CONCEPTS AND METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF CHINESE RELIGIONS II: INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND KEY CONCEPTS. Edited by Gregory AdamScott and StefaniaTravagnin. Religion and Society, 78. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. xvi+218. Hardback, $114.99.

The special challenge the philosophy of economics must meet is to provide a scientific realist account that is realistic of a discipline that deals with a complex subject matter and operates with highly unrealistic models. Unrealisticness in economic models must not constitute an obstacle to realism about those models. This article gives a selective and somewhat abstract summary of its author's thinking about economics, outlined from two perspectives: first historical and autobiographical, then systematic and comparative. The first angle helps understand motives and trajectories of ideas against their backgrounds in intellectual history. The story of this article turns out to have both unique and generalizable aspects. The second approach outlines some of the key concepts and arguments as well as their interrelations in this chapter's philosophy of economics, with occasional comparisons to other views. More space is devoted to this second perspective than to the first.

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CONCEPTS AND METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF CHINESE RELIGIONS III: KEY CONCEPTS IN PRACTICE. Edited by Paul R.Katz and StefaniaTravagnin. Religion and Society, 79. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. xviii+261. Hardback, $114.99.

Religious Studies Review ◽

10.1111/rsr.15009 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 46 (4) ◽

pp. 571-571

Keyword(s):

Key Concepts ◽

Chinese Religions

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From the Darkness into the Light: Narratives of Conversion in Jihadi Videos

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 148-170

Author(s):

Christoph Günther

Keyword(s):

Intellectual History ◽

Religious Conversion ◽

Islamic State ◽

Spiritual Experiences ◽

Autobiographical Narratives ◽

Personal Stories ◽

Key Concepts ◽

Audiovisual Processing ◽

Ontological Framework ◽

Social Collective

This chapter examines a specific format used by Jihadi-Salafi groups to offer an epistemic and ontological framework that helps people setting their individual biography in relation to this social collective. I trace the (re-)creation of two autobiographical narratives of religious conversion as they are presented in two videos authored by al-Muhajirūn and the Islamic State between 2016 and 2017. The epistemological interest of this chapter is to reconstruct the appropriation of key concepts from Islamic intellectual history and the teleological strategies employed in the audiovisual processing of these personal narrations. I will show the ways in which the videos’ authors use audiovisual means to construct and enhance the authenticity and plausibility of these individuals’ personal stories and their spiritual experiences.

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Intellectual History of Key Concepts

10.1515/9783110547825 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Intellectual History ◽

Key Concepts ◽

History Of

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Ethnogeriatrics: Development and Application of the Cohort Analysis Tool

Perspectives on Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations ◽

10.1044/cds21.2.37 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 37-52

Author(s):

Melen McBride

Keyword(s):

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Cohort Analysis ◽

Analysis Tool ◽

Speech Language Pathology ◽

Clinical Tool ◽

Research Activities ◽

Key Concepts ◽

Practice Teaching ◽

Language Pathology ◽

Significant Factors

Ethnogeriatrics is an evolving specialty in geriatric care that focuses on the health and aging issues in the context of culture for older adults from diverse ethnic backgrounds. This article is an introduction to ethnogeriatrics for healthcare professionals including speech-language pathologists (SLPs). This article focuses on significant factors that contributed to the development of ethnogeriatrics, definitions of some key concepts in ethnogeriatrics, introduces cohort analysis as a teaching and clinical tool, and presents applications for speech-language pathology with recommendations for use of cohort analysis in practice, teaching, and research activities.

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