scholarly journals MODEL ORTODOKSI-ORTOPRAKSI-ORTOPATI: Usulan Model Berteologi sebagai Cara Hidup Kaum Injili di Dunia Pascakebenaran

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-110
Author(s):  
Hendra Yohanes
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Personal Preference ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emotional Appeal ◽  
The Public Sphere

Era pascakebenaran (post-truth) ditandai dengan pudarnya relevansi kebenaran dan verifikasi fakta digantikan dengan preferensi pribadi dan tarikan emosional. Dalam konteks pemilihan umum Indonesia pada tahun 2014 dan 2019, berbagai hoaks bernuansa SARA yang bermunculan mengancam kohesi sosial di bangsa ini. Dengan demikian, pascakebenaran tidak lagi sekadar menjadi isu di kalangan akademisi, tetapi juga dipertunjukkan secara masif di ruang publik. Bagaimana kaum injili menanggapi problematika pascakebenaran yang kompleks ini? Artikel ini mengusulkan sebuah model teologi yang integratif dalam menghadapi tantangan-tantangan di dunia pascakebenaran, yakni model Ortodoksi-Ortopraksi-Ortopati sebagai cara hidup kaum injili. Di akhir artikel ini, model berteologi ini diimplementasikan untuk menanggapi problematika post-truth yang berkembang dewasa ini di Indonesia. Abstract: The post-truth era is indicated by the eclipsing of the relevance of truth and fact verification replaced by personal preference and emotional appeal. In the context of Indonesia's national elections in 2014 and 2019, multitude of hoaxes emerged with respect to tribal affiliations, religion, race and societal groups and threatened social cohesion in this nation. Correspondingly, post-truth not merely an issue in the academia but also is massively demonstrated in the public sphere. How do the evangelicals respond to the complex problem of post-truth? This article proposes an integrative theological model in facing challenges in a post-truth world, namely the Orthodoxy-Orthopraxis-Ortopathy Model as the evangelicals' way of life. At the end of this article, this theological model implemented to respond post-truth problems that recently emerged in Indonesia.

scholarly journals Cultures of rejection at work: Investigating the acceptability of authoritarian populism

Ethnicities ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146879682110124
Author(s):  
Alexander Harder ◽  
Benjamin Opratko
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Authoritarian Populism ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
The Public Sphere

This article introduces the concept of cultures of rejection as a framing device to investigate conditions of acceptability of authoritarian populism among workers in Germany and Austria. After situating the concept in the current scholarly debate on right-wing populism and discussing its main theoretical points of reference, we offer an analysis focusing on experiences of crisis and transformation. Two elements of cultures of rejection are discussed in depth: the rejection of racialised and/or culturalised ‘unproductive’ others; and the rejection of the public sphere, linked to the emergence of a ‘shielded subjectivity’. These articulations of rejection are then discussed as related to two dimensions of a crisis of authority: the crisis of state or political authority in the field of labour and the economy; and the crisis of a moral order, experienced as decline in social cohesion. In conclusion, we identify possible avenues for further research, demonstrating the productivity of the conceptual framework of cultures of rejection.

(Un)Liberated and Contested Narratives

2019 ◽  
pp. 334-347
Author(s):  
Bongani C Ndhlovu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
South African ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Many ◽  
Contested Narratives

This chapter analyses the influence of the state in shaping museum narratives, especially in a liberated society such as South Africa. It argues that while the notion of social cohesion and nation building is an ideal that many South African museums should strive for, the technocratisation of museum processes has to a degree led to a disregard of the public sphere as a space of open engagement. Secondly, the chapter also looks at the net-effect of museums professionals and boards in the development of their narrative. It argues that due to the nature of their expertise and interests, and the focus on their areas of specialisation, museums may hardly claim to be representative of the many voices they ought to represent. As such, the chapter explores contestations in museum spaces. It partly does so by exploring the notion “free-spokenness” and its limits in museum spaces. To amplify its argument, the chapter uses some exhibitions that generated critical engagements from Iziko Museums of South Africa.

Rethinking Arendt’s Theory of Necessity: Humanness as ‘Way of Life’, or: the Ordinary as Extraordinary

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Lechte
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees ◽  
People Today

If genuine political activity can only be undertaken by citizens in the public sphere in a nation-state, what of stateless people today – asylum seekers and refugees cut adrift on the high seas? This is what is at stake in Hannah Arendt’s political theory of necessity. This article reconsiders Arendt’s notion of the Greek oikos (household) as the sphere of necessity with the aim of challenging the idea that there is a condition of necessity or mere subsistence, where life is reduced to satisfying basic biological needs. For Arendt, the Greek oikos is the model that provides the inspiration for her theory because necessity activities were kept quite separate from action in the polis. The ordinary and the undistinguished happen in the oikos and its equivalent, with the polis being reserved for extraordinary acts done for glory without any regard for life. The exclusionary nature of this theory of the polis as action has, at best, been treated with kid gloves by Arendt’s commentators. With reference to Heidegger on the polis and Agamben’s notion of oikonomia, I endeavour to show that the so-called ordinary is embedded in a way of life that is extraordinary and the key to grasping humanness.

