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The Local Cost of Global Pain
Authors: DePrince Anne P.
Published: April 2022

Violence against women is common around the world and one of many drivers of migration. Regardless of the reason people migrate to new countries, girls and women are at risk of exploitation and violence during migration. Upon reaching the United States, women seeking asylum are confronted by a changing legal landscape in which beliefs about intimate violence can affect policies and ultimately women’s safety and futures. For instance, the chapter considers the ways that stereotypes about how victims should behave can affect credible fear interviews in the asylum process. Immigrant women living in the United States face risks from intimate violence and barriers to services. For example, language and social barriers may prevent women from learning about and accessing social, legal, and medical services that can be critical to surviving intimate violence. Finally, the chapter explores the ways that anti-immigrant sentiment can make women and our communities less safe from intimate violence.
A Question of Justice
Authors: DePrince Anne P.
Published: April 2022

Well into the twenty-first century and with decades of advocating for the reform of federal and state laws behind us, justice remains elusive for many women and communities affected by intimate violence. This chapter explores research on legal system responses to violence against women, including studies of community-coordinated responses to domestic violence and sexual assault that involve collaboration between criminal legal and community-based agencies. The chapter also considers factors that affect criminal legal outcomes, from police reporting to prosecution decisions. Looking beyond the criminal legal system, the chapter explores civil legal needs and remedies after intimate violence, such as research on protection orders. Finally, the chapter describes a Colorado-based model for wraparound legal services and the potential for collaboration to improve survivors’ access to justice.
City of Song
Authors: Figueroa Michael A.
Published: April 2022

It seems obvious that modern Jerusalem, a city that is central to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious imaginaries and the political epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is a highly contested space. More surprising, perhaps, is that its musical landscape not only reflects these rifts but also helped to define them as the ancient city transitioned to modernity during the twentieth century. City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem argues that musical renderings of Jerusalem have been critical to the formation of Israeli political consciousness. The book demonstrates how Zionist and Israeli songwriters helped to shape their public’s territorial imagination—creating images of a city that is at once heavenly and earthly, that dwells in longing, that must not be forgotten, that compels one to bereave the dead, that represents the fulfillment of prophecy, and that is the site of immense cultural diversity. The dynamic history of its representation in lyrics and music helps dispel any notion that the Israeli-Palestinian crisis is timeless, intractable, and based on static, essential identities; while there are continuities across historical divides, there is also radical change. The book combines analyses of musical meaning, political discourse, and public performance over the long twentieth century (1880s–2010s), in order to reveal how the Israeli-Palestinian crisis’s territorial fixation on Jerusalem has been constructed, historically contingent, and subject to artistic intervention in modernity. Through a musical history of Jerusalem, the chapter introduces a novel, humanities-centered approach to one of the world’s most contested cities.
Gilded Jerusalem
Authors: Figueroa Michael A.
Published: April 2022

Chapter 4 is organized around the work most directly identified with the genre of Jerusalem song, Naomi Shemer’s “Jerusalem of Gold,” written and debuted in 1967, on the eve of the Six-Day War, and commonly referred to as an unofficial national anthem. In addition to investigating the song’s anthemic status, the chapter chronicles the song’s reception over the ensuing five decades, showing how the representational strategy of the lyrics has become a point of contention within national political discourse. Like the chapter preceding it, this one includes discussion of covers and parodies, including Meir Ariel’s “Jerusalem of Iron,” and the songs’ appearance on several anthologies and victory albums.
Epilogue
Authors: Figueroa Michael A.
Published: April 2022

The epilogue opens with a poetic provocation by Dan Pagis (“The Eternal City”) that raises the possibility that musical and poetic representations of Jerusalem may be harmful to the city. It then pushes the book to a close by providing a brief overview of Israeli political and technological developments that would follow the events chronicled in the book’s historical narrative and concisely pulling together the preceding series of investigations into critical aspects of the musical production of Jewish, Zionist, and Israeli space. These are contextualized within the considerably larger social fabric, social history, and political fate of the city of Jerusalem.
The Music Professor Online
Authors: Bowman Judith
Published: April 2022

The book provides a window onto online music instruction in higher education with the aim of helping music professors successfully integrate online teaching into their pedagogical repertoire. It highlights commonalities between online and face-to-face teaching, presents a theoretical framework for online learning, and provides practical models and techniques from professors teaching online in various music disciplines. Part I reviews the status of online learning in general and in music, identifies some similarities and differences between face-to-face and online teaching, presents standards and principles for online instruction, explores the development of an online teaching persona, and examines pedagogical characteristics of effective online teaching, including signature pedagogies of the music disciplines. Part II focuses on the lived online curriculum. It features online teaching experiences in applied music, music theory, music history/musicology, music appreciation, and music education provided by professors teaching online in those disciplines. Part III summarizes lessons from online practitioners, presents an action plan for moving forward with online music instruction, and looks to the future of online instruction in music.
Teaching Persona
Authors: Bowman Judith
Published: April 2022

