Modern Subjectivities, Religious Belief and Irony in Everyday Life

2018 ◽  
pp. 169-189
Author(s):  
George M. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Belief

scholarly journals The Catholic Church, moral doctrine, and HIV prevention in Recife, Brazil: Negotiating the contradictions between religious belief and the realities of everyday life

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Felipe Rios ◽  
Francisca Luciana de Aquino ◽  
Miguel Muñoz-Laboy ◽  
Laura R. Murray ◽  
Cinthia Oliveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

The superstitions of everyday life

2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 738-739
Author(s):  
Robert Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Negative Consequences

In this commentary I attempt to extend the argument made by Atran and Norenzayan in two ways. First, I distinguish between the causes and the consequences of religious belief and speculate on the positive and negative consequences of religion. Second, I raise some questions about individual differences in religiosity and suggest that the origins of nonbelief are worth investigating.

The Secular Reception of Relgious Music

Philosophy ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Pugmire
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Sacred Music ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Emotional Content ◽  
Musical Works

Sacred music expresses and evokes emotional attitudes of distinctive kinds. Even people who are irreligious in their beliefs can find themselves moved by it in these ways. It has been suggested that for an unbeliever to cherish the experience of sacred music may actually constitute a form of sentimentality. This paper considers just what the appeal of this sort of music is, to believers as well as to unbelievers. There are non-religious musical works that have similar emotional content Everyday life prevents many important emotions from being experienced as consummately as they could be. Art can allow this to happen, can be a vehicle for emotion of the last instance. Indeed, a religious belief system is in part a similar vehicle. In art, where there is no gesture at belief, the risk of sentimentality is, if anything, less.

scholarly journals Sociologies of Everyday Life: From Alienation to the Production of Meaning

Stan Rzeczy ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 243-259
Author(s):  
Paolo Terenzi
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Relational Sociology ◽  
The Common ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Relationship

This paper analyses the concept of everyday life as formulated in relational sociology. It shows that Pierpaolo Donati’s historical analysis of the dualist nature of everyday life is similar to that of Alvin Gouldner but that the two authors’ approaches differ in terms of the possibility of overcoming this dualism. From the perspective of relational sociology, sociological interpretations of everyday life can be traced to two paradigms. The first is the Marxist paradigm, in which everyday life is primarily characterized by forms of alienation. The second is the phenomenological paradigm, in which everyday life primarily consists of producing meaning. The first paradigm examines stories and cultures of subordinate social groups, and denounces domination and alienation in everyday life. The second paradigm examines the common-sense world, and how it is taken for granted, structured, and inter-subjective. Relational sociology seeks to overcome these two paradigms by highlighting their aporias, and considers alienation to be the outcome of a deep division between the ultimate meaning of life and the culture of everyday life. While in order to overcome this dualism, Gouldner offers an immanent reading of everyday life, relational sociology tries to show how in everyday life the relationship between social practices and culture may give rise to a new form of secularism that is accepting of non-fundamentalist aspects of religious belief.

scholarly journals Genetic Sources of the Worldview Determinants of Nonviolent Cultural Practices

2019 ◽  
pp. 8-19
Author(s):  
Valentyna Sudakova
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Theoretical Interpretation ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Religious Systems ◽  
The Ancient Chinese ◽  
Social Management

The article presents сonceptual analysis of genetic sources of the worldview determinants of non-violent cultural practices of the nonviolence by assessing the achievements of the ancient Chinese and Indian philosophical and religious systems having offered, developed and implemented the idea of nonviolence. The author draws attention to the importance of studying the nonviolence phenomena, its epistemological and ontological characteristics and to the difficulties of the correct theoretical interpretation of the ‘nonviolence’ concept in contemporary sociocultural knowledge. The article proves that only the culturological approach is the most effective cognitive instrument for identification in the historical perspective the achievements of traditional cultures in the forms of worldviews, ideas and recipes for the non-violent organization of everyday life and social management. It overviews the problematics of genetic sources, ideological conditions and traditional non-violent practices. The author proposed the critical analysis of the basic worldview communicative principles for non–violent human coexistence. The author researches shortcomings of the Eastern version of the non-violent worldview, the reasons of the dubious achievements of this worldview in European culture; yet proving that in the Western societies the tolerance phenomena as the principle of freedom of religious belief and of human behaviour is the modified manifestation of nonviolence.

Thriving in Academia: Understanding and Managing the Complexities of Faculty Work

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketevan Mamiseishvili
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
College And University ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
University Settings

In this paper, I will illustrate the changing nature and complexity of faculty employment in college and university settings. I will use existing higher education research to describe changes in faculty demographics, the escalating demands placed on faculty in the work setting, and challenges that confront professors seeking tenure or administrative advancement. Boyer’s (1990) framework for bringing traditionally marginalized and neglected functions of teaching, service, and community engagement into scholarship is examined as a model for balancing not only teaching, research, and service, but also work with everyday life.

Moving Forward

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet B. Ruscher
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Spatial Metaphors ◽  
The People ◽  
Stationary Objects ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Affective Forecasts

Two distinct spatial metaphors for the passage of time can produce disparate judgments about grieving. Under the object-moving metaphor, time seems to move past stationary people, like objects floating past people along a riverbank. Under the people-moving metaphor, time is stationary; people move through time as though they journey on a one-way street, past stationary objects. The people-moving metaphor should encourage the forecast of shorter grieving periods relative to the object-moving metaphor. In the present study, participants either received an object-moving or people-moving prime, then read a brief vignette about a mother whose young son died. Participants made affective forecasts about the mother’s grief intensity and duration, and provided open-ended inferences regarding a return to relative normalcy. Findings support predictions, and are discussed with respect to interpersonal communication and everyday life.

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