Buddhism and Media

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott A. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Ritual Studies ◽  
Communicative Acts ◽  
Buddhist Studies ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Contemporary Media

Many approaches to the study of Buddhism and media overlap with traditional Buddhist studies methods such as textual analysis, art theory, ethnography, and ritual studies, as well as studies of material culture. Media studies may concern itself with contemporary media messages and forms, but it need not be limited to the realms of mass media and popular culture. In foregrounding media and material cultural, scholars can trace the development and flow of Buddhism as a global religion and cultural phenomenon. Such studies also invariably draw attention to the lived aspects of the religion: How do Buddhists enact or perform Buddhism? How do Buddhists communicate ideas about Buddhism both to other Buddhists as well as to outsiders? And how do these communicative acts change one’s understanding of Buddhism? Such questions go beyond the merely textual, historical, or philosophical and call us to answer deeper questions about the nature of Buddhism in the contemporary, global age.

Tourism as a cultural phenomenon: morphological aspect

10.12737/6571 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Марина Соколова ◽  
Marina Sokolova
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Morphological Aspect ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Morphological Aspects ◽  
Human Habitat ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
Equipment Transport ◽  
Made In

The article considers tourism as a cultural phenomenon in its morphological aspects. Examines manifestations of tourism in the material and spiritual forms of culture. When lighting the contribution of tourism to the material culture the attention is drawn to all the main areas of its production and technological activities: agriculture, buildings, equipment, transport, communications and technology. Agritourism is provided as a multi-example. Spiritual form of culture within the tourism perspective is revealed primarily through the category of «knowledge.» On concrete examples explores how tourism af ects its acquisition and accumulation. At the same time takes into account all the essential areas of knowledge: practical, scientif c, religious, gaming and mythological. It’s shown how tourism is implemented in the main tasks of the culture, such as the creation of artif cial habitat and transmission of cultural inheritance. It is proved that tourism is an incentive for the development and creation of many new features that form artif cial (cultural) human habitat. Sending the same social inheritance is the most evidently made in the cultural, educational and religious tourism. Much attention is paid to the functions of culture, which f nd their refraction in tourism: epistemological, regulatory, adaptive, semiotic and axiological. But the most complete disclosure of the work is the communicative function. Its example examines the role of tourism in cross-cultural communication. Expanding the types of culture, correlating with the main areas of public life, it is indicated how a tourist, who faces manifestations of dif erent culture can change his mental and behavioral paradigms. In process of levels of culture analysis (vital, specialized and full cultures) it’s revealed that specialized level tourism but mostly empathic levels of culture act as a powerful factor in the humanization of culture. Given the importance of tourism as a cultural phenomenon.

scholarly journals Specific problems of media facade design

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasna Cikic-Tovarovic ◽  
Nenad Sekularac ◽  
Jelena Ivanovic-Sekularac
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Media Logic ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Border Areas

During the last years we have been facing a growing need of involving architects into processes of modern city medialization. Transposing contemporary media logic into architecture must be accompanied by qualitative answers within architectural theory and practice. The field of media facade is interdisciplinary - not only does it involve research within architecture and urbanism, but also within some border areas of technology, urban design, art, culture, media and marketing. Media facade design process involves analyses of some specific design aspects.

scholarly journals Problemy użycia języka religijnego we współczesnych mediach

2021 ◽  
Vol 12(48) (2) ◽  
pp. 67-83
Author(s):  
Milena Kindziuk
Keyword(s):  
Research Problem ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Traditional Language ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
The Media ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Contemporary Media

In discussions about religious discourse in the media, the tension or discrepancy between the communicative secular and secularized language of contemporary media and the more hermetic and traditional language describing situations related to religious experience, i.e. the sacred is emphasized. This article is an attempt to answer the question of what the religious language of the media should be. The research problem is: is it to be adapted to the contemporary Polish language, taking into account the commonplace, or more archaic, theological, referring to biblical and cultural codes? When discussing the ways of transmitting religious content in the media, two elements should be taken into account: 1) religious language has always been and is the language of communication (proclamation), focused on lively contact with the recipient and caring for communication; to some extent always adapted to the recipient; contemporary media, which are rapidly developing themselves, speed up this adaptation process, but this process is part of the nature of the language; 2) the creators or the first teachers of great religions (excluding small esoteric religions) used spoken language, close to colloquial language, understandable, adapted to the audience (their teaching or revelation was written later); they, too, are a model of inculturation that religious language continues to undergo, without giving up their specificity and sacredness. It should be mentioned that the research questions posed in this article concern only the religious language of media messages, not the language of official religious communication. This article uses the research method based on a critical analysis of the scientific discourse on religious language in the media studies literature from 1998-2020, combined with the presentation of own proposals in this area.

scholarly journals Youth culture, media and sexuality: What could faith communities contribute?

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Cloete
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Sexual Development ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Sexual Content ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
The Media ◽  
Theological Understanding

This article provided an overview of youth culture and how the media shapes youth culture today. Its specific aim was to focus on the access to sexual content that the different forms of media provide and the possible effect that they have on youth culture today. The sexual development of teenagers is one of the most important areas of their journey into adulthood and can easily be influenced by media messages on sex and sexuality. As such, the sexual behaviour of teenagers mostly seems to demonstrate a misconception on sex and sexuality. The author argued that sex and sexuality can also be viewed as theological issues and concluded by offering a few suggestions on how faith communities can become a more relevant and effective partner in fostering a theological understanding of sex and sexuality, especially to the youth.