This chapter explores various facets of teacher identity: college teacher identity, online teacher identity, teaching persona, online teaching persona, and teacher roles in the online environment. It emphasizes expanding an instructor’s existing teaching repertoire to enhance current teacher identity with an evolving online teacher persona. It describes online teaching presence and its subcategories of design/organization, facilitation, and direct instruction as defined in the Community of Inquiry theoretical framework. It further explores the roles implied by those categories: course designer/curator, facilitator as “sage on the stage” or “guide on the side,” and scholar. Drawing on surveys of both online students and online teachers, it offers their perspectives on teaching presence. Finally, it emphasizes the central role of the instructor as director of learning, an overarching role that includes all the others.
Applied Music
Authors: Bowman Judith
Published: April 2022

This chapter describes issues related to teaching applied music online and presents experiences with online applied music instruction in narratives provided by professors engaged in this practice. It provides background on the challenges of online applied music teaching and the nature of applied music study, and it explains the signature pedagogy of applied music, a master–apprentice model. It reviews the state of the practice of online applied music instruction at various levels and asks how instructors might teach applied music effectively online. It features three professors who describe their online teaching experiences: applied piano using specialized equipment at various levels and in various contexts, wind instrument instruction via desktop videoconferencing, and iPad-based instrumental music instruction in a music education methods course. Each professor offers suggestions for prospective online teachers of applied music, and the chapter concludes with some lessons drawn from the field.
Music History/Musicology
Authors: Bowman Judith
Published: April 2022

This chapter describes issues related to teaching music history/musicology online and presents experiences with online music history instruction in narratives provided by professors teaching music history online. It provides background on music history pedagogy and the nature of music history study. It lists accreditation standards for the study of music history and explains its signature pedagogy. It reviews the state of the practice, including the status of online music history instruction as reported in several surveys, and asks how instructors might teach music history effectively online. It features four professors who describe their online teaching experiences: music history online, a constructivist approach to teaching music history online, a flipped music history classroom, and a digital mapping project. Each professor offers suggestions for prospective online music history teachers, and the chapter concludes with some lessons drawn from the field.
Moving Forward, Planning What’s Next
Authors: Bowman Judith
Published: April 2022

This chapter summarizes suggestions from the professors who contributed their online teaching experiences in applied music, music theory, music history/musicology, music appreciation, and music education. Topics include keeping efforts small and simple, allowing sufficient development time, and using the same signature pedagogy used in face-to-face classes but delivering it differently online. It synthesizes the lessons from each field, reprising themes from earlier chapters, including topics related to the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education and the Community of Inquiry theoretical framework. It explores the idea of online teaching as simply teaching but in a different environment and with different tools. Finally, it offers an action plan for easing into online teaching viewed as an expansion of a professor’s current teaching repertoire with the instructor in the central role of director of learning.
The (Not So) New Nationalism
Authors: Schertzer Robert , Woods Eric Taylor
Published: April 2022

This chapter introduces the concept of the new nationalism and the book’s argument. It outlines the conventional view that sees the resurgence of ethnic nationalism as an aberration from normal politics in the West. It critically reflects on this orthodoxy, which attributes the rise of today’s ethnic nationalism and populism to large-scale structural changes, like growth in economic inequality, a backlash to liberal policies, and the advent of social media. It argues that these accounts can be augmented by recentering attention on the role of white majorities, their culture, and their history. By doing this—and by showing how leaders are tapping into this ethnic identity—we can expose the deep roots of the “new” nationalism, and help to explain why it has proved to be such a powerful ideology.
Mapping Ethnic Nationalism in the Age of Twitter
Authors: Schertzer Robert , Woods Eric Taylor
Published: April 2022

This chapter outlines a methodology for examining the impact of ethnicity, culture, and history in the digital age. It argues that we need to pay greater attention to the message, rather than the medium, when thinking about the role of social media in the rise of nationalism. To begin, the chapter discusses the concepts of myths and symbols. Following this, it introduce a novel analytical schema for mapping the development of foundational ethnic myths and symbols of a nation over time. This schema is based upon five key mytho-symbolic categories of ethnicity: people, homeland, history, religion, and ethos. To conclude, the chapter discusses how this schema is used in the content analyses of the Twitter campaigns of Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, and the Brexit campaigns.
Donald Trump and the New Nationalism in America
Authors: Schertzer Robert , Woods Eric Taylor
Published: April 2022

