scholarly journals The Evangelical Sexual Marketplace: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Exchange and Conversion of Erotic Capital in an Evangelical Church

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Robin Willey
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Heterosexual Relationships ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis ◽  
Erotic Capital

Since the development of the early church, sexual ethics and the regulation of heterosexual relationships have been integral parts of Christian religious practice. Evangelical Christian communities are no exception to this pattern of regulation. In particular, this article makes three key arguments regarding Evangelical sexual practices. First, heterosexual relationships and marriage have become one of the most important (if not the most important) aspects of Evangelical religious and social practice, surmounting both Baptism and the Eucharist. Second, those in the Evangelical sub-culture tend to find several qualities more or less attractive in a potential mate, some of which differ from those outside the sub-culture. Finally, within many Evangelical churches a defined social space—a sexual marketplace—exists where individual agents exchange and convert this commodity, among others, to attract potential marital partners. The author derives these conclusions from the ethnographic observations and interviews he conducted while attending an urban Canadian Pentecostal Church in 2009 and 2010.

The Politics of Evangelical Identity

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydia Bean
Keyword(s):  
Republican Party ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Evangelical Christianity ◽  
Conservative Politics ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
Political Conservatism ◽  
Evangelical Identity ◽  
Moral Attitudes ◽  
The U.S

It is now a common refrain among liberals that Christian Right pastors and television pundits have hijacked evangelical Christianity for partisan gain. This book challenges this notion, arguing that the hijacking metaphor paints a fundamentally distorted picture of how evangelical churches have become politicized. The book reveals how the powerful coalition between evangelicals and the Republican Party is not merely a creation of political elites who have framed conservative issues in religious language, but is anchored in the lives of local congregations. Drawing on research at evangelical churches near the U.S. border with Canada, this book compares how American and Canadian evangelicals talk about politics in congregational settings. While Canadian evangelicals share the same theology and conservative moral attitudes as their American counterparts, their politics are quite different. On the U.S. side of the border, political conservatism is woven into the very fabric of everyday religious practice. The book shows how subtle partisan cues emerge in small group interactions as members define how “we Christians” should relate to others in the broader civic arena, while liberals are cast in the role of adversaries. It explains how the most explicit partisan cues come not from clergy but rather from lay opinion leaders who help their less politically engaged peers to link evangelical identity to conservative politics. This book demonstrates how deep the ties remain between political conservatism and evangelical Christianity in America.

The entanglement of knowing and being: Hegel, ontology and education in the 21st century

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
Brendan Hyde
Keyword(s):  
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Contemporary Education ◽  
Space Recognition

There has been a revived interest Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Notions emanating from his philosophy concerning the human person and that human beings together create and sustain phenomena through social practice speaks of a relational ontology that has relevance for contemporary education. This article argues that such ontology needs to be considered alongside the epistemological concerns of education. From Hegel’s writing, five interdependent ideas are delineated which have relevance for a relational ontology appropriate for contemporary education ‐ consciousness, self-consciousness, social space, recognition and identity. From these, three propositions for a social ontology of education ‐ learning as a socially constructed activity, learning as the formation of identity and learning as recognition ‐ are posited and discussed.

scholarly journals Prve kršćanske zajednice / First Christian communities

2019 ◽  
pp. 181-193
Author(s):  
Drago Župarić
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
Roman Province ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
New Religion

Christianity, having developed in a Jewish setting, quickly separated from Judaism and opened itself to the aspirations of the Greco-Roman world. This paper will explore the first Christian communities in Jerusalem, Antioch and Rome, from whence Christianity spread to the ends of the Mediterranean basin, that is to say, through the Roman Empire. Each of the aforementioned  communities, which were very well respected, will be discussed with regards to  the date of their foundation, the source material concerning these communities, and their prominent characteristics. In other words, this paper will discuss  the spread of Christianity, with reference to the question of the triumphant  campaign of the young Church from Jerusalem to Rome. After the acceptance of pagans into their communities, Christianity as a new religion began to gain importance, and the number of adherents grew quickly. The Christian community was declared an opposition to imperial government, and was already heavily repressed by the mid-1  century. The communities that survived repression sought peace; that is, collaboration between the  Roman state and the “early Church”, which was seen as a new institution. The  cult opened itself more and more to the outside world and different cultures,  which led to the mingling of Christians and pagans, leading to many theological disputes, especially concerning the “divinity” of Jesus Christ. Between the 1st  and 2nd st  century the beginnings of Christianity should be viewed as an organization in which commissions and administrations are present, as the number of believers grew and the need for better organization arose. The basis of the rapid expansion of Christianity in the old world should  certainly be viewed in its universality. The author of this paper touches upon  the question of the beginnings of Christianity in Dalmatia and Pannonia, side by side with Roman culture. Christianity was not very influential in the Roman province of Dalmatia until the mid-3  century, even though it is likely that there were smaller Christian groups here, as well as organized Christian communities.

