scholarly journals Travel as hicret: (Re)Framing Experiences of Exile in the Gülen Community in Brazil

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 303
Author(s):  
Liza Dumovich
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Religious Leader ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Turkish Government ◽  
Gulen Movement ◽  
At Home

This article analyzes how members of the Gülen community in Brazil have mobilized the Islamic tradition in order to make reason of critical changes in their lives, since July 2016 failed coup in Turkey. This community is part of the Gülen Movement, a transnational Turkish Islamic network that operates mainly through educational and cultural activities. The Movement’s charismatic religious leader, Fethullah Gülen, was held responsible for the failed putsch and its participants have since been persecuted by the Turkish government both at home and abroad. The article shows how Gülen’s discursive articulation of the notions of hizmet (religious service) and hicret has been mobilized by his followers settled in Brazil as an Islamic framework that provides them with moral reasoning to carry on in what they define as the Prophet’s path. It also shows that changes in economic and political context may lead to different motivations and objectives in one’s trajectory, producing a reconfiguration of meanings related to travel, migration and diaspora.

Child Rearing, Prosocial Moral Reasoning, and Prosocial Behaviour

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan M.A.M. Janssens ◽  
Maja Deković
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Restrictive Environment ◽  
At Home

This study examined the relations between child rearing, prosocial moral reasoning, and prosocial behaviour. The sample consisted of 125 children (6-11 years of age) and both their parents. Child-rearing behaviour was assessed by both observations at home and interviews with the parents; prosocial moral reasoning by interviews with the children, and prosocial behaviour by questionnaires filled in by their teachers and classmates. Positive relations were found between prosocial moral reasoning and prosocial behaviour, but only for the youngest children. Children growing up in a supportive, authoritative, and less restrictive environment behaved more prosocially and reasoned at a higher level about prosocial moral issues.

scholarly journals Nilai-nilai Pendidikan dalam Hikayat Akhbarul Karim (Analisis Relevansi Kurikulum)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Muhibuddin Muhibuddin
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Technical Analysis ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Curriculum Material ◽  
Religious Leader ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
Education Value

Muslim religious leaders play very important role in speeding the progress of education and knowledge in Aceh. One of the roles done by them is writing historical script. One of the manuscript, Akhbarul Karim (nobel news), created by the most famous muslim religious leader and used to be wellknown for one decade 1860-1960 was composed by Teungku Syekh in Seumatang Geudong. The study of the manuscript of Akhbarul Karim is needed in order to bring up all information about value of Islamic religion education. In general, the problems that will be solved on this research are as following. Firstly, what kind of education value is contained in manuscript Akhbarul Karim?. Secondly, what is the relevance between the education value which is contained in manuscript Akhbarul Karim and 2013 curriculum material?. Technical analysis used by the writer is content analysis. Based on the analysis carried on, the writer found several Islamic education value contained in Akhbarul Karim manuscript created by Teungku Seumatang: (a) faith value (b) act of devotion value (c) moral value. The three values are extended on each sentences in that manuscript and they have relevance with faith, moral and religious service in 2013 curriculum material.

Emerging Adult Essay

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Berry ◽  
Terence Berry
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Financial Problems ◽  
Hispanic Culture ◽  
Service Mission ◽  
At Home

Jessica and I thought that it would be easier to explain our background and ideas using our voices. At the beginning of each segment, we indicate who is speaking to help the reader follow along with the conversation.Terence: To introduce ourselves, I am a 27-year-old male. After years of filling out what my ethnicity is, I am half Hispanic and half Caucasian. I do not fall into any stereotypes. I do not speak Spanish, but I can understand some from growing up in a mostly Hispanic culture in California. I learned French in high school. I also lived in the Netherlands for two years during a religious service mission. Growing up, I had a very diverse group of friends. Most of them had both parents in their life. The father was mostly always away at work, and the mother stayed at home, no matter what ethnicity or religion they came from. I didn’t notice any divorces or separations. That seemed like a rare thing, even when there were financial problems, which seemed to be the norm....

To Begin at the Beginning Again: Źižek in Yugoslavia

Slavic Review ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 708-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Homer
Keyword(s):  
Party Politics ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Consistent Pattern ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Nato Bombing ◽  
Radical Left ◽  
At Home

This article situates Slavoj Źižek in relation to his formative intellectual and political context in Yugoslavia, a context all too frequently ignored in the Anglo-American appropriation of his work. Through an analysis of Źižek's positions on immigration, the NATO bombing of Serbia, party politics, and violence, Homer argues that a consistent pattern emerges in Źižek's politics of adopting radical and provocative positions abroad while simultaneously maintaining conservative positions at home. Homer also addresses the irony of Źižek's Leninist turn, as he was a central figure in the “demarxification” of Slovene theoretical discourse in the mid-1980s. In opposition to Źižek's view of Marxism as a formalism without specific content, Homer argues that a left strategy today requires us also to argue for something. Finally, Homer considers Źižek's writings on violence, arguing that this is a route the radical left has taken once before in the 1970s; it was disastrous then and will prove so again today.

