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For A Left Populism, Emma Murphy
For A Left Populism, Emma Murphy
International Dialogue
Chantal Mouffe’s brief work For a Left Populism sets out to tackle the issue of how left politics should respond to the global trend towards populism. While elections in recent years have ushered in populist leaders in states ranging from the Philippines to the United States, Mouffe focuses her analysis on Western European populism specifically. Her argument centres on the importance of recovering democracy in an increasingly “post-democratic” world; to successfully radicalise democracy, Mouffe argues, leftists must first reform existing political institutions. While Mouffe makes an original argument for a reclamation of the term ‘populism’ by a leftist audience, the …
“They Need To Say Sorry:” Anti-Racism In First Graders’ Racial Learning, Anna Falkner
“They Need To Say Sorry:” Anti-Racism In First Graders’ Racial Learning, Anna Falkner
Journal of Curriculum, Teaching, Learning and Leadership in Education
Young children of color in the United States are experiencing the material effects of racism on a daily basis. There have been arguments for anti-bias and anti-racist education across the field of education, yet most recommendations are based on older students or studies in laboratory settings. In this critical ethnography, the author examined the wide variety of strategies one class of first graders used to learn about race and of the socio-political and racial climate in which they live. In this paper, the author argues that children carefully consider racial conditions in society and imagine anti-racist praxis as part of …
"Fake It Until You Make It:" A Reflection On Film, Hypocrisy, And Christian Ethics, William Bartley
"Fake It Until You Make It:" A Reflection On Film, Hypocrisy, And Christian Ethics, William Bartley
Journal of Religion & Film
I will argue that a representative group of films including Mr. Lucky (with Cary Grant), Rossellini’s Il Generale della Rovere, and Galaxy Quest affirm an assumption that is as well known as it is offensively false to many: i.e., we acquire a virtue or quality of character by pretending that we already possess it—the ethic colloquially and popularly known as “fake it until you make it.” The importance and power of this ethic, as thoroughly secular as it seems to be, is best understood in the context of its Roman Catholic and ancient philosophical provenance, which for the most part …
Indigenous Helpers And Renegade Invaders: Ambivalent Characters In Biblical And Cinematic Conquest Narratives, L. Daniel Hawk
Indigenous Helpers And Renegade Invaders: Ambivalent Characters In Biblical And Cinematic Conquest Narratives, L. Daniel Hawk
Journal of Religion & Film
This article compares the role of ambiguous character types in the national narratives of biblical Israel and modern America, two nations that ground their identities in myths of conquest. The types embody the tensions and ambivalence conquest myths generate by combining the invader/indigenous binary in complementary ways. The Indigenous Helper assists the invaders and signifies the land’s acquiescence to conquest. The Renegade Invader identifies with the indigenous peoples and manifests anxiety about the threat of indigenous difference. A discussion of these types in the book of Joshua, through the stories of Rahab and Achan, establishes a point of reference by …
Six Ways Of Looking At Anomalisa, David L. Smith
Six Ways Of Looking At Anomalisa, David L. Smith
Journal of Religion & Film
Anomalisa is a parable about the nature of human fulfilment that explores the tension between other-worldly desire (the conviction that real life must be “elsewhere”) and the kind of fulfilment that comes from a more transparent relationship to things as they are. The film explores this religious theme not only through its story, but through the way the story comments on its own embodiment as a puppet show—a work of stop-motion animation. In this paper, I try to tease out the film’s complex reflections on the real and the artificial (in particular, on the ways that a desire for “the …
Rejecting The Ethnic Community In Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, And Scarface, Bryan Mead
Rejecting The Ethnic Community In Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, And Scarface, Bryan Mead
Journal of Religion & Film
Film scholars commonly suggest that the 1930s American movie gangster represented marginalized Italian and Irish-American film-goers, and that these gangsters provided a visual and aural outlet for ethnic audience frustrations with American societal mores. However, while movie gangsters clearly struggle with WASP society, the ethnic gangster’s struggle against his own community deserves further exploration. The main characters in gangster films of the early 1930s repeatedly forge an individualistic identity and, in consequence, separate themselves from their ethnic peers and their family, two major symbols of their communal culture. This rejection of community is also a rejection of the distinctly Italian …
