scholarly journals Immigration and Multiculturalism in Italy: The Religious Experience of the Peruvian Community in the Eternal City

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 478
Author(s):  
Verónica Roldán
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The World ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Popular Religiosity

The present study on the religious experience of the Peruvian community in Rome belongs to the area of studies on immigration, multiculturalism, and religion in Italy. In this article, I analyze the devotion of the Peruvian community in Rome to “the Lord of Miracles”. This pious tradition, which venerates the image of Christ crucified—painted by an Angolan slave—began in 1651 in Lima, during the Viceroyalty of Peru. Today, the sacred image is venerated in countries all over the world that host Peruvian immigrant communities that have set up branches of the Confraternity of the Lord of Miracles. I examine, in particular, the cult of el Señor de los Milagros in Rome in terms of Peruvian popular religiosity and national identity experienced within a transnational context. This essay serves two purposes: The first is to analyze the significance that this religious experience acquires in a foreign environment while maintaining links with its country of origin and its cultural traditions in a multilocal environment. The second aim is to examine the integration of the Peruvian community into Italian society, beginning with religious practice, in this case Roman Catholicism. This kind of religiosity seems not only to favor the encounter between the two cultures but also to render Italian Roman Catholicism multicultural.

Kushites in Egypt, 664 BCE–14 CE

2021 ◽  
pp. 490-510
Author(s):  
Kathryn Howley
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practice ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Religious Architecture ◽  
Frontier Region ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Egyptian Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Territorial Control

After the end of the 25th Dynasty in 664 bce, Kushite kings no longer had territorial control over Egypt. Nevertheless, reflecting the long history of interaction between the two lands, Kushite presence in Egypt continued. This article discusses evidence for Kushites in Egypt from the beginning of the 26th Dynasty to the end of the reign of Augustus, and argues that the continuing presence of Kushites in Egypt was largely driven by the shared religious practice of the two cultures. The differing cultural backgrounds of the two lands, in particular their incompatible views of territorial borders, meant that religious interaction often went side by side with political conflict. This conflict produced a unique religious architecture in the frontier region in which the two-way, entangled nature of interaction between Kushite and Egyptian culture can be seen.

scholarly journals The Two Cultures at Cambridge

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
Peter Lachmann
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The World ◽  
The Two Cultures

Charles Percy Snow was born in Leicester in 1905 and – like his fictional alter ago Lewis Eliot – determined from an early age to be remembered. The essays in this issue, some 60 years after he first wrote about ‘The Two Cultures’, give testimony that in this respect he has been successful. There is still merit in his essential contentions that there are graduates in the humanities who remain out of touch with scientific developments – and science graduates who don’t read novels. But the world has changed: the computer revolution and the World Wide Web have permitted far broader access to each of the two cultures. While the split between the humanities and the sciences may have grown less, another fissure has become prominent: the sharp divide between those I call the true children of the European enlightenment and those who reject these values, the ‘fideists’. This argument began at Christ’s College, Cambridge.

scholarly journals The projection of colonialization and interculturalism throughout symbols in Forster's novel 'A passage to India'

2020 ◽  
pp. 100-110
Author(s):  
Sunaj Hadžija ◽  
Jahja Fehratović ◽  
Kimeta Hamidović
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Cultural Minorities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Racial Domination ◽  
The One ◽  
Negative Phenomena

Imperialism emerged in the late 19th century. Europe's supremacy in various areas of life which led to the view that Europe is above other parts of the world that are uncivilized and culturally fell behind, and that needed to be civilized. This attitude lead to negative phenomena such as racism - contesting the rights of other races and colonialism - conquering territories inhabitated by people of other cultures. The world seen from an imperialist perspective was most often the one colonized by Europe, postcolonial research has critized the way in which European colonial powers (especially England and France) created values of subordinate cultures and established relations between center and margins. However, the notion of discursive domination is spread quickly to all relations between colonizers and colonized, which is why this second group includes all gender and ethic groups that did not have cultural independece, but were marginalized and subjected to institutional repression. As different cultural minorities began to form resistance to agressive political, gender, and racial domination, postcolonialism also represents a disagreement with the passivity towards cultural supremacy which is symbolized in empires that no longer even existed. The novel A Passage to India represents Forster's interests in Indian culture, which was colonized by Great Britain. A Passage to India is an exploration of the spiritual and cultural contrast of the two cultures of East and West.

