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The Look and Feel of Moral Injury
Authors: Sherman Nancy 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Philosophers usefully talk about the emotions that constitute a sense of moral accountability in terms of “reactive attitudes.” These include, on the negative side, guilt, shame, and moral disappointment toward self, resentment or moral disappointment and distrust toward others, and on the positive side, trust, hope, gratitude, and empathy toward self or others. The notion of reactive attitudes is essential in fleshing out the notion of moral injury and how it is experienced. Nevertheless, still what is missed in much of the philosophical and psychological literature is a discussion of the challenges of expressing those emotions in ways that have a chance of uptake and acknowledgment by self and others. What is missed are the pragmatics of expression and the subtle interpersonal transactions and reciprocations that can sow the seeds for moral healing. This chapter considers this interpersonal normative space.
Introduction
Authors: Sasson Vanessa R. , Scheible Kristin 
Published: October 2023

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This Introduction sets the plan for the project: a multivocal and multivalent retelling of the Buddha’s expansive life story, paying particular attention to its paradigmatic “blueprint” and never-ending story. The life story of the Buddha is the most central thread stitching together Buddhist thought and practice through history and cultures. We focus on South Asian sources, literary and material, to ground the story. We use the structuring idea “Buddha-life blueprint,” a term coined by John Strong, to discuss the repetitive life events that both construct and reveal a buddha’s biography in Buddhist sources. We trace episodically how the buddha of our day, Siddhārtha Gautama, came to be, and how his story endures.
The Final Birth
Authors: Reiko Ohnuma 
Published: October 2023

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The depiction of the Buddha’s final birth poses a seemingly insurmountable problem: On the one hand, all buddhas are human beings; they must experience a human birth and emerge from a human mother. On the other hand, in premodern Indian culture, female bodies and the process of giving birth were powerfully associated with cultural notions of impurity and suffering. The early Buddhist tradition solves this problem by turning the birth into a cosmic and communal event, involving not only a single female body and newborn son, but the entire cosmos of beings, as well as the natural world. Moreover, the birth extends not only outward toward the larger cosmos but also infinitely backward and forward in time. In this way, the Buddha’s final birth is removed from the profane realm of human history and instead becomes a cosmic blueprint adhered to by all buddhas without exception.
A Great Departure
Authors: Scheible Kristin 
Published: October 2023

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A close reading of the absent presence of the Bodhisattva in the Great Renunciation panel from Sanchi scaffolds this chapter. In this extended, penultimate scene prior to his awakening, the young prince Siddhārtha Gautama leaves the luxury of his palace and abandons the significant others who have helped him on the road to awakening. A whole cast of characters, both in this lifetime and through lifetimes past, have helped prepare the Bodhisattva through his dress rehearsals for the final act of awakening. The Bodhisattva sees things (such as the visions of old age, sickness, death, and renunciation) that prime him for insight. The road to awakening is so often characterized as a solitary endeavor, yet when we soften our sharp focus on the hero buddha-to-be, we recognize the impressive influence of various others on his story and the revealed/revealing work of the buddha blueprint.
Sorrow and its Ending in the Buddha’s Last Days
Authors: Heim Maria 
Published: October 2023

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The stories of the Buddha’s death are a close study of human emotions. They portray the visceral grief felt by some of the Buddha’s disciples at his passing, as well as the therapies of grief the Buddha counsels. The Buddha addresses the sadness of his followers variously and strategically as he offers comforting balm in some cases, and harsh but effective medicine in others. At the same time, the Buddha’s passage into “final nirvana” is an occasion for joy and release. The narrative reveals not only the close relationships the Buddha had with particular disciples whose grief is palpable, but also the cosmic nature of this final moment of the Buddha’s life. The story of the final nirvana holds together multiple truths at once, where love means loss, and where grief and joy commingle.
American Gnosis
Authors: Versluis Arthur 
Published: October 2023

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American Gnosis explores contemporary American spirituality as you’ve never seen it before. This startling book will change how you see contemporary society—reading it is like putting on a pair of the revelatory eyeglasses in the cult film They Live. In recent and contemporary American literature and films, as well as in political life, we find many elements taken from the early Christian heretical category of “Gnosticism.” In fact, new forms of Gnostic religion are found across the Americas, in all kinds of unexpected places. This phenomenon calls for a new name: “neo-gnosticism.” In American Gnosis, Versluis surveys the prevalence of neo-gnostic metaphors in films and novels, as well as in contemporary politics, primarily on the right. He provides case studies of some major contemporary neo-gnostic figures and demonstrates how neo-gnostic thought contributes to critiques of politico-technological dystopian contemporary American and global society. American Gnosis introduces and discusses major neo-gnostic figures, some for the first time in scholarship, and also explores how neo-gnostic memes recur in social media and other sources, especially on the right. Versluis also explores the emergence of American gnosis in terms of perennialism, and as spiritually independent, reflecting the growing demographic category “spiritual but not religious.”
What Is Neo-Gnosticism and What Is Gnosis?
Authors: Versluis Arthur 
Published: October 2023

