The religious life of South Vyatka Old Believers in the XIX XXI: what the family genealogies tell us

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-68
Author(s):  
Vladimir Bogdanov
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
The Family

Where is the tantric mainstream? Discussions with a Bengali Brahmin god-maker in Kolkata

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-200
Author(s):  
James Samuel Bradbury
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Family ◽  
Ritual Practices

Abstract The idea of Hindu Tantra as an esoteric, transgressive, or otherwise fringe practice has been revised to account for a ‘tantric mainstream’ in Indian religious life. However, this tantric mainstream has been faintly reflected in the ethnographic record, which would be otherwise well--suited to explore how religious categories are formed in broader social contexts. The religious world of the Bhattacharyas, a Śākta Brahmin family from East Bengal that now lives in suburban Kolkata, evinces some of the challenges in identifying ‘the tantric’ while suggesting alternative framings of ritual practices. Tapan Bhattacharya, a member of the family in his sixties, not only conducted pūjās to the tantric goddess Dakṣiṇā Kālī in their household shrine; he also sculpted the clay statues of deities (pratimā) that were used in local community rituals. Tapan’s nephew, Souvik, drew upon tantric classifications to explain the relations between mainstream household and community pūjās on one hand, and transgressive rituals on the other. Tantra, as understood by members of this household, encompassed a much wider set of relations than conventional binaries of tantra/not-tantra have allowed for. Taking their cue, I locate mainstream Śākta Tantra within the broader contexts of their religious world and the categories that make sense therein, while ultimately recognising that this family’s framings of contemporary religious culture will be matched by other, competing perspectives.

Replacing the family? Beguinages in early modern western European cities: an analysis of the family networks of beguines living in Mechelen (1532–1591)

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIM OVERLAET
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
European Cities ◽  
The Family

ABSTRACTIn many early modern towns of the southern Low Countries, beguinages gave adult single women of all ages the possibility to lead a religious life of contemplation in a secure setting, retaining rights to their property and not having to take permanent vows. This paper re-examines the family networks of these women by means of a micro-study of the wills left by beguines who lived in the Great Beguinage of St Catherine in sixteenth-century Mechelen, a middle-sized city in the Low Countries. By doing so, this research seeks to add nuance to a historiography that has tended to consider beguinages as artificial families, presumably during a period associated with the increasing dominance of the nuclear family and the unravelling ties of extended family.

Introduction

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Ada Rapoport-Albert
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Family ◽  
Feminist Revolution ◽  
Scholarly Discourse

This chapter looks at the notion of how the hasidic movement brought about a feminist revolution in Judaism. It mentions the twentieth-century historian of Hasidism named S. A. Horodetsky, who first claimed that the Hasidic movement endowed women with complete equality in the religious life that are expressed in a variety of hasidic innovations. It also discusses women's direct, personal relationship with the rebbe or tsadik that established a new equality between the sexes within the family and the community. The chapter covers the breakdown of the educational barrier of Hebrew and the language of traditional scholarly discourse in the male world of Torah learning. It argues how hasidism has remained predominantly the preserve of men in the early twentieth century.

scholarly journals OLD BELIEVERS IN THE EKATERINOSLAV DIOCESE AND ACTIVITIES OF ORTHODOX MISSION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-135
Author(s):  
Anton Sychevsky
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Religious Policy ◽  
Genetic Method ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
High Level

The purpose of this study is to present the religious life of the Old Believers in the Ekaterinoslav diocese of at the beginning of the 20th century and analyze the specific nature of the Orthodox mission activities in their midst. The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism, consistency, author’s objectivity, as well as on general scientific (analysis, synthesis, concretization, generalization) and special historical (problem-chronological, historical-genetic, historical-typological) methods. The problem-chronological method has been employed to analyze the religious life of the Old Belief communities in the Ekaterinoslav diocese and reveal the religious policy of the official Orthodox Church towards the Old Believers in the specified period. The historical-genetic method has been applied to analyze the transformations of the Old Belief in the Ekaterinoslav diocese and examine the confessional policy of the Orthodox Church. The historical-typological method has been adopted to study the internal separation and conflicts in the Old Belief of the Ekaterinoslav diocese and consider the forms of religious policy implementation. The scientific novelty of the undertaken researchlies in the fact that for the first time the internal distribution of the Old Belief in the Ekaterinoslav diocese has been comprehensively studied, the course of the conflict between the okruzhniki and the neokruzhniki has been disclosed, the forms and methods of missionary activity of the official Orthodox Church have been presented. Conclusions. At the beginning of the 20th century, 10 000 Old Believers lived in the Ekaterinoslav diocese. The popovtsy represented the overwhelming majority; the neokruzhniki, the bespopovtsy, and the beglopopovtsy were made up groups. The relations with priests, whose actions provoked indignation among the parish, caused the internal conflicts in the communities. The case of the priest S. Tokarev gained special publicity. The conflict was acute in popovshchina, between the okruzhniki and the neokruzhniki, that gradually began to decline after the act of reconciliation in 1906. On the way to reconciliation, the community of the okruzhniki faced an alleged provocation against Archbishop Ioann. The «fight» against the Old Believers remained the priority in the activities of the Orthodox missionary. The diocesan missionaries were opposed both by the representatives of the clergy and the ordinary Old Believers, and the authorities, namely the Old Belief nachyotchiki K. Peretrukhin, V. Zelenkov, L. Pichugin, and others. Despite the high level of organization and activities of the missionary institute, the immediate success of the mission was limited.

