Pentecostal and Charismatic Reshaping of the African Religious Landscape in the 1990s

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ogbu Kalu

AbstractIn this arcticle, Nigerian Ogbu Kalu utilizes two broad models that emphasize how religion reinvents daily life and culture, and how it does so by utilizing signals of transcendence in the sphere of human existence. Kalu argues that religion needs to be examined as a central category of cultural practice in which lived lives embody an evolving religious understanding of the ultimate meaning of life. Sociologists of religion may miss the driving force of religious power in religious movements by paying too much attention to functions of such movements in social structures. In all these, culture is the contested space. Kalu develops his argument by highlighting seven areas to illustrate the salience of the Penteocstal movement in reshaping cultures and religious landscapes: re-invention of self and life journey, daily life in the domestic domain, arts and aesthetics, communication, the individual and community at the social domain, religious life and public space.

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 470-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Clements

Highgate Cemetery is nominally presented as a heterotopia, constructed, and theorized through the articulation of three “spaces.” First, it is configured as a public space which organizes the individual and the social, where the management of death creates a relationship between external space and its internal conceptualization. This reveals, enables, and disturbs the sociocultural and political imagination which helps order and disrupt thinking. Second, it is conceived as a creative space where cemetery texts emplace and materialize memory that mirrors the cultural capital of those interred, part of an urban aesthetic which articulates the distinction of the metropolitan elite. Last, it is a celebritized counterpublic space that expresses dissent, testimony to those who have actively imagined a better world, which is epitomized by the Marx Memorial. Representation of the cemetery is ambiguous as it is recuperated and framed by the living with the three different “spaces” offering heterotopic alliances.


Author(s):  
GerShun Avilez

In this book, GerShun Avilez argues that queerness, here meaning same-sex desire and gender nonconformity, introduces the threat of injury and that artists throughout the Black diaspora use queer desire to negotiate spaces of injury. The space of injury does not necessarily pertain to a particular architecture or location; it concerns the perception and engagement of a body. Black queer bodies are perceived as social threats, and this perception results in threats (physical, psychological, socioeconomic) against these bodies. The space of injury describes the potential threat to queer bodies that lingers throughout the social world. Attending to such threats and challenging them constitute defining elements in Black queer artists’ work. In each of the two parts to the book, the author examines how perceptions of the Black queer body in different environments create uncertainty for that body and make it a contested space because of racial and sexual meaning. Part 1 focuses on movement through public space (through streets and across borders) and on how state-backed interruptions seek to inhibit queer bodies. Part 2 explores movement through institutional spaces (prisons and hospitals), which seek to expose the queer body to make it vulnerable to control. Ultimately, the book insists that desire and artistic production function as means to queer freedom when actual policies and legislation fail to ensure civic rights and social mobility.


2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 619-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cayetano Fernández-Sola ◽  
José Granero-Molina ◽  
Gabriel Aguilera Manrique ◽  
Adelaida María Castro-Sánchez ◽  
José Manuel Hernández-Padilla ◽  
...  

Preserving dignity during the dying process requires reviewing the roles of those involved in the treatment, care methods and decision-making. This article examines the participation and responsibility assigned to nurses regarding decision-making in the final stages of life, as laid out in the Rights to and Guarantee of Dignity for the Individual During the Process of Death Act. This text has been analysed on the levels of socio-cultural practice and discourse practice, using the critical discourse analysis methodology. The results show that, although the law is another result of the social trend of patient empowerment, the responsibility of the nurses is not recognised, and they are left out of the decision-making process in the final stages of life.


2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 226
Author(s):  
Isti’anah Isti’anah

Perempuan dalam Islam memiliki kesetaraan kedudukan dengan laki-laki sebagaimana tercantum pada surat al-Hujurat ayat 13, kaum perempuan pada masa Nabi dapat melakukan aktifitas di ruang publik. Namun pada kenyataannya masih banyak perempuan yang terkungkung budaya patriarki baik dalam ranah publik maupun domestik. Perempuan diposisikan sebagai kelas nomor dua dan dipertajam dengan pemahaman keagamaan yang bias mengenai peran dan kedudukan perempuan dalam Islam. Pesantren sebagai salah satu lembaga yang membingkai dengan pengajaran kitab kuning yang merupakan teks keagamaan klasik tentang posisi perempuan yang berada di bawah laki-laki yang terpapar dalam kitab Uqūd Al Lujain. Berdasarkan penelitian ini, kaum perempuan di Pesantren Raudlatul Muta’allimin Cilendek Cibeureum Kota Tasikmalaya memiliki peranan yang luas di ranah publik. Tetapi di rumah tangga mereka tetap di bawah laki-laki (suami). Kaum perempuan menempati posisi apapun bahkan struktur yang tinggi di masyarakat seperti menjadi kepala sekolah, tetapi ketika di rumah tetap mentaati suami dan kiprah apapun di ruang publik harus atas seijin suami karena suami merupakan pemimpin rumah tangga. Konstruksi sosial yang dilihat dari realitas sosial yang terjadi mengenai peran dan posisi perempuan ini tidak terlepas dari pengetahuan yang berupa pemahaman atas teks keislaman tentang peran dan posisi perempuan.[Women in Islam have an equal position with the man, as it is explained in Al-Hujurat:13 that women in the era of Prophet Muhammad has a big chance to do activity in public space. However, in reality, there are a lot of women who are still struggling under the patriarchy culture both in public and domestic spaces. Women are put in second class and doctrines with the bias religious understanding about the role and position of women in Islam. Islamic boarding school (pesantren) as one of the institutions frames the study of Kitab Kuning, a classic religious text which teaches that the position of women is under the men, it is explained inside of Uqūd Al Lujain as well. According to this research, women in Islamic Boarding House of Raudlatul Muta’allimin Cilendek Cibeureum, Tasikmalaya has a comprehensive role in public space. However, in the domestic sector, they are still under men. In public space, women can have an important position, such us a headmaster, yet when they are in home, they should obey with their husbands and all of the activities in public space should be permitted by their husbands, because of a husband as the household leader. The social construction of women’s role and position are influenced by knowledge from Islamic texts.]


