scholarly journals UNITY THROUGH DIVERSITY: A CASE STUDY OF CHRISLAM IN LAGOS

Africa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 646-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marloes Janson
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Assemblage Theory ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
African Christianity ◽  
Religious Plurality ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTThis article presents an ethnographic case study of Chrislam, a series of religious movements that fuse Christian and Muslim beliefs and practices, in its socio-cultural and political-economic setting in Nigeria's former capital Lagos. In contrast to conventional approaches that study religious movements in Africa as syncretic forms of ‘African Christianity’ or ‘African Islam’, I suggest that ‘syncretism’ is a misleading term to describe Chrislam. In fact, Chrislam provides a rationale for scrutinizing the very concept of syncretism and offers an alternative analytical case for understanding its mode of religious pluralism. To account for the religious plurality in Chrislam, I employ assemblage theory because it proposes novel ways of looking at Chrislam's religious mix that are in line with the way in which its worshippers perceive their religiosity. The underlying idea in Chrislam's assemblage of Christianity and Islam is that to be a Christian or Muslim alone is not enough to guarantee success in this world and the hereafter; therefore, Chrislam worshippers participate in Christian as well as Muslim practices, appropriating the perceived powers of both.

scholarly journals The Israeli-Palestinian Separation Wall and the Assemblage Theory: The Case of the Weekly Rosary at the Icon of Our Lady of the Wall

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-110
Author(s):  
Elisa Farinacci
Keyword(s):  
Christian Right ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Assemblage Theory ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
The Face ◽  
Ritual Landscape

Abstract In this work I analyse the ethnographic case study of the icon of Our Lady of the Wall as establishing a unique ritual landscape among the cement slabs of the Israeli-Palestinian Wall separating Jerusalem from Bethlehem. Although the Wall has been widely described as a technology of occupation on one side and as a device to ensure security on the other, through Latour’s concept of assemblages I unearth its agency in developing a Christian shrine. Through a decade of weekly recitations of the Rosary along the Wall near Checkpoint 300, the Elizabethan nuns of the Caritas Baby Hospital have been invoking Mary’s help to dismantle the Wall. This weekly ritual represents both political dissent against the bordering action enacted by the Wall, as well as giving visibility to the plea of the Palestinian Christian right to live in this territory in the face of their status as an ethnoreligious minority.

scholarly journals Pluralism Based Religious Education for Deradicalization of Religion

Al-Ulum ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 289
Author(s):  
Abdul Rohman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
West Java ◽  
Religious Plurality ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Education Process

Radicalism has recently become a phenomenon. Violences in some areas of Indonesia is a proof. These violences are caused by the conflict that is be partly due to a plurality. These problems have to be overcome in order to shape the unity of the nation. This study will discuss the role of schools in developing the diversity of students in response to the religious plurality in society, which will be focused on how the curriculum is constructed, teaching-learning is done, as well as how the teacher and student�s understanding on religious pluralism is, as a result of the education process. With a qualitative research, a case study in SMA Madania Bogor West Java, this study shows that school with a pluralistic based religious education, fits for internalizing the values of pluralism, in turn forming tolerances and inclusiveness.

The Tensions and Contradictions of the School Mathematics Tradition

1995 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 442-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Gregg
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Reform Effort ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Current Reform

The ubiquitousness and robustness of traditional practices in the teaching of school mathematics raise two fundamental and interrelated questions: Will the fate of the current reform effort in mathematics education be any different from that of previous reform efforts? Why have these traditional practices been so constant and durable? Certainly these are questions that cannot be answered in a single study. However, in an effort to develop a research basis that could aid in thinking about these questions, I conducted an ethnographic case study of a beginning high school mathematics teacher's acculturation into the school mathematics tradition (i.e., the beliefs and practices that characterize the traditional approach to school mathematics).

Beyond Jackie Chan

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murali Balaji
Keyword(s):  
Culture Industry ◽  
Asian Men ◽  
Alternative Masculinities ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Way ◽  
Western Media

This chapter examines the way the media implicitly frames Asian masculinities. It sketches how the portrayals of Asian masculinity in Western media are informed by Eurocentric and Orientalist ideologies as well as the economics of identity. It shows how Western media producers frame Asian masculine Otherness as a means of enhancing the normativity of white European masculinity. It argues that instead of industry producing culture, industry produces caricature in order to uphold notions of Asian masculinity. The chapter argues that creating alternative masculinities for Asian men in Western media has not been economically beneficial for media producers. Using the Rush Hour films as a case study, and guided by postcolonial and political economic frameworks, it analyzes how images of Asian masculinity conform to or cultivate notions of Otherness.

Development and regional planning within the decentralized administrative frame: case study (the Jordanian Experiment)

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-72
Author(s):  
Mansour Safran
Keyword(s):  
Regional Planning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Administrative Procedures ◽  
The Way

This aims to review and analyze the Jordanian experiment in the developmental regional planning field within the decentralized managerial methods, which is considered one of the primary basic provisions for applying and success of this kind of planning. The study shoed that Jordan has passed important steps in the way for implanting the decentralized administration, but these steps are still not enough to established the effective and active regional planning. The study reveled that there are many problems facing the decentralized regional planning in Jordan, despite of the clear goals that this planning is trying to achieve. These problems have resulted from the existing relationship between the decentralized administration process’ dimensions from one side, and between its levels which ranged from weak to medium decentralization from the other side, In spite of the official trends aiming at applying more of the decentralized administrative policies, still high portion of these procedures are theoretical, did not yet find a way to reality. Because any progress or success at the level of applying the decentralized administrative policies doubtless means greater effectiveness and influence on the development regional planning in life of the residents in the kingdom’s different regions. So, it is important to go a head in applying more steps and decentralized administrative procedures, gradually and continuously to guarantee the control over any negative effects that might result from Appling this kind of systems.   © 2018 JASET, International Scholars and Researchers Association

Overcoming Challenges of International Migration Research: A Case Study Approach in Southern Mexico

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-143
Author(s):  
Julie Boyles
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Migration Research

An ethnographic case study approach to understanding women’s actions and reactions to husbands’ emigration—or potential emigration—offers a distinct set of challenges to a U.S.-based researcher.  International migration research in a foreign context likely offers challenges in language, culture, lifestyle, as well as potential gender norm impediments. A mixed methods approach contributed to successfully overcoming barriers through an array of research methods, strategies, and tactics, as well as practicing flexibility in data gathering methods. Even this researcher’s influence on the research was minimized and alleviated, to a degree, through ascertaining common ground with many of the women. Research with the women of San Juan Guelavía, Oaxaca, Mexico offered numerous and constant challenges, each overcome with ensuing rewards.

Investigating English Teacher Candidate’s Use of Instructional Media During the Teaching Practicum: A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Ratih Ayu T ◽  
Zakiyah Tasnim ◽  
Annur Rofiq
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Teacher Candidate ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Instructional Media ◽  
Teaching Practicum ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
The Way

This study analyzes the English teacher candidate’s use of instructional media in the teaching practicum. The English teacher candidate who became the participant in this study was doing their teaching practicum in MTsN 5 Jember. This study applied the qualitative case study design. Interview and observation were done one time to select the participant. The four-times classroom observations and questionnaires were used in order to collect the data. This study employed the model of Creswell in analyzing the data. The findings of this study showed that the English teacher candidate applied one type of instructional media namely Visual Media. Those were Picture and Whiteboard. The way the teacher candidate implemented the instructional media was almost the same in each meeting of the teaching and learning process. However, the students’ participation and response were not always the same in every meeting. It depended on the way the teacher candidate managed the class activity.

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