Academic literature on the topic 'Modèle paulinien'

Este artículo propone interesarse por Une Fille amoureuse de Pauline Réage, un texto que se inscribe en el ámbito muy amplio de las escrituras del yo. Entre los diferentes modelos de literatura íntima existentes, Une Fille amoureuse se acerca a la autoficción, un tipo textual que progresivamente ha invadido el paisaje literario de principios del siglo XXI. La obra fue publicada en 1969, es así anterior a los primeros intentos de conceptualización a los que la autoficción ha dado lugar y también es anterior a la aparición misma de la noción de autoficción. Este artículo analiza los rasgos distintivos de la autoficción que reúne Une Fille amoureuse, un relato en el que Pauline Réage explora las fronteras entre la ficción novelesca y la realidad autobiográfica y deja expresarse una voz femenina que se desvela inventándose a través del juego de la escritura. This article examines Pauline Réage’s Une Fille amoureuse, a text that can be categorized as belonging to the vast field of writings on the self. Among the various types of current intimate literature, Une Fille amoureuse is closer to autofiction, a kind of text that has progressively taken over the literary landscape of the 21st century. It was published in 1969, which makes it not only prior to the first conceptualization tentatives that resulted from autofiction, but also prior to the appearance of the very notion of autofiction. This study enquires into the distinctive traits of autofiction present in Une Fille amoureuse, in which Pauline Réage explores the boundaries between novel and autobiography, allowing a feminine voice to unfold as it is revealed by the writing itself. Cet article propose d’étudier Une Fille amoureuse de Pauline Réage, un texte qui s’inscrit dans le champ très vaste des écritures du moi. Parmi les différents modèles de littérature intime existants, Une Fille amoureuse se rapproche de l’autofiction, un type textuel qui a progressivement envahi le paysage littéraire du début du XXIe siècle. L’œuvre a été publiée en 1969, elle est donc antérieure aux premières tentatives de conceptualisation auxquelles l’autofiction a donné lieu et elle est aussi antérieure à l’apparition même de la notion d’autofiction. Cet article analyse les traits distinctifs de l’autofiction que réunit Une Fille amoureuse, un récit dans lequel Pauline Réage explore les frontières entre la fiction romanesque et la réalité autobiographique et laisse s’exprimer une voix féminine qui se dévoile tout en s’inventant par le jeu de l’écriture.

