Why Do We Think about War?

God at War ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Mark Juergensmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Conflict ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
The City

This introduction probes the question of why it is so easy to think of the idea of war in times of extreme social conflict. It begins with the example of the Philippine government’s siege of the city of Marawi to rid it of ISIS fighters in 2017. As a result local Muslims began to think in terms of war. Every religious tradition is full of images of warfare. Why do these images come so easily to the imagination, and what does religion have to do with it?

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Llano
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
The Media ◽  
The City

As is described in this conclusion, more than the media and culture, Madrid’s public space constituted the primary arena where reactions and attitudes toward social conflict and inequalities were negotiated. Social conflict in the public space found expression through musical performance, as well as through the rise of noise that came with the expansion and modernization of the city. Through their impact on public health and morality, noise and unwelcomed musical practices contributed to the refinement of Madrid’s city code and the modernization of society. The interference of vested political interests, however, made the refining of legislation in these areas particularly difficult. Analysis of three musical practices, namely, flamenco, organilleros, and workhouse bands, has shown how difficult it was to adopt consistent policies and approaches to tackling the forms of social conflict that were associated with musical performance.

God at War

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Juergensmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Conflict ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
Similar Alternative

This book explores the dark attraction between religion and warfare and explains why religion needs war and war needs religion. Virtually every religious tradition leaves behind it a bloody trail of stories, legends, and images of war, and most wars call upon the divine for blessings in battle. This book probes the remarkably similar alternative realities that are created in the human imagination by both religious ideas and images of war in response to crises both personal and social. Based on the author’s thirty years of fieldwork interviewing activists involved in religious-related terrorist movements around the world, this book explains why desperate social conflict and personal fears lead to extremes of both religion and war, and why invariably God is thought to be engaged in battle.

City of the Changers

2006 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
COLL THRUSH
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Puget Sound ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Indian Reservations ◽  
Civic Leaders ◽  
Lake Washington ◽  
The City

Between the 1880s and the 1930s indigenous people continued to eke out traditional livings along the waterways and shorelines of Seattle's urbanizing and industrializing landscape. During those same years, however, the city's civic leaders and urban planners oversaw massive transformations of that landscape, including the creation of a ship canal linking Puget Sound with Lake Washington and the straightening of the Duwamish River. These transformations typified the modernizing ethos that sought to improve nature to ameliorate or even end social conflict. The struggle of the Duwamish and other local indigenous people to survive urban change, as well as the efforts by residents of nearby Indian reservations to maintain connections to places within the city, illustrate the complex, ironic legacies of Seattle's environmental history. They also show the ways in which urban and Native history are linked through both material and discursive practices.

scholarly journals Pemukiman Kumuh Bantaran Sungai Deli Kelurahan Labuhan Deli Medan Sumatera Utara

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 355
Author(s):  
Syahril Ginting ◽  
Ibnu Hajar ◽  
Usman Pelly
Keyword(s):  
Social Conflict ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Research Technique ◽  
The People ◽  
Culture Of Fear ◽  
The Government ◽  
North Sumatra ◽  
The City ◽  
Appropriate Education ◽  
New Settlements

This paper is part of the Unimed Anthropology Social research thesis which aims to explain the development of slum settlements on the Deli river and find ways to rejuvenate the Deli riverbank without involving social conflict. This study uses ethnography method. Research technique with interviews conducted and observations of informants in the Deli river in Labuhan Deli Village. From the results of the research, the people come from various regions in North Sumatra, such as Karo and Langkat Regencies, migrated to Medan for improve their lives, but lost because they did not have education and skills. The existence of a culture of fear of returning home because they had migrated, so they continued to live in the city of Medan, there was no other way but to find cheap settlements to survive, one of which was by arranging the river banks of the Deli. The government must issue policies that regulate settlers to settle in more feasible places, namely: with relocation programs, socialization of appropriate education and the dangers of settling in slums. Therefore, with this policy the community has new settlements, where these settlements have low installments and are pioneered by the government.

scholarly journals Kenakalan remaja klithih yang mengarah pada konflik sosial dan kekerasan di Yogyakarta

HUMANIKA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-150
Author(s):  
Datu Jatmiko
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Delinquency ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Weak Supervision ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
The City

