The governing question III: what is the relationship between religious practices and cultural transformation?

2004 ◽  
pp. 117-174
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
The Relationship

African and African American Religions in the Early Americas

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Young
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
African American Religion ◽  
African Religion ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter chronicles the relationship between African religious practices on the continent and African American religion in the plantation Americas in the era of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. A new generation of scholars who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s have demonstrated not only that African religious practices exhibit remarkable subtlety and complexity but also that these cultures have played significant roles in the subsequent development of religious practices throughout the world. Christianity, Islam, and traditional African religion comprised a set of broad and varied religious practices that contributed to the development of creative, subtle, and complex belief systems that circulated around the African Diaspora. In addition, this chapter addresses some of the vexed epistemological challenges related to discussing and describing non-Western ritual and religious practices.

WOMEN'S MAWLID PERFORMANCES IN SANAA AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF “POPULAR ISLAM”

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Holmes Katz
Keyword(s):  
Spirit Possession ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Great Cost ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Devotional Practices ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Religious Lives ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
The Relationship

It has long been recognized that much of the richness of Muslim women's ritual lives has been found outside of both the mosque and the “five pillars of Islam,” in a wide set of devotional practices that have met with varying degrees of affirmation and censure from male religious scholars. This recognition has given rise to a valuable literature on such practices as shrine visitation, spirit-possession rituals, and Twelver Shiʿi women's domestic ceremonies. The prevalence of such noncanonical rituals in Muslim women's lives, although waning in many parts of the contemporary world, raises questions about the relationship between women's religious practices and the constitution of Islamic orthodoxies. Have women, often given lesser access to mosque-based and canonical rituals, historically resorted to autonomous and rewarding religious practices that are, nevertheless, fated to be marginalized in the male-dominated construction of Islamic normativity—a normativity that women may ultimately internalize and master only at great cost to their religious lives?

Deepening a Sense of Being Taiwanese

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 366-390
Author(s):  
Shu-ling Yeh ◽  
Ying-Cheng Chang
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
Taiwanese Identity ◽  
Japanese Colonial ◽  
Colonial Government ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Core Part

Abstract This paper examines how the Amis, the largest indigenous community in Taiwan, draw on their Catholic faith to understand what it means to be Taiwanese. For over a century, the Amis were treated as marginalised citizens by the Japanese colonial government and the Han-Chinese Kuomintang under Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo. Their predicament changed when political priorities shifted from cultural assimilation to multiculturalism after 1987. Successive Taiwanese governments since then have actively sought to incorporate indigenous culture as a core part of Taiwanese identity. Focusing on how the Amis intertwined their adopted Catholic notions and practices with pre-Christian ideas, social structure, and rituals, this paper demonstrates the ways in which the Amis carve out a place for themselves in wider Taiwanese society. It adds to ongoing discussions about the relationship between conversion and cultural transformation in Oceania by arguing that Catholicism empowered the Amis to deepen their sense of belonging to the island republic and, for the first time, assert themselves fully as Taiwanese.

scholarly journals El otro lado de la modernidad boliviana. "Vuelve Sebastiana" y la reconfiguración de las coordenadas espacio temporales para pensar la Nación

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 46-66
Author(s):  
Jaime Omar Salinas Zabalaga
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
National Imaginary ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Building Project ◽  
The Relationship

This article discusses the film Vuelve Sebastiana (1953) by Jorge Ruiz, focusing on its ideological and aesthetic aspects. The analysis establishes connections between the idea of “nation” in the context of cultural transformation prompted by the economic and social policies of the National Revolution of 1952 and the way the Chipaya community is represented. The central argument is that "Vuelve Sebastiana" can be read not only in relation to the new national identity but as an expression of a new national imaginary regarding the indigenous communities of the Altiplano. The author proposes that "Vuelve Sebastiana" represents the nation through the temporal and spatial cartographies of a modern nation-building project, making visible some of its tensions and contradictions and allowing us to explore the imaginary that has redefined the relationship between the State and the indigenous communities of the Altiplano throughout the  second half of the 20th century.

The Relationship between Religion, Religiosity and Death Anxiety among Indian Adolescents

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Mahabeer ◽  
K. Bhana
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Indian Adolescents ◽  
Religious Orientation Scale ◽  
Orientation Scale ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Male Subjects ◽  
Practical Implications

Templer's Death Anxiety Scale and the Religious Orientation Scale of the OPI were administered to 360 Indian adolescents to examine the relationship between religion and religiosity and death anxiety. Muslim subjects were found to be more death anxious than Christian and Hindu subjects. The degree of commitment to one's religious practices and beliefs did not intensify or reduce death anxiety. Further, female subjects manifested higher death anxiety than male subjects. The results are discussed in terms of their theoretical and practical implications.