This chapter examines how Donald Trump tapped into, and reshaped, America’s long-running tradition of ethnic nationalism. It shows that ethnic nationalism was the central feature of Trump’s political strategy. In making this case, the chapter highlights how Trump garnered support from white Americans through a political program built upon valorizing this group and vilifying perceived outsiders, particularly Mexican migrants, Muslims, and political elites. It presents a comprehensive content analysis of Trump’s ethnic nationalism by analyzing all of his 5,000 tweets during the 2016 presidential primaries and campaign. From this analysis, it is argued that Trump’s rise is not necessarily puzzling: he did not win despite his ethnic nationalism—it was in fact the key to his success.
English Nationalism and the Campaign for Brexit
Authors: Schertzer Robert , Woods Eric Taylor
Published: April 2022

This chapter explores the role of English nationalism in the campaign for Brexit. It builds on the argument that Brexit was “made in England”—that it was English voters, particularly white English voters who largely delivered victory for the Leave side. The chapter seeks to explain this outcome by first uncovering the foundational myths and symbols of English ethnic nationalism. It then turns to show how the Leave side tapped into this wellspring of ethnic identity through an analysis of all their tweets during the 2016 Brexit campaign. Tracing the historical roots of today’s English nationalism—by showing where it comes from—allows us to better understand why it resonated with (white) English voters in the Brexit referendum.
Conclusion
Authors: Schertzer Robert , Woods Eric Taylor
Published: April 2022

The book concludes by reflecting on key findings from its historical and comparative content analyses of ethnic nationalism in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. In all three cases, the content of ethnic nationalism has been remarkably durable over time. While it is not an unchanging, and immovable force, in each case there is a foundational set of myths and symbols that have proved to be remarkably persistent right through to the present-day. Trump, Le Pen, and the Leave campaigns all drew heavily from this foundational content in their political communication to garner significant support from the white majority populations. Furthermore, while there is considerable similarity in the content of ethnic nationalism across the three cases, it nevertheless differed in significant ways to reflect the differing contexts. It is this context-specific content that enabled Trump, Le Pen, and the Leave campaigns to reverberate with their target constituencies. . The enduring traditions of remarkably ethnic nationalism in the world’s most prominent liberal democracies, suggests that the ideology has some distance to run yet. Indeed, the recurring tendency for ethnic nationalism to flourish in times of crisis and heightened threat perception suggests that it will remain a core feature of politics in the West for the foreseeable future.
Introduction
Authors: Mubarak Hadia
Published: April 2022

Despite the flourishing of literature on women in the Qurʾan, much of the scholarly conversation on women in the Qurʾan continues to take place outside the scholarly genre of Qurʾanic exegesis (tafsīr). The trivialization of tafsīr in contemporary scholarship primarily stems from a priori conclusions about the exegetical tradition as patriarchal, misogynist, or averse to women’s perspectives. This book brings into conversation the distinct fields of tafsīr studies and women’s studies by situating the genre of tafsīr in the center of a scholarly analysis of women in the Qurʾan. Departing from binary conceptions of the Qurʾan as patriarchal or egalitarian, this book complicates not only readings of scripture but also our readings of its interpretation, spanning medieval and modern Muslim history.
Men’s “Degree”
Authors: Mubarak Hadia
Published: April 2022

This chapter explores shifts in modern exegetes’ interpretations of Q. 2:228, one of the Qurʾan’s five hundred legal verses. The legal aspects of this verse have received much less attention from scholars working on gender in the Qurʾan than the final part of the verse, which establishes that women and men have mutual rights, yet men have a “degree” over women. As exegetes’ interpretations of women’s and men’s mutual rights were embedded in legal considerations, the chapter analyzes premodern and modern interpretations of Q. 2:228 within the context of classical Islamic family law. Twentieth-century Qurʾanic exegesis represents an interpretive shift in the notion of “reciprocal rights,” which modern exegetes interpret as evidence of the Qurʾan’s affirmation of gender equality. This shift is reflective of new intellectual priorities and the theoretical centering of women’s rights as an analytical category in modern religious discourses.
Model Minority Masochism
Authors: Rivera Takeo
Published: April 2022

