Space, Society, Religion: A Short Retrospective and Prospective Note

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
François de Polignac
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Historical Geography ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
General Conception ◽  
Human And Social Sciences ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Established Fact ◽  
Epigraphic Evidence

It is now a well-established fact in the human and social sciences that the study of the spatial distribution of social life, including religion, is one of the best accesses to the analysis and understanding of societies. But it has not always been so. For quite a long time, in Classical studies, the only approach to space was traditional ‘historical geography’, the scope of which was primarily to identify the places mentioned in the ancient sources or known through archaeological or epigraphic evidence. This was and remains an important contribution to the study of ancient societies. But in these works the study of topography does not sustain a general conception of space as such and as a fundamental aspect of social life; and in fact, space as a category of study was not formalised as such.

ISLAM PADA MASA KESULTANAN BANTEN

ALQALAM ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Maftuh Maftuh
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Islamic Militancy ◽  
Religious Understanding

For many observers, Banten is well known as an area where the population has a strict religious understanding onislamic law. Colonial officials and experts in Islamic studies such as Snouck Hurgronje and GF Pijper, testified that compared to other Muslims across Java , Muslim in Banten and Cirebon were stricter in practicing Islam . The phenomenon of the social life of the religious community in Banten is necessarily formed within a very long time span. This paper traces the root of the formation of public religious understanding ojMuslim in Banten. Using a socio-historical approach, this paper then leads to the conclusion that the sultan of Banten issued policies that had a greater emphasis to the adherence to the Shari'a rather than Sufism. Religious orientation on the fiqh-oriented can explain the Islamic militancy Banten community, as witnessed by the colonial officials, and even still can be seen up to this present moment.Key words: Jslamization, Sultanate, Banten

scholarly journals Neoglacial change of ice cover and the related response of the Earth's crust in West Greenland

1993 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 121-126
Author(s):  
A Weidick
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
Exact Data ◽  
Present Information ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Related Response ◽  
Inland Ice

The cooling trends of Neoglacial time caused re-formation of minor local glaciers and expansion of the Inland Ice margin. A consequence of this glacial reactivation in West Greenland was the conversion of an early Holocene glacio-isostatic emergence to Neoglacial submergence. Although the major trends of fluctuations of ice margins and relative sea level have been studied over a long time, exact data on the spatial distribution of Neoglacial changes of glacier load and relative sea level are still sparse. Present information points to a major conversion from emergence to submergence between 1000 and 3000 B.P., depending on location and the effect of superimposed secondary oscillations.

scholarly journals The Cultural Populism of Iosif I. Kablits (Yuzov) and its Foundations

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 641-653
Author(s):  
Gennadiy N. Mokshin
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The People ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Masses

This article reconstructs the cultural doctrine of the famous publicist of populism (narodnichestvo), I.I. Kablits (Yuzov). To just equate Kablits views with the slogan of yuzovshchina would be a narrow interpretation of his kul'turnichestvo; the slogan is characteristic for extreme right-wing populism during the upsurge of the revolutionary populist movement (narodovol'cheskoe dvizhenie). In 1880, Kablits was the first of the legal populists to pose the question, What is populism? According to the publicist, true narodnichestvo should be based on the principle that the forms of public life of the people must be in conformity with the development level of their consciousness. The author explains Kablits evolution from Bakunism to a peasant-centered narodnichestvo by his interpretation of the reasons for the split between the intelligentsia and the people. Kablits considered them antagonists, and defined the ultimate goal of the narodniki as the liberation of the people from the power of the intellectualbureaucratic minority, the latter supposedly trying to subjugate the life of the masses to its will. The article analyzes the main provisions of Kablits sociocultural concept of social transformations: apolitism, populism, and the initiative of the masses. The article identifies the differences between his program of developing the cultural identity of the people, on the one hand, and other populists' understanding of the tasks of cultural work, on the other. Particular attention is paid to Kablits-Yuzov's attitude towards the problem of educating the masses. Kablits was one of the few Russian populists who opposed the idea that the foundations of the worldview of the people must be changed, arguing that this would eliminate the traditional moral values of the village, including the sense of collectivism. The author assesses how Kablits, the leading publicist of the newspaper Nedelya, contributed to the establishment of a cultural direction in narodnichestvo at the turn of the 1870s and 1880s. According to the author, Kablits played a leading role in shaping the ideology of the right flank of the cultural direction in narodnichestvo. However, the pure populism of Kablits turned out to be too pseudo-scientific, dogmatic and irrational to attract the democratic intelligentsia for a long time; the latter had already become disillusioned with the idea of the people as the creator of new forms of social life.

