Prisoners Of Hope Research Articles

Prisoners of Hope: Intra-Prison Community Resources of Chilean Pentecostalism Between 1925 and 1950

Prisoners of Hope: Intra-Prison Community Resources of Chilean Pentecostalism Between 1925 and 1950

“Love is our lord’s meaning”: Spiritual formation in Julian of Norwich and Desmond Tutu

This article journeys to a medieval century, to a remote figure, and to distant historical events that might mirror Desmond Tutu’s (1931–2021) context—possibly shed light on his spirituality. It is suggested that Desmond Tutu’s devotion and vision may invoke a unique Christian who remains influential among Anglicans/Episcopalians: Julian of Norwich (c. 1342/3–c. 1416). A child during a plague, an adult during civil strife, and a schooled theologian during her final years, Julian exhibited an embodied spiritual discipline echoing, perhaps, the “prayer and work” of Desmond Tutu. The Revelations to Julian began with the torment of crucifixion and ended with the disclosure of their purpose as “love” ( Rev. 86: 14). How Julian engaged with the God of these “shewings” might recall two “prisoners of hope” who, in their own challenging contexts, believed that ultimately “alle shalle be wele” ( Vis. 13: 61; Rev. 27: 28).

Economic Challenges and Students’ Persistence at Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University (ZEGU) in Zimbabwe

Using Vincent Tinto’s persistence framework and human agency perspective, we ask how economic challenges impact students’ sense of self-efficacy, their sense of belonging and students’ perception of the curriculum. In times of economic difficulties, the importance students attach to education often declines, as they fear to be examples of graduates without jobs. Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University’s (ZEGU) unique Christian outlook is discussed as somewhat stifling the students’ sense of belonging. Despite their initial motivation and desire to complete their university education, financial difficulties are resulting in some students deferring their studies whereas other students are balancing education and survival strategies. As agentic beings, students are strategically calculating and showing resilience to cope with the challenges through being “prisoners of hope,” transactional relationships and entrepreneurial activities.

A Systemic Perspective

A Systemic Perspective

Prisoners of Hope: On a Hebrew Baroque Drama

Prisoners of Hope: On a Hebrew Baroque Drama

Prisoners of Hope: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism. By WoodsRandall B.. New York: Basic Books, 2016. 480 pp.

Prisoners of Hope: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism<i>. </i>By WoodsRandall B.. New York: Basic Books, 2016. 480 pp.

Prisoners of Hope: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism

In Prisoners of Hope Randall B. Woods places reform efforts of the 1960s in the longer tradition of American liberalism. “Like Populism, Progressivism, and the New Deal,” he writes, “the Great Society was an effort to update and preserve liberal capitalism,” using the power of the state to empower individuals and enhance their lives (p. 392). In essence, as the final clause of the subtitle suggests, Lyndon B. Johnson's program was modern liberalism stretched to its limit, or, as others have put it, liberalism's high tide. The Great Society's uniqueness within this tradition comprised its greatest triumphs and its greatest tragedies. Most prominent among the former was the program's direct assault on Jim Crow via landmark civil rights legislation. But Woods's most interesting points, in a book that makes no bones about its sympathies for the Great Society, are in his analysis of the program's failings. He suggests that what might have been the Great Society's most admirable quality was also its tragic flaw: President Johnson's adamant, hopeful appeal to consensus, even as the center was clearly failing to hold. He—and the Great Society as a whole—were prisoners of hope. Amid economic growth, it seemed possible to lead a broad American consensus in a fight for social and economic justice. Woods concludes, however, that, with the exception of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, “a suprapartisan, centrist consensus favoring liberal programs for the poor, powerless, neglected segments of the American population did not seem to exist” (p. 398). Even Johnson's allies were often skeptical of his brand of liberal pragmatism and its tendency to compromise, especially on issues of racial justice and war. And conservatives often pitted American individualism and the politics of fiscal responsibility against his liberal nationalism. Woods convincingly and engagingly catalogs the Great Society's numerous accomplishments, achieved despite near-constant dissent, LBJ's tendency to negotiate, and the relative brevity of the program's moment as fewer and fewer Americans (in Congress or on the streets) tolerated its pragmatism.

