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Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question - NYTimes.com
Fascinating article -- a UK court has declared that any definition of Judaism based on descent -- i.e., on whether an individual's mother is Jewish -- is ipso facto discriminatory and thus illegal. The context was an admissions policy for a publicly-funded Jewish school, which had excluded a student applicant because the school's Orthodox policy did not recognize the mother's conversion, conducted in a liberal setting, as valid and thus did not accept the applicant's claim to be Jewish. Archived: http://sqrl.it/?l3q8t and http://www.webcitation.org/5lBnaZcq8
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe (Legos and organ donors)
"When you take apart a Lego house and mix the pieces into the bin, where does the house go? -- It's in the bin. -- No, those are just pieces. They could become spaceships or trains. The house was an arrangement. The arrangement doesn't stay with the pieces and it doesn't go anywhere else. It's just gone."
Karl Marx, "On The Jewish Question (Zur Judenfrage)" (1843)
"Where the political state has attained its true development, man – not only in thought, in consciousness, but in reality, in life – leads a twofold life, a heavenly and an earthly life: life in the political community, in which he considers himself a communal being, and life in civil society, in which he acts as a private individual, regards other men as a means, degrades himself into a means, and becomes the plaything of alien powers. The relation of the political state to civil society is just as spiritual as the relations of heaven to earth. The political state stands in the same opposition to civil society, and it prevails over the latter in the same way as religion prevails over the narrowness of the secular world – i.e., by likewise having always to acknowledge it, to restore it, and allow itself to be dominated by it."
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Add Sticky NoteThe perfect political state is, by its nature, man’s species-life,
as opposed to his material life. All the preconditions of this egoistic
life continue to exist in
civil society
outside the sphere of the state,
but as qualities of civil society. Where the political state has attained
its true development, man – not only in thought, in consciousness, but
in reality, in life – leads a twofold life, a heavenly and an earthly
life: life in the political community, in which he considers himself a
communal being, and life in civil society, in which he acts as a private
individual, regards other men as a means, degrades himself into a means,
and becomes the plaything of alien powers. The relation of the political
state to civil society is just as spiritual as the relations of heaven
to earth. The political state stands in the same opposition to civil society,
and it prevails over the latter in the same way as religion prevails over
the narrowness of the secular world – i.e., by likewise having
always to acknowledge it, to restore it, and allow itself to be dominated
by it. In his most immediate reality, in civil society, man is a secular
being. Here, where he regards himself as a real individual, and is so regarded
by others, he is a fictitious phenomenon. In the state, on the other hand,
where man is regarded as a species-being, he is the imaginary member of
an illusory sovereignty, is deprived of his real individual life and endowed
with an unreal universality.- This is a crucial passage for Harrington in The Politics at God's Funeral (1983). - on 2009-10-21
Syllabus: Richard Cohen, Theory of Religion (LTCS 250), UCSD Winter 2005
Another version from archive.org (which seems to be identical): http://sqrl.it/?umc9b
Welcome to Teacher Forums | The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy
Seen on @melmcbride 's Twitter stream.
Ivan Petrella, "Beyond Progressive Religion," ReligionDispatches (August 18, 2009)
I have to go over this more carefully than I have ... but so far I'm skeptical.
Ivan Petrella, "Beyond Progressive Religion," ReligionDispatches (August 18, 2009)
I have to go over this more carefully than I have ... but so far I'm skeptical.
CriticaLink: General Introduction
An electronic library of information, aimed at undergrads, about foundational texts for modern critical theory. Includes reading guides, critical glossaries, background information, and discussion questions. Very good use of technology (though not at all flashy).
The 1992 University Lecture in Religion by Lee H. Yearley
On the idea of "spiritual regret."
Wilfrid Laurier University - Faculty of Arts - Religion and Culture - Full-Time Faculty Information - Michel Desjardins Publications
Renowned scholar of religion Michel Desjardins has put some of his articles online as freely accessible PDFs. Handy.
communicake: Marshall McLuhan - “Notes on Burroughs” (1964)
From the page: "Today men’s nerves surround us; they have gone outside as electrical environment. The human nervous system itself can be reprogrammed biologically as readily as any radio network can alter its fare. Burroughs has dedicated Naked Lunch to the first proposition, and Nova Express (both Grove Press) to the second."
YouTube - Tavis Smiley interviews David Kyuman Kim Part 1
Hey! I know this guy (the interviewee). I went to grad school with him. Why the hell don't I have a book wtih Oxford now out in paper and an interview with Tavis? Huh?
Bruce Lincoln, "Theses on Method" | U. of Alabama | Department of Religious Studies
A now-classic (though still controversial) formulation of the principles behind the academic study of religion.
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