Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Melanie C. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Corporate Worship ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Evangelical Identity ◽  
American Evangelicalism

The introduction explains why corporate worship is central to evangelical identity. It sets the book in historical and cultural context and frames the study it in relationship recent scholarship on contemporary American evangelicalism. The author introduces the seven ethnographic case studies at the heart of the book, describing how each congregation represents a key “tile” or type of evangelical worship in the American mosaic. After delineating the scope and limitations of the study, the chapter details the main argument of the book: worship is the vehicle through which congregations express their theological identity by negotiating the three paradoxes of constancy and change, consensus and contestation, and sameness and difference.

Contemporary Shamanisms in Norway

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trude Fonneland
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Local Manifestation

This book examines Sámi shamanism in Norway as a uniquely distinctive local manifestation of a global new religious phenomenon. It takes the diversity and hybridity within shamanic practices seriously through case studies from a Norwegian setting and highlights the ethnic dimension of these currents, through a particular focus on Sámi versions of shamanism. The book’s thesis is that the construction of a Sámi shamanistic movement makes sense from the perspective of the broader ethno-political search for a Sámi identity, with respect to connections to indigenous peoples worldwide and trans-historically. It also makes sense in economic and marketing terms. Based on more than ten years of ethnographic research, the book paints a picture of contemporary shamanism in Norway in its cultural context, relating it both to the local mainstream cultures in which it is situated and to global networks. By this, the book provides the basis for a study revealing the development of inventiveness, nuances, and polyphony that occur when a global religion of shamanism is merged in a Norwegian setting, colored by its own political and cultural circumstances.

Beings for Beauty

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic McIver Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Psychological Traits ◽  
Almost All

The main argument for the network theory of aesthetic value is that it better explains the facts about aesthetic activity than does its rival, aesthetic hedonism. Aesthetic activity is not limited to appreciation, and six case studies are presented of aesthetic agents whose expertise covers a range of aesthetic activities. From a survey of the case studies, we see that six facts need explaining. Aesthetic experts disperse into almost all demographic niches, they jointly inhabit the whole aesthetic universe, they specialize by aesthetic domain, they specialize by type of activity, they specialize by activity and domain interact, and their expertise is rooted in relatively stable psychological traits.

scholarly journals Zero-Tolerance in Catalonia: Policing the Other in Public Space

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Lundsteen ◽  
Miquel Fernández González
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Zero Tolerance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Sociocultural Practices

AbstractRecent studies have argued for more nuanced understandings of zero tolerance (ZT) policing, rendering it essential to analyze the significance and actual workings of the policies in practice, including the context in which they are introduced. This article aims to accomplish this through a comparison of two case studies in Catalonia: one in the neighborhood of Raval in Barcelona and one in Salt—a municipality in the comarca (or county) of Girona. We identify a transformation in the use of ZT policies in Catalonia and a contradiction between their social effects and proclaimed objectives. This article attempts to address how specific sociocultural groups gain power and privilege from these policies. The main argument is that a set of commonsensical ideas have become hegemonic, which allows and naturalizes certain sociocultural practices in urban space, while persecuting others, fundamentally pitting two categories against each other: the desired civil citizen and the undesirable and uncivil stranger.

scholarly journals International TV series distribution on Chinese digital platforms: Marketing strategies and audience engagement

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Gilardi ◽  
Celia Lam ◽  
K Cohen Tan ◽  
Andrew White ◽  
Shuxin Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between online media platforms in China and fan groups is a dynamic one when it comes to the distribution of international TV series and other media content, as media platforms incorporate user-generated content to encourage or foster audience engagement. Through a series of case studies, this article investigates how international TV series are acquired, distributed, marketed and curated on Chinese online video platforms. This helps to identify specific strategies and themes used by these platforms to promote international content and engage users. These marketing techniques, however, are not always as successful as expected, suggesting the need for a closer examination of the types of engagement sought by media platforms, and the ways in which Chinese audiences have responded within their cultural context.