Orientador: Edson Tomaz
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Resumo: O município de Paulínia - SP possui um parque industrial expressivo e constitui um pólo atrativo para expansão industrial, apresentando sinais importantes de degradação ambiental em vários aspectos. No entanto, poucos estudos têm sido realizados no sentido de avaliar a situação atual de poluição do ar na região, visando desenvolver uma base de conhecimento para subsidiar o Estado na definição de políticas públicas e mesmo os empreendedores na decisão de novos investimentos na região. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo fazer um estudo sobre poluição do ar na região, estimando-se a qualidade do ar em todo domínio considerado, para identificar as regiões mais atingidas pelos efeitos da dispersão dos poluentes, bem como, para auxiliar no planejamento da etapa subseqüente do trabalho desenvolvido na Unicamp que é a monitorização da qualidade do ar empregando um laboratório móvel. A estimativa da qualidade do ar na região está baseada num minucioso inventário de emissões de poluentes do ar, em dados meteorológicos de três anos e no uso de um modelo matemático aceito por diversos órgãos ambientais nacionais e internacionais. São realizadas comparações entre os dados medidos por uma estação de monitorização da Cetesb e os dados no estudo, obtendo uma razoável coerência entre os resultados. Da análise das curvas de isoconcentração para os diversos poluentes estudados é possível identificar as regiões críticas quanto à alteração da qualidade do ar, servindo como base para o planejamento dos estudos de campo com a estação móvel de monitorização de qualidade do ar
Abstract: The municipal district of Paulínia-SP possesses an expressive industrial park and it constitutes an attractive pole for industrial expansion, presents important signs of environmental degradation in several aspects. However, few studies have been accomplished in the sense of evaluating the current situation of air pollution in the area, seeking to develop a knowledge base to subsidize the state in the definition of public politics and even the entrepreneurs in the decision of new investments in the area. The present work has as objective to do a study about air pollution in this area, being made estimates about air quality in whole considered domain, to identify the areas more reached by the effects of pollutants dispersion, as well as, to aid in the planning of the subsequent stage of the work developed in Unicamp that is the air quality monitoring, by means of a mobile laboratory. Estimate of air quality in the area is based on a meticulous air pollutants emission inventory, in three-year meteorological data and in the use of a mathematical model accepted by national and international environmental agencies. Comparisons are accomplished among data measured by an monitoring station of Cetesb (State Environmental Agency - São Paulo) and the data estimated in the study, obtaining a reasonable coherence among the results. From analysis of isoconcentration curves for the several pollutants studied it is possible to identify the critical areas with relationship to air quality alteration, being good as base for planning field measures with the air quality monitoring mobile station
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Orientador: Wilson de Figueiredo Jardim
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Quimica
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Orientador: Edson Tomaz
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Resumo: A região de Campinas - SP na qual está o município de Paulínia é geradora de 9% do Produto Interno Bruto Nacional (PIB), e é a terceira maior região industrial do País. Nesta região, Paulínia é o município com o maior número de indústrias químicas e petroquímicas e onde está instalada a maior refinaria de petróleo do País e por isto possui as distribuidoras de combustíveis e gás liqüefeito de petróleo. O município é uma das regiões industrializadas, cujo cenário ambiental apresenta um quadro evolutivo preocupante no que diz respeito ao esgotamento dos recursos naturais. Seu potencial de crescimento em função da capacidade industrial instalada, de sua localização e proximidade dos transportes rodoviários e ferroviários é muito grande. O presente trabalho tem objetivo estudar as possíveis alterações na qualidade do ar provenientes das emissões de poluentes atmosféricos em Paulínia em diversos cenários, bem como auxiliar na continuidade de um outro trabalho desenvolvido na Unicamp pelo Laboratório de Poluição do Ar, que é a monitorização da qualidade do ar na região com a utilização de um laboratório móvel. Estes cenários poderão ocorrer devido a disponibilidade do gás natural na região, desde 2.000, através do gasoduto Bolivia-Brasil, que poderá substituir o óleo combustível em muitas indústrias. Com o início do consumo do gás natural a estimativa das emissões para o Nox são de 15,45t/dia e para o S02 de 85,47t/dia. Esta estimativa da qualidade do ar está baseada num inventario de emissões das principais industrias da região, dados de projetos, um banco meteorológico e um modelo matemático, utilizado por vários órgãos ambientais do Brasil e de outros países. O modelo permite a simulação para diversas fontes de emissão de poluentes atmosféricos. Os resultados obtidos são curvas de isoconcentração dos poluentes na área de estudo. Sua análise permite a identificação das regiões mais críticas quanto aos efeitos da dispersão dos poluentes, a adequada localização de novas fontes de emissões e também o fornecimento de subsídios para decisões visando o crescimento industrial baseado na preservação da qualidade ambiental
