“Let’s See if we can go a Whole Day on the Road Eating Free Food”: Encountering the Divine with Claire Dwyer in the Private Spaces of Richmond’s Highway to Heaven

Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses ◽

10.1177/0008429821988952 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 000842982198895

Author(s):

Justin KH Tse

Keyword(s):

Field Work ◽

Free Food ◽

Religious Studies ◽

Religious Communities ◽

Religious Institutions ◽

Collaborative Project ◽

The Road ◽

Religious Buildings ◽

Private Spaces ◽

On The Road

This article recounts the development of the author’s positionality in studying religion in a Canadian suburb through a collaborative project with the late feminist geographer of religion Claire Dwyer. The field site was No. 5 Road, the “Highway to Heaven” in Richmond, British Columbia with over 20 religious institutions on a three kilometre stretch of road. Building from Dwyer’s writing on “encountering the divine” through field work from 2010 to 2012, the author offers an account of a personal shift from evangelical religious exclusivism to an understanding of the plurality of interreligious experience. Using a reflexive writing style, the article works through the discovery that each of the religious communities on the road saw themselves as private spaces into which the collaborative researchers were invited. “Encountering the divine” therefore tended to take place over meals inside the various religious buildings, leading to the personal transformation that the author describes. This article contributes to religious studies by offering an account of how the act of ethnographic field work can lead to a shift within a researcher’s own positionality, which must be brought reflexively and explicitly to the fore through the practice of research.

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Jewish religious communities in Kuban and Terek regions at the second half of the XIX - the beginning of the XX centuries

OOO Zhurnal Voprosy Istorii ◽

10.31166/voprosyistorii202010statyi11 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 (10) ◽

pp. 165-178

Author(s):

Ekaterina Norkina

Keyword(s):

Religious Communities ◽

Religious Institutions ◽

Political Structure ◽

Small Communities ◽

Religious Buildings ◽

History Of

The article is devoted to the history of the formation and features of the functioning of Jewish religious institutions outside the Pale of Settlement in the second half of the XIXth — early XXth centuries. The study is based on the materials of the Kuban and Terek regions, which had a somewhat different administrative and political structure from most other regions. Historically, the peculiarities of these areas influenced the policy of the authorities in towards the Jews, which influenced the activities of rabbis and synagogues. Despite the fact that the activities of rabbis and synagogues were constantly interrupted due to a number of external circumstances, members of local Jewish societies actively engaged in dialogue with the authorities and sought to revive religious buildings to life. Even small communities of Kuban and Terek tried to support their religious institutions and preserve the traditions of Judaism.

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Contending with Women and War

Politics & Gender ◽

10.1017/s1743923x15000343 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 11 (03) ◽

pp. 586-595

Author(s):

Christine Sylvester

Keyword(s):

Religious Studies ◽

Public Intellectual ◽

Gay Marriage ◽

Public Address ◽

Women And Gender ◽

The Road ◽

Women And War ◽

Academic Fields ◽

On The Road ◽

And Gender

The late Jean Bethke Elshtain was a difficult feminist, a public intellectual and scholar who drew on feminist thinking but interpreted or applied it so idiosyncratically that many feminists disavowed her. Elshtain's early works encapsulated the best hopes of 1980s' feminists to bring women and gender to the fore across many academic fields. She was influential in political theory, religious studies, and feminist analysis, and she was one of the leading lights of feminist international relations (IR) well into the 1990s. Yet she was moving in other directions and would let it be known that she disapproved of gay marriage and endorsed George W. Bush's war in Iraq as just. These positions were anathema to most western feminists, and Jean Bethke Elshtain slid down the feminist reputational ladder from pinnacle to the point where she was almostpersona non grata, deemed an imperialist traitor to feminist causes. She did not draw back or go quiet under attack: to the last public address she gave shortly before her death, Elshtain was on the road defending her controversial political viewpoints openly and forcefully. Let it not be said that the difficult feminist is shy.