Megachurch: An American Original (Almost)

High on God ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 37-62
Author(s):  
James K. Wellman ◽  
Katie E. Corcoran ◽  
Kate J. Stockly
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
American Religious History ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
Congregational Studies ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Aimee Semple Mcpherson ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Charles Haddon Spurgeon ◽  
George Whitefield

Megachurches are not a new phenomenon; in fact, they have been around for a long time in some form. We trace their history back to the beginning of the Christian faith and describe their trajectory through key historical figures, examining how the Wesley brothers, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, D. L. Moody, Charles Grandison Finney, Russell H. Conwell, and Aimee Semple McPherson produced and nurtured megachurch forms. We describe and argue that Christian churches, and megachurches in particular, are particularly potent in illumining American religious history, and that congregational studies reveal and explain core attributes of American social life.

scholarly journals Effects of climate and spawning stock structure on the spatial distribution of Northeast Arctic cod larvae

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarissa Akemi Kajiya Endo ◽  
Frode B Vikebø ◽  
Natalia A Yaragina ◽  
Solfrid Sætre Hjøllo ◽  
Leif Christian Stige
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Environmental Variables ◽  
Barents Sea ◽  
Condition Index ◽  
Ocean Current ◽  
Larval Abundance ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Spawning Stock ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Abundance And Distribution

Abstract The spatial distribution of fish early life stages can impact recruitment at later stages and affect population size and resilience. Northeast Arctic (NEA) cod spawning occurs along the Norwegian coast. Eggs, larvae, and pelagic juveniles drift near-surface towards the Barents Sea nursery area. In this study, a 35-year long time series of NEA cod larvae data was analysed in combination with factors that potentially may affect the distribution of eggs and larvae. These factors included biological aspects of the spawning stock, and environmental variables, such as water temperature, wind, ocean current, and prey abundance. Our aim was to shed light on how these factors influence larval abundance and distribution and how larval abundance and distribution influenced recruitment at age 3. We found that biomass and mean weight of the spawners were positively associated with larval abundance and that a high liver condition index of the spawners was associated with a north-easterly distribution of the larvae. The environmental variables showed generally weak or no correlations with abundance or distribution of larvae. Lastly, we found significant association between larval abundance and year-class abundance at age 3, while the spatial distribution metrics of the larvae, i.e. distribution extent, mean longitude, and mean latitude, showed no significant association with future year-class abundance.

scholarly journals The lunar diurnal variation of atmospheric temperature at Batavia, 1866-1928

1932 ◽  
Vol 137 (831) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flow ◽  
Temperature Variation ◽  
Wave Length ◽  
Barometric Pressure ◽  
Atmospheric Temperature ◽  
Vertical Flow ◽  
Tidal Changes ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Semidiurnal Variation ◽  
Established Fact

The existence of a lunar tide in the earth’s atmosphere is now a well-established fact. It is indicated by a lunar semidiurnal variation of barometric pressure, found at every station for which the necessary reductions have been made. Now a variation of pressure in a gas is in general accompanied by a variation of temperature. The amount of this variation depends on the rate at which heat can flow in the gas, from a region of compression to one of rarefaction, or from the earth or ocean to or from the gas. The maximum variation of temperature corresponds to adiabatic changes of pressure, while if the heat flow can be very rapid, the temperature variation may be reduced almost to zero, corresponding to isothermal changes of pressure. I have shown that the lunar tidal changes of pressure will be almost adiabatic so far as concerns heat flow in the gas , between regions of compression and of rarefaction. The long time available for equalisation of temperature, viz., a quarter of a lunar day, or about 6 hours, is in fact ineffective because of the long wave-length of the tide, the distance between the regions of highest or lowest pressure in any latitude being a quarter of the circumference of the circle of latitude. The temperature variation might be reduced below the adiabatic value if vertical flow of heat, between the air and the ground or ocean, is sufficiently rapid. This point will be discussed in another paper; the conclusion reached is that the vertical flow of heat is unlikely to be important over the land . Hence a temperature variation approaching the adiabatic value is likely to be associated with the lunar atmospheric tide at a land station.

