scholarly journals Menstrual Exclusions in Nepal: Some Evidence of Transition

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Madhusudan Subedi ◽  
Sara Parker
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
History Of ◽  
Menstruating Women

There is a long history of menstrual restrictions, stigmas and taboos across nearly all religions, regions and cultures. The origins of myths and misconceptions have often been linked to various religious texts and women were prohibited from participating in normal life while menstruating. Culturally, in many parts of the world, menstruation is still considered ‘dirty’ and ‘impure’, although this is not true. Menstruation is often associated with feelings of shame, horror, danger, disgust, and sin. There have been initiatives to change the perception that menstruating women are not polluted, thus bringing an end to traditional customs such as not being allowed to sleep in their own home or touch male relatives to more extreme forms of isolation such as being confined to the ‘cow shed’. This paper draws on research conducted between 2019 and 2021 under a British Academy-funded Global Challenge Research Fund project entitled ‘Dignity Without Danger’. The study employed qualitative methods, covering 160 qualitative interviews and 16 focus group discussions among different caste and ethnic groups in three different ecological areas (mountain, hill, and tarai) in seven provinces in Nepal. Today, menstruating women have relatively more freedom to discuss this topic due to increased awareness that menstruation is a natural process. However, our study shows there are still differences between cultures, religions, castes and ethnic groups, and regions, and a single narrative does not represent the issues related to menstrual exclusion in Nepal. The study shows that many menstruating girls and women are still restricted in a number of diverse ways, from not offering prayers, entering or worshiping in temples, touching holy books, and participating in religious rituals. In some areas, more extreme practices persist which discriminate against women when menstruating. Our research highlights that education and an interdisciplinary, multisector approach are required if menstrual discrimination is to be addressed. Finally, this paper emphasizes the necessity for providing correct knowledge about menstruation to the entire community including elders, males and religious leaders as well as adolescents and young girls. Such knowledge will help them practice safe and hygienic menstrual practices, challenge and reduce their traditional beliefs, misconceptions and restrictions regarding menstruation that are essential to achieving menstrual dignity.

scholarly journals Komodifikasi Agama Pada Media Sinema Sebagai Strategi Jualan Industri Perfilman Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Dwi Haryanto
Keyword(s):  
Material Object ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Religious Ideology ◽  
Film Genre ◽  
Violin Music ◽  
Movie Content ◽  
Film Content ◽  
History Of ◽  
Islamic Values

