scholarly journals O potrzebie antropologicznych badań organizacyjnego wymiaru religii

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Halemba
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Lived Religion ◽  
Anthropological Study ◽  
Organizational Aspect ◽  
And Control ◽  
Role Of Religion

On the Need for Anthropological Study of the Organizational Dimension of Religion Qualitative research on religion often overlooks its organizational aspect, even though most of religious life takes place within an organizational framework. Religious organizations are active on many levels: they educate and control religious specialists, shape religious materiality, and in many other ways influence how relationships with the sacred are conceptualized and lived out. The organization of religious life has implications that should be studied by researchers interested in lived religion, especially when they deal with such issues as religious experience, the integrative role of religion, ritual efficacy, and the transmission of practices and beliefs.

scholarly journals The role of religion in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic: the Malaysian multi-faith perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Min Tan ◽  
Ahmad Farouk Musa ◽  
Tin Tin Su
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Behaviours ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Sudden Increase ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Religious Aspects ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
And Control ◽  
Role Of Religion

Abstract Social distancing is crucial in breaking the cycle of transmission of COVID-19. However, many religions require the faithful to congregate. In Malaysia, the number of COVID-19 cases spiked up from below 30 in February 2020 to more than a thousand a month later. The sudden increase was mostly linked to a large Islamic gathering attended by 16,000 near the capital, Kuala Lumpur. Another large COVID-19 cluster was from a church gathering in Kuching, Sarawak. Within a few weeks, Malaysia became the worst hit country by COVID-19 in Southeast Asia. While religious leaders have advised social distancing among their congregants, the belief that “God is our shield” is often cited for gathering. There is a need to promote sound decision-making among religious adherents so that they will not prioritize their loyalty to the subjective interpretation of religion over evidence-based medicine. Malaysia, a multi-cultural and multi-faith country, is an example of how religious beliefs could strongly influence health behaviours at individual and community levels. In this article, we detail the religious aspects of COVID-19 prevention and control in Malaysia and discuss the possible role of religious organizations in encouraging sound decision-making among religious adherents in mitigating this crisis. We make recommendations on how to promote a partnership between the healthcare system and religious organizations, and how religion and faith could be integrated into health promotion channels and resources in the response of COVID-19 and future communicable diseases.

scholarly journals CONTEXTUALISING ISLAMIC LAWS

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-338
Author(s):  
Moh. Dahlan
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Economic Welfare ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
New Criteria

This paper by using the ijtihad paradigm of maqâshid al-syarî’ah of Jasser Audah and the descriptive-analytical approach, would like to emphasize that the role of religion and economic welfare are two things that cannot be separated. Although in practice these two things often face obstacles, especially in the matter of diversity in religious life because of the superficial ijtihad paradigm of Islamic law. Based on the contemporary paradigm that seeks to provide new criteria in the conception of qath’i al-dlilalah and dlanni al-dlilalah, it can be stated that the contemporary Islamic law paradigm that needs to be built must be based on (a) the development of citizens’ welfare Muslims, but also must be the same as non-Muslims because of that we need to carry out financial and economic reforms (al-ishlâh al-mâlî wa al-iqtishâdî); (b) protection of freedom of thought (hurriyah al-tafkîr) and freedom of religion (hurriyah al-i’tiqâd) is an important aspect that must be maintained to guarantee the peace and harmony of the nation’s life in the territory of Indonesia. Therefore, the religious and economic aspects must be prioritized for their protection and safety.

scholarly journals Religious Organizations and Social Transformations in Ukraine: New Vectors of Mutual Influences

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (19) ◽  
pp. 96-98
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Yuvsechko
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Direct Part ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Political Consolidation ◽  
Role Of Religion

The modern role of religion in society proves that, in a world-view and institutional manifestation, it is capable of performing and successfully fulfilling the functions of social and political consolidation. Church institutions have long been not only present in public life, but often have a direct influence on the activity of power structures. Religious organizations take a direct part in political life, through their influence, widely involve various secular organizations, and sometimes even create them, for the fulfillment of socio-political tasks.

The Religious Life of the Industrial Working Class in the Czech Lands?

