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A Minnesota Scholar Shows How We Could Find Common Ground With, And Through, Shia Islam, Jason M. Schlude
A Minnesota Scholar Shows How We Could Find Common Ground With, And Through, Shia Islam, Jason M. Schlude
Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications
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Infectious Nationalism: Pericles And Public Health Crises, Jason M. Schlude
Infectious Nationalism: Pericles And Public Health Crises, Jason M. Schlude
Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications
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A Longview On Iran: Echoes From The Ancient Middle East, Jason M. Schlude
A Longview On Iran: Echoes From The Ancient Middle East, Jason M. Schlude
Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications
With its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps blacklisted, Iran responded in kind, classifying United States Central Command as a terrorist organization. In the midst of a buildup of U.S. military in the Gulf, President Rouhani indicated Iran’s willingness to return to its previous program to develop nuclear arms. Where will this lead? Ancient history provides an illuminating—if unsettling—perspective.
The Problem With White People, With Insight From St. Paul, Jason M. Schlude
The Problem With White People, With Insight From St. Paul, Jason M. Schlude
Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications
“I’m proud to be white,” someone recently told me. He interjected the comment in a contentious political conversation. I responded by advocating “more caution” in expression. The exchange fizzled without resolution. Yet this phrase, “proud to be white,” continues to disturb. My conversation partner was no white supremacist. But his chosen phrase would have fooled many. What lies within it is a key for understanding a threatening and intractable problem of American society: what I call “the problem of white people.”
Awakening Imagination: Glimpses Of Ignatian Spirituality In Seventeenth-Century French Hagiographic Theatre, Ana Fonseca Conboy
Awakening Imagination: Glimpses Of Ignatian Spirituality In Seventeenth-Century French Hagiographic Theatre, Ana Fonseca Conboy
Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications
The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) propose an active method of exercising spirituality through meditation, prayer, and imaginative contemplation. Beyond mere spectators, Ignatian disciples are invited to become actors in the scene unfolding in their sensory imaginations, in what Barthes calls the “récit christique” (Barthes 1971, 10). In that sense, the Exercises possess a performative force. The implicit freedom inspired in the exercitant, the person who performs the Exercises, echoes the call to the imagination of the spectator of seventeenth-century French hagiographic drama. Exercises promulgated throughout the four weeks of the spiritual retreat are reflected in …