beyond syncretism: hybridization of popular religion in contemporary thailand

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
pattana kitiarsa
Keyword(s):  
Popular Religion ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

this article challenges the dominant paradigm of ‘inclusive syncretism’ in the study of thai religion. by taking the worship of multi-original deities in the popular spirit-medium cults in contemporary thailand as a case study, it argues that practitioners and specialists working on thai religious studies need to refresh and update their analytical paradigm to incorporate the concept of ‘hybridization’.

scholarly journals Beyond Belief

Aries ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Christine Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Imaginative Literature

Abstract Over the last decade, esotericism studies has witnessed a distinct literary turn, as more and more of the field’s primarily religious studies-based researchers have recognized the value, and indeed, centrality, of imaginative literature to the transmission of occult and new religious ideas. Although welcome, this impetus has sometimes taken an anti-aesthetic shape, reducing the texts it incorporates to little more than empirical evidence of authorial belief or practical occult experience. Accompanying this tendency has been a suspicion of the formalist, post-modern, and/or political forms of interpretation common within contemporary literary studies as being ideologically tainted or even wilfully perverse in their resistance to surface meaning. My article uses a case study of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Land of Mist (1926), a seemingly straightforward example of an emic novel whose author’s spiritualist belief and conversionist intentions are well known, to demonstrate the limitations of such a biographically reductionist hermeneutic, and to call for a greater diversity of approach within literary esotericism studies.

Expanding the Model of Competitive Business Strategy for Knowledge-Based Organizations

2012 ◽  
pp. 132-148
Author(s):  
Jeffrey W. Alstete ◽  
John P. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Business Research ◽  
Strategic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Strategy Model ◽  
Generic Strategy ◽  
Potential Basis ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

The established competitive generic business strategy model continues to be the dominant paradigm, despite the rapidly changing internal and external environments that companies face today. This article evaluates other strategy-related elements identified in current business research and determines if an expanded model can be applied to companies that have become more knowledge-based organizations. Ten such companies are selected for case study examination of their generic strategy, purity of usage, innovation, strategic entrepreneurship and clarity. The results provide a potential basis for an expanded model of the dominant competitive business strategy paradigm that includes these additional elements and provides a framework for future research.

Gender, Entrepreneurship, and Informal Markets in Africa

2015 ◽  
pp. 19-49
Author(s):  
Janet D. Kwami
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Informal Markets ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Community Ties ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Global North ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

Mainstream scholarship on entrepreneurship focuses on firms in the global north as the dominant paradigm, neglecting potential lessons to be found in the informal sector, in the global south, particularly in Africa, and among women. Local entrepreneurship practices present a valuable case study for understanding the nature of entrepreneurship in emerging economies and their contribution to social and economic development. Drawing on ethnographic data, this chapter examines gender and information and communication technology use in the Ghanaian marketplace. Market women's entrepreneurship is influenced by social capital derived from social networks drawn from strong community ties. The study found that ICTs such as mobile phone, while gendered, are central to organizing and managing these micro-enterprises. This chapter contributes to studies on entrepreneurship by drawing attention to the under-researched intersections of female entrepreneurship in the Ghanaian marketplace and ICTs in emerging economies.

German-Jewish Esotericism: The Case of Meir Wiener’s Expressionist Kabbalah

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Engel
Keyword(s):  
Jewish History ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
German History ◽  
German Expressionism ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
Western Esotericism ◽  
New Framework

Abstract The fact that bizarre intellectual trends and teachings, like occultism, parapsychology, and neopaganism played an important role in modern German culture is thoroughly documented by scholars of German history. Experts on German-Jewish history, however, still tend to describe German-Jewish culture as one formed around the ideals of ‘Bildung’ and the Enlightenment. As a result, German-Jewish occultism, mysticism, and other non-Enlightenment texts and authors have received relatively little scholarly attention. The present article aims to help correct this bias by introducing a new framework for the study of German-Jewish culture, and by examining an all but forgotten case study: Meir Wiener and his work. After introducing the term ‘Western esotericism’, developed by scholars of religious studies, the article uses it to explore two of Meir Wiener’s strangest and virtually forgotten works. Wiener, it is shown, produced fantastically esoteric works in the context of German expressionism and Kabbalah studies, which better represent their time and place than scholars have thus far acknowledged.

