Patientia and the Borders of Holy Infirmity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenni Kuuliala
Keyword(s):  
Patient Attitude ◽  
Geographic Origins ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
The Way

Saintly patience towards earthly tribulations is one of the key characteristics of saints’ lives, and it was frequently investigated in canonization inquests. The tribulations could include, for example, deaths of loved ones or troubles with earthly rulers. In most canonization inquests the topic of bodily infirmity, especially the saintly candidate’s patient attitude towards it, was also investigated. However, the way such patience comes up in the process varies greatly: it could be used and investigated to highlight aspects of a saint’s life that the witnesses and the conductors of the hearing considered important, such as preaching, spiritual raptures, or earthly duties. Here the saint’s gender and status in society and the geographic origins of their cult all played major roles.

A Reactive Culture

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Hardt
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
Memory Development ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Institutional Memory ◽  
The Way

Chapter 7 explains why NATO’s institutional memory continues to develop in the way that it does – despite formal learning processes being underutilized. Findings in this chapter draw on the author’s survey-based interviews with 120 NATO elites. The chapter begins by arguing that NATO’s organizational culture locks-in elites’ preference for relying on informal processes and avoiding formal processes. Key characteristics of NATO’s culture posed challenges for identifying and reporting strategic errors. The organization’s norm of consensus made formal agreements on past strategic errors difficult. Moreover, NATO’s focus on reaction over retrospection and a broader culture of blame aversion provided elites with little incentive to break the tradition of reliance on informal processes for memory development. Elites described feeling continuous pressure to react to the crisis at hand and treat past crises as unique – leaving little reason to invest in learning from past failures.

scholarly journals To Endure: An Exploration of Male Rape in the Declamatory Cases of Pseudo-Quintilian and Seneca the Elder

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob McCaffrey
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Male Victims ◽  
Male Rape ◽  
Roman Society ◽  
Literary Source ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Seneca The Elder ◽  
The Way

<b>This thesis explores the declamatory works of Pseudo-Quintilian and Seneca the Elder (specially Major Declamations 3 and Controversiae 5.6) with particular attention being placed upon the representation of the male victims of sexual assault. </b><p>These explorations are then paralleled with modern sensibilities towards the same subject. </p> <p>The goal of this writing is to illustrate the purpose of declamation as a literary source, the way in which said declamation reveals key characteristics of Roman society and how these characteristics compare to modern approaches towards this topic. </p>

scholarly journals ČETRTA GENERACIJA VOJSKOVANJA 3. del: NOV KONCEPT SV ZA DELOVANJE V ČETRTI GENERACIJI VOJSKOVANJA

2017 ◽  
pp. 57-75
Author(s):  
VIKTOR POTOČNIK
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
The Way

Povzetek V članku obravnavamo koncept lahke pehote in njeno vlogo v četrti generaciji vojskovanja, kot je bila opredeljena v prejšnjih prispevkih. Sodobno razumevanje lahke pehote je pogosto zavajajoče in neskladno z zgodovinskim razumevanjem pojma in koncepta lahke pehote. Podrobneje so predstavljene glavne značilnosti prave lahke pehote in zakaj te povsem ustrezajo potrebam četrte generacije vojskovanja. Pogledamo tudi, na kakšnih izkušnjah bi SV lahko utemeljevala svojo povezanost s konceptom klasične lahke pehote, in ponudimo enega izmed mogočih pristopov k spremembi organizacijske kulture, če bi ta želela prevzeti bistvene značilnosti lahke pehote. Nazadnje obravnavamo še nekaj elementov organizacije in strukture, ki bi v povezavi s konceptom lahke pehote ustrezali potrebam SV za delovanje v četrti generaciji vojskovanja. Ključne besede Lahka pehota, frontna pehota, organizacijska kultura, četrta generacija vojskovanja. Abstract The article presents the light infantry concept and its role in fourth generation warfare as defined in author’s previous articles. Classical light infantry has a specific set of characteristics and the way NATO looks at it is not in accord with them and a historical perspective on light infantry. The article discusses in detail the key characteristics of light infantry and how they relate to fourth generation warfare. It also looks at how the SAF is related to the concept of light infantry, and how it should change its organizational culture if it would want to impregnate itself with light infantry mentality. Lastly, it looks at some elements linked to SAF organization and structure related to the concept of light infantry and fourth generation warfare. Key words Light infantry, line infantry, organizational culture, fourth generation warfare.

Escaping the Corporate Shackles

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-174
Author(s):  
Nana Okura Gagné
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Dominant Ideology ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Expectations ◽  
The Way

This chapter reviews the life stories of individual men that complement their lived experiences with how they reflected and talked about the way they lived. It offers silhouettes that reflect the comprehensive structures and dynamics of individuals, institutions, and ideologies operating in contemporary Japan. It also narrates stories of succeeding through, struggling with, or reacting against the social and economic expectations incumbent with the discourse of salarymen in Japan. The chapter examines the concept of the salaryman as a dominant category under the dominant ideology of companyism, which is discursively decipherable due to its perceived distinction of Japanese nonsalarymen. It presents the glaring disjuncture of nonsalarymen who grasp the key characteristics and organizing idioms of those who are classified as salarymen.

