Children and Childhood

2020 ◽  
pp. 287-296
Author(s):  
Marcia J. Bunge
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethiopian Orthodox ◽  
Children And Childhood ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Even though children play a central role in Christmas traditions worldwide and have been members of Christian communities since the early Church, little scholarly attention has been paid to the vast and varied interconnections between children and Christmas. This chapter examines this theme by: 1) focusing on children’s active participation and, at times, central role in Christmas traditions, such as Advent rituals in the home and Nativity plays in the congregation; 2) exploring traditions in which both children and adults seek to address the urgent needs of children locally and around the world; and 3) highlighting ways in which Christians past and present have sought to attend to the spiritual formation of children and the meaning of Christmas amidst various obstacles and distractions. By exploring these three lines of inquiry and offering examples from world Christianity, including Ethiopian Orthodox traditions, the chapter demonstrates the central yet often neglected role of children in Christmas traditions and highlights the need for further research into the intimate connections between children and many other religious traditions.

scholarly journals Introduction: Evidence for entheogen use in prehistory and world religions

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Michael Winkelman
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Serotonergic System ◽  
Complex Societies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Serotonergic Receptors ◽  
Hominin Evolution ◽  
The World

This introduction to the special issue reviews research that supports the hypothesis that psychedelics, particularly psilocybin, were central features in the development of religion. The greater response of the human serotonergic system to psychedelics than is the case for chimpanzees’ serotonergic receptors indicates that these substances were environmental factors that affected hominin evolution. These substances also contributed to the evolution of ritual capacities, shamanism, and the associated alterations of consciousness. The role of psilocybin mushrooms in the ancient evolution of human religions is attested to fungiform petroglyphs, rock artifacts, and mythologies from all major regions of the world. This prehistoric mycolatry persisted into the historic era in the major religious traditions of the world, which often left evidence of these practices in sculpture, art, and scriptures. This continuation of entheogenic practices in the historical world is addressed in the articles here. But even through new entheogenic combinations were introduced, complex societies generally removed entheogens from widespread consumption, restricted them in private and exclusive spiritual practices of the leaders, and often carried out repressive punishment of those who engaged in entheogenic practices.

Resurrecting Old Arguments: Responding to Four Essays

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Bodily Resurrection ◽  
The World

AbstractThe author is grateful for the attention given to his book The Resurrection of the Son of God by the four reviewers. David Bryan is right to highlight the Enoch literature as a more fertile source of resurrection ideas than the book allowed for; but he has overstated his objection. Granted that the stream of thought represented by resurrection is more diverse even than RSG allowed, the book's argument did not hinge on the wide spread of resurrection belief at the time but on the meaning of 'resurrection', i.e. a two-stage post-mortem existence, the second stage being a new embodiment. Bryan's suggested elevation of Enoch, Elijah and others as precursors of the exaltation of Jesus fails in that these figures neither die nor are resurrected. James Crossley's counter-proposal—resurrection stories grew from 'visions' which gave rise to the idea of an empty tomb as an attempt to 'vindicate' the 'ideas and beliefs of Jesus'—fails on several counts, not least because it ignores Jesus' kingdom-proclamation which was not the promulgation of ideas and beliefs but the announcement that Israel's God was going to do something that would claim his sovereignty over the world. Michael Goulder revives the highly contentious hypothesis that the early Church was polarized between the Jerusalem apostles, who believed in a non-bodily resurrection, and Pauline Christians for whom the resurrection was bodily. The claim that Mark 16.1-8 is full of contradictions and impossibilities is rejected. Larry Hurtado warns against downplaying the role of experience both in the Christian life and in describing the devotion and liturgy of the early Church. While cautioning against the use of the word 'metaphor' to mean 'less than fully real', I acknowledge the force of the argument, and suggest the cognitive processes I propose and the devotional life sketched by Hurtado are complementary.

Missionaries in the Twenty-First Century: Their Nature, Their Nurture, Their Mission

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-64
Author(s):  
Lois McKinney
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
First Century ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article combines elements from the emerging mission paradigm suggested by David J. Bosch in his seminal work, Transforming Mission (1991), with insights into the education of twenty-first century missionaries. The conceptual model developed here sees praxis and poiesis, theological contextualization and spiritual formation, being brought together in listening and responding movements of missions. It is suggested that missionaries will be best prepared for missions in a new century through emphases upon (1) nurture for praxis as they learn to exegete the Word, exegete the world, and bring these together in local theologies, and (2) nurture for poiesis as their worship and witness become expressive craftsmanship and spiritual service within Christian communities.

