Anabaptist ReMix

Varieties of Cultural Engagement in North America
Herausgegeben:Friesen, Lauren; Koehn, Dennis R.

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Produktbeschreibung

The creative clash of tradition and innovation causes many cultures to be in continuous remix. Crucibles of adaptation are present in religion, law, education, science, technology, publishing, arts, media, etc. The present volume Anabaptist ReMix: The Varieties of Cultural Engagement is a case study of one tradition-Anabaptists and Mennonites-and fragments of its transformation in the modern and post-modern era. Today, in the face of a global pandemic, climate disaster, social fragmentation, and the prospect of nuclear annihilation, the descendants of radical reformers seek to live out the wisdom of that original revolution. Theology is re-imagined as a conversation about human nature and emergent images of the divine. In this volume, the arts are re-framed as an examination of conflict, catharsis, and justice. Christian pacifism is given new partners with those in the just-war tradition. Women find a new voice to tell stories of abuse, oppression, and healing. Native American, Black, and Latinx voices call attention to buried stories calling for resurrection. The power of institutional structures is interrogated and challenged to act on prophetic missions of equality, healing, and justice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 318792
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9781433187926
• ISBN-10: 1433187922
• Artikelnr.: 63214823

Autorenporträt

Lauren Friesen is the David M. French Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He received his PhD (with honors) from the Graduate Theological Union. His recent publications include editing Mennonite Ethics: from Isolation to Engagement by J. Lawrence Burkholder and autobiographical essays Prairie Lands, Private Landscapes. Friesen was awarded the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for Excellence in University/College Theatre and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Pacific School of Religion. Dennis R. Koehn exemplifies a life of activism, scholarship, and professional impact. He did time in a federal prison for draft resistance, completed undergraduate work with honors, and went to Harvard on a Rockefeller Brothers Theological Fellowship. Koehn, as a management consultant, was known for being "particularly suited to joining business and management skills with theology and the needs of church organizations." Koehn received a PhD from Chicago Theological Seminary with a dissertation on religion and war.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations - Keith Ratzlaff: Three Angels - Preface - Dennis R. Koehn: Introduction - Dennis R. Koehn: New Perspectives on Human Nature and Images of the Divine - Maxwell Kennel: Secular Mennonite Social Critique: Pluralism, Interdisciplinarity, and Mennonite Studies - Duane Friesen: The Convergence of Pacifism and Just War - Doug Hostetter: Interfaith Paths to Peace - James Samuel Logan: The Ground and Educational Ministry of Ethics: A (Darkly Hued) Anabaptist Perspective - Lauren Friesen: "Be Just, and Fear Not": Theater as Restorative Justice - Vincent Harding: The Beggars Are Rising, Where Are the Saints? - Lawrence Hart: Connections Past, Present, and Future - Bryan Rafael Falcón: Hexadecaroon - Katie Graber: Liberating Anabaptist Music - Cameron Altaras: Voice of the Residue: The Reckoning of Intergenerational Female Wounding - Ruth E. Krall: Healing the Wounds of a Violated World - Lorin Peters: I Will Kill Him First! - Darla Schumm: Musings from a Blind Mennonite Misfit: When Disability Theory and Anabaptist Identity Intersect - S. Roy Kaufman: Anabaptism and Its Agrarian Heritage - Charlene Gingerich: Beauty Happens - Daniel Shank Cruz: Mennonite Literature's Queer Decolonial Anabaptist Vision - Al Schnupp: Us and Them - Jeff Gundy: Emblems of the Times - Sofia Samatar: The Centaur's Recipe - Rachel Epp Buller: Learning from our Ancestors: Listening to the Patterns in our Hands - Douglas Witmer: Neighbor : Who - Diana Zimmerman: Slowly Like Snow - Lisa Schirch: Applying a Mennonite Theology of Peacebuilding to Mennonite Institutions - Julia Reimer: Negotiating the Blade: A Dramatic Reverie on Faith, Institutions, and Theater - Clayton Funk: Walking a Tightrope Across the University: Following My Ethical Compass and Hacking Higher Education - Rudi Kauffman: Ethics, Faith, and Health Care - J. Alexander Sider: Among the Pains: Christianity, Disability, Healing - David E. Ortman: The Church on the Edge of Forever - List of Contributors - Index.

Rezensionen

"Our country is in urgent need of a publication that provides a framework for understanding the ebb and flow of religious thought the concepts of ethics, community, faith, culture, and politics. In the edited volume, Anabaptist ReMix, scholars Lauren Friesen and Dennis R. Koehn provide a road map for synthesizing divergent theoretical and practical issues and identifying core values and beliefs for a 21st century Anabaptist vision. This volume will challenge some readers, but the effort will be rewarded with new insights. Essays draw on a wide range of disciplines: the arts, philosophy, theology, and institutional leadership. Topics are intriguing and complex. One big question is left open: what has the melting of Anabaptist and Mennonite history produced that guides religious practices today? Are these traditions evolving in a fruitful 'ReMix'? Delving into this volume, I came away thinking of dynamics in a host of major institutions: history and diverse thought, both read and improvised, have the potential of a creative impact." -Dolores Cross, Education Consultant and University President (Retired)