scholarly journals Similarities between festivals ‘Diwali’ in India and ‘Samhain’ in European civilizations

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 52-56
Author(s):  
Surendra Mathur
Keyword(s):  
European Countries ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
European Culture ◽  
European Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
European Civilization ◽  
The Way

Diwali is an Indian festival which is still alive in European tradition in a different form. The ritual for celebrating the Diwali and its cultural significance has close similarities with Samhain in Europe to that of India. The present perspective looked into available evidences for similarities of ‘Diwali’ with Samhain in  European civilization.  The study has been analyzed by dividing this topic into four parts, 1) Name Similarities between Samhain and Diwali, 2) Dates similarities between Samhain and & Diwali, 3) the similarity in the way these both festivals are celebrated even today and, 4) lastly Similarities of ‘Samhain’ in European countries. It has also been the New Year of many sects of the world. These festivals are in the heart of all societies and sects in India and Europe and thus they can help re-emerge the mythological cultures of the world. Will India look its relation with European culture in the light of Diwali?

scholarly journals Wczesna poezja Wata i Miłosza – w kręgu myśli i symboliki gnostyckiej

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
Barbara Sienkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Problem Of Evil ◽  
The Political ◽  
Czeslaw Milosz ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Problem Of Evil ◽  
Political Left ◽  
European Civilization

Summary The interwar verse of Aleksander Wat and Czesław Miłosz provides us with ample proof that both poets came to share a pessimism about the future course of European civilization. That belief led them both to develop a sympathy with the political left and, at the same time, an interest in religion. The shift to the left, however, was arrested as soon it became clear to them that this worldview offered no solution to the problem of evil in the world. Nor were they satisfied with the traditional answer to the question unde malum? that could be found in European culture rooted in its Catholic heritage. Having reached that point both poets turned to Gnosticism, a system of thought to which the problem of metaphysical evil is absolutely central. It is that philosophy and its rich symbolism that supplied them with a number of motifs to express their vision of the decline and fall of civilization. The article traces and analyzes the Gnostic ideas, motifs, images and symbols that express and give shape to the pessimistic vision of both Wat and Miłosz. It also argues that their ‘iconoclastic’ attitude which manifests itself among others in polemical reinterpretations of Old Testament texts is a consequence of their fascination with the Gnostic worldview.

scholarly journals How are European Migrants from the MENA Countries Affected by COVID-19? Insights from an Online Survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-143
Author(s):  
Smaranda Cimpoeru ◽  
Monica Roman ◽  
Amira Kobeissi ◽  
Heba Mohammad
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Mena Countries ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

AbstractCOVID-19 pandemic has affected and still affects many countries in the world, reshaping many of the economic and social activities. Based on the results of an online survey, this paper highlights the perceptions of the way the pandemic has affected one of the most vulnerable categories in a society, migrants. We focus our research on the migrants and refugees from Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries, living in Europe, as in the recent years and mostly after the migrant crisis in 2015, they are in large numbers in European countries. Using ANOVA models, our results show that unemployed migrants, students but also migrants who find it difficult on present income are most worried about the COVID-19 crisis and fell they will be greatly affected in terms of income and employment by this crisis. Also, women are more worried by COVID-19 than men with respect to the health aspect.

scholarly journals Philosophical and Pedagogical Explorations of John Amos Komensky and Gregory Skovoroda: Sense and Vocation Recalling of the Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Kultaieva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Life World ◽  
European Culture ◽  
European Tradition ◽  
The World

The article considers diversities and converges moments of the philosophical and pedagogical views of J.A. Comenius and G. S. Skoworoda and their under­standing of sense and vocation of the education. The fiction of their philosophi­cal dialog is showing the importance of the external and internal freedom for the spiritual development of human. The main attention is focused on the ontological and anthropological characteristics, which was formed in the European tradition during XVII–XVIII centuries, especially to the idea of the improvement of the world. The practices of the Skovoroda’s non- formal and informal education (in comparison with the “Great Didactic”) are developed as a rule not in the space of the school, but in the space of the life world accordingly to the post-secular tendencies. They represents also the critic of the early appearances of the half-education, which as the consequence of the dominance of the official religious for­mal education were coming into being in the urban space of the European culture. The institutional changes of the educational systems, which are taking place in the post-secular transformations of the modern societies, can be better understand by reinterpretation of philosophical and pedagogical classical works of early Moder­nity, that gained experience to combine secular senses with the theological ideas. Philosophical pedagogic as well of Comenius, so else of Skoworoda had showed hybrid and synthetic forms of their later post-secular application in the educational practices.

