Reconciling Homosexuality and Spirituality in Africa as a Heresy and Survival Strategy

2021 ◽

pp. 575-598

Author(s):

Floribert Patrick C. Endong

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Framework ◽

Survival Strategy ◽

Secular Humanism ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

The Third ◽

Religious Liberalism ◽

Lgbt People

The fight against homophobia in Africa has motivated the emergence of various advocacy initiatives including pro-gay religious forces. One of such initiatives – which have audaciously Christianized homosexuality – has been the Nigerian based, House of Rainbow (LGBT church). Using observations and a critical exploitation of secondary sources, this book chapter critically appraises this church in the light of four socio-religious theories namely, secular humanism, postmodernism, religious liberalism and African conservatism. The chapter is divided into four main parts. The first part provides a theoretical framework composed of four movements namely postmodernism, secular humanism, religious liberalism and African conservatism. The second part explores the origin, mission and structure of House of Rainbow. The third part examines House of Rainbow as postmodernist and religious humanist Christianity; while the last part examines the extent to which the gay-only church is more a survival strategy for Nigerian LGBT people than it is a heresy.

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Reconciling Homosexuality and Spirituality in Africa as a Heresy and Survival Strategy

Multiculturalism and the Convergence of Faith and Practical Wisdom in Modern Society - Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-1955-3.ch017 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 331-353 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Floribert Patrick C. Endong

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Framework ◽

Survival Strategy ◽

Secular Humanism ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

The Third ◽

Religious Liberalism ◽

Lgbt People

The fight against homophobia in Africa has motivated the emergence of various advocacy initiatives including pro-gay religious forces. One of such initiatives – which have audaciously Christianized homosexuality – has been the Nigerian based, House of Rainbow (LGBT church). Using observations and a critical exploitation of secondary sources, this book chapter critically appraises this church in the light of four socio-religious theories namely, secular humanism, postmodernism, religious liberalism and African conservatism. The chapter is divided into four main parts. The first part provides a theoretical framework composed of four movements namely postmodernism, secular humanism, religious liberalism and African conservatism. The second part explores the origin, mission and structure of House of Rainbow. The third part examines House of Rainbow as postmodernist and religious humanist Christianity; while the last part examines the extent to which the gay-only church is more a survival strategy for Nigerian LGBT people than it is a heresy.

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Geopolitical Reflections of Sino-Indian Conflict and its Implication on Nepal’s Survival Strategy

Unity Journal ◽

10.3126/unityj.v2i0.38785 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 81-96

Author(s):

Gaurav Bhattarai

Keyword(s):

Foreign Affairs ◽

Survival Strategies ◽

New Delhi ◽

Survival Strategy ◽

Asian Countries ◽

Press Releases ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

Repeated Calls ◽

The Press ◽

India And China

Border disputes between China and India in June 2020 almost lead South Asian countries to take a side. But, Nepal, situated between India and China, has always expressed a stern belief in neutrality and non-alignment. Even though New Delhi doubted Nepal’s neutrality and non-alignment citing China’s growing footprints in Nepal, Kathmandu reckoned such suspicion as the result of a new map row between two countries connected by open borders. While Nepal’s repeated calls to diplomatically resolve India-Nepal border problems remained unheeded by New Delhi, it provided room for the ruling communist party in Nepal to reap geopolitical benefits out of the Sino-Indian dispute. But, interestingly, such geopolitical benefits are usually targeted in tempering Indian influence in Nepal, by getting closer with China. Apprehending the same, this study aims to assess the geopolitical implication of Sino-Indian conflict on the survival strategy of Nepal. To fulfill the same objectives, the Chinese perception of Nepal-India relations, and Indian perception of Sino-Nepal ties have been critically assessed in this study. This study is methodologically based on the information collected from the secondary sources. In order to critically evaluate the geopolitical expression of Sino-Indian conflict in Nepal, this study reviews India’s perception of Nepal-China relations, and China’s perception of Nepal-India relations. Also, the reports and the press releases of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, historical facts, treaties, government reports and decisions have been studied and analyzed. Media sources are also reviewed to understand the diverse narratives produced on the geopolitical reflection of Sino-Indian conflict. The themes that emerged from the reviews are thematically analyzed and interpreted, to discover that cultivating relations with one country at the expense of the other may be counterproductive to Nepal’s survival strategies.

