FEMALE DEITIES IN BALINESE SOCIETY: LOCAL GENIOUS, INDIAN INFLUENCES, AND THEIR WORSHIP

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-61
Author(s):  
I Ketut Ardhana
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Female Deities ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One

One of the main issues that has been discussed in Indonesia regarding the democracy process in a modern world is about the feminism and gender issues. On the one hand, women are considered to play limited roles, whilst on the other hand, the men have always been considered to play a significant role. This can be traced back in the long process of the Balinese history not only in terms of political aspect, but also in the context of socio cultural aspects. It is important to look at what has happened in the Balinese societies, since Bali is known as a Hindu mozaic in Southeast Asia. The Balinese society has its own culture based on local culture that is strongly influenced by the Indian or Indic culture. The Balinese society is a patrilineal system, in which a man has a higher position, but in fact it was even Bali had a woman princess, who was of mixed Javanese and Balinese heritage, a wife of King Udayana of Bali between the 10th and 11th century. Both of them were considered as the Balinese kings at the same time. In the era of these two kings they were successful in integrating between Hinduism and Buddhism. Until now, the Balinese believe the soul of Mahendradatta as Durga. The main questions that will be addressed in this paper are firstly: how do the Balinese interpret the female deities? Secondly, how do they worship them? Thirdly, what is the meaning of this worship in terms of religious and cultural aspects in the modern and postmodern time? By discussing these issues, it is expected that we will have a better understanding on how the Balinese worship the female deities in the prehistoric, classical, and modern times in the context of a global or universal culture

scholarly journals THE RECEPTION OF THE QUR’AN AND HADITH ENCOURAGEMENT FOR SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CLASSICAL AND MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD

2018 ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Muamer Neimarlija
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Muslim People ◽  
The One

The aim of the current paper is to compare the reception of the Qur’an and Hadith texts related to science in the classical and modern world of Islamic culture. For this purpose, we have made the reinterpretation of certain texts related to science, within the constituent sources of Islam, the Qur’an and the Sunnah of Muhammad s.a.w.s., on the one hand, and the presentation of the attitude of Muslim people towards science in the medieval and modern times, on the other hand. Only certain texts from the Qur’an and Hadith, those, in the author’s opinion, the most relevant ones, were chosen for the further analysis. Moreover, the flash indicators in relation to the Muslim attitude towards science were presented through scientific innovations and current statistical data. For the purposes of this paper, a methodological approach based on the combination of traditional and rational tafsir (Halilović, 2015) and the application of a historical method (Granić & Karić, 2009) was used. The findings reveal the discontinuity of the initial scientific strenuousness within the Muslim circles, as well as the correlation between the multi-century scientific impotence and the long-lasting civilizational flounder of the Muslim community –ummah.

Bunyan and Gender

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret J. M. Ezell
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Gender Hierarchy ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One

John Bunyan’s writings have traditionally invited critical readings focusing on gender issues. With the scholarly recovery of the writings of radical sectarian women during the 1650s and 1660s and renewed study of libertine sexuality in the Restoration, our understanding of Bunyan’s representation of gender hierarchy and gender roles in his writings has become more complex. On the one hand, as a minister, he insisted on conformity to a biblically based gender hierarchy, and in works like The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680) he condemned the fashionable display of sexuality. On the other hand, Bunyan conceptualized the nature of the human relationship with God as requiring men to perform feminine roles and women to take on masculine traits.

scholarly journals THE RECEPTION OF THE QUR’AN AND HADITH ENCOURAGEMENT FOR SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CLASSICAL AND MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD

2018 ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Muamer Neimarlija
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Muslim People ◽  
The One

The aim of the current paper is to compare the reception of the Qur’an and Hadith texts related to science in the classical and modern world of Islamic culture. For this purpose, we have made the reinterpretation of certain texts related to science, within the constituent sources of Islam, the Qur’an and the Sunnah of Muhammad s.a.w.s., on the one hand, and the presentation of the attitude of Muslim people towards science in the medieval and modern times, on the other hand. Only certain texts from the Qur’an and Hadith, those, in the author’s opinion, the most relevant ones, were chosen for the further analysis. Moreover, the flash indicators in relation to the Muslim attitude towards science were presented through scientific innovations and current statistical data. For the purposes of this paper, a methodological approach based on the combination of traditional and rational tafsir (Halilović, 2015) and the application of a historical method (Granić & Karić, 2009) was used. The findings reveal the discontinuity of the initial scientific strenuousness within the Muslim circles, as well as the correlation between the multi-century scientific impotence and the long-lasting civilizational flounder of the Muslim community –ummah.

scholarly journals Educação ambiental, justiça ambiental e questões de gênero: a perspectiva de um grupo de educadoras ambientais comunitárias de Magé, RJ.Educación ambiental, justicia ambiental y cuestiones de género: la perspectiva de un grupo de educadoras ambientales comunitarias de Magé, RJ.Environmental education, environmental justice and gender issues: the perspective of a group of community environmental educators of Magé, RJ.

