scholarly journals Norūz: Treading Time, Nature, Faith And Culture

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Amir H. Zekrgoo
Keyword(s):  
Multifaceted Approach ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Subject

<strong>Abstract </strong>:<em> N</em><em>or</em><em>ūz</em>, is among the oldest celebrations in history that is still alive and observed by various peoples that historically share Persian culture. This research presents a multifaceted approach to the subject: historical, religious, symbolic and scientific., and is aimed at tracing <em>Norūz </em>in the history, its significance in the setting of an accurate solar calendar, its evolvement in various religious traditions and, eventually, the process of its Islamization. It also provides an analytical account of the “<em>Haft-sīn </em>Spread” – a setting of seven items that are closely associated with the celebration of <em>Norūz </em>– and their symbolic significance.<div class="WordSection1"><p><strong>Ke</strong><strong>ywords : </strong><em>N</em><em>orūz, </em><em>H</em><em>aft-Sīn</em><em>,</em><em> </em><em>F</em><em>estival, </em><em>P</em><em>ur</em><em>im</em><em>,</em><em> </em><em>Easter, </em><em>I</em><em>ntangible </em><em>C</em><em>ultural heritage.</em></p><p><em><br /></em></p><p><strong>Abstrak</strong> :<em> No</em><em>rūz </em>merupakan salah satu perayaan tertua sepanjang sejarah yang masih hidup dan dirayakan oleh  beragam kalangan yang  memiliki ikatan  sejarah  dengan  kebudayaan Persia.  Penelitian  ini  menyuguhkan  pedekatan  dari  berbagai sisi: historis, religious, simbolis, dan ilmiah, yang ditujukan untuk menelusuri <em>Norūz </em>dalam perjalanan sejarah, menelaah signifikansinya dalam menentukan sebuah penanggalan matahari yang akurat, perkembangannya dalam beragam tradisi keagamaan dan, akhirnya, proses Islamisasi atasnya. Kajian ini juga menyuguhkan telaah analitis atas  “Jamuan <em>Haft-Sīn</em>”— tujuh hal tertentu yang disajikan terkait perayaan <em>Norūz—</em>beserta muatan makna simbolis di baliknya.</p><p><strong>K</strong><strong>ata-kata Kunci<em> : </em></strong><em>N</em><em>orūz, </em><em>H</em><em>aft-Sīn</em><em>, </em><em>P</em><em>erayaan, </em><em>P</em><em>ur</em><em>im</em><em>, </em><em>P</em><em>askah, </em><em>W</em><em>arisan kultural tak kasat mata</em></p><p><em><br /></em></p></div>

scholarly journals The Immense House of Postcards

1970 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-71
Author(s):  
Hanoch Ben-Pazi
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Ethical Thought ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Textual Tradition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Way Of Thinking

The subject of tradition engaged both Emmanuel Lévinas and Jacques Derrida in many of their writings, which explore both the philosophical and cultural significance of tradition and the particular significance of the latter in a specifically Jewish context. Lévinas devoted a few of his Talmudic essays to the subject, and Derrida addressed the issue from the perspective of different philosophical and religious traditions. This article uses the writings of these two thinkers to propose a new way of thinking about the idea of tradition. At the core of its inquiry lie the paradigm of the letter and the use of this metaphor as a means of describing the concept of tradition. Using the phenomenon of the letter as a vantage point for considering tradition raises important points of discussion, due to both the letter’s nature as a text that is sent and the manifest and hidden elements it contains. The focus of this essay is the phenomenon of textual tradition, which encompasses different traditions of reading and interpreting texts and a grasp of the horizon of understanding opened up in relation to the text through its many different interpretations. The attention paid here to the actions of individuals serves to highlight the importance of the interpersonal realm and of ethical thought.

