Volunteering, Charitable Work, and Muslims: Divine Inspiration, Parallel Networks, and Facts on the Ground

2019 ◽  
pp. 43-67
Author(s):  
Thijl Sunier
Keyword(s):  
Divine Inspiration ◽  
Parallel Networks

Esotericism and the “Coded Word” in Mormonism

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-54
Author(s):  
Clyde Forsberg Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Popular Religion ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Social Commentary ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Book Of Mormon ◽  
Divine Inspiration ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
New Religion

In the history of American popular religion, the Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, have undergone a series of paradigmatic shifts in order to join the Christian mainstream, abandoning such controversial core doctrines and institutions as polygamy and the political kingdom of God. Mormon historians have played an important role in this metamorphosis, employing a version (if not perversion) of the Church-Sect Dichotomy to change the past in order to control the future, arguing, in effect, that founder Joseph Smith Jr’s erstwhile magical beliefs and practices gave way to a more “mature” and bible-based self-understanding which is then said to best describe the religion that he founded in 1830. However, an “esoteric approach” as Faivre and Hanegraaff understand the term has much to offer the study of Mormonism as an old, new religion and the basis for a more even methodological playing field and new interpretation of Mormonism as equally magical (Masonic) and biblical (Evangelical) despite appearances. This article will focus on early Mormonism’s fascination with and employment of ciphers, or “the coded word,” essential to such foundation texts as the Book of Mormon and “Book of Abraham,” as well as the somewhat contradictory, albeit colonial understanding of African character and destiny in these two hermetic works of divine inspiration and social commentary in the Latter-day Saint canonical tradition.

Text Prophetism

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Elvira Lumi ◽  
Lediona Lumi
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Greek Mythology ◽  
Divine Inspiration ◽  
Religious Doctrine ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
Poetic Diction ◽  
Life On Earth

"Utterance universalism" as a phrase is unclear, but it is enough to include the term "prophetism". As a metaphysical concept, it refers to a text written with inspiration which confirms visions of a "divine inspiration", "poetic" - "legal", that contains trace, revelation or interpretation of the origin of the creation of the world and life on earth but it warns and prospects their future in the form of a projection, literary paradigm, religious doctrine and law. Prophetic texts reformulate "toll-telling" with messages, ideas, which put forth (lat. "Utters Forth" gr. "Forthteller") hidden facts from fiction and imagination. Prometheus, gr. Prometheus (/ prəmiθprə-mee-mo means "forethought") is a Titan in Greek mythology, best known as the deity in Greek mythology who was the creator of humanity and charity of its largest, who stole fire from the mount Olympus and gave it to the mankind. Prophetic texts derive from a range of artifacts and prophetic elements, as the creative magic or the miracle of literary texts, symbolism, musicality, rhythm, images, poetic rhetoric, valence of meaning of the text, code of poetic diction that refers to either a singer in a trance or a person inspired in delirium, who believes he is sent by his God with a message to tell about events and figures that have existed, or the imaginary ancient and modern world. Text Prophetism is a combination of artifacts and platonic idealism. Key words: text Prophetism, holy text, poetic text, law text, vision, image, figure

Women, Wax, and Anatomy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Dacome
Keyword(s):  
Divine Inspiration ◽  
Continuity And Discontinuity

Chapter 4 follows Anna Morandi’s activities after her husband’s death, reconstructing the setting in which she consolidated her role as a celebrity and recipient of papal patronage. It situates Morandi’s waxworks within a diversified world of wax modelling that was characterized by patterns of continuity and discontinuity among devotional, artistic, and anatomical displays. Moreover, it reads the pope’s patronage of Morandi against the backdrop of his concerns for the authenticity of claims of divine inspiration in the context of saint-making. Likewise, it juxtaposes Morandi’s activities with those of Laura Chiarini, a Bolognese nun whose abilities as a wax modeller were taken to be the measure of her divine inspiration. It suggests that while Chiarini’s wax modelling performances represented a model of inspiration that was carefully scrutinized, Morandi’s activities as an anatomist and a trustworthy modeller of nature instantiated an example of female accomplishment that met with papal approval.

scholarly journals A nonlinear strain-rate dependent constitutive model for uncured rubber materials under large deformation

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 118-125
Author(s):  
Weihua Zhou ◽  
Changqing Fang ◽  
Huifeng Tan ◽  
Huiyu Sun
Keyword(s):  
Constitutive Model ◽  
Large Deformation ◽  
Mechanical Response ◽  
Uniaxial Tensile ◽  
Hysteresis Phenomenon ◽  
Mechanical Behaviors ◽  
Nonlinear Constitutive Model ◽  
Rate Dependent ◽  
Parallel Networks ◽  
Non Gaussian

Abstract Uncured rubber possesses remarkable hyperelastic and viscoelastic properties while it undergoes large deformation; therefore, it has wide application prospects and attracts great research interests from academia and industry. In this paper, a nonlinear constitutive model with two parallel networks is developed to describe the mechanical response of uncured rubber. The constitutive model is incorporated with the Eying model to describe the hysteresis phenomenon and viscous flow criterion, and the hyperelastic properties under large deformation are captured by a non-Gaussian chain molecular network model. Based on the model, the mechanical behaviors of hyperelasticity, viscoelasticity and hysteresis under different strain rates are investigated. Furthermore, the constitutive model is employed to estimate uniaxial tensile, cyclic loading–unloading and multistep tensile relaxation mechanical behaviors of uncured rubber, and the prediction results show good agreement with the test data. The nonlinear mechanical constitutive model provides an efficient method for predicting the mechanical response of uncured rubber materials.

scholarly journals Configurations of series-parallel networks with maximum reliability

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter J. Gutjahr ◽  
Georg Ch. Pflug ◽  
Andrzej Ruszczyński
Keyword(s):  
Parallel Networks ◽  
Maximum Reliability

Entre Reforma e Contra-Reforma

1999 ◽  
Vol 7 (14) ◽  
pp. 99-116
Author(s):  
António Moreira Teixeira ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Major Change ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Divine Inspiration ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

By 1576, in order to obtain the censor’s permission to publish his two last treatises, the artist and philosopher Francisco de Holanda was forced to produce a major change in his conception of art. In an anticipation of the trend that was going to spread all over Europe some decades later, he agreed to replace his neo-platonic notion of an art of divine inspiration for a new conception of the artistic expression centred on the aristotelic caracterization of the human creative process. However, in doing that, Holanda paved the way for the development of a true methaphysics of art. In this article, the author intends to establish the network of philosophical influences that made possible this important change of course in the history of european aesthetics, as well as determine its implications.

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