What Hath God Wrought to Caesar: The Church as a Self-Interest Interest Group

1971 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-112
Author(s):  
L. Pfeffer
Keyword(s):  
Interest Group ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Church

scholarly journals From Private Photography to Mass Circulation: The Queering of East German Visual Culture, 1968–1989

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josie McLellan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Male Homosexuality ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
East German ◽  
Mass Circulation ◽  
Part Feature ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis article describes how a particular kind of queer figure moved from private photography into the mainstream of East German visual culture. It begins with a set of private photographs from the late 1960s from the collection of Heino Hilger, a regular, with his friends, at the East Berlin bar Burgfrieden. The photographs show how dressing in drag and the act of photography were important ways of constituting a gay male subculture. After the decriminalization of sex between men in 1968, the gay scene became bolder and more political in East Germany. The subversion of gender norms was central to the activism of groups such as the Homosexual Interest Group Berlin (HIB) and Gays in the Church. The visibility of the queer figure culminated in the late 1980s, when parts of the film Coming Out were filmed in Burgfrieden and when the popular monthly Das Magazin published a three-part feature on male homosexuality. What all these cultural artifacts and events had in common was not just a critique of the heterosexual norm, but also a queering of the boundaries between masculinity and femininity.

scholarly journals Mediaevalism and Modernism

1908 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-324
Author(s):  
George Tyrrell
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Church

”Modernism” has already become as vague and ambiguous a term as Socialism. The latter stands for anything between common Christian charity—a recognition of social duties acknowledged by all and neglected by most—and a systematic reconstruction of the whole framework of society. Similarly, Modernism, thanks largely to the Encyclical Pascendi, has come to stand for the mildest as well as for the extremist concessions of Roman Catholicism to the exigencies of modern life and thought and sentiment. Owing to this comprehensiveness, it is possible to group together in one unholy fraternity, and under the same anathema, those who are sincere Catholics by conviction and those who, having lost all faith in the Church, continue Catholics in name and profession, whether through indifference, or self-interest, or consideration for the feelings of others. Men whose modernity is little more than an educated Ultramontanism are thus brought under suspicion of a secret sympathy with deists, atheists, and agnostics, and held up to the odium of the faithful at large.

I REALLY CANNOT MAKE AFRICA MY HOME: WEST INDIAN MISSIONARIES AS ‘OUTSIDERS’ IN THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY CIVILIZING MISSION TO SOUTHERN NIGERIA, 1898–1925

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-236
Author(s):  
WAIBINTE E. WARIBOKO
Keyword(s):  
West Indian ◽  
West Indians ◽  
The West ◽  
Civilizing Mission ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Material Benefits ◽  
Church Missionary Society ◽  
Missionary Service ◽  
The Church

Informed by the notion of racial affinity, the European managers of the Church Missionary Society Niger Mission had required all black West Indians in their employ to make Africa their home. However, because the African posting involved a substantial devaluation in the material benefits to be derived from missionary service, West Indians vigorously objected to the idea of making Africa their home. They demanded instead to be perceived and treated as foreigners on the same footing as Europeans. Although they were subsequently defined as part of the expatriate workforce of the Mission, they were still denied parity with Europeans in the allocation of scarce benefits on the basis of racial considerations. Unresolved tensions over the redistribution of scarce resources led to the premature collapse of the West Indian scheme. This essay is an analysis of how the pursuit of socioeconomic self-interest affected the construction and representation of race and identity among the West Indians in the Niger Mission.

Bias and Belief

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-66
Author(s):  
Adrian Bardon
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Confirmation Bias ◽  
Motivated Reasoning ◽  
Political Sophistication ◽  
Psychological Condition ◽  
Group Interest ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Subject

This chapter introduces key psychological concepts pertinent to denial, such as cognitive dissonance, motivated reasoning, and confirmation bias. It also addresses the relation between denial and ideology. It explains different social psychology approaches to understanding the phenomena of denial and ideological denialism. Ideological denialism is a unique psychological condition wherein the subject is motivated to embrace a certain conclusion about issues of public relevance for reasons relating to self-interest, group-interest, culture, personality, and/or identity. A discovery of great importance is that the tendency to ideological denial is neither a consequence of being uninformed nor a consequence of one’s lacking political sophistication.

