Articles
o  Justice for All
o  Church in Decline
o  Striking Similarity
o  The Efficacy of Prayer
o  Are You Ready for Change?
o  A Question of Vocation
o  The Challenge of Change
o  Elul 24
o  Elul 23
o  Elul 22

Series [All]
o  Administration
o  Elul 5777 (9)
o  Exploring Translation Theories (25)
o  Live Like You Give a Damn
o  Memory and Identity
o  The Creative Word (19)
o  The Cross-Cultural Process (7)
o  The Old Testament is Dying
o  The Oral Gospel Tradition (4)
o  We the People (8)

Archive

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Class behaviour

Commemorative Identities: Jewish Social Memory and the Johannine Feast of Booths,
Mary B. Spaulding, T&T Clark, 2009, page 2

During times of significant societal crisis and change, human beings do not readily and willingy accept the total transformation or elimination of all previous mnemonic associations. Instead they cling to familiar patterns of behaviour in order to ward off threats to their corporate identity caused by the crisis.

Posted By Jonathan, 8:23am Comment Comments: