scholarly journals General traditions in the epic and semantics of the Tatar ritual holiday soren

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Л. Х. Мухаметзянова ◽  
К. М. Миннуллин
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Current State ◽  
The People ◽  
New Material ◽  
Creative Self

Традиционный фольклор является обширной сферой человеческой деятельности, именно поэтому важна фиксация и изучение этнокультурных явлений и их переосмысление. Данная статья посвящена исследованию некоторых вопросов взаимовлияния двух самостоятельных областей фольклористики: языческого в древности обряда сөрән (сорэн) и не менее древнего жанра – эпоса, выявлению общих проблем в данных областях народной культуры. Рассматриваемые с точки зрения историко-мифологических, художественных, эстетических, нравственно-воспитательных, социально значимых критериев, дошедшие до наших дней обрядовые и эпические акции вправе называться институтом сохранения самобытности, ценностей и творческого самовыражения. Выявление ранних мифологических представлений и исторической памяти народа, зафиксированных в вербальном эпическом тексте обряда, например, способно играть немаловажную роль в этнической идентичности той или иной нации, что особенно важно для современного общества. Научные изыскания по данной тематике способствуют созданию баланса между процессом глобализации в культуре и необходимостью сохранения и поддержания этнического разнообразия в современном мире. Цель исследования – определить общие корни эпоса и обряда сорэн, по сохраненным в обрядовом и эпическом фольклоре кодам установить эволюционирующие признаки мифологического сознания этноса. Основным источником фактического материала в исследовании послужили тексты тюркского эпического фольклора, а также песенные тексты, исполняемые во время названного народного праздника; широко использованы вновь найденные во время научных экспедиций материалы, в особенности – по обрядовому фольклору. В исследовании использованы сравнительные, структурно-описательные, историко-типологические методы. Научная новизна статьи заключается в том, что здесь впервые в своеобразном этническом примере поднимается вопрос интеграции эпического наследия и обрядового фольклора, рассматриваются современное состояние и трансформация календарно-обрядового праздника сорэн у татар, вводится в научный оборот новый материал по обрядовому фольклору татар в сравнении с образцами тюркского эпоса. Подход авторов к проблеме в малоисследованном ритуально-ситуативном аспекте позволил выявить некоторые общие маркеры и коды, бытующие в эпической и обрядовой культуре народа. В результате исследования охарактеризовано соотношение традиционности и современности в татарском эпическом и календарно-обрядовом фольклоре, установлена некоторая стилистическая и жанрово-поэтическая общность между обрядностью и эпосом, сделаны соответствующие выводы, определен потенциал темы для дальнейшего изучения вопроса. Traditional folklore is a vast area of human activity, which is why it is important to fixate and study ethnocultural phenomena and their rethinking. This article is devoted to the study of some issues of the mutual influence of two independent areas of folklore: the pagan rite of Soren in antiquity and the no less ancient genre – the epic, identifying common problems in these areas of folk culture. Considered from the point of view of historical, mythological, artistic, aesthetic, moral, educational, socially significant criteria, ritual and epic actions that have come down to our days can be called an institution for the preservation of identity, values and creative self-expression. Revealing the early mythological ideas and historical memory of the people, recorded in the verbal epic text of the rite, for example, can play an important role in the ethnic identity of a particular nation, which is especially important for modern society. Scholarly research on this topic contributes to the creation of a balance between the process of globalization in culture and the need to preserve and maintain ethnic diversity in the modern world. The purpose of the study was to determine the common roots of the epic and the Soren rite, and from the codes preserved in ritual and epic folklore, to establish the evolving signs of the mythological consciousness of the ethnos. The main source of factual material in the study was the texts of the Turkic epic folklore, as well as the song texts performed during the said folk holiday; materials newly found during scientific expeditions were widely used, in particular – on ritual folklore. The study used comparative, structural and descriptive, historical and typological methods. The scholarly novelty of the article lies in the fact that for the first time, in a kind of ethnic example, the issue of integration of the epic heritage and ritual folklore is raised, the current state and transformation of the Soren calendar-ritual holiday among the Tatars is considered, new material on the ritual folklore of the Tatars is introduced into scientific circulation in comparison with samples Turkic epic. The authors' approach to the problem in a little-studied ritual-situational aspect made it possible to identify some common markers and codes that exist in the epic and ritual culture of the people. As a result of the study, the relationship between tradition and modernity in the Tatar epic and calendar-ritual folklore were characterized, some stylistic and genre-poetic commonality between ritual and epic were established, appropriate conclusions were drawn, and the topic's potential for further study of the issue were determined.

