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author | Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu> | 2016-12-29 23:58:00 +0100 |
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diff --git a/research/miracle.rst b/research/miracle.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0a6c016 --- /dev/null +++ b/research/miracle.rst @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Boston Miracle as a religious experience +######################################## + +:date: 2005-06-22T23:09:00 +:category: research +:tags: dissertation, BostonMiracle + +It was very interesting comment by Amy Farell—the important part of the +Boston Miracle is that it was described so much with the religious +subtone. City deeply immersed in the desperation, sin, and murder is +saved by the mission of pastors, who redeem poor black teenagers! It’s a +miracle!!! + +This comment reminded me also about my thoughts when reading +`Christopher Winship’s article`_. In the latter readings of this article +I saw quite strongly lack of critical attitude towards the object of his +writing, yes the article looks to me like a hagiography_ of +saint-to-be Eugene Rivers, Ray Hammond and police officers who talked +with them. I am not saying that they are not incredibly interesting +people (and maybe even candidates for sainthood; I am not a Catholic, so +I am not knowledgeable in that matter), but that scholarly article is +supposed to go deeper in its understanding. No, that’s too much—Winship +does offer a lot of analysis and it goes certainly further than just to +the description of the story. However, only later I found that there are +many other opinions on the whole preachers’ collaboration with police +and city government—namely that African-American (and I use this term +deliberately, instead of preferred “black”) politicians viewed whole +partnership as something between collaboration with enemy and expression +of the endless naivity `(CommonWealth magazine, Fall 2003, p. 66)`_. I +would love to look in my research to both of this debate. Although, I +have a tendency to believe volunteering minister more than unsuccesful +politican, I do not want to write yet another chapter in Eugene Rivers +hagiology. + +.. _`Christopher Winship’s article`: + http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/winship/winshipp1.pdf +.. _hagiography: + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagiography +.. _`(CommonWealth magazine, Fall 2003, p. 66)`: + http://www.massinc.org/handler.cfm?type=1&target=2003%2D4/black_power.html |