Year: 2003
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JC's place – progress report
Mary Guerra Ben P. Johnson Yongho Kim Anthropology (248) of Religion October 29, 2003 Progress Report on Class Project We have chosen the JC’s place as our field site. JC’s place is (apparently) an inter-confessional youth program developed by the Emmanuel Christian Center that holds worship services on Wednesdays at 7:00 PM, consisting of praise […]
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European Court of Human Rights
KJ, SK. Group 9 This section opens with a detailed account of the Lustig- Prean and Beckett case that came before the European Court of Human Rights. These two British nationals complained that investigations into their homosexuality their discharge from the Royal Navy on the sole ground that they are homosexual violated Article 8 of […]
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Anointment
Yongho Kim October 27, 2003 Anthropology (248) of Religion Members of the Holiness Church (the Sign Followers) of Eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, and elsewhere in the U.S., maintain that faith alone is not enough to prepare a believer to handle serpents, speak in tongues, heal through prayer, etc. Describe what is required of a believer […]
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Response to the European Convention and the Case of Homosexuality
Monday, October 27. Group 8: AT, AW, Yongho Kim Response to the European Convention and the Case of Homosexuality The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms System constitutes a model and a standard of its own in terms of effectiveness in enforcing Human Rights among its members. The Convention was […]
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Gender
Yongho Kim Anthropology (248) of Religion October 20, 2003 Almost everywhere, religious beliefs and rituals blend with/reflect cultural constructions of gender. Why is this the case? And why is it so widespread that women are most vulnerable to accusations of harming others via their access to supernatural power? Try to analyze these puzzling situations using […]
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ICCPR Mechanism
CH, JM. Discussion Group 7 What kinds of complaints are brought before the ICCPR? How does it differ from other treaty regimes? One of the components of the ICCPR Human Rights Committee is an optional protocol (ratified by 95 of the 144 states as of March 2000), with a critical provision stating that communications must be […]