The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture

1989 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
James Hardin ◽  
Franco Moretti
Keyword(s):  
European Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Barbara Markiewicz. ed. "Między Mitem a Logosem, Europejski podręcznik filozofii" [Between the Myth and the Logos. The European Textbook of Philosophy]

1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-246
Author(s):  
Wojciech Słomski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
European Countries ◽  
European Regions ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
European Tradition ◽  
European Philosophy ◽  
European Civilization

There is a difficulty in distinguishing the cultural heritage of Europe from the cultures deriving from the European tradition. They do not want to be regarded as the provinces under the European domination. This is not the only problem which emerges when we describe European civilization as a product of Greek and Christian traditions. The authors of the textbook entitled Between the Myth and the Logos were confronted with much greater difficulty, namely, with the need of defining what in the European philosophy and culture makes a whole, and what stays apart from this unity and determines the unique character of the currents of thought specific for different European regions and countries. It was essential therefore to select philosophers and their works in such a way, that the choice might reflect the unity of European philosophy and, at the same time, save the differences existing between philosophers and between methods of philosophy conditioned, to a certain extent, by the economical, political and cultural specificity of the European countries.

Becoming Politicized

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Barkas ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Beliefs About The Future ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Way

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.

Restrained Airs: The Diegetic Surface and Nondiegetic Depth of British Film Music

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-443
Author(s):  
Paul Mazey
Keyword(s):  
Film Music ◽  
The World ◽  
British Cinema ◽  
Film Making ◽  
The Way

This article considers how pre-existing music has been employed in British cinema, paying particular attention to the diegetic/nondiegetic boundary and notions of restraint. It explores the significance of the distinction between diegetic music, which exists in the world of the narrative, and nondiegetic music, which does not. It analyses the use of pre-existing operatic music in two British films of the same era and genre: Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), and demonstrates how seemingly subtle variations in the way music is used in these films produce markedly different effects. Specifically, it investigates the meaning of the music in its original context and finds that only when this bears a narrative relevance to the film does it cross from the diegetic to the nondiegetic plane. This reveals that whereas music restricted to the diegetic plane may express the outward projection of the characters' emotions, music also heard on the nondiegetic track may reveal a deeper truth about their feelings. In this way, the meaning of the music varies depending upon how it is used. While these two films may differ in whether or not their pre-existing music occupies a nondiegetic or diegetic position in relation to the narrative, both are characteristic of this era of British film-making in using music in an understated manner which expresses a sense of emotional restraint and which marks the films with a particularly British inflection.

Profilometry. Using Corneo-scleral topography for scleral lens fitting

The Eye ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (128) ◽  
pp. 19-22
Author(s):  
Gregory DeNaeyer
Keyword(s):  
Ocular Surface ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Contact Lenses ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

The world-wide use of scleral contact lenses has dramatically increased over the past 10 year and has changed the way that we manage patients with corneal irregularity. Successfully fitting them can be challenging especially for eyes that have significant asymmetries of the cornea or sclera. The future of scleral lens fitting is utilizing corneo-scleral topography to accurately measure the anterior ocular surface and then using software to design lenses that identically match the scleral surface and evenly vault the cornea. This process allows the practitioner to efficiently fit a customized scleral lens that successfully provides the patient with comfortable wear and improved vision.

Apartheid Aesthetics and Insignificant Art

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-69
Author(s):  
Stephanus Muller
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
South African ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Art Songs ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Small House ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Selection Of

Stephanus Le Roux Marais (1896−1979) lived in Graaff-Reinet, South Africa, for nearly a quarter of a century. He taught music at the local secondary school, composed most of his extended output of Afrikaans art songs, and painted a number of small landscapes in the garden of his small house, nestled in the bend of the Sunday’s River. Marais’s music earned him a position of cultural significance in the decades of Afrikaner dominance of South Africa. His best-known songs (“Heimwee,” “Kom dans, Klaradyn,” and “Oktobermaand”) earned him the local appellation of “the Afrikaans Schubert” and were famously sung all over the world by the soprano Mimi Coertse. The role his ouevre played in the construction of a so-called European culture in Africa is uncontested. Yet surprisingly little attention has been paid to the rich evocations of landscape encountered in Marais’s work. Contextualized by a selection of Marais’s paintings, this article glosses the index of landscape in this body of cultural production. The prevalence of landscape in Marais’s work and the range of its expression contribute novel perspectives to understanding colonial constructions of the twentieth-century South African landscape. Like the vast, empty, and ancient landscape of the Karoo, where Marais lived during the last decades of his life, his music assumes specificity not through efforts to prioritize individual expression, but through the distinct absence of such efforts. Listening for landscape in Marais’s songs, one encounters the embrace of generic musical conventions as a condition for the construction of a particular national identity. Colonial white landscape, Marais’s work seems to suggest, is deprived of a compelling musical aesthetic by its very embrace and desired possession of that landscape.

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