Evangelical Worship

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie C. Ross
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Religious Right ◽  
First Century ◽  
American Religious History ◽  
Liturgical Studies ◽  
Academic Trajectories ◽  
Eyes Closed ◽  
Corporate Worship ◽  
Christian Rock ◽  
American Evangelicalism

Almost invariably, media stories with the word evangelical in their headlines are accompanied by a familiar stock photo: a mass of middle-class worshippers with eyes closed, faces tilted upward, and hands raised to the sky. Yet, despite the fact that worship has become symbolic of evangelicalism’s identity in the twenty-first century, it remains an understudied locus of academic inquiry. Historians of American evangelicalism tend to define the movement by its political entanglements (the “rise of the religious Right”), and academic trajectories (the formation of the “evangelical mind”), not its ecclesial practices. Theological scholars frequently dismiss evangelical worship as a reiteration of nineteenth-century revivalism or a derivative imitation of secular entertainment (three Christian rock songs and a spiritual TED talk). But by failing to engage this worship seriously, we miss vital insights into a form of Protestantism that exerts widespread influence in the United States and around the world. Evangelical Worship: An American Mosaic models a new way forward. Drawing together insights from American religious history and liturgical studies, and putting both in conversation with ethnographic fieldwork in seven congregations, this book argues that corporate worship is not a peripheral “extra” tacked onto a fully formed spiritual/political/cultural movement, but rather the crucible through which congregations forge and negotiate the contours of evangelicalism’s contested theological identity.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Zorawar Daulet Singh
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Strategic Thought

If we seek to make informed assessments about India’s future foreign policy and possible contestations, we must revisit a much larger and earlier slice of its strategic past, in order to discern prior policy patterns during times of inflexion and change. The Cold War period offers a rich and relatively untapped empirical reserve that can provide much needed depth to understanding Indian strategic thought and geopolitical practices. And, to truly understand Indian statecraft one must go beyond the study of non-alignment and examine more concrete ideas that have informed Indian geopolitics over the years. This book attempts to explicate some of these ideas and their application during some of the most significant events and crises in India’s immediate and extended neighbourhood over three decades during the Cold War. This chapter sets up the book’s main argument, lays out the conceptual framework, elaborates on the historical scope of the case studies, and, finally on the archival material that has been consulted by the author.

Worship as Missional Practice

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-191
Author(s):  
Darren Cronshaw ◽  
Peter Downes
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Missional Church ◽  
Corporate Worship ◽  
God's People ◽  
Community Continuity

The corporate worship gathering has been centrally important to Vineyard Churches, but the Emerging Missional Church (emc) movement has challenged them to reconsider how corporate worship interfaces with mission. A linked series of case studies of three Australian Vineyard churches identifies several functions of the Sunday worship gathering. Worship is a ‘centripetal embrace’ for God’s people; which brings focus, community, continuity and a climax to the week. But worship as missional practice is equally about centrifugal release and the need for encouragement, equipping, empowering, direction and missional impetus. These functions are consistent with James Smith’s appeal for worship that forms disciples whose desires are shaped towards the Kingdom of God and whose imaginations are captured with a vision for being actors in God’s story.

scholarly journals On Interpreting Something as Food

Food Ethics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Borghini ◽  
Nicola Piras
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Recent Scholarship

AbstractIn this paper we discuss the role that individual and collective acts of interpretation play in shaping a metaphysics of food. Our analysis moves from David Kaplan’s recent contention that food is always open to interpretation, and substantially expands its theoretical underpinnings by drawing on recent scholarship on food and social ontology. After setting up the terms of the discussion (§1), we suggest (§2) that the contention can be read subjectively or structurally, and that the latter can be given three sub-readings. We then lay out (§3) three case studies that, we submit, any viable theory of a metaphysics of food should be able to account for. We show that one structural reading—based on the idea of negotiation—swiftly accommodates for the three case studies. We thus conclude that this reading is most promising for charting a metaphysics of food.

The Politics of Apology and the Prospects for ‘Post-conflict’ Reconciliation: The Case of the Provisional Irish Republican Movement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
General Model ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
The Past ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Republican Movement ◽  
Conflict Reconciliation ◽  
Political Framing

Abstract This article analyses the Irish Provisional Republican movement and the evolution of its approach to the politics of apology. The first section analyses recent scholarship regarding ‘political apologies’, and provides a challenge to the existing literature, which concentrates upon ‘official’ or state apologies, rather than examples involving non-state armed groups (paramilitary or ‘terrorist’ organisations). This section argues that it remains difficult to discern an adequate general model for establishing criteria for a ‘successful’ or ‘sincere’ political apology involving such groups. The second section considers a number of case studies, including the statements of the IRA in 2002, and after the Enniskillen bombing in 1987. It is argued that the Provisional movement’s apologies have not generally proven helpful to its declared aim of post-conflict reconciliation. This article argues that attempted apologies or quasi-apologies by non-state groups may not ameliorate the sense of grievance experienced by victims/survivors, and may also serve to revivify social and political ‘framing battles’ over the past.

Math in a Cultural Context: Two Case Studies of a Successful Culturally Based Math Project

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Lipka ◽  
Maureen P Hogan ◽  
Joan Parker Webster ◽  
Evelyn Yanez ◽  
Barbara Adams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Culturally Based
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