Routes of the Hajj Pilgrimage: Belief, Practice, and Performance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Petersen
Keyword(s):  
True Belief ◽  
Successive Generation ◽  
Physical Practice ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Theological Foundations ◽  
Religious Ideal ◽  
Union With God ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Religious Understanding

This chapter examines the construction of the idea of pilgrimage. All three of the authors discussed in this book advocated pilgrimage as a religious ideal, but its requirement as an obligatory observance was given greater weight by authors in each successive generation, as Sino-Muslims were gradually absorbed into a global context. The perception of the hajj changed from a symbol of true belief, to a potential critical practice, and finally to an essential observance and religious duty. Wang Daiyu outlined the theological foundations of the pilgrimage and its role as a link to the time of creation and union with God. Liu Zhi underlined the physical practice of potential pilgrims when he stressed the ceremonial and experiential aspects of the pilgrimage by detailing the practices associated with it. Meanwhile, Ma Dexin emphasized the performance aspect of the journey itself, while arguing for its ability to rectify and renew religious understanding and asserting its doctrinal necessity.

The Multiple Meanings of Pilgrimage in Sino-Islamic Thought

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Petersen
Keyword(s):  
True Belief ◽  
Successive Generation ◽  
Physical Practice ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Theological Foundations ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Religious Ideal ◽  
Han Kitab ◽  
Religious Understanding

This chapter examines the construction of the idea of “pilgrimage” in the works of key Han kitāb authors Wang Daiyu (1590-1658), Liu Zhi (1670-1724), and Ma Dexin (1794-1874). All three advocated pilgrimage as a religious ideal, but each successive generation gave greater weight to its requirement as an obligatory observance, as Sino-Muslims gradually entered a more interconnected Islamic context. The perception of the ḥajj changed from a symbol of true belief to a potential critical practice, and it finally emerged as an essential religious duty. Wang Daiyu outlined the theological foundations of the pilgrimage and its role as a link to the time of creation and union with God. Liu Zhi underlined the physical practice of potential pilgrims, stressing the ceremonial and experiential aspects of the pilgrimage and detailing the practices it entailed. Ma Dexin emphasized the performative aspect of the journey itself, asserting its doctrinal necessity while arguing for its power to rectify and renew religious understanding.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Pemahaman Agama terhadap Kinerja Guru Madrasah Ibtidaiah di Kota Manado

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rivai Bolotio
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Teacher Performance ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Stratified Random Sampling ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Positive Direct ◽  
Religious Understanding ◽  
Made In

ABSTRACT, This study aims to examine the influence of religious understanding on the performance of Madrasah Ibtidaiah teachers in Manado City. The method used in this research is correlational quantitative. This research is conducted in Madrasah Ibtidaiah in Manado City with the sample size of 96, selected from 127 teachers using proportional stratified random sampling. Data collection is done by using test and nontest instruments. The test is used to collect data on religious understanding and the nontest is used to collect the data of practice and performance. The collected data are then analyzed using descriptive analysis and path analysis. The results of this study indicate that religious understanding has a positive direct effect on teacher performance. To improve teachers’ performance, the efforts made, in relation to these variables, include improving teachers’ religious understanding by renewing teachers’ religious knowledge by strengthening faith and devotion to God, and increasing selfawareness that obedience and sincerity in applying it are inevitable.Keywords: Religious understanding, performance, teachersPengaruh Pemahaman Agama terhadap Kinerja Guru Madrasah Ibtidaiah di Kota Manado

Documenting Theatrical and Performative Philippines: Possibilities of a Task and a Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (02) ◽  
pp. 196-199
Author(s):  
OSCAR TANTOCO SERQUIÑA
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Theatre Arts ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
Print Materials ◽  
Per Se ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Historical Periods

The writing of theatre history has been a challenging intellectual commitment in the Philippines. This mode of inquiry and inscription largely manifests more as a strand of general historiography than as a systematized and specialized critical practice in Philippine academe. No wonder, then, that Philippine theatre histories primarily come from academics whose disciplinary backgrounds are not solely in theatre arts per se but in a range of different but intersecting disciplines, such as film, literature, dance, anthropology, history and music. These historians have accounted for the medium's forms, geographies of production and performance, material aspects, lead practitioners, groups or organizations, and historical periods. They have thus far yielded a congeries of print materials: from the encyclopedia to the anthology or reader, the survey, up to the full-length book manuscript. More recently, theatre histories have also appeared in online catalogues or digital repositories.

scholarly journals The Mari Lwyd Has Entered the Chat: Intangible Heritage in the Age of Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Howell
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Traditional Practitioners ◽  
And Performance

Covid-19 and lockdown measures severely limited social movement and interaction. These protective measures had significant impacts on intangible cultural heritage. In a global context, living and performance based forms of heritage largely ceased, causing damaging interruptions for the continuity of traditional practice. Many traditional practitioners and community groups turned to online video sharing platforms as a means of continuing and communicating their cultural forms. This chapter explores the potential and limitations of digital media as a means of maintaining intangible heritage in extreme scenarios, and questions what lessons need to be learned by heritage practitioners when considering these forms of media as part of heritage safeguarding strategies.

