scholarly journals Negotiating Christian Cultural Heritage

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Tveito Johnsen ◽  
Kirstine Helboe Johansen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
School Services ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Religious Other ◽  
Capacity To Change

This article shows how Christmas in schools and public service media for children (PSM) involves negotiation and renewal of Christian cultural heritage. Across the studied cases from Norway and Denmark, we find that the institutions involved seek to realize community. However, community is approached differently in different settings. It is either understood restoratively as a process in which children, including immigrant children, become part of an existing societal community, or constructively as establishing an inclusive community across cultural and religious divides. A major finding is that activities associated with Christianity such as school services are framed in a language of ‘museumification’ and not as part of a living religious practice with the capacity to change and transform. Whereas Islam is positioned as a ‘religious other’, Christianity understood as culture facilitates creative heritage making, establishing community across religious divides. Contrary to political rhetoric, Christian cultural heritage in schools and PSM is by and large not dominated by a safeguarding nationalistic discourse. Rather, traditions and activities related to Christianity are negotiated and appropriated for the benefit of an inclusive community. A premise for making this succeed in schools and PSM is to negotiate Christian cultural heritage as culture, not as religion.

scholarly journals Når arkeologi møter lokal kunnskap – etiske implikasjoner

1970 ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Elin Rose Myrvoll
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Community Or ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local And Traditional Knowledge

Archaeologists produce and communicate authorized stories concerning cultural heritage and the past. Their legitimacy is based on education, scientific methods and their connection with a research community. Their position as authorized producers of history is also emphasized by TV programmes presenting archaeologists as riddle-solving detectives. The main aim of this article is to focus on the dynamics between stories communicated by archaeologists and the stories pass- ed on and communicated by members of a local community, and to discuss these. What happens when stories based on tradition and lore meet authorized stories? The latter sometimes overwrite or erase local lore and knowledge connected to features in the landscape. Some archaeological projects have, however, involved local participants and locally based knowledge. In addition, one should be aware that local and traditional knowledge are sometimes kept and transmitted within a family, local community or ethnic group. Local knowledge is therefore not always a resource that is accessible for archaeologists.

Political Contempt and Religion

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan C. Walker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Tolerance ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Religious Other ◽  
Politics And Law ◽  
Degrees Of Severity ◽  
Gain Access

A society’s political and legal treatment of religion is a distinct indicator of the health of a democracy. Consequently, high levels of political and legal contempt for religion in the United States can be an indicator that partners in American democracy may be going through a divorce. By drawing upon studies that measure voter attitudes and behaviors, as well as research that tracks the levels of social hostilities and violence toward religion, students of democracy see into two of society’s most revealing mirrors: political rhetoric and the nation’s laws. These reflections can unveil powerful questions about the true character of a nation: will democracy rule from a place of contempt for the religious other, or from a state of passive political tolerance, or from a constitutional commitment to actively protect the rights of those with whom we disagree? Theories of political tolerance and psychological studies of contempt prove helpful in examining contemporary levels of religious animosity in politics and law. The Religious Contempt Scale, as introduced in this essay, gauges a society’s willingness to tolerate the religious other. When special attention is given to the frequency and degrees of severity of expressions of contempt, it becomes clear that contempt has political utility: to motivate the intolerant to gain access to power and, in turn, to motivate those who are intolerant of intolerance to remove them.

“Because They Are Cornish”

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-263
Author(s):  
Jesse Harasta
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Language Students

Amongst the Cornish people—even many enthusiasts—there has been a long-standing belief that the Kernewek (Cornish) language is useless. Kernewek is a Celtic language spoken primarily by a small cadre of activists in the British region of Cornwall. This paper addresses the difficulties they face when the use of Kernewek in public is seen as legitimate only on the grounds of either economic measures or as static cultural heritage. Drawing upon a data set of almost 70 interviews, this article examines and compares the motivations of language students and one non-user, in the process challenging the notion of “uselessness” and instead focusing on the four ways that its users employ Kernewek in their everyday lives without necessarily utilizing it as a medium of communication. Instead, Kernewek is located within a larger project of social transformation, altering users, their families, the broader ethnic community or the global environment.

scholarly journals Constituents of a hit parade: Questioning democracy and listener participation in P4 i P1’s Det elektriske barometer

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (57) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Mette Simonsen Abildgaard ◽  
Erik Granly Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Important Implication ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Listener Participation ◽  
Historical Contextualisation ◽  
Radio Programme

<p class="p1">Due to their historically inaccessible nature, public service broadcasters’ media archives have lent themselves primarily to internal refl ection while historical contextualisation of the cultural heritage in these archives has been broadcasters’ prerogative. In this study, digitised material from the Danish youth radio programme P4 i P1’s Det elektriske barometer forms the basis for an experiment into how access to digital archives can inform humanities scholarship. We argue that one important implication of the new digital archives is that they enable approaches independent of broadcasters’ own narratives since they off er the possibility for autonomous study of large quantities of material. The character of listener participation in Det elektriske barometer, which had the slogan ‘the listener-determined hit parade’, is approached from a micro-, meso-, and macro-level employing Carpentier’s concept of participation (2011b), to explore how diff erent approaches to digital archives can provide new answers to media’s self-presentation.</p>

scholarly journals A Judicialização do Dano Moral Coletivo do Patrimônio Cultural

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (20) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Dionis Mauri Penning Dionis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Civil Liability ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Repair Materials ◽  
Environmental Damages ◽  
Compensation For Damage ◽  
Protection Of Cultural Heritage

