scholarly journals A Semiotics of Infinite Translucence: The Exoteric and Esoteric in Ismaili Muslim Hermeneutics

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karim H. Karim
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Private Practice ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Communal Institutions ◽  
Ismaili Muslims

The complex juxtaposition of private practice and public visibility/invisibility of contemporary Ismaili Muslims has certain parallels with other religious communities, but it exhibits unique features. This community adheres to an esotericism that has shaped its hermeneutic and communication practices. In a seeming paradox, the group is also extensively engaged in the public sphere. However, its communal institutions are limiting the dissemination of texts pertaining to the religious addresses and biography of the group’s leader, Aga Khan IV. He is instead increasingly turning to architecture to communicate the community’s worldview by using design in a symbolic manner.La juxtaposition complexe entre les pratiques privées et la visibilité/invisibilité propres aux musulmans ismaéliens contemporains a certains parallèles avec d’autres communautés religieuses, mais elle comporte aussi des caractéristiques uniques. En effet, cette communauté privilégie un ésotérisme qui a formé ses pratiques herméneutiques et communicationnelles. D’autre part, dans un paradoxe apparent, ce groupe s’engage dans la sphère publique. Cependant, ses institutions communales sont en train de limiter la dissémination de textes relatifs aux discours religieux du chef du groupe, Aga Khan IV, ainsi qu’à sa biographie. De plus en plus, celui-ci se tourne plutôt vers l’architecture pour communiquer le point de vue de la communauté en utilisant le design de manière symbolique.

scholarly journals Menuju Pendidikan Kristiani yang Bersahabat Di Tengah Heterogenitas Agama

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-69
Author(s):  
Yohanes Krismantyo Susanta
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Christian Education ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Peace And Justice ◽  
The Public Sphere

The practice of religious education (including Christian religious education) carried out by religious institutions is considered to have contributed to national disunity. This is indicated by the attitude of feeling the most correct self, seeing other people who are different (in the context of religion) as a party that is more inferior so as to bring up the hierarchy (domination-subordination relations) that causes alienation (exclusion) of others. This paper aims to find a friendly form of Christian education in the context of religious heterogeneity. By utilizing the concept of friendship promoted by Jürgen Moltmann, this paper shows that friendship is not just relationships formed in the private sphere but is always conceived and practiced in the public sphere. In Christian Education that promotes friendship, Christians need to transcend borders, transcend church walls and work together with other religious communities for peace and justice.

scholarly journals The The Significance of Internal and External Relativism For Religious Harmony

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-28
Author(s):  
Zaprulkhan Zaprulkhan
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internal Relations ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Muslim Scholars

Abstract In the public sphere, internal relations between fellow Muslims appear negative. Some Muslims insult, curse and slander each other. Likewise, relations between religious communities externally show a less harmonious relationship. There is mutual suspicion in the relationship between religious communities externally. Some Muslim scholars offer the concept of internal relativism as a solution for relations between fellow Muslims internally and the concept of external relativism as a solution for relations between various religious communities in the public space. Therefore, this article tries to elaborate on the significance of the construction of internal and external relativism in building ukhuwah Islamiyah internally and harmony among religious communities externally. Keywords: significance, internal and external relativism, religious harmony   Abstrak: Dalam ruang publik, relasi internal antara sesama umat Islam tampak negatif. Sebagian umat Islam saling mencaci menjelekkan satu sama lain, saling mengutuk dan memfitnah. Begitu pula, relasi antara umat beragama secara eksternal memperlihatkan hubungan yang kurang harmonis. Ada sikap saling curiga dalam hubungan antara umat beragama secara eksternal. Sebagian cendikiawan muslim menawarkan konsep relativisme internal sebagai solusi bagi relasi antara sesama umat Islam secara internal dan konsep relativisme eksternal sebagai solusi bagi relasi antara berbagai umat beragama di ruang publik. Karena itu, artikel ini mencoba untuk menguraikan signifikansi konstruksi relativisme internal dan eksternal dalam membangun ukhuwah islamiyah secara internal dan kerukunan antar umat beragama secara eksternal. Kata kunci: signifikansi, relativisme internal dan eksternal, harmoni agama

scholarly journals Pola Komunikasi Perempuan Pesisir: Studi Etnografi Komunikasi

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Yayah Nurhidayah
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
The Public ◽  
Communication Competencies ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Communication Methods

