scholarly journals Testing the Oracle?

2019 ◽  
pp. 44-67
Author(s):  
Esther Eidinow
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Actual Practice ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Epigraphic Evidence

By exploring stories about oracular consultation in light of actual practice, and vice versa, this chapter aims both to nuance current characterization of specific oracle stories and their meanings for their ancient audiences, and to deepen understanding of the lived experience of oracular consultation. Starting from the story of oracular consultation by King Kroisos (as told by Herodotos), this chapter explores literary and epigraphic evidence for dual oracular consultations of three different kinds. While drawing attention to the socio-political implications of consulting an oracle, this evidence also underlines the ancient perception of the pervasive presence of uncertainty in these interactions. In this light, Kroisos’ activities—often interpreted as illustrating how not to treat an oracle—can be seen to be similar to more familiar, everyday types of multiple oracular consultations.

Women in the Roman World

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Letizia Caldelli
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Roman Women ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Epigraphic Evidence ◽  
Women’S Views

Inscriptions help us reconstruct some elements of the lived experience of women in the Roman world. This chapter analyzes the epigraphic evidence for women’s role in economic, cultural, religious, and civic life, acknowledging the inevitable biases inherent in such texts. We do not usually have access to women’s views of themselves or of each other, since men were responsible for the majority of the relevant inscriptions. Nevertheless, we can study how men looked upon women, how they reacted to them, and what their expectations of Roman women were .

Religious Identity: Reflections on Revelation and Rationality

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-459
Author(s):  
Majid Amini
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Ethnic Origins

AbstractThere is a widespread assumption that ethnic origins substantially contribute, if not constitute, the identity of individuals. In particular, among the ethnic elements, it is claimed that religion takes precedence and people could be individuated in terms of their religious affiliations. Indeed, public theology as an attempt to expand on the public consequences of religious doctrines and beliefs is predicated on the legitimacy of the idea of religious identity. However, the purpose of this article is to show that strictly speaking identity cannot be constituted by religion. More precisely, it is argued that a phenomenological characterization of individual identity fails to do justice to the philosophical requirements of identity. The argument is obviously philosophical by nature and is developed through an analysis of the concept of revelation. The phenomenon of revelation plays a pivotal role in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions, yet by its very nature owes its authenticity to something prior to itself; namely, reason. This entails the priority of reason over revelation and as such undermines claims that purport to define identity in terms of revelation/religion. This detachment of identity from religion would clearly have far reaching socio-political implications for issues such as religious diversity, pluralism and multiculturalism in particular and public theology in general.

The 45-rpm dress revolution: Competing temporalities in 1960s fashion

2021 ◽  
Vol 00 (00) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Juneko J. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Marked Change ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Age Of Aquarius ◽  
Aesthetic Values

Perhaps no artefact is as evocative of temporality (i.e. the lived experience of time), as fashion and, arguably, no other period in history represents such a marked change in our notions about the relationship between the two as the 1960s did. In contrast to the Platonic-Apollonian fashion ideals of the 1950s, as exemplified by Dior’s New Look, the mod and the hippy came to represent competing bodily ideals. Their Dionysian fashions aestheticized time in three complementary ways: first, the celebration of the now, with its emphasis on the ephemeral, the physically pleasurable and the situated body in motion; second, the re-appropriation of the past, which involved the postmodern rejection or subversion of grand historical narratives that privileged certain iterations of race, class and gender and touted imperialism and cultural hegemony; and third, a utopian optimism about the future based on a belief in the increased possibilities of individual human potential as well as the prospect of societal transformation into a post-bellum, post-racial, post-classist, post-gender ‘Age of Aquarius’. These aesthetic values had political implications. Although the most radical of street fashions was worn by comparatively few 1960s youth, the deeper reasons why they came to be viewed with suspicion and outright anger were not so much due to particular styles, but rather what they revealed about our changing relationships to temporality and the postmodern fracturing of metanarratives concerning the proper existential comportment towards tradition and change, while laying the symbolic groundwork for what would later be referred to as the ‘culture wars’ in popular media.

scholarly journals Priest in the Inner City

Ecclesiology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-31
Author(s):  
Martin Gainsborough
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Priestly Ministry ◽  
The Church ◽  
Day By Day

The article considers the strengths and weaknesses of John Milbank’s ecclesiology by examining encounters the author has had as a Church of England priest working in the inner city. The analysis is further sharped by setting Milbank’s ecclesiology alongside Rowan Williams’s ideas about the Church and priestly ministry. The article argues that, while there is more to Milbank’s ecclesiology than some critics have allowed, his account can be usefully supplemented by close attention to the lived experience of the Church day by day. For a more rounded characterization of the Church as a distinctive human community, we need to look at the Church taken to its limits, sticking with situations of ‘dis-ease and conflict’, and not looking for ‘quick and false solutions’. These points can all be found in Williams’s ecclesiology.

scholarly journals STYLE AND SUBSTANCE: A QUALITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF DEMENTIA CAREGIVING MANAGEMENT STYLES

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S594-S595
Author(s):  
Amanda N Leggett ◽  
Benjamin Bugajski ◽  
Breanna Webster ◽  
Brianna Broderick ◽  
Daphne Watkins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Care Management ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Management Styles ◽  
Caregiver Interventions ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Primary Family