Seeing The Light, Hearing The Call: Women Religious As Spectators And Subjects Of Popular Nun Films, Maureen A. Sabine Professor
Seeing The Light, Hearing The Call: Women Religious As Spectators And Subjects Of Popular Nun Films, Maureen A. Sabine Professor
Journal of Religion & Film
Though popular films like The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), The Nun’s Story (1959), and The Sound of Music (1965) have routinely been criticized for circulating polarized stereotypes about nuns, convent memoirs indicate that some women felt the stirrings of a religious vocation from watching these movies. This article arose out of interest in whether other women heard God’s call through nun films, and is based on a survey of 86 sisters from 28 different communities who had entered the convent between 1947 and 2007, and were prepared to discuss what they saw in these …
Examining The Critical Role American Popular Film Continues To Play In Maintaining The Muslim Terrorist Image, Post 9/11, Rubina Ramji
Examining The Critical Role American Popular Film Continues To Play In Maintaining The Muslim Terrorist Image, Post 9/11, Rubina Ramji
Journal of Religion & Film
This article was delivered as a paper at the 2015 International Conference on Religion and Film in Istanbul, Turkey.
Majority Rule: A Dysfunctional Polity Consensus: An Inclusive Democracy, Peter Emerson
Majority Rule: A Dysfunctional Polity Consensus: An Inclusive Democracy, Peter Emerson
International Dialogue
Numerous electoral systems have been devised over the years but, in decision-making, many forums still rely on the same procedure that was used in ancient Greece: majority voting. Hence, majority rule. In many plural multi-ethnic and/or multi-religious societies, the effects have often been negative. This article considers voting procedures in three inter-related contexts: decision-making, elections, and governance. With regard to conflicts in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, and Ukraine, it shows, both in decision-making and in elections, how simplistic win-or-lose ballots have exacerbated tensions. And it then suggests a more inclusive polity in which win-win voting systems might help to alleviate …
Deliberative Democracy: Issues And Cases, Clodagh Harris
Deliberative Democracy: Issues And Cases, Clodagh Harris
International Dialogue
Deliberative democracy, a theory of political legitimacy, argues citizens should be given a more central role in political processes, contending that collective decisions are legitimate to the extent that those subject to them have the right, opportunity and capacity to contribute to deliberations on them. It has been at the forefront of political theory in recent decades and has evolved theoretically, empirically and in praxis overtime.
Transitional Violence In King Of New York, Soren G. Palmer
Transitional Violence In King Of New York, Soren G. Palmer
Journal of Religion & Film
Abel Ferrara’s violent and controversial film, King Of New York, follows the escalating violence and resulting trail of corpses between mobster Frank White (a psychotic sort of Robin Hood) and a group of detectives attempting to arrest him. The goal of this paper is to utilize Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg’s grammar of transition as a structural device to identify negative connections that highlight and foreshadow sources of violence in King of New York. However, simply noting the process of these transitions is insufficient to the paper’s broader purpose; if one is to investigate the causal elements of violence through …
“Love, What Have You Done To Me?” Eros And Agape In Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess, Catherine M. O'Brien
“Love, What Have You Done To Me?” Eros And Agape In Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess, Catherine M. O'Brien
Journal of Religion & Film
Despite its pre-Vatican II setting, Alfred Hitchcock’s I Confess (1953) has retained a notable relevance in the twenty-first century. Although the titular act of confession is unsurprisingly significant, the diegesis actually foregrounds Matrimony and Holy Orders – two sacraments that remain under the spotlight during a tumultuous era for the Catholic Church. Alongside the traditional Hitchcockian theme of “an innocent man wrongly accused,” the plot really hinges on love – a subject that is intelligible to people of all religions and none. While examining the mise-en-scène of the director’s most Catholic film, this article offers an exploration of I Confess …
The Sins Of Leo Mccarey, Richard A. Blake S.J.
The Sins Of Leo Mccarey, Richard A. Blake S.J.