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The primary terms, definitions, and concepts, including gnosis, Gnosticism, and neo-gnosticism, are discussed in the context of twentieth-century popular scholarship, including the scholarship of Hans Jonas, Theodore Roszak, Ioan Culianu, Harold Bloom, and April DeConick. Culianu’s important concept of conceptual “bricks” in the context of how Gnostic concepts emerge in contemporary society as neo-gnosticism. This concept leads to a discussion of gnostic dualism and gnostic spectra, including antignosis, inquisitionalism, political gnosis, and transcendence. Also considered are cosmological and metaphysical gnosis, and gnosis in popular, occultist, and Buddhist translation contexts. An intellectual framework, particularly in terms of neognosticism and gnosis, is provided for the book as a whole.
Understanding American Gnoses
Authors: Versluis Arthur 
Published: October 2023

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The concepts of political ponerology, pathocracy, and the work of Andrew Lobaczewski can be discussed in an American context along with social media, social media censorship, and Gab, a free speech social media system. Also discussed is the work of Joshua Neal in American Extremist, who draws on the work of Lobaczewski to contextualize American social media censorship and cancel culture in terms of neo-gnosticism. Spirituality is explored on social media in relation to contemporary politics and the right, as well as American Buddhism and the right, including The Daily Lama, Brad Warner, and others. A posited hierarchy of political gnoses can be understood on different levels.
Musical Models of Democracy
Authors: Adlington Robert 
Published: October 2023

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For one hundred years and more, musicians have been drawn to the potential of musical processes and relationships to embody democratic principles. This book is the first extended study of this ‘musical modelling of democracy’, as manifested in modern and experimental music of the global North. Four different approaches are surveyed in turn. In the music of Elliott Carter, democratic principles shape the textural relationships inscribed in the musical score. The indeterminate music of John Cage and his associates sought to democratise the composer–performer relationship by leaving open fundamental decisions about the realisation of a piece. Musicians have involved audiences in active participation, as a means to liberate them from a passive spectatorship. Free improvisation groups have experimented with new kinds of egalitarian relationship between ensemble members, in an effort to reject old hierarchies. In examining these different approaches, modern democratic theory is deployed to illuminate the achievements and ambiguities of musical models of democracy, stressing the heterogeneity of democracy as a concept, and the impossibility of conceiving specific democratic arrangements independently of particular, situated interests. An opening chapter establishes the contestability of democracy as a concept, and the book closes with a consideration of musical treatments of democracy in the age of Donald Trump.
Ungrounded
Authors: Adlington Robert 
Published: October 2023

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The book’s concluding chapter turns to the profound challenges confronting democracy in the 2020s. The post-foundationalist perspective that guides the analyses of earlier chapters is here compared to the post-truth era’s radical questioning of democratic norms. Does the post-foundational refusal to rule on the shape of democracy not amount precisely to the attitude of ‘radical indifference’ that today appears to imperil democracy’s very future? Current debates around democratic norms and the shape of democracy in an age of ‘epistemic chaos’ are assessed for their implications for the book’s analytical orientation. Attention is then turned to a number of recent musical models of democracy, which depart from the idealism of earlier approaches, reflecting instead the anxiety that is now widely felt around democracy’s prospects in the digitally mediated age.
Ethics for the Coming Storm
Authors: Zoloth Laurie 
Published: October 2023

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How can we come to understand our existence on this earth, surrounded by the stark beauty of air and light and water, while living in a place we deliberately and carelessly abuse, where resources are becoming scarce, and where the well-being and basic health of our neighbors are threatened? In Ethics for the Coming Storm, Laurie Zoloth argues that our debates about environmental issues have largely been driven by the language of economics and political power, and have become both deeply divisive and symbolic, turning our differing truth claims and moral appeals into signs of identity. This discourse has utterly failed to change the human behavior or political and economic structures necessary to face global warming serious and directly. So Zoloth turns to another language, found in the texts and traditions of Jewish thought—the language of Scripture, the Talmud, and philosophy of Judaism—which, she contends, offers a different kind of argument for such a change. In fact, Zoloth claims, the traditions, histories, and texts of Jewish thought address precisely the sort of existential crisis that we now face, and thus deepen and enrich our public discourse about what to do and who to be. This book uses a careful attention to Scriptural, rabbinic, and philosophical sources in Jewish thought to provide a novel framework through which we can reassess the choices we make that affect our climate, our environment, and our social structures.
Risky Hospitality
Authors: Zoloth Laurie 
Published: October 2023