Guilt and Martyrdom: The Case of John Bradford

1975 ◽  
Vol 68 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 305-331
Author(s):  
Seymour Byman
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
The People ◽  
Nuclear Warfare

Most analysts acknowledge that guilt is a pervasive element in modern society. Possessed of a strong sense of impending doom through nuclear warfare, crises of ecology or overpopulation, modern man is haunted by an overriding sense of fear and guilt, wondering what quality in himself caused such an imminence of death. But surely this sense of guilt is not a creation of the modern world. Indeed guilt in the form of sin is even more comprehensible in earlier periods of history, where the culture was religiously oriented and where the wrath of a personal God could be visited upon a population in the form of plague or famine because of the sins of the people. Theories of guilt as applied to history, however, are much too sparse. One reason for this deficiency is that in order to use the psycho-historical technique, historians would be removed from the factual world and would be forced to probe the labyrinthine internal world that is illogical, devious and intangible. A few brave souls have explored the uncharted realms of the unconscious in the study of religion, both past and present. Yet, strangely enough, no one has ever focused upon guilt as an impetus in perhaps the most important aspect of religion—at least of Christian religion—the role of witness, better known as martyrdom.

Experimental Programs: SMSG—one point of view

1962 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 476-478
Author(s):  
Lillian Marlin
Keyword(s):  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Prime Mover ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
New Material ◽  
And Mathematics

The modern world, with its emphasis on science and mathematics, has given birth to new concepts in these fields. The dire need for trained mathematicians and an informed public resulted in the recognition of the need to incorporate into the study of mathematics new material and to present the old in a new light. The School Mathematics Study Group material is a prime mover in this field; it offers the new topics and language of elementary and high school mathematics, using modern approaches to learning.

scholarly journals Religion as a Subject of Philosophical Research

2003 ◽  
pp. 4-10
Author(s):  
A.Ye. Zaluzhna
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Life Meaning ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Moral Person ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
The People ◽  
The Individual

Changing the worldview and cultural paradigm of the modern world with the inherent transformation of value orientations and the search for the life-meaning foundations of being leads to increased interest in the problems of spirituality. After all, spirituality is the most important pillar of human existence and the highest principle that determines the essence of man and his over-welcoming purpose. In the historical memory of the people, in its cultural traditions, spirituality has been sanctified for millennia by a religion that sought to restrain primitive instincts and affirmation at all levels of being a moral person. Religion, as a spiritual phenomenon, is directly connected with man, with his attachment to the high meanings and the semantic fullness of being in general. The search for meaning promotes a person beyond the limits of the actual being given to him and ensures the integrity of the individual, affirmation of the person as an origin and bringing it to the culture and values.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF DEPICTION THE SECOND WORLD WAR EVENTS IN THE XXTH CENTURY RUSSIAN, AMERICAN AND HUNGARIAN PROSE (BASED ON THE NOVELS «LIFE AND FATE» BY VASILIY GROSSMAN, «FATELESSNESS» BY IMRE KERTÉSZ, «FROM HERE TO ETERNITY» BY JAMES JONES)

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 433-447
Author(s):  
Adalbert BARAN
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
James Jones ◽  
History Of ◽  
From Here To Eternity ◽  
Second World

The present article deals with the comparative analysis of the methodological bases of depicting the authenticity, features, and character of ideological-thematic reflection of the Second World War events on the pages of the novel by Russian writer Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) «Life and Fate» (1960), the masterpiece by the American novelist James Jones (1921-1977) «From here to eternity» (1953) and the work by the Hungarian novelist Imre Kertész (1929-2016) «Fatelessness» (1975). The novels' authors did not need to interpret historical events by other people's memories and strive for a documentary. The original document in the novels was the life and unique memory of the writers themselves, and not only in the sense of the artistic reproduction of the true sides of the survived and seen, but also in terms of serious thoughts about the relationship of the past with the present in their moral, social, philosophical and ethical aspects. The article highlights the events and circumstances that predetermined the formation of features of the writers' worldview and led to the writing of the novels on military topics. The novels «Life and Fate», «Fatelessness», and «From here to eternity» can be considered as deeply personal works by the writers who have not declared, magnified the events of the history in context, but through the image system of the novels deeply examined, analyzed their roots. The authors of the novels have shown the history of the 20th century not on the background of exaggerated, politically agitating, heroic pictures, but from the point of view of the true significance of historical events for modern society. Keywords: documentary, historical memory, regime, literary tradition, writer’s consciousness, historical concreteness.

scholarly journals The problem of spirituality in the works of Abai and Shakarim

2020 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
A.K. Mamyrbekova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Moral Concept ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
The People ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Cultural Code ◽  
Spiritual Potential ◽  
Historical Past

