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

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Maksum
Keyword(s):  
Representation Theory ◽  
World View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Culture Systems ◽  
Religious System ◽  
Mountain Community ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
The One

<p><em>This article is explores the dynamic of Tengger communities regarding with expanding of Islam and the power of Indonesian government. Research by taking  two villages, namely Ngadisari and Sapikerep, Probolinggo going to want to investigate more about the dynamics of the struggle between the Tengger tribe community on the one hand in maintaining the culture, identity, and the identity of those with power ( Islam ) on the other side. By using the representation theory perspective, this study wanted to elaborate a little more detail about the strategy of the Tengger people in representing their identity in the midst of the dynamics of the changing times. Because, in their long history, Tengger tribe known as the little mountain community is still strong in maintaining their cultural system in the midst of changing times. The relation between the power of giving birth Tengger cultural dialectic interesting to study. At least, referring to previous studies, see the dynamics of the dialectic between the Tengger with power ( Islam ) gave birth to two important propositions. First, because of the strong tradition and culture systems Tengger, both Hindu and Islamic ideology interpreted as a cultural system that does not change that only symbolically attached to the Tengger. Hinduism and Islam even for Tengger no different as normative religion. It refers, that, Tengger known as the system of local culture and religion different from Hinduism true though. Second, although impressed normative ( read: syncretic ), in fact, Islam and Hinduism also established world view Tengger substantive and culturally. The second view is not a religious system is like the Java community at large who embraced Islam. "Javanese Islam" behind his character as if syncretic actually still showed "substantial Islam" because based religious traditions of Sufism.</em></p>

Plausibility or Truth? An Essay on Medicine and World View

1995 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul U. Unschuld
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
World View ◽  
Early Research ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
As If

The ArgumentThis paper introduces the notion of plausibility as a decisive condition for the acceptance by groups in society of fundamental ideas concerning the nature of illness.Plausibility, it is argued, helps to explain both transition from one system of fundamental ideas to another in history, and coexistence of different such systems in a single civilization. Hence this paper challenges an interpretation of medicine prevalent, especially in medical anthropology, since the 1940s, when Erwin Ackerknecht introduced the idea of medicine as an integrated aspect of a society's or community's culture.Because early research focused on small-scale communities where a majority, if not all, of the members adhered to one world view and experienced one and the same existential environment, medicine came to be identified as a cultural system representative of entire communities and, later, societies. Hence we speak of Chinese medicine as if there were one system of therapeutic ideas and practices representative of China as a whole. The fact is that even though medicine is indeed a cultural system, it is representative only of the culture developed by people sharing identical environments and experiences. That is, if within one civilization different groups coexist in different existential realities entailing different notions of what causes crisis and how to maintain harmony, then these groups will believe in different systems of ideas concerning the generation, treatment, and prevention of illness. Such systems of ideas are therefore always metaphorical reflections of a real social environment or ideas are therefore always metaphorical reflections of a real social environment or of one aspired to.It is not truth(Wahrheit) that leads to an acceptance of basic therapeutic ideas but plausibility (Wahrschein).

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 REPRESENTATION OF KEBAYA FASHION IN JAGATNATHA TEMPLE DENPASAR

2018 ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
I Dewa Ayu Sri Suasmini ◽  
I Wayan Ardika ◽  
Sulistyawati Sulistyawati ◽  
Ni Made Wiasti
Keyword(s):  
Representation Theory ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The City ◽  
The Temple ◽  
As If ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Kebaya is a traditional Balinese outfit worn during religious ceremonies. Kebaya as a fashion boss today is experiencing rapid development. Women in the city of Denpasar tend to follow the trend of fesyenkebaya when offering worship to the temple. Modern kebaya is a choice as a representation when going to the Great Jagatnatha Temple. Women always want to appear fasionabeldan want to be the center of attention. As if the Great Jagatnatha Temple was used as a fashion show stage by women in Denpasar City. This phenomenon is interesting to study in the formulation of the problem, which is the fashion style to Agung Jagatnatha Temple as a representation of women in Denpasar City. This study used descriptive qualitative method. The theory used is representation theory and consumerism. The results of this study indicate that the reason women represent kebaya to temple is because the development of kebaya today is very rapid. This development is due to the advancement of technology and information so that materials and models of kebaya can be quickly produced. This causes women to wear trendy kebaya so that it is not considered outdated. Pura Agung Jagatnatha is a public temple and the largest temple in the city of Denpasar is always crowded with visitors on Hindu religious holidays. Agung Jagatnatha Temple is used as a place to represent the performance during prayer. For contemporary women in the city of Denpasar, not only when attending a reception, when praying to the temple must also be fashionable. Keywords: representation, fashion kebaya to temple, fashionable.

