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- Kubai, Anne, 1959-
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Peacebuilding in Fragile, War-Torn Societies in Africa
- 2023
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Ingår i: The Routledge International Handbook of Sociology and Christianity. - : Taylor & Francis. - 9781003277743 ; , s. 326-338
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter covers peacebuilding in three countries in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes regions of Africa - South Sudan, Burundi, and Central Africa Republic (CAR) - characterized by fragility and protracted intra-state conflicts. The first section presents a preamble to peacebuilding in these African countries, while the second section illustrates how the warring parties have been wrestling with peace (dis)agreements in each country. The last section revisits William Zartman’s “ripeness” concept to reflect on when, or at what point, parties in protracted intra-state conflicts might be more amenable to opening peace negotiations. The active role of churches and religious organizations in peacebuilding is also highlighted. The chapter emphasizes that, though each conflict is different in important respects, the distinctive characteristics of each case are crucial determinants of the propitious moments for initiating peacebuilding. It suggests that agreements signed by the various groups failed to bring about peace because commitment to ending hostilities is contingent upon a shared vision of the benefits of a peaceful resolution, in which power is the prize to be won. And because there cannot be more than one winner in a war, taking an opportunity when a ripe moment appears is often not an attractive option.
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- Kuhlin, Joel
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A Beautiful Failure : The Event of Death and Rhetorical Disorder in the Gospel according to Mark
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Is there beauty in rhetorical failure? This study is an exploration of disorder and death in the Gospel according to Mark (Mk). With a surviving fragment from the second-century theologian Papias of Hierapolis, the early reception of Mk locates insights into the composition of Jesus’s death, especially through the concepts of ataxia and rhetorical failure. Papias launches an early and influential defense of its unsystematic presentation (Hist. eccl. 3.39.1–17), understood to be a kind of failure (hamartêma). By exploring this Papian doxa and heuristically accepting “disorderly failure” as a characteristic of Mk in general and 15:6–39 in particular, the present study seeks to determine a sense of Jesus’s death, directly linking an articulation of the shameful event of Jesus’s execution on a suspension-pole to the methodological and theoretical appreciation of disorder in a rhetorical composition.The study first investigates the structural (in)coherency in Mk. Going as far back as the school of Formgeschichte in the 1920s, a widespread scholarly opinion finds the content of the passion narrative (Mk 14:1–16:8) to resist its otherwise largely incoherent narrative structure. Thus, I ask: What does a progymnastic analysis reveal about the episodic order, style, and thought of Jesus’s death in Mk 15:6–39? With a methodological perspective informed by Aelius Theon’s Progymnasmata (first century CE) and the concepts of order (τάξις: taxis), style (λέξις: lexis), and thought (διανοία: dianoia), the passion narrative unfolds with a series of basic narrational episodes of “short stories” (διηγήματα: diêgêmata) and “anecdotes” (χρεῖαι: chreiai). In relation to these episodes’ inner organization and the organization of the narrational elements of person (πρόσωπον: prosôpon) and happening (πρᾶγμα; πρᾶξις: pragma; praxis), Jesus’s death scene is a particularly troubled section. Yet its rhetorical idiosyncrasies are not limited to a presentation of “persons-in-action.” The passage is filled with aspects of humiliation, obscurity, secrecy, and a paradoxical rendition of the protagonist’s final hours, while also investing its story with apocalyptic imagery and a declaration of Jesus as “a son of God,” post-mortem. The Papian doxa therefore adequately summarize the acme of this ancient narrative.With the Papian belief in truth subsisting in ataxia, failure does not need to be an end of sense and beauty. I therefore also ask: what sense and rhetorical meaning of Jesus’s death result from a progymnastic-like composition of disorder in Mk 15:6–39? In light of Walter Benjamin’s interpretation of Franz Kafka, the exploration of Joseph K.’s execution in The Trial (Der Prozeß) underlines similarities to the symbolically loaded, yet obscure, death-event in Mk 15:6–39. An analysis of K.’s demise points toward an effectual rhetoric, dedicated to expressing a de-humanizing process of dying and its final actualization through a metamorphosis into an animal-like state. The prose of K.’s end rearticulates central features found in Jesus’s death, not least a “becoming-animal” of social death. Further, while Theon’s Progymnasmata and the rhetoric of the Greco-Roman antiquity helped identify disorder and failure in Mk, the same perspective nonetheless struggles with the task of attributing the ataxia in Mk 15:6–39 with meaning. Turning to the contemporary French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the concept of the “event” in his Logic of Sense in particular, disorderly failure is allowed to speak on its own terms. Building especially upon the results from the methodological and progymnastic analysis, Logic of Sense and the concept of event underline signs of novelty of thought and literary innovation in the ancient rhetoric of Jesus’s death. Logic of Sense assists in an evaluation of the failure of disorder in Mk 15:6–39, drawing attention to its ability to express the sense of an event. As event, I argue, the ataxia of Jesus’s death finds theoretical resources for constructing a “rhetoric of failure,” and thereby affirms the literary potential of the Papian doxa and adamant belief in the truth and perhaps even a divine beauty of failure. Lastly, imagining the sense and “sensation” of Jesus’s death, Deleuze’s exegesis of painter Francis Bacon and the motif of “crucifixion” in his art becomes crucial. Extending the line of argument found in Logic of Sense, Bacon’s vision of suspended and decaying bodies, the grotesque and creative event at play in Mk 15:6–39 gains even more determination.