The article examines the state and prospects for the development of spirituality in modern Kazakhstani society in the context of the modernization of public consciousness and the spiritual revival of culture. Spirituality as one of the fundamental principles of the socio-cultural code of the people is rooted in the historical past. To master and understand the spiritual culture of modern society and to take a panoramic view of the future, it is necessary to extract from the cultural heritage the meaning-forming socio-cultural spiritual values. Spirituality acts as a moral concept in the philosophical searches of Abai and Shakarim. As you know, the basis of the moral teachings of Abai and Shakrim is the spirituality of the Kazakh people, which is preserved in traditions and customs in oral folk art and the works of thinkers of the Great Steppe. The article emphasizes that spirituality is a kind of measure for defining true humanity, an indicator of the degree of meaningfulness of a person’s being. The whole life of a person in the creative quests of Abai and Shakarim is the process of the birth of a personality, self-improvement of the inner spiritual world. By joining the spiritual, moral experience of other people as well as thinkers of the past, a person realizes his spiritual self-determination in the socio-cultural space of the modern world. The spiritual potential of the creative searches of Abai and Shakarim is relevant and in demand at the present stage of the modernization processes taking place in Kazakhstan.

scholarly journals Excerpts from The Freedom Fight: A Novel of Resistance and Freedom.

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith
Keyword(s):  
Basic Education ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Traditional Authority ◽  
The People ◽  
Feudal Lord ◽  
Freedom Fighters ◽  
The Many

The Novel Set in 19th century traditional Yorùbáland in South Western Nigeria, Olókùn Ẹṣin is a historical tale about feudalism and enslavement, freedom and independence. It chronicles brilliantly the rebellion of an idealist, Àjàyí, son of Olókùn-Ẹṣin, a prominent member of the town’s Council of Chiefs and the chain reaction of the revolution he mounts against the injustices of enslavement and any kind of feudal practices. His violent protest results in eventual freedom and independence for the people of Òkò from years of servitude under the feudal lord, Olúmokùn, signaling the beginning of the end of feudalism in Yorùbáland. Told mostly from the protagonist’s point of view, with the help of his two prominent compatriots, childhood friend Àyọwí and Ibiwumi, the town’s ̀ Baálẹ’s own daughter, ̀ Ọmọ Olókùn-Ẹṣin chronicles not only the experiences and struggles of these three idealists, but also the inevitable uncertainties and risks of mobilizing the oppressed rank and file in a rule-of-fear system, sanctioned by traditional authority, the many trials and tribulations suffered at the hands of the wily oppressors, and the risks and frustrations of advancing the movement. Ironically, despite the novel’s tension, the ending is paradoxical. While the freedom seekers succeed in establishing a grassroots movement, first by their own example of charity and basic education, however, their hard-fought campaign is compromised by a less than convincing negotiation for freedom, which they gain by bargaining their forced enslavement for a voluntary servitude. Nonetheless, as with any fight for freedom in the modern world, the separation process between the colonizer and the colonized is tenuous, much like the typical Prospero-Caliban sort of scheming, distrustful bargaining between two “unequals.” In Fálétí’s words, “the choice of ending is no different from what happens in ‘real-life’ situations, when the colonizer ensures that he 208 From the Archives does not leave the negotiation table completely empty handed.” 1 The incongruous, happily-ever-after ending of weddings among the freedom fighters, while plausible, appears rather contrived. Nonetheless, its place in Yorùbá literary corpus and contribution to the revolutionary novel sub-genre cannot be overstated. Its significance is threefold. First, it is the best, perhaps still the only, known example of the revolutionary novel sub-genre in Yorùbá that chronicles the practice of the feudal system in Yorùbá history, thus making it the standard example, a good one at that, of successful experimentation in the sub-genre. Undoubtedly, its depiction of slavery and resistance makes it unrivalled as an eloquent marker of a historical and linguistic age gone by. Secondly, it joins the ranks of the works of only two other leading contemporary Yorùbá writers, whose attention to language make them the remaining literary and linguistic purists of the previous generation of Yorùbá writers. Thirdly, since its publication in 1970, it has withstood the test of time as the premier example of “ìjìnlẹ̀ Yorùbá.”    

scholarly journals Social reproduction of generations in the face of digital challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 10022
Author(s):  
Oleg Sirotkin ◽  
Raisa Chumicheva ◽  
Irina Kulikovskaya ◽  
Liudmila Kudinova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intergenerational Ties

The article describes the global processes that are transforming the world (migration and integration processes, inclusive education, digitalization of education, socio-psychological gap between generations, etc.). Global tendencies have changed the social space of people's life - “cultural gaps”, “social bottom”, “spiritual crisis of parent-child relations and intergenerational ties”, etc. have appeared, as modern challenges of society, affecting the social reproduction of generations. The problem of social reproduction, the significance of which is associated with the need for the development of sociality, the construction of the social world in the event chronotope, has been actualized; preservation of the social and historical memory of the people, the self-identity of the national community, the “core” of the spiritual image of the nation, etc. A powerful challenge in modern society is digitalization, which has changed the forms of communication and social roles, created a new virtual space for self-presentation, self-expression, while the risk is the loss of cultural identity, blurring the lines between generations, etc. The article presents the mechanisms of integration of traditional and digital technologies of social reproduction of generations, the difference of which lies in the actualization of children's interest in the historical and cultural values of the people, in the organization of joint activities to create virtual historical museums, etc. Social reproduction of generations is a complex and long-term process, the success of which depends on the unity of activities in the professional, parenting and children's community.

