Illumine, Vol. 05, No. 1 (2006)
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Item The Popes and the Cold War: Examining encyclical evidence and the evolution of their Ostpolitik, 1945–1990(Illumine, 2006) Dennis, Robert H.This discussion identifies the changing nature of the Vatican’s ostpolitik—its attempt to assuage tension between the Roman Catholic Church and the governments of the USSR and its satellites in Eastern Europe—by sampling how these approaches were articulated within the discourse of particular encyclicals promulgated during pontificates from the onset of the Cold War through to its conclusion. It is divided into four short sections, one allotted to each pope, starting mid-way through the pontificate of Pope Pius XII (1939–1958) in 1945, and ending in the midst of Pope John Paul II’s (1978–2005) in 1990. Encyclical evidence provides an effective and accessible primary-source window into understanding the contemporary Vatican’s intellectual history vis-à-vis its position on the Cold War.Item Beer bottles and saints: A postcolonial reading of Jim Logan’s let us compare miracles from his classical Boriginal series(Illumine, 2006) Campbell, Alison N.T.Colonization, modernism, and postmodernism have challenged the way First Nations people are looked at, and how their art is perceived. As a result, First Nations artists and theorists are challenging the “otherness” that has been assigned to them through these discourses and are striving to find a place for their art practice in the art canon. In this climate, Jim Logan, a Métis born Canadian artist, challenges tradition through his incorporation of Native imagery into significant Christian works that are part of the Western art canon. In Logan’s work an apparent dualism exists: the works reflect Native art production, writing, and discourse, and yet also strive to locate themselves within the European art tradition. To understand this dualism, a post-colonial analysis will be applied to the art conventions incorporated into Logan’s work Let Us Compare Miracles, painted in 1992 as part of his Classical Aboriginal Series.Item A Spider Woman story(Illumine, 2006) Young, Janice E.Spider Woman, the Cosmic Weaver, as healing symbol and image of empowerment, found a prominent place in the linguistic landscape of second-wave feminist discourse. Although not synonymous with feminism, feminist spirituality emerged as a strong current within the movement, a current which continues today. In Gyn/Ecology, a highly influential text of this era, Mary Daly shows the link between language, myth, and oppression and sets women to the task of recognizing ways in which our words and stories betray us. Further, she sets us to design words and stories through the power of Spider Woman imagery and textile metaphors. Using Daly’s work as a springboard, the following essay traces the emerging role of Spider Woman in developing a “gynocentric language” and a new linguistic landscape, evidenced in women’s writing as it continues into the new millennium.Item Introduction(Illumine, 2006) Korpan, CynthiaItem Illumine: Vol. 5 No. 1 (2006)(Illumine, 2006)This is the full issue of Illumine, Vol. 5, No.1 (2006).Item What the age demanded: Power and resistance in premodern and postmodern texts(Illumine, 2006) Salomons, CarolynLinkages exist between premodern and postmodern texts in such areas as the construction and maintenance of power, as well as in the varieties of resistant experience. Power is something that we all participate in—primarily through what we know, wherein knowledge equals praxis. If knowledge is something we do, then our choices about what we know can be places of resistance. Premodern examples of such resistance can be found in St. Augustine, the desert fathers, the mystics and the “little saints” of Aquitaine. Are these examples so different from postmodernists? Anarchy is not advocated, but an awareness of the constructs of power that we encounter not just in the academy but also in every day life. We live in an age that demands “a mould in plaster,” where reality equals reality TV. Yet pockets of resistance “punctually come forever and ever.”Item Conflict in the classroom: Religion and Republicanism in Algeria and Alsace, 1918–1940(Illumine, 2006) Magrath, BronwenBetween World War One and World War Two, successive French governments sought to strengthen the Republic by fostering a sense of patriotism among youths in colony and metropole. Classrooms became battlegrounds where linguistic and religious identities were constructed, resisted and reformed. Comparative case studies of Alsace and Algeria reveal the continuities and contrasts of French policy within France and across the empire. Education policy as created by the Republican government was not uniform throughout the interwar period, but was constantly reformed to meet needs on the ground. By focussing on the way cultural identities were created and recreated, this article seeks to demonstrate how individuals and groups on all sides of the colonizing relationship interacted in education.Item Notes on contributors(Illumine, 2006) Bouma, Beverly; Campbell, Alison N.T.; Dennis, Robert H.; Korpan, Carolyn; Magrath, Bronwen; Salomons, Carolyn; Young, Janice E.Item The role of animals in the Tale of the Nativity: A textual and visual analysis(Illumine, 2006) Korpan, CynthiaThis article applies textual and visual analysis to a play about the birth of Christ, called The Tale of the Nativity. It was written in the 1930s by a group of Okanagan children at a day school on a reserve in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. I specifically look at how the children incorporated cultural elements associated with animals into their version of the birth of Christ.Item Jesus was a feminist: An institutional ethnography of feminist Christian women(Illumine, 2006) Bouma, BeverlyInstitutional ethnography is used to examine the everyday, lived experiences of feminist Christian women in relation to Biblical text. Through interviews, I explore how feminist Christian women respond to, organize, and are organized by textually mediated social relations. While feminist and Christian institutional discourses appear on the surface to be competing belief systems, the women I interviewed had a variety of responses to this apparent dissonance. Related to local and trans-local settings, their responses include compartmentalization, information management, selective religiosity, and integration of beliefs.