scholarly journals Religiosity of the urban community in Kazakhstan

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-332
Author(s):  
G. T. Alimbekova ◽  
A. B. Shabdenova ◽  
T. Yu. Lifanova
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Complex Model ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Religious Revival ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Religious Consciousness ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Political Preferences

Religious values as the most important component of the worldview can significantly affect various aspects of human life - from everyday practices to political preferences. The analysis of changes in religiosity shows that in the post-Soviet space, there is a clear tendency of the transition from atheistic attitudes to the religious revival. In the contemporary Kazakhstan society, a complex model of religious identity develops - it combines ideals and norms of religious consciousness with ideas of spirituality and national revival, but the confession values can often only be of an external, declarative nature. According to different studies, in Kazakhstan, the share of believers following religious practices increases. The question is whether people really observe religious rites and traditions and follow religious regulations. The article summarizes the results of the study conducted by the Center for the Study of Public Opinion to assess the religiosity of the Almaty urban community. The survey showed that the share of people who identify themselves as a part of some confession is significant; however, this is not a direct indicator of the increase in the number of true believers seeking to actively follow all religious rules and practices. The article presents the data on the activity of respondents in religious practices, their knowledge and understanding of some religious postulates. The study showed that the religious renaissance among the youth can be accompanied by undeveloped religious consciousness and insufficient religious knowledge, which provides grounds for the dissemination of pseudo-religious ideas including the extremist ones.

scholarly journals Social Mechanisms of Harmonization of the Relations between Muslim and Christian Culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 1053-1061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina V. Leskova
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Secular Culture ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
New Vision

The article is devoted to the theoretical and methodological problems of the study of relations between Muslim and Christian culture. It has been shown that the globalization processes in the world affect all spheres of human life, diversifies it, promotes interpenetration of cultures, increases pluralism, and requires a new vision of the world in all its manifestations. It has been actualized that in today’s world traditions related to religious ones mostly gain the form of religious culture. The new state of secular culture and the emerging socio-cultural environment is accompanied by the activation of religious structures, institutions and processes, which are called »desecularization«, »religious renaissance« and »revitalization of religion« in the scientific literature. The dialogue between Islam and Christianity, Muslim and Christian culture, has historical and religious roots. In the era of wide development of Islamic culture, Muslims actively contributed to the establishment of mutual understanding with other people and civilizations. History shows that Islam has been the initiator of dialogue and exchange of opinions with other cultures for ages. The Holy Scripture of Muslims, The Koran, in many verses obliges its followers to conduct an intellectual dialogue with members of other religions. The unique and centuries-old experience of religious interaction on the territory of Russia strives at maintaining the religious identity by Christians and Muslims alike. Dialogue within the Cristian and Islamic culture in Russia does not provide for and even prevent attempts for selection of dogmatic integrity and unity of religious knowledge, however it implies the need of individual, personal relationships and joint solutions of various socio-cultural problems and challenges, where the tasks of the spiritual and moral development of society are the most important ones.

THE RHETORIC OF RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN ARNOBIUS’ADVERSVS NATIONES

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 402-416
Author(s):  
Konstantine Panegyres
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Local Religion ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Christian Writer

In this paper I discuss the ways in which the early Christian writer Arnobius of Sicca used rhetoric to shape religious identity inAduersus nationes. I raise questions about the reliability of his rhetorical work as a historical source for understanding conflict between Christians and pagans. The paper is intended as an addition to the growing literature in the following current areas of study: (i) the role of local religion and identity in the Roman Empire; (ii) the presence of pagan elements in Christian religious practices; (iii) the question of how to approach rhetorical works as historical evidence.

scholarly journals Mekanisme Transmisi Pengetahuan dengan Modus Imperatif Kesiapan dan Kemampuan Penerapan Pembelajaran dalam Perspektif Pendidikan Islam

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-122
Author(s):  
Sudar Kajin
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Readiness To Learn

