scholarly journals CONTROL OF SPATIAL PROTECTION IN KAUMAN SEMARANG

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 268-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atiek SUPRAPTI ◽  
Nurdien H. KISTANTO ◽  
Edward E. PANDELAKI ◽  
Djoko INDROSAPTONO
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Spatial Control ◽  
Protection Strategy ◽  
Commercial Space ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
Protective Characteristic

Locality and cultural identity aspects are very important to create humane cities in the midst of globalizing world. Kauman Semarang is the city’s cultural identity which has lasted for more than three centuries. Traditionally, Kauman is a village in downtown which reflects Moslem daily live. The physical and social characteristicschange are the reaction of modernization-capitalization pressure of the downtown. The purpose of the research is to find out how Kauman adapts to the incoming pressures. The research was based on ethnographic method by combining ideographic and architectural approaches. In the end of the research, it found that there is a spatial control having protective characteristic or a control of spatial protection conducted by the community. Socioreligious values have influenced in strengthening socio-religious space that produces immaterial products associated with the community’s mentality. Meanwhile, the modernization-capitalization pressures influence the form of significantly developed business-commercial space, and their products are eventually used to support the socio-religious activities. Spatial protection strategy is an answer for the problem of modernization-capitalization pressures in downtown. This finding could be a useful input for the preservation efforts at Kauman Semarang particularly and for cities having similar problems generally.

Transnational but Isolated

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-289
Author(s):  
Yun Zhou (周韵)
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Evangelical Church ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Transnational Ties ◽  
Transnational Connections

AbstractLiterature on immigrants’ religious activities highlights the importance of transnational ties between the host and home communities. This paper challenges the dominant discourse by looking at a Chinese evangelical church in Chiba, one of the seven prefectures in the Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. This ethnic church is an isolated religious community that grows with limited transnational connections and support. By exploring the structure and membership of this ethnic church, I argue that adopting a transnational approach may downplay the role of religious immigrants in the construction of ethnic religious community. I propose that the growth of this ethnic church with very limited connections with the host country and the homeland can be better understood using the concepts of cultural identity and diaspora. The data in this study originates from my ethnographic fieldwork in Japan, conducted from August 2010 to February 2011.

Still out in the cold? Russia’s place in a globalizing world

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 343-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Rutland
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Security ◽  
Foreign Policy Analysis ◽  
Russian Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Per Se

This article examines some of the implications of current debates in international relations for Russian foreign policy. The focus is on Russian foreign policy analysis and not the international relations debates per se. The article begins by discussing the way Russian policy is fractured along the dimensions of security, economics and cultural identity – each corresponding to a different geopolitical vector. The second half discusses how recent developments in international security impact on Russian foreign policy debates.

scholarly journals The Revival of Chineseness as a Cultural Identity in Malaysia

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 56-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saiful Anwar Matondang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
The Government

The revival of ethnic culture in the current globalizing world challenges the anthropologists and sociologists to study the multicultural societies. This phenomenon appears in urban areas of multicultural cities and it makes the ethnic background awareness lead to be a cultural identity remaking. With an ethnohistory approach and ethnographic fieldwork in 2014, this paper provides the cultural identity making and remaking process of Chineseness in Malaysia since 1970. Chineseness has contextualized the cultural process of cultural plurality to a complexity of the multiculturalism in Malaysian society. This research paper presents a history of social process that resulted in the Chinese culture identity revived in Malaysia after the May 13, 1969 riots, and analyzes two important factors; they are Government Policy and Transnational Linkage of Chinese, shaped and illuminated the Chinese cultural identity in Malaysia. The government policy upholds the Ketuanan Melayu (Supremacy of Malay culture with affirmative action) and the Chinese descendants or Peranakan in adapting national situation, then they sought their shared traditions and memories as well as link them to transnational of Chinese culture in Asia Pacific region. The fieldwork data of 2014 show that multicultural society in Malaysia allows the Malaysia Chinese to enact their rituals, festivals, culinary shows and cultural attractions in public spaces and social media with a revival mode in which the reconstruction of ethnic identity represented as cultural productions of multicultural society.

scholarly journals Harakatul Jannah Mosque: Minang Identity and Islamic Mission in Ranah Rantau

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Abdul Wahid Hasyim ◽  
Yulia Kartika
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Cultural Character ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The 19Th Century

