scholarly journals Media as Religion. Stardom as Religion. Really? Christian Theological Confrontation

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 568
Author(s):  
Terézia Rončáková
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Religion And Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Media And Religion ◽  
Key Terms

In the more recent scholarly literature on media, pop culture or celebrity studies, there has been a growing tendency to identify media, stardom and other pop culture forms of cult with religion. An increasing number of concepts have sprung up such as “media as religion” or “stardom as religion”. However, these concepts need to be critically scrutinized as to whether the use of specific theological terms in those concepts is sound and consistent—or, as the case may be, superficial. The primary aim of this paper is to examine whether there are essential intrinsic similarities between religion and media. To answer this question, we have examined the structural similarities between media and religion (by comparing their use of ritual and liturgy; emotions; cosmology; myth and archetype; and the cult of individualism in particular). Subsequently, we have analyzed the key terms that have emerged from those comparisons (religion and faith; God; emotions; community; liturgy; cosmology; archetypes; saints; individualism). The term religion is used in its broad sense; however, the subject is examined in detail within the context of Christian theology. We came to the conclusion that media religion is a non-theistic religio without God, with an exclusive emphasis on social cohesion. The absence of verticality, lack of transcendence to eternity as well as the non-existing relationship with God as a person—have determined the remaining partial conclusions presented herein.

St Theodore the Studite's Defence of the Icons

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torstein Theodor Tollefsen
Keyword(s):  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Innovative Thinking ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

This book is an investigation of the icon theology of St Theodore the Studite, mainly as it is presented in his three refutations of the iconoclasts, even if some passages from his letters are also brought into the picture. The book fills a gap in scholarly literature since, even though treated by some scholars, his doctrine of the icon has never been the subject of such an extensive or in-depth investigation before. In addition to the main elements of his defence of the icon, like the Christological issue, the relation between image and prototype, the question of veneration, his explanation of why we may say of an image that ‘this is Christ’, and his innovative thinking on the representative character of icon production, there is an introduction that places Theodore in the history of Byzantine philosophy: he has some knowledge of traditional logical topics and is able to utilize argumentative forms in countering his iconoclast opponents. The book also has an appendix in which the author tries to show that the making of images is somehow natural given the character of Christianity as a religion.

Mutando mutanda: Notes on Anomalies

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (5) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Vadim Krysko
Keyword(s):  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
Plural Form ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
The Subject

The article analyzes some examples of ancient Slavic (Old Russian and Old Bulgarian) writing which in the scholarly literature are considered as unique exceptions or early innovations: the reduplication of pronoun tъ and the vocative form of the subject in the Tale of Bygone Years, the use of the verb techi (teshhi) ‘run’ in a causative meaning, the use of the accusative of time in an Old Bulgarian inscription, the *o-stem nominative plural form of the *ā-stem noun ubiitsa in an Old Russian inscription of the 12th century. Attention to a wider range of sources and to the written tradition to which these texts belong reveals that the alleged anomalous forms either represent regular formations or demonstrate a distortion of the text.

scholarly journals Merarches in the thematic organization (9th-12th centuries)

2013 ◽  
pp. 215-234
Author(s):  
Milos Cvetkovic
Keyword(s):  
Historical Documents ◽  
Military Organization ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Byzantine Period ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
Source Materials

The text cites the results of the study of the role of merarches, which were a part of the military organization of the Empire in the early Byzantine period. Later historical documents do not give any notion of this position for more than two centuries. The merarches became a part of the thematic organization in the middle of 9th century. Our ability to fully understand the nature of their function is limited due to the scarcity of source materials; this, however, may be overcome by taking into account, the general and political situation in the Empire, that is, by considering the military reforms executed in the 9th and 10th century. This paper focuses on the problem of the military-administrative competences of the merarches, which have been the subject of different interpretations in the modern, scholarly literature. One of the aims of this research is the definition of the timeframe within which the reestablishment of this rank in the Byzantine army occured.

scholarly journals FORMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHT PROTECTION

