2. Concepts & Context
• Intellectual Empathy
• Social Imaginaries
• Language as System
• Art & Music
• Shalom Living
• Culture Jammers
Israel
3. Intellectual Empathy
“Having a consciousness of the
need to imaginatively put
oneself in the place of others in
order to genuinely understand
them, which requires the
consciousness of our egocentric
tendency to identify truth with
our immediate perceptions of
long-standing thought or belief.”
Linda Elder and Paul Richard
Bedouin Music in Negev Desert
4. Social Imaginaries
“…the ways people imagine their social existence…” Charles Taylor
“Our Father” in Aramaic
Maronite
Church
Prayer
book in
Aramaic
and
Arabic
5. Language as System
“Our speech does not so much reflect our inner
world as instantiate and reproduce discrete spheres
of language as system. To put the point differently,
language is less something 'within' our minds or
selves than something around us in the societal
structure…” Anthony Elliott
http://www.handinhandk12.org/
Hand in Hand School
Center for Jewish-Arab
Education
Jerusalem Youth Choir
– Jews & Arabs
6. Art & Music
“Kissing a painting or a statue was a common way of expressing
devotion…” Asa Briggs and Peter Burke
Norik Manoukian and Aleve Family Musicians
Icon from oldest church
in Jerusalem (Armenian)
Perfumed top of tomb of Jesus
in Greek Orthodox Church
7. Shalom Living
• “shalom living” consists of living a “…faithful presence…[it is] a
way of living which includes „flourishing people‟ – acting in ways
of sacrificial love and support…” James Hunter
Haifa, Israel
Yuval Ron Ensemble and Sufis performing “Shalom Salaam” Baha‟i Gardens
8. System Jammers
“We do not live in the Matrix, nor
do we live in the spectacle. The
world that we live in is in fact
much more prosaic. It consists of
billions of human beings, each
pursuing some more or less
plausible conception of the good,
trying to cooperate with one
another, and doing so with varying
degrees of success.”
Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter
Member of
“Women of the Wall”
http://womenofthewall.org.il/
9. Texts
• Briggs, Asa, and Peter Burke. Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the
Internet. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009.
• Elder, Linda, and Richard Paul. The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts
and Tools. Kindle ed. Tomales, CA: The Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2009.
• Elliott, Anthony. Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction. Kindle ed. New York:
Routledge, 2009.
• Heath, Joseph, and Andrew Potter. The Rebel Sell: How the Counter Culture
Became Consumer Culture. Chichester: Capstone Publishing Ltd, 10, 2005.
• Hunter, James Davison. To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of
Christianity in the Late Modern World. New York: Oxford University Press, 252,
2010.
• Taylor, Charles. Modern Social Imaginaries Public Planet Books. Durham: Duke
University Press, 244-250, 2004.
