A Hundred Forms of Spirituality in the Least Religious Country in the World

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 214-240
Author(s):  
Reet Hiiemäe
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Stable Categories ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
Interpretative Framework ◽  
Religious Worldviews

Abstract This paper is mainly based on interviews and observations that the author made during the process of writing a book about a hundred forms of religious and spiritual movements, teachings, and techniques in Estonia, thus being a reflection of trends and transformations of spiritual thought and practice in a country that has been repeatedly called the least religious country in Europe or even the whole world. Bringing some topical case analyses from this empirical material, the article will offer an amended interpretative framework for discussing features that are relevant in the research of Western contemporary spiritualities, for example multiple, situational, and fluctuating spiritual identities incongruent with the use of stable categories in religiosity statistics; children as important spiritual agents; mediatized liquidity and hybridity of spiritual thought being part of the ‘all-inclusive’ and ‘open-ended’ spiritual environment; and public conflicts and private symbioses of scientific, spiritual, and religious worldviews.

scholarly journals Cultural project «Soviet man»

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-45
Author(s):  
Tatyana S. Zlotnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Project ◽  
Artistic Image ◽  
Empirical Material

The article actualizes the concept of «Soviet man» as a socio-cultural and philosophical-anthropological phenomenon. Based on a broad empirical material, the author substantiates the idea of the project «Soviet man» as a generalized artistic image, a set of social and moral characteristics, visual and verbal matrices. The integration of the cultural project with the world tradition (in particular, the ancient one) is established, and the artistic-aesthetic and socio-political aspects of works of art as cultural practices are substantiated. It is concluded that the considered concept incorporates human experience, which is in demand due to its diversity, tendentiousness, structural certainty, strangeness and recognizability.

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility and UK Retailers

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Jones ◽  
Martin Wynn ◽  
Daphne Comfort ◽  
David Hillier
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Short Discussion ◽  
Preliminary Examination ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Empirical Material

This paper offers a preliminary examination of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) commitments and agendas being addressed and reported by the UK‟s leading retailers. The paper begins with a short discussion of the characteristics and origins of CSR and of the current structure of retailing in the UK. This is followed by an illustrative examination of the CSR issues publicly reported by the UK‟s top ten country of origin retailers and the paper draws its empirical material from the CSR reports posted on the World Wide Web by these retailers. The findings reveal that the UK‟s top ten retailers are addressing and reporting on four sets of CSR themes namely those relating to the environment; the marketplace; the workplace and the community. The paper concludes with a discussion of a number of general issues relating to these themes.  <br /><br />

scholarly journals Transformation of the Semantics of Linguistic Units in the Text: A Functional Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 162 (5) ◽  
pp. 48-61
Author(s):  
Yu.V. Dorofeev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Functional Methods ◽  
The World ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
Empirical Material

Transformations of the semantics of language units in a literary text were studied. Semantic shifts resulting from this process were correlated with individual author’s ideas about the world and were defined as the most important means of influencing the reader. The research was carried out on the basis of a functional approach, in which the text is considered as a tool of social interaction, the structure of which is subordinated to the main task of the author, i.e., to have a certain impact on the reader’s view of the world. As a result of the analysis of the empirical material, it was concluded that the perception and understanding of the text are largely determined by the skills that enable identification of the core component in the text, which unites the most significant language units in the text based on their correlation in the initial and final parts of the work. Specific examples were given to show the role of semantic transformations in the process of text perception and their importance for interpretation. The research confirms the relevance of the problem of studying the functional mechanism of semantic transformations, because the consistent implementation of the functional methods of perception and interpretation of the text in educational practice will be helpful in developing teaching methods that prevent distortion of information extracted from texts.