Modern Chinese Drama: Characteristics – Problems – Perspectives

1983 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 220-232
Author(s):  
Wolfram Schlenker ◽  
Antony Tatlow
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
Chinese Theatre ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Commercial Theatre ◽  
Modern Chinese Drama ◽  
At Home

In China, Western theatre-goers often have the feeling that they are sitting in a boulevard theatre. At most the higher moral level and a certain didactic quality, together, with political seriousness, seem to distinguish the melodramas, comedies and thrillers from the popular plays of the commercial theatre at home. Reflecting on the different character of Chinese theatre, the European viewer quickly falls back on adjectives like ‘backward’, ‘underdeveloped’, even if he or she would justifiably reject such eurocentric judgments in an economic or political context. I should like to try not just to describe modern Chinese drama but to suggest some historical and social reasons for its specific characteristics.

On the Limits of Oppositional Humor: The Turkish Political Context

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enis Dinç
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Turkish Government ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Oppositional Discourse ◽  
Work First ◽  
Historical Periods

The present work analyzes the articulation of humor as an oppositional discourse in the Turkish political context, with particular focus on the current controversies between humorists and the Turkish government. It first deals with current debates between satirists and the government, showing how discourses of oppositional humor are created by the media. By pointing out the similarity among the descriptions and statements on the oppositional nature of humor made by some political satirists and intellectuals, the work questions the validity of these statements by looking at the interpretations of humor in different historical periods and cultural domains in Turkey. The final part of this work undertakes a textual analysis of the aforementioned depictions of the way in which humor challenges existing power structures, as conveyed by some of its producers. It highlights the contradictions of this articulation. Two conclusions are derived from this work. First, the oppositional nature of the humorist discourse represents only a partial and ideal reading of it; therefore it cannot be taken as universal. Second, the oppositional nature of the discourse of humor should be reconsidered and studied by specific cases and contexts.

scholarly journals The future of internationalization of higher education in challenging global contexts

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 538-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans De Wit
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Internationalization Of Higher Education ◽  
Institutional Policies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Internationalization At Home ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

Internationalization has been over the past three decades one of the key focus points of (inter)national and institutional policies for higher education, with two related components: internationalization abroad, and internationalization at home. The 'abroad' component: mobility of students, faculty and programs, has been more predominant than the 'at home' component: internationalization of the curriculum and learning outcomes, perceived as a neoliberal and western paradigm. What will be the future of internationalization? Do we see a return from competition to cooperation?  What will be the impact of the changing global economic, ecological and political context? These questions will be addressed in a critical analytical way in this paper, taking into account the impact of Covid-19 on the internationalization of higher education.

Proverbs

2021 ◽  
pp. 494-514
Author(s):  
Samuel E. Balentine
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
Moral Integrity ◽  
Important Lesson ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Composition History ◽  
Fear Of The Lord ◽  
Thematic Coherence

Wisdom can be taught and learned, as the instructions in Proverbs 1–9 make clear, and when utilized as strategies for dealing with typical and recurring situations in life, such as those suggested in Proverbs 10–31, they ensure both moral integrity and material prosperity. The motivation for obedience to proverbial truth is the transcendent authority of God, who is the source and substance of the knowledge towards which wisdom aspires. The most important lesson to be learned is itself therefore reducible to a single certainty that informs all of the wisdom sayings in Proverbs: “The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord; the knowledge of the holy one is understanding” (Prov 9:10; cf. 1:7). This essay addresses five major interpretive issues in Proverbs: (1) composition history, (2) literary forms, (3) socio-political context, (4) moral reasoning and ethical conduct, and (5) thematic coherence.

Competing Frames of the Gülen Movement

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-91
Author(s):  
Saleena Saleem ◽  
Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman
Keyword(s):  
Security Risk ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Turkish Government ◽  
Gulen Movement

This paper identifies and describes the three main competing frames of the Gulen movement, namely the moderate, tolerant and modern frame; the secretive Islamist agenda frame; and the security risk frame, which the Gülen movement’s followers, detractors and the Turkish government promoted over the span of the movement’s growth, expansion and decline. We use the identified frames as conceptual tools to analyze the development and decline of the movement in Malaysia. In our analysis, we determine the cultural and political factors that made it easier for the Gülen movement to promote its moderate, tolerant and modern frame in Malaysia; how Gülen followers and Malaysians navigated the secretive Islamist agenda frame in ways that enabled the Gülen movement to operate in Malaysia; and the Malaysian response to the security risk frame that was promoted by the Turkish government, which eventually curtailed the movement’s activities in Malaysia.

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