The Sacred in the Everyday

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-75
Author(s):  
Erin M. Cline
Keyword(s):  
Filial Piety ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Ritual Propriety ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Moral Power ◽  
Deep Sense

An appreciation for the sacred, including a deep sense of reverence, awe, and solemnity concerning particular things and people, is expressed throughout the Analects in its discussion of a rich variety of experiences, virtues, and practices that are regarded as special, distinctive, or set apart from other things, and yet very much a part of our daily lives. This chapter focuses on everyday activities that are not directly or primarily related to spirits or spiritual entities or forces, but which are clearly sacred. It explores the virtues of ritual propriety and filial piety, the concept of de (“moral power”), and the virtues of humility and gratitude in the Analects. It goes on to examine the presentation of Kongzi as an exemplar in the text.

Brokers of crisis: the everyday uncertainty of Eastern Congo's mineral négociants

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Vogel ◽  
Josaphat Musamba
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Conflict Minerals ◽  
Regulatory Changes ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Violent Conflicts ◽  
North And South

ABSTRACTEastern Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) artisanal mining sector is often linked to the violent conflicts that have beset Central Africa for over two decades. While many analyses emphasise its ‘criminal’ and ‘illegal’ nature, less attention has been paid to the ambiguity of this economy, most prominently incarnated by the intermediate mineral traders callednégociants. Focusing on their entrepreneurship, networks and everyday activities, this essay offers a more nuanced understanding of local mineral trade in the context of a ‘crisis economy’ framed by competing governable orders. It investigates the uncertainty along eastern DRC's mineral supply chains, that are undergoing major regulatory changes to curb the trade of so-called ‘conflict minerals’. Drawing from extensive fieldwork, this essay demonstrates how this uncertainty shapes the négociants’ role as brokers of socio-economic life in the provinces of North and South Kivu.

scholarly journals Pinkas-notebook and pinkas-register book: evolution, structure, and composition

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 1199-1218
Author(s):  
Evgeniya D. Zarubina
Keyword(s):  
Academic Language ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Uniform Structure ◽  
European Origin ◽  
The Public ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
Diverse Data ◽  
Communal Institutions

Minute books (pinkas) constitute one of the most valuable sources for studying the history of the Jewish communal institutions up to the 20th century. They comprise rich and diverse data on the everyday activities of the Jewish people. In the academic language, the word “pinkas” is applied not only to the communal minute books and minute books of the communal bodies but also to private minute books. The article deals with the development of this category of sources which evolved from private minute books dating back to at least the 11th century to the communal ones as well as the minute books of the communal bodies based on the dozen manuscript examples. These are mostly of European origin, however, with a few Eastern additions. This evolution process becomes visible as a result of the analysis of the manuscripts’ internal structure and composition. Special attention is paid to the techniques used to enforce this structure on codicological and paleographic levels. The data at hand suggest that at the beginning of the Modern period some of the minute books were shifted from private to the public domain. This was a response to the demand from the rapidly evolving communal institutions. To suit the widened audience of varying backgrounds the communal minute books compared to those for private use adopted a more uniform structure as well as with a set of “navigation” or referencing tools, such as captions written on margins. The early modern Italian communal minute books tend to be the most structured ones.

Negotiating Identity and Power during a Crisis: An Analysis of ‘Small Stories’ Told by Australian Christian Priests during the COVID-19 Health Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 25-43
Author(s):  
Margo Louise Turnbull
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Crisis Period ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Small Stories

Abstract The COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 and localised government responses have led to fundamental changes in the conditions in which organisations operate. This article draws on a social constructionist understanding of identity as multiple and performed (Angouri 2016; Butler 1990) to explore the experiences of a group of six Australian Christian priests during this crisis period. Drawing on in-depth interview data, the article presents a narrative analysis of the storying of identities and power relations within church communities whose everyday activities were suddenly curtailed. In contrast to linguistic studies of narrative which often focus on structural features of canonical discourse ‘events’, this article takes up Bamberg and Georgakopoulou’s (2008) extension of narrative analysis to focus on ‘small stories’ which reflect the everyday, situated practices in which identities and power relations are negotiated and performed. This article contributes unique insights into the operation and practices of religious organisations in a crisis context.

Labour Woman and the Housewife

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Way

The chapter discusses how Labour Party women engaged with the newly-enfranchised housewife between the wars. It focuses on how Labour Woman represented the working-class housewife and the degree to which it enabled her to speak for herself. It chose everyday domestic life, traditionally assumed to be beyond politics, as the way to connect with unorganised women in their homes. In its Housewife Column the relevance of politics to women’s daily lives was explored through domestic topics such food prices, housework, washing and making clothes. Even with the increasing dominance of recipes and dress patterns in the 1930s, the journal continued to see the housewife as having agency and a distinct experience shaped by class. For Labour Woman interwar domesticity was neither cosy nor rationalised and modern, it was a space which provided the means to engage with the everyday lives of ordinary women.

Gathering in the Late Woodland

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey R. Barrier ◽  
Megan C. Kassabaum
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Late Woodland ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Lower Mississippi Valley ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Archaeological Work

The practice of enclosing open spaces with earthen mounds begins in the Lower Mississippi Valley around 3500 B.C. As the earliest recognized monumentalized landscapes in Eastern North America, these locations are thought to have provided periodic bases for the exploitation of rich natural resources and the maintenance of social relationships. Archaeological work at these early plaza sites has focused on establishing the age and stratigraphy of the associated mounds, leaving little known about the everyday activities that occurred around or between them. In this chapter, two case studies from separate areas of the Late Woodland Southeast are discussed: Feltus and Range sites. Participants in the large-scale rituals occurring in the Feltus plaza spent much of their time spatially separated, but the periodic moments of aggregation quite literally created the personal relationships, social structure, and ritual system in which they lived their daily lives. On the other hand, participants in the daily activities that occurred in the Range courtyards co-resided, but the particular relationships they shared with other individuals were negotiated in outside spaces, and the very presence and structure of the courtyard itself tied them – every day – into a much larger local community around formal, central plazas.

