The protection of archaeological resources in the United States: reconciling preservation with contemporary society

2003 ◽  
pp. 56-70
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contemporary Society

scholarly journals The church’s witness in a secular age: A Hauerwasian response to privatized and individualized religion

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Aaron Wessman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Stanley Hauerwas ◽  
Secular Age ◽  
The Church ◽  
Contemporary Western Society

Stanley Hauerwas has been noted for his theology of missionary “witness.” However, his theology is not uncontroversial. Of late, it is argued that his theology of witness does not often, or sufficiently, attend to the nature and complexity of belief for those people who live in contemporary, Western society. Part of this complexity, as highlighted by various sociologists and theologians, is that religion has become individualized and privatized. These are serious challenges to the church’s engagement with contemporary society, which Hauerwas does not always seem to adequately address. It will be the purpose of this article, however, to attempt to overcome this lacuna in Hauerwas’s theology, and explore if, and how, his theology might serve as a response to some of the specific challenges arising out of the growing trend towards “privatized religion” in the United States. This will be accomplished by bringing into dialogue Hauerwas’s later work on witness, with some of the sociological insights provided by Charles Taylor and Robert Wuthnow. It will be argued that Hauerwas’s theology of witness, though incomplete, does provide insights that might be helpful to the church in her missionary efforts in the United States.

Editorial

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Hudson Moura
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Global Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Need To Evaluate

Film and media practitioners and educators have been expanding the use of digital through new experiences with unusual and innovative technical and artistic “approaches.” Likewise, researchers and academics are questioning and analyzing these new practices that increasingly dominate global society, as seen in the past months with the advent of the worldwide pandemic. In 2013, we created the IFM-Interactive Film and Media Conference to provide an inclusive educational space within the digital theory and interactive studies where researchers and practitioners could discuss and present their research and work in film and media. With this purpose, the IFM has partnered with universities worldwide and established a space for a global integration between academia and the audiovisual production community that aims to forge a valuable exchange between researchers, faculty, students, practitioners, and the community. The goal is to generate a broad debate, emphasizing the need to evaluate the increasing use of digital screens in contemporary society and how people respond artistically, socially, and politically to the challenges of the digital cultural space. The work of professors, researchers, and practitioners (artists, filmmakers, and videomakers) from various areas and several countries, including Italy, Brazil, England, Spain, Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, Scotland, Germany, and the United States, constitutes this special issue with selected articles and audiovisuals from the #IFM2014. The aim is to launch IFM Journal first issues while archiving our preliminary works.

Maxwell Davies's ‘Resurrection’: Origins, Themes, Symbolism

Tempo ◽  
1994 ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
John Warnaby
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Compositional Style ◽  
English Reformation ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Orkney Islands ◽  
Chamber Operas ◽  
Peter Maxwell Davies ◽  
British Culture

Peter Maxwell Davies originally conceived the opera Resurrection in 1963, in response to the commercialism he encountered while studying in the United States. He regarded it as a sequel to Taverner, even before the completion of his first opera. Despite the intervention of two important chamber operas (The Martyrdom of St. Magnus and The Lighthouse), his decision to settle in the Orkney Islands, and the various changes in his compositional style – encouraged by his involvement with the writings ot George Mackay Brown – Maxwell Davies has retained the main elements of his inspiration. There appear to have been several attempts to complete the opera in response to the prospect of its reaching the stage, but the final impetus came from an increasing awareness, during the 1980s, of the corrosive effects of Thatcherism on British culture and society. Consequently, Resurrection became the focus of 25 years of endeavour, all the changes contributing to its ultimate fruition. It extends the philosophical and theological ideas adumbrated in Taverner, but explores these themes in the context of contemporary society, as opposed to the earlier opera's concern with events surrounding the English Reformation.

scholarly journals Our Family Functions: Functions of Traditional Weddings for Modern Brides and Postmodern Families

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-78
Author(s):  
Medora W. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
The United States ◽  
Family Context ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Child Bearing ◽  
Invented Traditions ◽  
Family Bonding ◽  
Depth Interviews

