Christopher Swift
Biographic Data
| ID | 5596869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Swift |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Swift |
| SIGNATURE | SWIFT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swift Engineering (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Play Time
Reviewed by: Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism and Temporality in Medieval Biblical Drama by Daisy Black Christopher Swift Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism And Temporality In Medieval Biblical Drama. By Daisy Black. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020; pp. 248. On the subject of late medieval English plays, Daisy Black's Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism and Temporality in Medieval Biblical Drama gambols among three important critical inq…
Hospital Chaplaincy in the Twenty-first Century
The place of religion in public life continues to be a much-debated topic in Western nations. This book charts the changing role of hospital chaplains and examines through detailed case studies the realities of practice and the political debates which either threaten or sustain the service. This second edition includes a new introduction and updated material throughout to present fresh insights and research about chaplaincy, including in relation…
Playing God
June 01 2017 Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage. By HenryBial. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015; 260 pp.; illustrations. $80.00 cloth, $29.95 paper, e-book available. Christopher Swift Christopher Swift Christopher Swift is Assistant Professor of Theatre at New York City College of Technology, City University of New York, where he teaches play analysis, theatre history, and inter…
Hospital Chaplaincy in the Twenty-first Century
Issues of faith and spirituality have been resurgent in the UK since the opening of the twenty-first century. This book charts the impact of shifting attitudes towards spirituality through the experiences of health care chaplains. Rooted in a new and challenging interpretation of the chaplain's work in the past, the book moves on to describe a current crisis in the nature of spiritual care. Using the tools of practical theology to analyze these e…
A Handbook of Chaplaincy Studies
Robot Saints
In the Middle Ages, articulating religious figures like wooden Deposition crucifixes and ambulatory saints were tools for devotion, techno-mythological objects that distilled the wonders of engineering and holiness. Robots are gestures toward immortality, created in the face of the undeniable fact and experience of the ongoing decay of our fleshy bodies. Both like and unlike human beings, robots and androids occupy a nebulous perceptual realm bet…
Academic Engagement
Radical Theatricality
Reviewed by: Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish Stage Christopher Swift Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish Stage. By Bruce R. Burningham. Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, vol. 39. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2007; pp. xii + 260. $43.95 paper. It is a common trope that the writing of theatre history is haunted by the ultimate irretrievability of the instan…
"Are They Refugees?" Why Church of England Male Clergy Enter Healthcare Chaplaincy
This article reports on the results from a recent research project that sought to identify the most influential factors in why Church of England clergy enter employment in healthcare chaplaincy. Areas of enquiry included positive or negative experiences of and attitudes towards parish and sector ministry; personal circumstances; attitudes towards ministry and the Church/healthcare provider; preferences for work/personal boundaries and the sense o…
Robot Saints
In the Middle Ages, articulating religious figures like wooden Deposition crucifixes and ambulatory saints were tools for devotion, techno-mythological objects that distilled the wonders of engineering and holiness. Robots are gestures toward immortality, created in the face of the undeniable fact and experience of the ongoing decay of our fleshy bodies. Both like and unlike human beings, robots and androids occupy a nebulous perceptual realm bet…
"Are They Refugees?" Why Church of England Male Clergy Enter Healthcare Chaplaincy
This article reports on the results from a recent research project that sought to identify the most influential factors in why Church of England clergy enter employment in healthcare chaplaincy. Areas of enquiry included positive or negative experiences of and attitudes towards parish and sector ministry; personal circumstances; attitudes towards ministry and the Church/healthcare provider; preferences for work/personal boundaries and the sense o…
Radical Theatricality
Reviewed by: Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish Stage Christopher Swift Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish Stage. By Bruce R. Burningham. Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, vol. 39. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2007; pp. xii + 260. $43.95 paper. It is a common trope that the writing of theatre history is haunted by the ultimate irretrievability of the instan…
Academic Engagement
Robot Saints
In the Middle Ages, articulating religious figures like wooden Deposition crucifixes and ambulatory saints were tools for devotion, techno-mythological objects that distilled the wonders of engineering and holiness. Robots are gestures toward immortality, created in the face of the undeniable fact and experience of the ongoing decay of our fleshy bodies. Both like and unlike human beings, robots and androids occupy a nebulous perceptual realm bet…
Hospital Chaplaincy in the Twenty-first Century
Issues of faith and spirituality have been resurgent in the UK since the opening of the twenty-first century. This book charts the impact of shifting attitudes towards spirituality through the experiences of health care chaplains. Rooted in a new and challenging interpretation of the chaplain's work in the past, the book moves on to describe a current crisis in the nature of spiritual care. Using the tools of practical theology to analyze these e…
A Handbook of Chaplaincy Studies
Hospital Chaplaincy in the Twenty-first Century
The place of religion in public life continues to be a much-debated topic in Western nations. This book charts the changing role of hospital chaplains and examines through detailed case studies the realities of practice and the political debates which either threaten or sustain the service. This second edition includes a new introduction and updated material throughout to present fresh insights and research about chaplaincy, including in relation…
Playing God
June 01 2017 Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage. By HenryBial. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015; 260 pp.; illustrations. $80.00 cloth, $29.95 paper, e-book available. Christopher Swift Christopher Swift Christopher Swift is Assistant Professor of Theatre at New York City College of Technology, City University of New York, where he teaches play analysis, theatre history, and inter…
Play Time
Reviewed by: Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism and Temporality in Medieval Biblical Drama by Daisy Black Christopher Swift Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism And Temporality In Medieval Biblical Drama. By Daisy Black. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020; pp. 248. On the subject of late medieval English plays, Daisy Black's Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism and Temporality in Medieval Biblical Drama gambols among three important critical inq…
Art (6 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Drama (2 works)