Psychological Function of Religious Practices

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossein Yousofi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Detailed Explanation ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
Physical Phenomena ◽  
The Relationship

There are different sorts of disorder in human life. Some disorders take place directly in the human body which some disorders happen in the soul that is why we are not able to classify them as physical phenomena. The link between bodily health and spiritual health due to religious involvement by a committed person is a general accepted fact and finds a significant favor among the scholars. Avicenna, a great Muslim philosopher and physician, admitted and defended the relation between physical and mental health. The aim of this paper is to deal with the relationship between human bodily-mental health and religious involvement. An argument and detailed explanation is given on why and how religious involvement by a committed person will warrant human mental and bodily health. This paper while presuming that all world religions are in common in this regard but is limited to Islamic perspective. It will be articulated on the basis of Islamic teachings that praying as a first value advice in Quranic verses and other religious practices play an effective role to warrant human health.   Keywords - spiritual, Quranic perspective, physical health

scholarly journals DAKWAH KULTURAL: RELASI ISLAM DAN BUDAYA LOKAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Eka Octalia
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
New Formulation ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
Heterogeneous Societies ◽  
The Relationship

The da'wah propagation of Islam in the archipelago has shown such strong accommodation to the local traditions of the local community. This shows that the character of Indonesian Islam is able to dialogue with tradition and culture. This paper tries to examine the concept of cultural da'wah and the relationship between Islam and local culture. Cultural Da'wah is a da'wah that considers all forms of culture that are developing in society. Cultural propaganda is one of the da'wah approaches in dealing with heterogeneous societies of culture. Islam has an important role in facing cultural transformation. The process of Islamic dialogue with community traditions can be realized with cultural systems and mechanisms in dealing with local negotiations. From the display illustrates that in reality, Islam is in contact with local teachings (traditions) so as to form a new formulation of Islam and Islamic local culture.  

scholarly journals Woman as embodiment of nature: A cultural ecofeminist analysis of 'The Last Quarter of the Moon'

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 570-583
Author(s):  
Nazir Muhammad ◽  
Lubna Hussain ◽  
Iqbal Khan Ahmadzai
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Feminine Gender ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Ancient Chinese ◽  
Cultural Feminism ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Material Progress

The paper explores influences of postmodern technologies over the deep-rooted ideological order of the ancient Chinese Evenki tribe in Chi Zijian’s ‘The Last Quarter of the Moon.’ The technological advancement and subsequent cultural transformation resulted in a great imbalance in the ecology of rivers, mountains, and forests and the feminine gender was the recipient of most of the consequences and disparities because of the women’s true spiritual socializing-relationship with nature. The divine embodied bond between women and nature was a source of inspiration and empowerment for the Evenki women. Modern way of life and lust for material progress blinded Evenki vision to the healing powers of nature once witnessed and utilized by their ancestors. The paper critiques the unsettling society of ancient deep-rooted spiritual order of Evanki based on their interdependent relations with spirits, the woman and mother nature. The study subscribes to the theoretical postulates of eco-cultural feminism as theorized by Merchant (2005) and Starhawk (1990). The relationship between woman and nature got destroyed when the world of Evenki shrunk under the spill of postmodern race and evaded by greed for money. The technological advancement and the resultant tempering in nature is a suppression for both women and nature.

Vladimir Soloviev and Christianity

2019 ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
Михаил Степанович Иванов
Keyword(s):  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
Russian Philosopher ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

Написание статьи обусловлено ведущимся в наше время поиском путей духовного и культурного преображения современной России. Значительное внимание в этом поиске обращается на религиозно-философские истоки общечеловеческой культуры. Особый интерес в этой связи вызывает творчество отечественных мыслителей, стремившихся (по выражению П. П. Гайденко) «строить философию на религиозном основании, сближая её с богословием». Такая попытка была предпринята и знаменитым русским философом Владимиром Соловьёвым. В статье анализируются религиозно-философские искания В. Соловьёва, его личная религиозность, понимание философом соотношения философии и теологии и разработка им «свободной теософии», а также негативное отношение Соловьёва к «историческому христианству» и к догматическому учению Церкви как к «отвлечённому догматизму», изучается попытка философа «ввести вечное содержание христианства в новую форму» и создать «новое» богословие. The reseason for writing this article is due to the ongoing search for ways of a spiritual and cultural transformation of modern Russia. Considerable attention in this search is drawn to the religious and philosophical origins of human culture. Of interest in this regard is the work of Russian thinkers who sought (in the words of P. P. Gaydenko) “to build philosophy on a religious basis, bringing it closer to theology”. Such an attempt was made by the famous Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyev. The article analyzes the religious and philosophical quest of V. Solovyev, his personal religiosity, the philosopher’s understanding of the relationship between philosophy and theology and his development of “free theosophy”, as well as Solovyev’s negative attitude to “historical Christianity” and to the dogmatic teaching of the Church as “abstract dogmatism”, and the philosopher’s attempt to “introduce the eternal content of Christianity in a new form” and create a “new” theology.

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