Urban regimes and the interaction order of religious minority rituals

Main Street in Sarasota, Florida. A high-tech medical arts building rises from the east end, the county's historic three-story courthouse is two blocks to the west and sandwiched in between is the First Church of Christ, Scientist. A verse inscribed on the wall behind the pulpit of the church reads: “Divine Love Always Has Met and Always Will Meet Every Human Need.” This is the church where William and Christine Hermanson worshipped. It is just a few steps away from the courthouse where they were convicted of child abuse and third-degree murder for failing to provide conventional medical care for their seven-year-old daughter.This Article is about the intersection of “divine love” and “the best interests of the child.” It is about a pluralistic society where the dominant culture reveres medical science, but where a religious minority shuns and perhaps fears that same medical science. It is also about the struggle among different religious interests to define the legal rights of the citizenry.

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Interaction Order and Anxiety Disorder: A “Batesonian” Heuristic of Speaking Patterns during Psychotherapy

Communication & Medicine ◽

10.1558/cam.v8i3.261 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 261-272

Author(s):

Jürgen Streeck

Keyword(s):

Young Female ◽

Panic Attacks ◽

Emotional Experiences ◽

Social Phobias ◽

Interactional Theory ◽

Panic Disorders ◽

Linguistic Patterns ◽

Interaction Order ◽

Interdisciplinary Effort ◽

Pragmatic Aspects

This paper describes speaking practices enacted by young female in-patients during psychotherapy sessions. The patients are in treatment for anxiety and panic disorders (social phobias). The practices involve prosodic, lexical, and pragmatic aspects of utterance construction. An effect that they share is that the speaker’s embodied presence in her talk and her epistemic commitment to it are reduced as the utterance progresses. The practices are interpreted in light of Bateson’s interactional theory of character formation: as elements of a self-sustaining system Angst (anxiety). The study has grown out of an interdisciplinary effort to explore possible relationships between types of anxiety and the communicative and linguistic patterns by which patients describe panic attacks and other highly emotional experiences.

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Conclusion

10.1093/oso/9780190850524.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jürgen Schaflechner

Keyword(s):

Second Step ◽

Identity Change ◽

Religious Minority ◽

Important Place ◽

The Way

The conclusion harmonizes the overarching themes of the book, providing a final look at the dramatic relationship between identity, change, and solidification for Pakistan’s largest religious minority at its most important place of worship today. The conclusion first sketches the site’s and the residing Devi’s history as well as the pilgrimage’s ancient origin. In a second step, the author summarizes how recent infrastructural and organizational developments caused the ritual journey to undergo significant changes resulting in novel practices performed on the way to and at the shrine. Finally he sums up how these alterations lead to a solidification of the Hinglaj tradition, which is directed toward establishing some kind of unity among the various narratives and practices occurring in the valley.

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Making of the New Constitution

10.1093/oso/9780199467099.003.0017 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

J.S. Grewal

Keyword(s):

Special Interest ◽

The Political ◽

Final Decision ◽

Official Language ◽

Religious Minority ◽

Constituent Assembly

Of special interest to the Sikhs in the making of a new constitution were political safeguards, the issues of language, and linguistic states. In 1947 it was decided to have proportionate reservations for minorities. However, the question of safeguards for the Sikhs was postponed. A sub-committee formed in February 1948 saw no reason to make an exception in their case. In May 1949, Sardar Patel reopened the question of reservations but decided to have no reservations for any religious minority. On the issue of the official language for India, the final decision was in favour of Hindi in Devnagri script. On the issue of linguistic states, the Constituent Assembly reluctantly formed a commission which recommended that there was no need of creating linguistic states. The Constitution adopted in 1950, thus, did not satisfy any of the political aspirations of the Sikhs as a community.

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From Here On Out, We’re All Blue: Interaction Order, Social Infrastructure, and Race in Police Socialization

Police Quarterly ◽

10.1177/1098611114552726 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 414-447 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Norman Conti ◽

Patrick Doreian

Keyword(s):

Social Infrastructure ◽

Interaction Order

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Goffman’s Biography and the Interaction Order

Society ◽

10.1007/s12115-021-00561-3 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Dmitri N. Shalin

Keyword(s):

Interaction Order

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Muslim and Jewish Immigrants’ Adjustment: The Role of Religious-American Harmony, Religious-American Identity Centrality, and Discrimination

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology ◽

10.1177/0022022121994328 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 52 (3) ◽

pp. 259-274

Author(s):

Sadie S. Amini ◽

Angela-MinhTu D. Nguyen

Keyword(s):

Religious Identity ◽

First Generation ◽

Perceived Discrimination ◽

Positive Association ◽

American Identity ◽

Muslim American ◽

Religious Minority ◽

Identity Centrality ◽

Dual Identities ◽

Jewish Immigrants

Religious-minority immigrants must negotiate both their religious and host cultural (e.g., American) identities; however, the duality of these identities is rarely examined in relation to adjustment. In this study, we tested whether a religious-American identity centrality could predict better adjustment over and above religious identity centrality and American identity centrality. Moreover, based on the Integrative Psychological Model of Biculturalism, we investigated whether the harmony perceived between one’s religious and American identities could mediate the relationship between religious-American identity centrality and adjustment, and between perceived discrimination and adjustment. With data from 130 first-generation Muslim American and Jewish American participants, we found support for most hypotheses. Although a more central religious-American identity predicted better adjustment, it did not predict better adjustment over and above religious identity centrality and American identity centrality. More importantly, religious-American harmony mediated the positive association between religious-American identity centrality and adjustment, and the negative association between perceived discrimination and adjustment. Implications of our findings for research on dual identities are discussed.

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