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membuktikan adanya relevansi secara tekstualitas antara konten agama sebagai isu atau tematik komoditas dengan konten film biopik yang menjadi obyek material maupun untuk mengetahui dan mengungkapkan relevansi teks-teks berbasis konsepsi teks agama dalam film biopik sebagai bagian dari tipe-tipe komodifikasi agama di tren genre film Indonesia. Melalui film Sang Pencerah, bagaimana konsepsi agama yang dikembangkan oleh KH Ahmad Dahlan keluar dari konsepsi Islam puritan dalam menjalankan Dakwah Islamiyah. Pembaharuan yang dilakukan oleh KH Ahmad Dahlan melalui dekonstruksi terhadap konsepsi puritanisime terlihat dari teks-teks film yang menghadirkan KH Ahmad Dahlan mengkoreksi posisi sholat secara radikal kearah 14 derajat, dakwah melalui musik biola, menggunakan baju dengan model masyarakat eropa, berjualan batik dan melarang sesajen. Bahkan konsekuensinya, KH Ahmad Dahlan dimusuhi oleh sesama kiai atau ulama dan mushola yang didirikannya sempat dibakar. Konten cerita yang bersinggungan dengan sejarah KH Ahmad Dahlan dan keyakinanya dengan konsepsi agama dan identitas menjadi teks-teks konten yang menarik menjadi komoditas film. Sejarah KH Ahmad Dahlan dengan konsepsi perjuangan agamanya dikomodifikasi oleh para sineas, baik sutradara, penulis naskah, maupun produser, menjadi barang tontonan yang kemudian dijual kepada penonton. Aspek ekonomi menjadi lebih utama dibandingkan dengan alasan-alasan ideologi agama. Konten-konten ini menarik dari sisi cerita sebuah film. Karena film adalah industri hiburan yang menarik penonton, maka konten film juga sangat menentukan. Konsepsi agama kembali menjadi basis praktik komodifikasi. This study aims to prove the textual relevance between religious content as an issue or thematic commodity with biopic film content that becomes material object or to know and express the relevance of texts based on the conception of religious texts in biopic film as part of the types of religious commodification in trend of Indonesian film genre. Through a film entitled Sang Pencerah, how the religion conception developed by KH Ahmad Dahlan by way out of puritan Islamic conception in conductthe islamic values. KH Ahmad Dahlan renewed through the deconstruction of puritanism conception seen in the text of the film that presents KH Ahmad Dahlan which corrects the position of prayers radically to 14 degrees, dakwah through violin music, using clothes with european models, selling batik and banning offerings.As a consequence, KH Ahmad Dahlan was enraged by his fellow Islamic religious leaders and the mosque he founded was burned. The contents of the story that intersect with the history of KH Ahmad Dahlan and his beliefs with the conception of religion and identity become an interesting text to be used as filmcommodity. The history of KH Ahmad Dahlan with the conception of his religious struggle commodified by the filmmakers, both directors, writers, and producers, a spectacle that is then sold to the audience. The economic aspect becomes more important than the reasons for religious ideology. These contents are interesting from the side of the moviestory, because the movie is an entertainment industry that attracts viewers, then the movie content is also very decisive. Religion conception is again the basis of commodification practice.

SEJARAH KONFLIK KEBANGKITAN ISLAM DI MINANGKABAU: Sebuah Tinjauan Awal Terhadap Proses Kemunculannya

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
Ihsan Sanusi
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Initial Period ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Islamic Revival ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Interactive Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Correct Understanding

This article in principle wants to examine the history of the emergence of the conflict of Islamic revival in Minangkabau starting from the Paderi Movement to the Youth in Minangkabau. Especially in the initial period, namely the Padri movement, there was a tragedy of violence (radicalism) that accompanied it. This study becomes important, because after all the reformation of Islam began to be realized by reforming human life in the world. Both in terms of thought with the effort to restore the correct understanding of religion as it should, from the side of the practice of religion, namely by reforming deviant practices and adapted to the instructions of the religious texts (al-Qur'an and sunnah), and also from the side of strengthening power religion. In this case the research will be directed to the efforts of renewal by the Padri to the Youth towards the Islamic community in Minangkabau. To discuss this problem used historical research methods. Through this method, it is tested and analyzed critically the records and relics of the past. In analyzing the data in this research basically used approach or interactive analysis model by Miles and Huberman. In this analysis model, the three components of the analysis are data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing or verification, the activity is carried out in an interactive form with the process of collecting data as a process that continues, repeats, and continues to form acycle.

The Movement Patterns of The School Da’wa: Restraining Radicalization Among Adolescent

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 328-336
Author(s):  
Abdul Basit
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Movement Patterns ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
School Students ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Religious Ideology ◽  
Psychological Conditions

