scholarly journals Constructing Religious Harmony through Rhetoric: An Analysis of Vivekananda's Selected Speeches

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Surendra Prasad Ghimire

This research article reports how rhetorical elements used in the speeches of Swami Vivekananda at World Parliament of Religions supports to construct the religious harmony in the world. This study is based on qualitative interpretative research design and employs the theoretical ideas based on Richard Andrews to interpret the various rhetorical devices in his selected speeches. Furthermore, this paper analyzes the use of arguments in his speeches by using the idea developed by Stephen Toulmin and his visual rhetoric is analyzed using the idea based on Tracey Owens Patton. Findings show that use of rhetorical elements in his speeches contributes to make his arguments stronger to construct the religious harmony among the world religions despite the apparent contradiction among them. He incorporated rhetorical devices in his speeches such as metaphors, similes, parallelism, appropriate dictions and repetitions to persuade the audience to establish his claim more effectively by making simple and understandable. His rhetoric of spiritualization of religions with the support of interpretation of Vedic philosophy contributes to integrate the world religions by stating that every human being has been created equally having the body and immortal spirit with them. His visual rhetoric including attractive bodily appearance, confidence and commanding voice helped him to attract the attention of the large mass of audience towards him. Findings of this article contribute to a better understanding that appropriate use of rhetorical elements supports to make effective communication and helps to persuade the audience to achieve the goal.

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Apriliyani Harahap ◽  
Zaenuddin Zaenuddin

<p><em>This article discusses the construction of defining religion in Indonesia which cannot be separated from the influence of the world religions paradigm. Indonesia is one of the countries that has implemented a religious management policy based on recognition, through Law no. 1/PNPS 1965 concerning the Prevention of Religious Abuse and/or Blasphemy. This research article focuses on examining how the patterns and strategies adopted by the adherents of local religions in Indonesia can exist in the middle of the vortex of recognition of official religions by the state. With the library research method analyzed using a content analysis approach, this article finds that the patterns and strategies used by adherents of local religions to maintain their existence are conversion or conversion, religious syncretism, and resistance, namely refuses to be affiliated with world religions. The various patterns and strategies that have emerged are the response of local religions to various state policies that co-opt their rights, especially civil rights in services and fulfillment of their needs, including civil registration, access to education, health facilities and facilities, to the registration of marriage.</em></p><p> Artikel ini membahas tentang konstruksi pendefinisian agama di Indonesia yang tidak lepas dari pengaruh paradigma agama dunia. Indonesia merupakan salah satu negara yang menerapkan kebijakan pengelolaan agama berdasarkan pengakuan, melalui UU No. 1/PNPS Tahun 1965 Tentang Pencegahan Penyalahgunaan dan/atau Penodaan Agama. Riset artikel ini fokus untuk mengkaji bagaimana pola dan strategi yang diterapkan oleh para penganut agama Lokal di Indonesia agar dapat eksis di tengah pusaran pengakuan agama-agama resmi oleh negara. Dengan metode studi kepustakaan (<em>library research) </em>yang dianalisis menggunakan pendekatan analisis isi <em>(content analysis)</em><em>, </em>artikel ini menemukan bahwa pola dan strategi yang digunakan oleh penganut agama lokal dalam mempertahankan eksistensinya adalah dengan melakukan konversi atau pindah agama, sinkretisme agama, dan resistensi, yakni menolak untuk diafiliasikan dengan agama dunia. Ragam pola dan strategi yang mengemuka ini sebagai respon agama lokal terhadap berbagai kebijakan negara yang mengkooptasi hak-hak mereka, terutama hak-hak sipil dalam pelayanan dan pemenuhan kebutuhannya, baik pencatatan sipil, akses pendidikan, sarana dan fasilitas kesehatan, hingga pencatatan perkawinan.</p>


1996 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Compson

The Dalai Lama is well known for his tolerance of other religious traditions, actively encouraging people to celebrate their own faiths rather than convert to Buddhism. However, far from being a pluralist as this attitude suggests, he believes that ultimate liberation is obtained only through the practice of Buddhist teachings. This apparent contradiction is resolved when one examines some of the teachings that he follows, such as the notions of emptiness (sūnyatā), skilful means (upāya), karma and rebirth. On such examination it becomes apparent that it is precisely through the prioritising of these Buddhist teachings that his tolerance is rendered possible.


