scholarly journals Sacred Space

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 2164957X1775190
Author(s):  
Pamela Adelstein
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Space ◽  
Religious Institution ◽  
Medical Providers ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Patient Interactions ◽  
The People

A space can be sacred, providing those who inhabit a particular space with sense of transcendence—being connected to something greater than oneself. The sacredness may be inherent in the space, as for a religious institution or a serene place outdoors. Alternatively, a space may be made sacred by the people within it and events that occur there. As medical providers, we have the opportunity to create sacred space in our examination rooms and with our patient interactions. This sacred space can be healing to our patients and can bring us providers opportunities for increased connection, joy, and gratitude in our daily work.

scholarly journals Surveillance in Practice: Operators’ Collective Interpretation of CCTV Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-327
Author(s):  
Barbara Heebels ◽  
Irina Van Aalst
Keyword(s):  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Control Room ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Bodily Appearance ◽  
The People ◽  
Informal Practices ◽  
Cctv Surveillance ◽  
Social Sorting

CCTV surveillance is a cultural practice and collective effort. CCTV not only involves a technical assemblage that is used to discipline the surveilled, it is also a social assemblage in which the informal practices of operators play a major role in the multiple interpretations of images. This paper provides insights into the daily work practices and discourses of CCTV operators and their supervisors through observations of and interviews in the control room of public CCTV surveillance in Rotterdam. By providing a better understanding of the role of people in socio-technical assemblages, this paper contributes to the discussion on human mediation in computerized networks. The paper contributes to the expanding literature on surveillance as a cultural practice by combining insights on social sorting with insights on collective evaluation of unfolding situations—i.e., how group dynamics within the control room influence how people are “judged.” Building on Goffman’s frame analysis, the paper reveals the crucial role of talk and humor in re-performing what happens on the streets as well as evaluating situations and the people watched. Moreover, it discusses how these collective re-performances of what is being watched both reproduce and reshape “othering” practices within the control room. The paper shows how humorous utterances play an important part in overcoming hierarchy and collectively managing emotions, and explores how this humor influences profiling on the basis of bodily appearance.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
David L. Brody
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Brain Injuries ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medical Providers ◽  
Post Concussion Syndrome ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Taking Care

This manual is for everyone who treats people with concussion. There are more than 3 million brain injuries each year in the United States and millions more around the world. Most of these injuries are concussions. After concussion, 30% or maybe even more can have prolonged symptoms and deficits. Much of this manual is written for the people who take care of the 30%. There is not one specific “post-concussion syndrome.” Instead, there are many post-concussive paths, and this manual is written to help those who are tasked with figuring this out, one patient at a time. This manual is about pragmatic approaches to taking care of patients in the absence of true scientific evidence. This manual is written to be used “on the fly,” right now, without a lot of prior studying or memorization. This manual is meant to supplement, not replace, the knowledge and judgment of medical providers caring for concussion patients.

The Revival of the Cult of Martin of Tours in the Third Republic

1997 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-501
Author(s):  
Brian Brennan
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Stained Glass ◽  
Roman Army ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
Saint Martin ◽  
The French Revolution

Statuary groups, countless illustrations, and colorful stained glass all preserve for us the most famous medieval image of the charitable soldier-saint, Martin of Tours (336–397). The young Martin is depicted seated on his horse dividing his soldier's cape to share it with Christ disguised as a freezing beggar at the gate of Amiens. After abandoning the Roman army, Martin became a monk, an ascetic “soldier of Christ,” and was chosen by the people of Tours as their bishop. Renowned in his lifetime as a wonderworker, Martin's tomb remained for centuries an important pilgrimage center. The later Carolingian kings carried a fragment of Martin's cape into battle as a victory-giving talisman, and French monarchs invoked the saint as their patron. Because of its royalist associations, Saint Martin's basilica at Tours was almost completely destroyed in the French Revolution, and subsequently houses and new municipal streets encroached on the sacred space.

scholarly journals Understanding professional expertise in unfamiliar face matching

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David White ◽  
Alice Towler ◽  
Richard Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Identity Verification ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
The Public ◽  
Face Matching ◽  
The People ◽  
Unfamiliar Face Matching ◽  
Unfamiliar Face ◽  
Specialist Groups ◽  
Modern Identity

Deciding whether or not two images are of the same unfamiliar face is an important task in many professions. These decisions are a critical part of modern identity verification processes with direct – and often profound – consequences for individual rights and the security of society. As a result, the public expect the people entrusted with these decisions to perform accurately. But do they? Here we review 29 published tests comparing face matching accuracy in professional and novice groups. Twelve of these tests show no significant differences between professional and novice groups, suggesting that merely performing the task in daily work is not sufficient to improve accuracy. However, specialist groups of Facial Examiners and Police Super- recognisers consistently outperform novices. Staff selection, mentorship, deliberate practice, motivation, feedback and training may all contribute to enhancing the performance of individuals working in these groups and future research is necessary to delineate their relative contributions.

scholarly journals Refleksi terhadap kewarganegaraan ekologi dan tanggung jawab warga negara melalui program “ecovillage”

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lili Halimah ◽  
Siti Fauziah Nurul
Keyword(s):  
Community Research ◽  
Civic Responsibility ◽  
Significant Cost ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
The People ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
River Region ◽  
The Government

This research raises the problem of the Citarum River which is increasingly being neglected even though the Provincial and Regional Governments have conducted various solutions at a significant cost. This should be a concern for us together and the community around the Citarum River Region in particular in general the people of West Java. In addition to the program that was launched, Dinas Lingkungan Hidup Kabupaten bandung Barat (DLH KBB) created an ecovillage program as a facilitator to the community directly with the aim of changing the mindset so as to maintain a clean and healthy environment. At this time civic responsibility is needed so that the programs organized by the government are successful and efficient. The problem to be examined is how the DLH program and the role of ecovillage in building the Citarum River civic responsibility are in line with the expectations and targets of DLH KBB program. The research method uses a qualitative approach by conducting observations, interviews with related sources both in the office, village head and community who are moving as ecovillage cadres. The results of community research still do not have full participation even to the awareness of civic responsibility due to various factors ranging from mindset, education, even daily work that hinders the success of the program.