"Prisoners of Hope" or "Amnesia"?The Italian Holocaust Survivors and Their Aliyah to Israel

"Prisoners of Hope" or "Amnesia"?The Italian Holocaust Survivors and Their Aliyah to Israel

The Disintegration of the British Empire and the Nationalist Cases of India and Israel: A Comparative AnalysisAllon Gal is Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History, and Co-Chairperson of the English-Speaking Countries Programme, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Isaac Lubelsky teaches Modern Indian History at Tel Aviv University, Israel. This article is partly based on a paper presented by Professor Gal at the

The states of India and Israel gained independence in August 1947 and May 1948 respectively. Both pre-state communities were under British rule before independence, India for some two hundred years...

Prisoners of hope? Aspects of evangelical millennialism in Britain and Ireland, 1800–1880. Edited by Crawford Gribben and Timothy C. Stunt. (Studies in Evangelical History and Thought.) Pp. xiv+215. Carlisle: Paternoster, 2004. £19.99 (paper). 1 84227 224 1 A story of conflict. The controversial relationship between Benjamin Willis Newton and John Nelson Darby. By Jonathan D. Burnham. (Studies in Evangelical History

Prisoners of hope? Aspects of evangelical millennialism in Britain and Ireland, 1800–1880. Edited by Crawford Gribben and Timothy C. Stunt. (Studies in Evangelical History and Thought.) Pp. xiv+215. Carlisle: Paternoster, 2004. £19.99 (paper). 1 84227 224 1 A story of conflict. The controversial relationship between Benjamin Willis Newton and John Nelson Darby. By Jonathan D. Burnham. (Studies in Evangelical History and Thought.) Pp. xxiii+276. Carlisle: Paternoster, 2004. £19.99 (paper). 1 84227 191 1 Searching for the true Church. Brethren and Evangelicals in mid-twentieth-century England. By Roger Shuff. (Studies in Evangelical History and Thought.) Pp. xvii+303. Carlisle: Paternoster, 2004. £19.99 (paper). 1 84227 254 3 - Volume 58 Issue 1

“Prisoners of Hope”: Jews, Christians, and the Defining Issues of Dialogue

Jews and Christians are still only at the beginning of a long overdue process of examining their troubled relationship and replacing it with one built upon mutual respect, understanding, and knowledge. This article reviews four defining issues that remain front and center in Jewish-Christian dialogue as that process of examination continues to unfold: The religious roots of anti-Semitism, the impact of modern Israel and Jerusalem upon Jews and Christians, being faithful Jews and Christians after the Holocaust, and the meanings of mission, witness, and “ teshuvah” (Hebrew for “turning” or “repentance”). Though the treatment of these issues in this article is, of necessity, brief and presented in generalities, that does not diminish their central importance in the current Christian-Jewish encounter. I believe there is a dedicated group of Christians and Jews who have gained the trust of one another and who remain what the prophet Zechariah calls “prisoners of hope” in building constructive relations between their two communities.

THE PRISONERS OF HOPE: CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE OPPOSITION IN ZIMBABWE

There are many debates as to what constitutes the essence of our African humanity and, indeed, Zimbabwean-ness. The country has had a difficult but illustrious history characterised by turmoil and tenacity, chaos and courage, corruption and compassion. Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda once described forgiveness as “a constant willingness to live in a new day”. In this article I intend to demonstrate why there has not been any revolt in Zimbabwe, despite unparalleled repression. Perhaps it is the ingrained capacity of Zimbabweans to constantly hope for a new day that has made us prisoners of hope. I wish to focus my comments on the effect the ZANU-PF's authoritarian regime has had on political opposition in Zimbabwe, on the architecture of civil society, and in particular on the role of civil society organisations. A particular area of concern is the threat to their functioning posed by the new NGO Bill.

Prisoner of hope

Prisoner of hope

Prisoners of hope: exploiting the POW/MIA myth in America

Prisoners of hope: exploiting the POW/MIA myth in America

Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope, by Judith M. Brown

<i>Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope,</i> by Judith M. Brown

Gandhi: prisoner of hope. By Judith M. Brown. pp. xiv, 440, front., illus., 2 maps. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1989. £16.95.

