“Let Your Lamps Be Ready”: Individual Destiny and Collective Identity in Eschatological Perspective (the Case of the Moscow Spiritist Circle)

The aim of this study is to highlight the links between eschatological ideas and social/ethical beliefs of the Moscow spiritist circle who viewed their fellowship as a religious eschatological community. Eschatological doctrine of the group could be characterized both as “catastrophic” and “progressive” millennialism. Eschatological social project suggested the elimination of the border between the earthly and heavenly realms and a shift towards egalitarian social model through a total renewal of the present world. The analysis of the documents demonstrates that the circle members considered themselves as active participants of the eschatological process. According to the catastrophic worldview of the circle’s members, the final battle of Good and Evil, which involves both human and spirits, is already in progress. In advance of the Apocalypse, ethical questions were crucial, because the realization of the ethical ideal was a key to salvation. The members of the circle perceived the outside world as a hostile environment and tended to redraw the boundaries between the community and the “infected” world.

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MAINTAINING COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT: CONFRONTING NEGATIVE PUBLIC PERCEPTION AND FACTIONAL DIVISIONS WITHIN THE SKINHEAD SUBCULTURE

Sociological Spectrum ◽

10.1080/02732170390258614 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 267-294 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

DANIEL SARABIA ◽

THOMAS E. SHRIVER

Keyword(s):

Collective Identity ◽

Public Perception ◽

Hostile Environment

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ETHICAL WISDOM AND PHILOSOPHICAL JUDGMENT IN AMISH TRIPATHI’S THE SHIVA TRILOGY.

Towards Excellence ◽

10.37867/te100303 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 17-25

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Research Paper ◽

Spiritual Direction ◽

Writing Style ◽

Equal Rights ◽

Cultural Integrity ◽

Good And Evil ◽

Present World

While the study discusses the issues of liberation, emancipation, equal rights and womanhood, it gives significance to humans and their relations, as self does not exist in seclusion. While enriching the differences, this fiction strengthens the cultural integrity of India. Through recreation, "The Shiva Trilogy" becomes the living inspirational scripture capable of providing spiritual direction to the present world. morover paper is going explain new writing style of 21ts century writers. This research starts with the question that why 21st century Indian writer suddenly divert their attention towards mythology. This era is a known as science; people are not that much believing in religion, mythology even good and evil. This research is pure philosophical, a research paper on what is evil and that got converted into an adventure convey that philosophy. And if you have to write an adventure to convey a philosophy on evil, well then the best hero is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.

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Atom-probe analysis of the solid-liquid interface

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100139755 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 53 ◽

pp. 676-677

Author(s):

J.A. Panitz

Keyword(s):

Molecular Level ◽

Selective Adsorption ◽

Electronic Devices ◽

Atom Probe ◽

Chemical Agent ◽

Hostile Environment ◽

Solid Interface ◽

Solid Liquid Interface ◽

Solid Liquid ◽

Chemically Selective

The first few atomic layers of a solid can form a barrier between its interior and an often hostile environment. Although adsorption at the vacuum-solid interface has been studied in great detail, little is known about adsorption at the liquid-solid interface. Adsorption at a liquid-solid interface is of intrinsic interest, and is of technological importance because it provides a way to coat a surface with monolayer or multilayer structures. A pinhole free monolayer (with a reasonable dielectric constant) could lead to the development of nanoscale capacitors with unique characteristics and lithographic resists that surpass the resolution of their conventional counterparts. Chemically selective adsorption is of particular interest because it can be used to passivate a surface from external modification or change the wear and the lubrication properties of a surface to reflect new and useful properties. Immunochemical adsorption could be used to fabricate novel molecular electronic devices or to construct small, “smart”, unobtrusive sensors with the potential to detect a wide variety of preselected species at the molecular level. These might include a particular carcinogen in the environment, a specific type of explosive, a chemical agent, a virus, or even a tumor in the human body.

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The Soul of Nietzsche'sBeyond Good and Evil

10.1017/cbo9781139032865 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Maudemarie Clark ◽

David Dudrick

Keyword(s):

Good And Evil

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Becoming Politicized

Zeitschrift für Psychologie ◽

10.1027/2151-2604/a000311 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 225 (4) ◽

pp. 324-335 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Dimitrios Barkas ◽

Xenia Chryssochoou

Keyword(s):

Collective Identity ◽

Political Socialization ◽

Greek Society ◽

Economic Vulnerability ◽

The World ◽

The Future ◽

Identity Model ◽

Beliefs About The Future ◽

Of Greece ◽

The Way

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.

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