Friday, October 30, 2015

Augustine had it right!

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As a young student, I shook my head when reading how St. Augustine would interject prayers into his exegetical writings. Is this not bad sch...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Why is Job praised by God?

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Thus I come to the conclusion, based on an analysis of the Masoretic Text and supported by the ancient versions, that God does not praise a ...
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The same but different

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Theories that have defined ritual activity as first and foremost the reenactment of historical or mythical precedents, such as those formula...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

End of another season

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Well, we closed the cabins for the season (our third with Max & Sherri, fourth overall) on Monday. The last guests left Monday morning a...

Problem? Simple, redefine it and conjure it away...

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What does ritualization see? It is a way of acting that sees itself as responding to a place, event, force, problem, or tradition. It tends...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

But what are you doing?

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Ritual practices are produced with an intent to order, rectify, or transform a particular situation. Ritualized agents would see these purpo...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Why all those verb forms in Greek?

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From a book I'm editing: Why are there seven verb-forms in the indicative mood and only three in the nonindicative moods? The answer i...

An explosion

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Last Saturday put an end to the garden for the year, except for the kale, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, and kohlrabi. They're a bit more c...

Endless iterations

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People do not take a social problem to ritual for a solution. People generate a ritualized environment that acts to shift the very status an...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Esoteric knowledge

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In sum, ritualization not only involves the setting up of oppositions, but through the privileging built into such an exercise it generates ...

Now those are real books!

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One of the Eisenbrauns employees (Michael) forwarded this to me. This is real bookmaking. Wouldn't it be fun to work there?
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Subconsciously effective

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The strategies of ritualization are particularly rooted in the body, specifically, the interaction of the social body within a symbolically ...
Monday, October 19, 2015

But it's informal...

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If ritual is interpreted in terms of practice, it becomes clear that formality, fixity, and repetition are not intrinsic qualities of ritual...
Friday, October 16, 2015

It works!

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Viewed as practice, ritualization involves the very drawing, in and through the activity itself, of a privileged distinction between ways of...

Frost!

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No, freeze! It didn't just frost last night, if froze. There was ice on the puddles this morning as I went for my bike ride. It got down...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Abuse

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Ran across this (HT: Irene Hahn on FB). Here's a good excerpt: Abuse does not arise in a vacuum. A healthy mind does not (need to) ab...

Slug motels!

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Still no frost! But tonight is forecast to be a serious, hard frost at 29ºF. I'll probably get a last picking of beans today and that wi...

Sleight of hand

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We can say that practice sees what it intends to accomplish, but it does not see the strategies it uses to produce what it actually does acc...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Hike in the woods

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Well, we went for a hike yesterday to Oberg Mountain . It's about a half hour from us along the lake shore. It was a beautiful drive, th...

A climate of thought

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Gramsci proposed that hegemonic ordering of power requires people both to envision and to suppress, to self-censor and to appropriate libert...