The Myth of the Universal Haitian Republic, or Deux Nations dans la Nation

2020 ◽  
pp. 128-162
Author(s):  
Chelsea Stieber
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
Island State ◽  
Social Scientific

This chapter focuses on unity, or laconcorde—a crucial republican concept linked to fraternité—and its function in Boyer’s unified republican island state (over which he served as president for life from 1822 to 1843) and the realities of disunity and division within it. The chapter begins by unearthing the tension between territorial concorde and internal strife to reveal the limits and possibilities of Boyer’s unified island state, which it argues are based in the myth of the universal Haitian republic. Central to Boyer’s attempts to create territorial concorde is Beaubrun Ardouin’s little-studied Géographie de l’Ile d’Haïti (1832), which is analyzed in a second section. A final section contrasts Ardouin’s social scientific, imperial island strategy with the attempt to represent and create internal concorde among the island’s diverse populations in the liberal newspapers Le Républicain and L’Union. These newspapers focused on addressing and even ameliorating internal divisions within Haiti by attempting to narrate a more capacious and inclusive Haitian republic through an early example of the cultural nationalist movement known as indigénisme.

The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
New Religions ◽  
New Age Movement ◽  
Book Award ◽  
The Status ◽  
Social Scientific

The first edition ofThe Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movementsappeared in early 2004. At the time, it was a much-needed overview of a rapidly-expanding area of study; it received recognition in the form of aChoicebook award. The second edition brings this task up to date. In addition to updating most of the original topics, the new edition takes in more topics by expanding the volume from 22 to 32 chapters, and enlarges the scope of the book by doubling the number of contributors from outside of North America. Following an introductory section devoted to social-scientific approaches to New Religious Movements (NRMs), the second section focuses on what has been uppermost in the minds of the general public, namely the controversies that have surrounded these groups. The third section examines certain themes in the study of NRMs, such as the status of children and women in such movements. The fourth section presents religious studies approaches by looking at NRM mythologies, rituals and the like. The final section covers the subfields that have grown out of NRM studies and become specializations in their own right, from the study of modern Paganism to the study of the New Age Movement. Finally, the present volume has a thematic focus; readers interested in specific NRMs are advised to consult the second edition of James R. Lewis and Jesper Aa. Petersen’s edited volume,Controversial New Religions(Oxford University Press 2014).

scholarly journals Thinking Theoretically about Religiosity, Secularity and Pluralism in the Global East

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Davie
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Scientific Thinking ◽  
International Panel ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Do So

This paper addresses the religiosity, secularity and pluralism of the global East from a theoretical perspective. To do so it draws from work undertaken by the author within the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP), paying particular attention to the material on religion, diversity and pluralism. The final section of the article demonstrates the rootedness of social scientific thinking in the European Enlightenment and the consequences of this heritage for the understanding of religion in other parts of the world including East Asia. There are no easy answers to the questions posed by the mismatch between theory and data; there are, however, pointers towards more constructive ways forward—ways which respond sensitively to the context under review, maintaining nonetheless a high degree of scientific rigour.

Gender Ghosts in McGarry and O'Leary and Representations of the Conflict in Northern Ireland

2005 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marysia Zalewski
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Final Section ◽  
The Political ◽  
Main Site ◽  
Poststructural Feminism ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Political Value

This article focuses on how ideas about gender function in academic analyses of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Part of the reason for doing this is to explore the paradox afflicting contemporary feminism, namely that in the midst of apparent success feminism still seems largely irrelevant to matters of political significance. A second reason involves a demonstration of the political value of poststructural feminism. To achieve these aims, I first consider the use and political aims of poststructuralist analyses, partly through an analysis of the use of poetry in social scientific analyses. The main site used to demonstrate the functions of gender and the political possibilities of poststructural feminism is John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary's book Explaining Northern Ireland: Broken Images. The sub-title of this book refers to a Robert Graves' poem, ‘In Broken Images’, a poem the authors use to explain their desire to ‘break images’ when explaining the conflict in Northern Ireland. I next reflect on and illustrate how ideas about gender function by focusing primarily on Explaining Northern Ireland: Broken Images. The final section re-considers the paradox of contemporary feminism, suggesting that feminism's own methodologies contribute towards its persistent marginalisation.

The multiple histories of secularism

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 325-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nader Hashemi
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
The Political ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Broad Overview

This article is intended to advance conceptual clarity on the topic of secularism in Muslim societies. It seeks to uncover unique historical developments that have influenced and shaped debate on this topic. In the first part, a distinction is made between the different social scientific categories of secularism, focusing on the philosophical, sociological and political dimensions of secularism. The second section provides a broad overview of the different histories of political secularism, and focuses on the two dominant models that have been bequeathed to us from the Western tradition of political thought: Anglo-American secularism and French secularism ( laïcité). In the final section, the political history of Muslim societies is briefly explored with the goal of providing a tentative answer to the question: historically, why did political secularism not emerge in Muslim societies?

Methodological Afterword

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-152
Author(s):  
David Farrugia
Keyword(s):  
Work Ethic ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific

This final section of the book is aimed at those readers who are interested in the methodological processes that led to the three-part analysis I have presented in this book. To some, dividing the post-Fordist work ethic into three categories or types may appear anachronistic. After all, sociologists are increasingly being encouraged to attend to ‘mess’ in social scientific research (...

Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations: Serving GLBT Families in Our Schools

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley M. Frazier
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Culturally And Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Willingness To Disclose ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Societal Changes

Abstract School speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are increasingly likely to serve children of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) parents or GLBT students as cultural and societal changes create growth in the population and increased willingness to disclose sexual orientation. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has a progressive nondiscrimination statement that includes sexual orientation as a protected status and strongly urges the membership to develop cultural competence as a matter of ethical service delivery. The purpose of this article is to describe cultural competence in relation to GLBT culture, discuss GLBT parent and student cultural issues as they are important in parent-school or student-school relations, and to provide suggestions for increasing sensitivity in these types of interactions. A list of resources is provided.

Social-Scientific Research Competency

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 737-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Gess ◽  
Christoph Geiger ◽  
Matthias Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Crystallized Intelligence ◽  
Research Competency ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Education Courses

Abstract. Although the development of research competency is an important goal of higher education in social sciences, instruments to measure this outcome often depend on the students’ self-ratings. To provide empirical evidence for the utility of a newly developed instrument for the objective measurement of social-scientific research competency, two validation studies across two independent samples were conducted. Study 1 ( n = 675) provided evidence for unidimensionality, expected differences in test scores between differently advanced groups of students as well as incremental validities over and above self-perceived research self-efficacy. In Study 2 ( n = 82) it was demonstrated that the competency measured indeed is social-scientific and relations to facets of fluid and crystallized intelligence were analyzed. Overall, the results indicate that the test scores reflected a trainable, social-scientific, knowledge-related construct relevant to research performance. These are promising results for the application of the instrument in the evaluation of research education courses in higher education.

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