CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from January 2006

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from January 2006

Theology, democracy, and the project of liberalism.(Editorial)
January 1, 2006... In the midst of preparations for this issue of CrossCurrents, I found myself in Indonesia, working in partnership with the Decade to Overcome Violence, a peace initiative sponsored by the World Council of Churches. Over the past year, this work...

9/11 and god's sport.
January 1, 2006... To be in the company of so many friends, faculty, and students of Union--in the presence of so many kindred spirits--is to be reminded of the great conversation that has occurred at Union Theological Seminary for 170 years. I find it...

American liberal theology: crisis, irony, decline, renewal, ambiguity.
January 1, 2006... The idea of a liberal approach to Christianity--that theology should be based on reason and critically interpreted religious experience, not external authority--has an ironic history in the United States. In the nineteenth century it took root...

Radical democracy, radical ecclesiology.
January 1, 2006... In March 2005, it seemed like every newspaper and news magazine in Europe and the US was talking about "Beirut Spring," asking "Was Bush right?" and cheerleading the glimmers of "democratic" transformation in Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria...

The unintended consequences of Dixieland Postliberalism.
January 1, 2006... Introduction Postliberalism, as the name implies, is a critique worked out in relationship to a presumably waning dominant world view. Its rhetorical power and its concepts depend on the reality of liberalism as a prevailing social and...

Liberalism, race, and Stanley Hauerwas.
January 1, 2006... Attack Upon Liberalism Stanley Hauerwas, the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University, has achieved something like celebrity status in academic and public arenas focused on understanding the relationship among...

Democratic time: lessons learned from Yoder and Wolin.(John Howard Yoder, Sheldon S. Wolin)
January 1, 2006... Jeffrey Stout on Democracy Though the subject for this article is really "Christianity and Radical Democracy," I think it disingenuous not to acknowledge that I am still thinking about the issues raised by Jeffrey Stout with the...

Practicing Camus: the art of engagement.(Albert Camus)
January 1, 2006... In 1957, just a week after the announcement of his Nobel Prize for Literature, Albert Camus was interviewed by the Parisian magazine Demain about how an artist engages in public life. At the time of publication, Camus was already a well-known...

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004).(Obituary)
January 1, 2006... With the death of Jacques Derrida on October 8, 2004, some thirty-seven years after he first burst upon the scene in 1967 with three explosive books of philosophy, the world lost one of its deepest, most original and most provocative figures....

Brother Jimmy Protests.(Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Jimmy Carter Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis Simon & Schuster, 2005. 212pp. $25 It's hard to think, on the spur of the moment anyway, of a more notable American Christian than Jimmy Carter. Since leaving the White...

Poor Fritz!(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Curtis Cate Friedrich Nietzsche Overlook, 2005. xxv + 689pp. $37.50 Let's see: his father died (from "softening of the brain") when he was four; his brother Joseph (barely two) six months later. He was plagued his entire life by...

Two young Indians seek enlightenment.(An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Pankaj Mishra An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World FSG, 2004, 422pp., $25 Pankaj Mishra (b. 1969) will be forty before too long, but his affably smiling face on the book jacket could belong to anyone from 17 to 27, and...

Had sex lately?(Poem)
January 1, 2006... A reflection upon my "imaginary homeland" of Japan, for the service celebrating light and darkness at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. Amaterasu, Japanese sun goddess of ancient legend,...

The revolution.(Poem)
January 1, 2006... "I will die on my feet before I live on my knees." An era has ended. The dirge has begun. The revolution will be televised. The flame of hope grows dim. An epoch in the making dissipated, dismantled, disappeared, dissed. The...