Transitional Spaces: Postsocialism as a Cultural Process

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Brandtstädter
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Process ◽  
Transitional Spaces

TELLING THE TALE, TELLING THE NATION: TIV TALES, MODERNITY AND THE (RE)CONSTRUCTION OF NIGERIAN NATIONHOOD

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Tsaaior
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Oral Cultures ◽  
High Literature

Scholarship negotiating African folktales and the entire folkloric tradition in Africa has always been constituted as harbouring fundamental lacks. One of these lacks is the supposed incapacity of oral cultures to produce high literature. However, it is true that folktales and other oral forms in Africa can participate actively in the social, political and cultural process. In this paper, we engage folktales told by the Tiv of central Nigeria and situate them within the dynamic of history, culture, modernity and national construction in Nigeria. The paper adopts a historicist and culturalist perspective in its interpretation of the folktales which were collected in particular Tiv communities. This methodological approach helps to crystallize the historical and cultural lineaments embedded in the people’s experiences, values and worldviews. It also constitutes a contextual background for the understanding of the folktales as they offer informed commentaries on social currents and political contingencies in Nigeria. It argues that though folktales belong to a pre-scientific and pre-industrial dispensation, they are part of the people’s intangible cultural heritage and are capable of distilling powerful statements which negotiate Nigerian modernity and postcolonial condition. The paper underscores the dynamism and functionality of folktales even in an increasingly globalised ethos.

Individualisation as a social-cultural process and morality

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 11-33
Author(s):  
Janusz Mariański
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Moral Relativism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
Self Development ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Moral Choices ◽  
Individual Human

In this article, the issue of structural individualisation, which is one of the results of social modernisation, is adopted as the subject-matter. In the processes of individualisation, it is, first and foremost, the importance of an individual human being and matters relevant to their life, including the obligation to make constant choices in all the aspects of life, that is placed emphasis upon. In the aspect of values, the process of individualisation means transfer from values seen as responsibilities (related to duties) to values connected with self-fulfilment (self-development). The consequence of individualisation is the significant changes in the realm of morality: departing from traditional moral values and standards, permissivism and moral relativism, the destruction of normativity, and the secularisation of morality. On the other hand, it creates the opportunity to determine one's own moral choices and shapean autonomous moral personality.

Transitional Spaces: Between Indoor and Outdoor Spaces

2013 ◽  
pp. 14-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Kray ◽  
Holger Fritze ◽  
Thore Fechner ◽  
Angela Schwering ◽  
Rui Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Outdoor Spaces ◽  
Transitional Spaces ◽  
Indoor And Outdoor

scholarly journals Salat Sebagai Basis Pendidikan Agama Islam: Analisis Teori Cliffort Geertz

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Riyadl Mauludi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Meeting Point ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
Theory Of Religion ◽  
Cultural Processes

Abstrak: Salat lima waktu merupakan ibadah yang utama dalam Islam. Banyak kemuliaan dan keistimewaan dalam ibadah ini. Perintah wajib dan dilakukan sebanyak lima kali dalam semalam menjadikan salat sebagai ibadah yang sudah melekat di hati umat Islam. Bagi umat Islam yang beriman dan bertakwa, selain dihinggapi perasaan berdosa, meninggalkan salat juga menjadikan pelakunya menjadi tidak tenang. Sehingga dari sini secara tidak langsung salat sudah memberikan manfaat positif bagi siapa yang menjalankannya. Inilah yang dinamakan dengan pendidikan. Cliffort Geertz dengan teorinya Agama sebagai Budaya menempatkan ibadah salat sebagai simbol-simbol sakral yang akan memengaruhi proses sosial atau budaya. Proses sosial atau budaya inilah yang akan menjadi basis pendidikan agama bagi umat Islam dan tentu dengan sebuah pendidikan akan mengubah hasil budi daya seseorang, khususnya seorang muslim bahkan umat Islam. Hal ini menarik bagi peneliti untuk mencari titik temu antara kewajiban ibadah salat tersebut dengan teori yang dipaparkan oleh Geertz. Sehingga hal ini menjadi hal yang perlu untuk dianalisis lebih dalam. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan metode kepustakaan dengan mencari sumber-sumber yang membahas masalah salat dan teori Cliffort Geertz. Abstract : Prayer As a Basis for Islamic Education: an Analysis of The Theory of Cliffort Geertz: The five daily prayers are the main worship in Islam. Lots of glory and privilege in this worship. Mandatory orders and carried out five times a day make prayer as a worship that is inherent in the hearts of Muslims. For the faithful and pious Muslims, besides being infested with feelings of sin, leaving the prayers also makes the perpetrators uneasy. So that indirectly prayer has provided positive benefits for those who carry it out. This is what is called education. Cliffort Geertz with his theory of Religion as Culture places the prayer as sacred symbols that will influence social or cultural processes. This social or cultural process will be the basis of religious education for Muslims and certainly with an education will change the results of one's cultivation, especially a Muslim and even Muslims. This is interesting for researchers to look for a meeting point between the obligations of the prayer with the theory presented by Geertz. So this is something that needs to be analyzed more deeply. This research method uses the literature method by searching for sources that discuss the issue of prayer and Cliffort Geertz's theory. Kata Kunci : Salat, Pendidikan, Cliffort Geertz, Agama, Budaya

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