There are few grand narratives that loom over Asian Americans more than the “model minority.” While many Asian Americanist scholars and activists aim to disprove the model minority as “myth,” author Takeo Rivera instead rethinks the model minority as cultural politics. Rather than disproving the model minority, Rivera instead argues that Asian Americans have formulated their racial and gendered subjectivities in relation to what Rivera terms “model minority masochism.” Rivera details two complementary forms of contemporary racial masochism: a self-subjugating masochism which embraces the model minority, and its opposite, a self-flagellating masochism that punishes oneself for having been associated with the model minority at all. Drawing from performance studies, queer theory, techno-orientalism, and new media studies, Model Minority Masochism covers a range of contemporary objects across multiple media that variously exhibit and deepen these iterations of masochism: the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin and its multiple performance responses, the plays of Philip Kan Gotanda and Ping Chong, experimental fiction, Marvel comics, and the video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Building upon previous models of melancholy and castration, Model Minority Masochism offers a new theory of Asian American subject formation that accounts for both resistance and accommodation vital for the contemporary moment.
Vincent Chin’s Wedding
Authors: Rivera Takeo
Published: April 2022

Through an analysis of the film Who Killed Vincent Chin? and the archival documents of the American Citizens for Justice, Chapter 1 reads the racially motivated murder of Vincent Chin in 1982 as not only a profound event of domestic 1980s Japanophobia, but as a pivotal social drama that enacted the techno-orientalist interpellation of the contemporary Asian American liberal subject. Through the Japanophobic 1980’s white American imaginary, the Asian body became conflated with that of the automobile itself, and that conversely Vincent Chin underwent a Deleuzian “becoming-car,” setting a precedent for contemporary techno-orientalism. However, this chapter also argues that the Asian American activist response to Chin’s death did not dispel this techno-orientalization, but reconfigured it through a politics of respectability that enabled a consolidation of model minority ideology even as they overtly acted to dispel the concept.
An Asian Is Being Whipped
Authors: Rivera Takeo
Published: April 2022

Chapter 3 presents a psychoanalytic examination of “resistant” Asian American masochism premised upon the disavowal of the model minority through an idealization of Blackness. Through a comparative reading of two plays by Philip Kan Gotanda, After the War (2007) and I Dream of Chang and Eng (2011), this paper analyzes the role of Black characters in signifying longing for a politically redemptive Asian/American subject position while simultaneously demonstrating the limits Asian/American radicality within an antiblack hegemony. This chapter argues that Gotanda positions blackness as a moral center of unambiguous oppression, conjuring what this chapter terms the “Afro-Asian superego” and considers the Asian American political choice of either solidarity or complicity, ambivalent about agency as the Asian/American subject is positioned as both victim and perpetrator of epistemic violence. Thus, this chapter consider how Blackness subjects the Asian American masculine political imagination to masochistic punishment by an ideal of Black resistance.
Fear of the Family
Authors: Stokes Lauren
Published: April 2022

Since the mid-1970s, so-called family migration has been the predominant legal pathway for migration into Europe and North America. But what has it meant for millions of people to be defined primarily through their role as “family migrants,” whether at the immigration office, in the courtroom, in the workplace, or in the family itself? Fear of the Family addresses these questions by investigating the history of guest worker migration to the Federal Republic of Germany. Ironically, West German employers initially turned to foreign “guest workers” to avoid the complications of families. Foreigners were meant to work in Germany in the prime of their productive years while raising their children and growing old elsewhere, with another country bearing the costs of their education, retirement, and medical care. But guest workers refused to offshore their family life, pressuring the state first to tolerate and later to open an official legal pathway for family reunification. The state’s perspective on the role of family migration changed over time, and debate over this form of migration also continues to this day, as politicians call for “managed migration” to capture the best brains and most in-demand skills while demanding an end to the “chain migration” that is imagined as nothing but a burden. Fear of the Family shows how these categories were established and how generations of migrant families have fought against the assumptions contained within them.
Introduction
Authors: Stokes Lauren
Published: April 2022

This chapter sets out the primary arguments of the book. Since the mid-1970s, most decisions about legal migration have also been decisions about what foreign families ought to look like, which explains how gender and sexuality have become primary categories for discussing difference. The family has also been a key site for the production of ideas about race and racialized difference. Finally, the regulation of family migrants also contributed to the development of “market-conforming” and neoliberal governance within the West German state. Neoliberal states divest themselves of responsibility for in order to place that responsibility on families. Foreign families’ inclusion in the German welfare state depended on their willingness to conform to the market. Individuals whose families failed to meet the state’s expectations of appropriate social reproduction found themselves cut off from social belonging and citizenship.
Between Two Fathers?
Authors: Stokes Lauren
Published: April 2022