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- Kuhlin, Julia
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Hindu-Christian Relations in the Everyday Life of North Indian Pentecostals
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies. - 2164-6279. ; 28
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OVER the last few decades, Hindu-Christian relations in India appear to have taken a new worrying turn. Since 1998 violent attacks against Christians in India have increased significantly, and there are no signs of decline. Pentecostal and Pentecostal-like groups have been afflicted to a greater extent by this recent development and are disproportionately targeted in attacks in comparison to other Christians.1 Considering the explosion of academic studies on Pentecostalism worldwide, it is striking that so little attention has been paid to the contemporary situation of Indian Pentecostals. In particular, there is a notable lack of studies dealing with Indian Pentecostals’ everyday life from a non-church perspective. The aim of this case study—consisting of in-depth interviews with students at the Pentecostal college Doon Bible College2 in Dehradun (Uttarakhand)—is to explore from a micro perspective how North Indian Pentecostals perceive and experience the relationship with the Hindu surroundings in their everyday life. The study proceeds from a Social Identity Theory (SIT) framework, accordingly paying particular attention to the construction and perception of group relations.
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- Kuhlin, Joel, et al.
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Ledare
- 2020
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Ingår i: Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift. - 0039-6761. ; 96:4, s. 293-296
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Kuhlin, Joel
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Neither God nor Ghost : Rhetorical Spectrality in the Gospel according to Mark
- 2020
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Ingår i: Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift. - 0039-6761. ; 96:4, s. 353-373
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, the Gospel According to Mark is investigated in search for its ghosts and phantoms. In particular, Mk. 6 and the scene of Jesus walking on water, as well as the story about the empty tomb of Jesus in Mk. 16, are considered as haunted sites. However, rather than finding straight forward ghost stories, following Greco-Roman standards of late antiquity, we are confronted by a different sort of spectrality. In this study the activity of ancient scribes are explicitly thought of as ghostwriters, and connected to their intense hovering around Jesus' tomb, which I see as the production of numerous alternatives to the most original Markan ending (codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus and Mk. 16:1–8.) The ghostwriters' unwillingness of letting Jesus remain among the dead is then theorized from Apuleius' De Deo Socratis and the ancient ghost category "the Larva". Jesus can be treated as a "larval Christ", haunting early Christian writers, which thereby opens up a kind of spectral theology in the Gospel According to Mark. The aforementioned obsession of the ghostwriters with Jesus' death highlights how the nomadic tendency of the Markan Jesus can be seen as having a theological valency, and that Jesus' death is as paradoxical and enigmatic as his life. In the end, Jesus' ghostly activity in the Gospel According to Mark is found in the unwillingness of the larval Christ to be fully present and available for the Markan audience to fixate on as a static identity or clear theological position.
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- Kuhlin, Joel
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Suspending, believing, and truth telling : Reading Giorgio Agamben's pilate and Jesus with Bultmann and Foucault
- 2017
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Ingår i: Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift. - 0039-6761. ; 93:3-4, s. 173-189
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, Giorgio Agamben's essay Pilate and Jesus and in particular its notion of suspension as stalemate is treated as an important contribution to an ongoing exegetical conversation about the theological valence and event of John 18:28.19:41. In Agamben's essay, the suspension created by the dialogue between the Christ and the "Vicar of Caesar" demonstrates a peculiar stalemate of immanent and transcendent claims to sovereignty. Then, the central concept of believing ('Greek Passage'), both for John's Gospel as a whole and the passion narrative in particular, is juxtaposed with the theo-political thrust of Pilate and Jesus. By turning to Rudolf Bultmann, the article suggests a minor corrective to Agamben's reading of John and guides the concept of suspension as stalemate towards a slightly different outcome. Lastly, as a final supplement to Agamben's suspension as stalemate, Michel Foucault's famous emphasis on the Greco-Roman concept of truth telling ('Greek Passage'), from his final two lecture-series given at College de France, is also brought into play. Considering the conversation of Jesus and Pilate as taking place from an immanent terrain of truth telling, Agamben's vision of suspension in the trial of Christ is extended further.
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