scholarly journals The substantive aspects of the transformation of Christian-law traditions in the legal system

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 151-155
Author(s):  
Mima I. V.
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Context ◽  
Culture Form ◽  
Inheritance Law ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
The People ◽  
Aesthetic Ideas ◽  
And Behavior

The process of formation of different directions of objective scientific analysis of problems of the theory of state and law is investigated; the analysis of the transformation processes of Christian- law traditions in the legal system is carried out. Attention is drawn to the fact that the issue of preserving an identical national law culture and law traditionalism in the general context of globalization and European integration processes remains open; in the process of formation and development of the legal system. The author argues the point of view, the Christian-law traditions as an activity of social and interpersonal interaction through religious cognition and worldview is reflected on the level of social and individual consciousness. Guidelines are formed on the basis of ideas, beliefs, and ideas about Christian-law traditions. The ideals of Christian-law traditions are in the minds of both the postulates and the patterns of material and spiritual content. It is noted that the appeal to the Christian-law traditions is important in creating a community and in seeking to give society independence and autonomy In modern society, Christian-law traditions are used as a form of preservation and transmission to the next generations of spiritual culture, an important element of education of the people. In addition, Christian-law traditions as a kind of cultural and law traditions form the historical basis of the modern existence of the people, fix the sources of its existence. The ideological content of Christian-law traditions are spiritual and law values, stable standards of worldview and behavior, norms of morality, stereotypes of thinking, political, law and philosophical ideas, aesthetic ideas. It is argued that Christian-law traditions, together with axiological perceptions, beliefs and knowledge of acceptable order and structure of society, are passed down from generation to generation in the form of law experience on the basis of law mentality and within the law culture form law traditions. In addition, Christian-law traditions are part of the system of values of law, are the basis of law values, law ideas and ideas that have found their normative fixation, official recognition, institutionalization in positive law and are transmitted from one state to another in the form of laws, rules, legal attributes, legal monuments, etc. within the relevant legal system. Key words: legal system, law traditions, Christian-law tradition, law inheritance, law culture, law polycentrism, law consciousness.

Addressing the issue of violence in our society. The ten most important rules in the light of the study on “Society without violence”

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (33) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
Marzanna Farnicka ◽  
Jonathan Chumas
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Psychological Practice ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Crime And Delinquency ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Over 40 Years

Over 40 years ago the French Research Committee on Violence, Crime and Delinquency published a document that contained current analyses on the occurrence of social problems and their determinants, as well as guidelines to reduce risks and reduce the sense of threat and insecurity in modern society. The document became the basis for the reflection on public debate on violence in international communities and psychological practice against violence in both interpersonal and wider social relations. The combination of the individual and the social perspective gives a chance to criticise and rethink the guidelines suggested by the Committee from the point of view of such issues as community responsibility, individual rights and the current state in psychological and social care against violence. Special attention was paid to ten recommendations.

scholarly journals Slavophiles on the European Enlightenment and the Reforms of Peter the Great as Causes of the Transformation of Russian Cultural Identity and Historical Memory

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
M.A. Shirokova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Peter The Great ◽  
The People ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
State Modernization

The author addresses the problems of the correlation between the national and the global (universal) in the cultural identity of Russia, as well as the interaction of tradition and modernization in the development of all spheres of Russian society. The article presents the position of the founders of the ideology of Slavophilism — A.S. Khomyakov, I.V. Kireevsky and J. F. Samarin. In the conditions of Russian autocracy in the middle of the 19th century Slavophiles demonstrated double civil courage, opposing their point of view to the state conservatism and state modernization. The attitude of Slavophile thinkers to the reforms of Peter the Great as a turning point in the history of Russian society and state, as well as in the formation of national selfconsciousness is shown. There were disagreements between Slavophiles in assessing the state of pre-Petrine Russia. However, the most important negative consequence of Peter's reforms and uncritical borrowing of the Western enlightenment was seen by all Slavophile authors as a split in Russia's cultural identity: the separation of educated society from the people and separation of the state from society. The Slavophiles associated the bridging of this gap with two factors. Firstly, with a revival of the Russian Enlightenment based on a synthesis of the national spiritual tradition and the universal achievements of Western civilization. Secondly, with the implementation of social and political reforms “from above”, first of all — with the abolition of serfdom.

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