Czarny Protest: how Polish women took to the streets open Democracy News Analysis – by Kasia Narkowicz After two decades of feminist pressure, the people took to the streets. But why now? Polish women protest against a legislative proposal for a total ban on abortion in Poland. PAimages/Geert Vanden Wijngaert. All rights reserved. Joy and despair in … Read more
Pope Francis set for Turkey visit BBC News | Europe | World Edition Pope Francis is set to visit Turkey for what is being billed as a historic trip to help interfaith dialogue in the country. Pope set to visit Turkey under security clampdown Pope Francis is set to visit Turkey to meet with top officials and … Read more
The sagas of apokastasis[i] are as old as human thought, sentiment and mythogenesis. Karl Gustav Jung extends the tradition back to the ancients? efforts at cosmogony: he maintains that the allegory of cyclic, repeated patterns of life-following-death is an aspect of the hero archetype[ii] ; a manifestation, among other things, of a desire to be … Read more
Implicated and enraged: an interview with Judith Butler from The Immanent Frame by Nathan Schneider Judith Butler, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is among the leading social theorists alive today. Her most recent books are Frames of War (2009) and The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (2011), an SSRC … Read more