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Migrants, Metaphors and Manipulation: a Multimodal Case Study of Trump’s Speeches on Immigration (2015-2017)

ELAD-SILDA - La métaphore dans les discours de spécialité ◽

10.35562/elad-silda.885 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Bérengère Lafiandra

Keyword(s):

Presidential Election ◽

Conceptual Metaphor ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽

Corpus Study ◽

The Third ◽

Metaphor Theory ◽

The Creation ◽

Linguistic Aspect

This article intends to analyze the use of metaphors in a corpus of Donald Trump’s speeches on immigration; its main goal is to determine how migrants were depicted in the 2016 American presidential election, and how metaphor manipulated voters in the creation of this image. This study is multimodal since not only the linguistic aspect of speeches but also gestures are considered. The first part consists in presenting an overview of the theories on metaphor. It provides the theoretical framework and develops the main tenets of the ‘Conceptual Metaphor Theory’ (CMT). The second part deals with multimodality and presents what modes and gestures are. The third part provides the corpus and methodology. The last part consists in the corpus study and provides the main source domains as well as other rhetorical tools that are used by Trump to depict migrants and manipulate voters.

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Gender and Power: Boys Will Be Boys and So Will Girls

Irish Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1177/079160359400400106 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 105-127 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Margaret Carey

Keyword(s):

Northern Ireland ◽

Men And Women ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

The Third ◽

Employed Women ◽

Male Dominated ◽

Gender And Power ◽

Depth Interviews

This paper examines the treatment of women by men in two areas of male-dominated employment: specific professions and non- traditional ‘manual’ employment such as construction, transport, and other trade workers. Based on data from secondary sources, and in-depth interviews with non-traditionally employed women in Northern Ireland, the paper is divided into three main parts. The first section assesses the extent of harassment and discrimination towards women in male- dominated professions; the second provides a similar account of the treatment of non-traditionally employed women in Northern Ireland. Evidence suggests that there is a dichotomy in the treatment of women between the two areas discussed - given that men and women in ‘manual’ employment seem to sustain a more ‘peer-like’ relationship than their counterparts in some male-dominated professions. Thus, in the third section of the paper, while attempting to avoid the trap of dualism, I posit reasons for the existence of such a dichotomy.

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Generate dazzling structural structures in contemporary architecture

Association of Arab Universities Journal of Engineering Sciences ◽

10.33261/jaaru.2019.26.1.026 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 209-2018

Author(s):

Shahad Raad Hamed ◽

Safaa Al-deen Hussein Ali

Keyword(s):

Research Problem ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Research Approach ◽

The Third ◽

Contemporary Life ◽

Technological Developments ◽

Three Stages ◽

New Challenges ◽

Contemporary Architecture

Contemporary life has been accompanied by a series of technological developments and inventions, which enthuses the designer in new challenges and on a number of its levels, whether architectural or structural, and how to combine the two in a product whose structure reflects the creators' high creative expression. Which may lead to dazzling by employing a number of styles to produce a dazzling structure. And from it emerged the research problem is (The lack of detailed studies of the strategies and mechanisms for the generation of dazzling structures in contemporary architecture) The aim of the research was to construct a theoretical framework that describes the forms of generation of dazzling structures in contemporary architecture, The research approach were concentrated in three stages of the analytical descriptive, The first is to clarify the dimensions of the research and to extract the research problem, the second is to construct a theoretical framework on the concept of dazzling and ways to achieve it; the third is to conduct the case study on the samples. It was concluded that the strategy of creation is the mother strategy to generate the dazzling structure and the other strategies revolve around its mechanisms.

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A Pandemia Covid-19 e o Estado de Emergência em Portugal: Breves Considerações Sobre Políticas Públicas

Revista Portuguesa de Ciência Política / Portuguese Journal of Political Science ◽

10.33167/2184-2078.rpcp2020.14/pp.33-45 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 ◽

pp. 33-45

Author(s):

Leandro Berenguer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Public Policies ◽

Third Republic ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

The State ◽

Fundamental Rights ◽

Top Down ◽

State Of Emergency ◽

The Third ◽

First Time

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted States to adopt exceptional measures to contain their spreads rates and therefore mitigate their effects. In Portugal there was a need to resort to the figure of the state of emergency, being used for the first time since the foundation of the third Republic. To respond to a situation of public calamity, the suspension, albeit partial, of fundamental rights, freedoms and guarantees was used, adopting measures with repercussions in the most varied areas of civil society. Based on the security context of a State, this article intends to analyse the declarations of the state of emergency in Portugal in the light of the theoretical framework of public policies, reflecting on the process of implementing the state of emergency. To this end, the top-down and bottom-up approaches are placed in confrontation as the main theories of public policies implementation in the analysis of the unprecedented political context in Portugal.