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-110
Author(s):  
Jakub Štofaník
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Church History ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Czech Lands ◽  
Historic Change ◽  
Role Of Religion

The article focuses on the role of religion among working-class inhabitants of two industrial towns in the Czech lands, Ostrava and Kladno, during the first half of twentieth century. It analyses the enormous conversion movement, the position of new actors of religious life, and the religious behavior of workers. Looking at the history of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the study understands religion as one of the constituent factors of society and its historic change. Traditional, new, and nonconformist religious actors appear as active agents in the private and public life of industrial towns. They mobilized workers, young people, and women, and they produced the major arena in which social, cultural, and church history come together.

Testimony in High Places: The Conversion of Bertram Wodehouse Currie

1988 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Powell
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Historical Writings ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Role Of Religion

The role of religion in history is an inherently difficult topic. Historians have rightly approached it with caution. Nevertheless, excessive caution has sometimes impaired our understanding of both individuals and broad historical developments. Ignoring personal religious experiences, especially when they have followed deliberate conversions, may be more dangerous to the truth than imperfectly assessing those experiences. I am not proposing an interdisciplinary approach, although that too is needed. Rather, I am suggesting that the religious experience of individuals be more fully incorporated, where possible, into traditional historical writings. It is in this spirit that I here examine the 1896 conversion, from agnosticism to Catholicism, of the influential London banker, Bertram Wodehouse Currie.

It is God’s will: Exploiting religious beliefs as a means of human trafficking

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-61
Author(s):  
Erin C Heil
Keyword(s):  
Belief Systems ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
God's Will ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
And Control ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Interpersonal Level ◽  
Level 2

Human traffickers use various methods to maintain and control their victims, including physical, economic, and psychological restraints. Specifically focusing on the psychological aspect of control, this paper seeks to address the role of religion and how it can be exploited as a tool of coercion. Employing case study methodology, this paper will focus on examples of Islam, House of Judah, and Scientology, and how belief systems facilitated victim coercion. The purpose is threefold: (1) to establish religion as a tool of coercion at the interpersonal level, (2) to examine specific trafficking cases in which religion was the method of coercion, and (3) to discuss the challenge of prosecuting cases in which the act was the result of religious coercion.

scholarly journals PERAN AGAMA DALAM MENENTUKAN KEPUTUSAN PERNIKAHAN PADA GENERASI MILLENIAL

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Akbar Nicholas Saputra ◽  
Tita Agustina
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Millennial Generation ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Age Factors ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Role Of Religion

This study aims to examine the role of religion in determining marriage decisions among millennials. The shift in values, roles, and interests among the millennial generation is a problem for him in determining marriage decisions. In this study, the authors took data by filling out a questionnaire with open answers and closed answers using a google form. The object of this research is the millennial generation (born 1997-2003), with a total of 87 participants. The research method used in this study is a qualitative research method with the approach used in this study being an approach to content analysis. Based on the research that the author conducted, the millennial generation is divided into two groups, namely the group that believes marriage accelerates (26.4%) and the group that believes it does not accelerate marriage (73.6%). The results of filling out the questionnaire as many as 96.6% of the millennial generation think that the role of religion in determining marriage decisions is important. In determining the decision to marry, millennials also pay attention to several other factors that support the decision to undergo marriage, such as economic factors, mental readiness, and age factors. Almost all decisions (95.4%) of millennials also think that marriage can increase piety to God Almighty. Based on the results of the research conducted, the authors can conclude that religion has a very important role in making marriage decisions among the millennial generation. Based on religion, the marriage carried out will get the blessing of Allah SWT and the journey in domestic life will get blessings. The role of religion can also lead humans to goodness and be kept away from all damage and can increase faith and piety to Allah swt. Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji peran agama dalam menentukan keputusan pernikahan di kalangan milenial. Pergeseran nilai, peran, dan kepentingan di kalangan generasi milenial menjadi kendala baginya dalam menentukan keputusan pernikahan. Dalam penelitian ini, penulis mengambil data dengan cara mengisi kuesioner dengan jawaban terbuka dan jawaban tertutup menggunakan google form. Objek penelitian ini adalah generasi milenial (kelahiran 1997-2003), dengan jumlah peserta 87 orang. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan analisis isi. Berdasarkan penelitian yang penulis lakukan, generasi milenial terbagi menjadi dua kelompok, yaitu kelompok yang meyakini mempercepat pernikahan (26,4%) dan kelompok yang meyakini tidak mempercepat pernikahan (73,6%). Hasil pengisian kuesioner sebanyak 96,6% generasi milenial berpendapat bahwa peran agama dalam menentukan keputusan pernikahan itu penting. Dalam menentukan keputusan pernikahan, kaum milenial juga memperhatikan beberapa faktor lain yang mendukung keputusan menjalani pernikahan, seperti faktor ekonomi, kesiapan mental, dan faktor usia. Hampir semua keputusan (95,4%) kaum milenial juga berpendapat bahwa pernikahan dapat meningkatkan ketakwaan kepada Tuhan Yang Maha Esa. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian yang dilakukan, penulis dapat disimpulkan bahwa agama memiliki peran yang sangat penting dalam pengambilan keputusan pernikahan di kalangan generasi milenial. Berdasarkan agama, pernikahan yang dilakukan akan mendapatkan ridho Allah SWT dan perjalanan dalam kehidupan rumah tangga akan mendapatkan berkah. Peran agama juga dapat mengantarkan manusia kepada kebaikan dan dijauhkan dari segala kerusakan serta dapat meningkatkan keimanan dan ketakwaan kepada Allah swt.

