CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from March 2008

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from March 2008

Editorial.(religious, cultural and political relationships in the United States)(Editorial)
March 22, 2008... As I write, commentators continue to react to a very few, highly selected quotations, or rather, video clips, edited out of a few sermons delivered in some cases several years ago by the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Some have suggested that...

Imagining social justice: Cornel West's prophetic public intellectualism.(Biography)
March 22, 2008... The phenomenon that is Cornel West has proven difficult to grasp or even categorize from the outset of his career. He is a philosopher, but does not write for or in the manner of the philosophical guild. He is not a theologian, yet liberation...

Responding to the new religious pluralism.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... It is no longer news to say that Americans are having to confront the realities of a new religious pluralism. Despite much talk about interfaith relationships, the majority Christian population faces countless unanswered questions. Do these...

Embodiment, elimination, and the role of toilets in struggles for social justice.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... ... at the end of the row one free toilet oozes from under its crooked door, while a row of weary women carrying packages and babies wait and wait and wait to do what only the dead find unnecessary. Marge Piercy, "To the Pay Toilet"...

The unbearable lightness of being: re-sourcing catholic intellectual traditions.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... A human condition both catholic and Catholic The Unbearable Lightness of Being: even for those who have not read Milan Kundera's dense metaphysical novel (or seen the movie based on it) the title is probably familiar. Familiar but also...

In pain and sorrow: childbirth, incarnation, and the suffering of women.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... About ten years ago, I gave birth to a ten-pound, two-ounce baby boy after a long day and an even longer night of labor. The labor was obstructed: not only was he huge, he was turned sideways, and had absolutely no intention of entering the...

What Buddhists and Christians are teaching each other about God.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... At a time when the Judaeo-Christian conception of a personal God is coming under attack by Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins--the present-day Big Dogs of Atheism--theists would do well to pay attention to their Buddhist...

"The destiny of this people is my own ...": Edith Stein's paradoxical sainthood (1).(Biography)
March 22, 2008... Edith Stein, perhaps one of the most controversial women to be canonized as a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church, was born on Yom Kippur, October 12, 1891 in Breslau (then Germany, now Poland). She was put to death in Auschwitz, August 9, 1942....

Hide and seek: on teaching god to be a better exemplar.(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2008... Like my biblical namesake, I have had a lifelong struggle with the God of Abraham who it is reported entered a covenant relationship with my ancestors at Sinai. From time to time, God and I busy ourselves in a sporadically engrossing though all...

Poetry.(Poem)
March 22, 2008... The two poems that follow are translated from the Persian by John Slater and Jeffrey Einboden. Hafiz of Shiraz, the poet, was a fourteenth-century Persian mystic and a Sufi. Concerning the translation of his work, John Slater writes:...

Living the question.(America and the Challenge of Religious Diversity)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Robert Wuthnow America and the Challenge of Religious Diversity Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. 448pp. Citizens of the United States are living in a time of religious and cultural diversity that is...

You are not of the castle, you are not of the village, you are nothing.(The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Saul Friedlander The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 HarperCollins, 2007. xxvi +870 pp. $39.95 The line deserves to be quoted in the original German--as Friedlander does with many crucial statements by the...