“The World is So Much Bigger”

2021 ◽  
pp. 211-230
Author(s):  
Tina Marie Keller
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The World ◽  
One Year ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Impact

Opportunities to experience diverse religious traditions while traveling abroad can create invitations to explore the role of religion in identity. This becomes important as teacher educators prepare preservice teachers for classrooms of increasing religious diversity. This study examined the impact of a two-week experience in Israel for three preservice teachers before, immediately after, and one year after the trip. The data suggests that purposeful inclusions of religious experiences, sites, and more importantly personal encounters with individuals of a variety of faiths can create occasions to reflect upon the role of religion in identity. The preservice teachers in this study, while each possessing unique perspectives, spoke to the impact of this experience upon their teaching in the classroom. The chapter concludes with suggested recommendations on how to incorporate religion while planning a trip with preservice teachers.

The Role of Annotations in Summarization

2018 ◽  
pp. 187-206
Author(s):  
Rosalyn Gunobgunob Mirasol
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Explicit Instruction ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
Reading Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Literacy Strategy ◽  
Teacher Modelling

In today's reading education, the importance of explicit instruction of specific cognitive literacy strategy that promotes readers' active participation in the reading process is highly recognized. This active participation is synonymous with readers' interaction with the text, the context, and himself/herself. Hence, this study was conducted to investigate the role of annotations in the ability of the students to write a summary. This chapter considered teacher-modelling as an important factor in the students' annotations. Explicit instruction and modelling gave the students' opportunity to learn the skill until they could independently apply the strategy without the guidance of the teacher. A qualitative analysis of the students' annotations revealed that those who have both verbal and non-verbal glosses had better output in their summary. This implies that annotations provide students better interaction with the text, themselves, and the world.

“The World is So Much Bigger”

2017 ◽  
pp. 275-294
Author(s):  
Tina Marie Keller
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The World ◽  
One Year ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Impact

Opportunities to experience diverse religious traditions while traveling abroad can create invitations to explore the role of religion in identity. This becomes important as teacher educators prepare preservice teachers for classrooms of increasing religious diversity. This study examined the impact of a two-week experience in Israel for three preservice teachers before, immediately after, and one year after the trip. The data suggests that purposeful inclusions of religious experiences, sites, and more importantly personal encounters with individuals of a variety of faiths can create occasions to reflect upon the role of religion in identity. The preservice teachers in this study, while each possessing unique perspectives, spoke to the impact of this experience upon their teaching in the classroom. The chapter concludes with suggested recommendations on how to incorporate religion while planning a trip with preservice teachers.

AL-AHBASH AND WAHHABIYYA: INTERPRETATIONS OF ISLAM

2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kabha ◽  
Haggai Erlich
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Significant Issue ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Countries ◽  
History Of

Islam is a universal religion and culture. Scholars who tend to focus on Islam in specific societies may overlook connections that, over the centuries, were important in shaping various Islamic intercultural dialogs. One case in point is the role of Ethiopia in the history of Islam. Although situated next door to the cradle of Islam, Ethiopia conveniently has been perceived by many Western historians of the Arab Middle East as an African “Christian island,” and as largely irrelevant. In practice, however, the Christian-dominated empire has remained meaningful to all Muslims from Islam's inception. It has also been the home of Islamic communities that maintained constant contact with the Middle East. Indeed, one of the side aspects of the resurgence of political Islam since the 1970s is the emergence in Lebanon of the “The Association of Islamic Philanthropic Projects” (Jamעiyyat al-Mashariע al-Khayriyya al-Islamiyya), better known as “The Ethiopians,” al-Ahbash. Its leader came to Beirut from Ethiopia with a rather flexible interpretation of Islam, which revolved around political coexistence with Christians. Al-Ahbash of Lebanon expanded to become arguably the leading factor in the local Sunni community. They opened branches on all continents and spread their interpretation of Islam to many Islamic as well as non-Islamic countries. This article is an attempt to relate some of the Middle Eastern–Ethiopian Islamic history as the background to an analysis of a significant issue on today's all-Islamic agenda. It aims to present the Ahbash history, beliefs, and rivalry with the Wahhabiyya beginning in the mid-1980s. It does so by addressing conceptual, political, and theological aspects, which had been developed against the background of Ethiopia as a land of Islamic–Christian dialogue, and their collision with respective aspects developed in the Wahhabi kingdom of the Saudis. The contemporary inner-Islamic, Ahbash-Wahhabiyya conceptual rivalry turned in the 1990s into a verbal war conducted in traditional ways, as well as by means of modern channels of Internet exchanges and polemics. Their debate goes to the heart of Islam's major dilemmas as it attracts attention and draws active participation from all over the world.