This chapter examines the role of the foreign child in the 1990 Law on Foreigners [Ausländergesetz] and the 1999 citizenship reform. The 1990 Law on Foreigners introduced a “return option” for the children of guest workers who had been forced by their parents to leave Germany but who could prove they were “integrated” into German society. This reform set a pattern of improving the rights of “foreign” children while doing less for their parents. The 1999 citizenship reform, for instance, allowed automatic German citizenship for a subset of children born in Germany but offered little additional access to naturalization for those who had not been born in Germany. Lawmakers imagined that, in choosing German citizenship, young adults were thereby choosing the state over the family, turning their parents into a denied link to a distant homeland.
Domestic Cary
Authors: Naremore James
Published: April 2022

Grant often played a married man with children. His films in this category ranged from the tear-jerker Penny Serenade (1941), for which he received his first Academy-Award nomination, to light comedies in which he was a beleaguered husband. The domestic comedies differ from Grant’s screwball farces precisely because of the presence of children, and they show how good he was at playing scenes with kids and dogs (something W. C. Fields famously advised against). The two examples emphasized in this chapter are Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), in which Grant plays a Madison Avenue ad man with two daughters, and Room for One More (1952), in which he’s a thoroughly domesticated male with an ordinary job and a house full of children and pets. The latter film deserves more attention than it has been given, not only because of Grant’s performance but also because of its gentle social message.
Lies
Authors: Stallard Katie
Published: April 2022

This chapter covers the leadership transition in North Korea following the death of Kim Il Sung in 1994 to his son Kim Jong Il. It examines the role of the regime’s false claims about Kim Il Sung’s history as a guerrilla war hero and his actions during the Korean War to build popular support for the new leader, as well as the efforts to incorporate Kim Jong Il into that myth. This includes the fabricated story of Kim Jong Il’s purported birth at a secret guerrilla camp on Mount Paektu, the rewriting of the history to credit Kim Il Sung with liberating Korea from Japanese rule, and the creation of Kim Il Sung’s cult of personality. It also looks at how the ruling regime drew on this historical narrative in propaganda during the famine of the 1990s. This chapter covers the period 1994–2010.
Patriots
Authors: Stallard Katie
Published: April 2022

This chapter covers the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign against historical nihilism under Xi Jinping and attempts to appeal to patriotism and nationalism to shore up public support. It examines efforts to disseminate the regime narrative through patriotic education, popular media, red tourism sites, censorship, propaganda, and mass demonstrations. It includes the story of the Five Heroes of Langya Shan during World War II and the party’s attempts to protect the famous myth from scrutiny, and the decision to extend the length of the war with Japan from eight to fourteen years in 2017. It also explores the party’s efforts to equate support for its rule with patriotism, and vice versa, to characterize those who oppose the party’s rule as traitors. It covers the period 2011–2020.
Conclusion
Authors: Stallard Katie
Published: April 2022

This chapter summarizes the approaches the leaders of Russia, China, and North Korea have taken to World War II and the Korean War since 1945 and their efforts to draw on these historical narratives to shore up popular support and cement regime legitimacy. It examines Putin’s efforts to commemorate the Great Patriotic War on the eve of a vote to amend the Russian constitution in 2020 that cleared the way for him to remain in office, and the role the conflict plays in his continued claim to power. It also explores the decision to summon veterans for questioning by the Investigative Committee in 2020 as part of an investigation into alleged genocide by German soldiers during World War II, as well as Putin’s campaign against what he claims are efforts to rewrite the conflict’s history and undermine the memory of the Soviet victory in 1945.
Semi-State Actors in Cybersecurity
Authors: Egloff Florian J.
Published: April 2022

What does the global telecommunications company Huawei, a hacking-for-hire outfit in India, and Russian cyber criminals have in common? They all share a special relationship to the state, which significantly shapes the politics of cyber(in-)security. The relationships between these actors and states are complex and constantly evolving, yet not well understood. Semi-State Actors in Cybersecurity provides an insightful theoretical and empirical analysis of the political challenges raised through the interaction between such semi-state actors and states. The book uses a historical analogy to pirates, privateers, and mercantile companies to uncover the political constitution and interaction of cybercrime, state-sponsored hackers, and large technology companies. Drawing on historical archival sources and innovative theory, it identifies the parallels between today’s cyber(in-)security and the historical quest for gold and glory on the high seas during the 16th–19th centuries. The book explains what the co-presence of semi-state actors means for national and international security and shows that the proximity to the state in these relationships is a key determinant of cyber(in-)security. Through so doing, it clarifies how semi-state actors were historically and contemporarily linked to understandings of statehood, sovereignty, and the legitimacy of the state. Semi-State Actors in Cybersecurity offers insights with regard to the political use of state proximity by attackers and defenders, state collaboration with cyber criminals, and the cooperative and conflictive relations of large technology companies to the state. This offers a fresh perspective for understanding the international politics of cyber(in-)security.
A Brief History of Cyberspace
Authors: Egloff Florian J.
Published: April 2022