Arnason and Castoriadis’ unfinished dialogue: Articulating the world

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzi Adams
Keyword(s):  
Transcendental Phenomenology ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
Interpretative Framework ◽  
The Human Condition

The article reconstructs the unfinished dialogue between Arnason and Castoriadis, with a particular emphasis on the problematic of world articulation. Arnason’s thought is situated as reconfiguring classical sociological constellations, especially as they pertain to the revitalization of the civilizational problematic and the emphasis on the philosophical dimension of sociological investigation. His interpretative framework is located within the nascent field of post-transcendental phenomenology, which he elaborates via the overlapping problematics of cultural articulations of the world as an inter-cultural horizon, and the human condition as various modes of being-in-the-world. Arnason’s encounter with Castoriadis is considered. Despite the many points of fruitful contact, Castoriadis’ neglect of the phenomenological question of the world as a ‘shared horizon’ is, in Arnason’s view, too great to overcome; Arnason looks instead to Weber, Merleau-Ponty and, more recently, Patočka for interpretative resources. Although Castoriadis’ elucidation of the world proceeds ‘in fragments’, the article contends that hermeneutical reconstruction of his thought reveals openings onto the problematic of elemental world orders that can further the dialogue with Arnason.

scholarly journals Towards best practices for authorship and research evaluation: Effects of performance metrics and the Leiden Manifesto

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah De Rijcke
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Research Evaluation ◽  
National Economic ◽  
The World ◽  
Academic Settings ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Empirical Material

Watch the VIDEO here.New forms of evaluation are reconfiguring science in ways we are only beginning to understand. In this talk, I will address a key challenge in social-scientific research regarding how evaluations are implicated in scientific understandings of the world. I will address how public sector transformations (including a stronger emphasis on national economic goals such as innovation and growth) are introducing highly particular notions of ‘good’ performance and uses of evaluative metrics. Using empirical material and results from recent projects, the talk will reflect on how these trends are affecting knowledge production processes in different fields. I will also suggest ways to think more creatively and responsibly about the affordances of evaluation and indicators in academic settings.

scholarly journals EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT MEANS OF IMPLEMENTING THE VOLUNTATIVE FUNCTION OF A LANGUAGE IN GERMAN AND OSSETIAN LINGUOCULTURES: TO THE PROBLEM OF THE NATIONAL PICTURE OF THE WORLD

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-106
Author(s):  
Д.М. ДРЕЕВА ◽  
Д.В. ТОЛПАРОВА
Keyword(s):  
Dominant Form ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Empirical Material

Настоящее исследование посвящено выявлению структурно-семантических и функциональных особенностей средств выражения категории побуждения на примере анализа употребления эксплицитных и имплицитных форм реализации волюнтативной функции языка в поэтических произведениях австрийской поэтессы Ингеборг Бахман и осетинского поэта Нафи Джусойты. Способы реализации категории побуждения в поэтическом тексте рассматриваются сквозь призму немецкоязычной и осетинской лингвокультур. Выбор лингвокультурологического подхода к изучению прямых и косвенных форм вербализации волюнтативной функции в стихотворных текстах объясняется тесной взаимосвязью языка и культуры, носителем которых является поэт. Картина мира, включающая в себя определенные представления об окружающей действительности, обусловливает характерные особенности идиостиля автора, детерминируя выбор тех или иных художественных средств. Анализ средств выражения волеизъявления позволил сделать вывод о высокой плотности употребления форм повелительного наклонения в поэтических произведениях И. Бахман и Н. Джусойты. В частности, отмечается более широкое использование грамматически маркированной формы – императива – в текстах обоих авторов. По результатам проведенного исследования императив может быть квалифицирован как доминантная (эталонная) форма выражения категории побуждения как в немецком, так и в осетинском языках. Дальнейшее изучение стихотворных произведений указанных авторов выявило преобладание прямых средств репрезентации волюнтативной семантики в текстах Бахман и индиректных форм – в стихотворных произведениях Джусойты. Данное наблюдение позволяет в рамках нашего исследования сделать предварительный вывод о различиях в немецкоязычной и осетинской лингвокультурах, который, безусловно, нуждается в подтверждении на основе анализа более обширного эмпирического материала. Следовательно, на основании проведенного исследования можно заключить, что для наиболее полного и корректного изучения национальной картины мира необходим анализ идиостиля поэта на разных языковых уровнях – прагматики, семантики и грамматики. The present study is devoted to the identification of structural, semantic and functional features of the expression’s means of the motivation’s category by the example of the analysis of the using explicit and implicit forms of the implementation of the voluntative function of a language in the poetic works of the Austrian poetess Ingeborg Bachman and the Ossetian poet Nafi Dzhusoity. The ways of implementing the category of motivation in a poetic text are considered through the prism of German- and Ossetian-speaking linguocultures. The choice of a linguoculturological approach to the study of direct and indirect forms of verbalization of the voluntative function in poetic texts is explained by the close relationship of language and culture. The picture of the world, which includes certain ideas about the surrounding reality, determines the characteristic features of the author's idiostyle, determining the choice of certain artistic means. The analysis of the means of will’s expression allowed us to conclude about the high density of the use of imperative forms in the poetic works of I. Bakhman and N. Dzhusoity. In particular, there is a wider use of the grammatically marked form – imperative – in the texts of both authors. According to the results of the study, the imperative can be qualified as the dominant form of expression of the motivation’s category in both German and Ossetian languages. Further study of the poetic works of these authors revealed the predominance of direct means of representation of voluntary semantics in the texts of I. Bakhman and indirect forms – in the poetic works of N. Dzhusoity. This observation allows us to make a preliminary conclusion about the differences in the German- and Ossetian-speaking linguocultures, which, of course, needs confirmation based on the analysis of more extensive empirical material. Therefore, basing on the conducted research, we can conclude that for the most complete and correct study of the national picture of the world, an analysis of the poet's idiostyle at different language levels – pragmatics, semantics and grammar – is necessary.