Gandhi: prisoner of hope. By Judith M. Brown. pp. xiv, 440, front., illus., 2 maps. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1989. £16.95.

Book Review: Prisoners of Hope

Book Review: Prisoners of Hope

Book reviews

Dominance and State Power in Modern India: Decline of a Social Order edited by Francine Frankel and M.S.A. Rao, Volume I (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1989, 443 pp., £12.95) and Volume II (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1990, 555 pp., £12.95). Hindu Nationalism and Indian Politics: The Origins and Deveopment of Bharatiya Jana Sangh by Bruce D. Graham (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990 pp. XII+283, £27.50 ($44.50)). Elite and Social Change: A Study of Elite Formation in India by Suren Navlakha (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1989, pp. 190, £25 hb). The Presidential System: The Indian Debate by A. G. Noorani. (New Delhi, London, Sage, 1990, pp. 155, £22.50). Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope by Judith M. Brown (Yale, Yale University Press, 1989, pp.xii + 440, £25). India's Mixed Economy: The Role of Ideology and Interest in its Development by Baldev Raj Nayar (Bombay, Popular Prakashan, 1989, pp. xi + 421, Rs.350). Dislodging Multinationals: India's Strategy in Comparative Perspective by Denis J. Encarnation (Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1989, pp. xiii + 237). The State of Martial Law: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence by Ayesha Jalal (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. xi + 328, £35). Pakistan: Political and Economic History since 1947 by Omar Noman (London, Kegan Paul International, 1990, pp. xiii + 223, £7.95). The Last Colony in Africa: Diplomacy and the Independence of Rhodesia by Michael Charlton (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. xi + 164, £19.95). The Politics of Reconciliation by Victor de Waal (London, C. Hurst, 1990, pp. xiv + 146, £6.95). State Politics in Zimbabwe by Jeffrey Herbst (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1990, pp. xvi + 283, $38.00). The Failure of the Centralized State: Institutions and Self‐Governance in Africa edited by James S. Wunsch and Dele Olowu (Oxford, Westview Press, 1990, pp. 334, £22.50). Towards the Third Nigerian Republic edited by Arnold Hughes (Birmingham, Centre of West African Studies, 1990, pp. 42, £3.50). From Apartheid to Nation‐Building by Hermann Giliomee and Lawrence Schlemmer (Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. x + 256, £5.95). South Africa: The Sanctions Report: Documents and Statistics edited by Joseph Hanlon (London, The Commonwealth Secretariat in association with James Currey and Heinemann, 1990, pp. 342, £11.95). Conflict Resolution in Uganda edited by Kumar Rupesinghe (Peace Research Monograph 16, International Peace Research Institute, Fuglehauggata 11, N‐Oslo 2, Norway, 1989, distributed by James Currey, London, £9.95 pb.). Africa's Way: A Journey from the Past by Laurence Cockroft (London, I.B. Tauris, 1990, pp. xii +231, £14.95). Capitalism, Socialism and the Development Crisis in Tanzania edited by Norman O'Neill and Kemal Mustafa (Aldershot, Avebury, Gower Publishing Company, 1990, pp. xiv + 281). The Policy Factor: Agricultural Performance in Kenya and Tanzania by Michael F. Lofchie (Heinemann Kenya, Nairobi and Lynne Reinner Publishers, London, 1990). Australia Towards 2000 edited by Brian Hocking (London, Macmillan, 1990, pp. 318, £35.00). The New Zealand Foreign Affairs Handbook by Steve Hoadley (Oxford University Press/OUP New Zealand, 1989, pp. 176, £18.50 pb.). The Masks of Proteus: Canadian Reflections on the State by Philip Resnick (Montreal, McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1990, pp. xii + 340, £37). Canada (World Bibliographical Series, volume 62) compiled by Ernest Ingles, with introduction by James Pitsula (Oxford, Santa Barbara and Denver, Clio Press, 1990, pp. xxx + 393, map, £55.95). Waiting for the Revolution. A History of Australian Nationalism by Noel McLachlan (Ringwood, Victoria, Australia, Penguin Books Australia, 1989, pp. x +388, $A 24.99 pb.).

Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope.

Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope.

Reviews and Short Notices

Reviews and Short Notices