HUMANISTIC ASPECTS OF ECOLOGICAL VALUES IN BUDDHISM AND TAOISM AND THEIR SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE

The tendency to seek the harmonization of the relationship between nature and man is as relevant as ever. In the social value discourse, increase in the role of religion and religions in public space encourages religions themselves to become useful to society with their environmental narratives, and society – to be more attentive to their potential. After all, now the answers to the question of how to save humanity without global losses and how to move from a destructive type of development to a regulated one are as relevant as ever. How to mobilize moral and intellectual potential? It is obvious that global problems affect absolutely all segments of the population: Christians and Buddhists, agnostics and atheists. Undoubtedly, these issues concern churches and their spiritual leaders. In the article, the author reveals humanistic aspects of ecological ideas of the East (on the example of Buddhism and Taoism), explains the resource of Buddhist and Taoist environmental wisdom in its heuristic possibilities for today. Relevant guidelines are important for analysis and reflection, at least because they have mentally shaped the ecological culture of its adherents. And as is known, the ecological construct of a number of Eastern countries is recognized in the West as worthy of approval and imitation for the formation of a model of sustainable development and potential establishment of environmentally friendly society. The author focuses not so much on the dogmatic features of the substantiation of Buddhist and Taoist ideas (in tendencies and directions), as on the identification of their common humanistic logic, which can be understood and accepted by Western people (they do not have to become the followers of relevant Eastern doctrines). The researcher also considers the value potential of the worldview cultures in the aspect of sacralization of the rhythms of nature, reverence for its beauty as an image of wise cosmic “industry”. The article implements the disciplinary interaction of religious studies, applied ethics, aesthetic hermeneutics.

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Reading inquiry through the prism of unemployement

Savoirs de la Précarité / knowledge from precarity ◽

10.17184/eac.3337 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 201-216

Author(s):

Guillaume Heuguet

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Doctoral Students ◽

Science Inquiry ◽

The Political ◽

Social Rights ◽

The Public ◽

Political Role ◽

The Social ◽

The Relationship

This exploratory text starts from a doctoral-unemployed experience and was triggered by the discussions within a collective of doctoral students on this particularly ambiguous status since it is situated between student, unemployed, worker, self-entrepreneur, citizen-subject of social rights or user-commuter in offices and forms. These discussions motivated the reading and commentary of a heterogeneous set of texts on unemployment, precariousness and the functioning of the institutions of the social state. This article thus focuses on the relationship between knowledge and unemployment, as embodied in the public space, in the relationship with Pôle Emploi, and in the academic literature. It articulates a threefold problematic : what is known and said publicly about unemployment? What can we learn from the very experience of the relationship with an institution like Pôle Emploi? How can these observations contribute to an understanding of social science inquiry and the political role of knowledge fromm precariousness?

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The role of an urban festival in public space: case study of the Light Move Festival in Łódź

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Geographica Socio-Oeconomica ◽

10.18778/1508-1117.29.06 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Magdalena Miśkowiec

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Spatial Organization ◽

The Social ◽

Space Case ◽

Social Demographic ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City ◽

Source Of Information

The aim of this article is to examine the relationship between an urban festival and changes in the social and spatial-functional structures in a city. We analyze the Light Move Festival in Łódź as a case study, showing the use of light in emphasizing local identity and cultural heritage. Data for this study was collected by means of interviews with the festival’s organizers. We also present data gathered in a survey conducted among the festival’s participants in 2016. The results show the social-demographic structure of the respondents, frequency of participation and source of information. We present the correlation between the festival’s spatial organization and the guidelines of the “Attractive Urban Spaces 2020+ Program” (Strategie przestrzennegorozwoju Łodzi 2020+ w ramach programu szczegółowego „Atrakcyjneprzestrzenie miejskie 2020+”). The study presents the possibility to use an urban festival as a local potential for building sustainable social and spatial policy. With constant population outflow, such events may help to attract new residents and rebuild the city’s image. It also creates an opportunity to test temporary traffic solutions and to familiarize the residents with them. Considering the revitalization actions undertaken by the city of Łódź, one might ask a question: What kind of impact does The Light Move Festival have on the city of Łódź?