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This chapter reviews the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report about Syria to show how drought led to desperation and war. If exile is our essential existential condition, then the answer to that problem is hospitality, the welcoming of the stranger. Hospitality is the first and the last moral gesture of our time, for we must enact it even if we fail to stop global warming. In this, the chapter turns to the work of Hannah Arendt about the need for the “space of appearing” or the public square. Then it turns to the rabbinic discussions about the way that private choices affect the public good, using the example in the Talmud about building a wall and tossing the stones you don’t need into a public space, which is prohibited. The chapter argues that the moral problem of climate change is made more acute because of the abundance, wealth, and power of the West relative to countries in the developing world. The chapter considers the story of Joseph and his brothers in both the Hebrew Bible and the Quran to reflect on how the rabbinic imagination looks at the challenges of hospitality.
At the Last Well on Earth
Authors: Zoloth Laurie 
Published: October 2023

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This chapter uses the methods of comparative feminist thought, Jewish thought, and the logic of Scriptural reasoning, which is a method of comparative exegesis, to explore the particular challenges that face women as the climate changes. Global warming most directly impacts the economies of water use. Since women in the developing world are largely responsible for the task of bringing water, for drinking, cooking, and washing, into the home, women will bear the first effects of global warming. In this way, global warming is a feminist issue. This chapter argues that this relationship is not new, for the difficulties faced by women in obtaining water have always been a matter of scarcity and power relationships. Thus, in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur’an, scenes of women at wells, negotiating for access, are central narratives. This chapter reflects on three Abrahamic accounts of women and water as a way to think about our current situation. It also reflects on the Papal Encyclical by Pope Francis to consider this issue.
Amending Democracy
Authors: Butler Leslie 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Emancipation and Union victory were followed by the remaking of national citizenship. In the process, Americans were compelled to define the connection between democratic citizenship and the bounds of “universal” suffrage. This was a thorny question, consuming the attention of activists and commentators across published opinion, as well as all three branches of the federal government. Black women such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper emerged as significant participants in these postwar debates, as they struggled to carve out space amidst a culture that tended to focus on, alternatively, the freedmen or white women. The scope and pace of change in the late 1860s alarmed many Americans, who seized on the issue of women’s enfranchisement as a way to slow the momentum of sweeping reform.
Epilogue
Authors: Butler Leslie 
Published: October 2023

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This concluding discussion shows how the woman question as a mode of analysis had begun to lose cultural traction by 1900. Among a generation of “new women,” such inquiries could seem outdated and unresponsive to the expanded opportunities that marked these women’s lives. Two “new women,” however, emerged in the early 1890s who would become important theorists of democracy. Anna Julia Cooper and Jane Addams made the experiences of Black and immigrant women central to their analysis. They reinvigorated elements of consistent democracy and a robust understanding of self-government and applied these to a new era. If posing difficult questions was the work of the nineteenth century, answering them remains the work of the present day.
Introduction
Authors: Rodriguez Nelson M. , Mizzi Robert C. , Allen Louisa , Cover Rob 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter serves as the introduction to the edited volume Queer Studies and Education: An International Reader. The chapter begins by situating the project of exploring international perspectives in queer studies and education within a broader discussion of analyses of the concepts of heteronormativity and normativity more generally. Critiques of heteronormativity and normativity have endured within queer studies scholarship since queer theory emerged in academe in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The chapter then briefly reviews scholarship in the field of queer studies in education that illustrates the various ways that heteronormativity has been theorized and critically examined across a broad swath of educational research. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the contributors’ projects, collectively illustrating the breadth and depth of contemporary work being undertaken in the field of queer studies and education across different national contexts, topics, perspectives, and methodological approaches.
Queered Failure and Management Education
Authors: Rumens Nick 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter explores the idea of queering U.K. management education by focusing on failure. Drawing from Halberstam’s writing on the queer art of failure, the chapter argues that management education can variously reproduce heteronormativity, entrenching the gender and sexual binaries that sustain it. Furthermore, management education can be understood as a process of organizing LGBT+ sexualities whereby desirable normalized LGBT+ subjects are constituted. A notion of queered failure can occasion opportunities for exposing and problematizing the discursive constitution of desirable LGBT+ subjects that relies on othering nonnormative sexual subjects. Reflecting on an example of failing to fail queerly in the management classroom, the chapter contextualizes queered failure in the practices of queer pedagogy, wherein insights are provided into how diversity management approaches to LGBT+ workplace topics can reproduce heteronormativity. This chapter underscores the fruitfulness of focusing on queered notions of how LGBT+ subjects often fail heteronormativity.
“No Queers, No Marching Bands”
Authors: Duque Tiago , Moura Gustavo 
Published: October 2023

