Exit the ‘Great Man’: On James Crossley’s Jesus and the Chaos of History

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Simon J. Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Military Revolution ◽  
State Of The Field

In Jesus and the Chaos of History (JCH), James G. Crossley invites us to ‘rethink some of the ways we approach the historical Jesus.’ The result of many years of critical engagement in Jesus Research, JCH is a helpful overview of the current state of the field and a programmatic set of essays seeking to ‘redirect’ Jesus Research by finding new ways to account for the social, economic, and political factors inherent and implicit in ‘historical change.’ In this review, I would like to engage and think with four of Crossley’s proposals: (1) the concept of an ‘Earliest Palestinian Tradition’; (2) the construction of Jesus as a ‘Great Man’; (3) the Jewish Jesus’ Torah observance; and (4) Jesus’ relationship to politico-military revolution and ‘(non)violence’.

Writing about the Historical Jesus: Historical Explanation and 'the Big Why Questions', or Antiquarian Empiricism and Victorian Tomes?

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-90
Author(s):  
James Crossley
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historical Reconstructions ◽  
Fact Finding ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Why Questions

AbstractThis article points out that lives of Jesus have been dominated by individualism, fact-finding, exegesis and description. This stands in contrast to the ways in which historical reconstruction has been practised in other disciplines in the humanities and in contrast to the ways in which some biographers and historians see the role of the individual in historical change. Even when there have been attempts to use the social sciences in historical Jesus studies, if the result is not merely descriptive and exegetical, then the reception of such approaches in scholarship still tends to focus on the individual reconstructed rather than on potential methodological developments relating to historical change. This article will suggest ways in which the individual and descriptive emphases can be complemented by wider ranging socio-historical reconstructions designed to explain historical change, or, more generally, how we get from Jesus to Christian origins.

scholarly journals SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FACTORS OF CRIME

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 1535-1538
Author(s):  
Daniela Trajkovska
Keyword(s):  
Political Party ◽  
Party System ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Endogenous Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Major Factors

Personality is a product of social influences and educational upbringings. In addition to it the factors for committing crime are influenced by exogenous (internal) and endogenous (external) impacts. By making this work I will develop and expose the endogenous factors that influence the crime by social, economic and political impacts. I would like to put special emphasis on the unemployment, poverty, migration, micro and macro environment, in the family, education, society, then politics, the influence of political parties, religion and mass media. Wealth and poverty are a major factors that today has a significant impact on people to engage them in committing crimes, especially from property delinquencies, migration and unemployment. In the Republic of Macedonia, unemployment really is very present in everyday life and the work for a minimum wage. We live in a time when children somehow are left alone. Their parents live their lives, where intolerance between spouses and divorces are very common and usually that affects children to engage in crime. Today we live in a democratic society with a multi-party system, where people in the political party are involved in committing various kinds of criminal acts. The citizens have to be involved voluntarily or not in political party in order to find at least some hope for employment but usually they are tricked by political leaders and their followers which all this makes the functioning of the state very disabled for success on every field. As I mentioned in my work, I want to expose the social, economic and political factors to the fullest and explain their influence on crime and with all that as a final conclusion to give a proposal for prevention.

scholarly journals Sociology in the 1980s: The Rise of Gender (and Intersectionality)

Sociology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. NP1-NP12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silke Roth ◽  
Katherine Dashper
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
British Sociology ◽  
Cultural Turn

The social, economic and political context of the 1980s in Britain shaped the contributions to the journal, and the early part of the decade was marked by emphasis on the interrelations between class and gender. The introduction of this e-special discusses the increasing importance of gender in sociological analysis in the 1980s. This development is related to a shift from production to consumption and a growing interest in life-style leading to the debates around ‘the end of class’, the ‘cultural turn’ and ‘identity politics’. We assess the influence of articles published in the 1980s and how sociology – both the discipline and the journal – have changed since these articles have been published. The selected articles provide a historical perspective and are – as we argue – still highly relevant for the current state of the discipline and sociological debate. They illustrate the evolution of British sociology, from an emphasis on class analysis in the 1970s towards the growing prominence of intersectionality and subjectivity in the 1990s and beyond. Feminist theory and research in the 1980s within and beyond Sociology indicate the importance and utility of intersectionality, even if the terminology has shifted, and the decade resulted in considerable advances in terms of the prominence, legitimacy and sophistication of gender analysis

The Changing Context of Hazard Extremes: Events, Impacts, and Consequences

2016 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 1671005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan L. Cutter
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Extreme Event ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
The Social ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Development Objectives

Recognizing that it does not take an extreme event to produce extreme consequences, White argued for an equal emphasis on technologically-oriented solutions to natural hazards problems, along with emphases on the social, economic, and political factors that lead to the adoption or non-adoption of alternatives for managing disaster risk. The paradox of modern society is that we are not achieving this balance — we have more knowledge and abilities to manipulate nature, yet simultaneously have increased our exposure and susceptibility to natural hazards through our own actions, myopia, and development patterns. The changing context of hazards necessitates more progressive approaches to disaster risk management. This means a reframing of current programs and policies away from response to a more proactive and longer term emphases on enhancing resilience at local to global scales. It also means expanding our definitions of extreme events and extreme consequences. Linking hazards science and practice to larger societal changes and development objectives is the path toward a more resilient future, a goal that personifies the scholarship of White and his student, Mitchell.