Author(s):  
Zazil Reyes García

The growing field of visual rhetoric explores the communicative and persuasive power of the visual artifacts that surround us. This relatively new branch of rhetoric emerged in the late 20th century, disrupting a discipline that was traditionally concerned with the spoken and written word. The artifacts studied through the lens of visual rhetoric comprise visual images and objects that are human created and culturally meaningful. They include two-dimensional images, such as political cartoons and video advertising, and three-dimensional objects such as museums and murals. Visual rhetoric can also include the analysis of embodied performance and thus examine the body as argument. Although much of the scholarship focuses on the power of images in shaping people’s understanding of the world, there is also a recognition of the power of looking. Meaning does not reside in the images around us; we participate in its construction. To better understand visual rhetoric, it is important to review its emergence as an area of study, its definitions, and some of the recurring themes in the scholarship.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Б.А. Битиев

Параллели в обрядности между осетинами и остальными иранскими народами являются перспективными и интересными, но малоисследованными вопросами этнологической науки. Одним из основных схожих ритуалов, имеющих общее происхождение у арийцев, является культ огня. Так, в статье автором поставлены цели: рассмотреть связь огня с погребальными обрядами иранских народов, провести параллели в исследуемой обрядности и показать их идентичность, а также происхождение от одной общей основы. Огонь одна из самых главных природных стихий, играющих в жизни человечества огромную роль. Огонь та природная стихия, которая всегда завораживала человека, вызывая уважение и страх. Именно поэтому в обычаях и традициях подавляющего большинства народов мира существует культ огня. Но в обрядности иранских народов огню отводится еще большее значение. Не зря в среде арийских народов зародилась религия огнепоклонников Зороастризм. Представление об огне, как высшей всепроникающей и всеочищающей стихии, слишком глубоко укоренилось в мировоззрении каждого иранца. Помимо очистительной функции огня, в обрядности иранских народов эта природная стихия представляется как предохраняющая от влияния злых сил материя. Поэтому священный огонь, с одной стороны, не должен касаться усопшего, потому что огонь символизирует жизнь, а покойник смерть. Вот почему в обрядности рассмотренных нами иранских народов пока покойник находится в доме, огонь не разводят. С другой стороны, в течение трех дней на могиле покойного разводят огонь, выполняющий вышеуказанные функции.Особенно данный обряд распространен у курдов-езидов и осетин, сумевших сохранить свои традиции в большей степени. Таким образом, несмотря на множество дифференцирующих факторов (влияние мировых религий, значительные расстояния между народами), рассмотренные в работе параллели служат ярким примером родства иранских народов и их происхождения от общего предка. Parallels in rites between the Ossetians and other Iranian peoples are promising and interesting, but little studied issues of ethnological science. One of the main rituals that have a common origin among the Aryans is the cult of fire. Thus, in the article, the author sets goals: to consider the connection of fire with the funeral rites of the Iranian peoples, to draw parallels in the studied rites and to show their identity, as well as their origin from one common basis. Fire is one of the most important natural elements that plays a huge role in the life of mankind. Fire is the natural element that has always fascinated a person, causing respect and fear. Consecutively, there is the cult of fire in the customs and traditions of the vast majority of peoples of the world. But, in the rites of the Iranian peoples, fire is given even more importance. It is not for nothing that Zoroastrianism, the religion of fire, was born among the fire worshipping Aryan peoples. The idea of fire as the highest all-pervading and all-purifying element is too deeply rooted in the worldview of every Iranian. In addition to the purifying function of the fire, in the rites of the Iranian peoples, this natural element is represented as a matter that protects against the influence of evil forces. Therefore, the sacred fire, on the one hand should, not touch the deceased, because the fire symbolizes life, and the deceased stands for death. That is why in the rites of the Iranian peoples that we have considered, as long as the body of a dead person in the house the fire is never lit. On the other hand, a fire is lit on the grave of the deceased for three days, which performs the above functions, especially for Yazidi Kurds and Ossetians, who managed to preserve their traditions to a greater extent. Thus, despite many differentiating factors due to the influence of world religions, significant distances between peoples, the parallels considered in this paper serve as a vivid example of the kinship of the Iranian peoples and their origin from a common ancestor.