Based on the results of research that conducted by previous researchers suggest that the schools are the institutions most vulnerable to enter the radical religious ideology. Many factors could be cause this to happen. The lack regulation of the process of Islamic religious education in the schools, psychological conditions adolescentare unstable and looking for identity, the lack of religious comprehension in the students, and the religious organizations that entered to school institutions with a various of ideologies very easy, are part of the factors that cause vulnerability school institute from radical religious comprehension. In the respect to these conditions are required the model of the da’wa movement that can be accepted by adolescent and it be an alternative in the development of da’wa in the schools.To get the data, the authors conducted a qualitative study in the area of ​​Purwokerto using the phenomenological approach. The researchers conducted interviews and focus group discussions with the school leaders, teachers, students, activists of religious organizations, and religious leaders who understand the problems in this study. The main data is processed by combining the results of the observation and study of literature through a phenomenological approach that emphasizes the meaning behind the phrases or statements from informan.To produce the movement patterns of school da’wathat can be acceptable to all the communities in the schools, the school needs to make the movement patterns of integratif school da’wa,both intra-curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricularactivities. The religious activities and cultivation of religious values ​​are part of the process of da’wa that do not separated in the schools. In the practice of this the movement patterns, the school should pay attention to the characteristics of the school, students' backgrounds, as well as involvedstakeholders and the da’wa organizations.

Anthropological communities of interpretation for Burma: An overview

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
U Chit Hlaing
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis paper surveys the history of anthropological work on Burma, dealing both with Burman and other ethnic groups. It focuses upon the relations between anthropology and other disciplines, and upon the relationship of such work to the development of anthropological theory. It tries to show how anthropology has contributed to an overall understanding of Burma as a field of study and, conversely, how work on Burma has influenced the development of anthropology as a subject. It also tries to relate the way in which anthropology helps place Burma in the broader context of Southeast Asia.

scholarly journals Placement Advisors as Innovators. How Professionals Use Enhanced Discretion in Germany’s Public Employment Services

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
CAROLIN FREIER ◽  
MONIKA SENGHAAS
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Labour Market Situation ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
Logic Of Action ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Activation Policy

Abstract Employees of the public employment services (PES) are street-level bureaucrats who shape activation policy on the ground. This paper examines how PES staff use enhanced discretion in an innovation project carried out by the German Federal Employment Agency. Applying a bottom-up perspective, we reconstruct PES employees’ logic of action and the dilemmas they face in improving counselling and placement services. According to our findings, placement staff use enhanced discretion to promote more individualised support and an adequate matching of jobseekers and employers. The use of discretion is framed by organisational norms and reward mechanisms and by the current labour market situation. Our analyses are based on qualitative interviews and group discussions with placement staff.

scholarly journals Indigenous healers and stuttering

1993 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rozanne Platzky ◽  
Joan Girson
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Black South Africans ◽  
Speech Pathologists ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

Traditional beliefs and attitudes of Black South Africans to stuttering were investigated. Four Indigenous Healers (IHs) from different ethnic groups were interviewed about their beliefs as to cause and management of stuttering, as well as the outcome of their treatment. The data reveals varying degrees of concern about stuttering. The traditional beliefs of cause and management of stuttering show some similarities to current beliefs held by speech pathologists. Implications in terms of the direction in therapy, cooperation with IHs and future research in this field are discussed.

25 years of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 226-235
Author(s):  
Marina M. Valentsova ◽  
Elena S. Uzeneva
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
25Th Anniversary ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Slavic Languages ◽  
Language History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Slavic Studies

The essay was written to mark the 25th anniversary of the Slavic Institute named after Jan Stanislav SAS (Bratislava). The Institute was founded to conduct interdisciplinary research on the relationships of the Slovak language and culture with other Slavic languages and cultures, as well as to study the Slovak-Latin, Slovak-Hungarian, and Slovak-German cultural and linguistic interactions in ancient times and the Middle Ages. The article introduces the main milestones in the formation and development of the Institute, its employees, the directions of their scientific work, and their significant publications. The main areas of research of the Slavic Institute (initially the Slavic Cabinet) cover linguistics (lexicography, history of language), history, folklore, cultural studies, musicology, and textology. Much attention is paid to the annotated translation of foreign religious texts into Slovak. A valuable contribution of the Institute to Slavic Studies is the creation of a database of Cyrillic and Latin handwritten and printed texts related to the Byzantine-Slavic tradition in Slovakia.

