‘This heaped-up autobiography’: The Role of Religion in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry

2019 ◽  
pp. 90-103
Author(s):  
Marcel Inhoff
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Religious Poetry ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Teresa Of Avila ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Way ◽  
Religious Autobiography

This chapter examines poems from Bishop’s early, middle and late work. It focuses in particular on the way she uses landscapes, animals, other people and objects to characterize her speakers. The chapter argues that Bishop's reason for adopting this strategy can be found in her reading and understanding of a certain religious tradition, particularly various classics of religious autobiography, including those of St Augustine, Kierkegaard and Teresa of Avila, and the religious poetry of Herbert and Hopkins. This leads to a discussion of Baudelaire's role in her work, an aspect that has not been widely discussed in Bishop scholarship so far.

“Entrance Free—we are Looking Forward to your Visit!”: Public Events as Strategies of Legitimisation in Immigrant Religious Organisations

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronika Rückamp ◽  
Katharina Limacher
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
New Institutional Theory ◽  
Public Event ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Way

Public events by immigrant religious organisations are a fairly new phenomenon in European societies. This article analyses and compares two such events: Diwali Mela, the Hindu festival of lights, and the Open Mosque Day organised by Muslim umbrella organisations. Using basic concepts of new institutional theory, we will show how immigrant religious organisations adopt established event formats and translate them into their own context. Interestingly, different factors influence the way they present themselves and their religious tradition at the public event. Three of these factors are of major impact: the secular image of the role of religion in society, the discourse about Islam and Hinduism, and finally the organisations’ own religious concepts. We argue that the action generated out of this leads to the masking of two major aspects of religion: the rites and the believers.

scholarly journals Civil Religion or Nationalism? The National Day Celebrations in Norway

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
Pål Ketil Botvar
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
General Population ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Religious Nationalism ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Better Than ◽  
The Way

The Norwegian National Day (17 May, also referred to as Constitution Day) stands out as one of the most popular National Day celebrations in Europe. According to surveys, around seven out of every 10 Norwegians take part in a public celebration during this day. This means that the National Day potentially has an impact on the way people reflect upon national identity and its relationship to the Lutheran heritage. In this paper, I will focus on the role religion plays in the Norwegian National Day rituals. Researchers have described these rituals as both containing a significant religious element and being rather secularized. In this article, I discuss the extent to which the theoretical concepts civil religion and religious nationalism can help us understand the role of religion, or the absence of religion, in these rituals. Based on surveys of the general population, I analyze both indicators of civil religion and religious nationalism. The two phenomena are compared by looking at their relation to such items as patriotism, chauvinism, and xenophobia. The results show that civil religion explains participation in the National Day rituals better than religious nationalism.

The New Egyptian Constitution of 2012

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-288
Author(s):  
Bawar Bammarny
Keyword(s):  
Arab Countries ◽  
Major Threat ◽  
Step Down ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Way

Abstract Nearly 64% of eligible Egyptians had approved the new Egyptian constitution in a referendum. However, the new Egyptian constitution is very controversial. Some Egyptian politicians see this constitution as a major threat to democracy and call for a solution to reintroduce the Egyptian Constitution of 1971, although in the new constitution as opposed to the old constitution the way to absolutism and autocracy is blocked, mainly due to the limitation of power of the President. In particular the president is now elected for four years instead of six years and may be re-elected only once. The experience in Egypt and other Arab countries since their independence shows that the rulers never want to step down and wish to bequeath the Republics to their children. But there are several contentious issues in the new Egyptian constitution, in particular, about the role of religion.

The Ancient Egyptians’ “Religious World”: The Foundation of Egyptian Law

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico Van Blerk
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Way

The aim of this paper is to indicate the importance of religion in ancient Egypt and to indicate that this was the foundation for ancient Egyptian law. In order to understand ancient Egyptian law, it is important to understand the role of religion as background to its development. Religion played an important role in the ancient Egyptians’ understanding of their world, specifically the belief in maat. Religion, and specifically maat, influenced everything they did. Their whole life and the way they operated as a society was based on the principles of maat, since living in accordance with maat would ensure eternal life, life after death. It was essentially maat which made law necessary in ancient Egypt.

scholarly journals Królestwo Boże (Józefa Czapskiego podróż do Hiszpanii w roku 1930)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 256-271
Author(s):  
Andrzej Franaszek
Keyword(s):  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Teresa Of Avila ◽  
El Greco ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Painting ◽  
The Way

