Zen Therapy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Brazier
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Living Tradition ◽  
Mental Change ◽  
Meditation Experience

This chapter explores the application of Buddhism as psychotherapy. Buddhism is primarily a religion or Dharma that has inspired the arts, social life, architecture, and foundational aspects of the cultures where it has become established. In considering it as psychotherapy, this chapter similarly applies principles and images springing from its religious root. Buddhism is also a transmitted living tradition, passing from master to disciple. This chapter examines that crucial mind-changing relationship, considering it as a medium of psychotherapy, and goes on to work through fundamental elements of Buddhist theory, substantially derived from meditation experience, showing their application to consoling, resolving, and liberating the troubled mind. It shows how meditation provides an amplifying and deepening dimension to this process of mental change.

Hooke recommemorated

1996 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-140
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Robert Hooke ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Personal Interaction ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
History Of

Richard Nichols, The Diaries of Robert Hooke, The Leonardo of London, 1635-1703 . Lewes, Sussex: The Book Guild, 1994, Pp. 185, £15.00. ISBN 0- 86332-930-6. Richard Nichols is a science master turned historian of science who celebrates in this book Robert Hooke’s contributions to the arts and sciences. The appreciation brings together comments from Hooke’s Diaries , and other works, on each of his main enterprises, and on his personal interaction with each of his principal friends and foes. Further references to Hooke and his activities are drawn from Birch’s History of the Royal Society, Aubrey’s Brief Lives , and the Diaries of Evelyn and of Pepys. The first section of the book, ‘Hooke the Man’, covers his early years of education at home in Freshwater, at Westminster school and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he soon joined the group of experimental philosophers who set him up as Curator of the Royal Society and Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, Bishopsgate. Hooke’s domestic life at Gresham College is described - his intimate relationships with a series of housekeepers, including his niece, Grace Hooke, and his social life at the College and in the London coffee houses.

scholarly journals Social Condition of England during the Wars of the Roses

1902 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 159-200
Author(s):  
Vincent B. Redstone
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
English History ◽  
Class A ◽  
The North ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wars Of The Roses ◽  
Social Habits ◽  
North And South ◽  
Better Than

The social life of the inhabitants of England during the years of strife which brought about the destruction of the feudal nobility, gave to the middle class a new position in the State, and freed the serf from the shackles of bondage, has been for some time past a subject of peculiar interest to the student of English history. If we desire to gain an accurate knowledge of the social habits and customs prevalent during this period of political disturbance, we cannot do better than direct our attention towards that part of the country which was the least affected by the contest between the Houses of York and Lancaster, the eastern district of England, which since the days of King John had enjoyed a remarkable immunity from civil war. Here the powerful lords of the North and South found little support; the vast estates of the old feudal barons were broken up into numerous independent manors. Moreover the arts of peace, in the shape of the mysteries of trade, manufactures, and commerce, widely flourished among the inhabitants of these regions.

Inventing the Social

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Wilkie
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social

Inventing the Social, edited by Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim and Alex Wilkie, showcases recent efforts to develop new ways of knowing society that combine social research with creative practice. With contributions from leading figures in sociology, architecture, geography, design, anthropology, and digital media, the book provides practical and conceptual pointers on how to move beyond the customary distinctions between knowledge and art, and on how to connect the doing, researching and making of social life in potentially new ways. Presenting concrete projects with a creative approach to researching social life as well as reflections on the wider contexts from which these projects emerge, this collection shows how collaboration across social science, digital media and the arts opens up timely alternatives to narrow, instrumentalist proposals that seek to engineer behaviour and to design community from scratch. To invent the social is to recognise that social life is always already creative in itself and to take this as a starting point for developing different ways of combining representation and intervention in social life.

Restorative Justice in Severe Times

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 618-644
Author(s):  
Lode Walgrave
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
Social Scientific

Restorative justice is based on mutual respect and inclusion through dialogue. This approach may be threatened in current severe times, characterized by rampant individualism and mutual distrust. In crime and justice issues, exclusion and punishment are pushing away approaches based on inclusion and persuasion. In such a socio-cultural climate, restorative justice is threatened indeed to being co-opted as an extension to the predominant punitive and controlling tendency. However, countervailing forces persist in social life, social practice, and in the arts. A social-scientific tendency is also aware of its social responsibility and seeks to serve the quality of social life based on more mutual respect, solidarity, and taking active responsibility. Restorative justice can be a part of these countervailing forces, if it safeguards its roots in this socio-ethical groundstream. It may be a spearhead of what we can call a “criminology of trust,” a criminology that understands that all policy regarding crime and justice issues must be grounded in respect, inclusion, and persuasion. Particularly, restorative justice’s contribution to this is twofold. First, it offers a realistic and more positive alternative to detrimental punitiveness. Second, it contributes to de-dramatizing and demystifying the image of crime and criminals to more realistic dimensions (which are in themselves serious enough).