In many ways the continued popularity of traditional weddings in the United States may seem surprising in light of the increased rates of divorce, cohabitation, and non-marital child-bearing in the latter half of the twentieth century, which have accompanied the rise of what has come to be called the “postmodern” family. This research draws upon in-depth interviews with twenty white, middle class women who recently had traditional weddings and explores the connections between the postmodern family context and the desirability of traditional weddings. Specifically, it examines how traditional functions of formal weddings are still relevant within contemporary society. Findings indicate that the traditional functions of weddings operate differently in the current family context, but are important aspects of the appeal of formal weddings for modern brides. Large, formal weddings encourage extended family bonding, which may be more important now than in past decades due to the high rates of divorce and remarriage. New “invented traditions” are sometimes being included in weddings to allow for the participation of the wider range of family members that exists in post-modern families. Furthermore, having a large, traditional wedding may serve to decrease anxiety about marriage through providing a predictable entry into marriage and a testing ground for the couple’s marital work ethic.

Late Modern Shamanism in a Norwegian Context

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trude Fonneland
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Everyday Language ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Late Modern

Neoshamanism was established in the US in the late 1960s and came gradually to constitute a key part of the worldwide New Age market. In contemporary society, the words shaman and shamanism have become part of everyday language and thousands of popular as well as academic texts have been written about the subject. This article discusses the emergence and development of contemporary shamanism in Norway. It focuses on how political and cultural differences affect religious ecologies, highlighting that what was established in the United States is only one part of the whole picture. The article ventures between the worlds of the local and the global, and analyzes the religious innovations that occur when a global culture of neoshamanism interacts with a specific local culture.

scholarly journals The Culture Apocalypse: Hegemony and the Frontier at the End of the World

1969 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-20
Author(s):  
Amanda Oldring
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
American Way ◽  
The Church

The turn of the millennium saw a marked increase in apocalypse-themed mass media, especially in television and film, of which the United States is the largest producer. The role of the apocalypse has been to produce hegemony for the ruling establishment that purported itself as being able to prevent or somehow save potential victims. Historically the church possessed this authority, but in contemporary society that role has been passed to governments and to scientific and technological institutions. In contemporary America, apocalypse is part of a spectrum of religious beliefs ingrained into the American Way of life. Commercial America has resurrected the apocalypse myth as spectacle commodity. Apocalyptic media today reflect current values of the American hegemon in globalization, and are portrayed as particularly real in order to be effective. The increased interest in disaster myths specifically reflects Beck’s (1992) concept of a world risk society. Deconstructing the films Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow reveals hegemonic devices that uphold the American way in the advent of globalization through the use of heteronormative values, scientific savior-adversary binaries, and symbolic rebirth through the recreation of frontier space.

Educational Policy and Race

Sociology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahala Dyer Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Racial Inequalities ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The Way

Policies are crucial for understanding the way that racial inequalities persist within contemporary society. Educational policies include those official and unofficial guidelines that are developed by policymakers, school administrators, and educators to influence the way that schools both directly and indirectly provide education to students. In the United States, these policies include a variety of state and federal laws and regulations that govern students’ pre-kindergarten, primary (K–8), and secondary schooling (high school), as well as policies affecting higher education (college and beyond). Scholars studying education show that examining how policies are created—who creates it and for what purpose—and also how the policy is put into practice at the state and district level is crucial for understanding inequalities. This entry focuses on K–12 educational policy and race in the United States. More specifically, the focus is primarily on influential policies in schools since the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision, with particular attention on two crucial types of race-based educational policy: desegregation and school choice programs. There are many other educational policies not addressed here that could be examined for their influence in racial schooling inequities. This piece focuses on K–12 educational policies, but policies related to race in pre-K as well as institutions of higher education are also areas in which educational policies are impacted by race relations. Examining those formal and informal guidelines for the way that they shape children’s schooling is crucial for understanding how racial inequalities persist within contemporary society. As a practice of power, education policy has the potential to be used as a tool for positive social change and disrupt white supremacy within the context of schooling. Yet doing so requires first recognizing the way that race and racism have been written into school policies.

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