Abstract: The region of Campinas - SP in which is the city of Paulínia is responsible by 9% of the National Gross Domestic Product (NGDP) and is the third bigger industrial region of the country. 1n this region, Paulínia is the city with the biggest number of chemical and petrochemical industries and where it is installed the biggest refinery of the country and for this also possesses fuel and liquefied gas deliverers. The city is one of the industrialized regions, whose environmental scenario presents a worrying evolution condition in aspect the exhaustion of the natural resources. 1ts potential of growth in function of the installed industrial capacity, of its location and highways and railroad so is expressive. The present work has as objective to study the possible alterations in air quality due to the emissions of atmospheric pollutants in Paulínia in the different scenarios, as well as assisting in the continuity of one another work developed in the Unicamp for the Laboratory of Pollution of the Air that is the air quality monitoring in the region of with the use of a mobile laboratory. These scenarios had become possible due to the availability of the natural gas in region, since 2.000, through the Bolivia-Brazil gas-line that will go to change the fuel oil in many industries. The beginning of the natural gas consumption gives an emissions estimation for NOx is of 15,45t/day and for SO2 of 85,47t/day. Air quality estimation is based on emission inventories of the main industries in the region, design data, meteorological data and a mathematical model, used for several environmental agencies of Brazil and other countries The results gotten are isoconcentration curves of pollutants for studied area The model allows the simulation for diverse emission sources of atmospheric pollutants. Its analysis allows the identification of the most critical regions and the effect of the pollutants dispersion, the adjusted location of new emissions sources and also supply subsidies in order to get an based decisions on industrial growth in the preservation of environmental quality
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The research conducted was done on the basis of providing an initial platform or starting point for insight and discussion into what a strategic transcultural model of leadership might look like which was relevant to the early 21st Century Christian context in the cities of Southern Africa. A strategic transcultural leader is essentially a transformational leader who exhibits an ability beyond the norm in being able to cross socio-political barriers and thus inspiring the multicultural dynamic, while also honouring the individual cultures represented. In order to study strategic transcultural leadership models a strong leadership angle was taken, which employed investigating six leaders, three political and three Christian as to the structures, styles, values, transcultural abilities and Christian/political beliefs and/or philosophies they employed. The thesis poses the problem of urban unrest in the cities of Southern Africa. The problem of an influx into the cities, of the many different ethnicities and tribes from throughout Southern Africa and the pressures this has caused is briefly alluded to. This problem has been further exacerbated in South Africa by the arrival of many peoples from throughout Africa, south of the Sahara seeking their fortune without having to leave the African Subcontinent, and in Zimbabwe by the political policies of the Zimbabwean government, over land and in clearing away her unapproved urban high-density housing, and her informal business and white farming sectors of the economy. With these issues in mind, there is a need for strategic transcultural leadership to address these and other issues of unrest. The examples of Mandela and De Klerk as transformational leaders, inspire hope, that the vacuum of strategic transcultural leadership seen in Africa at large and specifically in relation to Southern Africa can be met, as is noted by the progress made in recent years in the arena of transformational leadership which the Group of eight and the United Nations and others allude to. While this is true, there are still problems in relation to the political decision-making within South African, as seen by Mbeki’s stance in the past on HIV-AIDS, and Zimbabwe’s woes. The stage is set from a missiological and historical perspective by looking at multicultural models of leadership in the Early Church with specific reference to Paul and the Antiochan model he used as a prototype. The Jerusalem Church is mentioned as a bi-cultural model, which has significant use outside of large urban environs. However it was the Pauline-Antiochan model that provided a platform, in the later use of a synthetic-semiotic model, to deduce or synthesis a transcultural model. Paul’s model of leadership was analysed specifically in relation to the five elements already noted (structures, styles, etc.) and is particularly useful as a model as Paul himself provides firstly an insight into a man of bi-cultural heritage yet someone who was empire-conscious. Paul was able to uphold both the cultural distinctive or uniqueness of both the Greek and Jew (noting Paul’s use of both Hebraic and Hellenistic styles of the diatribe for example) as well as the universal, in that he was empire-conscious which played into his Kingdom perspective. Secondly he provides a reasonable grounds for understanding that if the belief system of the individual is changed on one of its most fundamental levels – allegiance – then given time the macro-cultural identity of a nation, even empire can be significantly altered. He was able to do this primarily because the Graeco-Roman Empire had a common linguafranca in Greek, and the Christian community – as the followers of the Way became known as – had an ethos of reconciliation, enhancing the multicultural and one also of inclusivity (for example a worship style that encompasses both Jewish and local expressions) enhancing the particular. In declaring the One God of Israel and Jesus Christ – Messiah, as the only true Kyrios, Paul replaced the Emperor and the whole Greek pantheon of the Gods with the one true God and Father of us all, and his one and only Son.< /p> The three political leaders – Moshoeshoe, Smuts and Mandela – and the three Christian leaders – Mutendi, Cassidy and Tutu – are investigated in terms of the five elements (structures, styles, values etc.) that comprise the model of leadership. Each of these leaders in turn made a lasting contribution to national and/or tribal change. After looking at the six leadership models an initial conceptual framework for a multicultural model of leadership is outlined. However, in order to bring significant current postmodern/neo-African/tribal/multicultural paradigms of thought and the associated socio-political forces and philosophies of the day, to bear on the evolving model, these were specifically highlighted and brought into the process of synthesizing a model. Lastly once all these inputs are brought together in a tabulated framework, and the evolving multicultural model is screened against three known working scenarios, and further synthesized such that the refined model was then called a strategic transcultural model of leadership. Before this can be achieved however, various North American multicultural models posited were looked