Word: misunderstoodness
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...Seriously What Rabbi Has to Say' is a message that will be picked up by anyone who reads their diocesan paper," says Fisher of the Bishops' conference. Amy-Jill Levine, a Jew who teaches New Testament studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and has her own Jesus book, The Misunderstood Jew, says both undergrads and interfaith experts can profit from the Neusner-Benedict exchange. Rabbi James Rudin, senior interreligious adviser to the American Jewish Committee, says it is in some ways "the full maturation of the modern Catholic-Jewish encounter." But perhaps it may mature further still. Asked what...
...problems in Afghanistan, but do we really need to talk about these things? At this time?" There's probably a grain of truth there--there's something distinctively American and confessional about Hosseini's work. He shrugs. For the first time he sounds a little angry. "I guess I misunderstood what the role of fiction was. Because I never thought it was about writing things that everybody agrees about, that make everybody feel warm and fuzzy inside. I guess it's my Western sensibility, now that I've lived here for so long, that I feel like these are things...
...outlaw is king: parodying fairy tales has become the default mode of telling them. 2005's Hoodwinked! reimagined Little Red Riding Hood as a crime Rashomon, while this year's Happily N'Ever After sent up Cinderella. Broadway smash Wicked posits that the Wicked Witch of the West was misunderstood. This fall Disney (et tu, Mickey?) releases Enchanted, in which a princess (Amy Adams) is magically banished by an evil queen to modern New York City, where she must fend for herself, parodying her princess foremothers as she goes. (Snow White's Whistle While You Work scene is re-enacted...
...highest-grossing show on Broadway, with three more companies setting box-office records around the country. And the show's most avid fans are tween girls, who have connected with its themes of friendship, prejudice and self-realization--identifying with Elphaba, the "wicked" witch who's actually just misunderstood...
...There’s an incredibly vibrant tradition of religious art.” Viddal is currently a third-year graduate student in the department of African and African-American studies, where she is also a Teaching Fellow. She said that she wanted to bring this often-misunderstood art to a wider audience. “Because of people’s stereotypes of Haiti, because it’s perceived as a place that’s dangerous to visit,” Viddal said, “I don’t think it has the outlet...