scholarly journals The Psychiatric-Religious Condition of Educated Homosexual Community In Islamic Campus

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-320
Author(s):  
Azam Syukur Rahmatullah ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Anxiety And Fear ◽  
Homosexual Community

This research reveals the spiritual-psychological conditions of homosexual students on the Islamic campus of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The researcher had interviewed four homosexuals from two Islamic based campuses in Yogyakarta. Two respondents came from the Islamic campus A, both of them worshiped, and two respondents were from the Islamic campus B, the two respondents also worshiped. The results of the study stated that these four homosexuals experienced the hesitation of religious spirit, in which one side they continued to carry out Islamic-based campus rules such as prayer, fasting, reading the Qur'an, halaqah, Islamic studies on campus, but on the other hand, the homosexual soul possessed is not easily removed. In the end, they experience "cognitive dissonance" that shows their feelings of discomfort due to conflicting attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors between mind and action. The results of other studies are indicated by the existence of anxiety and fear if God is angry. This is because they worship but still having sex with same-sex. However, these four respondents stated that they could not do anything, and continued to live a life that must be lived.

Cognitive Dissonance and the Classification of Consumer Goods

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 28-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Kaish
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
The Other ◽  
Behavioral Sciences ◽  
Marketing Literature ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Behavioral Criteria

The theory of cognitive dissonance is one of the recently developed tools that marketing has borrowed from the behavioral sciences to investigate consumer behavior. The classification of goods into convenience, shopping, and specialty categories, on the other hand, is among the most venerable ideas in marketing literature. This article merges the two by using the theory of cognitive dissonance to give a new dimension to the classification of consumer goods. The result is a fresh set of behavioral criteria for classifying goods.

Oxymoronim as a Semantic Unity of Contrasts

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
Коробкина ◽  
N. Korobkina
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
English Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Conceptual Integration ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Communicative Space ◽  
Stylistic Device

An oxymoronimis is considered as a reflection of linguistic duality and a result of conceptual integration. An oxymoronimas as a result of a modern word creation and an oxymoron as a well-known stylistic device are compared structurally and semantically. The key semantic sign of an oxymoronim (a unity of contrasts) is singled out. In addition to that a possible definition of this notion is stated.On the one hand a cognitive dissonance of an oxymoron is underlined, on the other hand an attention is paid on the instability, diffusion and emergence of an oxymoronim’s semantics. It is obviously possible to interpret a lexical meaning of an oxymoronim by means of the following: extralinguistic and linguistic contexts of its appearance and functioning and this nomination’ssynonymic paroemias. Uniqueness of an occasional oxymoronimis is noted for the Russian lingvoculture in view of quantitative leveling of these linguistic novelties in the communicative space of the modern English language.

Die Ehe als Institution – für Hetero- und Homosexuelle Überlegungen zur Diskussion über die EKD-Orientierungshilfe

2014 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-202
Author(s):  
Isolde Karle
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Evangelical Church ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Divorce Rates ◽  
The Church ◽  
Opening Up

Abstract The guidelines on family life published by the EKD (Evangelical Church in Germany) has triggered an intensive debate, especially regarding the understanding of marriage. The author demonstrates that the objections against same-sex marriage are not substantial. Instead the church should rather have an interest in opening up marriage because it highly values the concept of lasting love. On the other hand, the author points to the fact that, despite high divorce rates, the integrative force of marriage as an institution should not be underestimated. She discusses from a sociological, juridical and theological perspective how marriage provides stability, relief, confirmation, and strength. The essay concludes with a plea for marriage - of hetero- and homosexuals alike.

scholarly journals Martyrdom in Modern Islam

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-114
Author(s):  
Showkat Ahmad Dar
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
The Other ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Zionist Movement ◽  
Theological Foundations ◽  
The Church

