Making Sense of Religion and Food

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Gender And Race ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

When looking at eating beyond physical nourishment, British anthropologist Mary Douglas (1921-2007) defined food as a cultural system, or code that communicates not only biological information, but social structure and meaning. What can a study of food and faith teach us, as scholars of religion, that we might not otherwise know? This article outlines thematic and pedagogical approaches to teaching food and religion through the lens of five semesters of teaching this course to undergraduate and graduate students. In it, I explore the topics of Food memory and community; Food and scripture; Food, gender and race; and Stewardship and Charity, thinking about spiritual and physical nourishment in the world's major religious traditions.

scholarly journals Sensemaking and identity management amidst major organizational change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Madeline Pringle
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Organizational Leaders ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Management Processes

Organizational change is inevitable and its impacts will affect all members, albeit to different degrees. These changes also bring about uncertainty, especially as it pertains to one's organization-based identities. However, when studying change and identity, organizational communication scholars have often missed studying the interplay of one's many organization-based identities and how these are made sense of and managed amidst major organizational change. This thesis employs a phronetic-iterative methodology to analyze 16 semi-structured interviews with U.S. graduate students to understand how they have made sense of and managed their organization-based (i.e., graduate student, teaching assistant/instructor, department, university) identities after the COVID-19-induced transition to fully online education in Spring 2020. Analysis of this data suggested that participants used two types of ideal self discursive resources to make sense of and manage these identities, while also experiencing their sensemaking and identity management processes in two distinct stages. Additionally, participants revealed the importance of organizational places as it pertained to making sense of this change and its impacts. With these findings, this thesis extends theoretical work surrounding sensemaking, identity, and place, especially as it pertains to organizational change and providespractical recommendations for organizational leaders in academia to assist some of their highly impacted and identity-precarious populations--graduate students.

scholarly journals The sacredness of the self, of society and of the human body: the case of a Finnish transgender pastor Marja-Sisko Aalto

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Veikko Anttonen
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Life Story ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Folk Biology ◽  
The Town

In 2008 the change of sex of a Finnish transgender pastor attracted media attention to Lutheran Christianity on a worldwide scale, which compared to other religious traditions seldom makes it to the world news. This article­ discusses the sex reassignment undergone by Marja-Sisko Aalto, a Lutheran pastor from the town of Imatra, in south eastern Finland, who in 2008, at the age of 54, was transformed into a woman. First some remarks on the relation between religion and the body are made and terminological issues are discussed briefly. The second part of the article presents Aalto's life story based on the author's interview with her in April 2010. In the last section the author discusses the Finnish cognitive scholar Ilkka Pyysiäinen’s reflection on folk biology as an explanation for making sense of the public image regarding a priest’s gender. The article concludes by looking at Marja-Sisko Aalto’s case from the perspective of marking boundaries between the categories of the self, the society and the human body. 

scholarly journals Il matriarcato slavo

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evel Gasparini
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Close Link ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Collective Ownership ◽  
Convenient Form ◽  
The Social

This book on Slavic matriarchy is the result of the studies and researches that Evel Gasparini carried out over the span of his lifetime. Intrigued by the possibility of a close link between the collective ownership of the land and the ancient agricultural-matriarchal substrate of Slav culture, Gasparini launched on the titanic enterprise of analysing the archaeological and historical sources of early Slavic civilisation. Basing himself on a concept of culture elaborated in the ethnological field, he brought to light certain contradictions in the application of the Indo-European paradigm to Slavic culture and identified a series of elements illustrating the matriarchal substrate. Exploiting an uncommon knowledge of cultural anthropology and profound linguistic competencies, in this book Gasparini maps out a complex panorama ranging from the economy to the social structure and from the religious traditions to music and dance. Out of print for some time, the book is now proposed in a new, more convenient form, complete with an appendix on Finns and Slavs – which was originally intended as another chapter in the book but was then left out – a detailed preface by Gasparini's disciple Remo Faccani, and a bibliography of the scholar's oeuvre edited by Donatella Possamai.