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THE SPIRIT OF REFORM: RELIGIOUS IDEAS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN MODERN AMERICA

Modern Intellectual History ◽

10.1017/s147924431500027x ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 281-292

Author(s):

JOSEPH KIP KOSEK

Keyword(s):

Public Schools ◽

American Revolution ◽

Social Transformation ◽

Prison Reform ◽

Social Significance ◽

The Social ◽

Antebellum Period ◽

The Relationship ◽

Evangelical Theology

Intellectual historians have long appreciated the central role of religious ideas in the movements for social transformation that shaped the early United States. The American Revolution, the nation's original radical event, has for generations sparked investigations into the relationship between evangelical theology and political consciousness. The antebellum period has probably inspired more scholarship on the social significance of religion than any other era, most notably in sensitive and detailed accounts of the antislavery movement, but also in studies of prison reform, public schools, the treatment of people with disabilities, and much else.

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Introduction

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190625849.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Terry Rey

Keyword(s):

Haitian Revolution ◽

Catholic Priest ◽

Scholarly Literature ◽

Coastal Cities ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

The Haitian Revolution ◽

Role Of Religion ◽

The Relationship

The introduction conventionally acquaints the reader with the scope and objectives of the study, which focuses primarily on the relationship between a free black insurgent leader, Romaine-la-Prophétesse, and a French Catholic priest, Abbé Ouvière, during the first months of the Haitian Revolution (1791–1792). The social and political contexts for their relationship are explained, while the book’s key contributions are also forecast. One of these contributions is to broaden our understanding of the role of religion in the Haitian Revolution, a question that in scholarly literature has thus far been largely limited to considerations of Vodou; that Romaine was a deeply pious Catholic and that he achieved something that no other black insurgent leader in the history of the Americas ever did—conquering two coastal cities—underscores our need to also consider Catholic contributions to resistance in the era and region. The introduction closes with a brief chapter outline.

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Muzyka w służbie „naukowego zarządzania” – od tayloryzmu do audiomarketingu

Res Facta Nova. Teksty o muzyce współczesnej ◽

10.14746/rfn.2018.19.2 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 20-27

Author(s):

Sylwia Makomaska

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Social Communication ◽

Communication Process ◽

Scientific Management ◽

Communication Model ◽

Contemporary World ◽

The Social ◽

Acoustic Space ◽

The Relationship

The presence of music in the contemporary world also encompasses its functioning within activities that can be termed “acoustic engineering”. It is a strategy that involves the designing, construction and modification of the acoustic space of a given place by means of programmed music using scientific and technical knowledge. Its purpose is to modify or change the recipients’ responses and behaviour in a way consistent with the values and interests of the sender. In such an approach, music is embedded in the framework of the social communication model, which assumes that the end result of the communication process is to control the recipients’ responses and behaviour (usually unconsciously for them). This strategy primarily concerns activities carried out in public space. The analysis of the selected concepts that use music as an instrument of “scientific management” in the workplaces and at the points of sale (e.g. Muzak and audiomarketing) seems to confirm that music was and is being used as an effective tool for the control and change of the workers or/and consumers behaviour. In this way, the listener is reduced to the role of a responsive recipient and becomes “the slave of the surrounding world”. The purpose of this article is to show the relationship between the “scientific management” doctrine introduced by Frederick Winslow Taylor in 1911 and the selected concepts in which music is treated as a tool of influence. Special attention will be paid to the contemporary activities known as audiomarketing, which, according to the Author, can be regarded as a manifestation of neo-Taylorism.

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Theology in Public Space and Social Movements: Notes from Alain Badiou’s Concept of Event

Open Theology ◽

10.1515/opth-2018-0030 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 395-406

Author(s):

Felipe Gustavo Koch Buttelli ◽

Clint Le Bruyns

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Public Space ◽

Social Order ◽

The Public ◽

Public Role ◽

The Social ◽

Before And After ◽

Role Of Religion ◽

The Church

Abstract The debate over the public role of religion and of theology has become quite urgent. Not only by the evident religious presence in the party politics sphere, nor by its influence in the Brazilian social culture and life, but by the role that theology and, in this case, the churches can have to transform the social order. The present work reinforces the emancipatory potential of theology and the action of the church in the public space, pointing to a priority locus, from which both reflection and practice can be emancipatedly formulated, namely, social movements. Social movements, it will be argued, are the space in which the spark that gives rise to social and political change emerges in reality. In this sense, some notes will be made from the notion of Event of Alain Badiou, which recognizes, so to speak, the unique epiphanic character of the Events that can divide history between before and after, which effectively have a radically transforming character. In this sense, the heuristic potential for the church and theology will be emphasized to engage in the struggles of movements in the experience of the Badiousian Events that we could characterize as based on the paradigm of revelation.