scholarly journals Coherences and Contingencies in the Reformed and Evangelical Theology: Dialectical Relation between Identity and Flexibility

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Chandra Gunawan
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Theological Schools ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
Evangelical Theology

Hermeneutics has an important role in the theological studies and has led many denominations, including the Reformed and evangelical churches, to re-evaluate how they should develop their theology in the postmodern context. This essay analyzes two characteristics of the early church namely her coherence and contingency and shows that the Reformed and Evangelicals should maintain these basic elements that she could be relevant to her contemporary without losing her identity. Contextual analysis and background analysis will help understand how the early church and fathers develop their theologies in their contexts. This study finds that hermeneutics is fundamental for theological schools in developing their subjects and for church ministries in educating her congregation; therefore, the Reformed and evangelicals should consider this discipline so that she enables properly re-contextualizing the historic tradition in this pluralistic context.  

scholarly journals The Sonic Intra-Face of a Noisy Feminist Social Kitchen

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana España Keller
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Site

This paper asks what is the value of transforming the kitchen into a sonic performative work and public site for art and social practice. A Public Kitchen is formed by recreating the private and domestic space of a kitchen into a public space through a sonic performance artwork. The kitchen table is a platform for exploring, repositioning and amplifying kitchen tools as material phenomena through electronic and manual manipulation into an immersive sonic performance installation. This platform becomes a collaborative social space, where somatic movement and sensory, sonic power of the repositioned kitchen tools are built on a relational architecture of iterative sound performances that position the art historical and the sociopolitical, transforming disciplinary interpretations of the body and technology as something that is not specifically exclusively human but post-human. A Public Kitchen represents a pedagogical strategy for organizing and responding collectively to the local, operating as an independent nomadic event that speaks through a creative practice that is an unfolding process. (Re)imagining the social in a Public Kitchen produces noisy affects in a sonic intra-face that can contribute to transforming our social imaginations, forming daring dissonant narratives that feed post-human ethical practices and feminist genealogies. This paper reveals what matters—a feminist struggle invaluable in channeling the intra-personal; through the entanglement of the self, where language, meaning and subjectivity are relational to human difference and to what is felt from the social, what informs from a multi-cultural nomadic existence and diffractive perspective. The labored body is entangled with post-human contingencies of food preparation, family and social history, ritual, tradition, social geography, local politics, and women’s oppression; and is resonant and communicates as a site where new sonic techniques of existence are created and experiences shared.

APOCALYPTIC HOMOPHOBIA: FREEDOM OF RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION, HATE SPEECH, AND THE PENTECOSTAL DISCOURSE ON SAME-SEX RELATIONS IN AFRICA

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Asonzeh Ukah
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Sexual Expression ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Religious Expression ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Verbal Attack

Abstract In many African societies, gender roles and sexuality are intensely scrutinized, policed, and often enforced. Frequently, this situation results in perceived deviations being characterized in very strong terms. Many Africans across religious and denominational boundaries seem united in their opposition and criticism of same-sex relationships. In the twenty-first century, criminalization of same-sex relationships has witnessed an uptick across the continent. In Nigeria, same-sex union was criminalized in 2014, an act that witnessed massive support from Protestant, especially Pentecostal, Christian communities. Prominent Pentecostal leaders spearheaded the campaign in support and defense of the anti-gay laws in the country. Reasoned opposition to a practice based on religious faith, doctrine, and scriptural prescriptions is an integral aspect of the protection for the practice of religion. However, there is a palpable tension in the debates around rights to free sexual expression as a fundamental element of legally protected human rights and the equally constitutionally embedded right to religious practice, expression, and exercise. At what point, therefore, does the respect for the free exercise of religion and religious expression come into conflict with the respect for, and protection of, minority rights such as claimed rights to sexual expression such as many LGBTQI persons are increasingly contesting? Framed differently, is the verbal and non-verbal promotion of hatred, violence, indignity, and insult or giving offence to a segment of the population based on sexual orientation a part of free religious expression? How do the Pentecostal arguments against same-sex relations in Nigeria approximate to hate speech, defined as a verbal attack on a person or group of persons based on their attributes such as gender and sexual orientation, religion, or ethnicity? To analyze these and related issues, this essay examines the arguments used by the leader of the largest Pentecostal organization in Nigeria—and by far, the most important Pentecostal voice in the country—in the wake of the legal prohibition of homosexuality in Nigeria in 2014.

