Reading Isaiah in Asia

2020 ◽  
pp. 669-681
Author(s):  
Maggie Low
Keyword(s):  
Pluralistic Society ◽  
Book Of Isaiah ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
The Family ◽  
Personal Nature ◽  
Relational Aspect ◽  
Suffering Servant

This chapter discusses four areas of interaction between the book of Isaiah and the author’s context as a Chinese Singaporean woman. First, the Asian emphasis on the family underscores the fatherhood of God in Isaiah, while Isaiah’s depiction of God’s fatherly grace is a model for the Asian family. Secondly, Isaiah’s maternal imagery of God provides a corrective to Confucian patriarchy in a complementary rather than combative way. Thirdly, Isaiah’s favorite title for God as “the Holy One” fits in with Asia’s religious context, but the relational aspect of the Holy One “of Israel” reveals the personal nature of the Divine. Fourthly, Isaiah’s monotheistic faith challenges Singapore’s pluralistic society, but the universal message of the Suffering Servant crosses boundaries for the good of all.

Mr. Eliot's Fix-It-Shops

1982 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Else Ribeiro Pires Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Literary Genre ◽  
Basic Pattern ◽  
Cocktail Party ◽  
Family Reunion ◽  
Religion And Psychology ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Existential Problem

Eliot's plays follow the basic pattern of sin - expiation - communion. Murder in the Cathedral and The Family Reunion are cast in a religious context and the characters hope for communion through suffering and in the after-life. The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk and The Elder Statesman are cast in a secular context and the characters seek to integrate themselves through action, rather than through martyrdom. From The Cocktail Party on, the dramatization of the characters' integration reveals Eliot’s shift from transcendental to earthly concerns. That shift influences his choice of literary genre and approach to character, plot, diction and style. The distinction between comedy and tragedy is erased. Sin begins to be referred to also as an existential problem; priest and psychiatrist become one in other words, Eliot gradually overlaps the languages of religion and psychology. However, the secularization of his last plays does not mean that the experience is not religious. Religion becomes less a matter of Church ritual conceived in the ways of the world.

scholarly journals Artists and Writers for Two Centuries in the Cultural-Religious Context

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketevan Barbakadze ◽  
Tamar Gogoladze
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Artistic Talent ◽  
The Way

The history of Georgian painting is closely connected with the name of the 19th century artist Giorgi (Grigol) Maisuradze, who went through the way of demonstrating his artistic talent, from the family of peasants to the Brulov Academy and later working as a teacher of art. Giorgi Maisuradze's paintings are preserved in various museums in Kutaisi, and his following biography with his family and descendants still creates an interesting cultural gallery where famous Georgian artists, writers and scientists are presented. The artist's works has been thoroughly studied by an art critic Shalva Kvaskhkadze, and the present issue is from the history of Georgian culture.

Biographical Imprints—Childhood Home, War, School, Career Hopes

Dieter Grimm ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Dieter Grimm
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
School Career ◽  
The Family ◽  
Childhood Home ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

The chapter treats the family background of Dieter Grimm, his childhood during the Second World War and in post-War Germany, education and teachers, religious context, treatment of national socialism in post-War Germany, division of the county, emergence of the Federal Republic, early political interest.

The Family of Man in Poland: An Exhibition as a Democratic Space?

Ikonotheka ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 213-238
Author(s):  
Kamila Leśniak
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Spatial Arrangement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Exhibition Space ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Family ◽  
Utopian Thinking ◽  
Relational Aspect

The exhibition entitled The Family of Man, which was designed by Edward Steichen and presented for the fi rst time in 1955 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, belongs to the most famous and most controversial photographic expositions of the 20th century. Usually perceived in the light of the anachronistic, West-centric vision of humanism, i.e. as an embodiment of Modernist views on photography, it constitutes a good example of the museum’s infl uence as a Modernist “social instrument”. However, contemporary theories in exhibition studies offer a more complex interpretation. The present work provides insight into this process by referring to the views of Mieke Bal (on the “cinematic effect” of photographic exhibitions, the narrative and relational aspect of expositions), Fred Turner (on the space of an avant-garde exhibition as the realisation of the political and social idea of a “democratic personality”) and Ariella Azoulay (on exhibition space as a “visual declaration of human rights” and the fi eld for a “photographic social contract”). The primary aim of the present article is to set The Family of Man within the framework of Polish exhibition practices. The complex origins of the American project can be traced back to avant-garde experiments with exhibition space conducted in the Bauhaus movement and in Soviet Constructivism (the psychology of perception, “photo-murals”); the analysis focuses on the political and propagandistic aspects. An analysis of the above issues provides the starting point for considering the signifi cance and probable reception of the exhibition’s spatial arrangement in the milieu of Polish architects and designers as well as its Polish variant as prepared by Stanisław Zamecznik and Wojciech Fangor. It was therefore useful to refer to Oskar Hansen and his theory of Open Form, as he cooperated with Zamecznik and Fangor at the time. Models of avant-garde and Modernist “utopian thinking” are juxtaposed, thus making it possible to perceive the process of reception in the light of its effectiveness. The article also discusses The Family of Man as a model for projects with propaganda undertones, i.e. the so-called “problem-oriented exhibitions”. It mentions attempts at adapting Steichen’s design of exhibition space to the needs of the offi cial narrative in the People’s Republic of Poland. Finally, it uncovers the ambivalent nature of the infl uence of The Family of Man and the dual status of the exhibition as both a propagandistic project and as an anti-systemic space supporting the ideal of a creative, free individual.