scholarly journals Literary Motives of Sufizm and Spiritual, Moral Ideas in the Lyrics of Jamal Kamal

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3S) ◽  
pp. 223-225
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Moral Maturity ◽  
Moral Improvement ◽  
Aesthetic Appearance ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Individual

In all religions of the world there is a place for spiritual and moral improvement of a man. In the Islamic religion, special importance is attached to the spiritual formation of the individual. The article reveals the essence of the spiritual and moral potential of religion on the example of the work of the Uzbek poet and translator Jamal Kamal. To show the role of advanced Islamic ideas, as one of the means for the comprehensive formation of the spiritual and aesthetic appearance of modern man, the poet turned to Sufism literature. His work can be a striking example of this phenomenon in Uzbek literature, since his work is an expression of his multifaceted, unique talent. It is well known that in all religions of the world, particular attention is paid to morals and moral maturity. However, the concept of good morals in Islam has risen to a higher level. In this article, it is written that Jamal Kamal is a poet who has built the immortal ideas of Oriental philosophy capable of raising the soul and spirit of humanity, that is, healing, to the status of the Truth and Verity.

scholarly journals Scientific education, society and TV

Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco-José Martínez-Ruiz ◽  
María-Mercedes Bautista-Arnedo ◽  
José-Ramón del-Pino-Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Educational Community ◽  
Education Society ◽  
Scientific Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

The advances in the world of sciences contributes to the progress of mankind. It’s really important to take into account the role of TV as a way of expanding and interpreting the information to make society aware of it and to imply an active participation. But mass media do not only have informative values but they are also formative. In this way of disseminating the information there are three factors to consider: scientific community, educational community and, concretely in this work, TV. El avance de la Ciencia contribuye al progreso de la humanidad. Para que la sociedad, sea consciente y participe de ella, es importante tener en cuenta el papel que juega la televisión como fenómeno de expansión e interpretación de la información. Pero los medios de comunicación no tienen sólo un valor informativo, sino también formativo. En este camino de difusión los intermediarios son tres: la comunidad científica, la comunidad educativa y los medios informativos, en concreto en esta comunicación, la televisión. La comunidad científica tiene la responsabilidad de conocer aquellas preocupaciones y actitudes de su entorno social relevantes para el desarrollo de su actividad. Asimismo, debe aprovechar todas la oportunidades para transmitir a la sociedad en qué forma incorpora a su trabajo y a sus decisiones esas preocupaciones, preferencias y demandas del público. La comunidad educativa juega un papel importante en el desarrollo del conocimiento científico, y también en el desarrollo de hábitos, incluso televisivos. La escuela no sólo tiene la responsabilidad de aportar conocimientos, sino también de fomentar en los alumnos la capacidad de análisis y evaluación crítica del desarrollo científico y técnico. Entre los medios de comunicación, la televisión se ha convertido en una pieza fundamental para las transmitir el conocimiento científico al público, y puede contribuir a la alfabetización científica de la población. Por ello, es esencial que la televisión dedique más atención y espacios a programas de divulgación científica, sin caer en la confusión e imprecisión fruto del desconocimiento de la ciencia.

scholarly journals A Theological Statement on the Coronavirus Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 329-358
Author(s):  
N. Barney Pityana
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Faith Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Ethics ◽  
The Church

Abstract This Statement is a response to the challenge that the church and Christian communities around the world face as a result of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and the regulations that have been imposed in order to control the spread of infections. The paper starts off by explaining that pandemics may be a challenge and an opportunity to the faith. Special attention is paid to the coronavirus pandemic, its origins, the effect on public health systems around the world, and its impact on the socio-economic livelihoods; the role of medical health scientists and the breakdown and disruption of communities, the economic arrangements of states. It also raises questions about the possibility of a new world order that seeks a more equal, compassionate and humane world. On that basis, the paper raises some pertinent theological questions that arise for the church and for faith communities. It explores and examines theological questions that arise out of a world that is broken and suffering, beset by devastation and yet called to live the faith responsibly and truthfully. The questions that arise are pre-eminently about God and the meaning of the divine and how God manifests Good during dark times. The paper raises some of the dilemmas that traditional faith practices are confronted by the pandemic especially in areas like worship, the sacraments and understanding the value of technology in the practice of the faith. Finally, the paper explores implications for the life of the church, especially in the moral life of the Christian community and the dilemmas posed by public ethics.

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