Governmental Promotion of Social Cohesion and Its Effect on Local Civil Society Organisations: How These Institutions Respond to the Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups as Active Citizens

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella Maris Semino
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
The Public Sphere

This article examines how social policy influences social cohesion within a London borough. The focus is on the degree to which civil society organisations facilitate the representation of migrants within the public sphere. The policies considered are those introduced by New Labour and the current Coalition government. The theories adopted in this article are based on social cohesion and the public sphere, and the research is based on grey literature and interviews with civil society practitioners. The study concludes that, although the previous government gave visibility to migrants, the conditions imposed for their access to social provision have contributed to the demotion of cohesion. The Coalition's reforms have reinforced social divisions and given rise to two identities within civil society: the insiders, who are in dialogue with the authorities, and the outsiders, who have no contact with the decision makers.

Creole Glossary: Tārāshankar Bandopādhyāy's HānsuIT Bānker upakathā

PMLA ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 622-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Conisbee Baer
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Public Sphere

Tārāshankar Bandopādhyāy's novel Hānsulī Bānker upakathā ‘The Tale of Hansuli Turn’ (1946–51) straddles the period of independence and partition in India. Its literary staging of the creolized Bengali spoken by a marginal, un‐touchable, semiaboriginal group is both formally innovative and politically imaginative. Tārāshankar disperses the book's glossary throughout its text, and the workings of this glossary embody an unusual perspective on class and caste segregation in modern India. Te novel's historical narrative tells of the disin‐tegration of a rustic, semifeudal Kahar community under the crises of war and modernity in the 1940s. While this history says that proletarianization and loss of idiom are inevitable for such figures of the rural margins, Hānsulī Bānker elaborates a counterfactual possibility. Tis alternative history is not simply a romanticized novelistic preservation of a dying way of life but a minimal imag‐ining of a different line of connection between the realm of subalternity and the public sphere. In its reimagining, Hānsulī Bānker also rethinks and prefigures modern India's other internal partitions, internal diasporas, and emergent political dilemmas and the history of the Bengali novel itself.

Can Interreligious Dialogue Provide a New Space for Deliberative Democracy in the Public Sphere?

10.1558/35412 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Paul Hedges
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Space ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Way

This paper uses Singapore and the UK as two case studies to explore the concept of deliberative democracy with specific reference to the way that interreligious dialogue is and may be used in the public sphere. The two countries are chosen as representing differently located but broadly secular nations where, nevertheless, religious and interreligious activities have prominence. The differences and similarities of the notion of secular as well as the way that religion and interreligious activity relate to the state are noted. While both countries have promoted interreligious dialogue primarily as a tool for social cohesion it is noted that this activity does not tie easily or neatly into conceptions of deliberative democracy. Employing ideas from Jürgen Habermas and other theorists of deliberation, some central aspects of what deliberation may be in the context of deliberative democracy are explored. It is suggested that interreligious dialogue is far from a simple solution to promote harmonious relations within such a context, but nevertheless it is noted that what is often termed the “dialogue of action” has the potential to improve social cohesion. It is noted that much interreligious dialogue may actually go against some of the principles often sought within deliberative democracy but this is not seen as invalidating the practice within the public sphere.

The Suffering of the Perpetrators: The Ethics of Traumatic German Historicity in Karen Bass's Young Adult World War II Novels

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Doris Wolf
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adult World ◽  
The Public Sphere

This paper examines two young adult novels, Run Like Jäger (2008) and Summer of Fire (2009), by Canadian writer Karen Bass, which centre on the experiences of so-called ordinary German teenagers in World War II. Although guilt and perpetration are themes addressed in these books, their focus is primarily on the ways in which Germans suffered at the hands of the Allied forces. These books thus participate in the increasingly widespread but still controversial subject of the suffering of the perpetrators. Bringing work in childhood studies to bear on contemporary representations of German wartime suffering in the public sphere, I explore how Bass's novels, through the liminal figure of the adolescent, participate in a culture of self-victimisation that downplays guilt rather than more ethically contextualises suffering within guilt. These historical narratives are framed by contemporary narratives which centre on troubled teen protagonists who need the stories of the past for their own individualisation in the present. In their evacuation of crucial historical contexts, both Run Like Jäger and Summer of Fire support optimistic and gendered narratives of individualism that ultimately refuse complicated understandings of adolescent agency in the past or present.

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