scholarly journals The problem of the relation between national and religious in the interpretation of Arsen Rychinsky

2006 ◽  
pp. 50-52
Author(s):  
P. Kralyuk
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Religious Consciousness ◽  
The Family

One of the problems that interested Rychynskyy the most was the question of the role of the national moment in religious life, of the relation between national and religious. This issue was considered in one way or another in a number of his works, including "On the Manovtsi", "Problems of Ukrainian Religious Consciousness" and others. Researchers, in particular, A. Kolodny, O. Sagan, L. Kondratyk, P. Yarotsky, have paid attention to this question, analyzing A.Richinsky's creativity. The first factor is the Orthodox religiosity of A.Richinsky, which was founded in his childhood. After all, he was brought up in the family of a priest, and this could not but affect his views. A.Richinsky has always been respectful of the religious tradition, repeatedly focusing on this.

scholarly journals POTRET KEHIDUPAN KOMUNITAS PUNK (STUDI KASUS ANAK PUNK DI LAPANGAN SAMBER KOTA METRO)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Hamdi Abdul Karim
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Broken Home ◽  
Collection Methods

The research objective: The portrait of the life of the punk community (a case study of punk children in the samber field of Metro City) is to describe the family, socio-cultural and religious life of the punk community in the samber field of Metro city. This research is a qualitative study using a descriptive approach as the main frame of mind. In this study, observation, interviews and documentation as data collection methods. The informants of this research were punk kids who were in the samber field in Metro city. The results of the research, researchers found that there were characteristics of punk children from the community in the samber field when viewed from the way they appeared. Nan not all punk kids in the samber field understand the symbols of the clothes and appearance symbols they use. The punk kid who was in the samber field in Metro City was also from outside the Metro. The motivation for children to enter the punk community is to seek a free life without being regulated by inherent norms and restrain individuals. In addition, there are also those who join the punk community because of the condition of a broken home family, The role of the family is very important in shaping a child's personality. Then the socio-cultural conditions and the condition of a superficial understanding of religion in a person can also influence it.

The Influences of Families on Religious Vocations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Wittberg
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Religious Order ◽  
National Surveys ◽  
Religious Vocation ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Religious Vocations ◽  
Diocesan Priests

This chapter is based on several national surveys of U.S. Catholics that CARA conducted, as well as a 2015 survey commissioned by the National Religious Vocation Conference of the members of men’s and women’s religious orders, diocesan priests and seminarians, and their families. It explores the differences between the families of priests, seminarians, and religious order members and other Catholic families by covering the family religious backgrounds and practices of priests and religious and whether other family members encouraged or discouraged discernment of a religious or priestly vocation. Also covered are the misconceptions that family members had of the priesthood and religious life and the worries they expressed about the future.

scholarly journals The Cult of Old Believers’ Domestic Icons and the Beginning of Old Belief in Russia in the 17th-18th Centuries

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 574
Author(s):  
Sulikowska-Bełczowska
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
Private Devotion

The aim of this paper is to present the cult of icons in the Old Believer communities from the perspective of private devotion. For the Old Believers, from the beginning of the movement, in the middle of the 17th century, icons were at the center of their religious life. They were also at the center of religious conflict between Muscovite Patriarch Nikon, who initiated the reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Old Believers and their proponent, archpriest Avvakum Petrov. Some sources and documents from the 16th and 18th centuries make it possible to analyze the reasons for the popularity of small-sized icons among priested (popovtsy) and priestless (bespopovtsy) Old Believers, not only in their private houses but also in their prayer houses (molennas). The article also shows the role of domestic icons from the middle of the 17th century as a material foundation of the identity of the Old Believers movement.

scholarly journals Beyond the Paradox: Religion, Family and Modernity in Contemporary Bangladesh

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 1429-1458 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARAH C. WHITE
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
The Family ◽  
Moral Universe ◽  
Life Analysis ◽  
A Site

AbstractThis paper reflects on the apparent ‘paradox’ of a contemporary Bangladesh that appears both ‘more modern’ and ‘more Islamic’, focusing on changes in the family (and the gender and generational orders that it embodies) as a central locus of anxiety and contestation. The paper begins with theory, how the paradox is framed by classical social science expectations of religious decline and how this has been contested by contemporary writers who describe specifically modern forms of piety. It then turns to Bangladesh, where highly publicized symbolic oppositions between ‘religion’ and ‘development’ contrast sharply with people's pragmatic accommodation of development goods in everyday life. Analysis of religious references in interview data reveal the co-existence of very different understandings: a more traditional view of religion as embedded in the moral order; and a more modern deliberate cultivation of a religious life. They also reveal how many of the uses which people make of religion are not specifically religious: to conjure a moral universe, to mark what is important to them, to say things about themselves. The final section returns to theory, reflecting on how this is informed by the findings from Bangladesh, and suggesting that the importance of the private and personal as a site for governance offers a further dimension of why the supposed ‘paradox’ of a religious modernity may not be so paradoxical after all.

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