scholarly journals The family tree is not cut: marriage among slaves in eighteenth-century Puerto Rico

2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 23-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Stark
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Family Tree ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Reconstitution ◽  
Material Conditions

Examines the frequency of slave marriage in 18th-c. Puerto Rico, through family reconstitution based on parish baptismal, marriage, and death registers. Author first sketches the development of slavery, and the work regimens and conditions of the not yet sugar-dominated slavery in Puerto Rico. Then, he describes the religious context and social implications of marriage among slaves, and discusses, through an example, spousal selection patterns, and further focuses on age and seasonality of the slave marriages. He explains that marriage brought some legal advantages for slaves, such as the prohibited separation, by sale, of married slaves. In addition, he explores how slaves pursued marital strategies in order to manipulate material conditions. He concludes from the results that in the 18th c. marriage among slaves was not uncommon, and appear to have been determined mostly by the slaves own choice, with little direct intervention by masters. Most slaves married other slaves, with the same owner.

scholarly journals Deskripsi Hamba yang Menderita Menurut Yesaya 52:13-53:12

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Elkana Chrisna Wijaya
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Book Of Isaiah ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Suffering Servant

The theological theme of "Servant Who Suffers," is the subject of research, with an explanation derived from Isaiah 52:13-53:12. Various considerations became the basis or foundation for this research. Among them are differences in views about the original author from the Book of Isaiah, which became the "distant context" of this research subject, as well as the debate about "the person or identity of the suffering servant." This research is intended not only to bring out differences from the views of the two groups but also to provide confirmation and solutions to these differences. Of course, the results of this study, not solely based on the thoughts and personal assumptions of the author. The method used in this research is qualitative research which describing and discussing these sections based on biblical studies and some views of experts as a source of literature from the research subjects.AbstrakTema teologis “Hamba yang Menderita,” merupakan subyek penelitian, dengan penjelasan yang bersumber pada Yesaya 52:13-53:12. Berbagai pertimbangan menjadi dasar atau landasan bagi penelitian ini, seperti perbedaan pandangan mengenai penulis asli dari Kitab Yesaya, yang menjadi “konteks jauh” dari subyek penelitian ini, serta perdebatan mengenai “pribadi atau identitas dari hamba yang menderita.” Penelitian ini, dimaksudkan tidak hanya memunculkan perbedaan dari pandangan kedua kelompok tersebut, namun juga memberikan penegasan dan jalan keluar bagi perbedaan-perbedaan tersebut. Tentunya hasil dari pada penelitian ini, bukan semata-mata berdasarkan pada pemikiran dan asumsi pribadi penulis. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kualitatif yaitu dengan cara memaparkan dan membahas bagian-bagian tersebut dengan berlandaskan pada kajian biblika serta beberapa pandangan para pakar sebagai sumber literatur dari subyek penelitian tersebut.

scholarly journals Sociological Aspects of Multicultural Islamic Religious Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-143
Author(s):  
Miftahul Huda
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Educational Values ◽  
Pluralistic Society ◽  
Community Environment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Diverse Society ◽  
Democratic Principles ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
The One

This writing aims to analyze the sociological aspects of multicultural Islamic religious education. Multicultural Islamic religious education is a solution to the plurality of Indonesian society in accordance with the democratic principles adopted by the Indonesian nation. Multicultural Islamic religious education is an important aspect in building the nation's next generation. Sociological aspects in multicultural Islamic religious education are fundamentally reflected by the existence of conducive cooperation between Islamic religious education in the family, school and community environment, good educational control will be realized. In a sociological context, the family is the first and foremost institution known to children. In this case, his parents are the first to be known and provide educational values. Then the school environment, the school at this time is a need for everyone to get an education from school. Schools in this case have two important aspects, namely individual aspects and social aspects. On the one hand, schools are tasked with influencing and creating conditions that allow optimal development. Furthermore, the community environment, a diverse society such as in Indonesia often creates the potential for friction or even conflict. Therefore, differences are a necessity in a pluralistic society. Differences must be accepted as a necessity. Such acceptance will lead to people's attitudes that can accept existing differences. This is what will produce students who have good morals, who will not only make their parents and teachers proud, but also the community as users of educational outcomes.

Images of Kinship

1987 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Wheaton
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Christian Humanism ◽  
The Family ◽  
Devotional Images ◽  
In Trans ◽  
The Middle Ages

This article surveys representations of kin in trans-alpine Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, with particular attention to the Netherlands and Germany. In the Middle Ages most such images occurred in a religious context where kin appeared in funeral monuments or as donors in devotional images. In the sixteenth century kin images were transformed under the influence of Erasmian Christian humanism and Protestantism into apparently secular portraits Interpreted on a symbolic level, however, they reflect the set of values that kinship ideally supported: the family as an institution, sustaining the moral, spiritual, and material well-being of its members from generation to generation. The symbolic expression of these values shifted from a basically religious idiom in the sixteenth century to a naturalistic one in the eighteenth. The changing treatment of dead members of the family is considered in this light.

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