scholarly journals The Importance of the Sun Symbol in the Restoration of Sámi Spiritual Traditions and Healing Practice

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Joy
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Material

Today, artefacts of the past have immense value for Sámi shamans, artists, and custodians of culture who are reengaging with their spiritual traditions. A cultural revival is taking place through various applications and approaches. Henceforth, there is an ongoing process of creating a restorative framework mainly based on the work of individuals, through which, drum making and decoration, joiking, sacrificial acts, and forms of divination consisting of various sorts of practices are emerging. One of the central symbols that features prominently amongst the Sámi in relation to their prehistoric cosmology and reuse of symbolism in different contexts with regard to spiritual traditions that helps link past with the present is the Sun. Therefore, the purpose of the descriptive analysis in this research paper examines the application of the Sun symbol to new types of drums made by Peter Armstrand who is a Sámi person, for healing and identity building and some of the contexts they appear within. As a method to elaborate on how the past is utilized in the present, the research material constitutes one short case study involving Armstrand who is a Sámi drum maker and likewise, a healer. To help broaden the fieldwork materials collected, I also refer to an old photograph of a drum and its cosmological landscape.

scholarly journals Regional disparities in prevalence of obesity among school-aged children in Egypt: A country case study from The Eastern Mediterranean Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 262-268
Author(s):  
Ayoub Al-Jawaldeh ◽  
Azza Abul-Fadl
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Region ◽  
Prevalence Rates ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Material ◽  
High Consumption ◽  
Country Case Study ◽  
Prevalence Of Obesity

Background: This study is a review of recent research conducted in Egypt on the problem of rising prevalence rates of obesity among school-aged children. Methods: The search was conducted in three phases. The key words used were obesity, overweight, school-aged children, and nutritional status specifically for Egyptians over the past decade (2010–2021). Online research sites and the libraries of the Egyptian universities of the eluc.org. websites were searched along with on-site visits to the libraries of thesis universities and other research institutes in Egypt, to obtain full research material. Finally, retrieved data were analyzed statistically. Results: The search identified 24 studies that covered 15 governorates and one national survey that covered 25 governorates. The prevalence of obesity in the pooled populations was 10.6%. Prevalence rates of obesity were highest in Lower Egypt (LE) (10.0%) and urban governorates (9.2%) compared to Upper Egypt (UE) governorates (6.3%, p>0.05). Obesity in the children over 10 years was slightly higher among females in the urban (5.1%) and LE governorates (5.2%) compared to males (4.1 and 4.8%, respectively). However, it appeared higher in males (5.2%) compared to females (3.2%) in UE governorates (p>0.05). Conclusion: Obesity in Egypt is rising and is related primarily to high consumption of unhealthy foods. Member states must take active steps to regulate marketing of unhealthy foods to children.

Analisis Kinerja Keuangan pada Primer Koperasi Pegawai Universitas Pembangunan Nasional “Veteran” Yogyakarta

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-212
Author(s):  
Sulasih Sulasih
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Numerical Data ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Profit Margins ◽  
The Past ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive ◽  
Performance Conditions ◽  
Quantitative Calculations

The purpose of this study is to find out and analyze the extent to which the financial performance conditions that have been achieved by cooperatives in the past 5 years on the basis of assessing business capital turnover, profit margins, economic profitability, own capital profitability are good and to apply and compare knowledge obtained under the real circumstances. This type of research is to describe and solve a problem raised in the study, namely the analysis of financial performance, the research used is a case study with quantitative descriptive analysis, namely the method of data analysis using quantitative calculations (numerical data) used on data of objects that have been collected. The results of this study indicate that judging from the level of business capital turnover has fluctuating movements, when viewed from the profit margin it tends to increase, whereas when viewed from economic profitability tends to decrease and when viewed from the profitability of its own capital tends to increase assessed more able to manage businesses with their own capital.

scholarly journals FINTECH AND BANK: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-99
Author(s):  
Mercurius Broto Legowo ◽  
Steph Subanidja ◽  
Fangky Antoneus Sorongan
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
The Past ◽  
Banking Institutions ◽  
Financial Technology

Financial Technology has long been applied to the financial and banking sectors until the emergence of financial technology innovation called FinTech. Referring to the evolution of FinTech until now, FinTech influences the Bank's activities from the past, present, and future. Based on these facts, this research aims to present a descriptive analysis of FinTech and Bank in the past, present, and future, especially in Indonesia as a case study.  This study uses a descriptive analysis research method and using qualitative method approaches. This descriptive analysis is carried out by critically reviewing various relevant scientific journals, the facts of the FinTech phenomenon in Indonesia, and documentation papers from banking institutions. The results of this analysis reveal what happened to FinTech and the Bank in the past, present, and future. The contributions from this study can provide insight and understanding related to FinTech and banks in the past, present, and future more in-depth.  

scholarly journals The Development of Multicultural Discourse in the Historical Learning: A Case Study on Samudra University Langsa Aceh

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Bachtiar Akob
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

The research analyzed the efforts conducted in the domain of historical learning in a university, especially related to how the past memory influences the recent multicultural discourses. The method used in this research is qualitative descriptive analysis with case study approach. The research was divided into three parts: (1) collecting data, (2) analyzing data, and (3) reporting the results of the research. Subjects of the research were selected by using purposive sampling technique; they were the 4th semester students up to the 6th semester students of the History Education Department in Samudra University Langsa Aceh. The research resulted findings that conceptually the students had understood about the concept of multicultural. Nevertheless, multicultural discourse had not touched the context of locality. Historical learning was designed to develop and expand the students’ multicultural discourse. The design of historical learning contains the learning strategy of ENACT, consisting of six stages: apperception, exploration, narrowing, analyzing, creating and teaching. Historical learning forms the students’ multiculturalism discourse, built from a historical understanding and the dynamics of Acehnese society. The students viewed that multicultural is a social condition, formed from historical process. Conflict understood by students as the dynamics which is inseparable from a multicultural society. However, the students considered that conflict caused many endless problems, therefore, the students’ multicultural discourse tended to lead to peace condition. Keywords: Historical Learning, ENACT, Multicultural.