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-170
Author(s):  
Carolina Alves Gomes de Oliveira ◽  
Celso Pereira Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Environmental Educators ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One

Este estudo se debruça sobre um grupo de educadoras ambientais comunitárias, que atuam em comunidades sob vulnerabilidade socioambiental em Magé, RJ. A partir do acompanhamento deste grupo, tivemos como objetivo levantar temas trazidos pelas educadoras que dialogassem com o movimento por justiça ambiental e com as discussões de gênero, como forma contextualizar as práticas da Educação Ambiental Crítica em meio a uma realidade de desigualdades. Os temas levantados evidenciam que os problemas socioambientais se sobrepõem às diversas situações de desigualdade e exclusão que se deflagram no território, inclusive as desigualdades gênero. O trabalho desenvolvido pelas educadoras apresenta as contradições trazidas, por um lado, pelas denúncias de um cotidiano de injustiças socioambientais e, por outro, de um trabalho educativo humanizador, que emerge da própria comunidade. Este estudio se centra en un grupo de educadoras ambientales comunitarias, que actúan en comunidades bajo vulnerabilidad socioambiental em Magé, RJ. A partir del seguimiento de este grupo, tuvimos como objetivo levantar temas traídos por las educadoras que dialogasen con el movimiento por justicia ambiental y con las discusiones de género, como forma de contextualizar las prácticas de la Educación Ambiental Crítica en medio de una realidad de desigualdades. Los temas levantados evidencian que los problemas socioambientales se superponen a las diversas situaciones de desigualdad y exclusión que se desencadenan en el territorio, incluidas las desigualdades de género. El trabajo desarrollado por las educadoras presenta las contradicciones traídas, por un lado, por las denuncias de un cotidiano de injusticias socioambientales y, por otro, de un trabajo educativo humanizador, que emerge de la propia comunidad. This study focuses on a group of community environmental educators, who work in communities under social and environmental vulnerability in Magé, RJ. From the follow-up of this group, we had as objective to raise themes brought by educators that dialogue with the movement for environmental justice and with the gender discussions, as a way to contextualize the practices of Critical Environmental Education in the midst of a reality of inequalities. The issues raised show that socio-environmental problems overlap with various situations of inequality and exclusion that are spreading in the territory, including gender inequalities. The work carried out by the educators presents the contradictions brought, on the one hand, by denunciations of a daily social and environmental injustices and, on the other hand, a humanizing educational work that emerges from the community itself.

Is Literature Dangerous? Or, the Teacher's Anguish

Diogenes ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-90
Author(s):  
Alfonso Berardinelli
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The One ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

Starting from personal experiences which led him to give up teaching at the University of Venice, Alfonso Berardinelli concentrates on the difficulties and paradoxes of the relationship between educational institutions, on the one hand, and the anarchist and misanthropic character of modern literature on the other. The majority of the `classics' of modern times, from Baudelaire to Kafka, from Tolstoy to Svevo, are `scandalous' even today: one cannot teach them without trying to convey the shock of their extraneousness from the modern world and its culture. Modern literature is, in actual fact, almost always anti-modern, asocial, anti-social, apocalyptic. It is not possible to turn it into a simple `object of study' without betraying it.

Whither the people in the ASEAN Community?

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-57
Author(s):  
See Seng Tan
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Management Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Asean Member ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
The People ◽  
Droits Humains ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

Abstract: The longstanding effort to develop a people-based regionalism in Southeast Asia has been shaped by an inherent tension between the liberal inclination to privilege the individual and the community under formation, on the one hand, and the realist insistence on the primacy of the state, on the other. This article explores the conditions and constraints affecting ASEAN’s progress in remaking Southeast Asia into a people-focused and caring community in three areas: disaster management, development, and democratization (understood here as human rights). Arguably, the persistent gap in Southeast Asia between aspiration and expectation is determined less by political ideology than by the pragmatic responses of ASEAN member states to the forces of nationalism and protectionism, as well as their respective sense of local and regional responsibility.Resumen: El esfuerzo histórico para desarrollar un regionalismo basado en las personas del sudeste de Asia ha estado marcado por una tensión fundamental entre la inclinación liberal de privilegiar el individuo y la comunidad y la insistencia realista sobre la primacía del estado. Este artículo explora las condiciones y limitaciones que afectan el progreso de la ASEAN en la reestructuración de Asia sudoriental en una comunidad centrada en el cuidado de las personas en: gestión de desastres, desarrollo y democratización (i.e., derechos humanos). La brecha persistente en el sudeste asiático entre la aspiración y la expectativa está determinada por las respuestas pragmáticas de los miembros de la ASEAN sometidos a las fuerzas del nacionalismo y proteccionismo, así como su respectivo sentido de responsabilidad local y regional.Résumé: L’effort historique pour développer un régionalisme fondé sur les peuples en Asie du Sud-Est a été marqué par une tension fondamentale entre l’inclination libérale qui privilégie, d’une part, l’individu et la communauté et, d’autre part, l’insistance réaliste sur la primauté de l’État. Cet article explore les conditions et les contraintes qui nuisent aux progrès de l’ANASE dans le cadre d’une refonte de l’Asie du Sud-Est en une communauté centrée et attentive aux peuples dans trois domaines : la gestion des désastres, le développement et la démocratisation (en référence aux droits humains). Le fossé persistant en Asie du Sud-Est entre les aspirations et les attentes est vraisemblablement moins déterminé par l’idéologie politique que par les réponses pragmatiques des États membres de l’ANASE soumis aux forces du nationalisme et du protectionnisme ainsi que par leur sens respectif de la responsabilité locale et régionale.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Colm Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Sexual Part ◽  
The One ◽  
And Behavior

