scholarly journals Immortality of the Soul in Ecclesiastes and Akan traditional Thought: A Comparative Analysis from an African Christian Theological Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
John Kwasi Fosu
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Remarkable Similarity ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul

This article surveys the immortality of the soul in Ecclesiastes and Akan traditional thought from an African Christian theological perspective.Using comparative analysis, it argues that there is a remarkable similarity between the concept of immortality in Ecclesiastes and that of the Akan religio-cultural traditions. It is theologically significant to consider the immaterial nature of humankind, death and immortality that has been regarded as mystical and not experiential. This discovery of similarity with Ecclesiastes allows the Akan, and for that matter Africans, the possibility of relocating their religio-cultural and traditional worldviews within the wider context of the biblical cultures and thus Christian theology. Keywords: Immortality, Worldview, Ecclesiastes, Akans

scholarly journals “LUX AURUMQUE” BY ERIC WHITACRE IN TERMS OF COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE INTERPRETATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (58) ◽  
pp. 143-157
Author(s):  
Hanna Savelieva
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Comparative Methods ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
National University ◽  
Performance Interpretation ◽  
Methods Analytical ◽  
Eric Whitacre ◽  
Analysis Of Performance

The purpose of the article is to study the creative aspects of the performance interpretation of the choral work “Lux Aurumque” by the modern American composer E. Whitacre in the perspective of comparative analysis of performance versions. The research methodology includes classical musicological methods – analytical, interpretive and comparative methods. The concept of the article was created in the process of developing the ideas of I. Polusmyak and K. Timofeyeva. The scientific novelty is based on the fact of virtualization of choral singing that has not become the subject of a separate scientific study yet. The overriding task of the study is to clarify the specifics of the communicative conditions for the coexistence of national and cultural traditions of American and Ukrainian choral cultures. The influence of the semantics of the poetic source and the peculiarities of the composer’s choral writing are considered. The ways and possibilities of choral performance in the synthesis of traditional conditions and tendencies of cultural communication of modern society in the global network Internet are investigated. The specifics of the communicative conditions of coexistence of national and cultural traditions of American and Ukrainian choral culture are clarified. Comparative methods in this study include the analysis of several performance varieties – Virtual Choir 1.0., singing of the choir Eric Whitacre Singers under the direction of the author and the performance of the Student Choir of Kharkiv I. P. Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts. In the process of studying the cognitive possibilities of comparative analysis of performing interpretations of the selected composition, common and different features dui to various physical conditions and vocal-technological approaches were revealed. Conclusions. Consideration of the features of performance drama in the process of creation virtual and real choral work versions has revealed that the selected performance versions can be divided into two types: correspondence (the first two author’s options) and adaptation (Student Choir). This topic provides a perspective area for further research and will have an exceptional scientific result in case of cooperation of specialists in several spheres – musicology, sound design, acoustics and sociology.

Soliloquies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saint Augustine
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Bernard Lonergan ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Intellectual Quality ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
New Form ◽  
Cassiciacum Dialogues ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul

The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are dialogues that have influenced prominent thinkers from Boethius to Bernard Lonergan. Usually called the Cassiciacum dialogues, these four works are of a high literary and intellectual quality, combining Ciceronian and neo-Platonic philosophy, Roman comedy and Vergilian poetry, and early Christian theology. They are also, arguably, Augustine's most charming works, exhibiting his whimsical levity and ironic wryness. This book is the fourth work in this tetralogy. Augustine coined the term “soliloquy” to describe this new form of dialogue. The book, a conversation between Augustine and his reason, fuses the dialogue genre and Roman theater, opening with a search for intellectual and moral self-knowledge before converging on the nature of truth and the question of the soul's immortality. The volume also includes On the Immortality of the Soul, which consists of notes for the unfinished portion of the work.