Esta pesquisa investiga a possibilidade jurídica de ocorrência do dano moral coletivo em virtude da destruição de bens culturais. O objetivo principal do trabalho foi comprovar ser admissível a configuração da responsabilidade civil ambiental pelo dano moral coletivo e, por consequência, do dever de indenizar a comunidade ou o grupo social, em razão das lesões sofridas pelo patrimônio cultural, sem prejuízo da reparação material. O corpo da pesquisa está estruturado na descrição da configuração da responsabilidade civil por dano moral coletivo e a possibilidade de condenar o ofensor ao pagamento de indenização, pelo dano causado aos bens culturais, destacando-se os precedentes ambientais e culturais e a análise de casos concretos dos Tribunais de Justiça estaduais do Brasil. Por resultado, tem-se a reparação por dano moral coletivo como instrumento de defesa do patrimônio cultural, com caráter pedagógico e punitivo.  AbstractThis research investigates the legal possibility of occurrence of collective moral damages due to the destruction of cultural property. The main objective was to prove to be admissible configuration of liability for environmental damages collective and, therefore, the duty to compensate the community or social group, due to injuries sustained by cultural heritage, without prejudice to the repair materials. The body of research is structured in the description of the configuration of civil liability for damages collective and the possibility to order the offender to pay compensation, for damage to cultural property, highlighting the environmental and cultural precedents and analysis of concrete cases of the Courts Justice state of Brazil. In result, there is the compensation for damages collective to provide protection of cultural heritage, with pedagogical and punitive.  KeywordsCultural property. Reparation. Jurisprudence.

scholarly journals Religiusitas Islam dalam Serat Wedhatama Pupuh Gambuh

SMART ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (01) ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
Rudi Permono Putro ◽  
Muhammad Rohmadi ◽  
Ani Rakhmawati ◽  
Kundharu Saddhono
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
The People ◽  
Knowledge And Practice

Religion and culture are often confronted diametrically, including Islam and Javanese culture. However, the intellectual, cultural treasures of Javanese cultural heritage in Serat Wedhatama show that this serat has a dimension of Islamic religiosity. The content of the Serat Wedhatama is essential for strengthening the practice of Islamic religiosity in society amid the moral degradation of the nation's generation. This research has a necessary contribution to inculcating religious and cultural values in the nation's generation. The research used a qualitative approach to reveal the dimensions of Islamic religiosity in Serat Wedhatama Pupuh Gambuh by KGPAA Mangkunegara IV. The study of the manuscript's contents shows that Serat Wedhatama Pupuh Gambuh contains five dimensions of Islamic religiosity: the dimension of belief, dimensions of religious practice, the dimension of treachery, and religious knowledge; and practice dimensions. This study also confirms a relationship between (Serat Jawa) as a product of culture and religious values. The values in Pupuh Gambuh Wedhatama Fiber can be used as parameters and guidelines for life. This study can also be used to answer the conditions of the people who are amid deculturation and de-religiosity.

scholarly journals Didactic strategy of wetu telu cultural heritage on sasak tribe

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Gusti Ayu Santi Patni Ribut ◽  
Ida Bagus Gde Yudha Triguna ◽  
I Wayan Suija
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Adaptation Theory ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Interesting Phenomenon ◽  
Death Ritual ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
Skills Education

Wetu Telu culture is an indigenous culture of the Sasak tribe which is acculturation of Javanese, Balinese, and Islamic cultures. In religious practice, they are immersed in customs. According to Islam, WetuTelu culture is considered as an incomplete Islamic religion. But until now, the Wetu Telu culture still exists with its customs. This is an interesting phenomenon to be studied as a material for the dissertation "The Didactic Strategy of Wetu Telu Cultural Heritage on Sasak Tribe in Lembuak and Nyurlembang Village, Narmada Sub-district". This research used 3 theories; (1) cultural adaptation theory, to solve the first problem, (2) behaviorism theory, to solve the second problem, and (3) structural functionalism theory to solve the third problem. The data were in the form of qualitative data. They were collected by using: observation, interview, document study, and literature study. The findings of this study are The forms of the Wetu Telu culture which are still maintained today consist of ceremonies namely; Ritual life (gawe urip), Death Ritual (gawe pati), Art. Second, the strategy used to maintain the Wetu Telu culture is the Didactic Strategy of Cultural Heritage through Formal Education (social inquiry and expository), Informal (exemplary, habituation and advice) and Non-formal (Life skills education, youth education and women's empowerment education) Third, the implications towards the community: strengthening religious knowledge, increasing relations of social solidarity, creating inter-religious harmony.

scholarly journals Literary Application for the Cultural Heritage

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (S-1) ◽  
pp. 19-24
Author(s):  
Vivanantharasa Thampirasa
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Cultural Legacy ◽  
Multicultural Environment ◽  
Majority Culture

This article explores the mechanism by which the literary endeavours of the numerically small communities in Eastern Sri Lanka operate as the cultural heritage of those communities. Cultural heritage refers to the behaviours, activities, materials, and traditions maintained to identify the identity and continuity of a community or race. In an environment where cultural oppression is being shaped as a political practice, it is felt necessary for a society to retain its lifestyle and identity rights. It is both essential and at the same time challenging for a small community to learn its cultural traditions in a multicultural environment. The majority culture is being generalized and the cultures of minority communities are being transformed and disappeared. In this situation, a community has to keep its heritage domains in practice to sustain its existence. Language and its art - literature, are paramount in these domains. This is because the identity and organization of a community are primarily based on the language of that community. The numerically small communities of Eastern Sri Lanka, such as the Vedar, Kuravar, Burgher and Kaffir communities, have distinctive language practices and literary works. However, in the context of the majority of Sinhala and Tamil communities of Sri Lanka, the learning of a small community remains in crisis. In this case, the article outlines how the literature of these communities is used as part of maintaining these identities. This article also highlights the use of cultural legacy for the existence of such communities.

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