What Have the Bach Passions Ever Done for Jewish–Christian Relations?

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-119
Author(s):  
Alexandra Wright
Keyword(s):  
Positive Influence ◽  
Musical Expression ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Universal Themes

Both the texts and music of Bach’s St Matthew and St John Passions portray the Jews in deeply negative ways, baying for the blood of Christ. While there are strong arguments against seeing these works as having any kind of positive influence on Jewish–Christian relations, there is also an argument for examining the different layers of texts – from the Gospels to contemporary Lutheran poetry – as well as diverse musical expression in both works in order to elicit and understand profound, universal themes of sin and repentance, confession and forgiveness, life and death. Public performances of the Passions need to be undertaken responsibly with detailed programme notes and talks that draw out the journey of the individual worshipper and tackle the difficult problems of the Gospel texts and the music.

Rites of Passage

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Michaels
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Sexual Maturity ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Transformational Process ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Vulnerable Community ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

This chapter examines the classical Hindu life-cycle rites, the term saṃskāra and its history, and the main sources (Gṛhyasūtras and Dharma texts). It presents a history of the traditional saṃskāras and variants in local contexts, especially in Nepal. It describes prenatal, birth and childhood, initiation, marriage, old-age, death, and ancestor rituals. Finally, it analyzes the transformational process of these life-cycle rituals in the light of general theories on rites of passage. It proposes, in saṃskāras, man equates himself with the unchangeable and thus seems to counteract the uncertainty of the future, of life and death, since persons are confronted with their finite existence. For evidently every change, whether social or biological, represents a danger for the cohesion of the vulnerable community of the individual and society. These rituals then become an attempt of relegating the effects of nature or of mortality: birth, teething, sexual maturity, reproduction, and dying.

Notes from the Trenches

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wendell Moller
Keyword(s):  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
Employment Opportunity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Deep South ◽  
Spiritual Beliefs ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Personal Empowerment ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
The Individual

This chapter details the vicissitudes of race and poverty shaped J. W. Green’s upbringing in the Deep South as well as his adjustment to urban living as an adult. His lack of education, employment opportunity, and personal empowerment led to a “life on the streets.” Stoic faith saw him through a life and death in poverty. Mr. Green teaches us that everyone comes to this phase of life with strengths to cull from their cultural and spiritual beliefs. Mr. Green also teaches us that dignified dying does not require the unfettered exercise of personal autonomy, although a deep and abiding respect for the self-worth of the individual is necessary.

scholarly journals Life-and-Death Attitude and Its Formation Process and End-of-Life Care Expectations Among the Elderly Under Traditional Chinese Culture: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 104365962110214
Author(s):  
Lei Lei ◽  
Quanxi Gan ◽  
Chunyan Gu ◽  
Jing Tan ◽  
Yu Luo
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Life Care ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Individual

Introduction With the global aging process intensified, the demand for end-of-life care has surged, especially in China. However, its development is restricted. Understanding the life and death attitude among the elderly and its formation process, and clarifying their needs, are so important to promote social popularization of end-of-life care. Methodology This qualitative study included 20 elderly residents in Nan and Shuangbei Communities, Chongqing City, People’s Republic of China. Data were collected through semistructured in-depth individual interviews and processed by thematic analysis method. Results Three themes and eight subthemes were identified: Characteristics of formation process (passive thinking, closed and single), life-and-death attitude (cherish and enjoy life, quality of life priority, let death take its course) and expectations of end-of-life care (preferences, basic needs, good death). Discussion Life-and-death attitude and end-of-life care expectations of the elderly support the development and delivery of end-of-life care. Furthermore, the individual-family-hospital linkage discussion channel needs to be further explored.

scholarly journals Preparation and Properties of Layered SiC-Graphene Composites for EDM

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 2916
Author(s):  
Ondrej Hanzel ◽  
Zoltán Lenčéš ◽  
Peter Tatarko ◽  
Richard Sedlák ◽  
Ivo Dlouhý ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Conductivity ◽  
Surface Layer ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Layered Composite ◽  
Layered Composites ◽  
Good Adhesion ◽  
Electric Discharge Machining ◽  
Layer Sequence ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Scratch Tests