Eschatology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen T. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Contemporary Philosopher ◽  
Bodily Resurrection ◽  
The Problem Of Evil ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul ◽  
Identity Problems

Eschatology is the study of or doctrine about the end of history or the last things. Eschatology is a branch of Christian theology, and the term still finds its primary home in that context, but it is also used broadly to cover any theory about the end of human life or of the world. There are many types of eschatological theory. Some of the most important are those of Plato, Vedāntic Hinduism, Karl Marx and Christianity. The contemporary philosopher of religion who makes most use of eschatology in his thinking is doubtless John Hick. There are several issues that are of interest to philosophers in the area of eschatology. Among them are such questions as whether there is good reason to believe that human life and/or history are moving towards a final end; whether personal identity problems are solvable in the eschaton (the end-state); whether eschatological considerations can help philosophers address other philosophical problems (for example, the problem of evil); whether the very notion of disembodied survival of death is coherent; and how (in Christian theology especially) immortality of the soul and bodily resurrection are related.

Sexism and Racism in the American Health Care Industry: A Comparative Analysis

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 677-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry L. Weaver ◽  
Sharon D. Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Health Care Industry ◽  
Professional Schools ◽  
Remarkable Similarity ◽  
Care Industry ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
American Health Care

By drawing on a wide range of material, a picture emerges of extensive abuse, discrimination, and exploitation of women and ethnic minorities at the hands of the American health industry. The numbers of minorities and women in professional schools and among the “elite” strata of the industry remain disproportionately low. As patients, they receive often inferior, insensitive treatment. Overall, there is a remarkable similarity in the situation of women and minorities, a condition which reflects the pervasiveness of racism and sexism in American institutions and ideologies.

Gregory of Nyssa's Dialogue with Macrina

2005 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-222
Author(s):  
John L. Drury
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
False Dichotomy ◽  
Common Objection ◽  
The Common ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul

Through an analysis of Gregory of Nyssa's treatise On the Soul and the Resurrection, this article argues for the compatibility of the doctrines of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body. Nyssa's view is explicitly contrasted to contemporary tendencies to set up a false dichotomy between the two doctrines. After answering the common objection that immortality is an intruder to Christian theology, a typology of four views on the relation between immortality and resurrection is set out. The article concludes with reflections on the theological and practical significance of Gregory's view.

The Recovery of Christian Education

1987 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Thatcher
Keyword(s):  
Christian Education ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Teaching Religion ◽  
Practical Conclusion ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Traditional Approaches

Christian theology is an important perspective for theorizing about education. This article develops a possible theological perspective on religious education. RE these days is seldom Christian education. It is dominated by secular assumptions: it is to be open, multi-faith and descriptive. What might a Christian theology of education say of these developments? In section 1 the question is raised why RE should be taught in schools at all. In section 2 a theological analysis of what may be called ‘the climate of unbelief’ is attempted, and it will be shown how several of the assumptions of the new RE arise directly out of this. In section 3 some fresh criticisms of the phenomenological approach to religion are made, which if they are sound, will indicate that this approach need not be preferred to more traditional approaches to teaching religion. In section 4 it is suggested that both the alleged fact of modern secularity and the fear of religious absolutism provide no grounds for embracing a purely descriptive approach to religion. There is a simple, practical conclusion – there should be more Christian Studies and less Religious Education in schools.

scholarly journals Reflecting national identity in universal concepts

2021 ◽  
Vol 127 ◽  
pp. 02013
Author(s):  
Larisa Nikolaevna Aleshina ◽  
Irina Aleksandrovna Zaytseva ◽  
Evgeniy Sergeevich Smakhtin ◽  
Elena Anatolyevna Gilovaya ◽  
Svetlana Sergeevna Lapshina
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Linguistic Unit ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Common Understanding