Laws and How They Affect the Everyday Lives of People with Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-73
Author(s):  
Rhoda Olkin
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Distributive Justice ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Disability Laws ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Impact

For persons who are minorities, the impact of laws can be very directly experienced in day-to-day life. The myriad laws related to disability are scattered across many laws and throughout many agencies and can be hard to locate. Some of the laws, rules and regulations help, but some also hinder, the daily lives of the disabled. How the labyrinth of laws places a burden on people with disabilities is highlighted. There are four activities in this chapter. The first has students focus on laws that affect their everyday lives. In the second activity the concept of ‘separate but not equal’ is the focus. A third activity entails a comparison of social justice versus distributive justice as it applies to disability. In the fourth activity a game of ‘Eye Spy’ concentrates on the application of disability laws.

scholarly journals Young Children, Maker Literacies and Social Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
Kristiina Kumpulainen ◽  
Anne Burke ◽  
Burcu Yaman Ntelioglou
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
The Everyday

Although making—that is, playing, experimenting, expressing, connecting, and constructing with different tools and materials towards personal and collective ends—has characterised the everyday activities of many children and adults across cultures for ages, there seems to be no doubt that novel digital technologies and media are transforming and re-mixing more traditional maker activities, with new opportunities for communication, collaboration, learning, and civic engagement [...]

Untitled, Work by Fadi Yazigi, curated by Myriam Jackiche Atelier, Damascus, Syria, 1 January–1 December 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-327
Author(s):  
Roma Madan-Soni
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Large Size ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Human Emotions

Fadi Yazigi’s exhibition Untitled creatively examines the effects of historical and political instabilities in his homeland over the last decade. Yazigi’s audience stands in the centre of an array of crafted exhibits that range from medium- to large-size everlasting bronze sculptures and brittle clay reliefs to figurative paintings decorating the surfaces of friable rice-paper canvas and fragile daily baked bread. The exhibition’s title is metaphorical: it embodies the ambiguities, inequalities and uncertainties in the daily lives of ordinary people in war-struck Syria. The ‘everyday use’ materiality of Yazigi’s craft assumes a form that reflects the complexities, contradictions and negotiations in the ‘trope of the everyday’ in the region and on a global scale. Yazigi’s work centres on people and human emotions with a nostalgic feeling towards the beings he meets. Yazigi smears oil, ink and acrylics as he employs techniques of drawing, painting, sculpting and moulding, using earth-sourced materials like paper, bread, soil and metal presenting the lives of ordinary people and their humane emotions.

African Customary Law in the Former Portuguese Territories, 1954–1974

1984 ◽  
Vol 28 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 72-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narana Coissoro
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Logical Consequence ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Customary Laws ◽  
The Individual

Throughout all Portuguese colonial history in the African continent, the question of recognizing oral local laws, the so called “customary laws”, and the koranic law in some areas of Guinea and the northern region of Mozambique, could never be separate from the constitutional law applicable to the aboriginal inhabitants who follow it in their daily lives. That is the reason why accepting the principle according to which the everyday-life relations of Africa could be controlled by specific juridicial rules distinct from Portuguese “common law” was always connected with the private and territorial validity of the individual rights and guarantees included in the constitutional texts concerning Africans. As a logical consequence of this link between citizenship and the application of the Portuguese law in force in the metropolis, applying traditional law always depended on the political concepts formed during the present century, as Portuguese sovereignty, until the end of the nineteenth century, was restricted to small littoral centres and the practice of authority in the other regions acquired at the Berlin Conference was deficient or merely nominal.The African juridical rules were always tolerated, as a means of securing colonial public peace or as a necessary condition for the smooth practice of Portuguese sovereignty beyond its European frontiers.

scholarly journals Women on the Path of the Goddess: Sacred Technologies of the Everyday

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Åsa Trulsson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Peak Experiences ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
Truth Claims

Contemporary spiritualties are often portrayed as a turn to a subjective and individualized form of religion, consisting of individually held truth claims or private peak experiences that are generated sporadically at retreats and workshops. The portrayal is ultimately related to a perception of everyday life in contemporary Euro-America as mundane, rationalized, and secular, but also the exclusion of practices centered on the body, the home and the everyday from what is deemed properly religious. This article explores the sacred technologies of the everyday among women in England who identify as Goddess worshippers. The purpose is to further the understanding of religion and the everyday, as well as the conceptualization of contemporary Goddess-worship as lived religion. Through examining narratives on the intersection between religion and everyday activities, the technologies of imbuing everyday life with a sacred dimension become visible. The sacred technologies imply skills that enable both imagining and relating to the sacred. The women consciously and diligently work to cultivate skills that would allow them to sense and make sense of the sacred, in other words, to foster a sense of withness through the means of a host of practices. I argue that the women actively endeavor to establish an everyday world that is experienced as inherently different from the secular and religious fields in their surroundings; hence it is not from disenchantment or an endeavor with no social consequences. The women’s everyday is indeed infused with different strategies where the body, different practices, and material objects are central in cultivating a specific religious disposition that ultimately will change the way the women engage with and orient themselves in the world.

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