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This chapter explores the experiences of young queer (effeminate gay men or transvestites) members of school marching bands in the Brazilian city of Corumbá. Data were collected through ethnographic observations and interviews during the marching bands’ rehearsals and performances in the city. Following a queer lens, the chapter demonstrates the importance of school spaces in developing antioppressive and safer spaces. The analysis explores to what extent schools still emphasize binary gender expectations even among young queers. Moreover, the integration of such individuals into a process of social recognition should consider social markers (e.g., nationality, religion) other than sex and gender determinants.
Beyond “Abstinence Only”
Authors: Reygan Finn , McEwen Haley 
Published: October 2023

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Over the course of the past 25 years, a global movement calling itself “pro-family” has emerged in opposition to advances in gender- and sexuality-related rights within global governance arenas. The effects of the pro-family movement’s activism and movement building have begun to raise alarm among feminist and queer advocacy groups and scholars in many parts of the world. In Eastern and Southern Africa, the so-called pro-family movement has advanced a campaign against the implementation of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) and the provision of sexual and reproductive health support and services for young people. Attacks on CSE are related to pro-family attacks on gender studies as an academic discipline taking place in other parts of the world. The lessons learned from the region indicate that this countermovement is waging a well-funded and coordinated attack on gains made by queer and feminist social movements over the past 50 years through its transnational advocacy.
A Sheaf of Papers
Authors: Lincoln Bruce 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
The author describes a set of papers that came into his hands belatedly, which Ioan Culianu had entrusted to a colleague just a few days before his murder, when he had received threats that made him fear for his life. Most of these papers were English translations of articles his mentor, benefactor, and idol, Mircea Eliade, had written in the late 1930s voicing his enthusiastic support for the Legion of the Archangel Michael (also known as the Iron Guard), Romania’s most important fascist movement. The fact that Culianu was so concerned to ensure the safety of this material is intriguing in itself and leads one to suspect it may have had some relation to his still unsolved murder.
A Hidden Past
Authors: Lincoln Bruce 
Published: October 2023

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In 1927, at the age of twenty, Eliade established himself as the most eloquent, intelligent, and daring spokesperson for Romania’s “Young Generation.” Striking an apolitical stance, he argued that his generation’s mission was to draw on the nation’s traditions to create works of spiritual depth and cultural genius that would win Romania international recognition. By the mid-1930s circumstances had changed, and he struggled to maintain his position of generational leadership, as most of his friends and colleagues were becoming fervent supporters of the Legion of the Archangel Michael under the influence of Nae Ionescu, Eliade’s charismatic mentor. Founded by Corneliu Codreanu, the Legion presented and understood itself as a militant crusading force that would rid the Romanian nation and Orthodox Church of the alien influences at the root of all its problems, which it attributed to Romania’s Jews.
Beginning
Authors: Tatum W. Jeffrey 
Published: October 2023

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The chapter covers the rise of the Antonii and the immediate antecedents of Mark Antony. His family’s close ties to Cicero are underlined. Antony’s youth is reviewed against the backdrop of traditional aristocratic values and practices, especially the designs of Roman education and the expectations of Roman high culture. The difficulties thrown up by our sources, including the ever-present influence of invective, are confronted. Antony’s physical appearance is queried but qualified by the conventions influencing ancient artistic representations as well as literary personal descriptions. Antony’s youth, including his sexual relationship with Fadia, his concubine, is investigated along with Antony’s first steps in civic life and provincial service. These aspects of Antony’s life are placed in the context of the politics surrounding the Catilinarian Conspiracy, the rise of the triumvirate uniting Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus, and the popular politics of Publius Clodius Pulcher.
The Puzzle of Multiple Missions
Authors: Diehl Paul F. , Druckman Daniel , Mueller Grace B. 
Published: October 2023

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After commenting on some historical trends in the development of peace operations, Chapter 1 lays out the central research questions of this book and defines peacekeeping “missions” as used in this book and in relation to related terminology such as “operations” and “mandates.” There is a brief review of past work in the field, along with an extended discussion on the theoretical and policy contributions made by the authors, but we ultimately find that past studies have not fully explored how multiple missions might be connected to one another in various ways. The chapter concludes with an overview of the book including brief summaries of each chapter.
Complex Mission Cases
Authors: Diehl Paul F. , Druckman Daniel , Mueller Grace B. 
Published: October 2023

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Chapter 5 focuses on two operations—United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor or UNTAET (East Timor) and the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or MONUC (Congo). These are complex operations that include more and different combinations of missions, including a number of peacebuilding missions. For each operation, we provide a brief overview of the conflict background and the key elements in the timeline for the operations. The core of the analysis is an assessment of the outcomes for each of the missions in the operation, with an eye to how they are connected in ways described by our expectations (or not).