scholarly journals The God’s aesthetics: material exchanges in the theological construction of the idea of divinity in ancient Israel

Caminhando ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-53
Author(s):  
João Batista Ribeiro Santos
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
The People ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
Ritual Practices

The characterization of the sacred space in ancient Israel makes it possible to highlight the dimensions of the religious phenomenon, and thus identify the divinity of the place. Using the literary sources of the Hebrew Bible and images we will demonstrate that space was constitutive of divinity; moreover, the foundational institutions of the people are based on ritual practices. This paper presents evidence of the process of objective elaboration of the divinity – its presence – considering the peculiarities of ancient Israel. Our hypothesis is that in ancient Israel, religious presentness should be researched in the context of multicultural relations – almost always conflicting – between northern Israelites and the Arameans peoples. Theoretically, Yahweh’s aesthetics, originating from warrior deities, exalts the monarchical period. During this period, political conflicts have the same intensity as conceptual conflicts involving cultural agents. Thus, situated in symbolic environments, ritualistic art stands out strongly.

Making Amulets Christian

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore de Bruyn
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Location ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Religious Institution ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
The People ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

This book examines Greek amulets with Christian elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern the processes whereby a customary practice—the writing of incantations on amulets—changed in an increasingly Christian context. It addresses three questions. First, how did the formulation of incantations and amulets change as the Christian church became the prevailing religious institution in Egypt in the last centuries of the Roman Empire? Second, what can we learn from incantations and amulets containing Christian elements about the cultural and social location of the people who wrote them? Finally, how were incantations and amulets indebted to the rituals or ritualizing behaviour of Christians? The book analyses amulets according to types of amulets and the ways in which they incorporate Christian elements. By comparing the formulation and writing of individual amulets that are similar to one another, one can observe differences in the culture of the scribes of these materials. The book argues for ‘conditioned individuality’ in the production of amulets. On the one hand, amulets manifest qualities that reflect the training and culture of the individual writer. On the other hand, amulets reveal that individual writers were shaped, whether consciously or inadvertently, by the resources they drew upon—by what is called ‘tradition’ in the field of religious studies.

Community Based on Mosque in Banyumas

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 337-345
Author(s):  
Sulkhan Chakim
Keyword(s):  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Religious Institution ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The People ◽  
Core Program ◽  
The Government ◽  
Poverty Levels

The issue of poverty which afflict developing countries due to  structural and cultural poor. To solve and overcome the poor problems, the efforts made by the government in the administration of Jokowi-Kala, and targets to be achieved is lower poverty levels of the population. Departing from the problems of poverty and the efforts of the government program, the program is still a lot of problems and has not received seriously attention. Community empowerment programs involving a religious institution located. Mosque as the "core" program and empowerment of the people. That is based empowerment program of the mosque as changes. It used with approach to Asset-Based-Community Developoment, where communities are viewed as social groups are always dealing with the challenges of the new power to maintain its existence and survival. One of strategies is used by mobilizing assets for social improvement. The type  research approach is used  by action research in three orientations, namely education, empowerment, and advocacy. While the subjects were 12 Muslim prayer groups and the population is 180 people in  Berkoh village, South Purwokerto, Banyumas. The findings of this study, most gorups of  “ majelis taklim”  al Barakah group classified as poor, and they involved either debt “bank plecit” in Dasa Wisma activity. Meanwhile, they do not have any additional effort. In this context, the establishment of economic institution and intrepreuneurship training which is  manifested through  empowerment and a advocacy congregation. Activities and spirituality (yasinan, reading al Barzanzi, and hadlhrah) are a tradition that can be seen as a collective potential. It to develop the capacity of group, strength, power, and resources, which are effective for the benefit of the economic capital accumulation more

What the church betokeneth: Placing the people at the heart of sacred space

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Varnam
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle English ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
Church Architecture ◽  
The People ◽  
Church Building ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Buildings

This chapter examines the debate over the relationship between the church building and its community in orthodox and Lollard texts. The chapter begins with the allegorical reading of church architecture in William of Durandus’s Rationale divinorum officiorum and the Middle English What the Church Betokeneth, in which every member of the community has a designated place in the church. The chapter then discusses Lollard attempts to divorce the building from the people by critiquing costly material churches and their decorations in The Lanterne of Liȝt, Lollard sermons, and Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede. The chapter concludes by examining Dives and Pauper in the context of fifteenth-century investment in the church, both financial and spiritual, and argues that in practice church buildings were at the devotional heart of their communities.

AN APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE U.S.S.R. SUPREME SOVIET

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-581
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Military Systems ◽  
Simple Error

The growing threat of thermonuclear war and the continued development and proliferation of nuclear weapons have compelled us as physicians to examine in detail the consequences such a war would have on the people of our nations and of the world, whose health and survival are our professional commitment. During the past several days, physicians and scientists from 31 countries have gathered to consider relevant data on the immediate and long term effects of a nuclear conflict. We were unanimous in concluding that: . . . The growth in sheer numbers of nuclear weapons and the increasing complexity and sophistication of delivery systems increase the possibility that a nuclear conflict may be triggered by tragic accident. Physicians are aware from their daily work that technologic systems are liable to malfunction and that human performance may fail because of mental derangement or even simple error. Whereas such failures in medicine may jeopardise a single life, the malfunctioning of military systems may now endanger the existence of humanity....

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