Everybody’s Happy Nowadays? A Critical Engagement with Key Events and Contemporary Quests for the Historical Jesus

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-241
Author(s):  
James G. Crossley
Keyword(s):  
Historical Change ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Jesus Seminar ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Events

Key Events is clearly a major contribution to historical Jesus studies from a broadly evangelical perspective. While there is much to commend and a number of strong essays, there are, inevitably criticisms to be made. A number of arguments appear to be repeating debates from the 1980s and 1990s with a familiar cast of good (e.g. N.T. Wright), bad (e.g. Burton Mack, Jesus Seminar) and ambivalent (e.g. E.P. Sanders) characters. This nostalgic feel means that alternative understandings of the historical Jesus and wider issues of history and historical change are not properly discussed, although clearly the opportunities were present among the contributors of Key Events. There is a sustained discussion of historical change in the chapter on resurrection but this repeats problematic arguments in favour of the historicity of the resurrection in what is effectively an attempt to prove what is historically unprovable. Finally, to lesser or greater extent, a number of essays in Key Events continue to perpetuate the idea of a ‘Jewish … but not that Jewish’ Jesus through monolithic constructions of Jews and Judaism and through the discredited criterion of dissimilarity in disguise: double dissimilarity. It is not always clear that the problematic criterion of double dissimilarity is applied consistently, with some evidence of contributors forgetting aspects of dissimilarity from Christianity while never forgetting dissimilarity from Judaism (even when similar Jewish evidence is, in fact, available). These criticisms should not take away from a number of positive contributions made to historical Jesus studies and it may be that Key Events represents a vision of what most historical Jesus scholars see as the future of the sub-field.

Multiple-source Record Linkage in a Rural Industrial Community, 1680–1820

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve King
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Multiple Source ◽  
Demographic Analysis ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Industrial Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Broad Outline

Re-creating the social, economic and demographic life-cycles of ordinary people is one way in which historians might engage with the complex continuities and changes which underlay the development of early modern communities. Little, however, has been written on the ways in which historians might deploy computers, rather than card indexes, to the task of identifying such life cycles from the jumble of the sources generated by local and national administration. This article suggests that multiple-source linkage is central to historical and demographic analysis, and reviews, in broad outline, some of the procedures adopted in a study which aims at large scale life cycle reconstruction.

ON THE REGIME OF COVID-19 EPIDEMIC IN RUSSIA AND ITS IMPACT UPON THE FUEL AND ENERGY COMPLEX, INCLUDING IN EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC SPHERES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Punanova ◽  
Mikhail Rodkin
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Energy Complex ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Modernization ◽  
Mode Of Development ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Regions Of Russia

The mode of development of the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia and the impact of the epidemic on the areas of scientific research, education and functioning of the fuel and energy complex are discussed. The official statistics revealed evidence both of effectivity of the taken anti-epidemic measures in Moscow and of possible cases of incorrectness of statistical data. The social situation and the mode of development of the epidemic in Moscow and in the regions of Russia are essentially different, that reduces the effectiveness of anti-epidemic measures introduced uniformly throughout the whole country. The conditions of the pandemic and quarantine are difficult for everyone, but organizations and persons with a more modern informational character of production adapt to them more easily. In general, it can be suggested that the epidemic besides the very essential losses gives an important impulse for social-economic and political modernization of the society.

Disability as a social phenomenon

2020 ◽  
pp. 22-38
Author(s):  
Natalia Guseva ◽  
Vitaliy Berdutin
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Stage Model ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Rehabilitation Programs ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Consistent Solution ◽  
First Time

At present, the problem of establishing disability is a point at issue in Russia. Despite the fact that medical criteria for disability are being developed very actively, high-quality methods for assessing social hallmarks are still lacking. Since disability is a phenomenon inherent in any society, each state forms a social and economic policy for people with disabilities in accordance with its level of development, priorities and opportunities. We have proposed a three-stage model, which includes a system for the consistent solution of the main tasks aimed at studying the causes and consequences of the problems encountered today in the social protection of citizens with health problems. The article shows why the existing approaches to the determination of disability and rehabilitation programs do not correspond to the current state of Russian society and why a decrease in the rate of persons recognized as disabled for the first time does not indicate an improvement in the health of the population. The authors proposed a number of measures with a view to correcting the situation according to the results of the study.

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