Farming as if we belong

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. C. Lefroy
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
World View ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Agricultural Systems ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sustainable Agricultural Systems ◽  
Agricultural Settlement ◽  
As If

Two fundamental changes in attitude are required before efforts to develop sustainable agricultural systems will be successful. Firstly, the deeply held and often unexamined views we have of our relationship with the natural world, particularly the view of nature as a commodity, must be challenged. Secondly, we must question our continuing faith in a knowledge-based world view as the best way to solve problems that are a consequence of that view. The history of agricultural settlement in Western Australia is an example of the view of nature as a commodity that led to failed agricultural schemes at great social and environmental costs.

scholarly journals Letters and the Topography of Early Christianity

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith M. Lieu
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
World View ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Temporal Distance ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Christian World View ◽  
As If

While embedded in contemporary letter-writing conventions, early Christian letters were also instrumental in the creation of a distinctive Christian world-view. Fundamental to letters of all types, ‘real’ and fictional, is that they respond to, and hence negotiate and seek to overcome, actual and imagined spatial and temporal distance between author and recipient(s). In practice and as cultural symbols, letters, sent and transmitted in new contexts, as well as letter collections, produced in the Christian imagination new trans-locational and cross-temporal dynamics of relationality that can be mapped onto the standard epistolary topoi – ‘absent as if present’, half a conversation, a mirror of the soul.

Anthropologies of Medicine, Religion, and Spirituality and Their Application to Clinical Practice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda L. Barnes ◽  
Lance D. Laird
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Anthropology Of Religion ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Religious Traditions

This chapter reviews how medical anthropology has characterized and interpreted biomedicine as a cultural system in its own right. Because so much of the field has attended to how practitioners and patients experience their engagement in biomedicine and other systems of healing, we introduce related dimensions. Some medical anthropologists have also drawn from what is known as the Anthropology of Religion, as a way of exploring religious traditions related to healing. Their work adds useful dimensions to the topic at hand. Finally, we address applied dimensions, that include how biomedical professionals can introduce issues related to religion/spirituality in their clinical work. We advocate for a synthesis of the strengths of religious studies, medical anthropology, refined tools of spiritual inquiry that reflect the particularities of the different traditions, and a stance of cultural humility.

The significance of the apocryphal Greek Additions to Esther for the church today

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-169
Author(s):  
Nancy L deClaissé-Walford
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
World View ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Protestant Church ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Church ◽  
Insight Into

Over the centuries, the Protestant church has increasingly ignored the apocryphal books of the Old Testament, including the Additions to the book of Esther. This article first outlines the extent of the apocryphal material; it then discusses its origins, purported theology, and its “canonicity” in various religious traditions; it then provides a detailed examination of the content of the Greek Additions to Esther and comments on how the Additions alter or add to an understanding of the book of Esther; finally, it offers some comments on the significance of the Greek Additions to Esther for the Church today. The study concludes that the Greek Additions to Esther are a rich resource for the Christian community, providing insight into the issues confronting the diaspora Jews as they made their way in a Gentile world and essential background information for understanding the early Christian world view, enhancing an understanding of what it means to be faithful in a world that seems not to be, and showing the evolving and ever-changing status of what is considered “scripture” today.

A Semiotic Exploration of the World of Charismatic Christianity

2020 ◽  
pp. 141-175
Author(s):  
Savio Abreu
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Religious Symbols ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sacred And Profane ◽  
The World ◽  
Symbolic World ◽  
Charismatic Christianity

In order to make sense of the worldview and ethos of the Charismatics, this chapter studies the symbolic world of the Charismatics—with their concepts of sacred and profane—and the structuring Charismatic habitus. It tries to make sense of the various religious symbols and their supporting discourses, which have shaped and legitimized the world view and ethos of the Charismatics. For this purpose, it draws from the work of Geertz on religion as a cultural system of symbols that shapes and constitutes reality, seen in the light of Asad’s criticisms concerning the role of power. Drawing from Bourdieu’s idea of habitus, it also analyses the underlying Charismatic habitus that guides individual believers to understand and respond to the social reality around them. Additionally, various conceptions of the sacred and profane are explored, drawing from the works of Durkheim, Eliade, and others.

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