scholarly journals Interfaith Dialogue and Humanization of the Religious Other: Discourse and Action

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Jenn Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interfaith Dialogue ◽  
Group Solidarity ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Artistic Collaboration ◽  
Sacred Values ◽  
The Common ◽  
Religious Other

Humanization is a frequently invoked goal of interfaith dialogue—but what does it mean to dialoguers to be “human,” let alone to make each person more human? This article takes a close look at the common discourses of interfaith dialoguers, and how those discourses are translated into action. Drawing on observed vignettes and reflections from ethnographic interviews across geopolitical contexts, the article conceptualizes humanization as a discursive object of the interfaith society that dialoguers invoke to enhance group solidarity and express collective identity in the form of their sacred values. By frequently invoking the concept of humanization, interfaith dialogues signal to each other that they are uniting around a common goal. Specifically, the article investigates normative discourses regarding “humanization” of the religious other and how the practice of exchanging narratives facilitates humanization and the cultivation of empathy. Through this data we can see that “humanization” is a common discursive goal of dialoguers. In Italy, humanization is a matter of disconfirming stereotypes and alleviating ignorance across social divides, whereas in the Middle East humanization intensifies into a commitment to not physically harm the other, who is recognized through the course of intergroup engagement as sharing a common ground of experience and complexity with the other. Dialoguers say humanization can be achieved through non-discursive relational practices such as artistic collaboration, shared silence, humor or cognitive re-framing, but most often through narrative storytelling.  

Fielding and Richardson

PMLA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 381-388
Author(s):  
William Park
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
General Type ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Tom Jones ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

But the Discovery [of when to laugh and when to cry] was reserved for this Age, and there are two Authors now living in this Metropolis, who have found out the Art, and both brother Biographers, the one of Tom Jones, and the other of Clarissa.author of Charlotte SummersRather than discuss the differences which separate Fielding and Richardson, I propose to survey the common ground which they share with each other and with other novelists of the 1740's and 50's. In other words I am suggesting that these two masters, their contemporaries, and followers have made use of the same materials and that as a result the English novels of the mid-eighteenth century may be regarded as a distinct historic version of a general type of literature. Most readers, it seems to me, do not make this distinction. They either think that the novel is always the same, or they believe that one particular group of novels, such as those written in the early twentieth century, is the form itself. In my opinion, however, we should think of the novel as we do of the drama. No one kind of drama, such as Elizabethan comedy or Restoration comedy, is the drama itself; instead, each is a particular manifestation of the general type. Each kind bears some relationship to the others, but at the same time each has its own identity, which we usually call its conventions. By conventions I mean not only stock characters, situations, and themes, but also notions and assumptions about the novel, human nature, society, and the cosmos itself. If we compare one kind of novel to another without first considering the conventions of each, we are likely to make the same mistake that Thomas Rymer did when he blamed Shakespeare for not conforming to the canons of classical French drama.

«Liberdades e Direitos» No Horizonte da Soberania

2000 ◽  
Vol 8 (15) ◽  
pp. 151-175
Author(s):  
Viriato Soromenho-Marques ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
The Other ◽  
English Civil War ◽  
Reciprocal Influence ◽  
Political Tradition ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The Common ◽  
Relationship Of

The common ground and dissimilarities in the reciprocal influence between two apparently identical concepts in the Contemporary western political tradition - freedom and liberty - are dealt in this paper. The author tries to tackle the interrelated genealogy both of freedom and liberty categories, in the long period opened by the English Civil War and closed by the conflicting reactions to the French Revolution. The sovereignty concept on the other hand allows the reader to understand the ongoing dynamic of the crucial philosophical relationship of these two central concepts.

Collective Identity in National Anthems

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Hesham Mesbah
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political System ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
National Symbols ◽  
The Common

This chapter explores how national anthems of African and non-African Arab nations reflect a collective national identity. The national anthems of 22 Arab countries were analyzed using the textual thematic analysis to identify the common attributes of national identity in these anthems and the variance in referring to political entities, national symbols, and natural artifacts according to the political system (republic vs. monarchy) in the country. The analysis shows five thematic components of the national identity presented by those anthems, with an emphasis on the themes of religion and local political leaders in the anthems of monarchies. On the other hand, republics base their identity on religion, history, and nation-related natural and national artifacts. The anthems of the republics show a higher level of complexity (thematic richness) and more tendency to use emotionally charged, forceful language, in contrast to the anthems of the monarchies.

