Caste, Religion and other Identities

1993 ◽  
Vol 41 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 147-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Searle-Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Group Membership ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Racial Identities ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
The Many ◽  
Anthropological Literature ◽  
Different Levels

Religion is one of the many principles of social identification in India. It is becoming increasingly important – although, very often, what appears to be mobilisation on a religious basis can just as adequately, indeed more satisfactorily, be described in terms of caste, class or regional affiliations. Vested interests may encourage the reification of religions, and academics overseas, especially in Religious Studies departments, may, unwittingly, provide them support. This chapter examines the link between caste and religion, particularly in the case of the very lowest status groups. It suggests that both caste and religion mean very different things at different levels of the hierarchy. It then proceeds to look at the distinctive characteristics of religious identities in India. The discussion is related to wider debates about ethnic and racial identities and issues. Should class or interest group membership and allegiances be prioritised over other cultural identities, whether ascribed or acquired? It is argued that it is mistaken to reduce any one of these to another. Searle-Chatterjee draws on a range of historical and sociological/anthropological literature and also makes use of her own research in Varanasi (Banaras).

Christianity and culture: history, tradition, modernity

1997 ◽  
pp. 65-66
Author(s):  
V. Klymov
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Culture History ◽  
State Administration ◽  
State Pedagogical ◽  
State Pedagogical Institute ◽  
The Many ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Cultural Experts ◽  
Practical Conference

Under this name, on November 20-21, the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference took place in Poltava, which became one of the many events devoted to the 2000th anniversary of the Nativity of Christ. Its organizers were Poltava Regional State Administration, Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Philosophy named after G. Skovoroda, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Poltava State Pedagogical Institute. VG Korolenko. The conference was attended by scholars: religious scholars, historians, philosophers, ethnographers, cultural experts, teachers from Kyiv, and many regions of Ukraine.

scholarly journals The 4-Level Approach: Prevention of Suicidal Behaviour Through Community-Based Intervention

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Hegerl ◽  
Ines Heinz ◽  
Ainslie O'Connor ◽  
Hannah Reich
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
The Many ◽  
Different Levels

Due to the many different factors contributing to diagnostic and therapeutic deficits concerning depression and the risk of suicidal behaviour, community-based interventions combining different measures are considered the most efficient way to address these important areas of public health. The network of the European Alliance Against Depression has implemented in more than 120 regions within and outside of Europe community-based 4-level-interventions that combine activities at four levels: (i) primary care, (ii) general public, (iii) community facilitators and gatekeepers (e.g., police, journalists, caregivers, pharmacists, and teachers), and (iv) patients, individuals at high risk and their relatives. This review will discuss lessons learned from these broad implementation activities. These include targeting depression and suicidal behaviour within one approach; being simultaneously active on the four different levels; promoting bottom-up initiatives; and avoiding any cooperation with the pharmaceutical industry for reasons of credibility.

Secularism and Multiculturalism in India: Some Reflections

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rochana Bajpai
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Hindu Nationalism ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

What role does secularism have in the governance of religious diversity in an age marked by the assertion of religio-cultural identities across the world? India, with its long history of religious pluralism, a state ideology of secularism, and the ascendancy of Hindu nationalism, is a key site for examining the disposition of secularism towards religious identities and diversity. Secularism and multiculturalism are often seen as opposed in political debates involving religious minorities, notably the well-known French headscarf case. Several scholars have suggested that religious traditions offer better resources for toleration than modern secularism (for India, see, for example, Madan 1998: 316; Nandy 1998:336–7). Others, more sympathetic to secularism, have also suggested that it may be deficient in the normative resources required for the accommodation of religious practices, particularly in the case of minorities (Mahajan, this volume; Modood 2010).

Projection between Exhibition and Information

2020 ◽  
pp. 211-236
Author(s):  
Adeena Mey
Keyword(s):  
Research Group ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Media History ◽  
Land Art ◽  
Earth History ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Entire Country ◽  
The Many ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way

Among the many reconfigurations and experiments with the ‘medium of the exhibition’ of the 1960–1970s, Sonsbeek 71 stands as one the most audacious examples. Organized by curator Wim Beeren as an attempt to find a new curatorial language and innovative exhibition form, Sonsbeek 71 took ‘the entire country as its field of operation’, the ‘exhibition’ consisting of several works of land art, ‘information centres’, as well as pavilions dedicated to film, video, and art mediation. The ‘spatial relations’ exposed by the scale of this apparatus became the very object of Beeren’s curatorial inquiry. Focusing on projected moving images at Sonsbeek 71, this chapter discusses it on three different levels. First, it identifies the way both the film and exhibition apparatus were reconfigured and how Sonsbeek 71 functioned as an epistemology of the exhibition as medium. Second, it articulates a critique of the exhibition as a form intersecting technical, discursive, informational, and sensible elements, and shows how, in its radical expansion of the exhibition medium, Sonsbeek 71 ‘conflates media history with earth history’ (Parikka). Third, what is meant by the notion of the exhibition as ‘medium’ is discussed in light of the inflatable pavilions designed by the Eventstructure Research Group where structural films and artists’ films were projected. This eventually opens up to a critique of the informational, cybernetic epistemology of Sonsbeek 71.