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The problem of periodization of the history of religion

Ukrainian Religious Studies ◽

10.32420/1997.5.91 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 3-8

Author(s):

Borys Lobovyk

Keyword(s):

Religious Studies ◽

Human Being ◽

Religious Development ◽

History Of Religion ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Role Of Religion

An important problem of religious studies, the history of religion as a branch of knowledge is the periodization process of the development of religious phenomenon. It is precisely here, as in focus, that the question of the essence and meaning of the religious development of the human being of the world, the origin of beliefs and cult, the reasons for the changes in them, the place and role of religion in the social and spiritual process, etc., are converging.

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Mediasi Kepuasan Kerja dan Stres Kerja pada Hubungan antara Program Jamsostek dan Kinerja Karyawan Studi Kasus pada Perusahaan Swasta di DIY dan Solo

Jurnal Maksipreneur Manajemen Koperasi dan Entrepreneurship ◽

10.30588/jmp.v3i1.89 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 75

Author(s):

Eny Sulistyowati ◽

Totok Danangdjojo

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Social Security ◽

Job Stress ◽

Work Stress ◽

Program Performance ◽

Social Security Program ◽

Mediating Role ◽

The Social ◽

The Relationship

This study aims to explain the influence of the Social Security program on performance and job satisfaction and job stress as a mediating variable. In addition, this study also describes the effect of job satisfaction on the performance and the effect of work stress on performance. The relationship of each variable in this research is to be measured by conducting a survey on 145 employees of private companies that included in Social Security program on DIY and Solo. Then the path analisys used to test the effect of social security program performance in mediation by job satisfaction, performance and job stress, job satisfaction, and examines the effect on the performance and the effect of work stress on performance. The results showed that the social security program significant positively affects job satisfaction and performance. Job satisfaction was also positively and significantly affect performance. Even though mediating role of job satisfaction in the relationship between social security program performance partial. Because merely direct relationship between social security program with greater performance than the mediating role of job satisfaction. Social Security program did not significantly affect the stress of work, as well as job stress did not significantly affect performance. Therefore, the mediating role of work stress on the relationship between social security program with the performance did not occur. Individual differences and work experience may be a factor that causes no significant relationship between the two variables.

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Religion and the Military

The Oxford Handbook of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190201371.013.25 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 535-552

Author(s):

Leana A. Bouffard ◽

Haerim Jin

Keyword(s):

Criminal Justice ◽

Military Service ◽

Criminal Justice Policy ◽

Future Research ◽

Period Effects ◽

Offending Patterns ◽

Role Of Religion ◽

The Military ◽

The Relationship

This chapter provides an overview of the literature examining the role of religion and military service in the desistance process. It also identifies outstanding issues and directions for future research. It first presents an overview of research examining the role of religion in desistance and highlights measurement issues, potential intervening mechanisms, and a consideration of faith-based programs as criminal justice policy. Next, this chapter covers the relationship between military service and offending patterns, including period effects that explain variation in the relationship, selection effects, and the incorporation of military factors in criminal justice policy and programming. The chapter concludes by highlighting general conclusions from these two bodies of research and questions to be considered in future research.

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The Failure of Functional Theologies of Ministry and the Promise of a Relational Alternative

Ecclesiology ◽

10.1177/1744136605052778 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 27-43

Author(s):

Graham Buxton

Keyword(s):

Pastoral Theology ◽

Pastoral Ministry ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Theological Method ◽

Systematic Theology ◽

The Social ◽

Practical Ministry ◽

Pastoral Theory ◽

The Relationship

AbstractThe author critiques inductive approaches to pastoral theology that rely on the empirical methodology of the social and human sciences, and presents an alternative Christocentric praxis model of pastoral ministry. The result is an attempt to integrate pastoral theory and practice that shifts the perspective away from functionally-determined theologies of ministry to a relationally oriented and hermeneutically coherent model of orthopraxis in which theory and practice interact in a way that is intended to both deepen faith and transform lives. Some of the key themes that inform the discussion are the importance of theological method, the role of the community as the context for care, the relationship between practical ministry and systematic theology, and the notion of praxis in articulating the nature and scope of practical theology today.

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