On gestural mimicry

Gesture ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Kimbara
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Speech Production ◽  
Single Unit ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Common ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Exact Origin ◽  
Internal Coupling

Despite various theories about the exact origin of gestures in speech production, researchers generally accept that gesture and speech constitute the product of a single unit of thought within the speaker. On the other hand, what I call gestural mimicry requires consideration of factors outside such speaker-internal coupling of gesture and speech. Through detailed analysis of a joint narration task and casual conversation in a dyad, I will show that, once perceived and decoded by a partner, the form–meaning relationship of a speaker’s gesture can become part of the common ground of understanding between the participants. In gestural mimicry, communicativity is observed in the way a speaker’s spontaneous gesture shapes the subsequent gestural move of the interlocutor. With a recurrence of gestural features across speakers, image construal through gesture becomes an interactional phenomenon. That is, gesture as well as speech provides an interactional resource for co-constructing talk.

Rationalism, Platonism and God

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Moral Theory ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Common ◽  
Constructive Criticism ◽  
The Given ◽  
Platonic Tradition

This book comprises three main chapters on Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, with extensive responses. It explores the common ground of the great early-modern rationalist theories, and provides an examination of the ways in which the mainstream Platonic tradition permeates these theories. One chapter identifies characteristically Platonic themes in Descartes’s cosmology and metaphysics, finding them associated with two distinct, even opposed attitudes to nature and the human condition, one ancient and ‘contemplative’, the other modern and ‘controlling’. It finds the same tension in Descartes’s moral theory, and believes that it remains unresolved in present-day ethics. Was Spinoza a Neoplatonist theist, critical Cartesian, or naturalistic materialist? The second chapter argues that he was all of these. Analysis of his system reveals how Spinoza employed Neoplatonist monism against Descartes’s Platonist pluralism. Yet the terminology — like the physics — is Cartesian. And within this Platonic-Cartesian shell Spinoza developed a rigorously naturalistic metaphysics and even, Ayers claims, an effectually empiricist epistemology. The final chapter focuses on the Rationalists’ arguments for the Platonist, anti-Empiricist principle of ‘the priority of the perfect’, i.e. the principle that finite attributes are to be understood through corresponding perfections of God, rather than the reverse. It finds the given arguments unsatisfactory but stimulating, and offers a development of one of Leibniz’s for consideration. These chapters receive informed and constructive criticism and development at the hands of, respectively, Douglas Hedley, Sarah Hutton and Maria Rosa Antognazza.

scholarly journals REDUPLICATION PROCESSES IN TURKISH AND GERMAN: A CONTRASTIVE STUDY

2021 ◽  
pp. 204-221
Author(s):  
Buse ŞEN ERDOĞAN
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
The Other ◽  
Second Step ◽  
New Words ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Idiomatic Expressions ◽  
The Common

The main goal of this study is to analyse the reduplicative structures in two languages: Turkish and German. Unlike German, Turkish is known as a language that actively uses productive reduplicative structures. There are different functions of these structures. They can be employed to produce new words in some languages or they can add different meanings to the existing words. They are mostly divided as partial and full reduplication. Also, some of the reduplication processes are productive, which means they can be used with new words unlike unproductive reduplication which can only be used with some specific words in that language. This study is a contrastive study and this requires three steps in the study: description, juxtaposition and comparison (Krzeszowski, 1990: 35). In the description step, the features of reduplication are defined and reduplicative processes in Turkish and German are described. In the second step, juxtaposition, the common ground to be compared in two languages are stated. At the end in the comparison step, the differences and similarities regarding reduplicative processes in two languages are determined related to type and degree. In terms of degree, both languages have full and partial reduplication. On the other hand, German has more types of reduplicative structures compared to Turkish. When two languages are compared regarding type, it is possible to state that German reduplicative structures are mostly unproductive, which means those structures are generally lexicalized or idiomatic expressions and do not allow for new words unlike Turkish.

scholarly journals Åndsfrihet og tilgivelse – barnehagens «glemte» verdier? Barnehagers arbeid med verdier

Prismet ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 281-300
Author(s):  
Sissel Møreaunet ◽  
Arve Gunnestad
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
Common Values ◽  
The Common ◽  
Value Learning