Meir Hatina, associate professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies anddirector of the Levtzion Center for Islamic studies at the Hebrew Universityof Jerusalem, explores the evolving perceptions of martyrdom in modern timesand their relevance on past legacies in both Sunni and Shi‘i milieus. He alsomakes comparative references to Judaism, Christianity, and other non-Islamiccultures. The book is divided into eight chapters, an introduction, a conclusion,a bibliography, and an index.In the introduction the author discusses the manifestations of martyrdomthroughout history, its definitions, socio-political implications, and importancein various world religions. In order to present this concept’s historical evolutionand notions and how it is an effective tool for forming and reinforcinggroups, Hatina has framed his book in a series of well-arranged chapters.In the first chapter, “Defying the Oppressor: Martyrdom in Judaism andChristianity,” the author traces the historical and theological foundations ofthis phenomenon in both religions. He relates how traditional Jews were readyto sacrifice their life and viewed martyrdom as the highest degree of their lovefor God. However, he argues that with the advent of the Zionist movement,this readiness was replaced “by an activist approach to self-sacrifice for thenational revival.” Christians, on the other hand, considered martyrdom “thekey for salvation.” By quoting the remarks of Quintus Tertullian (d. c. 240),the father of Latin Christianity, namely, “your cruelty is our glory” and “theblood of the martyrs is the seed of the church” (p. 26), Hatina seeks to expressthe early Christians’ readiness to embrace their non-violent and defensivedeaths at the hands of the pagan Romans.In chapter 2, “Dying for God in Islam,” Hatina delineates the evidence ofmartyrdom in Islamic texts and its diverse interpretations by renowned scholars.He mentions the two types of death in this regard – death for the cause of Allahand self-inflicted suicide – and cites the relevant fatwas of both Sunni and Shi‘ischolars. Denouncing any sort of self-inflicted suicide, including murder withreference to shar‘ī texts, he nevertheless appreciates the soldiers’ wish for deathon the battlefield against their enemies. He presents martyrdom in Islamic legalthought as an exalted form of death and argues that theologians stressed that asoldier who desires such a death eventually finds a greater reward ...

scholarly journals From the other side of doubt – overcoming anxiety and fear: Paul Tillich’s “courage to be” and Reinhold Niebuhr’s “Christian realism”

2004 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
The Other ◽  
Reinhold Niebuhr ◽  
Christian Realism ◽  
Secular World ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Human Tendency ◽  
The Church ◽  
Anxiety And Fear

Paul Tillich’s view on reality is that anxiety is part of being human. According to Reinhold Niebuhr, Christian realism has a realistic and an idealistic side to it. Reality is always changing and filled with tension. On the other hand there is a vision of otherworldliness, a vision of transcendence in everydayness. The theological nomer “Christian” indicates an awareness of God’s presence as well as the human tendency to be self-directed. The objectives of this article are to “rephrase” Niebuhr’s knowledge of the reality of the secular world, conceptualise Tillich’s categories of “anxiety” and “fear” against the background of the reality of the secular world, and explain Niebuhr’s notion of “Christian realism”. Their insights are used to empower the church to overcome homophobia in the faith community’s pastoral care of gays.

scholarly journals “The Wayfarer” (“The Pedlar”) by Hieronymus Bosch as an Archetypal Image of an ‘Other-Stranger’

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-61
Author(s):  
Przemysław Kisiel
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Media Images ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Hieronymus Bosch ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
The One ◽  
Symbolic Content

One of the most important contemporary experiences of European societies is undoubtedly the migration crisis. The resulting social fears of ‘strangers,’ which have been activated, show how important the archetypical ‘other-stranger’ pattern still is, and that it can be treated as an example of an ‘anthropological constant.’ The aim of the article is to try to look at the painting “The Wayfarer” by Hieronymus Bosch as an illustration of the archetypical ‘other-stranger’ pattern. It seems that such a reading of this work, rich in symbolic content, on the one hand perfectly justifies the thesis of the archetypical sources of contemporary attitudes towards ‘strangers’ and, on the other hand, allows one to better understand and explain the current reactions and behaviors of Europeans. This becomes particularly evident when juxtaposing the image of Hieronymus Bosch with the contemporary media images of migrants.

scholarly journals Market cognition: How exchange norms alter social experience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
jamil zaki ◽  
Eric Neumann ◽  
Dean Baltiansky
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Market Exchange ◽  
Group Boundaries ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
The One

