Muslim-Christian Dialogue: The Gap Between Theologians and Communities

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Prideaux
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
The Real ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
The Way

AbstractInter-faith dialogue is increasingly seen by the state as important in the development of cohesive communities. Yet many of the traditional theological texts of inter-faith dialogue which inform religious leaders neither address the needs of local communities, nor hear from their experiences. Based on fieldwork in Leeds this article explores the lived reality of a predominantly Muslim and Christian neighbourhood where there is a taken-for-granted response to theology that sees it as irrelevant to the real needs and issues of a local community. This article offers a reflection on the way in which the distance between Christians and Muslims is perhaps not as great as the distance between inter-faith theology and religiously diverse communities.

scholarly journals Pravni ukrepi občin v času razglašene epidemije covida-19 z vidika varnosti v lokalnih skupnostih

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bojan Tičar ◽  
◽  
Iztok Rakar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Way

New virus SARS-CoV-2 (hereinafter COVID-19) has reached the Republic of Slovenia in February 2020. On March 12th, 2020, the state has announced the epidemic. In this context, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia began to adopt different measures to protect the population and stop spreading the virus COVID-19. All local communities had to act according to the government’s decisions. In this contribution, we present an analysis of some cases and praxis in local communities. We have analysed some actions of local authorities (mayors and local councils) in the context of fighting against the spread of the virus COVID-19 among the local population. The analysis also includes an overview of local legal regulations and activities of local security authorities (local-community wardens and local community inspectorates) in the fight against the spreading of the COVID-19 virus. The minority of Slovenian communities have adopted some »special lock-down measures«. The way that these activities were legally processed is shown in the last part of this contribution.

THE BUREAUCRATIZATION OF MUSLIM MARRIAGE IN INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva F. Nisa
Keyword(s):  
Social Reform ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
State Recognition ◽  
The Real ◽  
State Registration ◽  
Ambiguous Position ◽  
Real Test ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe phenomenon of “secret” (siri) Muslim marriages—marriages that are conducted without state recognition—has become a hotly debated topic in Indonesia, particularly since the emergence of Muslim marriage agencies that organize unregistered online marriages. The issue is particularly contested between the state, women's activists, legal activists, and religious leaders. This article analyses the current efforts of the Indonesian state to bureaucratize Muslim marriages by insisting that unregistered marriages need to be registered with the state, and the societal responses to such regulations. Those who believe in the importance of state registration of Muslim marriage emphasize that it is an integral part of social reform. However, it has also been seen as creating problems when it only serves the interests of the majority and stands in the way of minority religious understandings, particularly by some conservative Muslims who believe that marriages within the Muslim community should be regulated by Muslim leaders (ʿulamāʾ) only, and not the state. This article argues that unregistered marriage has been the real test of the bureaucratization of religion in Indonesia. The government's effort to demonstrate its Islamic credentials by accommodating the people's majority religion has led it to assume an ambiguous position on the issue of unregistered marriages.

Between a rock and a hard place: State-led territorial stigmatization, informal care practices and the interstitiality of local community workers in Denmark

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasmus H Birk ◽  
Mia Arp Fallov
Keyword(s):  
Informal Care ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Interstitial Position ◽  
Community Work ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Hard Place

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explore the relation between territorial stigmatization and community work in Denmark. In the paper, we firstly explore territorial stigmatization, relating it to the Danish context. We show how territorial stigmatization in Denmark happens via a complex amalgamation of bureaucratic practices which identify particular areas as problematic ‘ghettos’, and how this leads to top–down interventions upon many local residential areas, including local community work. Following this, we draw on participant observations in practices of local community work, and interviews with local community workers, to explore how they practically negotiate these particular political constructions of their work. We argue that local community workers come to take on interstitial roles—that is, they come to be in-between the state and authorities and the local communities themselves. This complex double role is what we call an interstitial position, meant to signify how Danish local community workers are both part of territorial stigmatization and simultaneously trying to escape from and undo this very role.

scholarly journals Public relations as promotional activity

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr.Sc. Almira Curri-Mehmeti
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Local Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Promotional Activity ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Way

Public relations give opportunity to the organization to present its image and personality to its own “public”- users, supporters, sponsors, donors, local community and other public.It is about transferring the message to the public, but that is a two-way street. You must communicate with your public, but at the same time you must give opportunity to the public to communicate easier with you. The real public relations include dialog – you should listen to the others, to see things through their perspective. This elaborate is made with the purpose to be useful for every organization, not for the sensa-tional promotion of its achievements, but to become more critical towards its work. Seeing the organization in the way that the other see it, you can become better and sure that you are giving to your users the best service possible.

