CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from September 2007

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from September 2007

Religious encounters, communities of conversation.(EDITORIAL)
September 22, 2007... Intimacy is a necessary, wonderful, and frightening aspect of human existence. We can think about intimacy in conjunction with religion, for we can have no experiences of spiritual and religious growth without intimate exchanges--that is, our...

Gleanings about Night from Wiesel's memoirs.(Elie Wiesel )(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... Elie Wiesel is widely acknowledged as one of the world's great teachers. There is indeed much to learn from him as a witness to the Holocaust, a prize-winning author, and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, but I have always wondered what made...

To pasture: "Amish forgiveness," silence, and the West Nickel Mines school shooting.
September 22, 2007... Given the flurry of interpretations that followed the tragedy of October 2, 2006, it may be useful first to reconstruct the events of that morning, using details gleaned from numerous news accounts. (2) At just before ten o'clock, a 32-year-old...

The language of invitation.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... Language empowers and kills. Verbal language, with its attendant body language, can affirm, offer love, do ministry, and seek justice. Verbal and body language can likewise assault, maim, harm, and kill. Language is essential in everything that...

Towards maturity in inter-faith dialogue.
September 22, 2007... Asignificant development among liberal Christians over the last fifty years has been the encouragement of dialogue with people of other major religious communities of the world. A major driving force behind the movement was the perception of...

Kongo nkisi /Canaanite repartee / black savvy: possession and healing at the crossroads.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... that maniacal wood where sarah last egyptian first saint mother of all gypsies pumped blood of wild rose into lorca's andalusian veins where federico first sang where mithra in black spanish robes placed her sword in ignacio's groin where...

Desperately seeking silence: youth culture's unspoken need.(Report)
September 22, 2007... "Ill start this off without any words" --Nirvana, On A Plain (1) One can never write silence; one can only write about silence. Consequently, artists cannot produce silence, but learn how to showcase silence. Graphic artists learn to...

Womanist humanism: a deeper look.(Womanist Humanism: A New Hermeneutic)(Essay)
September 22, 2007... Womanist Humanism is a hermeneutic within the study of Black religion. It combines aspects of a black humanist "nitty-gritty hermeneutic" (1) with womanist analysis to provide a fresh mode of inquiry into the "complex subjectivity" (2) of...

Watch the body with new eyes: Womanist thought's contribution to a humanist notion of ritual.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... For some time I have appreciated and have been challenged by the manner in which Womanist scholarship gives sustained attention to the human body--its construction and placement in time and space. Conceptually framed by Alice Walker's early...

World War Z and the end of religion as we know it.(The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)(World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... Zack Although apocalyptic fantasies in film and fiction have always been popular with Western audiences, the catastrophes that threaten to bring about the end of the world have, for the most part, been given some rational explanation-an...

"Tell nobody but God": the theme of transformation in The Color Purple.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... Transformation--swift and constant change--is a common thread in the tapestry of twentieth and twenty-first century life. At the beginning of the twentieth century, humans were contemplating flight by century's end excursions into out-of-space...

Richard Rorty (1931-2007): in memoriam.(In memoriam)
September 22, 2007... Richard ("Dick") Rorty died at the age of 75 on June 8, 2007, of pancreatic cancer, the same illness to which Jacques Derrida succumbed in 2004. Rorty's daughter, who seems to have inherited her father's ironic wit, said that this must be what...

Some fundaments for non-fundamentalists.(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2007... "I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity." (1) --Oliver Wendell Holmes Simplicity has always seemed to me to be a supremely...

He accepted-and contested-the universe.(BOOKS)(William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Robert D. Richardson William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism Houghton Mifflin, 2006. xvi + 622pp. $30 (cloth) First of all, forget that "maelstrom." This is not some sort of cultural panorama of fin de siecle America,...

Intelligent by design.(BOOKS)(The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Michael J. Behe The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism Free Press Edition, paperback, 2007, 336 pp. ($28) Michael Behe is probably the best-known of the advocates of Intelligent Design (often shortened to...

Ignorant armies clash by night.(BOOKS)(The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... William Dalrymple The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 Knopf, 2007, xxiii + 534pp. $30 The Sepoy Mutiny is one of those historic disasters that gets worse with the passage of time. The story has been told over and...

The Experience of God, Icons of the Mystery.(BOOKS)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Raimon Panikkar The Experience of God, Icons of the Mystery tr. Joseph Cunneen Knopf, 2007, xxiii + 534pp. $30 Christophany, the Fullness of Man tr. Alfred DiLascia Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2004, 214 pp., $30....

Ira et studio, inc.(BOOKS)('Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam' and 'God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything')(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Michel Onfray Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam Tr. Jeremy Leggatt Arcade, 2007. 219pp. $25 Christopher Hitchens god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Twelve, 2007....