Three and five-layered silicon carbide-based composites containing 0, 5, and 15 wt.% of graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) were prepared with the aim to obtain a sufficiently high electrical conductivity in the surface layer suitable for electric discharge machining (EDM). The layer sequence in the asymmetric three-layered composites was SiC/SiC-5GNPs/SiC-15GNPs, while in the symmetric five-layered composite, the order of layers was SiC-15GNPs/SiC-5GNPs/SiC/SiC-5GNPs/SiC-15GNPs. The layered samples were prepared by rapid hot-pressing (RHP) applying various pressures, and it was shown that for the preparation of dense 3- or 5-layered SiC/GNPs composites, at least 30 MPa of the applied load was required during sintering. The electrical conductivity of 3-layered and 5-layered composites increased significantly with increasing sintering pressure when measured on the SiC surface layer containing 15 wt.% of GNPs. The increasing GNPs content had a positive influence on the electrical conductivity of individual layers, while their instrumented hardness and elastic modulus decreased. The scratch tests confirmed that the materials consisted of well-defined layers with straight interfaces without any delamination, which suggests good adhesion between the individual layers.

scholarly journals Quality of Educational Programs in Life-long Learning

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (13) ◽  
pp. 102-110
Author(s):  
Alica Lacková ◽  
Marta Karkalíková
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Quality Evaluation ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Rational Approach ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
The Individual

Quality of Educational Programs in Life-long Learning The paper deals with a systematic approach to education as well as to other areas, which represents a tool ensuring that education was performed effectively and efficiently, that it had positive influence on the society and the individual and it had improved their job performance and quality of life. This rational approach to the development of educational programs, their execution and quality evaluation enables to reach strategic education aims successfully and in a way that they suit and stimulate the requirements of practice.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF INTENTION UTILIZATION AND USE OF ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE ON INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE: UNIFIED THEORY APPROACH OF ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF TECHNOLOGY (UTAUT) MODEL

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Madani Hatta ◽  
Fenny Marietza ◽  
Rewa Yoke Desthomson
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Performance Expectation ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Accounting Software ◽  
Facilitating Conditions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Significant Positive Influence

This study aims to determine the influence of utilization intention and use accounting software for individual performance by using a model unifiedtheory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) consisted of performance expectation, effort expectation, social influence, facilitating conditions, the intention of the use of accounting software, the useof accounting software, and the individual performance. The sample in this study were 61 employees of the banking company in the city of Bengkulu who use accounting software in their working activity. The results showed that the performance expectation has significant positive influence to intention utilization accounting software, effort expectation has  significant positive influence to the intention utilization accounting software, social influence has significant positive influence to the use of accounting software intention, facilitating condition has significant positive influence to the use of accounting software, accounting software utilization intention has significant positive influence to the use of accounting software and the use of accounting software has positive influence to the performance of the individual.Key words : Performance Expectation, Effort Expectation, Social Influence, The Facilitating Conditions, Intention Utilization, Use of Accounting Software, UTAUT.

Why British Society Had to ‘Get a Young Virgin Sacrificed’: Sacrificial Destiny in The Tree of Heaven

May Sinclair ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Melin Schyllert
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
British Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Tree Of Heaven ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Personal Sacrifice ◽  
Central Characters

In May Sinclair’s fiction, images of sacrifice abound. From the self-abnegating Katherine Haviland in Audrey Craven (1897) to the eponymous antiheroine of The Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922), Sinclair’s central characters seem to be eternally struggling with the issue of renunciation. The treatment of the theme is heterogeneous in many of Sinclair’s texts, not least in the novel The Tree of Heaven, which both condemns and praises personal sacrifice for a higher or communal purpose. This displays a fundamental insecurity about the nature, function and value of sacrifice. It is this ambivalence, which underlies so much of Sinclair’s fiction, in combination with the individual mixture of philosophies in her work, that will be explored here. This chapter investigates the concept of sacrifice in the war novel The Tree of Heaven and how it is connected to community and feminism. In order to find an understanding of sacrifice as proposed by Sinclair, and its meaning in the lives of both women and men in the context of early 20th century England, the chapter discusses the crossroads in the text between sacrifice, idealism, feminism, and the nation-wide feeling of community that appears to be required in wartime.