From hard to soft: theory and Neolithic studies in Scotland

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Kenneth Brophy
Keyword(s):  
The Past

The Scottish Theoretical Archaeology Group (STAG) conference organisers expressed some doubts about how far theory has changed, and impacted, archaeological establishment and academia in Scotland. In this paper, I will argue that Scotland is certainly not isolated in a theoretical sense, although in the past, Scottish archaeology could be accused of being theoretically conservative, or at least dependent on ideas and models developed elsewhere. A case-study looking at Neolithic studies will be used to illustrate that despite some recent critical historiographies of the study of the period in Scotland, archaeologists in Scotland and those working with Scottish material have been theoretically innovative and in step with wider paradigm changes. The study of the Neolithic in Scotland, it could be argued, has been shaped by theory more than the study of any other period; we are not isolated, but rather part of wider networks of discourse.

A Pleasing Odour for Yahweh

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Anne Katrine De Hemmer Gudme
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The West ◽  
Sense Of Smell ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Crucial Part

This article investigates the importance of smell in the sacrificial cults of the ancient Mediterranean, using the Yahweh temple on Mount Gerizim and the Hebrew Bible as a case-study. The material shows that smell was an important factor in delineating sacred space in the ancient world and that the sense of smell was a crucial part of the conceptualization of the meeting between the human and the divine.  In the Hebrew Bible, the temple cult is pervaded by smell. There is the sacred oil laced with spices and aromatics with which the sanctuary and the priests are anointed. There is the fragrant and luxurious incense, which is burnt every day in front of Yahweh and finally there are the sacrifices and offerings that are burnt on the altar as ‘gifts of fire’ and as ‘pleasing odors’ to Yahweh. The gifts that are given to Yahweh are explicitly described as pleasing to the deity’s sense of smell. On Mount Gerizim, which is close to present-day Nablus on the west bank, there once stood a temple dedicated to the god Yahweh, whom we also know from the Hebrew Bible. The temple was in use from the Persian to the Hellenistic period (ca. 450 – 110 BCE) and during this time thousands of animals (mostly goats, sheep, pigeons and cows) were slaughtered and burnt on the altar as gifts to Yahweh. The worshippers who came to the sanctuary – and we know some of them by name because they left inscriptions commemorating their visit to the temple – would have experienced an overwhelming combination of smells: the smell of spicy herbs baked by the sun that is carried by the wind, the smell of humans standing close together and the smell of animals, of dung and blood, and behind it all as a backdrop of scent the constant smell of the sacrificial smoke that rises to the sky.

THE URBAN MIGRANT FUTURE DESIRE: A STUDY OF REVERSE MIGRATION IN MALAYSIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Nur Huzeima Mohd Hussain ◽  
Hugh Byrd ◽  
Nur Azfahani Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Peak Oil ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Reverse Migration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
Urban Migrant ◽  
Oil Crisis

Globalisation combined with resources of oil and gas has led to an industrial society in Malaysia.  For the past 30 years, rapid urban growth has shifted from 73% rural to 73% urban population. However, the peak oil crisis and economic issues are threatening the growth of urbanisation and influencing the trends of population mobility. This paper documents the beginnings of a reverse migration (urban-to-rural) in Malaysia.  The method adopted case study that involves questionnaires with the urban migrants to establish the desires, definite intentions and reasons for future migration. Based on this data, it predicts a trend and rate of reverse migration in Malaysia. 

Conservation and Preservation of Nature Reserves, Monuments andSpecial Architectural or Historic Interest in Nigeria: Towards Promotion of Sustainable Cultural Tourism

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-218
Author(s):  
Francis Chuma Osefoh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Communication Link ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Developed Nations

Some of the renowned world tourism countries have special peculiarities in character in terms of their nature reserves and built environments; that made them stand out for their attractions and visits. These qualities range from conservation and preservation of nature reserves, built environments- epoch architectural supports over the years; historical heritage; political; religious; socio-economic; cultural; and  high technology that enhance culture. The virtues of multi- ethnic groups and multi- cultural nature gave Nigeria a rich cultural heritage, and she is blessed with natural wonders, unique wildlife, and a very favorable climate. More often than not less attention and importance are placed over the nature reserves and built environments to the detriment of tourism in lieu of other sectors. Summarily the country lacks the culture of conservation and preservation of her abundant resources to promote cultural tourism. Case study strategy was applied in the research tours with reports of personal experiences, documentaries and analyses of sites visited in Europe and Nigeria were highlighted with references to their attributes in terms of structures and features that made up the sites as relate to culture and attraction.The task in keeping rural, city landscapes and nature reserves alive stands out as the secret of communication link from the past to present and the future; which tourism developed nations reap as benefits for tourist attraction.

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