CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from September 2000

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from September 2000

Structures of Sin.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... In his new book, Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit, Garry Wills argues that the Roman Catholic Church has consistently subordinated truth "to ecclesiastical tactics." Thus, "even as bright and devout a man as Pope Paul VI could endorse a truly...

Global Requiem: The Apocalyptic Moment in Religion, Science, and Art.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Humans might become extinct sooner than anyone imagines. Think of the prospect as an opportunity for spiritual and artistic growth. The title of Ernest Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926, came from the King James...

The Green Face of God: Christianity in an Age of Ecocide.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... God the Spirit enfleshed in creation, experiences the agony of an earth under siege. The Spirit as the green face of God has become in our time the wounded God. At bedtime I sometimes read to my five-year-old daughter the Dr. Seuss...

The Thin Thread of Conversation: An Interview with Mary Daly.(Interview)
September 22, 2000... Daly imagines the overthrow of patriarchy by women's psychic powers. No doubt the end justifies the means, but can it work? Perhaps a certain amount of disclosure is needed. I am, if not quite an ex-radical feminist, no longer a loyalist to...

The Color of the Enemy in the New Millennium.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... The unresolved meaning of blackness calls the practice of whiteness in North America into the open. The West of our time is facing a crisis of enemy-atrophy. Since the demise of the East-West conflict in the last decade, global capitalism...

First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin: Bonhoeffer's New York.
September 22, 2000... In Harlem, Bonhoeffer learned about the improvisation of jazz, the contingency of the blues, and the liberation of black spirituals. That's not all he learned. They sentenced me twenty years of boredom for trying to change the system from...

Joking with Jesus in the Poetry of Kathleen Norris and Annie Dillard.
September 22, 2000... With Jesus, it's not always suffering and passion. He's also the kind of savior that can make you laugh. The contemporary West's major spiritual problem is distractedness. Our modes of communal distraction have multiplied and internetted...

Planting.(Poem)
September 22, 2000... Bringing the dirt to his face, my father smells it, "this is good soil," Blessed are You, and we plant the garden, and my father tells me he dreamed while in the hospital of his garden, dreamed of it all winter,...

From Forget It.(Poem)
September 22, 2000... It was not necessary to study the language of a strange country; anyway, it would be of no help. It was not necessary to know where Italy or England is located; travel was obviously out of question. It...

Editor's Choice: Books, Bytes, and Beyond.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2000... William Arms, Digital Libraries. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2000. 287pp. $45.00 (cloth). Jorge Luis Barges, Selected Nonfictions. New York: Viking, 1999. 559pp. $40.00 (cloth). Jorge Luis Barges, Selected Poems. New York: Viking,...

The Secular Mind.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Robert Coles, The Secular Mind. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. 189pp. $19.95 (cloth). Coles, one of the best story-tellers in social science, begins by telling us that some four decades ago when he was a resident in...

About Religion: Economies of Faith in a Virtual Culture.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Mark C. Taylor, About Religion: Economies of Faith in a Virtual Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 292pp. $19.00 (paper). Can we talk directly about religion at the turn of the century? Or is religion instead an...

Sacred Drama: A Spirituality of Christian Liturgy.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Patricia Wilson-Kastner, Sacred Drama: A Spirituality of Christian Liturgy. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. 1999. vi+154pp. $15.00 (paper). Patricia Wilson-Kastner has written a wonderful introduction to the spirituality of ritual drama in the...

The Religion of Technology, the Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention.(Review)
September 22, 2000... David F. Noble, The Religion of Technology, the Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. 273 pages with notes and index. $26 (cloth). Two seemingly incompatible enthusiasms characterize the world facing...

Visionaries: The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ.(Review)
September 22, 2000... William A. Christian, Jr., Visionaries: The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, xxii + 544pp. $19.95 (cloth). In an absorbing and engaging narration, William A. Christian, Jr. attempts...

Respect: An Exploration.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Respect: An Exploration. Reading, Mass.: Perseus Books, 1999. 230pp.+notes. $23.00 (cloth). Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is a sociologist and Professor of Education at Harvard University. She is the author of...

In Plato's Cave.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Alvin Kernan, In Plato's Cave. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 309pp. $14.95 (cloth) "This is all much more fun in remembrance than it was in fact," Alvin Kernan admits in the middle of this captivating intellectual memoir (93),...

The Catholic Voter in American Politics: The Passing of the Democratic Monolith.(Review)
September 22, 2000... William B. Prendergast, The Catholic Voter in American Politics: The Passing of the Democratic Monolith. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1999. 260pp. $35.00 (cloth). In nostalgic utterances of cradle Catholics you encounter...

The Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Paul Rogat Loeb, The Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999. 362pp. $15.95 (paper). "Cynicism or hope? That's the real question, the choice all of us face" (340). In his latest...

Religion and the American Civil War.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Randall Miller, Harry Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson, eds., Religion and the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiii + 422. $24.95 (cloth). Religion and the American Civil War provides a masterful venue for...

Growing Up Religious: Christians and Jews and Their Journeys of Faith.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Robert Wuthnow, Growing Up Religious: Christians and Jews and Their Journeys of Faith. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. 249pp. $27.50 (cloth). In Growing Up Religious Robert Wuthnow analyzes the impact upon an adult of religious influences...

The Poets, Jesus: Representations at the End of a Millennium.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Peggy Rosenthal, The Poets, Jesus: Representations at the End of a Millennium. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 189pp. $29.95 (cloth). Following on Divine Inspiration, Peggy Rosenthal's fascinating anthology of poems about the life...

About the Cover Art.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... I hadn't painted for twenty years. I quit because painting had begun to take over my life, drawing me away from my family. For me, painting has always been meditation, a mystical interchange between myself, the canvas, and "the Other," and I...

Correction.
September 22, 2000... The Spring/Summer 2000 issue of Cross Currents incorrectly identified John McNeill. He is the author of three books on gay theology and spirituality (all available from Beacon Press): The Church and the Homosexual, Taking a Chance on Cod and...