scholarly journals Interaction of Art and Science in the Context of Synergetics

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana S. Akhromeeva ◽  
Georgy G. Malinetsky ◽  
Sergey A. Posashkov
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Science Philosophy ◽  
The One

The article considers the interaction of science and art, as well as the development of Science Art from the standpoint of the theory of self-organization and the theory of humanitarian-technological revolution. The world is at the point of bifurcation defining the future. The choice of the further trajectory will be largely determined by what is happening in the emotional and intuitive spaces. This, in turn, depends on the deve­lopment of art, science, philosophy. The article discus­ses alternative futures and the role of culture in them.Charles Snow wrote about a gap between the two cultures — natural science, answering the question “How?” and looking into the future, and humanities, answering the question “What?” and often reflec­ting on the past.The growing gap between the two cultures prevents the civilization from relying to the necessary extent on scientific knowledge and leads to its devaluation. The authors show the importance of the “exchange of metaphors” between science and art, allowing to build bridges over the gap of two cultures. Another way to connect these two spaces is the development of interdisciplinary approaches, in particular, the theory of self-organization, or synergetics. In the 1970s, synergetics was conceived as a language that allowed humanitarians, specialists in natural sciences and mathe­maticians to discuss, formulate and pose common problems, while remaining, nevertheless, in the space of science. Now the central interdisciplinary problem is the study of not only the rational (as du­ring the last three centuries), but also the emotional and intuitive space of human and society.Currently, there are two forecasts materializing — the one of D. Bell, on the transition from the industrial phase of development to the post-industrial, from the world of technology to the world of people, and the one of N.A. Berdyaev, on the transition from the Se­cond Antiquity to the Second Middle Ages. The article shows how this will change the culture itself and its place in society.

scholarly journals Towards Harmonizing the Mythic and The Modern in Erdrichs Tracks: A Magical Realist Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol V (III) ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
Mumtaz Ahmad ◽  
Asma Haseeb Qazi ◽  
Sahar Javaid
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Magical Realism ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The World ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Realist Perspective

This article is an endeavor to provide an insight into Native American novelist Louise Erdrich's use of the magical-realist technique in an attempt to harmonize the mythic and modern conceptions of reality represented by the Native American and Euro American subjects, respectively. The article demonstrates that in an attempt to seek a way possible to intertwine the two cultures, to wed the Native and the European ideologies of the world into accommodative space and to strike out the all-pervasive differences between the two people inhabiting the same land, Erdrich delves into the structuring principles of each culture's conceptualizing and internalizing the reality and the faith in it, and presents them as simultaneous albeit contrary versions of the same events, suggesting the possibility of simultaneous and harmonious co-existence of the two views, each retaining its essential outlook and yet respecting and accommodating the other. Employing Bower and Paula Gunn Allen's theoretical postulations of magical realism as a particular discourse embedded in the mythic and cultural beliefs of the Native American subjects, the article explores the mythic and modern formulations of female identity in Native American magical-realist fiction Tracks.

