Enacting Social Change Along the Cultural Identity Spectrum: Intercultural Identity Construction in Faith-Based Community Organizations

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Lengel ◽  
Heather Holdsworth
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Intercultural Identity

scholarly journals The Substance of Things Hoped For: Do State Faith-Based and Community Partnership Offices and Liaisons Help Grassroots Organizations Get Federal Funding?

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-137
Author(s):  
Margaret F. Sloan
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Federal Funding ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Multivariate Regression Model ◽  
Community Initiatives ◽  
White House ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Adequate Staffing

AbstractIn response to The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (FBCI, later renamed the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, FBNP), many states either created an FBCI office within state government or established a state liaison to the federal program through a nonprofit organization. While the offices have multiple stated goals, the acquisition of federal funding for community organizations within their respective states is a fairly consistent, and critical, goal for most of these offices. Using a multivariate regression model and a survey of state liaison offices, this mixed methods study finds that there is no difference between states with liaisons and states without with respect to federal funding for community organizations in their states and identifies barriers to their successful achievement of funding objectives. A survey of state FBNP offices detailing budgets, staffing, and reporting structures, among other things, indicates that a lack of unrestricted funds, lack of adequate staffing, and decreasing political salience are contributing factors.

scholarly journals Tożsamość żydowska na pograniczu kultur i narodów

2018 ◽  
pp. 165-178
Author(s):  
Irmina Jaśkowiak
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western World ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Anti Semitism

Identity construction is one of the fundamental human needs. The process takes place in two areas simultaneously: internal, self-reflexive and external, associated with a sense of belonging to a particular group. The Jews, until the beginning of the nineteenth century constituted quite uniform society voluntarily separating themselves from other communities. As a result of emancipation and assimilation processes, various influences affect their identity. As a consequence the Jews faced two difficulties. The first one was the dilemma between own nation and territorial homeland while the other was the progressing deep internal divisions. At present Jewish identity is most of all national and ethnical identity strongly reinforced by historical memory and fight with anti-Semitism. After the period of the twentieth century crisis and in the light of the western world secularization it has become also cultural identity.Identity construction is one of the fundamental human needs. Theprocess takes place in two areas simultaneously: internal, self-reflexiveand external, associated with a sense of belonging to a particulargroup. The Jews, until the beginning of the nineteenth century constitutedquite uniform society voluntarily separating themselves fromother communities. As a result of emancipation and assimilation processes,various influences affect their identity. As a consequence theJews faced two difficulties. The first one was the dilemma betweenown nation and territorial homeland while the other was the progressingdeep internal divisions. At present Jewish identity is most of allnational and ethnical identity strongly reinforced by historical memoryand fight with anti-Semitism. After the period of the twentieth centurycrisis and in the light of the western world secularization it hasbecome also cultural identity.

scholarly journals Matijaner Meyera in Translation: Cultural Identity Construction Through Untranslatability of Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Barnali Talukder
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Primary Resource ◽  
Story Collection ◽  
Bengali Language

The concepts of language and cultural identity of a speaker are entwined as they complement each other. However, translation poses a challenge to the identity language predominantly constructs. Therefore, translatable elements of language get the stage of universality while the untranslatable-s essentially bring forth the culture they are descended from. In this study, a short story collection from Bangladesh, Matijaner Meyera, where there is a celebration of diverse branches of Bengali language, has been brought to light to show how untranslatability of a number of culture-oriented vocabularies vibrantly tells about Bengali culture. The primary resource includes a lot many culture-oriented vocabularies as well as few phrases that English, as a language, cannot accommodate in it. Inability of other languages to penetrate such culture-rooted belongings of Bengali language showcases the power a language retains to protect itself from any invading force. This study has argued in favor of the untranslatable base of Bengali that English, due to cultural distance, cannot embrace linguistically. Therefore, such cultural difference eventually develops a distinct linguistic identity of Bengali through untranslatability that this study has attempted to divulge.

Social entrepreneurship and sense-making: evidence from the Global Social Benefit Institute

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omid Sabbaghi ◽  
Gerald F. Cavanagh, S.J.
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Benefit ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Reflection Data

Purpose The study aims to provide an empirical investigation of social enterprises in the context of experiential learning. Specifically, the study aims to investigate the interplay between faith-based principles and the processes of opportunity recognition and exploitation through an in-depth, qualitative study of social enterprises offered through the Global Social Benefit Institute (GSBI). Design/methodology/approach In this study, student experiences with social entrepreneurship are examined and their subsequent reflections are analyzed. Applying the Gioia methodology to the sample of student reflection data, this study enriches the growing literature on sense-making by looking closely at how student entrepreneurs engage their own faith-based education in helping their teams, beneficiaries and stakeholders “make sense” of a social change opportunity. Findings This study finds evidence of variability in the elaboration of the faith-based principles when sampling on the social needs of affection, behavioral confirmation and status. Originality/value The results suggest a role for faith-based sense-making when confronting the realities of social change opportunities.

scholarly journals Securitization and Community-Based Protection Among Chin Refugees in Kuala Lumpur

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten McConnachie
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Local Protection ◽  
And Migration

This article examines refugee-led community organizations among Chin refugees from Myanmar in Kuala Lumpur. It uses a structuration analysis that recognizes refugee-led organizations as complex governance entities engaged in a dynamic relationship with (among others) national policies of securitization of forced migration and international humanitarian governance. This approach expands the existing literature on the securitization of forced migration by exploring refugees’ lived experiences in a context of south–south migration. It expands the literature on community-based protection by going beyond recognizing the existence of refugee-led organizations to analyse their construction, constitution and consequences. Three primary areas of work by Chin refugee groups are analysed in relation to their immediate activity and longer term effects: organization (‘building ethnic unity in adversity’), documentation (‘asserting a bureaucratic identity’) and socialization (‘learning to be illegal’). These long-term effects indicate the possible impact of local protection activities on macrostructural processes such as identity construction and migration choices.

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