The introduction first sets out some preliminary definitions of sex, sexuality, and gender. It then turns from the sexual part of Sexual Identities to the identity part. A great deal of confusion results from failing to distinguish between identity in the sense of a category with which one identifies (categorial identity) and identity in the sense of a set of patterns that characterize one’s cognition, emotion, and behavior (practical identity). The second section gives a brief summary of this difference. The third and fourth sections sketch the relation of the book to social constructionism and queer theory, on the one hand, and evolutionary-cognitive approaches to sex, sexuality, and gender, on the other. The fifth section outlines the value of literature in not only illustrating, but advancing a research program in sex, sexuality, and gender identity. Finally, the introduction provides an overview of the chapters in this volume.

The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Renaissance Italy

1981 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 149-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip M. J. McNair
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Giordano Bruno ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Renaissance Italy ◽  
The One

Between the execution of Gerolamo Savonarola at Florence in May 1498 and the execution of Giordano Bruno at Rome in February 1600, western Christendom was convulsed by the protestant reformation, and the subject of this paper is the effect that that revolution had on the Italy that nourished and martyred those two unique yet representative men: unique in the power and complexity of their personalities, representative because the one sums up the medieval world with all its strengths and weaknesses while the other heralds the questing and questioning modern world in which we live.

Benessere tra differenze e disuguaglianze di genere in salute

2012 ◽  
pp. 95-113
Author(s):  
Rita Biancheri
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Personal History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
Life Context ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One ◽  
Sick Individual

Up to now, in the traditional biomedical paradigm the terms "sex" and "gender" have either been used synonymously and the insertion of gender among the determining elements of conditions of wellbeing/disease has been difficult, and obstructed by disciplinary rigidities that retarded the acceptance of an approach which had already been largely found to be valid in other areas of research. The effected simplification demonstrated its limitations in describing the theme of health; but if, on the one hand, there has been a growing awareness of a subject which can in no way be considered "neutral", on the other hand there continues to be insufficient attention, both in theoretical analysis and in empirical research, given to female differences. The article is intended to support that the sick individual is a person, with his/her genetic heritage, his/her own cultural acquisitions and personal history, and own surrounding life context; but these and similar factors have not traditionally been taken into consideration by official medicine and welfare systems, despite a hoped-for socio-health integration.

scholarly journals RISKS OF THE EDUCATION

THE BULLETIN ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (390) ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
R. Aetdinova ◽  
I. Maslova ◽  
Sh. Niyazbekova ◽  
O. Balabanova ◽  
Zh. Zhakiyanova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institution ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Modern World ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Education ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

The article justifies for the need to identify and to keep track, in practice, of different groups of risks inherent in educational institutions under current conditions of pandemic and post-pandemic transformation of education under the influence of modern world uncertainty. Transformation of education functions in the epoch of digital economy changes the content and types of risks concomitant to the activities carried out by schools. Schools belong to the most conservative types of organizations. However, the environment in which schools operate is constantly changing. An educational institution, as any enterprise, has to engage in the activity aimed at risk management. Manifestation of the risk is, on the one hand, fraught with threats and damage, on the other hand, with opportunities. Assessment of possible threats and risks allows timely projection of undesirable results, creation of a system for situational response to unforeseen circumstances and, in the final analysis, formulation of a strategy for development of the university which would allow achievement of modern high quality education, its fundamentality and conformity to important topical requirements of the personality, society and state. Causes of developing risks characteristic of educational institutions are disclosed. External and internal risks characteristic of educational institutions, sources generating them and the importance of managing them are analyzed. The analysis of risks made reveals multi-varied threats and opportunities in the external and internal envi-ronment of the institution and their ability to have a significant effect on educational, organizational and financial activities of the schools.

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