The Man With the Leaking Bucket: Ethnography, Journalism, and the Quest for the Transformative Self

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 515-523
Author(s):  
Max Mauro
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Siegfried Kracauer ◽  
The Status ◽  
Long Time ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
Intellectual Journey

This article looks into the status and identity of ethnography by paying attention to the ideas of transformation and becoming, and to the meanings of “reality” in post postmodern times. Based on a personal reflection about the intellectual journey of the author, and his transition from journalism to academic research, it first provides an illustration of the complicated relationship between journalism, and journalistic practices, with social research during the 20th century. It highlights the trailblazing work of German–Jewish intellectual Siegfried Kracauer during the Weimar years, whose eclectic attention to popular culture and social theory has been for a long time overlooked. Following the postmodern turn, reflexivity has taken center stage in ethnographic methods, but this has not diminished the differences within social sciences and humanities in the way the subject, the researcher, is perceived and interpreted. A contested area of debate remains that of representation, and particularly, the realization that nothing meaningfully exists outside the process of representation. However, this point is further complicated by the status of “reality” in the age of the implosion of social life through the conflation of the private and the public brought about by the digital revolution.

Globalizations

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Osterhammel
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
World History ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Characteristic Features

The revival of world history towards the end of the twentieth century was intimately connected with the rise of a new master concept in the social sciences: globalization. Historians and social scientists responded to the same generational experience that the interconnectedness of social life on the planet had arrived at a new level of intensity. The conclusions drawn from this insight in the various academic disciplines diverged considerably. The early theorists of globalization in sociology, political science, and economics disdained a historical perspective. The new concept seemed ideally suited to grasp the characteristic features of contemporary society. It helped to pinpoint the very essence of present-day modernity. Globalization opened up a way towards the social science mainstream, provided elements of a fresh terminology to a field that had suffered for a long time from an excess of descriptive simplicity.

On the Rules Regulating the Celebration of the Eleusinian Mysteries

1959 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Sokolowski
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Real Problem ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Eleusinian Mysteries

The old and very illegible inscription from Athens containing the charter of the Eleusinian Mysteries was happily completed by a few small fragments discovered during the American excavations on the Agora. It was not an easy task for Professor B. D. Meritt to bring together the broken pieces and the stone bearing the inscription (now in the British Museum). He did it with his usual epigraphical expertness and contributed very much to the reading and to the restoration of a document which has been a real problem to many scholars for a long time. Of course, the inscription so old and so badly preserved will continue to be debated by specialists in different fields of Classical studies, but the part of Professor Meritt in elucidating this important testimony of the ancient Greek cult always will be gratefully appreciated. I should like to discuss some passages of the document in question in the hope that small changes in certain lines may perhaps make it more intelligible.

scholarly journals Spatial distribution and temporal evolution of DRONPA-fused SNAP25 clusters in adrenal chromaffin cells

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 1005-1012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuko Antoku ◽  
Peter Dedecker ◽  
Paulo S. Pinheiro ◽  
Tom Vosch ◽  
Jakob Balslev Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Chromaffin Cells ◽  
Temporal Evolution ◽  
Adrenal Chromaffin Cells ◽  
Protein Cluster ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Diffraction Imaging ◽  
Adrenal Chromaffin

Sub-diffraction imaging of DRONPA-fused SNAP-25 in adrenal chromaffin cells allows tracking protein cluster dynamics over relative long time (20 min) and reveal that clusters have rich dynamics going from staying constant to disappearing and reappearing within minutes.

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