Heteroglossia in mother tongue instruction in Sweden and the development of plurilingual literacies

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Reath Warren
Keyword(s):  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Heterogeneous Groups ◽  
Mother Tongue Instruction ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches ◽  
Interpretative Framework

Abstract This article analyses how perceptions of and approaches to teaching linguistically heterogeneous groups in mother tongue instruction (MTI) in Sweden impact on the development of plurilingual literacies in that context. Linguistic ethnographic data collected over 12 months in classrooms and schools where MTI takes place were thematically categorized and data from the most prominent category, heterogeneity, were further coded into the heteroglossic categories of multidiscursivity and multivoicedness (Todorov 1984). The continua of biliteracy provides an additional interpretative framework. Results show that heteroglossic discursive practices involving diverse linguistic repertoires are commonly reported on and observed in MTI classrooms, and are viewed both as a resource for and an obstacle to learning. These results contribute to discussions on organizational and pedagogical approaches that work with rather than against heteroglossia, through resourceful use of languages to enhance learning in MTI and potentially other subjects as well.

scholarly journals Train to research. Epistemological and pedagogical approaches to the educational field in Education Sciences

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Miriam Liset Flores ◽  
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Aníbal Roque Bar ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Disciplinary Practices ◽  
General Didactics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Educational Field ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

The article aims to reconstruct the formative-disciplinary practices that occur in the territories for disciplinary research in Education Sciences undergraduate course. For the development of the work, we position ourselves in a qualitative methodology, specifically in the case studies. In this sense, the cases selected for this study were two teams from the subjects General Didactics and History of Argentine Education, which were reconstructed from in-depth interviews with directors, researchers, undergraduate and graduate students. We fully identified three formative territories for disciplinary research: the field, the office, and the extra-institutional territories, in each of which diverse pedagogical links were configured according to the limits imposed by the epistemology of the discipline. Although each formative territory has singular connotations, there is a dialectic among them that feeds back, communicates and constitutes them.

scholarly journals POLITIK IDENTITAS MASYARAKAT TENGGER DALAM MEMPERTAHANKAN SISTEM KEBUDAYAAN DARI HEGEMONI ISLAM DAN KEKUASAAN

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Ali Maksum
Keyword(s):  
Representation Theory ◽  
World View ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Indonesian Government ◽  
As If

<p><em>This article explores the dynamic of Tengger communities </em><em>life in order to defend its culture </em><em>with regard</em><em> to</em><em> the expansion of Islam and the power of Indonesian government. </em><em>The</em><em> </em><em>r</em><em>esearch were conducted in two villages, Ngadisari and Sapikerep, Probolinggo. </em><em>U</em><em>sing</em><em> the </em><em>perspective</em><em> of representation theory</em><em>, this study  elaborate more detail about the strategy of the Tengger people in representing their identity in the midst of the dynamics of the changing time. The dynamics dialectic between the Tengger </em><em>and </em><em> power (Islam) </em><em>have brought out</em><em> two important propositions. First, because of the strong tradition and culture Tengger systems, both Hindu and Islamic ideology interpreted as a cultural system that only symbolically attached to the Tengger. Second, although impressed syncretic, in fact, Islam and Hinduism also established world view Tengger substantive and culturally. The second view is </em><em>as</em><em> </em><em>commonly as Islam in </em><em>Java, "Javanese Islam" behind </em><em>its</em><em> character as if syncretic</em><em>. However, it </em><em> show</em><em>s</em><em> "substantial Islam" because </em><em>it is </em><em>based </em><em>on </em><em>religious traditions of Sufism.</em></p>

scholarly journals PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES TO TEACHING IN THE ANCIENT EAST.

2020 ◽  
Vol 92 (12) ◽  
pp. 344-347
Author(s):  
Gulbaxar Tavaldieva ◽  
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Aziza Akhmedova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches
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