Does God Care?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Almeda M. Wright
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Young People ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Spoken Word Poetry ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
Making Sense

This chapter relates the work of young Black spoken word poets with Black liberationist, humanist, and Womanist religious scholars. It is easier for many Black youth to have “no expectation” that God should work in their lives than to wrestle with theodicy. This disconnection is reflected in youth performances of spoken word poetry, which invites their interpretations of overwhelming and absurd experiences of evil and suffering. The voices of young people in the heart of urban communities (like, but also beyond Chicago) reflect a desire for change within their communities and a condemnation of the role of political or religious leaders—or even God—in bringing that change to fruition. The young poets advance fierce correctives to many African American religious and scholarly attempts at making sense of evil and suffering in the presence of God. Nonetheless, Christian communities have a role to play in helping youth counter fragmented spirituality.

Hallucinating Knowing

2019 ◽  
pp. 220-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro J. DiPietro
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Spoken Word Poetry ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Coloniality Of Gender

Through ancestral and submerged sensual repertoires, through healing practices, spoken word poetry, and other forms of psychic praxis, Latina and Xicana feminist theorizing resists the westernizing idioms of cognitive impairment. This chapter examines the ways that the coloniality of gender—as an injunction to inhabit heterosexualist, human-centered, notions of sanity—exclude Latina and Xicana experience and knowledge from the realm of cognitive accuracy. It suggests that heterosexualism creates conditions for hallucinations to arise within Latinx communities. Specifically, it explores healing traditions several centuries long as they shape contemporary Latina and Xicana theories and their ties to hallucinating perception. Positing that hallucinating knowing carries the healing properties of spiritual practices among mixed-race indigenous-Latinx peoples, this chapter gathers evidence of gender-nonconforming subjectivities and the more-than-human remedies that they concoct in their negotiation of perceptual repertoires. More-than-human knowing ultimately illustrates the role of perceptual cross-referencing, or transitioning, between tangible and intangible domains.

scholarly journals Social Media and Young People’s Sexualities: Values, Norms, and Battlegrounds

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630511773899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sander De Ridder
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Value Judgments ◽  
Group Settings ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Sexual Cultures

This article explores how young people are making sense of sexuality in the context of social media, considering social media’s material as well as symbolic operations. Drawing on 14 focus groups ( n = 89, conducted in 2012 and 2015) with young people between 14 and 19 years of age in Dutch-speaking Belgium, this article is informed by young people’s discussions, meanings, values, and norms on sexuality and social media, situated in everyday life peer group settings. The results argue how young people are making strong value judgments about sexuality in the context of social media and how they use a sharp hierarchical system to distinguish between “good” and “bad” sexual practices in social media. Therefore, young people draw on essentialist sexual ideologies. This article discusses these value judgments not only in relation to how social media functions but also in relation to social media’s symbolic operations, namely how they are meaningful for young people’s sexualities. The role of social media is discussed in relation to broader cultural dynamics of young people’s changing sexual cultures, which are characterized by risk, resistance, individualization, and mediatization. The article concludes how young people’s consistent need for making value judgments about sexuality in the context of social media may point to a conservatism that is driven by social media’s overwhelming role in culture and society. Social media have become a crucial battleground for sexual politics; they need to be taken seriously as spaces that produce values and norms about sexuality, deciding what kind of sexualities are supported, repressed, or disciplined.

scholarly journals THE POPULAR DA’WAH MOVEMENT IN URBAN COMMUNITIES: THE ROLE OF HADRAMI SCHOLARS’ DA’WAH IN RESPONSE TO RELIGIOUS RADICALISM IN INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Arif Zamhari ◽  
Imam Mustofa
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Central Java ◽  
The Media ◽  
Religious Radicalism

This article discusses how the role of the scholars of the descendants of Hadrami or known as Habib performs the activities of popular Islamic Preaching (henceforth: da’wah) in the urban community. This paper specifically analyzes the activities of da’wah of Majelis Salawat Ahbabul Mustafa led by Habib Syech, a Habib, a descendant of the Prophet who lived in Solo, Central Java. Recently, a similar da’wah was made by young Habib to gain popularity among the youth in several major cities in Indonesia. By using the media of tambourine instrumental music in reading the Shalawat, the da’wah of Habib Syech successfully attracts the interest of many participants who mostly came from groups of young people. In the middle of the hard blasphemies of the Salafi Preacher (Dai) against the majority of the religious practices of Indonesian Muslims, the Majelis Salawat led by Habib Shaykh conducted the ‘counter attack’ by means of-ways and elegant manners. This group also performs the da’wah through a cultural approach as Walisongo did by using Javanese idioms to get closer to the objects of da'wah which are mostly located in Java.                                                                                                                                        Keywords: Habib, Majelis Salawat, Da’wah, Youth.  

scholarly journals The Role of Religious Leaders On The Use of HIV/AIDS Prevention Strategies Among Young People (15-24) in Lira District, Uganda

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Murungi ◽  
Irene Kunihira ◽  
Pamela Oyella ◽  
Moses Mugerwa ◽  
Peruth Gift ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Aids Prevention ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Prevention Messages ◽  
Hiv Prevention Strategies ◽  
Hiv Aids