Business Strategy, Market Governance and Performance

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
Maria Rosaria Della Peruta ◽  
Marina Maggioni
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Market Governance ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
And Performance

The evidences, the paradoxes, the questions that emerge from academic research into the mechanisms by which businesses generate profits are at the centre of an important theoretical debate. A large body of literature in strategic management emphasizes a particular perspective or theory (namely, the industry- resource- and institution-based views), leading to the accumulation of research findings that are difficult to compare and integrate. The current streams of thinking on the sustainability of competitive advantages have missed the aim of giving a decisive and/or exclusive relevance to paradigms through which one is accustomed to study, interpret, or suggest interventions for the enterprise as a whole or some of its parts. It is not enough to call once more for a diversity of competing views: the authors recommend that research be designed in ways that enable multiple theoretical lenses of reality to be treated. The validity of theories will remain quite limited until we significantly consider the types of conditions to which the variety of organizations in the world today has been exposed. The case of Wal-Mart illustrates how a top-performing firm competes for resources to legitimate intentions and achievements in a global context.

Neural and Behavioral Outcomes Differ Following Equivalent Bouts of Motor Imagery or Physical Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (8) ◽  
pp. 1590-1606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah N. Kraeutner ◽  
Alexandra Stratas ◽  
Jennifer L. McArthur ◽  
Carl A. Helmick ◽  
David A. Westwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Motor Imagery ◽  
Motor Skill ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Behavioral Outcomes ◽  
Motor Task ◽  
Brain Activation ◽  
Motor Program ◽  
Physical Practice ◽  
Complex Motor ◽  
And Performance

Despite its reported effectiveness for the acquisition of motor skills, we know little about how motor imagery (MI)-based brain activation and performance evolves when MI (the imagined performance of a motor task) is used to learn a complex motor skill compared to physical practice (PP). The current study examined changes in MI-related brain activity and performance driven by an equivalent bout of MI- or PP-based training. Participants engaged in 5 days of either MI or PP of a dart-throwing task. Brain activity (via fMRI) and performance-related outcomes were obtained using a pre/post/retention design. Relative to PP, MI-based training did not drive robust changes in brain activation and was inferior for realizing improvements in performance: Greater activation in regions critical to refining the motor program was observed in the PP versus MI group posttraining, and relative to those driven via PP, MI led only to marginal improvements in performance. Findings indicate that the modality of practice (i.e., MI vs. PP) used to learn a complex motor skill manifests as differences in both resultant patterns of brain activity and performance. Ultimately, by directly comparing brain activity and behavioral outcomes after equivalent training through MI versus PP, this work provides unique knowledge regarding the neural mechanisms underlying learning through MI.

Autonomous Knowledge

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Adam Carter
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Epistemology ◽  
True Belief ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Propositional Knowledge ◽  
Value Of Knowledge ◽  
New Class ◽  
And Performance

A central conclusion developed and defended throughout the book is that epistemic autonomy is necessary for knowledge (both knowledge-that and knowledge-how) and in ways that epistemologists have not yet fully appreciated. The book is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 motivates (using a series of twists on Lehrer’s TrueTemp case) the claim that propositional knowledge requires autonomous belief. Chapters 2 and 3 flesh out this proposal in two ways, by defending a specific form of history-sensitive externalism with respect to propositional knowledge-apt autonomous belief (Chapter 2) and by showing how the idea that knowledge requires autonomous belief—understood along the externalist lines proposed—corresponds with an entirely new class of knowledge defeaters (Chapter 3). Chapter 4 extends the proposal to (both intellectualist and anti-intellectualist) knowledge-how and performance enhancement, and in a way that combines insights from virtue epistemology with research on freedom, responsibility, and manipulation. Chapter 5 concludes with a new twist on the Value of Knowledge debate, by vindicating the value of epistemically autonomous knowledge over that which falls short, including (mere) heteronomous but otherwise epistemically impeccable justified true belief.

scholarly journals The impact of strategic planning practices on organizational performance in public sectors in Abu Dhabi

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 345-353
Author(s):  
Mohammed Al Sudain ◽  
P Arunprasad
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Global Recession ◽  
Public Sectors ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
The Impact

The growth of any economy is mutually dependent on public and private sectors contribution to the overall success, and can be directly attributed to the strategic planning and execution. The significant growth of UAE economy even during the global recession, is an indicator of robust strategic planning initiatives proposed and meticulously being executed by the respective emirates, in particular Dubai and Abu Dhabi share a greater contribution. Previous studies have mainly focused on the relation in strategic planning of company and performance in some of the global context specific to certain countries. With the onset of growing economic initiatives in UAE, with Abu Dhabi as Nation’s capital, it is extremely important to study the importance of strategic planning and its significance in public sectors. This study attempts to conceptualize the factors determining the performance of Public sectors in Abu Dhabi from the perspective of strategic planning and practices. Strategic planning can share and develop the long-term perspectives. Public sector organizations are increasingly embracing the practices of strategic planning in anticipation that they will translate it to enhance the performances.  

Religious Understanding in a Contemporary Global Context

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Ward
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Morality Politics ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The World ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Religious Understanding

Human evaluations in religion, as in the arts, history, morality, politics, and philosophy, differ widely, in part because of different personal experiences, social histories, and forms of education. This suggests that seeking understanding is difficult and gradual, in religion as well as in other areas, and a full grasp of truth probably remains a future goal. In religion, three main factors—the rise of science, of critical historical research, and of a greater understanding of diverse religions—suggest the adoption of a more global perspective. One may be committed to a specific religious tradition, yet accept that no religion has a final, inerrant, or complete grasp of truth. An expansive global religious understanding might see the grounding of religion in apprehensions of transcendent meaning and value, and be attentive to the variety of such apprehensions in the religions of the world.

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