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Packaging of Presto Milkfish in CV. Fania Food Yogyakarta

Journal of Marine and Coastal Science ◽

10.20473/jmcs.v10i3.28125 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 124

Author(s):

Pradityo Dwi Giartama ◽

Laksmi Sulmartiwi

Keyword(s):

Work Practice ◽

Field Work ◽

Object A ◽

The Road ◽

On The Road ◽

Fact Finding ◽

Materials Used ◽

The Right ◽

Descriptive Method ◽

Special Region

Milkfish is a commodity that is commonly consumed by the Indonesian people, in addition to its economical price because there are already many choices of milkfish products that have been innovated so that the community's interest in milkfish is increasing. The nutritional content of milkfish is quite high. Field work practices (PKL) are held in Yogyakarta starting from 17 December 2018 to 31 January 2019. At Cv. Fania Food Yogyakarta, on the road to Semanggu KG-1 No.16, Gedong Kuning, Kota Gede, Yogyakarta City, Yogyakarta Special Region. The method used in this field work practice is a descriptive method, namely fact finding with the right interpretation. Descriptive method is a method that addresses the human group of an object, a set of conditions, a system of thought, or a class of events in the present. The scope of packaging criteria includes the process of making presto fish and packaging milkfish presto. Aspects that include packaging criteria ranging from packaging materials, packaging labeling, list of materials used, weight or net contents, name and address of the party producing or entering food into the territory of Indonesia and expiration date, month and year and certification from the relevant agency.

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The quest for the understanding of Religious Studies: Seeing dragons

Verbum et Ecclesia ◽

10.4102/ve.v37i1.1607 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Jaco Beyers

Keyword(s):

Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽

Academic Discipline ◽

Religious Studies ◽

Private Sphere ◽

Subject Field ◽

The Public ◽

The Road ◽

Saturated Phenomenon ◽

The Subject ◽

On The Road

Religious Studies is concerned with studying religion or the absence thereof. The concept of religion has been discussed, disliked and dissected over centuries. Some have predicted the disappearance of religion, others have predicted the changing of location from the public to the private sphere and some even the re-emergence of religion. In trying to determine the place and relations of Religious Studies an understanding of what religion entails is necessary. It is clear that Religious Studies consists of a multiform subject field and a variety of disciplines with a multiplicity of issues, interests and topics together with a wide variety of approaches and methods. Some scholars have described religion as a �saturated phenomenon� trying to indicate how the diversity of elements described as religious came to shroud the true subject matter. All these hindrances on the road to comprehending religion are like dragons preventing one from completing a (holy!) quest. This article does not want to provide new answers to an old debate. In this sense this article is not an attempt at slaying the dragons but identifying them. Three issues (dragons) are discussed. How religion, the object of Religious Studies, should be viewed? What methods are employed by Religious Studies and the relatedness of Religious Studies to Theology? In the end the article wants to provide direction on how Religious Studies, as academic discipline, can collaborate with research in Theology.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article discusses the development of the subject of Religious Studies by providing a historic overview of sociological influences on the development. In this sense this article is not an attempt at slaying the dragons but identifying them. Three issues (dragons) are discussed: how religion, the object of Religious Studies, should be viewed; what methods are employed by Religious Studies and the relatedness of Religious Studies to Theology (with implications for interdisciplinary collaboration). In the end the article wants to provide direction in how Religious Studies as academic discipline can collaborate with research in Theology

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Sacralizing the City: The Begums of Bhopal and their Mosques

CREATIVE SPACE ◽

10.15415/cs.2014.12002 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 145-165

Author(s):

Jyoti Pandey Sharma

Keyword(s):

Sacred Sites ◽

Colonial India ◽

The Public ◽

The Road ◽

Religious Buildings ◽

Women Rulers ◽

Architectural Patronage ◽

Taking Charge ◽

On The Road ◽

The City

Princely building ventures in post 1857 colonial India included, among others, construction of religious buildings, even as their patrons enthusiastically pursued the colonial modernist agenda. This paper examines the architectural patronage of the Bhopal Begums, the women rulers of Bhopal State, who raised three grand mosques in their capital, Bhopal, in the 19th and early 20th century. As Bhopal marched on the road to progress under the Begums’ patronage, the mosques heralded the presence of Islam in the city in the post uprising scenario where both Muslims and mosques were subjected to retribution for fomenting the 1857 insurrection. Bhopal’s mosques were not only sacred sites for the devout but also impacted the public realm of the city. Their construction drew significantly on the Mughal architectural archetype, thus affording the Begums an opportunity to assert themselves, via their mosques, as legitimate inheritors of the Mughal legacy, including taking charge of the latter’s legacy of stewardship of Iam. Today, the Bhopal mosques constitute an integral part of the city’s built heritage corpus. It is worth underscoring that they are not only important symbols of the Muslim faith but also markers of their patrons’ endeavour to position themselves at the forefront in the complex political and cultural scenario of post uprising colonial India.

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