Saint Theophan (Govorov) – the Archpastor of Tambov Land: “To inscribe the image of Christian teaching”

Neophilology ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
Metropolitan of Tambov and Rasskazovo Theodosius (Vasnev)
Keyword(s):  
Christian Teaching ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Scientific Task ◽  
The Church

“Those who have a sincere love of truth, that it shall lead forth from the darkness of delusion and bring to the light of truth” (Saint Theophan the Recluse). The study of the heritage of the Archpastor of the Tambov Land – Saint of Tambov and Shatsk Theophan (Govorov) – still remains an urgent scientific task, as the knowledge of his creative works reveals the spiritual content of mankind. In this study we present the hagiography description of Saint Theophan during his stay in the Tambov Land, where the general civilizational principles are concretized by the data of the governorate. Saint Theophan the Recluse during his allegiance in the Tambov eparchy showed kind qualities of his soul, first of all, respectful attitude to people. He sincerely loved the truth, with all his soul was loyal to what he believed was true, without any self-interest. The Saint never ignored the petitions of the Tambov clergy and the flock, as well as all kinds of reports and protocols. With compassion and warmth he treated those who lost their breadwinner. At the same time, he showed the necessary firmness to the priests and clergymen who were negligent and violated the canonical rules and the church charter. Saint Theophan, the Archpastor of the Tambov Land, was shown to his flock as an example of a zealous doer in the field of the church, manifesting his versatile talents and, above all, upbringing and education.

scholarly journals Czy smutny i ckliwy potrafi się cieszyć? Rzecz o Grzegorzu z Nazjanzu

Vox Patrum ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 279-287
Author(s):  
Dariusz Zagórski
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Objective Description ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Needy

This article is aimed as an objective description of the character of Gregory of Nazianzus, written in the light of the realities of life and spiritual experience, which may revise the existing opinions about the Author, relating to his perso­nality, attitude and choices, as they are often one-sided, unjust and wrongful. This study presents Gregory as pastor concerned for the Church who grieves for its internal tearing as well as for „his colleagues in episcopacy” self-interest. It treats about personal aspects of his life often marked by suffering and difficult ex­perience. In this context, the article also points to the source of joy and optimism of life, which is support for the needy and those who lost the meaning of life.

scholarly journals Beyond Egoism and Group Identity: Empathy toward the Other and Awareness of Others in a Social Dilemma

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Oceja ◽  
Isabel Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Interest Group ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Social Dilemma ◽  
The Other ◽  
Collective Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
New Process ◽  
Group Members

In three experiments, participants were faced with a social dilemma in which they could benefit themselves, the group, or other group members as individuals. The results showed that participants who felt high empathy toward a certain individual allocated more resources to the target of empathy, but without reducing the collective good. Then, we adapted the measure of empathy developed by Batson and colleagues (Batson, Ahmad, et al., 1999; Batson, Batson, et al., 1995) to the Spanish context. The results of Experiment 3 supported the existence of a new process: awareness of other individuals present in the social dilemma. It is proposed that this process is independent of those typically studied in research of this field: self-interest, group identification, and the empathy for a specific individual.

The Church of Ireland: a critical bibliography, 1536–1992 Part IV: 1690–1800

1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (112) ◽  
pp. 362-369
Author(s):  
S.J. Connolly
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Church Of Ireland ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Political Principle ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church ◽  
Party State ◽  
Three Phases

The history of this period, as currently studied, falls neatly into three phases. The twenty-five years or so after the fall of James II are marked by limited and largely unsuccessful attempts at reform, undertaken against a background of fundamental divisions on matters of religious and political principle. Thereafter the emphasis shifts to consensus, privilege and self-interest, as we turn to the workings of a comfortable ecclesiastical establishment firmly embedded in the patronage networks of the Hanoverian one-party state. In the last years of the eighteenth century this image of complacent stagnation is qualified by the first signs of spiritual revitalisation. Recent work has modified this chronological framework. Whether it will have to be more radically revised remains to be seen.

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