scholarly journals WAYS OF DIMINISHING OF ERRORS OF CALCULATIONS OF COMPUTER OF AUTONOMOUS MOBILE OBJECT ARE FOR ALGORITHMS OF SLAM OF NAVIGATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-43
Author(s):  
Yu. A. Nitsuk ◽  
О. М. Semchak ◽  
І. V. Sharipova
Keyword(s):  
Subsequent Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Mobile Object ◽  
Frequency Filter ◽  
Mobile Unit ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Place ◽  
The Way

A question is in-process considered, in relation to the lead through of estimation of complication of algorithms of EKF-SLAM and construction of map of locality in accordance with supporting points, from point of his algorithmically programmatic realization. It enables to determine the ways of subsequent development and adaptation of the known mathematical correlations of algorithms of EKF-SLAM and DP-SLAM for diminishing of errors of calculations of co-ordinates airborne COMPUTERS of autonomous mobile object for realization of algorithms. The estimation of the state of off-line mobile unit is arrived at by filtration of particles. The great number of hypotheses which are an eventual number is generated, which show by itself the predictable place of location of robot. Every meaningful element of map, that orienteer, in every particle can be appraised with the use of the extended filters of Kalmana, particles of robot conditioned position. And the coefficient of weight of particles settles accounts for determination of probability of hit of certain part in a final set, which will present not only the real place of location of autonomous mobile object on a map but also position of found out all orienteers. The way of modification of the known mathematical correlations of filters of Kalmana offered in-process from point of their adaptation to the features of algorithmic and programmatic realization in airborne COMPUTERS provides economy of memory of airborne COMPUTER and diminishing of necessary calculable resource It is noticed that the algorithms of realization of SLAM of navigation are changed the offered way use less of particles, than methods, based only on a frequency filter. The error of initial calculation of co-ordinates of orienteer is taken to the minimum and does not accumulate in course of time in mathematical sense.

Scotland: Local Leaders, Local Communities

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-80
Author(s):  
Hannah Holtschneider
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Secular Culture ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Local Leaders ◽  
The Way

Focusing on the specifics of the Scottish context, the analysis centres on the work of Salis Daiches in relation to the discussion about the relationship between London and the provinces. The Chief Rabbi’s authority was not so tangible in this northernmost nation and the need to keep alive his hegemony in all halakhic matters was a prominent concern in Hertz’s dealings with Daiches and Jewish religious leaders in Glasgow. Daiches was the best educated rabbi in Scotland at the time, was trusted by the Chief Rabbi, which, alongside his public profile as a representative of Jews and Judaism to non-Jewish society, placed him in a prominent position in the Scottish Jewish communities. The chapter argues that Daiches’s ambition for leadership in Scotland was useful to the Chief Rabbi whose authority was upheld through Daiches, while it resulted in tension with Jewish leaders in Glasgow. Daiches’s own clashes with the Chief Rabbi meant that his career did not flourish the way in which he had hoped. Daiches died in Edinburgh in 1945, broken by the murder of his fellow Jews in Europe, and the impossibility of the synthesis of Jewish and secular culture he had championed all his life.

scholarly journals The Real World of the Decentralized Autonomous Society

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.Z. Garrod
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
The State ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
The Real ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Open Markets ◽  
The Way

Although it is still in early stages, many commentators have been quick to note the revolutionary potential of next-generation or Bitcoin 2.0 technology. While some have expressed fear that the widespread application of these technologies may engender the rise of a Terminator-style Skynet, others believe that it represents the coming of a decentralized autonomous society (DAS) in which humans are freed from centralized forms of power through the proliferation of distributed autonomous organizations or DAOs. Influenced by neoliberal theory that stresses privatization, open markets, and deregulation, Bitcoin 2.0 technologies are implicitly working on the assumption that 'freedom' means freedom from the state. This neglects, however, that within capitalist societies, the state can also provide freedom from the vagaries of the market by protecting certain things from commodification. Through an analysis of (1) class and the role of the state; (2) the concentration and centralization of capital; and (3) the role of automation, I argue that the vision of freedom that underpins Bitcoin 2.0 tech is one that neglects the power that capital holds over us in both organizing the structure of our lives, and informing our idea of what it means to be human. In neglecting these other forms of power, I claim that the DAS might be a far more dystopian development than its supporters comprehend, making possible societies that are commodities all the way down.