<p>This article discusses the landscape of strengthening the cultural identity and ethnicity of the Minang people in the overseas land through the Harakatul Jannah Mosque in Gadog, Ciawi, Bogor. In addition to being a symbol of Minangkabau cultural acculturation, this mosque is a trail of social and religious institutions of my Minangkabau custom in the realm of the seaside. This study uses a qualitative method. Data collection is done not only through literature review but also through direct observation. This data analysis technique is based on heuristic, verification, interpretation, and historiography techniques. Based on research conducted, it was found that through the mosque Harakatul Jannah Mosque, the nomads from Minangkabau enlivened the Minang tradition in social activities, education, and diversity well as in the form of building architecture. Combining European and Middle Eastern styles with traditional styles, the mosque was constructed without losing the Minangkabau cultural character reflected in several mosque elements, such as the Bundo Kanduang Gate, the Hajjah Tower, and the Majlis of Shaykh Ahmad Khatib al-Minangkabawi. This is a manifestation of archipelago culture in architecture. While in the field of education, the activities of the students and the community in general in the mosque showed similarities to the Islamic intellectual tradition in the 19th century Minangkabau. All educational and religious activities in the mosque are a form of strengthening the Minang cultural identity in overseas lands.</p>

scholarly journals Light symbolism of female mythological images as a spiritual foundation of Japanese and Chinese cultures

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Darya Nikolaevna Belova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Art History ◽  
Far East ◽  
Chinese Art ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Earth Connection ◽  
Spiritual Consciousness

This article analyzes female principle reflected in the images of goddesses of Japanese and Chinese mythology associated with the solar cult and light symbolism. An attempt is made to trace the role of female principle in the mythological phenomenon of Sky and its connection with Earth. The subject of this research is the Japanese and Chinese myths and legends, iconographic images of goddesses and their resemblance in foxes (Kitsune) in the religious painting of the XIII &ndash; early XX centuries. In the course of this work, the author applies comparative-historical and iconographic methods of research that lean on scientific materials dedicated to philosophy, culturology and art history. The relevance of the selected topic is substantiated by the fact that in globalizing world, the countries of the Far East are more capable of retaining ideological paradigms and preserving their national cultural identity due to traditionalism and spiritual consciousness. The novelty of this work consists in examination based on the iconographic material and mythological themes of solar manifestations of goddesses as demonstration of the energy of female principle and its reflection in the phenomenon of Sky &ndash; Earth connection. The conclusion is made that for assessing Japanese and Chinese art, it is essential to consider multicultural interaction of these countries founded on the the harmony of existence of human nature. The goddesses of Sun, Moon and Earth seek to communicate with the Sky, as in particular the autochthonous deity Inari through their intermediaries, the foxes. The sun and moon goddesses and Earth goddesses seek communication with the Sky, as the autochthonous deity Inari through their mediators &ndash; foxes. The female principle, resembled in femininity of divine foxes, is described as the endless struggle for immortality and opportunity to be in Heaven surrounded by the steam light and reason. The light saturation of female images contributes to their spirituality.

Marital Stability Among Jewish and Mixed Couples Following Immigration to Israel From the Former Soviet Union

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoav Lavee ◽  
Ludmila Krivosh
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Marital Stability ◽  
Marital Instability ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
Marital Outcomes ◽  
Jewish Immigrants

This research aims to identify factors associated with marital instability among Jewish and mixed (Jewish and non-Jewish) couples following immigration from the former Soviet Union. Based on the Strangeness Theory and the Model of Acculturation, we predicted that non-Jewish immigrants would be less well adjusted personally and socially to Israeli society than Jewish immigrants and that endogamous Jewish couples would have better interpersonal congruence than mixed couples in terms of personal and social adjustment. The sample included 92 Jewish couples and 92 ethnically-mixed couples, of which 82 couples (40 Jewish, 42 mixed) divorced or separated after immigration and 102 couples (52 Jewish, 50 ethnically mixed) remained married. Significant differences were found between Jewish and non-Jewish immigrants in personal adjustment, and between endogamous and ethnically-mixed couples in the congruence between spouses in their personal and social adjustment. Marital instability was best explained by interpersonal disparity in cultural identity and in adjustment to life in Israel. The findings expand the knowledge on marital outcomes of immigration, in general, and immigration of mixed marriages, in particular.

A Timely Read for Understanding the Challenges Ahead in Our Globalizing World

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying-yi Hong ◽  
Jennifer L. Rosner
Keyword(s):  
Globalizing World
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