at in a literary review, which served to reinforce the understanding of the need to balance the universal and the particular aspects of culture. In refining a strategic transcultural model, the thesis next attempted to address the problem of developing a national macro-cultural identity. A strict delineation in a postmodern era between Church and State was considered to be not only unnecessary but a modern myth, also noting that the State mirrors the Church in many of the problems of community and identity. Thus the meso-level of the Church provided key insights into the macro-level of the State. An argument all along was posed for not just orchestrating a macro-culture based on multiculturalism, nor in just upholding the micro-cultural individual identities at the expense of participation in a national framework and beyond this the global village, but an argument was made for a both/and scenario. In doing this the thesis sought to address both the macro-cultural and individual cultural identities at every level and in every element of the model of leadership. The plausibility of the argument for today was based on the prevalence of a language of choice – in most cases English – and an ethos of reconciliation and inclusivity for which Madiba and Tutu among others have set the standard. A final picture of a community based on both was posited for reflection, a picture that John paints where the great heavenly host (mirroring the macro-level of the Kingdom) is contrasted with the micro-level of a people made up “from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Rev 5:9).
Thesis (PhD (Science of Religion and Missiology))--University of Pretoria, 2007.
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L’Église est encore désignée « corps du Christ », surtout dans les épîtres pauliniennes. Elle est pour ainsi dire analogue à un organisme vivant. Par conséquent, sa croissance devrait résulter naturellement de sa santé. Mais l’Église en Occident est confrontée à une stagnation numérique et même à une érosion démographique. Ce qui est fondamentalement en cause, c’est la vitalité ecclésiale et la capacité non seulement de garder les fidèles, mais aussi d’attirer de nouveaux membres. La question du ministère ecclésial, fort populaire en exégèse et en histoire du christianisme dans les décennies 1970 et 1980, est délaissée depuis 20 ans. Elle mérite d’être reprise pour des raisons qui ne sont pas uniquement conjoncturelles, mais bien d’ordre théologique et ecclésiologique. De nos jours, la pluralité ministérielle largement présente dans l’Église primitive est réduite à un monolithisme pastoral. La présente thèse entend remettre à l’avant-plan la question du ministère ecclésial par un angle nouveau inspiré à la fois de l’approche herméneutique et de la méthode d’analyse rhétorique. Dans le but d’offrir des pistes pour l’identification et la mise en valeur des mécanismes de la croissance intégrale de l’Église, nous avons repéré, à la lumière d’une analyse rhétorique de deux textes majeurs du corpus paulinien (1 Co 12–14 et Ép 4,1-16), les besoins fonctionnels vitaux du corps ecclésial et les principes fondamentaux qui s’incarnent dans l’édification des églises du Nouveau Testament et que les apôtres ont cautionnés eux-mêmes. Il ressort globalement de notre étude que : (1) l’Église est dotée d’une structure organique et que sa croissance résulte de la mise en œuvre efficace et efficiente des divers dons spirituels ; (2) l’Église est dotée d’un mécanisme d’édification fonctionnel par lequel les ministres de la Parole forment tous les croyants pour les mettre en état d’accomplir le ministère ecclésial et de contribuer à l’édification de l’ensemble de la communauté ecclésiale ; (3) l’édification ecclésiale se fait en professant continûment la vérité évangélique, en s’efforçant dans l’amour de garder l’unité et en faisant toutes choses pour l’édification de la communauté et pour la seule gloire du Christ Seigneur ; (4) l’édification ecclésiale passe par quatre objectifs de croissance : l’unité de la foi, l’unité de la connaissance du Fils de Dieu, l’état d’homme accompli, la mesure de la stature parfaite du Christ. Nous avons construit, à partir des intuitions repérées, un modèle paulinien de l’édification ecclésiale.
The Church is also referred to as “body of Christ”, especially in Pauline epistles. It is almost analogous to a living organism. Therefore, its growth should naturally result from its health. But the Church in the West is facing a numerical stagnation and even a demographic decrease. What is fundamentally at issue is the ecclesial vitality and the ability to keep followers, but also to attract new members. The question of ecclesial ministry, which was very popular in the domains of exegesis and history of the Christianity in the 1970s and 1980s, was abandoned for 20 years. This question deserves to be retaken for reasons that are not only cyclical, but theological and ecclesiological. Nowadays the widely present ministerial plurality in the early Church is reduced to a pastoral monolithic. This thesis intends to put the question of ecclesial ministry foreground with a new perspective inspired from the hermeneutic approach and the method of rhetorical analysis. In order to provide avenues for the identification and development of mechanisms for the integral growth of the Church, we spotted in the light of a rhetorical analysis of two major texts of the Pauline corpus (1 Cor 12-14 and Ep 4:1-16), the vital functional needs of the ecclesial body and the fundamental principles that are embodied in the edification of the New Testament churches and that the apostles endorsed themselves. The general conclusions from this study are: (1) the Church has an organic structure and its growth is due to the effective and efficient implementation of various spiritual gifts; (2) the Church has a functional edification mechanism by which the ministers of the Word equippe all believers to make them able to accomplish ecclesial ministry and to edify the entire ecclesial community; (3) the edification of the Church is doing by continuously professing the evangelical truth in love, endeavoring to keep the unity and doing all things for the edification of the community and for the sole glory of Christ the Lord; (4) the edification of the Church goes through four growth targets: the unity of the faith, the unity of the knowledge of the Son of God, the accomplished statesman, the measure of the fullness of Christ. We build, from the intuitions spotted, a Pauline model for Church edification.