Multicultural and Cosmopolitan Identity in Relation to Cross-Cultural Conversation in Arab-American Poetry: Naomi Shihab Nye

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (21) ◽  
pp. 415-438
Author(s):  
Shireen Shihab Hamad, Phd
Keyword(s):  
American Poetry ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Arab American ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
American Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Cultural Conversation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Poetic Vision

The poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye exemplifies the complexities of identity issues operating in a culture that is fraught with racial and political intensity. Although the poet has repeatedly mentioned the impact of her experience in Palestine on the formation of her poetic vision and consciousness, she does not resist -or separate herself from- the influence of American literary tradition and culture. Her multicultural identity embraces the two cultures by presenting the amalgamation of both Arab heritage and American experience. Thus, Nye's poetry shows how this Arab-American identity develops to be cosmopolitan as she sees herself as a "citizen of the world".  This cosmopolitanism plays an important role in cross-cultural conversation which is based on acceptance  and respect of difference. Her poetry is a message to all people and other hyphenated literary  writers to celebrate their difference and use it to connect the  various cultures in the world.

Olwid, Or the Beginnings of Polish Postcolonialism

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-460
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Szewczyk-Haake
Keyword(s):  
Human Values ◽  
World War ◽  
Common Humanity ◽  
German Expressionism ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Postcolonial Criticism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
The Difference ◽  
New Interpretation

Summary This article presents a postcolonial interpretation of Olwid’s (Witold Hulewicz’s) book of poems Flame in Hand (Płomień w garści, 1921). His poetic ‘fragments’ describing the experience of the World War are remarkably similar to the poetry of German expressionism. Whereas previous critics treated this similarity as a proof of the derivative, unoriginal nature of the Poznań expressionism, this article claims that Olwid’s was a deliberate attempt to start a rapprochement between the Polish and the German culture. After decades of colonial dependence the breakthrough of 1918 the two cultures had a chance to resume a dialogue of equals with the expressionist poetics as a new footing. Hulewicz tones down the difference between the hegemon and the victim in the spirit of the expressionistic search for common humanity. To that end he also develops a new interpretation of the Polish Romantic tradition. His endeavours mark him out as a precursor of postcolonial criticism, and more specifically that type of postcolonialism which uses the emancipatory strategy as a means to the creation of a ‘truly free man’. That high goal is pursued not because of a commitment to cosmopolitanism but in the name of absolute human values.

scholarly journals Interpreting Chinese Culture-Loaded Sayings: A Case Study of Press Conference of Two Sessions

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Jin Wu
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Image Interpretation ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
Press Conference ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Cultural Image ◽  
Original Analysis ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Set Up

As an indispensable means to elaborate on China’s development momentum and to set up global image, interpretation of press conference for Two Sessions presents the study essence of international publicity translation and the key problems lie in the culture-loaded expression translation. In light of the Functional Linguistics and Functionalist translation theory, the top-down hierarchic problem-solving approach is adopted for the original analysis. The target-oriented perspective aims at acquiring adequate version instead of equivalence between the source and target. The past decade example extractions cover the interpretation of the four-character set phrases, colloquial expressions, quotations and proverbs. Nine frequently-used interpretation types are concluded and analyzed in terms of the intended function and addressees’ reception environment by comparing the source and target cultures. Statistic results show that the compatibility between the two cultures may account for, to some extent, the method selection for interpreting practice in question. The more compatible of the relationship between the two cultures, the more tendency of preserving the original cultural image, and the more literal forms will be employed. And the larger the cultural distance, the more adjustments and adaptions would be adopted. With due consideration of the intentional function and addressees’ background, the versions may be readily accepted.

Hybrids Are Hubs: Transdisciplinarity, the Two Cultures and the Special Status of Artscientists

Leonardo ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
François-Joseph Lapointe
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The World ◽  
The Two Cultures

Much has been said and written about the two-culture paradigm separating the world between artists and scientists. On one side of this debate are those who accept this cultural art/science divide. On the other side are those who reject it altogether to promote a better integration of artscience practices. In this paper, the author presents a network analysis of 40 papers submitted to the SEAD Network for Science, Engineering, Arts and Design and tests the hypothesis that the papers submitted by artists and scientists are disconnected in the corresponding graph, as predicted by the art/science separation. Rejecting this hypothesis will provide support for the alternative artscience integration.

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