Uses of art in the urban space

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (9) ◽  
pp. 841-851
Author(s):  
Adam J. Chmielewski
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Political Aesthetics ◽  
Instrumental Values ◽  
Participative Approach ◽  
Cultural Statistics

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that for many urban dwellers in developed societies proximity of the arts in the urban space is not tantamount to their availability. Design/methodology/approach – The method applied is based upon the conception of capabilities and the concept of the Human Development Index; an analysis of the available cultural statistics, as well as a study of two revealing case studies, that of Bilbao, Spain and Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, as distinct and alternative examples of the employment of arts as a stimulus for the urban growth and regeneration. Findings – The findings suggest that the current urban policies are not conducive to an equal access to the arts of the urban dwellers. Originality/value – The author provides an innovative explanation of this phenomenon from his own perspective of the political aesthetics, which includes, inter alia, the concepts of the public agoraphobia, commodification and interpassivity. Making use of the distinction between the intrinsic and instrumental values, the author argues in favour of the participative approach to the arts in the urban social life, and formulates a policy recommendation according to which small- and medium-sized cities are possibly better suited to satisfy the need for the enjoyment of the arts in a more egalitarian way.

scholarly journals CHANGING SOCIAL VALUES AND MUSIC

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1SE) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Suvarna Tawse
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Special Effect ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Complex Emotions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Musical Traditions

Music is a symbolic symbol of artistic achievements and musical traditions of human society. Music is considered as the social cultural heritage of society.When memories, anxiety, malice, mental tension, emotion and complex emotions make social life monotonous and rooted, then the arts especially the music arts have a special effect on the social value of society. संगीत मानव समाज की कलात्मक उपलब्धियों एवं सांगीतिक परम्पराओं का मूर्तिमान प्रतीक है।संगीत समाज की सामाजिक सांस्कृतिक विरासत मानी जाती है।जब स्मृतियाँँ,चिन्ता,द्वेष,मानसिक तनाव,आवेष तथा जटिल भावना,सामाजिक जीवन को नीरस तथा जड़ बना देती है तब कलाएँ विषेषकर संगीत कला समाज व्यक्ति के सामाजिक मूल्य पर विषेष प्रभाव डालती है।

Anglican Spirituality

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Loades
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Increased Sensitivity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Historical Origins

By virtue of its historical origins as well as its commitment to fundamental doctrines such as the Trinity, and the transformation of perspective as a result of ecumenism and the continuation of the Anglican Communion worldwide, Anglicans draw on an extraordinary range of resources both old and new. Reflection on scripture, saints both pre- and post-Reformation, and the willingness of present-day Christians to lay bare their own engagement with God result in a rich and demanding range of possibilities. The impact of liturgical reforms and revisions post Vatican II have resulting in the reordering of places and spaces for worship, increased sensitivity to ‘sacramentalism’ very broadly construed, attention to the arts in all their complexity, and in some cases in serious re-engagement with political and social life.

IT Use and Social/Media Time Displacement

2012 ◽  
pp. 354-364
Author(s):  
John P. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Media Use ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
It Use ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
American Time Use Survey ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Time Use Survey

Each new Information Technology (IT) takes time away from other daily activities. Three highly-publicized early studies of the initial impact of Information Technology indicated it was having negative effects on both social life and mass media use. However, a number of national surveys since then – from the Pew Center, the General Social Survey (GSS), the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA), and the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) -- have not replicated these results. Indeed, they find support for Internet and other IT use sometimes being associated with increased social life and media use (especially reading). Moreover, this finding continues to hold after education, income, age and other predictors of social life and mass media use are controlled.

Theatre as Inclusive Arts-based Research: A Key to Political Art in the Post-democracy?

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-86
Author(s):  
Petro Janse van Vuuren ◽  
Bjørn Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Political Art ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Inclusive Practice ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Applied Theatre ◽  
Artistic Research

In this chapter we investigate different approaches to art as research (arts-based) in relation to applied theatre practice and research from a cultural democratic perspective. In particular, we discuss theatre as “inclusive” practice and research and how this relates to different traditions of arts-based research. Based on literature analyses and experiences from Centres of Applied Theatre Research in South Africa and Norway, we unveil some different and dominant traditions of arts-based research that are currently voiced and familiar in Norway and South Africa. We explore four notions of exclusiveness within European notions of “artistic research”: The alternative epistemology, Knowing for the sake of the arts only, The limited artistic context, and Only qualified artists do artistic research. Seen from a different cultural angle, the South African, we find that tendencies of exclusiveness are challenged by different notions of inclusiveness: The role of the arts and its embeddedness in social life, Inter disciplinarity, The extended political and historical context, Embracing intersectionality. As answers to potential accusations of applied theatre art running errands for the liberalist post-democracy, this chapter discusses inclusive arts-based research as a form of cultural praxis that may negotiate paradoxes of post-democracy

Influence of Meditation Practices over Social Connectedness

Diogenes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hristina Telefonska ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
Strong Correlation ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Distinct Pattern ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Meditation Experience ◽  
The Impact

Recent research papers indicate strong correlation between meditation practices and increased social connectedness, decreased social isolation and general positive effects on social life. Our research is part of bigger project about influence of the meditation techniques over social perception. The study is conducted online, participants (n=181) answer questions regarding their meditational experience, 5 facet mindfulness questionnaire and sets of questions about aspects of social perception, social connectedness and first impression. The study shows strong correlation between meditation experience and subjective social connectedness. A distinct pattern appeared that shows the impact of meditation practice over subjective quality of love life and friendship relationships. General results show tendency of increasing subjective social isolation.

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