This chapter argues that some postmodern philosophers of forgiveness—especially John Milbank, Jacques Derrida, and Vladimir Jankélévitch—develop a restrictive model of what forgiveness is and argue that it is therefore “impossible” because they implicitly draw on a Pauline conception of forgiveness. In the Pauline model, the forgiveness humans extend to each other is modeled on the kind of forgiveness that a divine being can give to a fallen humanity. Milbank, Derrida, and Jankélévitch suggest that it is what forgiveness is, that it is the only practice that can be called forgiveness, and any less “pure” form of forgiveness just isn’t forgiveness. This chapter demonstrates the problem with such mystical and sceptical conceptions of the moral practice of interpersonal forgiveness.

The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology argues that the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were so influential during the early modern period in England as to share with Pauline theology pride of place as leading apostolic texts on matters Christological, sacramental, pneumatological, and political. The book argues further that, in several instances, Johannine theology is more central than both Pauline theology and the Synoptic theology of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, particularly with regard to early modern polemicizing on the Trinity, distinctions between agape and eros, and the ideologies of radical dissent, especially the seventeenth-century antinomian challenge of free grace to traditional Puritan Pietism. In particular, early modern religious poetry, including works by Robert Southwell, George Herbert, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Traherne, and Anna Trapnel, embraces a distinctive form of Johannine devotion that emphasizes the divine rather than human nature of Christ; the belief that salvation is achieved more through revelation than objective atonement and expiatory sin; a realized eschatology; a robust doctrine of assurance and comfort; and a stylistic and rhetorical approach to representing these theological features that often emulates John’s mode of discipleship misunderstanding and dramatic irony. Early modern Johannine devotion assumes that religious lyrics often express a revelatory poetics that aims to clarify, typically through dramatic irony, some of the deepest mysteries of the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle.

