Ethnicity and Evangelicalism: Ian Paisley and Protestant Politics in Ulster

1987 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Wallis ◽  
Steve Bruce ◽  
David Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Islamic Fundamentalism ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Conservative Protestant ◽  
Conservative Protestantism ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Protestant Fundamentalism ◽  
English Speaking World

The question of the conditions that must prevail before fundamentalist religion can play a significant part in politics has loomed large in recent years with the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East. Protestant fundamentalism has drawn somewhat less attention, except for the case of the new Christian right in America. Nowhere in the contemporary world are the politics of conservative Protestantism more clearly visible than in Northern Ireland. Therefore, in this essay we seek to explain why Protestant fundamentalism has achieved such prominence and success in Ulster in recent years. First, we present a comparative analysis of conservative Protestant politics in the English-speaking world. Second, we offer an historically informed analysis of the rise of Ulster's most successful fundamentalist politician, the Reverend Ian Paisley.

Inventing the Cave Man

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Horrall
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Freak Shows ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World

Cave men are among the most widely recognised characters in global popular culture. They look like modern humans and inhabit a humorously archaic, but scientifically invalid version of the contemporary world. They battle dinosaurs, use comic technology like foot-powered cars, and drag women by the hair. This illustrated book is the first systematic investigation of the character’s evolution from pre-modern freak shows and fascinations with apes, to mid-nineteenth century evidence of dinosaurs, ancient hominids and evolution. Suddenly, long-held scientific and religious beliefs came into question, provoking public debates that inspired British satirical magazines, performers in the emerging entertainment industry, writers and eventually filmmakers and television companies. Ancient hominids were first depicted as explicitly simian and threatening, though by the end of the century the familiar, modern cave man had emerged. Humour has always been the most common tone for evoking human prehistory, because it allowed unsettling subjects to be addressed indirectly. As evolutionary ideas became more acceptable and Europe’s ancient past became better known, cartoonists began using prehistory to satirise contemporary middle-class Britain. Their cave men looked like the male, Anglo-Saxon inhabitants of that world, while the situations they depicted affirmed Victorian ideas about race, gender, nation and empire. This British cave man travelled throughout the English-speaking world, establishing the broad parameters within which our earliest ancestors continue to be depicted in popular culture.

Introduction

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence A. Scaff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Talcott Parsons ◽  
The West ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Cultural World

This book is about Max Weber's 1904 journey to the United States—what he and his wife Marianne did, who they met, and what they saw and thought during their stay there. It shows that Weber's American journey played a pivotal role in the larger scheme of his life and work, for it occurred just as he was beginning to emerge from the debilitating psychological collapse of 1898. It also examines the use, interpretation, and dissemination of Weber's thought in the United States following his death in 1920, initially by American scholars such as Frank Knight and Talcott Parsons and later by German émigrés and others from the English-speaking world. The book suggests that Weber's problematics emerged from an immersion in social and cultural world history, the civilizations of the West and the East, and through engagement with complex debates in the sciences over the origins, nature and meaning for the contemporary world of “capitalism.”

Translational and intermedial diversification: Michail Ju. Lermontov’s “Maskarad” (1835) in Czech (1929–2008)

2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigitte Schultze
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Dramatic Literature ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World

AbstractLargely unobserved by philological research, the Czech culture has shown far above average receptiveness to a number of Russian dramatists, among them M. Ju. Lermontov. While the English speaking world keeps waiting for a translation of the canonic version of “Maskarad” (1835), there have been three independent Czech translations of this play – by František Táborský (1929), František Píšek (1941) and Emanuel Frynta (1951). Comparative analysis of these translations out of which two have been staged proves to forward the interpretation of this complex piece of dramatic literature (“a problem of interpretation forever”, Frynta). A discussion of several Czech theatre productions of “Maskarad” between 1941 and 2008 reveals historical and cultural context, but also impressive cases of actualization in all of these productions.

scholarly journals Contemporary Challenges for Education in Early Childhood

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Eric Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Constructions Of Childhood ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Education Process

Over the past two centuries the Age of Modernity has dominated intellectual thought and related actions predominantly in the English-speaking world. It is now becoming increasingly recognized by academics and powerful organizations both nationally and internationally that the consequence of this mode of thinking has generated immense problems for the contemporary world. The level of social and economic inequalities that continue to increase has now become the concern of many, particularly those who identify with the thinking and ideas associated with the emerging Age of Post-Modernity. The challenge to Education is profound not least so in how young children’s awareness, knowledge and understanding about the society in which they live is transmitted, often unwittingly, initially in families and subsequently in kindergartens and schools. This paper first addresses the main social constructions of childhood that can be identified in democratic countries and then links these constructions to the three dominant ideologies that exert axiomatic influence on the education process in different countries. Emerging from this brief analysis the paper identifies three fundamental and important challenges to those with responsibility and influence on young children’s education be they in governments, educational institutions or families.

Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Smith
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
Commercial Society ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The University

Adam Ferguson was a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a leading member of the Scottish Enlightenment. A friend of David Hume and Adam Smith, Ferguson was among the leading exponents of the Scottish Enlightenment’s attempts to develop a science of man and was among the first in the English speaking world to make use of the terms civilization, civil society, and political science. This book challenges many of the prevailing assumptions about Ferguson’s thinking. It explores how Ferguson sought to create a methodology for moral science that combined empirically based social theory with normative moralising with a view to supporting the virtuous education of the British elite. The Ferguson that emerges is far from the stereotyped image of a nostalgic republican sceptical about modernity, and instead is one much closer to the mainstream Scottish Enlightenment’s defence of eighteenth century British commercial society.

Perceptions of Palestine: The View from Large Linguistic Datasets

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Terry Regier
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Cultural Perceptions ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Cultural Shift ◽  
General Theme ◽  
English Usage ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World

Cultural norms and trends are often reflected in patterns of language use. This article explores cultural perceptions of Palestine and Palestinians in the English-speaking world, through two analyses of large linguistic datasets. The first analysis seeks to uncover current conceptions of participants in the Israel-Palestine conflict, by identifying words that are distinctively associated with those participants in modern English usage. The second analysis asks what historical-cultural changes led to these current conceptions. A general theme that emerges from these analyses is that a cultural shift appears to have occurred recently in the English-speaking world, marked by greater awareness of Palestinian perspectives on the conflict. Possible causes for such a cultural shift are also explored.

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