scholarly journals Semantic content of the terms “Russian Muslims”, “Ethnic Muslims” and “Ethnic Neophytes” in the study of the phenomenon of “Religious Conversion” from a theologian’s perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 472-498
Author(s):  
L. D. Suyunova
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Complete Separation ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
Ethnic Category

The article is an attempt of theoretical comprehension of certain aspects of socio-psychological research, the results of which we presented in “Minbar” № 1, 2021. The study included tasks on understanding the reasons for Islam adoption by women in regions with Muslim minority, to identify the features of their adaptation to a new religious identity and to maintain the specifics and to form the solutions to the problems occurred. The ambiguity of certain terms encountered by us in the study of religious conversion prompted us to write this article.In the first part of the article we considered the phenomenon of “religious conversion” from the perspectives of various scientific disciplines. Further, the terms often used in the study of religious conversion were analyzed and also their correctness, based on both compliances with the standards developed by D. S. Lotte and acceptance by believers, was assessed. In the second part of the article the semantic content of the terms “Russian Muslims” and “Ethnic Muslims” was corrected. We also proposed a new term – “Ethnic Neophytes” – to distinguish Muslims who are usually ascribed to a new and separate ethnic category being neophytes in fact, which can easily be proved by the fact of their families’ complete separation from religion in the second and further generations.As a theologian specialist the author pays attention to the fact that in theological studies one of the standards of term applying should be the acceptance of the term by the believers of the very denomination where the term refers. Thus, the different term systems are acceptable for different theological studies within the field of diverse religions.

Monisme Identitas Etnik dan Reliji di Mataram Lombok Nusa Tenggara Barat

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-27
Author(s):  
Abdulloh Fuadi
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
New Order ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Religious Problems

This paper discusses the discourse about the complexity of ethnic and religious identity monism in Mataram Lombok West Nusa Tenggara; Sasak ethnic is Islam, while Balinese ethnic is Hindu. The question is then does religious conversion also include ethnic conversion? Methodologically, this paper is library research. Several notes related to this discourse are as follows: (1) Increasing conflict escalation occurs during the Reformation era. Identity politics emerge and strengthen. In several conflicts at Mataram, the ethnic and religious identity is thickening. (2) There is a complexity between democracy and diversity. Democracy demands unity, while multiculturalism emphasizes particularity. Balancing them is easy in theory but difficult in practice. (3) It must be distinguished between politics and politicization. In the case of Indonesia, ethnic and religious issues are often politicized by some people to achieve their own group goals. (4) Relying on ethnicity is a natural instinct in self-defense and affirming identity. This is not necessary to be troubled and blamed. (5) These problems are like a Pandora's box, a box full of diseases. It was the reform era that opened the box which had been closed or covered by the New Order. What happened in the Reformation Era is the emergence of various ethnic and religious problems which were not recognized during the New Order era.

scholarly journals Why Experimentum Crucis is Possible in Psychology of Perception

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Sinico
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Research ◽  
Perceptual Knowledge ◽  
Experimental Phenomenology ◽  
Phenomenology Of Perception ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Isolated Systems ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Essential Assumption

Summary This paper examines the experimentum crucis under the light of the Duhem’s holistic thesis. This methodological instrument is not usable in physics, because physical theories are always logically connected to many assumptions. On the contrary, it is usable in psychological research oriented to perceptual laws, when these laws are, without any hypothetical term, isolated systems. An application of experimentum crucis in Experimental Phenomenology of perception is presented. In conclusion, the role of perceptual knowledge as an essential assumption in other scientific disciplines that have a high degree of theoricity is also underlined.

‘I wish to be no other but as he’: Persia, masculinity, and conversion in early-seventeenth-century travel writing and drama

Conversions ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloë Houston
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Early Modern Travel Literature

In classical descriptions, Persians and their rulers are seen as being given to both tyranny and femininity; early modern Europe thus inherited a view of Persia in which the performance of religious identity, political power and gender were inter-connected. Given the complex relationships between Islam, tyranny and gender, early modern European interest in the possible religious conversion of Persia and its people marks a moment at which contemporary anxieties about religious and gender identities converge. This chapter argues that European writers’ interest in the prospect of Persian conversion became tied up with their ideas about the links between Persian effeminacy and tyranny. The prospect of the conversion of Persian Shahs in early modern travel literature and drama gives rise to particular anxieties about masculinity, both in Persian figures and in the Christian European travellers and dramatists who portrayed them. Despite the tradition of viewing Persia as feminised and luxurious, the sources betray an underlying concern that Muslims’ gender and religious identities might in fact be more ‘fixed’ than those of Christian travellers, who experienced their own conversions to Islam and to Persian identities in ways that were troubling to them both as Christians and as men.  