The introductory chapter argues that, during the early modern period in England, the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were as influential as Pauline theology and, in many respects, more influential than the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. The chapter outlines several features of a distinctive, post-Reformed, English Johannine devotionalism: a high Christology that emphasizes the divine rather than human nature of Christ; the belief that salvation is achieved more through revelation than objective atonement and expiatory sin; a realized eschatology according to which eternal life has been achieved and the end-time has already partially arrived; a robust doctrine of assurance and comfort, usually tied to Johannine eschatology and pneumatology; and a stylistic and rhetorical approach to representing these theological features that often emulates John’s mode of discipleship misunderstanding and irony not found to a comparable degree in the Synoptic writings.

Legislation is lagging behind technical and social developments in the labour market, which is posing new problems in both labour law and social security law. To work full time for only one employer is no longer the norm. However, social security schemes and worker protection regulations are often designed for this model. Furthermore, the change in the world of work towards digitalisation, flexibility and a number of employers or contract providers being on platforms such as Uber, Mechanical Turk etc. means that the existing legal foundations no longer do justice to all employment relationships. The new forms of employment are a challenge for both scholars and practitioners of law. The contributions in this volume, complied from the proceedings at the 8th Research Assistants’ Conference on the Labour and Social Security Laws, which took place in Zurich from 26th to 28th July 2018, are dedicated to these topics. With contributions by Thomas Dullinger, Antje G. I. Tölle, Mathis Böttcher, Michael E. Meier, Christian Haidn, Pauline Kuhn, Katja Chandna-Hoppe, Daniela Krömer, Jan Armin Gärtner, Daniel Holler.

Satire has recently re-emerged as a potent political tool, but it has played many different roles in the past. French reformers waged massive satire campaigns in the sixteenth century to little or no political effect and, even, to their own disadvantage. Satiric forms nevertheless flourished because they fulfilled a devotional purpose. By portraying themselves as lonely travelers passing through the strange and exotic lands of Catholic custom, French reformers found a way to flesh out imaginatively the Pauline injunction to live in the world but not as part of it. The spiritual alienation cultivated in satiric literature allowed reformers to fashion themselves, after Calvin’s recommendation, as pilgrims in this world and confessional foreigners in their home country. At the same time, these satires’ self-presentation and their modes of address implied a reformed audience constituted by those who “got the joke.” The new communion entailed in laughing at Catholic excesses, modeled upon the reformed theological concept of “communication,” imagined a pan-European community held together by a non-local sense of belonging. Thus, French reformers embraced a diasporic identity well in advance of their actual emigration to the New World. But, more surprising still, the attitude of looking at one’s own culture through the eyes of an estranged traveler spread beyond reformed milieus to become a staple of French culture more generally. Through Montaigne, the ploy of acting the outsider in one’s homeland would become one of the signature devices of the Enlightenment’s challenge to the world of the Old Regime.

Employing Linda Hutcheon’s analogy between biological and cultural adaptation, this chapter analyzes how the survivors of the Roman-Gothic war in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus adapt figures and narratives of the survivor—or remnant—from Virgil, Ovid, and St. Paul as strategic models in the covert, post-war feud of the play’s action. Titus assumes Virgil’s model of the remnant as non-regenerative and stoic; Tamora, on the other hand, employs Ovid’s regenerative and vengeful model, and eventually converts Titus to it. Their violent conflict and absorption in their revenge plots form the conditions for the emergence of a different kind of remnant: the remaining Romans and Goths who, according to a Pauline model, form a new incorporated community. The formation of this community arguably speaks to the context of the Protestant Reformation in Shakespeare’s England, in which violent excisions were made in the name of a latter-day Pauline community.

Chapter 1 establishes the two primary theoretical approaches of the book. First, the chapter argues for polythetic classification as a more nuanced and accurate approach to understanding Paul’s divination and wonderworking. This approach moves us away from the notion of Chrsitian uniqueness and toward a historically plausible context for divination and divine power. Second, the chapter argues for thinking in terms of modes of religiosity to better understand Paul as a religious figure. I argue that Paul moves in and out of various modes of religiosity that include practical, mundane understandings of the gods, as well as the theoretical, conceptual, and counterintuitive. He participates in dual modes of religiosity simultaneously, and the seamless overlap broadens his ability to reach his audience. Academic theologians themselves operate usually in the secondary mode of religiosity, which further explains why practices of divination and wonderworking have been disparaged, rejected, or ignored. Addressing the issues of taxonomy and modes of religiosity is critical to the entire project.

This chapter focuses on Pauline E. Hopkins's “Of One Blood” in the context of the African American periodical in which it was serialized, the Colored American Magazine. Published only a few years after the surprising Italian defeat at Adwa, “Of One Blood” contributed to the magazine's project of “documentary Ethiopianism” as expressed in histories and biographies but it also preserved the fantastic conception of Ethiopia that helped create Ethiopianism. “Of One Blood” is exemplary as a fictional text that introduces the mysticism that the historical and ethnographic texts of the Colored American Magazine avoid while still participating in documentary Ethiopianism by sending its characters to Ethiopia. The chapter also discusses how “Of One Blood” activates Regalization Fantasy, which is intrinsic to imperial Ethiopianist ideology. As a result of the fantasy's paradoxical inclusivity and exclusivity, the imperial model of Ethiopianism seen in “Of One Blood” contains the irritant that leads to its own dismantling by mid-century.

