CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from March 2001

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from March 2001

Living for the City.(city life and religion)
March 22, 2001... I am a city person. Un-asphalt-scented air makes me nervous. I still shudder from a childhood memory of a week spent visiting an aunt's rural home, especially in the evenings, smothering in the too-dark, bugnoisy, neighbor-absent countryside. I...

Forgotten Fruit of the City: Chicago and the Moorish Science Temple of America.(Illinois)
March 22, 2001... My heightened interest in the Moorish Science Temple of America began in the fall of 1999 as I searched for visible evidence of female activism among Muslim women in metropolitan Chicago. Through my studies, I was aware of the MSTA and its...

On the Town with Georg Simmel: A Socio-Religious Understanding of Urban Interaction.(religious sociologist)
March 22, 2001... Georg Simmel (1858-1918) was a founder of the German Sociological Association and lived the majority of his life in the city of Berlin. One area of research to which Simmel frequently returned was the documenting of how our social, geographical...

Communities and Enclaves: Where Jews, Christians, Hindus, and Muslims Share the Neighborhoods.
March 22, 2001... An afternoon walk along Devon Avenue on Chicago's Far North Side gives one a tangible sense of that abstract concept "social diversity." Devon offers a glimpse of the neighborhoods that make up the community areas of Rogers Park and West Ridge...

The Soul of Los Angeles: Photographs from the Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California.(immigrants and religion)
March 22, 2001... Los Angeles is a major gateway city for new immigrants and is already home to a population where one person in three is foreign born. Given the context of this amazing demographic shift, in the fall of 1998 the Center for Religion and Civic...

Doing Theology in the City.(teaching theology through service-learning)
March 22, 2001... The task of theology is often a lonely endeavor. The hush of the library or the archives, the still of the chapel, and the quiet discipline of one's desk are places where theological research and writing unfold, most often in solitary...

Theology and the City: Learning to Cry, Struggling to See.
March 22, 2001... Theology in the postcolonial context of global capitalism is necessarily "urban" theology even when it is not explicitly identified as such. As we shall discuss more fully below, the driving dynamism of modernity--beginning in the high middle...

Gandhi Contra Modernity.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Bhikhu Parekh, Gandhi. Oxford Past Masters Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 111 pp. $8.95 (paper). Americans tend to romanticize the figure of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and not without reason. The Mahatma -- the "great...

A Cult Too Frequent.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Philip Jenkins, Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 294pp. $27.50 (cloth). With this book Philip Jenkins adds significantly to the literature on new religions and...

A User-Friendly Barbour.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Ian G. Barbour, When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners? New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2000. xiv + 205pp. $16.00 (paper). Among those working in the burgeoning field of religion and science, no one is better known or...

Christology Lite.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Thomas Cahill, Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus. New York: Doubleday, 1999. 353pp. $24.95 (cloth). The trouble with most scholars, as Thomas Cahill knows, is they're too cautious to go beyond tending their...

Black and Not Protestant.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Diana L. Hayes and Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., eds. Taking Down Our Harps: Black Catholics in the United States. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1998. xv + 285pp. $18.00 (paper). Diana Hayes and Cyprian Davis provide an important discussion of...

Speakers and Spoken.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Bell, Catherine M. Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions. New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. xv + 351 pp. $19.95 (paper). This book is not an introduction to "ritual," but a comprehensive account of the academic "practice" of analysis...

Arius Sleeps with the Fishes.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Richard E. Rubenstein, When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. 267pp. $26.00 (cloth). Richard Rubenstein's self-revealing preface discloses the mixed...

One Generation to the Next.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Eugene Pogany. In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith after the Holocaust. New York: Viking Penguin, 2000. 327pp. $25.95 (cloth). In March 1998, the Vatican released the document, We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah, an...

Reuniting Genders.(Review)
March 22, 2001... John Kitchen, Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xv+255pp.; appendix. $49.95 (cloth). Since the early 1980s a new trend has emerged in...