un chemin de crête, plus difficile en choisissant la complexité au risque de tomber dans deux fossés : celui du morcellement identitaire, de l'éclatement de ma personne et celui de l'intégrisme ou de l'essentialisation. Tenir debout, unifiée, lui prendra de longues années. C'est le livre de sa vie, de sa foi, qui nous est conté ici.
03/2022
Non classé
Languages of Exile
Languages of Exile examines the relationship between geographic and linguistic border crossings in twentieth-century literature. Like no period before it, the last century was marked by the experience of expatriation, forcing exiled writers to confront the fact of linguistic difference. Literary writing can be read as the site where that confrontation is played out aesthetically – at the intersection between native and acquired language, between indigenous and alien, between self and other – in a complex multilingual dynamic specific to exile and migration. The essays collected here explore this dynamic from a comparative perspective, addressing the paragons of modernism as well as less frequently studied authors, from Joseph Conrad and Peter Weiss to Agota Kristof and Malika Mokeddem. The essays are international in their approach ; they deal with the junctions and gaps between English, French, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and other languages. The literary works and practices addressed include modernist poetry and prose, philosophical criticism and autobiography, DADA performance, sound art and experimental music theatre. This volume reveals both the wide range of creative strategies developed in response to the interstitial situation of exile and the crucial role of exile for a renewed understanding of twentieth-century literature.
10/2013
Policiers
Goebius' Strange Model
A company elaborates in great secrecy a project, vital to its very survival. As the project develops, it leads the protagonists far beyond the originally envisioned simple business strategy, and brings them close to the forefront of the physical laws governing the behavior of the universe. Two intrigues intertwine... will they meet ? Or do they form the single-sided face of a Möbius strip ? "This novel is as unexpected as a UFO, and refreshing..." Cédric Villani, Fields Medal 2010. "This book is fascinating, I read it all at once..." Etienne Ghys, Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences.
01/2020
BD religieuses
Ictus - tome 5- L255. les Douze
LA SUITE ATTENDUE DE L'OEUVRE ORIGINALE DE MARIA VALTORTA L'EVANGILE TEL QU'IL M'A ETE REVELE ADAPTE EN BANDES DESSINEES Le jour de la Pentecôte, Jésus retrouve Judas à Jérusalem et l'accepte comme disciple. Soucieux de le former, il l'emmène avec lui et deux autres disciples, dans ses pérégrinations en Judée. Il lui montre l'endroit où il est né et retrouve les bergers de la Nativité qui deviennent ses disciples.
01/2022
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
A Passion for DNA. Genes. Genomes, and Society
In 1953, two young scientists sparked a revolution. James Watson and Francis Crick deduced the molecular composition of DNA and immediately realized that the structure implied how genes were copied and passed on from one generation to the next. Their observation had extraordinary consequences; the discovery of a genetic code; the ability to alter an organism's genetic make-up; new ways of fighting disease; and the means of cloning plants and animals. Nobel Prize-winner, James Watson, has long been a commentator on DNA science and its implications for society. In essays and lectures he delivered dispatches from the front lines of the revolution. Collected here is a selection of these outspoken and topical pieces, mingling with memoirs of distinguished former colleagues, advice for young scientists, and a pointed account of Germany's troubled historical relationship with genetics. Augmented by elegant commentaries from the distinguished molecular biologist Walter Gratzer, this volume portrays the thoughts and work of an intellectual leader of the twentieth century.
01/2000
Sociologie
«Peoples in Contact: Remembering the Past - Sharing the Future»
1992 - the quincentenary of the "discovery" of America by Columbus - for the participants of the Greifswald conference this did not mean to celebrate but to reflect on the effects and consequences of this clash of cultures. The conference dealt with questions and problems of intercultural relations, racism and multiculturalism in North America and Great Britain. Various papers analyze the achievements of minorities and their contributions to an increasing understanding of minority-majority relationships. Examples range from the general (Native American literature in the USA, women writers) to the specific (Canadian Métis, problems of Pakistani children in Lancashire).
12/1993
Beaux arts
Designathon. L'architecte et l'architecture participative à la télévision
Entre 1976 et 1984, l'américain Chad Floyd, alors architecte au sein de l'agence d'architecture de Charles Moore, imagine et organise les Designathons : une série d'émissions d'une heure rassemblant les architectes de la firme et les téléspectateurs pour réfléchir sur la ville. Dans ce projet, la proximité avec le public est de toute importance et se traduit par sa participation lors d'ateliers de réflexion organisés dans plusieurs villes, mais également par l'exposition des architectes en train de travailler dans des vitrines ouvertes sur la rue. La scénarisation des architectes, l'ouverture des discussions collectives au sujet des aménagements urbains, s'inscrivent au sein d'une dynamique de sensibilisation et d'une pratique populaire et participative. Que pouvons-nous apprendre du Designathon ? Pourquoi ne se sert-on plus de la télévision pour sensibiliser le public à l'architecture ?
01/2021