This chapter explores the history of cyber(in-)security to identify the structure of relations between the main actors of interest, highlighting the interaction between state security interests, global technology companies and internet providers, and users in the development of cyber(in)security. It traces how cyber(in-)security was shaped and perceived by these different actors. The chapter finds that corporations’ role in the provisioning of cybersecurity grew more important and complex over time. They have cooperative and conflictive interests with other actors, including states. Explaining the challenge of signals intelligence in a digital era, it traces how cyber(in-)security became a topic of interest for states, and how they sought strategies to expand their influence both overtly and covertly.
Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture
Authors: Proctor Travis W.
Published: April 2022

Drawing insights from gender studies and the environmental humanities, Demonic Bodies analyzes how ancient Christians constructed the Christian body through its relations to demonic adversaries. Case studies on New Testament texts, early Christian church fathers, and “Gnostic” writings trace how early followers of Jesus construed the demonic body in diverse and sometimes contradictory ways, as both embodied and bodiless, “fattened” and ethereal, heavenly and earthbound. Across this diversity of portrayals, however, demons consistently functioned as personifications of “deviant” bodily practices such as “magical” rituals, immoral sexual acts, gluttony, and “pagan” religious practices. This demonization served an exclusionary function whereby Christian writers marginalized fringe Christian groups by linking their ritual activities to demonic modes of (dis)embodiment. Demonic Bodies demonstrates, therefore, that the formation of early Christian cultures was part of the shaping of broader Christian “ecosystems,” which in turn informed Christian experiences of their own embodiment and community.
Introduction
Authors: Proctor Travis W.
Published: April 2022

The Introduction provides an exploration of key terms, questions, and concepts that inform the study. The chapter begins with the observation that early Christian writers exhibited widely divergent ideas regarding the nature of the demonic body. The next part of the chapter introduces the main argument of Demonic Bodies: that such Christian demonological discrepancies were informed at least in part by concomitant divergences concerning the makeup of the Christian (human) body. The historical connections between humans and nonhumans push us to consider how early Christian texts might constitute “prehuman” narratives—that is, instances in which premodern humans conceived of their relationship with nonhuman entities and environments in ways that trouble human/nonhuman boundaries. The Introduction introduces key terms that will help scrutinize this relationship, including posthumanism, trans-corporeality, ecology, and ritual. The chapter closes by outlining each of the five main chapters and conclusion.
Disabled Demons
Authors: Proctor Travis W.
Published: April 2022

Chapter 1 traces how ancient ideas regarding the primordial “disablement” and misplacement of the demonic inform Jesus’s ritual “enablement” in the Gospel of Mark. The chapter first examines Mark’s portrayal of demons as impaired entities, which closely mirrors ancient Jewish traditions that identify demons as the residual souls of antediluvian giants. The second part of the chapter traces how the demons’ misplacement as foreign “spiritual” entities in a fleshly world contributes to Mark’s demarcation of relations between Jewish and non-Jewish members of the Jesus movement. The chapter concludes by exploring how Mark constructs the human body as prone to possession by external spirits, as evidenced in the exorcism narratives as well as Jesus’s claim to being possessed by the “holy spirit.” In antiquity, such porosity was characteristic of “weak” bodies. The Gospel of Mark, however, emphasizes Jesus’s masculine potency through his “binding” of the Devil through exorcism.
Abject Demons
Authors: Proctor Travis W.
Published: April 2022

Chapter 5 examines the intermixture of demonic and Christian bodies in the writings of Tertullian of Carthage. The chapter begins by exploring Tertullian’s construction of humanity’s dual flesh-and-spirit body in On the Soul, wherein he emphasizes the pervasive attachment of demonic spirits to the human soul. This demonic affliction stems from inadvertent participation in demonolatry via Roman “religious” rites, and can be removed only through Christian baptism. In this way, the demonic body functions within Tertullian’s writings as a kind of abject entity—one that is foreclosed as part of the ritualized construction of the Christian body and yet loiters as a threatening epitome of those elements unbecoming of Christian corporeality. The lingering threat of the abject demon surfaces mostly clearly in Tertullian’s On the Shows, a treatise that, through its citation of the threat of demons, undergirds Tertullian’s selective prescriptions regarding appropriate Christian embodiment.
Conclusion
Authors: Proctor Travis W.
Published: April 2022