Author(s):  
Gerrit Steunebrink

Abstract Why Does Bergson Understand Religion From the Perspective of Mysticism? In his book Bergson makes first of all the distinction between closed societies, with a static religion, and open societies with the dynamic religion. In fact those dynamic religions are the world religions, and they are understood from the perspective of mysticism. Bergson does not accept the opposition between a mystical and a technical worldview. To the contrary, they are related to each other, especially in Christianity, by the virtue of charity. Charity, and therefore technics, is the practical dimension of mysticism. From the perspective of the mystical experience, an intuition of unity with the totality, Bergson tries to rethink the proof of the existence of God, the immortality of man and the theodicy. Modern man, as a technical man represents a special phase in the history of the evolution of nature and its divine ‘elan vital’. It is a phenomenon in which nature shows a new dimension of itself. Because the technical dimension enlarges man’s capacity of transcendence of the sense of given reality, it creates new possibilities for mystical experience. Modern man needs this mysticism because only mysticism can be the soul within the body of the technical world created by man.


Author(s):  
O. Faroon ◽  
F. Al-Bagdadi ◽  
T. G. Snider ◽  
C. Titkemeyer

The lymphatic system is very important in the immunological activities of the body. Clinicians confirm the diagnosis of infectious diseases by palpating the involved cutaneous lymph node for changes in size, heat, and consistency. Clinical pathologists diagnose systemic diseases through biopsies of superficial lymph nodes. In many parts of the world the goat is considered as an important source of milk and meat products.The lymphatic system has been studied extensively. These studies lack precise information on the natural morphology of the lymph nodes and their vascular and cellular constituent. This is due to using improper technique for such studies. A few studies used the SEM, conducted by cutting the lymph node with a blade. The morphological data collected by this method are artificial and do not reflect the normal three dimensional surface of the examined area of the lymph node. SEM has been used to study the lymph vessels and lymph nodes of different animals. No information on the cutaneous lymph nodes of the goat has ever been collected using the scanning electron microscope.


Author(s):  
Pramukti Dian Setianingrum ◽  
Farah Irmania Tsani

Backgroud: The World Health Organization (WHO) explained that the number of Hyperemesis Gravidarum cases reached 12.5% of the total number of pregnancies in the world and the results of the Demographic Survey conducted in 2007, stated that 26% of women with live births experienced complications. The results of the observations conducted at the Midwife Supriyati Clinic found that pregnant women with hyperemesis gravidarum, with a comparison of 10 pregnant women who examined their contents there were about 4 pregnant women who complained of excessive nausea and vomiting. Objective: to determine the hyperemesis Gravidarum of pregnant mother in clinic. Methods: This study used Qualitative research methods by using a case study approach (Case Study.) Result: The description of excessive nausea of vomiting in women with Hipermemsis Gravidarum is continuous nausea and vomiting more than 10 times in one day, no appetite or vomiting when fed, the body feels weak, blood pressure decreases until the body weight decreases and interferes with daily activities days The factors that influence the occurrence of Hyperemesis Gravidarum are Hormonal, Diet, Unwanted Pregnancy, and psychology, primigravida does not affect the occurrence of Hyperemesis Gravidarum. Conclusion: Mothers who experience Hyperemesis Gravidarum feel nausea vomiting continuously more than 10 times in one day, no appetite or vomiting when fed, the body feels weak, blood pressure decreases until the weight decreases and interferes with daily activities, it is because there are several factors, namely, hormonal actors, diet, unwanted pregnancy, and psychology.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Monika Szuba

The essay discusses selected poems from Thomas Hardy's vast body of poetry, focusing on representations of the self and the world. Employing Maurice Merleau-Ponty's concepts such as the body-subject, wild being, flesh, and reversibility, the essay offers an analysis of Hardy's poems in the light of phenomenological philosophy. It argues that far from demonstrating ‘cosmic indifference’, Hardy's poetry offers a sympathetic vision of interrelations governing the universe. The attunement with voices of the Earth foregrounded in the poems enables the self's entanglement in the flesh of the world, a chiasmatic intertwining of beings inserted between the leaves of the world. The relation of the self with the world is established through the act of perception, mainly visual and aural, when the body becomes intertwined with the world, thus resulting in a powerful welding. Such moments of vision are brief and elusive, which enhances a sense of transitoriness, and, yet, they are also timeless as the self becomes immersed in the experience. As time is a recurrent theme in Hardy's poetry, this essay discusses it in the context of dwelling, the provisionality of which is demonstrated in the prevalent sense of temporality, marked by seasons and birdsong, which underline the rhythms of the world.


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