I denne artikkelen presenteres funn fra en spørreundersøkelse om hvilke av de grunnleggende verdier fra barnehagens formålsparagraf noen utvalgte barnehager har arbeidet spesielt med i løpet av siste år og hvordan de har arbeidet med disse verdiene. Undersøkelsen avdekker at barnehagene arbeider mye med følgende av formålsparagrafens verdier: respekt for menneskeverdet og naturen, nestekjærlighet, likeverd og solidaritet, mens verdiene åndsfrihet og tilgivelse ser ut til å få langt mindre oppmerksomhet. Vår undersøkelse viser videre at verdiene blir bearbeidet gjennom temaarbeid, spontane samtaler med barna, drøftinger i personalgruppa med vekt på de voksne som rollemodeller og på foreldremøter. I artikkelen diskuteres mulige grunner til at verdiene åndsfrihet og tilgivelse er lite prioritert og i liten grad tematisert i barnehagens arbeid med formålsparagrafens grunnleggende verdier. Funnene drøftes i lys av Taylors teori om the common-ground-strategy og Røviks translasjonsteori.Nøkkelord: Barnehagens formålsparagraf, Verdier, Verdiarbeid i barnehagen, Grunnleggende verdier, Tilgivelse, Åndsfrihet.This article presents findings from a study concerning the work with values in the Norwegian kindergartens: Which of the values from the object clause in the kindergarten act have they emphasized the previous year, and how have they worked with values in the kindergarten. The study shows that most of the kindergartens worked with the following values from the object clause: respect for human dignity and the nature, charity, equality and solidarity, while much fewer kindergartens had worked with other values from the object clause like intellectual freedom and forgiveness. Our study shows that the values are processed through, presentations of themes, spontaneous discussions with children, discussions in the staff underlining the adults as role models and through parents meetings. In the article we discuss possible reasons why intellectual freedom and forgiveness is given less attention than the other values in the object clause. The findings are discussed in the light of Taylor’s common-ground-strategy and Røvik’s theory of translation.  Keywords: The mission statements of kindergartens, Values, Value learning, Common values in kindergartens, object clause of kindergarten, forgiveness, intellectual freedom.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Interaction Patterns in the Focus Group Interview

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-23
Author(s):  
Peter Gavora
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Focus Group Interview ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Group Interview ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
The Common ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction

AbstractThis paper is based on the analysis of a focus group interview of a moderator and a group of undergraduate students on the topic of self-regulation of learning. The purpose of the investigation was to identify interaction patterns that appeared in the talk of participants and the moderator. In the stream of communication two rudimentary interaction patterns were recognized. The first pattern was named the Catalogue. It consists of a sequence of turns of participants who respond to a request of the moderator and who provide their answers, one by one, without reacting on the content of the previous partner(s) talk. The other interaction pattern was called the Domino. In this pattern participants respond to each other. The Catalogue pattern prevailed in the interview. Alongside with identification of patterns of interaction the study demonstrated the functions of the common ground and its accomplishment in the talk of the moderator and participants.

Miłosz i Lévinas – modernistyczny dwugłos o zadaniach literatury

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-180
Author(s):  
Marcin Telicki
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
The Other ◽  
Twentieth Century Literature ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Common ◽  
Liminal Experiences ◽  
Century Literature

Summary The article examines a parallel between Emmanuel Lévinas’s and Czesław Miłosz’s philosophical reflection about the duties of literature. The common ground can be found in Lévinas’s well-known idea of encountering the Other through the Face. This form of communication, which is by no means easy, is given extra depth by liminal experiences of transience and death. As the examples from the second part of this article show these experiences seem to mark the greatest achievements of twentieth-century literature. Finally, the question is asked about the two writers’ views on the place of philosophy and reflection on transcendence. Even though they do not see eye to eye on these points, the plurality of values and judgments expressed by them should not compel us to classify their work as completely disparate and incomparable.

scholarly journals Three Takes on De-Colonizing the State Apparatus in Bolivia

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 60-64
Author(s):  
Chuck Sturtevant
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Government

This response summarizes and compares three scholars’ approaches (Marcelo Bohrt, Robert Albro and Pamela Calla) to the Morales administration’s efforts to decolonize the government of Bolivia. Seeking   the common ground among them, I find that all three recognize the importance of symbolic and discursive changes, which have allowed  some previously-excluded individuals to access positions of authority within the state apparatus. On the other hand, these changes have been uneven, exposing rifts between indigenous communities, exacerbating existing inequities, and establishing new or renewed hierarchies of subordination.   

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