Author(s):  
Daniel Steele ◽  
Edda Bild ◽  
Cynthia Tarlao ◽  
Catherine Guastavino

Decades of research support the idea that striving for lower sound levels is the cornerstone of protecting urban public health. Growing insight on urban soundscapes, however, highlights a more complex role of sound in public spaces, mediated by context, and the potential of soundscape interventions to contribute to the urban experience. We discuss Musikiosk, an unsupervised installation allowing users to play audio content from their own devices over publicly provided speakers. Deployed in the gazebo of a pocket park in Montreal (Parc du Portugal), in the summer of 2015, its effects over the quality of the public urban experience of park users were researched using a mixed methods approach, combining questionnaires, interviews, behavioral observations, and acoustic monitoring, as well as public outreach activities. An integrated analysis of results revealed positive outcomes both at the individual level (in terms of soundscape evaluations and mood benefits) and at the social level (in terms of increased interaction and lingering behaviors). The park was perceived as more pleasant and convivial for both users and non-users, and the perceived soundscape calmness and appropriateness were not affected. Musikiosk animated an underused section of the park without displacing existing users while promoting increased interaction and sharing, particularly of music. It also led to a strategy for interacting with both residents and city decision-makers on matters related to urban sound.


Problemata ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 276-283
Author(s):  
Simã Catarina de Lima Pinto

The essay presents the public and private space from the reconfiguration imposed by the pandemic. It is considered that the information technology was inevitably intensified in order to face the pandemic and allow the continuation of life without major damages to the daily life. If before sociotechnologies were based on physical mobility and information technology for daily activities, restrictions on the use of public space have made information technology the main means of safe confrontation against the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. With this, the delimitation between public and private space is questioned, which also allows the problematization of the relationship between the individual and the collective based on biopolitical concepts, which are resized by the new context that is imposed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-44
Author(s):  
Maria-Lucia Rusu

Abstract This approach examines the comparative relationship between persuasion at micro and macro-social level, under the framework of the comparative analysis method. In this sense, after identifying and presenting the concept of persuasion, the similarity of interpretation and persuasion techniques are emphasized. The study first addresses the epistemological and methodological aspect of the social connotations of persuasion. It has as main objectives to ensure the interpretation of the concept, to identify the strategies, to describe the mechanisms by which the persuasion in the public space is reconstructed and to discover the methods of resistance to this type of communication. The usefulness of studying this type of communication results from the effects it has on the individual and its various inter-human relationships in the macro-social space.


2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-171
Author(s):  
Fellipe Coelho-Lima ◽  
Victor Varela ◽  
Pedro F Bendassolli

This article discusses a theoretical-methodological approach aimed at overcoming some limitations of Marxism and cultural-historical psychology. The concepts of “ideology” proposed by Lukács and the “meaning-sense” by Vygotsky have been crisscrossed. The concept of ideology refers to ideas that have a social function of intervening in social conflicts by determining the praxes of individuals in their daily lives. Hence, ideology adopts language as a tool for its operationalization in the discourse. For Vygotsky, the smallest subdivision of a language is the word and, more specifically, its meaning. It transforms human thoughts into speech for communication and guidance of praxis. The appropriate meanings, present in the discourses, generate a process of re-elaboration in the sense by individuals through their experience ( perezhivanie). It is possible to approach both theoretical concepts by considering that meanings are elements that transmit ideologies from the social sphere to the individuals’ consciousness and influence their praxis. This understanding has methodological consequences and allows the use of meaning-senses as empirical elements for the analysis of ideology both in consciousness and daily life of individuals. This contributes to a discourse analysis that recognizes the dialectical feature of the individual–ideology relation.


ICCD ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 284-293
Author(s):  
Yoyoh Hereyah

The phenomenon which becomes the object is the identity contestation Salafiyah veiled women in the Salafism community in Public Space. The concept of habitus and field's Pierre Bourdieu has a very important role, because this concept describes how the cultural production in the social world. Habitus is the rules inherent in a person and structured tendency to think, feel and act in certain ways, which then encourages the individual to behave and act in the social field. While the field is structured realm where individuals behave to controlled. ConstructivistStructuralist paradigm-particularly relevant used in this study because it provides viewpoints and limits palpable in research to explore the phenomenon of veiled women in public space. Research carried out by focus on a small portion of the community Salafiyah Muslim groups. Based on this research can be concluded that the communication in the group that carried out by Salafiyah community members indeed have a very important role to push contestation identity of veiled women in public domain. Reproducing the Habitus based system, which is constructed by the individual earlier andinherited by channeling message agencies to community's Salafiyah now and will continue in the next Salafiyah community members.


Sæculum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
João Romeiro Hermeto

AbstractThe concreteness of life presupposes not only death but equally the process of dying. Reflecting these Phenomena – dying and death – is necessary to make the phenomenon of life more comprehensible. Both the individual and the social life need to be confronted with the factualness of cessation. In this respect, every social form, which does not escape itself, cannot one-dimensionally celebrate life without reflecting on death. A self-conscious life-entity must (1) be able to differentiate between living and dying and recognize its own death; (2) make itself known the deviations mechanisms of this process; (3) give thought to suicide and sense its limits; (4) reveal the obstructions that daily-life represents in order to reflect on this process. The reflection of dying and death may not represent something new, it is, however, an ever-vital moment of human life.


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