Types of cooperation and networks

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-122
Author(s):  
John Child ◽  
David Faulkner ◽  
Stephen Tallman ◽  
Linda Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Joint Ventures ◽  
Strategic Alliance ◽  
International Expansion ◽  
Expansion Joint ◽  
Alliances And Joint Ventures ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Supplier Contracts ◽  
The Many ◽  
Different Levels

Chapter 5 reviews the traditional forms of strategic alliance and network. It shows that there are many different types, ranging from supplier contracts to equity joint ventures, and all have different levels of interaction and independence. Networks are another well-established form of cooperation; these can embrace several, sometimes many, firms and other partners. This chapter discusses dominated, equal partner, and coordinated networks. This chapter also describes a variety of taxonomies proposed for classifying alliances. It notes that Yoshino and Rangan (1995) and Dussauge and Garrette (1999) have perhaps the most attractive typologies of alliance forms among the many on offer. Yoshino and Rangan categorize alliances into non-traditional contracts, equity alliances, and joint ventures. Dussauge and Garrette identify international expansion joint ventures, vertical partnerships, diversification alliances, complementary alliances, shared supply alliances, and quasi-concentration alliances. The chapter concludes with some suggestions as to which forms may be most appropriate for which situations.

Thrombocytosis

2010 ◽  
pp. 4280-4287
Author(s):  
Stefan O. Ciurea ◽  
Ronald Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cell ◽  
Platelet Count ◽  
Iron Deficiency ◽  
Blood Loss ◽  
Haematopoietic Stem Cell ◽  
Polycythaemia Vera ◽  
Essential Thrombocythaemia ◽  
Platelet Production ◽  
The Many ◽  
Different Levels

Thrombocytosis describes a platelet count elevated above 450 × 109/litre, which can be (1) primary—including essential thrombocythaemia, chronic myeloid leukaemia, polycythaemia vera and myelodysplastic syndromes; or (2) secondary—including iron deficiency, infection, blood loss, malignancy. Platelets are released from megakaryocytes, whose development is principally regulated by thrombopoietin. This is chiefly produced in the liver and binds to its receptor (c-Mpl) to cause activation via the JAK-STAT signalling pathway at different levels of the platelet production pathway, ranging from the proliferation and survival of haematopoietic stem cell/progenitor cells to megakaryocyte maturation. Thrombopoietin production is increased by a wide variety of stimuli, which explains the many causes of secondary thrombocytosis....

The New Immortality: “Readings” in Aesthetics

Dialogue ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-251
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Payzant
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Commercial Publisher ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many ◽  
Different Levels

It is no easy matter for a teacher of aesthetics to make a choice among the many textbooks now available in that subject. I have been looking at fourteen books of “readings” in aesthetics, all of them in English, and all but one of them published during the past twenty years. Three were published within the past six months: how many more will arrive before we have to settle down to work on another choice?There are two main reasons for this proliferation of anthologies or books of “readings”. One reason is that it is almost fatally easy for a busy academic to prepare an anthology rather than to write a book. Deans and presidents are as much impressed by the book a man edits as they are by the book he writes, although they are achievements of two very different levels. The other is that aesthetics is currently big in the booming textbook industry, and every commercial publisher wants a title on the subject in his catalogue.

scholarly journals COMPETITION AND THE DYNAMICS OF GROUP AFFILIATION

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 501-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICHOLAS GEARD ◽  
SETH BULLOCK
Keyword(s):  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Group Affiliation ◽  
New Members ◽  
The Social ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
Different Levels

How can we understand the interaction between the social network topology of a population and the patterns of group affiliation in that population? Each aspect influences the other: social networks provide the conduits via which groups recruit new members and groups provide the context in which new social ties are formed. Given that the resources of individuals are finite, groups can be considered to compete with one another for the time and energy of their members. Such competition is likely to have an impact on the way in which social structure and group affiliation co-evolve. While many social simulation models exhibit group formation as a part of their behaviour (e.g., opinion clusters or converged cultures), models that explicitly focus on group affiliation are less common. We describe and explore the behaviour of a model in which, distinct from most current models, individual nodes can belong to multiple groups simultaneously. By varying the capacity of individuals to belong to groups, and the costs associated with group membership, we explore the effect of different levels of competition on population structure and group dynamics.

scholarly journals A Photograph of Four Orientalists (Bombay, 1885): Knowledge Production, Religious Identities, and the Negotiation of Invisible Conflicts

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 603-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filipa Lowndes Vicente
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
British India ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Religious Ceremony ◽  
Before And After ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Many

Abstract By analyzing the history of a photograph taken in a Bombay photo studio in 1885, this article explores notions of the production of knowledge on India and cultural dialogues, encounters, appropriations, and conflicts in colonial British India in the late nineteenth century. The photograph was taken after a Hindu religious ceremony in honour of the Italian Sanskritist Angelo de Gubernatis. Dressed as a Hindu Brahman, he is the only European photographed next to three Indian scholars, but what the image suggests of encounter and hybridity was challenged by the many written texts that reveal the conflicting dialogues that took place before and after the portrait was taken. Several factors were examined in order to decide who should and who should not be in the photograph: religion, cast, and even gender were successively discussed, before the category of “knowledge” became the bond that unified the four men who studied, taught, and wrote on India.

scholarly journals From Orientalsim to Postcoloniality

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-158
Author(s):  
Ali Al Saeed
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
University College ◽  
The Many

Orientalsim and postcoloniality are synonymous with contemporary cultureand literature. As much as the younger generations of formally colonizednations and communities would like to argue, the truth of the matter is that on some level, their colonial times have made an everlasting impression ontheir own identity and culture. This was one of the many themes that theconference, held at the Södertörns Högskola University College in Stockholm,Sweden, focused on during its congested four-day program.This was one of the largest gatherings to deal with issues of ethnic identityand diversity, as well as the non-proverbial influences of colonialism inthe reshaping of new communities and their modernized cultures. Paperspresented ranged from diversity and nationalism in the postcolonial context,postcolonialsim and religious studies, African-American writing and socialactivism, colonial romanticism and white supremacy, and postcolonial literatureand film in English, among other topics ...

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