Penny Mawdsley, whose A Penn’orth column was a valued regular in Sofia, sadly died on Sunday 9th of March. John Pearson offers a brief reflection on her life.
Penny Mawdsley
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Resisting Sofiac Religion
Here are some passing thoughts on the new ‘tag-line’ statement – I am not aiming to engage directly with the defence argued for in the March issue of Sofia.
‘religion’ was the lynch pin of the network – it seemed revelatory when I first came across the idea: R is a human creation. Watching the TV series when it was first aired was an education.
Review: Paul-Francois Tremlett. Religion and Marxism. An Introduction
Paul Overend reviews. Paul-Francois Tremlett is a senior lecturer in religious studies at the Open University. This short book is introductory, written for both A-Level sociology students (p.vii) and a general reader, and takes a sociological approach to its material. It has accessibility in mind, referencing key sociological concepts and figures (in shaded blocks), with a helpful short glossary of terms from Marxist writers and cultural theory (pp.65-68), and questions at the end of chapters for group discussion.
156 – Resisting genocide
Download full issue PDF Contents Editorial Resisting Genocide Resisting Bonhoeffer: His Life. Martin Spence Feminism, Non-realism and Resistance. Alison Webster Mark - a Gospel of Resistance (Part Two). David Lambourn Saint, Goddess and Resistor: Will the Real...
Resisting Oppression: The Arba’een Walk
Arif Master, Chain of Voice of Al Hussain, describes the background to the pilgrimage and how it has inspired figures over history.
Religion in my Life: Kurshida Mirza
Kurshida Mirza is a highly respected long-standing resident of Milton Keynes who became active in the community
in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in New York
The Notion that the Polite, Western Liberal Ever Stood for Anything At All.
Omar El Akkad is a journalist and Munther Isaac is a Church minister. They are both very angry. The proximate target of El Akkad’s anger is Western journalism, and of Isaac’s is Western Christianity, but the source of their anger is one and the same: Western complicity in genocide.
An Untouchable State
Caroline Pickard offers an appreciation of ‘An Untouchable State: Lobbying for Zionism on both Sides of the Atlantic’ by Ilan Pappe
Don Cupitt on Political Agency and Social Resistance
Paul Overend takes an overview of Cupitt’s framing of subjectivity as historically situated and contingent, and his ethics as involving both solar personal ethics, spirituality and humanitarian social ethics. He considers the subject’s agency in the struggle for social change, before raising some questions for evaluating Cupitt’s thinking.
Different Gods
Poem by Tom Hall