Communication is bound by culture. As culture differs from one another, the communication practices and behaviors of individuals cared for in different cultures will have different communication methods. The coastal women's community is a sub-culture of the Cirebon community, besides having unique and distinctive characteristics, they have an important role in helping to increase the economic income of the fishermen's family. The involvement of coastal women in the public sphere is increasingly expanding their interactions and social relations, both with people inside and with outsiders. The implication is that coastal women are faced with various challenges in interactions that require communication competencies. Lack of understanding of the culture of the participants involved in the interaction will give rise to social conflict: such as quarrels, hostilities, misunderstandings and prejudices.Komunikasi itu terikat oleh budaya. Sebagaimana budaya berbeda antara satu dengan lainnya, maka praktek dan perilaku komunikasi individu-individu yang diasuh dalam budaya berbeda akan memiliki cara-cara komunikasi yang berbeda.  Komunitas perempuan pesisir merupakan sub-kultur  dari masyarakat Cirebon, selain memiliki karakteristik yang unik dan khas, mereka memiliki peran penting dalam membantu menambah penghasilan ekonomi keluarga nelayan. Keterlibatan perempuan pesisir di ranah publik, makin memperluas interaksi dan relasi sosialnya,  baik dengan orang dalam maupun dengan orang luar. Implikasinya, perempuan pesisir dihadapkan pada berbagai tantangan dalam interaksi yang membutuhkan kompetensi komunikasi. Kurangnya pemahaman tentang budaya dari peserta yang terlibat dalam interaksi, akan melahirkan konflik sosial:  seperti terjadi pertengkaran, permusuhan, salah paham dan prasangka.

scholarly journals STEPPING OUT OF THE “ENCLAVE”: PUBLIC ACTIVITIES OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AND THE QUEST TO REGAIN SOCIAL AUTHORITY IN THE 1980S

2020 ◽  
pp. 254-278
Author(s):  
IVANA VESIĆ ◽  
VESNA PENO
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Social Authority ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Restrictive Legislation ◽  
Postmodern Spirituality ◽  
The Church

In this paper we will consider how, from the beginning to the end of the 1980s, the Serbian Orthodox Church gradually abandoned its restricted mode of public action and moved from an enclave form, with occasional elements of counterpublics, to a dominant public sphere. This process was the result of a complex set of phenomena that often overlapped. Pressure from authorities on religious communities and believers started to decline at the time despite restrictive legislation regarding public appearances by religious officials still being in force. This was followed by a pronounced deatheization of younger parts of the population and an expansion of various forms of secular religiosity (popular culture, sports), including hybrid types of postmodern spirituality within Yugoslav society. In such circumstances, religious communities were encouraged to expand the scope of their public activities, so they found new forms of communication and networking, both among believers and in various social circles. Our aim is to point to forms of public action cultivated at the time by the Church and the stages it underwent in its participation in the public sphere. Additionally, the factors that influenced a change in the Church’s public and social position in the late 1980s will be discussed, along with the consequences caused in different areas of its functioning.

From Limits to Ecocentric Rights and Responsibility: Communication, Globalization, and the Politics of Environmental Transition

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick D Murphy ◽  
José Castro-Sotomayor
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
The Public ◽  
Human Wellbeing ◽  
Environmental Discourses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global North ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
The Public Sphere

Abstract This article provides a comparative map of the outstanding discursive features and shared underpinnings of the Limits and Transition discourses (TDs) by examining how they have been communicated to reshape the public sphere. Though both are deeply implicated in globalization, the formation of these environmental discourses responds to distinct sets of social agents and interests and to different but complementary ontological and epistemological grounds. In the Global North, the Limits discourse challenged the assumption of unmitigated growth yet has remained anthropocentric. Environmental TDs associated with the Global South present more contestatory positions on the notion of growth by problematizing human-centeredness and embracing a radical ethics of care. Limits and TDs represent paradigmatic shifts in the history of environmentalism. Accordingly, communication scholars should consider the lessons that can be taken from these discursive fields to foster regenerative ecocultural identities and animate progressive thinking on environmental governance and its communication practices that serve both human and non-human wellbeing.

Varieties of Deprivatization: Revisiting Religious Communities in the Public Sphere

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans G. Kippenberg ◽  
Karsten Lehmann ◽  
Alexander-Kenneth Nagel
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

The Suffering of the Perpetrators: The Ethics of Traumatic German Historicity in Karen Bass's Young Adult World War II Novels

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Doris Wolf
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adult World ◽  
The Public Sphere

This paper examines two young adult novels, Run Like Jäger (2008) and Summer of Fire (2009), by Canadian writer Karen Bass, which centre on the experiences of so-called ordinary German teenagers in World War II. Although guilt and perpetration are themes addressed in these books, their focus is primarily on the ways in which Germans suffered at the hands of the Allied forces. These books thus participate in the increasingly widespread but still controversial subject of the suffering of the perpetrators. Bringing work in childhood studies to bear on contemporary representations of German wartime suffering in the public sphere, I explore how Bass's novels, through the liminal figure of the adolescent, participate in a culture of self-victimisation that downplays guilt rather than more ethically contextualises suffering within guilt. These historical narratives are framed by contemporary narratives which centre on troubled teen protagonists who need the stories of the past for their own individualisation in the present. In their evacuation of crucial historical contexts, both Run Like Jäger and Summer of Fire support optimistic and gendered narratives of individualism that ultimately refuse complicated understandings of adolescent agency in the past or present.

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