The Conclusion completes the study by placing its findings in conversation with explorations in the humanities with regard to the “post-human” and “nonhuman.” The chapter notes that Christian descriptions of demonic corporeality reflect shifts and differences in early Christian anthropology insofar as they inversely correlate to articulations of the ideal human body. The early Christian body emerges, then, as a kind of “posthuman” (or, perhaps more appropriately, “prehuman”) entity, a being that is thoroughly enmeshed within its nonhuman cosmic environments—always evolving and materializing through the concomitant development of adjacent nonhuman entities, including demons. The chapter concludes by reflecting on how (ancient) history—the narratives humans tell themselves about themselves—has an enduring importance in informing how humans understand and interact with nonhuman others, and thus has much to contribute to contemporary ecological thought and practice.
Music Lesson Plans for Social Justice
Authors: DeLorenzo Lisa C. , Silverman Marissa
Published: April 2022

As a new approach to teaching general music, this book is a collection of lesson plans and units that artfully blend music making with relevant issues of social justice. Particularly accessible to middle and high school classroom music teachers, the book includes a companion website with links to all of the music listening and videos. Student-centered lessons include discussion prompts, experiences with diverse genres and styles of music, and music making projects with an integration of technology that activate students’ creativity and empathy. Unit topics—ranging from “War” to “Climate Change”—include cross-disciplinary lessons with the arts playing a central role. Well-researched introductory materials as well as “how-to” guides for topics, such as “composing in the classroom,” enhance its practicality. This book is a resource, with ready-to-go lessons and classroom materials, offering music teachers a lens for engaging students in purposeful music making toward social justice.
Introduction
Authors: DeLorenzo Lisa C. , Silverman Marissa
Published: April 2022

The Introduction to Music Lesson Plans for Social Justice: A Contemporary Approach for Secondary School Teachers provides readers with a rationale as well as definitions of terms and concepts used throughout the book. Questions such as why music teachers should concern themselves with teaching for social justice provide grounding for the units that follow. Similarly, “What does music teaching have to do with social justice?” addresses a foundational theme imperative for articulating the value of such work in the music classroom. The inclusion of practical teaching considerations, such as assessment, evaluating creative products, and engaging students in discussions that facilitate critical thinking illustrate concrete ideas for classroom practice. A companion website, with the link included, provides all of the music examples and other materials contained in the book.
Climate Change Unit
Authors: DeLorenzo Lisa C. , Silverman Marissa
Published: April 2022

Our planet Earth is suffering from rising temperatures around the globe leading to the extinction of animals that depend on diminishing food sources, and environmental conditions that cannot support life, such as unsafe water, lead poisoning, and so forth. All of these issues have a direct impact on human and animal life. This chapter evolves from the question, “How would artists respond to this crisis?” A plethora of art pieces, in this unit, provides students with various artistic perspectives on climate change. Student engagement ranges from creating compositions from recyclable objects; listening to artists or composers whose music is inspired by ecological issues; to using the arts as a means of advocacy for the health and well-being of our ecosystem.
Epilogue
Authors: DeLorenzo Lisa C. , Silverman Marissa
Published: April 2022

The Epilogue to Music Lesson Plans for Social Justice: A Contemporary Approach for Secondary School Teachers provides readers with ways to consider their own unit planning for future secondary general music teaching and learning. It addresses ways in which teachers might design music lesson plans based on themes of social justice as well as choosing relevant music listening examples, that help students learn how artists respond to issues of inequity and injustice. Additionally, this chapter argues that secondary general music teachers should embrace music technology, global musics, and more, if they are to teach students to be leaders and change agents for a more socially just world.
Relationships 5.0
Authors: Kislev Elyakim
Published: April 2022

This chapter focuses on Relationships 5.0. In the context of relationships, the fifth era of human development refers to three revolutions. These include the cognitive revolution, or how humans will converse with artificial intelligence; the sensorial revolution, or how extended reality will augment what humans see, hear, and even smell; and the physical revolution, in which robots will be available for an increasing range of bodily acts, ranging from simple housekeeping tasks to hugging and even sexual intercourse. The chapter then discusses the attitudes and prejudices we hold toward Relationships 5.0. In most countries, and for most people, the possibility of human-AI relationships is unacceptable, even appalling. However, some people believe that technology can provide them some of the emotional, intellectual, and physical needs that until now have come from humans. The chapter then considers the concept of artificial emotions.
How the Color Line Bends
Authors: Yancy Nina M.
Published: April 2022