Practicing Atheism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah K. Scheidt
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Ritual Studies ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Essential Condition ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
Popular Television ◽  
Positive Content ◽  
Source Materials

Practicing Atheism is a cultural study of contemporary atheism, focusing on how atheists negotiate meanings and values through media. This book examines a variety of cultural products, both corporate driven and grassroots, that circulate messages about what atheism means—what ideas, values, affinities, and attitudes the term denotes. Through the creation, consumption, and exchange of this media, atheism gains positive content, the term signaling much more than lack of belief in god(s) for those who identify with the emergent culture. Primary source materials for this book include grassroots Internet communities, popular television programming, organized atheist events, and material culture representations of the movement, such as those found in atheist fan art. Practicing Atheism argues that atheist culture emerges from a unique tension with religion—a category atheists critique and resist but also, at times, imitate and approximate. Using a framework based on ritual studies, this book theorizes ambivalence, ambiguity, and “in-betweenness” as the essential condition of contemporary atheist culture.

New Trends in the Anthropology of Southeast Asia

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kleinen
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Strategic Groups ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender

AbstractThis article addresses the question, is there such an entity as a separate field of the anthropology of Southeast Asia? Has the crisis in anthropology in the 1970s and ‘the literary turn’ of the 1980s led to a renewed interest in area studies? A number of topics that originally belonged to the field of anthropology will be discussed: religion, the culture of social class and strategic groups, family and gender relations, developments in tourism, leisure and consumption, material culture, media and performance, and the growing importance of the rapid urbanization in Southeast Asia and its relationship with globalization and localization.

scholarly journals Material culture of the end of the VI mill. - first half of the V mill. BC in the Upper Western Dvina River basin

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Andrey Nicolaevich Mazurkevich ◽  
Ecaterina Vladimirovna Dolbunova
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Cultural Interactions

Rudnyanskaya culture was distinguished based on materials found on a stratified site Rudnya Serteyskaya (NW Russia, serteysky archaeological microregion) in 1983-1987. It existed from the end of the VI mill BC to the beginning of the V mill BC, after ceasing of the first Neolithic ceramic traditions in Dnepr-Dvina region. Pottery assemblage was divided into three ceramic phases d, d-1 and e . They cannot be regarded as one single cultural phenomenon due to differences in technology, morphology and decor of vessels. Analogies in pottery, flint and bone assemblage can be traced within the sites of Lubana region (Zvidze, Osa). We might suppose that vectors of cultural interactions changed at the end of the VI mill BC, and a former cultural network was destroyed. However rudnyanskaya culture differs a lot from Narva culture described by N.N. Gurina due to technological, morphological and decor characteristics. Local and local-chronological variants were distinguished on the territory of Narva culture distribution. Rudnyanskaya culture can be supposed to be one of these cultural phenomenons existed within a large common cultural area.

scholarly journals SPOSOBY ASEKURACJI WYPOWIEDZI WE WSPÓŁCZESNYCH PRZEKAZACH MEDIALNYCH (NA PRZYKŁADZIE „MAGAZYNU KRYMINALNEGO 997”)

1970 ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
MAREK STRÓŻYK
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Verbal Aspect ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Conditional Structures ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

This article presents various types of narration safety measures adopted by the message sender and their linguistic indexes in contemporary media messages. The material under scrutiny were episodes of “Magazyn Kryminalny 997” from 1995-2010, hosted by Michał Fajbusiewicz. Of special interest are accounts of murders presented in “MK 997” as dramatizations. An analysis was carried out primarily of the verbal aspect of the dramatization i.e. verbal and style-related means used by the programme’s authors and the applied sender-receiver strategies. The sender plays an important role as he adopts safety measures at the time of providing information about the crime. A linguistic analysis leads to a conclusion that in “MK 997”, the sender formulates hypotheses and makes use of modality indexes with the aim of expressing various degrees of conviction in the statements (ranging from lack of knowledge to certainty). What is more, he uses judgemental modulators, forms of the conditional mood and conditional structures. Notably, the function of the safety measures adopted by the sender in his statements is to lend credibility to the message.

High-pressure freezing of cells in suspension for low-voltage scanning electron microscopy (LVSEM)

1991 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 64-65
Author(s):  
Marek Malecki ◽  
James Pawley ◽  
Hans Ris
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
High Pressure ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Cell Structure ◽  
Freeze Substitution ◽  
Ice Crystal ◽  
High Pressure Freezing ◽  
Cell Culture Media ◽  
Voltage Scanning

The ultrastructure of cells suspended in physiological fluids or cell culture media can only be studied if the living processes are stopped while the cells remain in suspension. Attachment of living cells to carrier surfaces to facilitate further processing for electron microscopy produces a rapid reorganization of cell structure eradicating most traces of the structures present when the cells were in suspension. The structure of cells in suspension can be immobilized by either chemical fixation or, much faster, by rapid freezing (cryo-immobilization). The fixation speed is particularly important in studies of cell surface reorganization over time. High pressure freezing provides conditions where specimens up to 500μm thick can be frozen in milliseconds without ice crystal damage. This volume is sufficient for cells to remain in suspension until frozen. However, special procedures are needed to assure that the unattached cells are not lost during subsequent processing for LVSEM or HVEM using freeze-substitution or freeze drying. We recently developed such a procedure.

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