scholarly journals Echoes of the Vision of Hindu Philosophy in T. S. Eliot’s Writings

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-74
Author(s):  
Damauru Chandra Bhatta
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Waste Land ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Four Quartets ◽  
Waste Land ◽  
Yoga Sutras ◽  
Spiritual Nature ◽  
Love Song ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Living Objects

This paper makes an attempt to explore the echoes of the vision of Hindu philosophy in the selected works of T. S. Eliot. The works of Eliot such as his primary essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” and his primary poems such as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion,” The Waste Land, “Ash Wednesday,” “A Song for Simeon” and Four Quartets are under scrutiny in this paper. Eliot’s primary texts echo the vision of the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita and the Patanjali Yoga Sutras of the Hindu (Vedic) philosophy. The vision is that rebirth is conditioned by one’s karma (actions). No one can escape from the fruits of his karma. One needs to undergo the self-realization to know the Essence (Brahman). When one knows the Essence, he is liberated from the wheel of life and death. Man himself is Brahman. The soul is immortal. The basic essence of Hindu philosophy is non-dual, which says that all the living beings and non-living objects are the manifestations of the same Ultimate Reality (Brahman). Eliot suggests that the knowledge of this essence can help humanity to promote equality and justice by ignoring discrimination and duality, to end human sorrows and to achieve real peace and happiness. This finding can assist humanity in the quest for understanding the meaning of human existence and the true spiritual nature of life to address the human sorrows resulted from the gross materialistic thinking.

scholarly journals Principles before profits: An interview with S. Truett Cathy

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Miles Davis ◽  
Leyland M. Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Bible Study ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Corporate Headquarters ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Quick Service ◽  
Recent Attention

Recent attention has been given to organizations that claim to run on faith-based principles. Activities such as at work bible study groups, charitable giving, and the individual practices of the owners are often the focus of such discussions. In such discussions little attention has been paid to those who not only hold strong religious views, but have chosen to put those views into practice‐even when it may not appear to make good business sense. Since 1946, S. Truett Cathy, founder and chairman of Chick-fil-A Inc., has run his enterprises based on his understanding of Christian principles. Starting with his first restaurant, the “Dwarf Grill,” which he opened with his brother Ben in 1946, continuing when he opened the first “Chick-fil-A” in 1967, and even as he finished the remodeling of the companies headquarters in 1997, S. Truett says he tries “to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us and to have a positive influence on other people. . . .” In fact, this purpose is engraved in a bronze plaque that rests at the entrance to Chick-fil-A’s corporate headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. In practice, this purpose has lead S.Truett to never have his businesses open on Sunday, a time in the quick service industry that normally generates 20 percent of revenue. It has caused him to shut down another restaurant venture, Markos in Florida, rather than serve alcohol, which most patrons wanted. Despite his staunch adherent to principles that seem to run counter to “good business sense,” S.Truett Cathy has built a successful, privately held organization that operates in 38 states, has more than 1,300 franchisees, and generates over $2 billion a year in revenue. In the following interview, S.Truett offers his perspective on why focusing on principles is more important than focusing on profits and what he thinks it takes to succeed in business and in life.

Mesopotamian Religion

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
Tzvi Abusch
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
The State ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious Significance ◽  
Short Piece ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Cult Of The Individual ◽  
The Temple

This chapter presents the background situation that gave rise to Mesopotamian religious concepts, as well as the forms of the gods and their service in the classical theology of Mesopotamia. The chapter examines both the temple cult, that is, the public dimension of the religion, and the cult of the individual. It studies several supernatural beings, some active in the state pantheon, others in the sphere of family life, and discusses several literary works of religious significance. The chapter concludes its reflections on Mesopotamian religion with a short piece about the Epic of Gilgamesh, a profound Mesopotamian reflection on the meaning of life and death.

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