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This article explores the central role of women in the construction of Catholic social networks in the Upper Country between 1741 and 1821. It argues that the rite of baptism as practised at Fort Michilimackinac became a religious and an economic tool. Combining social history and the digital humanities through social network analysis software (visone) makes god-parenting relationships visible to the naked eye via graphs. In so doing, this article shies away from the metaphorical use of the network and shows concretely how one woman in particular, Louise Dubois, used Catholicism to shape her life. Both Indigenous and settler women became godmothers time and time again in the Upper Country. Tentatively explaining why that is, this article follows the weaving of strategic links uniting Indigenous communities and women of the fur trade through the first sacrament and initiation into the Catholic faith: baptism.
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A study of the work of Charlotte Salomon as an example of revolutionary feminist poetic practice.
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The author suggests rethinking research on the durability of the identity strategies of immigrants and their descendants, as well as the relationship between communal cohesion, the changing patterns of tradition, and class and generational "habitus." He suggests a new look at research on immigrant generations in the United States and holds that genealogical and cultural identities are constructs which exemplify the overwhelming influence of modernity. He notes that any analysis of generational positions has to take into account the importance the ascendants maintain in migratory and transethnic networks, material and cultural resources, economic cycles, the principles of instrumental and symbolic integration into the host country and the ability or inability of immigrants to build a community and organizations representing its cohesiveness. In a case study, he compares the attitudes and identities of first and second-generation Sephardic Jews in Montreal, showing that the heirs act as a third generation in terms of Hansen's theory, Judaize themselves anew and reproduce according to family and ethnic patterns.
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Leonard Cohen gives rise to an international infatuation for both his music and his writings where he combines bits of Judaism, remnants of Zen and some Christian elements inherited from Catholic Montreal, city of his youth. The article first tackles the role of poetry in Cohen's life and how writing became a necessity for him. Second, it brushes over the time when Cohen took some distances from the academic world to commit himself to pop music : he went from being a poet to becoming a pop star. In the third part, it is explained how Jewish mystical symbols as well as Zen meditation become means of survival for Cohen. The artist pretends to annihilate his will to give way to a greater will through him. The prayer-song If It Be Your Will reflects an experience of kenosis where Cohen tries to become the instrument of God (G-d).
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Isaac Polqar, qui appartenait au mouvement averroïste juif, fut actif en Espagne du Nord dans la première moitié du quatorzième siècle. Outre son écrit philosophique principal, 'Ezer ha-Dat (À l'appui de la Loi), entièrement préservé en un seul manuscrit, il écrivit aussi plusieurs autres œuvres, dont la majorité a disparu. Parmi ses œuvres disparues, il y a des commentaires sur les livres de la Genèse, de l'Ecclésiaste et des Psaumes. Dans ses œuvres existantes, Polqar ne dévoile pas de détails sur sa propre vie. Par contre, sa correspondance avec son ancien maître, Abner de Burgos, révèle leur relation tendue et compliquée. Les deux hommes étaient continuellement en débat, surtout après qu'Abner de Burgos se fut converti au Christianisme et eut utilisé son expertise dans les …
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Keywords: Medieval drama, Shakespeare, traditions