scholarly journals Accountability by Numbers: A New Global Transitional Justice Dataset (1946–2016)

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genevieve Bates ◽  
Ipek Cinar ◽  
Monika Nalepa
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Granular Structure ◽  
New Democracies ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Adequate Data ◽  
The Way

In an era of democratic backsliding, scholars and policymakers wonder if failure to reckon with former authoritarian elites and their collaborators plays a role. Yet without adequate data on the way former autocracies and countries emerging from conflict deal with human rights violators, it is hard to tell if new democracies are unstable because of their failure to reckon with their former authoritarian elites or despite it. We introduce a dataset of personnel transitional justice events that allows scholars to answer such questions, disaggregating these events temporally from the date of a country’s democratization. The time series nature of our data allows scholars to measure key characteristics of states’ dealing with their past and complements existing transitional justice datasets by focusing not only on post-conflict societies and not only on post-authoritarian societies, but on both. To showcase the possibilities our data affords scholars, we use it to develop three novel measures of personnel transitional justice: severity, urgency, and volatility. The granular structure of our data allows researchers to construct additional measures depending on their theoretical questions of interest. We illustrate the use of severity of transitional justice in a regression that also employs data from the Varieties of Democracy project.

The Business Marketing Communications Mix

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Fill ◽  
Scot McKee
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Marketing Communications ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
B2b Marketing ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Tech Nologies ◽  
The Way

Digital technologies have had a profound impact on the way in which organisations communicate with each other. However, this is not to suggest that the influence of the traditional offline communication tools has waned, indeed it can be argued that marketing communications have been augmented by the application of new tech- nologies. In this chapter each of the three elements that make up the marketing communica- tions mix is considered; tools, media and messages. Consideration is given to the key characteristics and effectiveness of each of the primary tools used in B2B marketing communications. The chapter then examines each of the main media from a com- munication perspective and concludes by considering the type of messages used to reach business audiences.

scholarly journals Philippians 4:1-9 from a rhetorical perspective

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 224-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
AH Snyman
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way ◽  
Three Phases

The aim of this article is to analyse Philippians 4:1-9 from a rhetorical perspective that differs from the typical approach of researchers, who tend to force ancient rhetorical categories on the letter . Using a text-centred approach, it is argued that the dominant rhetorical strategy in this section could be described as: “Urging the Philippians to live the gospel”. The section is divided into three phases, namely 4:1 (commanding the Philippians to stand firm for the sake of the gospel); 4:2-3 (calling on certain individuals to be united in their work for the  gospel); and 4:1-9 (commanding the Philippians to practise certain key characteristics of the Christian life). The section and its phases are demarcated by rhetorical considerations.    In analysing the rhetorical strategies and techniques in 4:1-9 the focus is on the way Paul argues, on the type of arguments he uses and on the rhetorical techniques that could enhance the impact of his communication.  All these strategies and techniques serve to persuade the Philippians to live the gospel, in response to a situation where they were experiencing serious problems and were tempted to abandon their struggle.

The Scientific Voice

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-77
Author(s):  
Alan Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Writing Skills ◽  
Scientific Paper ◽  
Scientific Writing ◽  
Professional Writing ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

This chapter is focused on the way in which scientists write, and the key characteristics that must describe their writing (i.e., clarity and avoidance of unnecessary complexity). The “voice” used in the modern scientific paper is discussed, with exploration of how this may be achieved, and some illustrative examples. In particular, examples are used to see how scientists present highly significant findings, or cast doubt on the findings of others. Some basic and simple principles for practicing and learning naturalistic yet professional writing skills are presented. The reader is encouraged to develop an ear for the rhythms of writing, and is equipped with the basic tools needed to do so. Further points that are discussed include the fact that effective scientific writing does not need to be stylish or deliberately complex, but must above all achieve clarity and a complete lack of ambiguity, while the writing should be “invisible” and place no barriers between reader and intended message. The chapter also considers the requirements for successful writing, including time, concentration, and suitable conditions.

scholarly journals To Endure: An Exploration of Male Rape in the Declamatory Cases of Pseudo-Quintilian and Seneca the Elder

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob McCaffrey
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Male Victims ◽  
Male Rape ◽  
Roman Society ◽  
Literary Source ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Seneca The Elder ◽  
The Way

<b>This thesis explores the declamatory works of Pseudo-Quintilian and Seneca the Elder (specially Major Declamations 3 and Controversiae 5.6) with particular attention being placed upon the representation of the male victims of sexual assault. </b><p>These explorations are then paralleled with modern sensibilities towards the same subject. </p> <p>The goal of this writing is to illustrate the purpose of declamation as a literary source, the way in which said declamation reveals key characteristics of Roman society and how these characteristics compare to modern approaches towards this topic. </p>

Self-sacrifice for in-group's history: A diachronic perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Babińska ◽  
Michal Bilewicz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Emotional Events ◽  
Reciprocal Process ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe problem of extended fusion and identification can be approached from a diachronic perspective. Based on our own research, as well as findings from the fields of social, political, and clinical psychology, we argue that the way contemporary emotional events shape local fusion is similar to the way in which historical experiences shape extended fusion. We propose a reciprocal process in which historical events shape contemporary identities, whereas contemporary identities shape interpretations of past traumas.

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