Abstract Background: Young people (15-24 years) bear the highest burden of new infections and are particularly vulnerable because of their highly risky behavior. There is paucity of information on the role of religious leaders in the multi-sectoral fight against HIV/AIDS. We examined the role of religious leaders in the use of HIV prevention strategies among young people.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted between March and April 2021 among 422 randomly selected young people in Lira district. An interviewer administered a questionnaire to the young people in order to collect quantitative data. About 20 key informants were purposively sampled and interviews were conducted with religious leaders using a key informant's interview guide. Data was collected on social demographics, HIV prevention messages, and awareness about HIV prevention strategies. Data was analyzed using Stata version 15 using proportions, means, percentages, frequencies, and logistic regression analysis at a 95% level of significance. Qualitative data was analyzed using thematic content analysis and the major themes were generated from the participants’ responses.Results: About 57.1% (241/422) of the respondents were females. The prevalence of use of HIV prevention strategies among young people was 69.4%. Factors significantly associated with the use of HIV prevention included completing the primary level (aOR 4.95, p< 0.05), completing at least A level (aOR 8.85, p < <0.05), Awareness of HIV prevention strategies by religious leaders (aOR 0.02, p<0.001), religious leaders provided HIV prevention messages (aOR 2.53, p<0.01), Advocacy for abstinence outside marriage and fidelity in marriage (aOR 35.6, p<0.01), Religious leaders preaching about HIV prevention (aOR 4.88, p<0.001).Our qualitative data indicated that a section of religious leaders recommended abstinence/faithfulness. Condom use was the most discouraged HIV prevention strategy. However, most religious leaders agree with the fact that they have a role to play in HIV prevention, which includes sensitization, teaching and organizing sermons about HIV prevention.Conclusion: The use of HIV prevention strategies by religious leaders among young people was nearly 70%. This finding indicates that religious leaders have a role to play in HIV/AIDS prevention among young people in the Lira district. This calls for the involvement of religious leaders in HIV prevention programs tailored to prevent new infections of HIV among young people.

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 161-172
Author(s):  
Jill D. Snider
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
African American ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Personal Success

The epilogue reflects on what invention meant to Headen and to the larger artisanal class from which he came and examines his legacy. Addressed are his influence on other African American transportation technology pioneers, his encouragement of mechanization among British farmers, the role of his bi-fuel engine improvements in supporting the British war effort in World War II, and his long-term influence on engine designs and on anti-icing technologies for air and rotor craft, turbine engines, and wind turbines. The epilogue also probes historiographical questions illuminated by Headen’s story, including the nature of African American automobility in the 1920s, specifically the participation of black beauty culturalists as investors and the automobile’s role in expanding African American social networks; the influence of early religious leaders on the business strategies of African American entrepreneurs; and the implications that social networks carry for personal success and for future racial advancement.

Making Sense of Resilience: A Useful Step on the Road to Creating and Maintaining Resilient Students and School Communities

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
School Communities ◽  
The Road ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
On The Road

Resilience is a concept used frequently among researchers and educational and health authorities in discussions of attempts aimed at reducing social, emotional and educational problems among our children and young people. The central role of schools in the lives of children has logically meant the involvement of schools in any programs aimed at building resilience in children and adolescents. However, those who would be most intimately involved in implementing such programs are often confused by the concept and what is expected of them to build resilience on a daily basis. This paper seeks to clarify some of this confusion by highlighting some of the main findings about resilience in the existing literature. It then seeks to consider how this knowledge can be considered within each of the areas that will be needed to work as an integrated whole to achieve lasting results, as well as considering some of the issues that may hinder that goal.

Practicing from Theory: Work with Youths and Reflections on Radical Criminology

1981 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Bute
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Social Pressure ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Loss Of Control ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Community Agency ◽  
Economic Role

A number of economic and social conditions confronting youths in this society are described, among them the marginality of youths' economic role, social policies and practices that increase youths' isolation from others and one another, and the interactions of urban youths with agencies designed to serve them. These descriptions are followed by a discussion of conditions in lower-income urban communities and the far-reaching ef fects on such communities of economic and social pressures. In spite of the bleak situation confronting many urban communities, and youths and service organizations within them, it is possible to envision changes in relationships among groups and the larger community that would improve the community's ability to resist economic and social pressure and loss of control over change. The author draws upon his experiences in a community agency in Chicago in considering the community, its relationships with youths, and the role of agencies assisting young people.

scholarly journals Identity Formation and Developing Meaningful Social Relationships: The Role of the Polish Catholic Community for Polish Young People Migrating to Sweden

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana Shmulyar Gréen ◽  
Charlotte Melander ◽  
Ingrid Höjer
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Making Sense

This article draws from a broader research project Transnational childhoods, illuminating the agency and experiences of children and young people migrating from Poland and Romania to Sweden under the age of 18. Focusing on young people born in Poland and having social relationships post-migration as central theoretical component, the article explores the role that the Polish Catholic community in Sweden plays in the lives of young Polish migrants. It does so by grounding the analysis on 23 qualitative interviews, combined with network maps and life-lines, produced by the young Polish participants. The study identifies three important dimensions in the role of the Polish Catholic community. These are comprised of the community's role for young Poles' spiritual development and religious identity, for building new friendships and making sense of common migration and religious experiences, and guidance by specifically Polish Catholic priests in the young migrants' family relationships and in future life projects. The article concludes that while practicing religion and building significant social relationships within the Polish congregations the young migrants shape feelings of belonging and inclusion, however primarily within the limits of their own ethnic community. Further research is needed on the wider implications of primarily mono-ethnic relational practices for the young Poles' lives within the increasingly ethnically heterogeneous Swedish society.

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