scholarly journals A desgenerificação do trabalho nas novas configurações do capitalismo: implicações para pensar o trabalho docente (The degenerification of work in the new configurations of capitalism: implications to think teaching work)

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 520
Author(s):  
Renata Porcher Scherer
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
El Paso ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Reforma Educativa ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
Empirical Material

The present article aims to analyze the main implications of metamorphoses in the world of work in the transition from a Fordist paradigm to a post-Fordist, for the professionalization of teaching work. Therefore, three important studies on Brazilian teaching are taken as empirical material and the importance of considering the diagnoses about changes in the world of work is taken into account in order to understand the current context experienced by teachers. It begins by examining the main transformations that have occurred in recent capitalism since the triumph of neoliberal in Brazil, signaling the emergence of new professional profiles that are now required in the current context. After presenting a diagnosis about the professionalization of teaching and teaching sickness in Brazil, showing that the concept of degeneration is an important tool for future studies that seek to investigate sush topics. ResumoO presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar as principais implicações das metamorfoses no mundo do trabalho na passagem de um paradigma fordista para um pós-fordista, para a profissionalização do trabalho docente. Para tanto, toma-se como material empírico três importantes estudos sobre a docência brasileira e aponta-se para a importância de consideramos os diagnósticos acerca das mudanças no mundo do trabalho para compreendermos e complexificarmos o atual contexto vivido por professores e professoras. Inicia-se examinando as principais transformações ocorridas no capitalismo recente a partir do triunfo do pensamento neoliberal no Brasil, sinalizando para a emergência dos novos perfis profissionais que passam a ser exigidos no contexto atual. Após, apresentamos um diagnóstico sobre a profissionalização do magistério e o adoecimento docente no Brasil, evidenciando que o conceito de desgenerificação mostra-se como uma ferramenta importante para futuros estudos que busquem investigar tais temáticas. ResumenEl presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar las principales implicaciones de las metamorfosis en el mundo del trabajo en el paso de un paradigma fordista para un postfordista, para la profesionalización del trabajo docente. Para ello, se toma como material empírico tres importantes estudios sobre la docencia brasileña y se apunta a la importancia de considerar los diagnósticos acerca de los cambios en el mundo del trabajo para comprender y complejizar el actual contexto vivido por profesores y profesoras. 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Aesthetic paradoxes of Russian drama

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Татьяна Злотникова ◽  
Tat'yana Zlotnikova
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Verbal Aggression ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Drama Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Empirical Material

Kulturphilosophie deterministic constant in the fate of Russian drama is presented through the presence and the severity of the aesthetic paradoxes. The author sees an attempt of the Russian drama of the XX century "to come off" from own roots. The book analyzes the experience of modern drama theory (Pushkin), genre paradoxes (Gogol), the formation of a specific picture of the world that anticipated the birth of the European drama of absurdity (Chekhov), as well as the experience of the Russian drama of the twentieth century. at the personal level (Gorky, Rozov) and at the level of trends (the search for a "positive hero" at the turn of 1970-1980, the Russian drama of absurdity, verbal aggression in the word). Innovative is about the Seminary "theory of drama as a cultural-philosophical horizon", which allows to actualize the analysis of the presented theoretical and empirical material through a specific categorical apparatus.

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