scholarly journals Optimaalsusteooria fonoloogias

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-126
Author(s):  
Külli Prillop
Keyword(s):  
Optimality Theory ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Phonological Development ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

Optimaalsusteooria (OT) esitasid 1990. aastate alguses Alan Prince ja Paul Smolensky. Praeguseks on OTst saanud enim kasutatav teooria fonoloogias. Tegemist on generatiivse teooria edasiarendusega. Artiklis tutvustan lühidalt optimaalsusteooria põhiseisukohti, samuti mõningaid varasemaid teooriaid, mis on OTga seotud. Pööran tähelepanu ka sellele, miks OTs on nähtud funktsionalistide ja formalistide lepitajat, ning milliseid muutusi uurimisprobleemide valikul on OT levik kaasa toonud. Väiteid ilmestab lihtne näide eesti keele kaasaütleva käände kujunemisest: miks on tunnuseks kujunenud ‑ga, mitte ‑kka ega -ks.Optimality Theory in phonology. Optimality Theory (OT), which has become the dominant paradigm for phonological research, was developed in the early 1990s by Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky. Compared to rule-based frameworks, OT arguably has more explanatory power. OT also gives the opportunity for the synthesis of functionalist and formalist ideas. In this paper, I introduce some main principles of OT. To illustrate how OT works, I present a somewhat simplified case study of the phonological development of Estonian comitative ending -ga (from the postposition *kansak ’with’). The aim of this paper is to introduce OT (in Estonian) to postgraduate students and researchers working within other theoretical frameworks.

scholarly journals TEORI PERTUKARAN SOSIAL TENTANG FENOMENA DAKWAH DI EKS LOKALISASI DADAPAN

2022 ◽  
Vol 21 (02) ◽  
pp. 292-314
Author(s):  
Muhammad Syahrul Ulum ◽  
Alfa Warda ◽  
Zuris Dwi Elina ◽  
Ilmi Sephia Ardiana
Keyword(s):  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Exchange Theory ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to find out how the role of the preacher in bringing changes to the social conditions of the people who used to work in the Dadapan prostitution localization, Kediri City. Da'i plays an important role as a propagator of religion to protect the community. Thus, the relationship between the preacher and his community must be close regardless of the background or social conditions of the community. This research uses a qualitative approach with a case study method and is equipped with George Homans' social exchange theory, namely as an analytical tool to understand and seek clarity of cases so that researchers know more clearly about the phenomenon of da'wah in the ex-Dadapan localization community. The results of this study conclude that the da'wah process that occurs in Dadapan Village in social exchange theory explains that they are willing to interact when the interaction produces benefits for themselves. Therefore, in the dynamics of increasing religious understanding in the ex-Dadapan localization, it is necessary to have a reward given so that people want to interact in discussing religious studies.

Researching Religion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Shared Beliefs ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social

Basic questions about religion in the modern world (such as whether it is becoming more or less popular and who believes what) can be answered only with the perspectives and methods of social science. While the arts and humanities can help us understand religious beliefs and behaviour, only social science can provide us with the evidence that will allow us to discern and explain the social patterns, causes, and consequences of religious belief. Only through the statistical examination of big data can we be confident of what any case study represents. In a text described by one reviewer as ‘brilliantly accessible’, an internationally renowned sociologist addresses the major problems of theory and methods in the study of religion. Important topics in religious studies such as conversion, the relative durability of different types of religion and spirituality, and the social circumstances that strengthen or undermine shared beliefs are used to demonstrate the importance of social science and to address methodological issues such as bias, partisanship, and research ethics. Bruce presents a robust defence of a conventionally scientific view of value-neutral social science against its partisan and postmodern critics.

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