Religious Conversion, Covert Defiance and Social Identity: A Comparative View

Numen ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-406
Author(s):  
Hilda Nissimi
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Special Contribution ◽  
New Community ◽  
Memory Practices ◽  
Cultural Cohesion

AbstractThis article examines the special contribution of forced conversion to the formation of a new social identity. Groups that were forced to convert while struggling to maintain a former-covert religious identity, such as the Moriscos of Spain, the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, and the Huguenots of France, shaped social identities with common traits, despite differences in social, political and religious environments. These groups stressed memory practices, strengthened familistic values, and regendered social roles. Each of these practices set them apart from both of the faith communities they belonged to: the old and the new, the open and the secret. The Mashhadis of Iran are offered as a control group to test this argument, as their community is the farthest in time and space while conforming to the same pattern of social mechanisms. The evolution of the new social-cultural and even ethnic identity was a process whereby religious motifs generated cultural cohesion, and communal ties facilitated both. Thus, even when danger was over a new community was born, more self-conscious, and stronger than before.

The Muslim League in South India since Independence: A Study in Minority Group Political Strategies

1966 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 579-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore P. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Difficult Case ◽  
British India ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
Provincial Autonomy

How can a religious minority organize most effectively to protect its interests without weakening the distinction between religion and politics by which advocates of a secular state justify equal treatment for the minority? As in Europe earlier in the century, this problem is again acute in some of the so-called “New Nations” of Asia and Africa where national integration is far from complete and religion is still the primary mode of self-identification among many of its communicants. If a minority faith is geographically concentrated so as to constitute a majority in certain extensive areas, it is likely to seek independence, merger with an adjacent state of the same religion, or at least provincial autonomy if its members believe that their religious identity is threatened by assimilation.Of the great world religions, Islam provides the most difficult case of adjustment to minority status by separation of religion from the state. The leaders of the Muslim minority of British India finally set the objective of separate national independence in 1940 after they had concluded that they could not rely upon constitutional guarantees to safeguard their rights against the Hindu majority. But the creation of Pakistan in 1947 left a substantial though scattered Muslim population of some forty million in the Indian Republic, ten percent of the latter's people. Suspected by many Hindus of further divisive intentions, how was this group to act within the framework of parliamentary and at least ostensibly secular democracy?

scholarly journals USE OF LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE IN FORENSIC EXPERTISE. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

2019 ◽  
pp. 435-441
Author(s):  
A. Svankulov
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Forensic Expertise ◽  
State Register ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Forensic Expert ◽  
The Republic

The article describes the use of linguistic and psychological knowledge in the forensic expert activity of the Republic of Kazakhstan as an independent form of complex psychological and philological research where experts who obtained knowledge in the field of psychology and philology take part. During the implementation of this type of research, research methods have been developed that are included in the State Register of Methods of Forensic Research of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In addition, the article states that further development of this area in forensic expert activities will contribute to the formation of a new type of research – Forensic Religious Expertise. The direct application of linguistic knowledge in conducting forensic expertises is subdivided into five areas, such as: expert examination of real works on charges of extremist activity, as well as on charges of violating racial, religious, national and social hate and hostility, linguistic examination of advertising texts and treaties, linguistic expert examination of trademarks, verbal study of crimes related to the propaganda of extremism and terrorism, in the investigation of corruption crimes, fraud, extortion. The article also shows the connection of the linguistic expertise with other types, for example, with a judicial video phonography examination, in case of the need for identification of the speaker by verbal speech on the phonogram under study, during the author’s examination for the authorship of the text, in the psychological and forensic expertise – for the solution of question of the learned speeches of the suspect, other persons during the interrogation, other investigative actions. The author presents the results of a comparative analysis of the use of linguistic knowledge abroad, in particular, in the UK. Its peculiarity is that linguistic research is carried out at scientific educational centers of the humanitarian orientation. The following directions in linguistic studies conducted in this country are considered: a) forensic authore-identification, the essence of which is the determining the authorship of oral or written text, individual characteristics of the author (age, way of life, religious and political views, nationality, gender, profession, etc., b) forensic phonetics which involves the use of phonetics and phonology – sections of linguistics, c) forensic stylistics aimed at solving issues related to the plagiarism of the semantic content of the texts, while the author states that in Kazakhstan the decision on this issue is assigned to the competence of authore-identification examination, d) discourse analysis as the most promising type of research at present, is connected with research of written, verbal text in combination with non-verbal means of communication (gestures, facial expressions). Key words: legal linguistics, discourse, psychological and philological examination, forensic authore-identification, products of speech activity, linguistic research, psychological research.

scholarly journals Replication and Reproducibility in Primate Cognition Research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin George Farrar ◽  
Christopher Krupenye ◽  
Alba Motes Rodrigo ◽  
Claudio Tennie ◽  
Julia Fischer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Research ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
Primate Cognition ◽  
Replication Studies ◽  
Cognitive Studies ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Replication Crisis

