scholarly journals Uskon performatiivit kokemuskerronnassa

Elore ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuija Hovi
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Role Theory ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Word Of Faith ◽  
Religious Convictions ◽  
Personal Experience Stories ◽  
Faith Movement ◽  
Charismatic Christianity

The article is focused on the construction of a relationship between religious faith and personal narratives. The hypothesis advanced is that the maintenance of religious convictions within charismatic Christianity takes place thorough sharing personal experience stories, in which the course of everyday life is interpreted biblically. The article is based on interview material. The interviewees are members of the Word of Faith congregation in Turku. The congregation represents the Faith Movement originating in North America, which was brought to Finland via Sweden (Livets Ord) at the beginning of the 1990s. The writer combines the ideas of socio-psychology of religion (mainly role theory) and narrative research, which applies the idea of performative speech in speech act theory.

American Legends, Anecdotes, and Personal Narratives

2018 ◽  
pp. 237-255
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Expressive Behavior ◽  
Gender Empowerment ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Personal Experience Stories

Legends, anecdotes, and personal narratives express important dimensions of human experience and values. At times of difficulty, uncertainty, and threat, these narratives help people express worries and seek answers to disturbing questions. Related to rituals, games, and pranks, legends frequently appear on the Internet. The concept of ostension—enactment of legends—sheds light on legends’ relationship to ritual, especially in the context of the legend quest. Legends about gender, empowerment of women, suspicion of corporations’ nefarious activities, and natural and political disaster reflect society’s contemporary concerns. Folklorists benefit from further study of diverse ethnic groups’ legends and personal experience stories in American culture. With new forms of ostension emerging through use of the Internet and other technology, it is important to monitor and analyze expressive behavior online.

scholarly journals Spirituality and/or religious faith: A means for coping with the effects of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease?

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1603-1614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary R. O'brien ◽  
David Clark
Keyword(s):  
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ◽  
Motor Neuron ◽  
Motor Neuron Disease ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Terminal Condition ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Religious Thoughts ◽  
Lateral Sclerosis ◽  
Personal Spirituality

AbstractObjective:The notion of spirituality/religious belief is recognized internationally as a domain within end-of-life care and is important in patients' and carers' quality-of-life. When faced with incurable illness, patients often become more philosophical about their life; many seek comfort in spiritual or religious philosophies. Our intention was to understand how personal spirituality and religious faith might help those living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease (ALS/MND) cope with their impending death.Method:Unsolicited narratives (internet and print-published) written by individuals diagnosed with the terminal condition of ALS/MND were analyzed thematically. Narratives from 161 individuals diagnosed with ALS/MND written over a period of 37 years (from 1968 to 2005) were included.Results:Our findings reveal that religious faith sustains and helps people to avoid despair, and personal spirituality helps them make sense of what is happening to them.Significance of Results:The use of personal narratives by people with ALS/MND has provided a vehicle for sharing their deepest spiritual and religious thoughts with others. The place of spirituality and religious faith within ALS/MND care should not be underestimated. Assessment of religious or spiritual needs should become a routine part of practice and is the responsibility of all members of the multidisciplinary team.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Bradley C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Corporate America ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Faith At Work ◽  
Modern Capitalism ◽  
Religious Convictions ◽  
The World

While some are wary of trends that encourage the interpenetration of faith and business, others welcome such integration, seeing in Christianity and other religious traditions dispositions that could challenge unhealthy characteristics and consequences of modern capitalism. Some have in fact come to believe that religious faith represents a wellspring of resources and concern that might help reshape corporate America by re-humanizing business and fortifying its ethical moorings. Given the world-changing energy evangelicals possess, evangelical business leaders in particular are candidates to initiate such reform as they attempt to do business in ways that are compatible with their religious convictions. For better or worse, evangelical executives could also advance a religious agenda if they join together in common cause, as some have suggested characterizes the faith at work movement. While evangelical business leaders certainly state that their faith influences their work, the nature and effect of such influence is often unexpected.

Patterns of Discourse Coherence: Variations in Genre Performance in Children with Language Impairment

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn S. Bliss ◽  
Allyssa McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Language Impairment ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Random Order ◽  
Routine Activity ◽  
Syntactic Complexity ◽  
Clinical Assessments ◽  
Discourse Coherence ◽  
Procedural Discourse ◽  
Social Communicative

Background: The purpose of this investigation was to compare the discourse coherence of 36 children with language impairment (LI) who produced 3 types of genres: scripts, personal narratives, and procedural discourse. Method: The children described in random order a routine activity, personal experience, and a favorite game. The genres were analyzed for length, syntactic complexity, topic maintenance, informativeness, and fluency. Results: Scripts resulted in short, simple, and fluent utterances. Personal narratives and procedural discourse were similar in their length, informativeness, and fluency. Procedures were more syntactically complex and on topic than personal narratives. Conclusions: Children with LI are influenced by discourse genre. Clinical Implications: Different discourse genres should be compared in clinical assessments. Intervention should include different discourse genres in order to maximize a child's social, communicative, and classroom discourse.

Conclusion

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Pimblott
Keyword(s):  
Black Power ◽  
Black Power Movement ◽  
Prosperity Gospel ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Word Of Faith ◽  
Political Alliances ◽  
United Front ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Faith Movement

This conclusion serves to show that despite the severity of the city’s economic problems, the impact of the Cairo Black Power Movement has continued to resonate across the nation, giving rise to new political alliances such as the National Black United Front and theologies that offer an important alternative to prevailing conservative doctrines such as the Prosperity Gospel and Word of Faith movement.

Investigating ‘care leaver’ identity: A narrative analysis of personal experience stories

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Evans
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Public Care ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
Personal Experience Narratives ◽  
Care Leaver ◽  
Personal Experience Stories ◽  
Level Analysis

Abstract People who spent time in public care as children are often represented as ‘care leavers’. This paper investigates how ‘care leaver’ is discursively constructed as a group identity, by analyzing 18 written personal experience stories from several charity websites by people identified or who self-identify as care leavers. Several approaches to narrative analysis are used: a clause-level analysis based on Labovʼs code scheme; the identification of turning points; an analysis of ‘identity work’; and an analysis of subject positions relative to ‘master narratives’. The findings from each of the methods are then combined to reveal how intertextual, narrative-structural, and contextual factors combine to constitute a common care leaver discourse. This forms the basis for a characterization of ‘care leaver’ group identity as ‘survivors of the system’. The findings also reveal how ‘care leaver’ as type, including stereotype, influences how identity is constructed in the personal experience narratives.

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