Grounding the transmission of knowledge by simplifying the learning process on real-world problems helps students maintain what is taught and remembers lessons learned when and when needed will have benefits and can be achieved using a variety of student-friendly teaching and learning methods that take into account interests, needs, and levels students. This article was written with the aim of studying the mechanism of knowledge transmission with the Readiness and Ability to Apply Learning Mode in the Islamic Education Perspective. The results of the discussion conclude that: 1) The concept of learning from teacher to student is popularly referred to as the 'Transmission' paradigm in learning and the process as a 'Transmission mechanism' with a different hierarchical Imperative mode; 2. In Islam, education is based on what Islamic ideals once held about educating all human beings rather than the narrow transmission of discursive knowledge. Islamic knowledge is the knowledge contained in the human body and the ways in which Muslims use it to archive, transmit, decode, and actualize religious knowledge based on a combination of imperative modes; 3) Islamic education aims to develop humans holistically, contrary to western education which focuses primarily on intellectual development. The main purpose of Islamic education is to reform and build human life and develop balanced relationships between individuals, communities and the world based on ethical concepts; 4) regardless of the frame of 'readiness to learn' or 'readiness for school', there is far more preparedness than this and far more that we can do to help everyone become more prepared to learn and overcome life.

scholarly journals To the judgments of N.A. Berdyaev about new religious consciousness development

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 02010
Author(s):  
Natalia Gerlein
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Local Council ◽  
Consciousness Development ◽  
Religious Consciousness ◽  
Main Support

The article presents an attempt to consider a new religious consciousness with the main support of N.A. Berdyaev works. The historical context of the spiritual movement development during a turning point in revolutionary Russia, which also occurs at the time of the Local Council, is considered. It also examines the influence of modern culture on the rooting of certain forms of thinking for modern man, the transformation of religious culture, as well as, in turn, the modification of the religion perception by society and its adaptation, or the adoption of a forced compromise by the Russian Orthodox Church. The article also focuses on the voice of the modern world, touches on the theme of technology dominance in human life, which, in particular, is the cause of a priori circulations in the type of religiosity. The article discusses an attempt to create new religious forms, proposes solutions related to the liberation of person.

scholarly journals We Drew a Swastika of Grain: Vernacular Religion in the Tibetan Songs of Nubri, Nepal

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 593
Author(s):  
Mason Brown
Keyword(s):  
Folk Songs ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Sacred Landscape ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Community Values ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Vernacular Religion ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Religious Subject ◽  
And Function

The academic study of Tibetan Buddhism has long emphasized the textual, philological, and monastic, and sometimes tended to ignore, dismiss, or undervalue the everyday practices and beliefs of ordinary people. In this article, I show that traditional folk songs, especially changlü, are windows into the vernacular religion of ethnically Tibetan Himalayans from the Nubri valley of Gorkha District, Nepal. While changlü literally means “beer song”, and they are often sung while celebrating, they usually have deeply religious subject matter, and function to transmit Buddhist values, reinforce social or religious hierarchies, and to emplace the community in relation to the landscape and to greater Tibet and Nepal. They do this mainly through three different tropes: (1) exhortations to practice and to remember such things as impermanence and death; (2) explications of hierarchy; and (3) employment of spatialized language that evokes the maṇḍala. They also sometimes carry opaque references to vernacular rituals, such as “drawing a swastika of grain” after storing the harvest. In the song texts translated here, I will point out elements that reproduce a Buddhist worldview, such as references to deities, sacred landscape, and Buddhist values, and argue that they impart vernacular religious knowledge intergenerationally in an implicit, natural, and sonic way, ensuring that younger generations internalize community values organically.