Market exchange and the ideologies that accompany it pervade human social interaction. How does this affect people’s beliefs about themselves, each other, and human nature? Here we describe market cognition (MC) as social inferences and behaviors that are intensified by market contexts. We focus on prosociality, and two countervailing ways MC can affect it. On the one hand, marketplaces incentivize individuals to behave prosocially in order to be chosen as exchange partners—generalizing cooperation and trust beyond group boundaries. On the other hand, markets encourage a view of people as self-interested, and can thus taint people’s interpretation of prosocial actions and erode more communal forms of cooperation. We close by considering how MCs can become self-fulfilling, altering relationships, communities, and cultural norms.

scholarly journals Blessing Same-Sex Unions in the Church of England: The Liturgical Challenge of Same-Sex Couples’ Demand for Equal Marriage Rites

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-167
Author(s):  
Rémy Bethmont
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
The Other ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Narrow View ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Church

AbstractThose Anglican Churches that have opened marriage to same-sex couples have done so from a liturgical starting point which makes space for the eschatological vocation of marriage. Such liturgies are arguably more congenial to same-sex couples’ demands for equal rites. The Church of England, on the other hand, has clung to services underpinned by a narrow view of marriage as a creation ordinance. It may be well-suited to the established Church’s legal duties but it means that the present demand for the inclusion of same-sex couples into Christian marriage represents a greater challenge. Equal rites, however, need not exclude the view of marriage as a creation ordinance. Interviews with four Church of England clergy who have been involved in same-sex ceremonies allow an exploration of the kind of marriage services that would meet same-sex couples’ demands and offer insights about what these demands say about the English marriage service today.

scholarly journals Ideology Trumps Self-Interest: Continued Support for a Political Leader Despite Disappointing Tax Returns

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Rathje ◽  
Azim Shariff ◽  
Simone Schnall
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
System Justification ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Tax Returns

People presumably strive to maximize their own benefit whenever possible, so it is puzzling when they vote for leaders who may not have their best interest at heart. We tested whether support for a political leader is diminished when supporters learn they are financially disadvantaged by the leader’s policies. In a pre-registered, two-stage experiment (Time 1 n = 601, Time 2 n = 343), Trump voters predicted their expected tax refund (or payment), and then reported their tax outcome immediately after the filing deadline. Afterwards, we confronted half of the participants with the discrepancy between their actual and predicted tax outcome. Having lower-than-expected tax outcomes was not associated with reduced support for Trump either on its own, or in combination with being reminded of this outcome. However, it led participants who were dissatisfied with their tax outcome to downgrade the importance of lowering taxes, possibly in an effort to reduce cognitive dissonance and justify continued support for Trump. Subjective tax outcome satisfaction, on the other hand, did predict Trump support, but was dwarfed in magnitude by other variables such as system justification and political orientation. Overall, we find little evidence that economic self-interest played a role in support for Trump.

scholarly journals Significance of the Practices of the Prophet (Sunna) for Modern People: A Study of the Thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

KALAM ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-394
Author(s):  
Zaprulkhan Zaprulkhan ◽  
Ahmet Kayacik
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
Spiritual Crisis ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function ◽  
Said Nursi

This article discusses Nursi’s ideas on significance of the Practices of the Prophet for modern people. In the present day, many modern people deal with some problems such as existential restlessness (existential vacuum), moral degradation, spiritual crisis and so on. On the other hand, according Said Nursi, Practices of the Prophet are all highly beneficial remedies for sicknesses of the spirit, mind, and heart, and particularly for social sicknesses. Accordingly, Practices of the Prophet could give the best solution for modern people problems, both individual sicknesses and social sicknesses.  Before proposing Said Nursi’s perspective about significance of sunna, the paper forwards epistemological questions: How were the meaning and function of sunna according Said Nursi? How are the urgent problems of modern people? What is the significance of Practices of the Prophet for modern people in the view of Said Nursi? The answer of these questions will determine the significance of the Practices of the Prophet in our era and in the future. Accordingly, this paper would be a valuable work for islamic studies since it can make a significanct contribution to Practices of the Prophet as a solution for our problems in the present day and in the future.

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