Abstract Caring for a person living with dementia (PLWD) can take a physical and emotional toll, but understudied is the process of how family caregivers actually provide care (caregiver management styles). We interviewed 100 primary family caregivers regarding management of a recently experienced care challenge and values held which might impact care management decisions. Watkins’ (2017) rigorous and accelerated data reduction (RADaR) technique was used to analyze qualitative data through open/focused coding, determining commonalities of style components/themes, and finally defining caregiving management styles. Style for a given caregiver emerged from enacted care strategies, caregiver’s internal stances which informed their use of strategies, and broader engagement (or lack thereof) with the PLWD’s lived experience/reality. Styles emerging from the analysis will be described including the direct, rigid “Just do it” style, and the flexible, empathic “Teamwork” style. Individualizing caregiver interventions and supports based on caregiver management style is an important future direction.

scholarly journals The influence of social support on strengthening families of children with chronic renal failure

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 692-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Érica Simpionato de Paula ◽  
Lucila Castanheira Nascimento ◽  
Semiramis Melani Melo Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Renal Failure ◽  
Chronic Renal Failure ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Supports ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Strengthening Families ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Identification And Characterization

This paper presents a study of the families of children on peritoneal dialysis, emphasizing the identification of social supports and networks to strengthen interventions aimed at health promotion. Our discussion is located in the context of inequalities between developed and developing countries. For this qualitative study, a content analysis was conducted in order to elicit themes from the raw data related to the lived experience of four families that have a child with chronic renal failure. The data were collected mainly by in-depth interviews and the construction of genograms and ecomaps. The identification and characterization of the families' social supports and networks allowed nurses and families to strengthen their coping mechanisms. Because families are dealing with severe economic problems, they need better supportive programs to guide their offspring to their full potential.

4. Oedipus

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Pick
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
States Of Mind ◽  
Fundamental Part ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Archaic States ◽  
Triangular Relationships ◽  
The Mind

‘Oedipus’ considers the Oedipus complex, a pivotal but much criticized idea in psychoanalysis. Freud suggested the ancient story of the murder of the father and union with the mother has such power because it resonates with a psychic truth about archaic states of mind in all of us. The psychological, anthropological, and political implications of Freud’s account have been much explored. It can be argued that with its focus upon such core triangular relationships in the mind it affords a useful perspective, and one with considerable purchase on psychic truth and people’s lived experience. Whatever the particular familial details, analysts would argue, the Oedipus complex plays a fundamental part in personality structuring.

scholarly journals "Body Language" pilot and gendered language in modern Canadian television

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Helen Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Creative Thesis ◽  
The Will ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Current Representation

In this thesis I draw on deconstruction theory and queer theory to analyze the current representation of sex, gender, and sexuality in Canadian television. Through this research I found that although Canadian television is portraying an increasing number of queer genders and sexualities, misinformation and stereotypes continue to perpetuate a one-dimensional characterization of people. This research pertains directly to my creative thesis: a pilot episode of a TV series which fraternal twins, Jed and Theodora, grow up with the ability to switch into one another's body. I dive directly into the correlation between sex and gender and the lived experience of being in a body that does not necessarily represent gender. The will both create a new gendered "construction" as well as question the need for gender identifications.

Orthodox Dissidence as De-Atomization: Father Dmitrii Dudko and His Battle with Razobshchennost’

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-114
Author(s):  
Nicholas Ganson
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Opposition ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Political Implications

On June 20, 1980, after more than five months of imprisonment, grueling interrogation, and emotional anguish, Fr. Dmitrii Dudko appeared on Soviet television and disavowed his earlier “anti-Soviet” statements. Dudko’s televised repudiation of his activities appeared to put the last nail in the coffin of an Orthodox dissident movement, which had shown promise as a political opposition to the Soviet state. Based on the case of Fr. Dmitrii, this article advances the idea that the characterization of the movement in political terms misrepresents the motives of its participants. Far from dismissing the political implications of the churchmen’s actions, the article, building on Fr. Dmitrii’s expressed struggle with razobshchennost’ (social atomization or isolation), explains his “dissidence” on its own terms, while considering its consequences and potential threat to the Soviet state. Seeking to grasp some of the nuance of the Orthodox dissident movement in the Soviet Union, this article employs the paradigm of atomization, de-atomization, and re-atomization to connect the religiously motivated activities of Fr. Dmitrii Dudko with the political implications of his actions for the Soviet state.

White People Ain’t Left Us Nothin’ But the Underworld: Historicity, Race and the American Dream in Ridley Scott’s American Gangster

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Sampson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Task Force ◽  
White People ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Drug Lord ◽  
The 1960S

Released in 2007, Ridley Scott’s American Gangster tracks the career of Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), who dominated the Harlem drug trade in the 1960s and 70s through his monopoly over heroin, which he imported directly from Vietnam and Thailand. The film follows the character of Detective Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe), who led the police task force ultimately responsible for toppling Lucas’ regime. This paper investigates the historical validity of the film, taking into consideration the consultant role Roberts and Lucas adopted during production alongside the political implications of Scott’s decision to cinematize (and so implicitly condone) the life of a convicted drug lord and accused murderer. It examines both filmic elements of music, casting and cinematography as well sociological concerns of race, space, masculinity and class in order to determine whether the film realistically portrays the lived experience of gang members and Harlem residents alike. Moreover, it considers the film’s political backdrop and its engagement with events like the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement and the 1970s recession. Ultimately, the paper concludes that despite Scott’s efforts to undermine traditional iconography by portraying Lucas as a complex, rational and respected outlaw-businessman, the narrative’s lack of critical engagement with the socio-economic context of its era ultimately render it presentist in style, content and intention.

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