The introduction brings together the various intellectual formations which structure the book and which constellate within the anchoritic and para-anchoritic writings explored throughout each chapter. It discusses alongside Paul’s images of the body of Christ and the spiritual charismata (1 Cor. 12) the emphases within late medieval orthodox culture on the authority of reformed and (sexually) purified church elites. Those priorities enlisted the apostolic conception of Christ’s body and marginalized alternative conceptions of spiritual grace, particularly those implied within the Pauline model of the charisms. The cultural and textual negotiations that this rivalry elicited anchor the book’s central contentions regarding the angelic image and the spiritual gifts, which powerfully structured late medieval religious life. These images also operated within anchoritic texts as an immensely flexible shorthand for the intersecting but also rival ideals of corporate and hierarchical authority, on the one hand, and personal inspiration and charisma, on the other.

This chapter examines gender and class in Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother. In Volume II of Memoirs, Wengeroff asserts a stark, globalized claim of gender disparity about tradition and its loss among modernizing Russian Jews. The chapter then reflects on her life and experience in St. Petersburg. The organized Jewish community that formed in the capital in the 1860s was that of the moneyed elite; the city was the home of the elite that championed selective integration. In St. Petersburg, the Jewish leadership class was literally under the government's gaze, acutely aware of its self-appointed role as the official model for Russian Jewry and as representative of the community's interests before the authorities. The chapter also describes the struggle between Wengeroff and her husband, Chonon, over Jewish observance. It explores the notions of love and marriage in traditional Jewish culture. Whatever the divergence between Wengeroff's depictions and evidence from German Jewry, she echoes one crucial aspect of middle-class German Jewish experience: the domestication of women.

This chapter argues that whereas in modern thought secularism appears the only route to challenging lifelong monogamous marriage, the early modern writers John Milton, Philip Sidney, and Mary Wroth base their endorsement of divorce and adultery on the Pauline distinction between duty and love, letter and spirit. Milton’s divorce pamphlets and Sidney’s and Wroth’s sonnet sequences presume that any given commitment may turn out to be a mistake, so intimacy is inevitably provisional. In their emphasis on interiority, these writers participate in a cultural project of privatizing love, which scholars have rightly seen as an ideological foundation of heteronormativity, capitalism, and neoliberalism. Yet by taking this privatization to its logical extreme, they provide grounds for removing intimacy from institutional regulation and reward altogether. These writings are useful to modern queer thought not just as positive models, but also because they alert us to the exclusions upon which freedom may be premised. Sidney, Wroth, and Milton are part of the longer history that precedes and conditions present queer associations of secularism with Western reason and modernity, religion with superstitious and oppressive non-Western cultures. The ideal of sexual liberation, no less than those of monogamy and marriage, has its own racialized genealogy.

This chapter explores the development of an occlusionistic model of Jewish Christianity, and its relationship to the rise of critical New Testament scholarship, in the works of English Deist Thomas Morgan and German theologian Ferdinand Christian Baur. Morgan and Baur did not abandon John Toland's humanistic retelling of Christian myth so much as simply reconfigure the role of Jewish Christianity within it. The apostles no longer stood alongside Jesus as examples of an authoritative incarnation of transcendent Christianity in Jewish cultural forms. Now they represented the first occlusion of transcendent Christianity by those Jewish forms. The normative authority traditionally ascribed to the apostles and their purported writings, accordingly, was effectively reduced to the singular apostle Paul and his letters. The commingling of the latter with the former in the New Testament was explained in terms of a pervasive and multifaceted miscoloration of transcendent Christianity by its first, Jewish receptacle during the apostolic and postapostolic eras. Thus, Morgan and, more consequentially, Baur both called for a systematic and thoroughly critical study of the New Testament itself, precisely to distill from all its Jewish trappings the true, transcendent Christianity they assumed it concealed.