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mendapatkan informasi mengenai peristiwa klithih yang akhir-akhir ini terjadi di Kota Yogyakarta dan sekitarnya. Klithih merupakan jenis kenakalan remaja yang mengarah pada konflik sosial dan kekerasan di masyarakat. Klithih pada awalnya adalah sebuah ajang yang digunakan oleh para remaja untuk menunjukkan eksistensinya di dalam pergaulan antar remaja di Yogyakarta. Pada akhirnya klithih akhirnya berubah menjadi ajang untuk menciptakan sebuah konflik sosial dan kekerasan dengan menyasar siapa saja yang berada di jalan raya. Penyebab umum terjadinya klithih selain untuk menunjukkan eksistensi kelompok remajanya/ peer group juga karena lemahnya pengawasan dan control sosial oleh keluarga dan sekolah karena sebagian besar pelakunya adalah remaja anak sekolah. Dalam perspektif sosiologi, tidak ada jawaban tunggal dalam menjelaskan realitas sosial termasuk fenomena klithih ini karena sosiologi merupakan ilmu sosial berparadigma ganda. Demikian juga dalam menjelaskan realitas klithih di Yogyakarta. Tinjauan klithih di jalanan Kota Yogyakarta ini vital dilakukan agar supaya penjelasan tidak parsial sehingga dapat mengungkapkan pemahaman yang universal dan menyeluruh. Pilihan teoretik tersebut memiliki implikasi metodologis yang selanjutnya diharapkan berakhir pada ditemukannya langkah penyelesaian yang tepat oleh seluruh pihak yang terkait. Langkah solutif untuk pencegahan dan mengatasi terjadinya klithih perlu dilakukan untuk mengembangkan relasi sosial menjadi lebih harmonis dan humanis sekaligus mengurangi terjadinya penyakit sosial yang berupa klithih. This paper aims to get information about klithih events that recently occurred in the city of Yogyakarta and surrounding areas. Klithih is a type of juvenile delinquency that leads to social conflict and violence in society. Klithih was originally an event used by teenagers to show their existence in the association between teenagers in Yogyakarta. Eventually klithih finally turned into a place to create a social conflict and violence by targeting anyone who was on the highway. The most common cause of klithih in addition to showing the existence of adolescents/peer groups is also due to the weak supervision and social control by families and schools because most of the perpetrators are teenage school children. In the perspective of sociology, there is no single answer in explaining social reality including this klithih phenomenon because sociology is a social paradigm with multiple paradigms. Likewise in explaining the reality of klithih in Yogyakarta. This klithih review on the streets of Yogyakarta is vital so that the explanation is not partial so that it can reveal a universal and comprehensive understanding. The theoretical choice has methodological implications which are then expected to end in the discovery of an appropriate settlement step by all parties concerned. Solutive steps to prevent and overcome the occurrence of klithih needs to be done to develop social relations to be more harmonious and humanist while reducing the occurrence of social diseases in the form of klithih.

scholarly journals Hero-cult in Plato’s Phaedo, Republic and the Laws

Synthesis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. e106
Author(s):  
Zacharoula Petraki
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Olympic Athletes ◽  
Hero Cult ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The City ◽  
The Ideal

Plato’s Phaedo aims to restore the reputation of Socrates by transforming him from a political scapegoat of Athens to a hero of the city who had put him to death. As scholars have shown, the dialogue’s heroization of Socrates shares affinities with the religious tradition of the hero cult (see White, 2000; Nagy, 2015). In this article I argue that the conceptualization of the philosopher as a cult hero is developed further in the Republic and the Laws. The Republic presents Socrates as the “oikist” of the ideal polis, who makes religious decisions under the authority of god Apollo. In the same vein, the distinguished classes of the philosopher-rulers in the Republic and of the auditors in the Laws are compared to another group also subsumed under the category of cult-heroes, the victorious Olympic athletes.

scholarly journals Shargorod at the crossroads of ethnocultural traditions (XVI – early XX centuries)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (25) ◽  
pp. 215-225
Author(s):  
Olga V. Rosina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Cultural Image ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Historical Past ◽  
The City

The cultural and historical past is the foundation of regional identity, ethnic identity and a source of personal identity. But culture exists not only in time, but also in space, therefore, the identification and study of the regional cultural identity is one of the tasks of regional studies, as an interdisciplinary science based on the historical and cultural heritage. The actualization of the problem of regional identity is associated with two factors: the political processes taking place in the post-Soviet space, and the information war which aims to distort our common cultural achievements in the historical process of joint development. This trend is especially evident in Ukraine, so it has determined the choice of ethnocultural traditions of Shargorod as the object of the research; this city in Podolia is distinguished by a heterogeneous confessional structure, which has determined its cultural identity. In the historical past of the city, the religious and cultural traditions of Judaism, Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Uniatism are inextricably intertwined, leaving a mark on the architecture of the city and the life of its inhabitants. The author believes that cultural identity is related to two factors: the religious tradition, which forms the way of life and is the core of the mentality, and the events external to it. In this region, such events were the wars and the home policy of the authorities in relation to the multi-ethnic and multi-confessional population. Therefore, the article provides a brief overview of the historical events that determined the ethnocultural originality of Shargorod, and examines the Jewish, Catholic and Orthodox traditions in creating its socio-cultural image in different historical periods. Attention is paid to the city’s layout, its architectural and sacral dominants, the mentality and way of life of its inhabitants, as well as the evolution of the role each tradition under studyplays. The author makes a conclusion about their influence on the cultural image of the city and its originality, localization and weak interpenetration, which during the formation of nationalist ideas in the early XXth century threatened to destroy the unified cultural and historical space.

scholarly journals Social Impact Assessment in La Oroya, Peru Applying the Grey Clustering Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 4772-4775
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Social Impact Assessment ◽  
Correct Decision ◽  
Clustering Method ◽  
Subjective Evaluations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Grey Clustering ◽  
The City

The social conflict presented in the city of La Oroya, of a national government issue type, is considered by the Ombudsman's Office as a latent social conflict during the month of April 2019; therefore, analyses, agreements, meetings and dialogue tables are presented, which allow subjective evaluations of the problematic reality, complicating the correct decision making. For which, the application of the Grey Clustering method is proposed to quantify the social impact presented in the city of La Oroya; the surveys were conducted on Sunday, June 2, 2019, containing 08 questions (same number of criteria to evaluate) that were answered by 20 settlers, such answers were evaluated with the Grey Clustering method obtaining as a result that the social impact in the city of La Oroya is of normal level.

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