The issue of reflecting national mentality in the linguistic worldview continues to be relevant as each people has its own specific mindset and common mood related to moral and ethical features of its formation. The article describes a national concept as a complete combination of thought, religions, cultural traditions, folklore that form a conceptual sphere of a language. Therefore, studying the reflection of national identity in the concepts seems to be essential, as the concept itself is a key category in linguistic research of viewing the world through language. The main purpose of this study is to perform a comparative analysis of conceptual spheres of the Russian and English languages. To achieve this purpose we set several tasks: to characterize peculiarities of expressing the key concepts sovest’/conscience, dobro/good, pravda/truth, krasota/beauty in speech; to identify extralinguistic factors fostering common understanding of the conceptual spheres being analyzed in the Russian and English linguistic worldviews. The article uses a complex research methodology, which combines descriptive and analytical methods, as well as the opposition technique and structural and semantic analysis of a word. The paper concludes that only those connotations of the concepts that become a symbol referring to a certain perspective of national mentality are ethnoculturally essential. In the conceptual spheres of English and Russian, key notions defining value systems of these cultures play a significant role. Evolution of material and spiritual culture is reflected in a concept as a single linguistic unit.

scholarly journals Joint Singing as a Means of Cultural Transmission in Estonia

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Inge Raudsepp ◽  
Anu Sepp ◽  
Inkeri Roukonen
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Choral Singing ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cultural Reality

<p class="IATED-Affiliation">The phenomenon of joint singing, originating from the traditional old folk song and subsequent choral singing, has developed in Estonia into a significant cultural metaphor– Song Celebrations. Recent decades have brought about rapid changes in Estonian socio-cultural reality: the process of globalisation has raised the question of how to maintain national identity and cultural traditions considering these rapid processes.</p><p class="IATED-Affiliation">The aim of this article is to analyse phenomena of joint singing and Song Celebrations through historical, cultural and educational lens. The subject and corresponding literature were analysed using hermeneutic approach by M. Heidegger, W. Dilthey and H.-G. Gadamer, reflected through the focus of culture and cultural transmission by L.Rauhala, R.McShea, M.J. Taylor and C. A. Thoth.  The drifts of the content and developmental tendencies of joint singing and Song Celebrations between 1962−2011 were investigated by means of comparative analysis.</p><p class="IATED-Affiliation">The phenomenon of joint singing that has developed into the Song Celebrations tradition continues to be one the main means of cultural transmission in Estonia.</p><p class="IATED-Affiliation"> </p>

scholarly journals On General Approach and Methods of Vessels’ Shapes Systemic Study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ю.Б. Цетлин
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Cultural Integration ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Natural Structure ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Level Of Analysis ◽  
Process Completion

The article is devoted to further development of historical-and-cultural approach and methods of earthenware vessels study. A.A. Bobrinsky laid the principles of the approach and respective methods in several articles (Bobrinsky, 1986, 1988a, b, 1991). Three main stages of vessel shapes study are expounded in the article: preparatory, analytical and interpretation stages. The main attention is paid to the analytical stage. It is assumed that content of the interpretation stage will be expounded in a special article based on specific ethnographic and archeological materials. Within framework of analytical stage of vessel shapes study 5 levels of analysis are considered successively: I – analysis of general proportionality (GP) of vessel forms; II – analysis of vessel shapes’ natural structure; III – analysis of extent of functional parts’ maturity; IV – analysis of vessel shapes’ elementary structure; V – analysis of vessel shapes’ curved line (“covers”). Various aspects of potters’ cultural traditions in the sphere of certain vessel shapes creation are analyzed at all levels. At the same time the deeper is the level of shapes analysis, the more detailed cultural peculiarities of population and potters are discovered and fixed. Every level of analysis can be applied to any of 7 functional parts that form the natural structure of specific vessels. It should be emphasized that in this article an extent of functional parts’ maturity is analyzed in considerably greater detail than it was done earlier. Some rules of vessel shapes comparative analysis are expounded in the concluding section. Such analysis is performed pursuant to research tasks in two directions: in direction of certain potters’ individual skills and in direction of cultural traditions of human collectives. In the latter case an extent of cultural homogeneity of collective traditions is fixed. Infraction of the pottery traditions may be related to cultural infiltration (which brings about the beginning of mixture process), to different stages of cultural integration (which means development of mixture process) and to cultural assimilation (the mixture process completion).