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 106-112
Author(s):  
N.Sh. Gadzhialieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Organic Unity ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Favorable Environment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Coercion ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Right

The article analyzes various forms of protecting the right to a favorable environment, examines the concept of a form of protecting rights as a legal category. Based on the analysis of regulatory and scientific sources, the author has classified the forms of protection of the right to a favorable environment provided for in the law. Depending on the endowment of the subject carrying out the defense with the authority to use state coercion, the author identifies two large independent forms of protection: state and non-state. The author notes the legal uncertainty regarding the content of the right to a healthy environment, which complicates its protection. The positions of scientists who consider the right to a favorable environment in a narrow and broad sense are analyzed. Attention is drawn to the fact that the mechanism for protecting the right and the content of the right to a favorable environment are in organic unity and thus in the aggregate affect the formation of forms and methods of protecting the right to a favorable environment by a person. In conclusion, the author formulates the conclusions of the study, relying not only on the current legislation of the Russian Federation, but also on the established judicial practice, as well as on the scientific dogmas of Russian scientists in the field under study.

UNDERSTANDING BLOGGERS POSTING ABOUT POP CULTURE: LINGUAPRAGMATICS OF «UNPOPULAR OPINION» IN THE ENGLISH INTERNET-DISCOURSE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.V. Kukovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Given ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Blog Posts ◽  
Subcultural Community

The paper explores communication within the English blogosphere in which the discourse manifests itself in blog posts, devoted, in particular, to reactions to a variety of pop-culture works. These posts are characterized by specific linguapragmatics. The article examines the language and the discourse of bloggers from the standpoint of the Linguistic Creativity approach, which may help to have an in-depth insight into the mechanisms of cognitive processes. The topicality of this topic is justified by the interest that modern linguists have in text studies, discourse analysis and computer-mediated Internet-discourse. The novelty of the article lies in the fact that the given discourse and the linguapragmatics of the posts in question in the English blogosphere have not so far received the attention they deserve and should be the subject of more research and analysis. The paper supplies relevant conclusions made on the basis of the empiric material. The research demonstrates that within the English Internet-discourse of bloggers, who interpret modern pop culture and can be considered a subcultural community, among other types of posts there can be singled out the so-called “unpopular opinion”, that boasts a number of linguapragmatic peculiarities coinciding with the communicative goals of bloggers. Decoding such posts may be a challenge and we, among other things, want to draw researchers’ attention to the “language of bloggers” and its study.

Prematurity: The Diagnosis, Care and Disorders of the Premature Infant

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-226
Author(s):  
JOSEPH DANCIS
Keyword(s):  
Premature Infant ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Human Fetus ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Clinical Aspects ◽  
Complete Development ◽  
Complete Treatment ◽  
The Subject

The publisher states on the fly-leaf, "This book is an endeavor to meet the need of the whole team of workers"—clinicians, investigators, nurses, social workers, etc. This is an impossible objective, and it is doubtful that the author hoped to achieve it. However, it is evident that he did plan a very complete treatment of the subject of prematurity. The result is a large book (587 pages), wealthy in detail and in bibliography, with about one-third devoted to physiology in the broad sense and the rest to the clinical aspects of the premature infant. Dr. Corner has put much effort into this work, and the resulting volume has much to reward the reader. However, the attempt to be all-encompassing was unfortunate. The review of the complete development of the human fetus is so cursory as to contribute little of value to the physician.

