Arlene Macdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 3934704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arlene Macdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arlene |
| FAMILY NAME | Macdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MACDONALD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The case of the Guru Nanak Emergency Services Department: Sikh therapeutic geographies
Hijab envy’: The visible angst of immigrant Christians in a pluralist Canada
This article explores the predilection of Christians of immigrant background to perceive themselves as a disadvantaged group in the new reality of Canada’s growing religious diversity. The present inquiry challenges loss as the definitive emotional register for Christian engagement with Canada’s new religious minorities, demonstrating that religious minorities have elicited begrudging admiration and envy from their Christian counterparts. This in…
The Implicit Religion of Organs: Transformative Experiences, Enduring Connections and Sensuous Nations
Religion is not absent from the study of organ transplant. However, it is the formal, explicit components of religion that are attended to. This paper argues the concept of implicit religion more aptly describes and evaluates the language, rituals and symbols that pervade recipient narratives, transplant communities and broader public discourse about organ exchange. Drawing on ethnographic research with transplant recipients and other transplant …
Immortal Organs: Spirituality in the Resurrected Lives of Organ Transplant Recipients
At the heart of the scholarly critique of organ transplant is an unshakeable conviction that the zeal for transplantation stems from a misguided endeavour to resist death indefinitely and unnaturally. Based on ethnographic research with recipients about the religious or spiritual import of their transplant, this article argues that the immortality organ recipients seek is not a simple hunger to live longer but a complex rendering of eternal life …
Nutcracker: Waltzing with Tradition
Hoffmans psychologically complex manuscript was a rather odd choice for a ballet intended as an entertaining finale to the performance of a full-length, serious opera, the standard programming sequence for St. Petersburg's cultured audiences.The ballet that premiered December 6, 1892 in St. Petersburg tells the story of a young girl who receives a wooden Nutcracker from her mysterious but kindly godfather during a family Christmas party.She is as…
Hijab envy’: The visible angst of immigrant Christians in a pluralist Canada
This article explores the predilection of Christians of immigrant background to perceive themselves as a disadvantaged group in the new reality of Canada’s growing religious diversity. The present inquiry challenges loss as the definitive emotional register for Christian engagement with Canada’s new religious minorities, demonstrating that religious minorities have elicited begrudging admiration and envy from their Christian counterparts. This in…
Nutcracker: Waltzing with Tradition
Hoffmans psychologically complex manuscript was a rather odd choice for a ballet intended as an entertaining finale to the performance of a full-length, serious opera, the standard programming sequence for St. Petersburg's cultured audiences.The ballet that premiered December 6, 1892 in St. Petersburg tells the story of a young girl who receives a wooden Nutcracker from her mysterious but kindly godfather during a family Christmas party.She is as…
Immortal Organs: Spirituality in the Resurrected Lives of Organ Transplant Recipients
At the heart of the scholarly critique of organ transplant is an unshakeable conviction that the zeal for transplantation stems from a misguided endeavour to resist death indefinitely and unnaturally. Based on ethnographic research with recipients about the religious or spiritual import of their transplant, this article argues that the immortality organ recipients seek is not a simple hunger to live longer but a complex rendering of eternal life …
The Implicit Religion of Organs: Transformative Experiences, Enduring Connections and Sensuous Nations
Religion is not absent from the study of organ transplant. However, it is the formal, explicit components of religion that are attended to. This paper argues the concept of implicit religion more aptly describes and evaluates the language, rituals and symbols that pervade recipient narratives, transplant communities and broader public discourse about organ exchange. Drawing on ethnographic research with transplant recipients and other transplant …
Hijab envy’: The visible angst of immigrant Christians in a pluralist Canada
This article explores the predilection of Christians of immigrant background to perceive themselves as a disadvantaged group in the new reality of Canada’s growing religious diversity. The present inquiry challenges loss as the definitive emotional register for Christian engagement with Canada’s new religious minorities, demonstrating that religious minorities have elicited begrudging admiration and envy from their Christian counterparts. This in…
The case of the Guru Nanak Emergency Services Department: Sikh therapeutic geographies
Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)