scholarly journals THE CERAMICS OF TOMSK LOCAL OPTION KULAI CULTURAL-HISTORICAL COMMUNITY (ACCORDING TO THE SETTLEMENTS KIZHIROVO II AND SHELOMOK III)

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-119
Author(s):  
Людмила Михайловна Плетнёва ◽  
Дмитрий Юрьевич Рыбаков ◽  
Надежда Фёдоровна Степанова
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Crushed Stone ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Local Variant ◽  
Local Option ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Plastic Clays ◽  
Selection Of

В статье представлены результаты исследований керамики двух поселений локального варианта кулайской культурно-исторической общности из Томского Приобья. Первый памятник отражает появление в Томском Приобье населения кулайской культуры и его взаимодействие с автохтонным населением шеломокской (кижировской) культуры, в результате которого формируется томский локальный вариант кулайской КИО. Второй относится к заключительному этапу ее существования в Томском Приобье. Основная задача технико-технологического анализа заключалась в выявлении специфики культурных традиций в отборе исходного сырья и подготовке формовочных масс и сравнительном анализе полученных результатов. В результате исследований установлено, что гончары с Кижирово II предпочитали слабоожелезненные и неожелезненные пластичные глины, использовали несколько источников исходного сырья, отмечена устойчивая традиция в выборе минеральных примесей (добавление дробленого камня). Зафиксировано смешение культурных традиций и взаимодействие населения. Одной из причин наличия сосудов из других по ожелезненности глин может быть связано с новым населением на памятнике. К основным культурным традициям на Шеломке III относится использование пластичной среднеожелезненной глины и добавление дресвы. Отмечено смешение культурных традиций: местных (добавление дробленого камня) с принесенной (добавление шамота). Сравнительный анализ выявил общее и различное для керамики Кижирово II и Шеломок III. Общее — использование пластичных глин, преобладание традиции добавлять в формовочные массы дробленый камень, наличие контактов с населением с навыками, сложившимися в местности, где не были доступны выходы камня. Отличие керамики с Шеломка III от других памятников Томского Приобья в других навыках в выборе сырья – применении среднеожелезненных глин, не характерных для региона. Керамика из Шеломка III отличается и от керамики с памятников, расположенных рядом. Для поселения Кижирово II характерны те же традиции, что и с других памятников Томского Приобья. The article presents the results of research on the ceramics of two settlements of a local variant of the kulai cultural and historical community from the Tomsk Ob region. The first monument reflects the appearance in Tomsk Ob region population kulai culture and its interaction with the indigenous population shelomok (kizhirovo) culture, which is formed in Tomsk local option kulai KIO. The second relates to the final stage of its existence in the Tomsk Ob region. The main task of technical and technological analysis was to identify the specifics of cultural traditions in the selection of raw materials and the preparation of pottery paste and a comparative analysis of the results obtained. As a result of research, it was found that the potters from Kizhirovo II preferred weak ferruginous and non iron raw plastic clay, used several sources of raw materials, and noted a stable tradition in the selection of mineral impurities (the addition of crushed stone). There is a mix of cultural traditions and interaction of the population. One of the reasons for the presence of vessels from other clays may be due to the new population on the monument. The main cultural traditions on Shelomok III include the use of plastic medium- iron clay and the crushed stone. There is a mix of cultural traditions: local (adding crushed stone) with brought (adding chamotte). Comparative analysis revealed common and different of Kizhirovo II and Shelomok III ceramics. General — the use of plastic clays, the predominance of the tradition of adding crushed stone to the pottery paste, the presence of contacts with the population with skills developed in areas where stone outputs were not available. The difference between ceramics from Shelomok III and other monuments of the Tomsk Ob region is in other skills in the choice of raw materials — the use of medium ferruginous clays that are not typical for the region. The pottery from Shelomok III differs from the ceramics from the monuments located nearby. For settlement Kizhirovo II are characterized by the same tradition, as with other monuments in Tomsk Ob river area.

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