Unravelling the Threads: The Origins of Women's Asceticism in the Earliest Christian Communities

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-155
Author(s):  
Patricia Moss
Keyword(s):  
Early Church ◽  
Pastoral Epistles ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
History Of

The question of the origins of women's asceticism in Christianity is one of the most intriguing puzzles in the history of the early church, at first glance seeming to appear virtually out of nowhere. This paper seeks to untangle the threads of evidence a little, first by exploring the precedents for women's asceticism in the Jewish and Græco-Roman worlds, and then by suggesting possible motives for Christian women's asceticism in Corinth and the community of the Pastoral Epistles.

scholarly journals Minding Children in the Study of Liturgy

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-29
Author(s):  
Faith Glavey Pawl
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Religious Educators ◽  
Recent Interest ◽  
Religious Lives ◽  
The Church

Recent interest in philosophy of religion on religious practice more generally, and liturgical rituals in particular, opens up new avenues for thinking about the religious lives of young children. In this article I consider what it means to say that young children are part of a worshipping assembly, and in what ways they might count as exemplary religious practitioners. There is very little discussion of the religious experiences and practices of children in the philosophy of religion, and I argue that this lacuna should be addressed. Taking cues from Nicholas Wolterstorff and Terence Cuneo's work on the philosophy of liturgy, I make the case that young children can and do participate fully in the liturgical rituals of Christian communities. I draw on the work of religious educators Sofia Cavaletti and Jerome Berryman to illustrate what the religious world of the child looks like, and to make the case that there are respects in which children are at an advantage over adults in participating in the liturgical life of the church.

scholarly journals DIGITALIZATION AS A MEGATREND IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN SOCIETY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE FIELD OF CULTURE

2020 ◽  
pp. 20-37
Author(s):  
Irina I. Gorlova ◽  
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Alexander L. Zorin ◽  
Anatoly V. Kryukov ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Research Process ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Genetic Method

The aim of the study is to identify the essence of digitalization and the disclosure of its features as one of the most significant trends in world development, affecting all spheres of public life and especially culture. The study was carried out on the basis of factual data, UN analytical documents, materials from the work of Russian and foreign philosophers, economists, and high-tech specialists. In the research process, the historical genetic method, comparative analysis of scientific concepts and diachronous method were applied. The previously identified megatrends (globalization and democrati-zation) are analyzed, their general characteristics are established. This allowed us to formulate a new definition of megatrend as a global trend that arises in one area of public life, but gradually covers all other areas of social practice. Further, the authors investigated the processes of digitalization in various fields of social practice. It is noted that, historically, digitalization arose in the field of economics and brought certain benefits, which allowed it to spread to other areas of social life. It is emphasized that in the social sector, digitalization has allowed not only to create new jobs and specialties, but also helped to unite people into groups based on information networks. These groups have become active elements of social space, acting not only in the bowels of the network, but also changing the world beyond. In the field of public administration, new technologies have laid the foundation for the development of “e-democracy” and “e-government” – forms of socio-political interaction that can significantly in-crease the level of citizen involvement in government activities, as well as improve their quality of life. The development process and the activities of electronic libraries and virtual museums are analyzed; It has been established that the essence of this activity in the aspect of digitalization consists in popu-larizing the cultural heritage and expanding its integration into social practice. The possibilities of using modern tools of “augmented reality”, which allow to achieve artistic, creative and educational goals, are determined. The authors conclude that the essence of digitalization is a fundamental reorgan-ization of all spheres of public life towards optimization, acceleration, algorithmization, standardiza-tion and unification of controlled processes in these areas, leveling “manual control”, reducing the role of the “human factor” and associated errors through the use of constantly improving networking tech-nologies and devices responsible for the accumulation, processing and storage of information.

scholarly journals Playing between concealment and presence

2021 ◽  
pp. 359
Author(s):  
Diana Coca
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Female Subject ◽  
Social Space ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Political Implication ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
The Public ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
The Relationship

This article is based on the methodology of art-practice-as-research, which departs from my artistic productionWhere is Diana?, a series of photoperformances and videos made between Beijing, Tijuana and City Mexico during 2013-2015. Aware of the obsession with identity, with this proposal I raise the question of whether it is possible to transcend physical and intellectual borders. In my work I include the dynamics of recognition in a paradoxical way, as I present myself hooded, unrecognizable, without identity, placing myself on the border, on the margins, on the limit and in precariousness, through a body that transgresses its place and moves from the private to the public. This theoretical-practical perspective considers the gender perspective, as well as the conceptual tools that feminisms have created to rethink the female subject and de-center it, through a displacement towards what is non-hegemonic or predetermined by biology. The characteristics that are defined as masculine and feminine must be questioned because their meaning is the result of a historical and social practice that has artificially naturalized them. So I propose axes of resistance to subvert gender and national identities, which I argue are fluid and modifiable. Creating this de-centre may lead to the construction of new subjectivities, a framework that expands the possibilities of action and recognition. To achieve this, I relate my artistic process to politics through the reconstruction of the sensible in social space, in the way bodies and their meanings act in that space. The relationship between art, politics, and representation that I propose here does not have to do with a discursive level but focuses on the artistic gesture and how to communicate the affects that are imprinted in the bodies, which have a sensorial and political implication.

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