scholarly journals What is the Socio-Historical Method in the Study of Religion?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Darren M. Slade
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Faith Tradition ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The purpose of this article is to answer what the socio-historical method is when applied to the study of religion, as well as detail how numerous disciplines (e.g. archaeology, anthropology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, theology, musicology, dramatology, etc.) contribute to its overall employment. In the broadest (and briefest) definition possible, a socio-historical study of religion coalesces the aims, philosophies, and methodologies of historiography with those of the social and cultural sciences, meaning it analyzes the interpretation and practice of religion through the lens of social/historical contexts, scientific discovery, and from within each faith tradition. The result is that the contexts surrounding a particular religion becomes the primary subject of study in order to better understand the origin, development, and expression of the religion itself. This article explains that the socio-historical study of religion is, in essence, an eclectic methodology that focuses on describing and analyzing the contexts from which the interpretation and practice of religion occurs. The goal is to examine how different aspects of a religion function in the broader socio-political and cultural milieu. Its most fundamental postulation is that the social history of a religious community affects how it interprets and practices their faith. By approaching religious inquiry from a socio-historical perspective, researchers are better able to recognize religion as a cultural and institutional element in ongoing social and historical interaction. Three sections will help to explain the socio-historical method: 1) a definitional dissection of the term “socio-historical”; 2) an elaboration of the principles inherent to the methodology; and 3) a case study example of the socio-historical method in practice.

Curation as research. A case study in orphaned and underreported archaeological collections

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara L. Voss
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Innovative Research ◽  
Archaeological Collections ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common

AbstractAs archaeologists grapple with the international curation crisis, new attention is being given to the problem of ‘orphaned’ archaeological collections and collections that are underanalysed and underreported. The common rationale for curating such collections is to restore research potential, but such efforts are met with frustration because of the difficulties of re-establishing provenance and quantitative control for artefacts long separated from their original archaeological context. Moreover, most archaeologists view curation as a process that manages, rather than investigates, archaeological collections. To the contrary, this article argues that accessioning, inventory, cataloguing, rehousing and conservation are not simply precursors to research, but rather meaningful generative encounters between scholars and objects. Examples from the curation of the Market Street Chinatown archaeological collection illustrate how the process of curation can generate innovative research undertakings. Because archaeological research on this collection cannot proceed in a typical way, the research developed through the curation process departs from archaeological conventions to bring new perspectives on the social history of the Overseas Chinese diaspora.

scholarly journals The role of Kazan therapists in the development of the direction of Botkin's scientific research and clinical practice in the first half of the twentieth century

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-399
Author(s):  
V I Borodulin ◽  
V Yu Albitsky
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Scientific School ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Therapeutic Schools ◽  
The Impact

The article highlights the formation of scientific therapeutic schools in Kazan using the comparative-historical method from the position of the modern concept of scientific school. Founded by the first of Botkin's student N.A. Vinogradov, the affiliate Botkin's scientific school initiated the creation of therapeutic schools at Kazan University in the first half of the XX century, originating in the second or third generation directly from S.P. Botkin. The activities of prominent Kazan therapists and their role in the formation of scientific schools are considered based on the approach of the social history of medicine the impact of the social changes in Russia in 1917 and the beginning of the Civil War. Having established a center for the development of the scientific heritage of the great Russian clinician in Kazan, the clinical schools of A.N. Kazem-Bek, S.S. Zimnitsky, M.N. Cheboksarov, and N.K. Goryaev played a huge role in the development of Botkins direction of domestic internal medicine.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
David M. Doyle ◽  
Liam O’Callaghan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Crime ◽  
Revolutionary Period

This chapter opens with a micro-history of the murder of Ellen O’Sullivan by David O’Shea in rural Cork in 1931; this case study is used to introduce some of the key themes of the book, particularly around the social history of capital punishment in Ireland. The chapter then outlines the history of capital punishment in Ireland in the nineteenth century before analysing, in detail, the executions carried out during the revolutionary period and the civil war, and the attendant legal proceedings. Political crime and emergency legislation would remain key themes in the history of capital punishment after independence. The chapter then outlines the legal and technical procedures associated with the death penalty in independent Ireland. This key contextual material sets the scene for the remainder of the book.

Selling France to the French: The French Zone of Occupation in Western Germany, 1945–c.1955

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. H. ADLER
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Transnational History ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Military Government ◽  
Commercial Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Germany ◽  
The Military

AbstractThis article contributes to the literature of occupation, as well as to transnational history, by exploring the social history of the military government in the French Zone of Occupation in West Germany (ZFO). It uses the Zone as a case study to understand the construction of a French community abroad by looking at systems of buying and selling, and asks whether these systems were not in themselves constitutive of the very transformation of members of the military government into a ‘French community’. By investigating the insistence that French customers buy French goods at the économat, the shop restricted to their use, the article claims that gender, family and commercial practice helped to define home for members of the French administration in Germany.

Historical Analysis of Law

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Dirk Dubber
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Social Embeddedness ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Social Basis ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right

Kenneth Ledford's and Michael Meranze's insightful comments raise important questions about the nature of legal history in general, and of the history of punishment in particular. According to Ledford and Meranze, modern legal history is social history, to be distinguished from “old-style intellectual history.” A product of the latter “historical method no longer in favor,” “The Right to Be Punished” draws Ledford's and Meranze's criticism for its insufficient “root[s]… in the soil of social history” and for its inadequate “account of the … social basis of the modern will to punish” and “the social embeddedness of punishment.”

The Interest in Life of Jesus Theology as a Paradigm for the Social History of Biblical Criticism

1992 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter Georgi
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Biblical Criticism ◽  
Historical Criticism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Study ◽  
History Of

Historians, including biblical critics, are not known for exposing themselves to the same kind of historical criticism that they apply to everything and everyone else. The historical situation of contemporary exegetes and their social conditions usually remain uninvestigated and thus—from a historical-critical and socio-historical perspective—unquestioned. The various hermeneutical inquiries that different forms of liberation theology have recently developed provide a beginning for such a necessary self-study. They need, however, to be expanded.

scholarly journals Sociologia della tortura

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iside Gjergji
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social History ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The Political ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Mutual Relationship ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constant Diffusion ◽  
History Of

This work addresses torture with the ambition to strengthen a properly sociological approach to it by bringing to the fore the social history of the tortured, also through the fundamental contribution of the political economy. This category is not utilised in an abstract way, it is brought into the picture through the social history of the bodies of those tortured. These bodies are not considered mere biological bodies subjugated by ‘power’, but rather bodies with a voice, bodies capable of revealing their social standing. Placing the bodies’ class at the centre of the analysis allows us to fully grasp the sociological substance of torture, to understand the underlying reasons for its historical persistence and constant diffusion. The book explores torture in a threefold way: firstly by analysing the image of torture as an effective hermeneutic tool of late modernity; secondly by adopting a historical perspective to identify structural elements and metamorphoses; thirdly by examining the concrete practices of torture to enable the establishment of a mutual relationship between history and biography.

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