The author of the article describes a trip to Spain made by Józef Czapski in 1930. This outstanding painter and essayist, witness to the Katyń massacre, co-creator of the Parisian magazine "Kultura" [Culture] and Polish intellectual life in exile, at the time of visiting Madrid and its nearby areas for nearly two months was still a young artist, looking for the painting poetics closest to his soul. The visits to the Prado brought him two great discoveries: the works of El Greco and Goya. For Czapski, El Greco is a captivating example of religious painting and simultaneously – fidelity to the vision, the way of seeing the world. Goya fascinated Czapski with the thematic and stylistic range of his art – from “official” court portraits to dramatic records of nearly surreal visions, reflecting the artist’s fundamental belief in human depravity. The trip to Spain also had another meaning for Czapski – it was in a way a journey in the footsteps of St. Teresa of Avila, broadly: a reflection on the role of mystical experience in the spiritual life of man. From these two perspectives: artistic and religious, the encounter with the Spanish culture appears to be one of the more important and fateful episodes in the biography of Józef Czapski.

The Special Role of Religion in LGBT-Related Attitudes

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail Vegter ◽  
Donald P. Haider-Markel
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Religious Landscape

Religious tradition and religiosity affect attitudes toward LGBT people, their rights, and their position within religious communities. There is significant variability within the American context concerning how religious traditions approach issues related to sexuality and gender identity, with monotheistic religions holding more conservative positions. These positions and the elites who hold them often influence the attitudes of their congregants, but not always, as some congregations diverge from the official positions of their denominations in terms of attitudes toward LGBT rights, religious leadership, and congregational membership. As the religious landscape is consistently changing in terms of attitudes toward sexual minorities, understanding the special role of religion in LGBT-related attitudes remains important and an area ripe for future scholarship.

A Middle Eastern Tradition

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-116
Author(s):  
Chibli Mallat
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
First Century ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
Distinct Character ◽  
Administrative Review ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Constitutional Identity

This chapter describes the Middle Eastern tradition of administrative law. It probes three comparative routes and pays particular attention to the religious legacy. In a religiously-bent twenty-first century worldwide, the religious imprint provides a distinct character to Middle Eastern law, including administrative law. From a template marked by the historical dominance of Islam derives a perceptible division between the Middle East’s personal-religious law and Western-style territorial law. This unique trait of the region comes from the place of religion as a referential system, either in its juristic tradition (halakha in Israel, shariʻa in several countries), or when religion operates to provide the citizen with a constitutional identity. Considering this key role of religion and sect in the Middle East, the reconstruction in scholarship of a proto-religious tradition of Islamic administrative law is important. At the centre of the classical tradition of administrative review stands the eponymic court (or council) known as Diwan al-Mazalim. The three Middle Eastern countries discussed in modern administrative law are Egypt, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia.

Modernity and Transcendence

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
Role Of Religion

This collection of essays critically engages with Charles Taylor’s idea of a Catholic modernity through focusing on the crucial issue of the shape and role of religion in modernity. Taylor launched the idea in his seminal 1996 essay A Catholic Modernity?, and the idea is here explored in relation to other Christian denominations and non-Christian traditions. Taylor’s proposal has the potential to become a central and encompassing perspective in thinking about relations between modernity and religion/transcendence in each religious tradition. Six leading authors from diverse backgrounds—David Martin, Bernice Martin, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Robert Cummings Neville, Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jonathan Boyarin—assess Taylor’s Catholic modernity idea and probe whether and how the extension to other religious modernities (Anglican, Pentecostal, Confucian, Islamic, Jewish) makes sense—or not. Charles Taylor reacts to their considerations and reflects on his own idea 25 years on.

MANUSCRIPT EVIDENCE FOR ALPHABET-SWITCHING IN THE WORKS OF CICERO: COMMON NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 498-516
Author(s):  
Neil O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Consistent Pattern ◽  
Current Interest ◽  
Reliable Transmission ◽  
Accurate Record ◽  
The Way

Of the hundreds of Greek common nouns and adjectives preserved in our MSS of Cicero, about three dozen are found written in the Latin alphabet as well as in the Greek. So we find, alongside συμπάθεια, also sympathia, and ἱστορικός as well as historicus. This sort of variation has been termed alphabet-switching; it has received little attention in connection with Cicero, even though it is relevant to subjects of current interest such as his bilingualism and the role of code-switching and loanwords in his works. Rather than addressing these issues directly, this discussion sets out information about the way in which the words are written in our surviving MSS of Cicero and takes further some recent work on the presentation of Greek words in Latin texts. It argues that, for the most part, coherent patterns and explanations can be found in the alphabetic choices exhibited by them, or at least by the earliest of them when there is conflict in the paradosis, and that this coherence is evidence for a generally reliable transmission of Cicero's original choices. While a lack of coherence might indicate unreliable transmission, or even an indifference on Cicero's part, a consistent pattern can only really be explained as an accurate record of coherent alphabet choice made by Cicero when writing Greek words.

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