How the Color Line Bends explores the connection between prejudice and place in modern America. Existing scholarship suggests that living near Black Americans presents a "threat" to White Americans, which in turn influences White opinions on policies related to race. This book rejects the tendency to position White people as tacit victims and Black people as threatening, instead recasting White Americans as active viewers of their surroundings. This reframing brings a critical focus on power and positionality to scholarship on racial threat, and challenges the neutrality typically assigned to the White perspective. The book first presents ethnographic analysis of Louisiana residents caught in a racialized debate over incorporating a new city in the Baton Rouge area, using interpretive methods to show how race colors White residents' perspective on local geography and politics. Then, the book applies its conceptualization of a White perspective to the quantitative study of prejudice and place, revisiting the classic racialized policy issues of welfare and affirmative action. These analyses emphasize White Americans' diverse beliefs and surroundings but also their common structural position, and how an interest in defending that position shapes the White perspective. This emphasis supports new empirical insights on the behavior of racially tolerant White people, perceptions of the Black middle class, and the consequences of segregation for racial politics. The book also includes discussion of the author's own positionality as a Black woman researcher in conversation with White interview subjects, and the risks of Whiteness studies that leave Black people invisible.
Prejudice and Place
Authors: Yancy Nina M.
Published: April 2022

This chapter introduces the book's objective of critically examining White Americans' positionality in the relationship between racial prejudice and local geography. The chapter draws on structural theories of prejudice as a product of White people's commitment to defending their racial dominance. These insights inform a critique of the influential "racial threat" hypothesis, which typically positions White people as victims and Black people as inherently threatening. In response, the chapter recasts White people as viewers who interpret their surroundings through a racialized lens. Being explicit about White Americans' shared, subjective vantage point highlights how the diversity of White racial attitudes today is nonetheless rooted in a common structural position. The chapter concludes by discussing the book's case studies and mixed-methods approach to analyzing White Americans' racialized policy preferences as mediated by geography. Particular attention is given to the book's use of qualitative methods, including interpretivism and standpoint theory.
Conclusion
Authors: Isurin Ludmila
Published: April 2022

The Conclusion opens with the author’s personal story of her encounter with a journalist from a Russian state-controlled outlet during the 2016 US presidential election. This story provides a transition to the main findings of the book which showed that the way media operate across national borders is rather similar, as they target the minds of their respective audiences and construct their stories and memories thereof according to similar principles. By concluding the book with the statement that media are never free of an ideological bias, it is recommended that more academic effort be undertaken to study the most fascinating and complex issues, such as that involving the interconnected nature of collective memory, media, and the mind.
The Luminous Way to the East
Authors: Nicolini-Zani Matteo
Published: April 2022

This book is a comprehensive survey of the historical, literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources of the first stage of the Christian mission to China. It explores the complex and multifaceted process of the interaction with the different cultural and religious milieux that the Church of the East underwent in its diffusion throughout Central Asia and into China during the first millennium. It offers an overview of the Christian presence in China during the Tang dynasty (618–907) by reconstructing the composition and organization of Christian communities, the geographical location of Christian monasteries, and the related historical events attested by the sources. Through a new and richly annotated English translation of the Chinese Christian texts produced in Tang China, the volume provides a documented look at what was the earliest, and probably the most extraordinary, encounter of Christianity with Chinese culture and religions (Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism). It shows how East Syriac Christianity in its eastward expansion along the Silk Road from Persia to China was open to the adoption of other languages and imagery, and was able to inculturate the Christian teaching into new cultural and religious forms without losing its identity. This study offers source materials with introductory hermeneutical keys for further in-depth theological, missiological, and intercultural investigations in the field of Christianity in China.
“The Luminous Breeze Blew Eastward”
Authors: Nicolini-Zani Matteo
Published: April 2022

The Christian presence in China marks the easternmost outreach of the Church of the East in its long expansion along the Silk Road from Persia, where it originated, through Central Asia. This chapter offers the reader an introduction to the missionary diffusion of East Syriac Christianity from the Middle to the Far East. It presents older and more recent Christian archaeological and literary findings in different languages (Syriac, Middle Persian, Sogdian, and Uighur Turkic). It focuses on how East Syriac Christianity entered into dialogue with the religious traditions (Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism) encountered on the caravan routes of the Silk Road and how Christian communities from Merv to Turfan shaped their identity through this interaction.
“The Scriptures Were Translated”
Authors: Nicolini-Zani Matteo
Published: April 2022

This chapter introduces the reader to the Chinese Christian documents produced during the Tang dynasty: (1) the inscription engraved on the 781 Christian eulogistic stele found in Xi’an in 1623, with particular attention to the different “stories” about its discovery and interpretation; (2) the text inscribed on the 815 Christian funerary pillar recently found in Luoyang; (3) the so-called “Dunhuang” manuscripts and the history of research on them, summarizing what published studies say about the origin, transmission, and authenticity of these documents. This chapter analyzes the composition of the texts (dating, authorship, and literary form) and particularly highlights the most original elements of their content and the terminology they borrowed from other religious languages.