Religious Traditions in Politics: Confucianism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youngmin Kim ◽  
Se-Hyun Kim ◽  
Ji Hye Song
Keyword(s):  
Chinese History ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Late Imperial China ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Religious Aspects

Because of the missionary activities of Jesuits in late imperial China and the world religions paradigm that emerged in the late 19th century, scholars tend to view Confucianism as a world religion. However, Confucianism does not fit into disciplinary boxes neatly. Accordingly, Confucian religiosity has been the subject of much debate among scholars. The answer depends largely upon how one defines religion and Confucianism. However, Confucianism and religion are not self-evident categories, but historically conditioned entities. Central to the theoretical discussion of Confucian religiosity has been the idea of transcendence. To many, Confucianism does not seem a type of religion because it does not put God at the center of attention. To others, Confucianism upholds immanent transcendence as its ideal, which does not impose an other-worldly standard but instead suggests human perfectibility. By invoking the notion of immanent transcendence, scholars caution us not to take European Christianity for granted and not to close our eyes to the array of alternative forms of religion. In addition to this theoretical debate, there have been other types of study on religious aspects of Confucianism. Anthropologists and historians have been studying practices of Confucian religious rituals in Chinese history. Rituals were a powerful method that rulers, throughout the dynasties, have employed to legitimize their rule. As with other rituals, imperial authorities patronized various rituals in the hope of attaining the support of their subjects. However, from its inception, Confucian rituals became complex interpretive arenas in which various social actors disputed, accommodated, negotiated, and rearticulated the Confucian orthodoxy according to their interests. Throughout the 20th century, mainland Chinese politicians and intellectuals often stigmatized Confucianism as the cause of China’s downfall. However, Confucianism, which had been regarded as only a hindrance by the Communists, currently appears to be a resource with which to remake China.

scholarly journals METHODOLOGICAL BASIS OF MORAL-DOMESTIC CONCEPT OF HOTEL-RESTAURANT BUSINESS

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Igor Pandyak ◽  
Maria Fil ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Master's Level ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Economic Phenomenon ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
First Time

Goal. The purpose of the article is to analyze the evolution and to highlight the main theoretical and methodological concepts of the category "hospitality" as a multifaceted socio-economic phenomenon, the subject of interdisciplinary study, primarily in the system of social and geographical knowledge. Method. The study uses a set of methods: literary, historical, linguistic, method of analysis of Internet sites, as well as methods for synthesis and analysis of the collected material. Results. The principles of hospitality concepts - moral and commercial and commercial - are specified, the semantics of the term "hospitality" are specified, the significance of religious traditions, customary law, state legal norms at the stage of formation of the hospitality establishment is analyzed. Scientific novelty. For the first time, a complex of features inherent in the moral and everyday concept of hospitality at the stage of the formation of this socio-economic phenomenon has been revealed. The practical significance of the research is determined by its methodological relevance, as well as for the teaching of master's level disciplines, taking into account the professional training of hotel and restaurant business and tourism.

A prolegomenon to the study of pottery stamps from Mes Aynak

Afghanistan ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Lerner
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Seal Design ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Seal Impressions

That Afghanistan has been a cultural crossroads is no better demonstrated than by its glyptic art. The designs and styles of the seals used to sign, authenticate and secure documents and packages reflect the artistic and religious traditions of the Hellenistic, Iranian, and Indian worlds. A particular category of seal design is, to my knowledge, known only from impressions on the exterior of clay vessels; they occur at a number of sites in Afghanistan. Their designs differ in style and imagery from the glyptic art of the regions and cultures that produced seals used for authentication purposes and thus suggest that they were carved specifically to mark or decorate ceramics. Recently, a number of potsherds with such seal impressions have been salvaged at the major Buddhist site of Mes Aynak, 40 km southeast of Kabul. Some share motifs with stamped pottery from other sites in Afghanistan, but others are unique. This article is a preliminary exploration of the subject matter and style(s) of the Mes Aynak pottery stamps.

scholarly journals Change of food culture and traditions of Muslim Germans after religious conversion

2020 ◽  
pp. 94-103
Author(s):  
Elvina Riazanova
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Made In

