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Lent: Frames of Reference and a Global Perspective (Scholar’s Compass)

March 1, 2015 by Kevin Birth No Comments

Anthropologist Kevin Birth explores the church calendar in the second of a two part series.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: anthropology, Bolivia, clock, lent, Lent 2015, Scholar's Compass, time

How would you describe your “time consciousness?”

October 12, 2012 by Tom Grosh IV 1 Comment

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While reading Kevin Birth‘s Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality, I wondered if weekends provide an opportunity to tell time differently. There is a danger in viewing the clock as necessary for certain cognitive tasks simply because we use it for those tasks. The importance of clock time in twenty-first-century economic practices cannot be used as grounds for assuming that it […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: canonical hours, clock, cognition, horological thought, Kevin Birth, Middle Ages, Objects of Time, time, time management

“What, then, is time?”

October 11, 2012 by Tom Grosh IV 4 Comments

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As some of you know, I’ve been enjoying ESN blogger/mentor Kevin Birth‘s provocative Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY: 2012). Augustine of Hippo wrote, “What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it to someone who asks me, I do not know” […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: Astronomy, Augustine, calendar, clock, cognition, cross-cultural communication, Derrida, Kevin Birth, Objects of Time, physics, time, time management

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