Women's Popular Literature as Theological Discourse A Mormon Case Study, 1880–1920

2007 ◽  
pp. 184-205
Author(s):  
Susanna Morrill
Keyword(s):  
Popular Literature ◽  
Theological Discourse

REPRESENTATION OF VALUES THROUGH POPULAR LITERATURE: A CASE STUDY ON TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION IN AMERICAN MOVIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Novita Indriani
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Transracial Adoption ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
American Family ◽  
Racial Background ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
In Trans ◽  
American Movies

This thesis is intended to uncover values in American movies related to trans-racial adoption in American family. The movie samples in this thesis are Deep In My Heart, Losing Isaiah, Daughter From Danang and The Blind Side. This research analyzes the values taught by the adoptive parents to their adoptive children, and the ideology behind the movies. It uses the representation theory from Stuart Hall to analyze the representation of values in the movies. This research also employs the theory of ideology from Terry Eagleton to discover the ideology related to the values in the movies and the concept of identity from Browne. As a result, parents teach the same values to their children, whether they are adopted or biological. The values are freedom, equality, honesty, hard work, supporting each other and responsibility. They treat them equally just like their own children and they deserve to have a better life and better future even though they come from a different racial background. The ideology in the movies is “all men are created equal”, and identity in trans-racial adoption shows that through the values children can be anything they want to be because identity is the process that can be influenced by social institutions like family, the education system and their experience.Keywords: Representation, Transracial Adoption, Value, Ideology, Identity

scholarly journals Beautiful destruction

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Vanessa Cirkel-Bartelt
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Scientific Misconduct ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Large Audience ◽  
Headline News ◽  
Near Future

Though the term ‘science fiction’ was coined somewhat later, the early twentieth century saw an enormous rise in an interest in technological tales set in the near future, mirroring a general awareness of the growing importance of science. Hans Dominik was one of the most prolific – and successful – German authors of this kind of popular literature. According to estimates millions of copies of his books have been sold, making Dominik’s work an interesting case study illustrating the sorts of ideas about science that German-speaking audiences entertained. Being a trained engineer and a public relations officer by profession, Dominik drew heavily on scientific topics that were headline news at the time and yet he also managed to create something new on the basis of these. One of the methods he employed was the use of religious motifs and topoi. Dominik magnified the relevance of scientific enterprises and depicted the consequences of science – or scientific misconduct, rather – as the beginning of a catastrophe, or even an apocalypse. By the same token, Dominik often introduced the figure of the scientist as a protagonist who would save the world. Thus Dominik was able to draw the attention of a large audience to concepts of the use of atomic energy or nuclear weapons – to name only two – and their creative or destructive potential, decades before such devices were technically feasible.

The selection of the authors of the Bridgewater treatises

1966 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-179 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Analogical Reasoning ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Constant Conjunction ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The One ◽  
Selection Of

THE argument for the existence of God from Design using the model of Newtonian scientific methodology formed the basis of the Natural Theology of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Since the proof of God’s existence rested on what God was believed to have accomplished, and His continual benevolent activity was regarded as the explanation of everything which science could not explain, the power of the argument decreased proportionally as the horizons of science expanded. Nevertheless, a steady stream of learned and more popular literature on natural theology was published during the one hundred years after Newton’s death in 1727. The spate of publications continued despite Hume’s contention at the end of the eighteenth century that the use of analogical reasoning in theological discourse had no logical validity (1). In theology, unlike science, hypotheses cannot be tested either directly or by the fulfilment of certain predictions based on the original hypotheses. Although the use of analogical reasoning in scientific discourse is an invaluable aid to the formulation of hypotheses, these always have to be tested against experience. This is impossible in theology since the design analogy does not produce (in Hume’s requirement) a constant conjunction between the hypothetical first cause, God, and its effects, the materials of the observed world. We cannot confirm the existence of a World Designer by observing Him make one. Even so, as has been pointed out recently, the design argument continued to be used after Hume because ‘previously acquired and emotionally grounded prejudices in its favor’ were psychologically persuasive (2). In fact, this kind of natural theology remained a subject of considerable popularity, and it survived, in Great Britain at least, until the biological theory of evolution demolished the last vestiges of the design argument’s empirical foundations.

Safety Considerations in Bicycle Moto-Cross Racing: A Case Study

1994 ◽  
Vol 38 (8) ◽  
pp. 443-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia L. Jackson ◽  
H. Harvey Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Training Programs ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Supervised Training ◽  
Risk Of Injury ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Serious Injury ◽  
Safety Considerations ◽  
National Databases

This paper presents a case study and literature review on the subject of bicycle moto-cross racing. The case involves a 17 year old male who was severely injured as a result of crashing into a jump during a BMX race. The young man suffered a broken neck and is now a quadriplegic. The paper examines both medical and popular literature on BMX racing and safety. Questions posed include: why no studies have been done to determine the risk of injury in BMX racing; why there are no national databases on BMX injury statistics; and what role the image of BMX in popular magazines plays in promoting or dismissing safety in BMX racing? We found very little information available on the subject of BMX. What information we did locate was inconsistent regarding rules of safety and sportsmanship, risk of injury, and opinion on the safeness of BMX racing. We recommend the following practices as ways to increase safety in the sport: multiple track levels designed for different skill levels; supervised training programs with practice areas for experimenting with new maneuvers; and lessons in tumbling and falling safely to minimize the risk of injuries. We also suggest that studies and databases need to be compiled to consistently evaluate the risk of serious injury in BMX racing.

THEOLOGY AND ECONOMY IN THE POPOL WUJ AND THEOLOGIA INDORUM

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Timothy W. Knowlton
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Indigenous Language ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Ritual Activity ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Drawing on modern ethnography, scholars often characterize ancient Maya religion as “covenants” involving human beings generating merit through ritual activity in order to repay a primordial debt to the gods. However, models based on modern ethnography alone would not allow us to recognize the impact on Maya religions of those Christian discourses of debt and merit that accompanied sixteenth-century colonization. This article attempts to historicize our understanding of indigenous Mesoamerican theologies by examining how early Colonial indigenous language texts describe moral and ritual obligations to the gods in terms of their societies’ economies. The specific case study here compares two contemporaneous sixteenth-century K'iche' Maya texts: the Popol Wuj by traditionalist K'iche' elites and the Theologia Indorum by the Dominican friar Domingo de Vico. Comparison of these texts’ use of exchange-related lexicon illustrates that the traditionalist theological discourse of the Popol Wuj, which emphasizes reciprocal obligations between different beings within an ontological hierarchy, came to exist alongside Christian K'iche' discourses with a more mercantile religious language of spiritual debt payment. It is argued that these results have potential implications for our assessment of ethnohistorical sources on indigenous theology from elsewhere throughout Mesoamerica as well.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

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