Currently, more and more people all over the world change their religious identity. This research is dedicated to Germans who converted to Islam. The subject of this article is the adherence to the religious traditions, such as consumption of halal products, fasting during a holy month of Ramadan. The goal is to analyze the transformation of food culture and traditions of convert Germans. Special attention is given to observation of transition towards new food culture (refusal from pork and alcohol), as well as difficulties faced by the converts in the process. The scientific novelty consists in the fact that this article is first within national historiography to review the question of newly-converted Germans based on the field material collected by the author in the territory of Germany. The following conclusions were made: in religious alternation, a convert may disobey religious practices, such as food products prohibited in Islam (alcohol, pork), as well as avoid fasting; in religious conversion, it is a must to adhere to all rules prescribed in Quran (fasting, only halal products). Transformation of food culture is often accompanied by personal feelings, can be gradual or instantaneous.

scholarly journals PHENOMENOLOGY AND HERMENEUTICS OF REVELATION. TWO-VOICE OF PAUL RICOEUR AND JEAN-LUC MARION

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 20-38
Author(s):  
Piotr KARPIŃSKI ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Saturated Phenomenon ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
Verbal Message ◽  
Valuable Complement ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Phenomenological Point

Revelation is a key category for both phenomenology and hermeneutics. The first domain deals with the possibility of revelation, while the second through its interpretation seeks to understand the reality. Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur is characterized by a focus on understanding the human ipseity (soi) and as such refers to phenomenology. Ricoeur is the author of the term 'hermeneutic phenomenology'. Initially, he emphasized the separation between the revelation of the sacrum and the verbal message of religious traditions. With time, however, he noticed that the religious word assumes the functions of numinosum, becoming a place of revelation. After all, Ricoeur remains on the content side of revelation, and therefore the phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion, who treats revelation from a purely phenomenological point of view, is a valuable complement to this research. Revelation is the giving of the phenomenon as such, on its own initiative, starting from itself, independent from the subject, saturated phenomenon. From this two-voice of Ricoeur and Marion emerges a full picture of the philosophy of revelation, confirming at the same time the need for cooperation between phenomenology and hermeneutics

scholarly journals The Arab Americans

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-109
Author(s):  
Steven Salaita
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Arab Americans ◽  
The Political ◽  
Arab American ◽  
American Government ◽  
Marketplace Of Ideas ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

Since 9/11, Arab Americans have been the subject of much discussion inboth popular and scholarly forums. Books on the suddenly visible Arab-American community have been published recently or are forthcoming, andcourses dealing with Arab Americans are gradually entering university curricula.This interest is cross-disciplinary, having become evident in numeroushumanities and social science fields.Yet this interest is bound largely to the political marketplace of ideas, foran emergent Arab-American studies existed well before 9/11 and had been onthe brink of increased visibility on the eve of 9/11. It took 9/11, however, forthis body of scholarship to generate broad attention. In addition, 9/11 alteredthe trajectories that had already been established, though not as dramaticallyas an unaffiliated observer might believe. Gregory Orfalea was among thegroup of scholars and artists who were assessing Arab America before 9/11through his work as a writer and editor. Orfalea continues his contribution tothat project with his latest book, The Arab Americans: A History, a voluminoustext that mixes exposition, commentary, and analysis.The author’s cross-disciplinary book will be of interest to students andscholars in the humanities and the social sciences, for it contains elements ofhistoriography, sociology, literary criticism, memoir, and anthropology. Theintroduction and first chapter recount a trip he took as a young man in 1972with his jaddu (grandfather) to Arbeen, Syria, his grandfather’s hometown.Subsequent chapters explore a number of sociocultural and political issuesof interest to the Arab-American community, including the politics of theArab world, activism (historical and contemporary) in Arab America, therelationship between Arab Americans and the American government at boththe local and federal levels, religious traditions in Arab America, and theinstability and diversity of Arab-American identity ...

scholarly journals Black and Jewish, Female and Clergy

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Thiede ◽  
Julia Robinson Moore
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Public University ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

Presenting ourselves as objective and detached observers is the teaching of a former era. If we want our students to be able to understand themselves in the real world, teachers must model how to analyze the ways in which identities influence how we “read” histories, traditions, texts, and contemporary realities. Two female teachers, Black and White, Jewish and Christian, ordained clergy of their respective traditions with professional lives as academics at a public university, made self-disclosure a mindful practice and an integral part of a class exploring the ways religious narratives could empower and disempower. Using the ways Hagar is figured in varied religious traditions permitted both teachers to model an academic approach to the subject while also acknowledging how their identities affected their reading of the texts. In turn, students learned how to practice identifying the way their multiple identities impact how they read the world around them.