Replication is an important tool used to test and develop scientific theories. Areas of biomedical and psychological research have experienced a replication crisis, in which many published findings failed to replicate. Following this, many other scientific disciplines have been interested in the robustness of their own findings. This chapter examines replication in primate cognitive studies. First, it discusses the frequency and success of replication studies in primate cognition and explores the challenges researchers face when designing and interpreting replication studies across the wide range of research designs used across the field. Next, it discusses the type of research that can probe the robustness of published findings, especially when replication studies are difficult to perform. The chapter concludes with a discussion of different roles that replication can have in primate cognition research.

scholarly journals Axiological Linguistics and Nationally Oriented Lexicography: Experience of Interaction (On the Material of Russian-Vietnamese Comparisons)

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-113
Author(s):  
Аleksandr Mamontov ◽  
◽  
Vera Boguslavskaya ◽  
Ekaterina Budnik ◽  
Albertina Ratnikova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Primary System ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Ethnic Consciousness ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
New Type ◽  
Cultural Component

The article touches upon the issues of theoretical and applied nature and reflects the essence of two adjacent linguistic scientific disciplines interaction, each studying the phenomenon of values that influence the formation of speech, behavioural and the communicative competence of a person. The authors consider this interaction future implementation in a unique lexicographic source designed to optimize the process of learning a language as a means of intercultural communication. Thus, authors are talking about a future dictionary, called "linguistic and cultura" and introducing the cultural component of the semantics of the units included in its vocabulary. The methodology for creating the concept of a dictionary is based on the analysis of the linguo-cognitive value system, where the concepts accentuate phenomenon, which allows one to explicate the specifics of the ethnic consciousness of a non-lingual culture representative. As examples of considering the semantic content, the authors offer the values as "love" and "labour", which are included in the primary system of values of the native speakers of the Russian language and culture. A strategy for the study of interaction of two related scientific disciplines was introduced: axiological linguistics and educational lexicography enable the creation of a new type of dictionary – a nationally oriented linguistic and cultural dictionary for the Vietnamese audience studying Russian as a means of intercultural communication. The article describes the experimental procedure, which is based on the theoretical and methodological framework. The analysis of the results obtained, revealed the specificity of the value orientations of the compared linguocultures. The research data relevance to educational lexicography theoretical and applied aspects is established. The contrasted research material, represented in the article, corresponds to the goals and objectives of the nationally oriented study.

scholarly journals Dialektika Dakwah Minoritas Muslim di Pakuwon City Surabaya

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-192
Author(s):  
Moh. Ali Aziz ◽  
Bambang Subandi
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Approach

This article reports on research conducted in 2018 about the dialectic of Muslim minority da'wah in the multicul­tural-metropolitan community in Pakuwon City Surabaya, using a qualitative descriptive approach. Findings illustrate Mus­lim minority in Pakuwon City has a strong religious identity and the pleasure of ukhuwah Islamiyah. This is sup­ported by the central role of the commodification agent, na­mely takmir (mosque committee) of the Al-Madani mosque. In additin, Muslim minority in Pakuwon City makes the Al-Ma­dani mosque a center for da'wah through oral, written, and social movement methods, such as religious sermon, religious forum, web-based media, zakat and qurban, and fundraising for social services. Another finding reveals that the dialectic proselytising of Muslim minority in the multicultural-metro­politan community in Pakuwon City Surabaya produces a sym­metrical environmental harmony which is in line with the satisfaction of the da'wah partners.

Symbolism of the image of love in the poem “La steaua” by M. Eminescu as an object of linguo-cognitive research

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-29
Author(s):  
A. V. Diehl
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Frame Structure ◽  
Frame Structures ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Linguistic Representations ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Artistic Image ◽  
Poetic Work

This research is devoted to the study of the linguo-cognitive specifics of the linguistic nominations of manifestations of love in the poem “La steaua” by M. Eminescu. The study of linguistic representations of the concept of love as multifaceted and ambiguous from the point of view of its emotional nature of feelings on the material of a poetic work is interdisciplinary by its nature, being at the junction of such scientific disciplines as: cognitive linguistics, literature and psycholinguistics. The purpose of the study is to identify and study the verbalized fragments of the image “love” in the poem “La steaua” by M. Eminescu and to establish their associative-figurative potential. To achieve the above-mentioned goal, a number of tasks were outlined: to identify and classify the key conceptual dominants of the poem “La steaua” by M. Eminescu; to establish the structure and semantic content of the image of love in the poem by describing its frame structure; to determine the individual author’s specificity of the interpretation of the artistic image of love on the material of the analyzed poem. As a result of our research, we identify frame structures that are activated by verbal units and convey a specific stereotypical situation. We come to the conclusion that the features of the verbal embodiment of frame structures are directly related to the individual author’s perception of the image of love, his personal and emotional characteristics, as well as culturally determined associations with the concept of love.

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