Known by God: C. S. Lewis and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

2005 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-352
Author(s):  
Brian S. Rosner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Pastoral Value ◽  
The Image Of God

Whereas knowing God is central to every version of Christian theology, little attention has been paid to the other side of the divine-human relationship. This introductory essay approaches the subject via the brief but poignant remarks of two twentieth-century authors appearing in a work of fiction and in a poem. If C. S. Lewis recognizes the primacy of being known by God, Dietrich Bonhoeffer helps define it and underscores its pastoral value. Both authors accurately reflect the main contours of the Bible’s own treatment. Calvin’s view of the image of God, which T. F. Torrance defines as ‘God’s gracious beholding of man as his child,’ may be of assistance in defining what it means to be known by God.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND “BRITA IN PUBS” PROJECT

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artūras Kaklauskas ◽  
Loreta Kanapeckiene
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Major Market ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
The Subject ◽  
High Level ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
Productivity And Competitiveness ◽  
Rapid Shift

Driven by the rapid shift to information‐based products and business strategies the discipline of knowledge management is emerging as the inevitable next step toward productivity and competitiveness in modern business — and a major market opportunity for vendors of a variety of information-related computer products. The proper analysis of the terminology of technologies that contribute to knowledge management solutions is the subject of this paper. This paper provides a high‐level overview of a number of key terms and concepts, describes the framework, provides examples of how to use it and explores a variety of potential application areas. The main comparative analysis of the definitions which were received from different terminology systems has been completed. It provides a framework for characterizing various tools (methods, practices and technologies) available to multiple criteria decision‐making in the dwelling‐housing procedure. In this paper we present a short description of “BRITA in PuBs” project.

Epilogue: Resurrection and Zombies

2021 ◽  
pp. 181-190
Author(s):  
Daniel Juan Gil
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
The Self ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Tv Shows

This chapter examines the current pop culture fascination with the undead body visible in the explosion of TV shows and films about zombies. Emmanuel Carrère’s The Kingdom tells the story of the well-known French writer’s brief but intense conversion to Christianity, in the grip of which he was involved in developing the French TV series Les Revenants, which was the model for A&E’s The Returned. Carrère’s account of his relationship to the Christian theology of resurrection as an inspiration for Les Revenants reveals the truth of the “undead” genres more generally, namely as a culture-wide return of the repressed, a protest against the increasingly disembodied, virtualized way we live today. Implicitly, the undead character (including the zombie) attacks the modern fantasy that the self is, in its essence, disembodied and therefore reducible to information, data, and code and in which people yearn for a cybernetic resurrection that will take the form of entering into the disembodied life of the digital world. In the midst of this disembodied virtualized world, pop zombie culture, like seventeenth-century culture, is a reminder of the body’s abiding vulnerabilities, limitations, and also potentials for transcendence.

The (re-)establishment of order: Disorder in the priestly understanding and in the teaching and acts of Jesus

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-175
Author(s):  
Mark E. Biddle
Keyword(s):  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Objective Quality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Concrete Reality ◽  
Legal Sense

While a biblical doctrine of sin requires the honest and careful assessment of the complexity and plurality of the biblical witness,2 especially with regard to the relationship of the two Testaments, scholarship often draws lines of demarcation between the two Testaments too sharply. Ancient Israel’s priests devoted significant attention to the “objective” quality of wrong done as a pastoral problem, for example. Leviticus establishes that “unintentional sin” covers the whole gamut of behaviors short of willful sin that can result in terrible injury and harm. Indeed, the priests so consistently held the notion that wrong inheres in a situation, regardless of the intention of the actor, that they could use the language of sin to discuss skin diseases (Lev 14:1–32) and mold in houses (Lev 14:33–53). Israel’s priests did not speculate as to the precise point along the spectrum of willfulness and inadvertence at which one becomes morally culpable in the legal sense. Instead, their approach was much more pastoral: whatever the psychological and ethical dynamics preceding and underlying a wrong, the priests saw their role primarily in terms of healing, restoration, and restitution. Jesus and James expanded the priestly notion of sin as an objective reality to include intention as a category in the discussion of sin, but did not make it definitive of sin. Although the Gospels preserve no other discourse of Jesus even impinging on the subject of the concrete reality of sin, Jesus’ behaviors, especially instances when he healed without assigning blame or seeking repentance first, manifest his priestly concern for correcting inherent wrongness, for restoring rightness. Following Jesus, the priests’ view that any disorder threatens the harmony of the cultic community can supply useful and pertinent raw material for Christian theology and ethics today.

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