scholarly journals Songs on the Road: Wandering Religious Poets in India, Tibet, and Japan

10.16993/bbi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Religious Poetry ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Road ◽  
Sacred Geography ◽  
The Subject ◽  
On The Road

This book consists of seven chapters on the subject of poetry and itinerancy within the religious traditions of India, Tibet, and Japan from ancient to modern times. The chapters look, each from a different angle, at how itinerancy is reflected in religious poetry, what are the purposes of the wanderers’ poems or songs, and how the wandering poets relate to local communities, sacred geography, and institutionalized religion. We encounter priest-poets in search of munificent patrons, renouncers and yogins who sing about the bliss and hardship of wandering alone in the wilderness, Hindu pilgrims and opponents of pilgrimage, antinomian Buddhist-Tantric poets from Bengal, and the originator of the haiku. We are led along roads travelled by many, as well as paths tread by few.

Mirrors With the Boju Pattern Origin; Evolution; and Meaning

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-201
Author(s):  
Agniya N. Chistyakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Han Dynasty ◽  
Semantic Interpretation ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Chinese Researcher ◽  
Yin And Yang ◽  
Five Elements ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Ancient Chinese ◽  
Queen Mother

The article presents an investigation of the ancient Chinese mirrors with the TLV or Boju patternW^XX In the course of the research, the author 1) identified the evolution of the pattern names, 2) summarized and outlined composition versions, performed their time-based classification, and 3) represented the semantic interpretation of the subject. The author also discovered that the period of such mirrors' popularity coincides with the Han dynasty period, which incorporated all religious traditions of the previous periods and experienced the joining of the ‘Central' (Confucian) and the ‘Southern' (Chu state's) cultural subtraditions. This article presents the 'classical diagram of the Boju mirrors”. In general, the support is surrounded with a square with “pearls” as well as various hieroglyphic signs containing the following: “Never forget each other. Eternal Joy” Kffll'S'S Lcfi^ifeand “A person with pure thoughts. Never forgets affairs of the great kings” (''DS-MAffE'SKzEl. Another variant of signs is: “Dragon leftwards and tiger rightwards protect against disasters, the bird and Xuanwu favor yin and yang” (^ЙЁЙЗЙГ^ИВЙЗЙИЯЯ). All the signs are bless wishing. The author has established that the wide variety of names of this plot is not related to absence of any clear and unified classification of Chinese mirrors only, but also to the presence of various interpretations of designs and their origin. The compositions vary. The author has discovered that the pattern on mirrors is multilayered; includes such religions and beliefs as worshiping the Sky and the Earth, worshiping the five sacred peaks/mountains, the cult of Four Spirits (Si Shen) - tomb guards; and correlates with the concept of five elements Wu Xing, with Xi Wang Mu, the Queen Mother of the West, the astromancy board, and the Boju, a game of immortals. The pattern in the form of calipers and triangles is related to mythological plots about deities - World Creators - Fu-Xi and Nuwa. Immortality, continuity of a life cycle form a unified universal concept that can be observed in all depictions of the pattern on mirrors of this kind. Moreover, the author has discovered that the earliest and the most widely known name of the pattern is TLV, which is commonly used by European researchers up to today. Chinese scientists supported this concept until a version appeared that all images are similar to the Ludo board game. Today, this pattern is called Boju. However, the Boju pattern displays its nonhomogeneity and variety. Following the Chinese researcher Fu Juyu, the author classified patterns into seven typed based on their popularity: 1) Boju - huddled dragon Chi (W^®®X), 2) Boju - grass and leaves (W^X^DIX), 3) Boju - four snakes Hui (W^®8X), 4) Boju - four deities Sishen 5) Boju - Shou birds and animals (ffl^SSSX), 6) Boju - geometric pattern (W^HiIrXO, 7) modified or simplified Boju (^^j(MHb)W©X ). This classification allowed reviewing pattern evolution and plots development. The author considers that this article can contribute to a more detailed time- and pattern-based classification of mirrors related to the Han dynasty period.

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