The Animal That Therefore I Am (Not): Marx as Subjectivity Theorist

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 309-330 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Real ◽  
General Line ◽  
Michel Henry ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Way

The article centers on a discussion of Frank Ruda’s chapter in the anthology Reading Marx, in which he argues that the history of emancipatory thought is a series of footnotes to Plato’s Cave. In considering emancipation to be a way out of the non- or pre-human state, Marx becomes the thinker closest to Plato. According to Ruda, a critique of capitalism must be based on the refutation of the myth of the (unconditional) given, which he identifies with the ideological operation of naturalization. Capitalist naturalization dependent on abstraction and abstraction from abstraction ends by reducing the worker to the state of an animal. However, this is a strange animal that has nothing to do with real animals, and therefore should be called a non-animal. The way out of the Cave turns out to be the realization that the figure of the non-animal does not conceal within itself an unalienated substance and that no positive utopia lies beyond the Cave - on the contrary, the path to liberation leads to the Real of the shadows themselves, to a kind of negative utopia. Accepting Ruda’s general line of reasoning, the author of the article nevertheless wonders whether this interpretation that Ruda has put forward is the kind of new way to read Marx to which Reading Marx aspires. The author compares this interpretation with one from the Marxist legacy proposed by Michel Henry and with François Laruelle’s non-Marxism (which is an extension of Henry’s thought). Their example shows that naturalization could be not only a target in the criticism of capitalism but also a method for that criticism. The myth of the unconditional given has been countered by Henry with a myth about the given which coincides with its condition. Then according to non-Marxism, the myth of the givenness conditions is what is be overcome instead of the myth about the given. That argument is illustrated by Katerina Kolozova’s denunciation of the anthropocentric orientation of the critique of capitalism, which holds that the animal has been reduced to the non-animal in capitalism in exactly the same way as human beings have been and draws the conclusion that in the last instance both animal and human are generically identical.

Reading on the Move

PMLA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 128 (1) ◽  
pp. 232-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lutz Koepnick
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Jane Smiley ◽  
The Real ◽  
Alternative Structures ◽  
Good Book ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Way

It is often said that proper reading relies on the art of taking a pause: On our abilityto suspend the pressing rhythms of the everyday and allow ourselves to absorb, and be absorbed by, alternative structures of temporality. The clocks of the imagination do not run at the same speeds as the timetables of the real; to read is to inhabit the present at one's own pace and in the light of a multitude of unknown pasts and possible futures. Recent years have witnessed a swell in publications pondering the state of reading in our world of instant connectivity and shrinking attention spans. In one of these books, Jane Smiley, a Pulitzer Prize winner, considers the peculiar acts of writing and reading a novel as profound contributions to the process of enlightenment—a kind of enlightenment enlightened about itself and no longer repressing the other of reason: “The way in which novels are created—someone is seized by inspiration and then works out his inspiration methodologically by writing, observing, writing, observing, thinking through, and writing again—is by nature deliberate, dominated neither by reason nor by emotion” (176). According to Smiley, the act of reading a novel re-creates an author's deliberate negotiation of affect and rationality. As readers follow the lines of a (good) book, they remain in relative control over the speed of their reading, able to pause when necessary, to hasten forward when desiring so, to reread passages at their leisure, and to close the pages of the book when overtaken by exhaustion. Good stories rely on intricate plot constructions and narrative tensions, but they also situate readers as subjects freed from the temporal determination and ideological drive of other time-based media. Good books can certainly move readers, but—following Smiley's logic—they will not curtail a reader's freedom to move along the text at his or her own speed, and hence they will allow this reader to simultaneously bring into play emotion and reason, the absorptive and the distant.

scholarly journals Political Economy and the Australian Government’s CCTV Programme: An Exploration of State-Sponsored Street Cameras and the Cultivation of Consent and Business in Local Communities

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Anthony Carr
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Local Council ◽  
Security Technologies ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Commercial Opportunity

This article explores the political economy of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) in Australia, providing new insights into the relationship between government policy and its economic implications. I have rationalised state-sponsored street cameras as a component in the cultivation of consent between the state and local communities; a mechanism for government to facilitate the flow of public funds to business through arrangements that are virtually unchecked and non-evidence based; a mechanism for government to facilitate profitable opportunities in and beyond the security technologies industry; and, a mechanism to normalise hegemonic social and political relations at the level of discourse. This article explores how government has assisted growth in the security industry in Australia. I draw on a case study about Kiama Municipal Council’s decision in 2014 to accept funding from the Abbott Government to install CCTV cameras through the Safer Streets Programme. This is despite historically low crime rates in Kiama and an inability to demonstrate broad support for the programme in the local community. This study reveals how politicians have cultivated support for CCTV at the local level and pressured councils to install these systems despite a lack of evidence they reduce, deter or prevent crime. Examined is how the footage captured on local council CCTV has been distributed and its meanings mediated by political and commercial groups. I argue that the politics of CCTV dissemination in Australia is entwined with the imperatives of electoral success and commercial opportunity—a coalescent relationship evident in the Safer Streets Programme. Furthermore, the efficacy of CCTV as an electoral tool in Australia is explained via the proposition that street cameras perform a central role in the discourses and political economy of the state.

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