scholarly journals Morality and religion: a study of moral judgments of orthodox Christians and nonbelievers in Russian culture

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.R. Arutyunova ◽  
V.A. Agarkov ◽  
Yu.I. Alexandrov
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Sociocultural Environment ◽  
Moral Permissibility ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Human Social Behaviour ◽  
General Individuals

Morality and religion represent an important part of human social behaviour. This work is focused on studying whether and how characteristics of moral judgments may differ in individuals who believe or do not believe in god, and what role religious experience and religiosity level may play in the formation of moral judgments. We analysed responses of 266 participants of an internet-based study, who categorised themselves either as Orthodox Christians (n=130), or nonbelievers (n=136). The participants were asked to assess moral permissibility of harmful prosocial actions in a set of moral scenarios. It has been shown that in general individuals, both believers and nonbelievers deliver comparable moral judgments. However, the orthodox participants judged less permissible to sacrifice one person to save more people’s lives, i.e. their judgments were less utilitarian. Religiosity level did not correlate with any of the characteristics of moral judgments. The results are discussed in relation to evolutionary functions of morality and religion as well as the role of religion in the formation of individual experience in the sociocultural environment

Colonialism

Religion ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 104-115
Author(s):  
David Chidester
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Military Force ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
Role Of Religion

This chapter situates religious formations in the contact zones and power relations of colonial situations. Referring to the settlement of a distant territory by foreigners, colonialism entails the use of military force and political power to create and maintain a situation in which colonizers gain economic benefits by exploiting trade, raw materials, and the labor of indigenous people. For the study of religion, colonialism calls attention to the role of religion in intercultural contact; the force of religion in the conquest and control of indigenous populations; and the changing character of religious subjectivity and agency, especially in relation to the inherent violence of colonialism. These issues are examined by referring to the analysis of anticolonial theorists, such as Mohandas K. Gandhi, Frantz Fanon, and Eduardo Mondlane. While colonialism has played an important role in the history of religions, it has also shaped the modern categories of religion and religions.

Milczenie Boga w Twórczości Literackiej Arnolda Schönberga / The Silence of God in Arnold Schönberg’s Literary Texts

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 465-488
Author(s):  
Michalina Kmiecik
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Great Length ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Religious Dimension ◽  
Apophatic Theology ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
Role Of Religion

Summary This article attempts to delineate the religious dimension of Arnold Schönberg’s literary texts. The question about the role of religion in his creative work has been discussed at great length, though almost always with reference to his musical compositions. His literary texts, however, do not deserve such neglect as they address a number of fundamental religious concerns. The author is perplexed by the elusiveness of the divine presence, his inability to express the experience of Nothingness and Absolute Abstraction, the necessity of praying treated as an act of defiance against the void. The article also discusses Schönberg’s libretti to his major musical works (Die Jakobsleiter, Moses und Aron, and Moderne Psalmen) and his drama Der biblische Weg. It is there that the composer shows how the modern man’s religious experience gets tainted by negativity and a sense of God’s absence. The only way to cope with the problem of Le Dieu caché is to enter the path of apophatic theology, that is to try to approach Him through negation, adopt the attitude of ‘deliberate incomprehension’ and puts one’s trust in paradoxes

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