Religious Practices in the Modern Ceremonial Lives of the Kyrgyz People

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
Aidarbek Sulaimankulovich Kochkunov
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Shared Beliefs ◽  
Common Identity ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

This article is an ethnographic exploration of three topics regarding the practice of religion in contemporary Kyrgyzstan that provides insights into the spiritual life of Kyrgyz people in local communities. The topics are features of religiosity as expressed in rituals, the nature of personal and shared beliefs inherent in the performance of ceremonies, and the influence of religious identity on relationships among family, kin groups and communities. Through extensive research about religion and ritual in various areas of Kyrgyzstan, changes over time are examined. Although at times the differences among people adhering to more traditional versus the more newly emerging Islamic approaches to death ceremonies and monuments may cause conflict among relatives, in general such rituals and markers provide opportunities for social integration and common identity.

Borderlands of Faith: Reconsidering the Origins of a Ukrainian Tragedy

Slavic Review ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
National History ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Root Cause

Critiquing prevalent secular explanations for the cossack-led uprising called Koliivshchyna that erupted in the Ukrainian borderlands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1768, this article identifies religion as the root cause of the uprising. Traditional nationalist and socioeconomic arguments explain Ukrainian violence against Poles and Jews, but do not account for Ukrainian violence against Ukrainians, which set this uprising apart from previous cossack-led disturbances. Increasing conflict between Uniate and Orthodox parishes along the newly reinforced Polish- Russian border on the Dnepr River at the time of Catherine II set the stage for the uprising. As Uniate religious practices had become more Latinized while Orthodoxy in this region drew ever closer into dependence on the Russian Orthodox Church, confessional tensions also reflected opposing Polish or Russian political allegiances. This article reaches beyond the context of Ukrainian national history to bring this event into current discourse on borderland regions and on overlapping political and religious identity.

Psychological Function of Religious Practices

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossein Yousofi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Detailed Explanation ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
Physical Phenomena ◽  
The Relationship

There are different sorts of disorder in human life. Some disorders take place directly in the human body which some disorders happen in the soul that is why we are not able to classify them as physical phenomena. The link between bodily health and spiritual health due to religious involvement by a committed person is a general accepted fact and finds a significant favor among the scholars. Avicenna, a great Muslim philosopher and physician, admitted and defended the relation between physical and mental health. The aim of this paper is to deal with the relationship between human bodily-mental health and religious involvement. An argument and detailed explanation is given on why and how religious involvement by a committed person will warrant human mental and bodily health. This paper while presuming that all world religions are in common in this regard but is limited to Islamic perspective. It will be articulated on the basis of Islamic teachings that praying as a first value advice in Quranic verses and other religious practices play an effective role to warrant human health.   Keywords - spiritual, Quranic perspective, physical health

The Delphic Oracle: Belief and Behaviour in Ancient Greece—and Africa

1965 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. R. Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Modern Trend ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
The Real ◽  
Cultural Institution

Until comparatively recently writers on religion were absorbed by questions concerning the origins of religious beliefs and practices. They endowed primitive man with a kind of rational logicality in his belief, or, like Frazer, they saw his religious practices as simply the application of erroneous reasoning. The modern trend is to try to view the religious or cultural institution as an essential part of society, existing because of the needs of that society. This is the theme, for instance, of Malinowski when he says that “religion is not born out of speculation or reflection, still less out of illusion or misapprehension, but rather out of the real tragedies of human life, out of the conflict between human plans and realities.”

Identity versus Peace: Identity Wins

2009 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zvi Bekerman
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Background ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Meaningful Change ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Hebrew School ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Peace And Reconciliation

In this essay, Zvi Bekerman reveals the complicated and dynamic negotiation of individual and group identities for communities engaged in peace and reconciliation education. By looking closely at the experiences of students, teachers, and parents at one integrated bilingual Arabic-Hebrew school in Israel, Bekerman finds that while children are often able to reach beyond the boundaries of ethnicity and religion,adults struggle to negotiate their sociohistorical positioning with their goals for peace. Everyday practices—from recognizing the exceptionality of students who participate in religious practices outside of their ethnic background to segregating national ceremonial events—promote static and nationalistic notions of identity that limit the potential of these schools to advance authentic and meaningful change for peace. Bekerman calls on us to teach our students to become artists of design who can help construct new ways of living together.

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