Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse

Hamilton, Catherine Sider; Cameron, Averil

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“…While Christianity was a new religion at this time, it slowly gained strength across the region, and by 312 ce the Roman Emperor Constantine had become a supporter for political and financial reasons, securing the religion's prominence. Constantine believed that a religion based on the worship of a single god, in contrast to the multitude of gods worshipped by Greeks, would be a better mechanism for holding the vast Roman Empire together (Cameron, 1994;Ehrman, 2018). In 313 ce Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which legalized Christianity across his vast lands, and so began the slow decline of Hellenic religious rituals that were increasingly deemed pagan and outlawed.…”

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Academic Navel-Gazing: Debating Globalization as the Planet Burns

Darian-Smith

2023

Globalization: Past, Present, Future

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Since the 1990s, scholars in the Euro-American academy have debated and analyzed the causes and consequences of globalization. However, in the dominant and most cited literature, scholars have rarely engaged with globalization’s relationship to nature and the resulting process of global warming, environmental degradation, mass extinction of biodiversity, and related climate injustices. If scholars do refer to the environment at all, it is usually in vague terms of “sustainability” needed to maintain the neoliberal logics of the status quo. This essay engages with the lack of serious attention in the literature on globalization with ecological devastation leading to our current era of imminent planetary collapse. I reflect on why this has been the case and ask what the silence on nature suggests in terms of the politics of scholarly production. I argue that scholars of globalization predominantly reflect a Eurocentric and anthropocentric perspective informed by Enlightenment thought that includes a human/nature binary and the logics of progress, modernity, and resource extractivism. This blinkered worldview both assumes the dominance of Western-based scholarship and precludes an urgent need to think more holistically about humanity’s deeply entangled global futures with more-than-human worlds. I conclude that this dominant northern worldview and its embedded limitations herald the looming irrelevancy of globalization theory produced within the Euro-American academy.

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Academic Navel-Gazing: Debating Globalization as the Planet Burns

Darian-Smith

2023

Globalization: Past, Present, Future

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Globalization: Past, Present, Future

2023

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Since the end of the Cold War, globalization—the process and the idea—has been reshaping the world. Global studies scholarship has emerged to make sense of the transnational manifestations of globalization: economic, social, cultural, ideological, technological, environmental, and postcolonial. But a series of crises in the first two decades of the twenty-first century has put the neoliberal globalization system of the 1990s under severe strain. Are we witnessing a turn toward “deglobalization,” intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine or a moment of “reglobalization,” spearheaded by digital technology? The contributors to this book employ transdisciplinary research to assess past developments, the current state, and future trajectories of globalization in light of today’s dynamics of insecurity, volatility, and geopolitical tensions.

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Spiritual Exegesis as an Ascetic Performance in Gregory of Nyssa

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2015

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This essay is an exploration of the ascetic functions and possibilities of “spiritual exegesis.” By applying interdisciplinary performance theory to the writings of a key late ancient ascetic theorist, Gregory of Nyssa, it develops an understanding of spiritual exegesis as a textual performance enacting the ascetical agenda of transformation of the self. I argue that an act of interpretive engagement with Scripture in Gregory’s writings does more than offer a conceptual context for and a mythopoetic authentication of the ascetic praxis. It also encourages a reorientation of the reader’s habitual perceptions, of the text that one encounters and of oneself. By staging a process of an imaginative layering and stripping of identities and pulling the audience into the construction of a shared symbolic reality, this exegetical performance induces an experience of alternative realities and selves.

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Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse

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Academic Navel-Gazing: Debating Globalization as the Planet Burns

Academic Navel-Gazing: Debating Globalization as the Planet Burns

Globalization: Past, Present, Future

Spiritual Exegesis as an Ascetic Performance in Gregory of Nyssa

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