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Between positivism and narrativism in Polish methodology of history

HISTOREIN ◽

10.12681/historein.234 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 75 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Krzysztof Brzechczyn

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Framework ◽

Font Size ◽

Theory Of Science ◽

The Third ◽

Nancy Cartwright ◽

The Status ◽

Scientific Context ◽

Scientific Laws ◽

Covering Law ◽

The 1960S

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">This paper has two main purposes. Its primary purpose is to present the reception of the discussion between positivism and narrativism in the Polish methodology of history. A secondary one is to paraphrase, using the notion apparatus of the idealisational theory of science, the issue of the accuracy of explanation. The article consists of six parts. In the first part, Hempel’s deductive-nomological (or covering-law) model of explanation is presented. In the second part, the main tenets and assumptions of the Poznań school of methodology are presented. The emergence of this school at the end of the 1960s delayed the popularisation of narrativism in Polish methodology of history. In the third part, the manifold reasons of this delayed reception are analysed. The popularization of narrativism was only possible in Poland after 1989, but it had a primarily imitative character. This outline of cultural and scientific context allows Chris Lorenz’s proposals (on the problem of the accuracy of explanation) to be put in a wider perspective (part four). Namely, this author describes “a theoretical historical debate” on the status of scientific laws and refers to a post-positivistic approach to science represented by Nancy Cartwright. This approach was to introduce new perspectives to the understanding of lawfulness. In the fifth part, the main assumptions and tenets (for example, modes of explanation) of another post-positivistic approach to science, namely the idealisational theory of science, are presented and compared with the Hempelian model of explanation. In the sixth part, Hempel’s explanatory sketch is paraphrased using the notion apparatus of the idealisational model of science which provides a solution in this theoretical framework, to the problem of accuracy of explanation posed by Lorenz.</p>

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Barriers to E-Application in Agrifood Supply Chain

Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-5202-6.ch022 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 227-240 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Rupesh Kumar ◽

Rajat Agrawal ◽

Vinay Sharma

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Structural Analysis ◽

Food Supply ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Mutual Relationship ◽

Food Supply Chain ◽

Interpretive Structural Modeling ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

Expert Opinions ◽

Relationship Of

The paper aims to identify barriers to e-Application in the agri-food supply chain in India and helps in developing mutual relationship of these barriers using interpretive structural modeling (ISM) technique. The barriers are identified using secondary sources and expert opinions. The paper is a blend of theoretical framework and practical application and employs structural analysis to draw an interventional roadmap to facilitate the use of e-Application in the agri-food supply chain. The research shows that there exists a group of barriers having a high driving power and low dependence requiring maximum attention. These barriers are strategically important for e-Applications. This paper provides a useful insight to the policymakers and stakeholders by focusing on those key barriers which are important for effective e-Application in the agri-food supply chain.

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The Roles of Time Orientation and Innate Innovativeness on Intentioned Adoption of an AI Innovation

Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services - Anthropological Approaches to Understanding Consumption Patterns and Consumer Behavior ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3115-0.ch020 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 359-381

Author(s):

Giorgi Antadze

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Innovation Adoption ◽

Research Problem ◽

Time Orientation ◽

Innovative Behavior ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

The Third ◽

Research Hypothesis ◽

Nurse Assistant

Innovation adoption is a widely understudied area. However, there has been a substantial amount of arguments concerned with the extent to which personality traits affect innovative behavior. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which personality traits, namely time orientation and innate innovativeness, influence intentioned adoption of the specific innovation – the virtual nurse assistant. The organisation of the chapter is as follows: The first part of the chapter introduces the study to the reader and starts with the research background, followed by the research problem, rationale of the study, and research objectives. The second part consists of literature review, critically evaluating the relevant secondary sources to derive the research hypothesis. The third part represents the results and findings of the study, followed by the conclusion and recommendations as the closing part of this chapter.

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