Journal of Religion & Film
Leo McCarey has received little attention from film scholars. His sentimentalizing his Catholic background and his preoccupation with anti-Communism obscured the lasting value of much of his work. His concern with sin and forgiveness form a major motif of his works, from the early comedies to his later serious dramas.
The Magdalene Sisters: How To Solve The Problem Of ‘Bad’ Girls, Irena S. M. Makarushka Ph.D.
The Magdalene Sisters: How To Solve The Problem Of ‘Bad’ Girls, Irena S. M. Makarushka Ph.D.
Journal of Religion & Film
This article focuses on Peter Mullan’s The Magdalene Sisters which explores the scope and complex nature of the punishment experienced by the women incarcerated in the Magdalene Asylum near Dublin. The analysis reflects my long-standing interest in religion, film and feminist values as well as my revulsion at the sexual abuse and predatory practices of countless Catholic priests and nuns. It is the same revulsion that drove Mullan to bring the horrors of the Magdalene Asylums out from beneath the culturally sanctioned shadows into plain sight. My analysis focuses not only on women as victims of abuse, but also on …
Hval I Djeva [The Praised And The Virgin]: Tom I: Vječnost U Vjesničkim Otkrivanjima [Vol. I: Eternity In Prophetic Revelation], 333pp.; Tom Ii: O Trajanju I Prekidu [Vol. Ii: On Continuity And Discontinuity], 251pp.; Tom Iii: Sabiranje Rasutog [Vol. Iii: Reuniting The Scattered], 420pp., Desmond Maurer
International Dialogue
A book by Rusmir Mahmutćehajić is always an event. His books are normally relatively short and always make a clear argument, albeit an argument many are unwilling to hear. For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, he goes straight to the heart of the matter—and his theme is always the same—how to live a good life and how to be a good person, under the troubling conditions of modernity. His answer is also consistent—it is by the embrace of plurality and difference in the service of this one goal, the ethically good life, an embrace that is …
Report From Sundance 2003: Religion In Independent Film, Elysée Nouvet
Report From Sundance 2003: Religion In Independent Film, Elysée Nouvet
Journal of Religion & Film
This is the report from the Sundance Film Festival 2003.
Kabul Times (July 31, 1968, Vol. 7, No. 111), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times (July 31, 1968, Vol. 7, No. 111), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times
No abstract provided.
Kabul Times (November 5, 1967, Vol. 6, No. 182), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times (November 5, 1967, Vol. 6, No. 182), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times
No abstract provided.
Kabul Times (October 10, 1967, Vol. 6, No. 162), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times (October 10, 1967, Vol. 6, No. 162), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times
No abstract provided.
Kabul Times (July 11, 1967, Vol. 6, No. 90), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times (July 11, 1967, Vol. 6, No. 90), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times
No abstract provided.
Kabul Times (June 28, 1967, Vol. 6, No. 81), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times (June 28, 1967, Vol. 6, No. 81), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times
No abstract provided.
Kabul Times (June 6, 1967, Vol. 6, No. 62), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times (June 6, 1967, Vol. 6, No. 62), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times
No abstract provided.
Kabul Times (December 16, 1965, Vol. 4, No. 220), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times (December 16, 1965, Vol. 4, No. 220), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times
No abstract provided.
Kabul Times (October 18, 1965, Vol. 4, No. 169), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times (October 18, 1965, Vol. 4, No. 169), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times
No abstract provided.
Kabul Times (July 9, 1964, Vol. 3, No. 109), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times (July 9, 1964, Vol. 3, No. 109), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times
No abstract provided.
Kabul Times (June 9, 1964, Vol. 3, No. 83), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times (June 9, 1964, Vol. 3, No. 83), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times
No abstract provided.
Kabul Times (April 20, 1964, Vol. 3, No. 45), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times (April 20, 1964, Vol. 3, No. 45), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times
No abstract provided.
Kabul Times (December 30, 1962, Vol. 1, No. 247), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times (December 30, 1962, Vol. 1, No. 247), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times
No abstract provided.
Kabul Times (September 6, 1962, Vol. 1, No. 151), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times (September 6, 1962, Vol. 1, No. 151), Bakhtar News Agency
Kabul Times
No abstract provided.