Translation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bellos
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Basic Distinction ◽  
History Of Translation

This essay seeks to place translation within a broad spectrum of bilingual practice. It shows the basic distinction but also the substantial overlap between oral and written transmission in the ancient and modern worlds, and focuses on issues of trust, prestige and cultural mixing in the history of translation practice. It argues that Roman translation models continue to shape modern approaches to the field. Discussion on why resistance may lie behind the paucity of translations in some languages. Issues raised by the transmission of religious texts have had special impact on the idea of translation, which nonetheless has remained as ‘fuzzy’ in practice in modern times as it was under the Roman Empire.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Special Issue on Female Migration to ISIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Emilio C. Viano
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Female Migration ◽  
The Future ◽  
Analysis Strategy ◽  
History Of

AbstractTerrorism, while not new in the history of humanity, has become a major issue and challenge for contemporary society worldwide. Recently it has become embodied and symbolized by the “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” (ISIS) in its many permutations in the Middle East, the focus of massive military intervention on the part of major world powers and of study, analysis, strategy and planning. One aspect that has distinguished ISIS from previous terrorist movements is a major migration of women, especially but not limited to Western Europe, joining the jihad proclaimed by the religious leaders of ISIS. This introduction to the special issue on Female Migration to ISIS surveys and identifies the known possible roots of the phenomenon and related issues, summarizes major known points relative to it, and outlines the future agenda of work, not only academic but also practical and strategic, to be followed. Balanced recommendations on how to build a promising intervention strategy not only based on military force are put forth for consideration and discussion. While based on research, this article should be considered more of an editorial, generally introducing the field, summarizing existing work, especially the content of this special issue, and pointing out work needed in the future.

scholarly journals Evaluasi terhadap Tata Ibadah Kontekstual Gereja Kristen Jawa

Kurios ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Ayub Widhi Rumekso
Keyword(s):  
Christian Faith ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Critical Step ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of

The worship of the people of the Javanese Christian Church cannot be separated from the liturgy. The liturgy gives an introduction, views, and attitudes of the Christian faith to the Javanese Christian Church amid its existence. Throughout the history of the MPD liturgies, the I, II, III, and lectionary variations of the I and II liturgical models have been developed. The process of birth and development of the GKJ liturgy are important elements of research to find an explanation, why GKJ people still have a distance from the realities of life that exist in society. The results found in this study indicate that the GKJ liturgy that has been built has not been placed on the reality of the struggle and hopes of the people amid community and cultural life. The current GKJ's view of the liturgy has a similar meaning to the religious rituals of the people that shape the identity of the people, but there is no critical step capability to build up their worship with praxis so that it can be lived in and have an impact on the lives of the people and the community. Abstrak Peribadahan umat Gereja Kristen Jawa tidak bisa dilepaskan dari liturgi. Liturgi memberikan pengenalan, pandangan, serta sikap iman Kristen kepada umat Gereja Kristen Jawa di tengah keberadaannya. Sepanjang sejarah liturgi GKJ telah dikembangkan model liturgi GKJ formula I, II, III, dan leksionari variasi I dan II. Proses kelahiran dan pengembangan liturgi GKJ merupakan unsur-unsur penting penelitian dalam rangka mencari penjelasan, mengapa umat GKJ masih memiliki jarak dengan kenyataan kehidupan yang ada di tengah masyarakat. Hasil yang ditemukan dalam penelitian ini memperlihatkan bahwa liturgi GKJ yang telah dibangun belum diletakkan pada kenyataan pergumulan dan harapan umat di tengah kehidupan masyarakat dan budayanya. Pandangan GKJ masa kini tentang liturgi memiliki persamaan makna dengan ritual keagamaan masyarakat yang membentuk jatidiri umat, tetapi belum ada kemampuan langkah kritis konkrit untuk membangun tata peribadahannya dengan praksis sehigga dapat dihayati dan memberikan dampak bagi kehidupan umat maupun masyarakatnya.

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