scholarly journals Sekularingseringstesen i religionssociologien

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lene Kühle
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

Secularization has been á major issue in sociological debates on religion. Recent developments in theory as well as in social reality seems to indicate that the future for the seularization thesis will not be as glorious as the past. The main argument in this article is that the secularization thesis, which can more properly be understood as a paradigm in the Kuhnian sense, is no longer a very useful frame for the sociological study of religion. This argument is supported by three examples from the contemporay political sphere, where the description in terms of "secularization" seems to lead to ambiguous conclusions. The article gives a brief presentation of two candidates for a new paradigm and discusses the requirements that the new paradigm is expected to meet. Whether any of these paradigms or perhaps a completely different one is going to assume the position as the dominant paradigm in the sociology of religion is still to be seen.

scholarly journals Other Stories: Experimental Forms of Contemporary Historying at the Crossroads Between Facts and Fictions

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Sugiera
Keyword(s):  
New Wave ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Past ◽  
Academic History ◽  
The Future ◽  
Rhetorical Dimension ◽  
Hayden White ◽  
Experimental History

Summary The process of questioning the authority of academic history—in the form in which it emerged at the turn of the 19th century—began in the 1970s, when Hayden White pointed out the rhetorical dimension of historical discourse. His British colleague Alun Munslow went a step further and argued that the ontological statuses of the past and history are so different that historical discourse cannot by any means be treated as representation of the past. As we have no access to that which happened, both historians and artists can only present the past in accordance with their views and opinions, the available rhetorical conventions, and means of expression. The article revisits two examples of experimental history which Munslow mentioned in his The Future of History (2010): Robert A. Rosenstone’s Mirror in the Shrine (1988) and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s In 1926 (1997). It allows reassessing their literary strategies in the context of a new wave of works written by historians and novelists who go beyond the fictional/factual dichotomy. The article focuses on Polish counterfactual writers of the last two decades, such as Wojciech Orliński, Jacek Dukaj, and Aleksander Głowacki. Their novels corroborate the main argument of the article about a turn which has been taking place in recent experimental historying: the loss of previous interest in formal innovations influenced by modernist avant-garde fiction. Instead, it concentrates on demonstrating the contingency of history to strategically extend the unknowability of the future or the past(s) and, as a result, change historying into speculative thinking.

The Lakefront Today

2021 ◽  
pp. 281-298
Author(s):  
Joseph D. Kearney ◽  
Thomas W. Merrill
Keyword(s):  
Public Trust ◽  
The Political ◽  
Boundary Line ◽  
Deep Tunnel ◽  
The South ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Trust Doctrine ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments

This chapter reviews how the political settlements and legal understandings canvassed in the account continue to affect the Chicago lakefront today. It offers brief snapshots of five more recent developments on the lakefront that reflect the influence of the past — and that may be indicative of the future. The chapter begins by recounting the boundary-line agreement of 1912 which planted the seeds of the Illinois Central's demise on the lakefront. Today, the railroad has largely disappeared from the lakefront, in both name and fact. The chapter then shifts to discuss the Ward cases, which continue to affect the shape of the lakefront. It chronicles the success of Millennium Park and the Illinois Supreme Court's demotion of the public dedication doctrine to a statutory right limited to Grant Park. The chapter also recounts the Deep Tunnel project and the challenges in the South Works site. Ultimately, it discusses the appearance of the public trust doctrine on the lakefront, being invoked by preservationist groups to challenge both a new museum and the construction of President Barack Obama's presidential library (called the Obama Presidential Center).

Legacy

2019 ◽  
pp. 169-190
Author(s):  
Rachel Chrastil
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Family Tree ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Necessary Connections

What happens to our stuff when we die? How might we reimagine the family tree? Childlessness raises, among others, questions about legacy, inheritance, our relationship with future generations, our ability to shape the future, and the narratives we tell about the past and the future. The author examines several life stories to help readers begin to envision childlessness within a new paradigm of meaning. This chapter encourages readers to consider new metaphors for how they think about childlessness. It ends with considerations about the deep and necessary connections between the childless and the childful within the quest for human flourishing.

scholarly journals Sense Theory. Sense Space

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Egger L. Mielberg
Keyword(s):  
New Paradigm ◽  
Life Event ◽  
The Past ◽  
Heterogeneous Objects ◽  
The Future ◽  
Massive Number ◽  
Birthday Celebration ◽  
Physical Phenomena

A purely sense-to-sense connection between two arbitrary objectswould allow trillions of other objects to be associated with eachother by their specific sense.The main benefit of the sense connection is still lost if an object ofcertain nature does not still have a property's association to even asingle another object (-s).We propose a new paradigm of a mathematical space that issense-centered and AI-focused in its nature. One of the mainpurposes of this space are to create an informational sphere for aa massive number of heterogeneous objects by the existed senserelationship between them.It may be extremely useful if a life event (behavior) in the future ofone person, say buying a car could be described by another lifeevent (behavior) in the past of another person, say the baby'sa birthday celebration or the properties of physical phenomena in thepast will trigger some actions in the future.

REPRESENTASI NILAI-NILAI BUDAYA JAWA DALAM” NOVEL BIOLA TAK BERDAWAI” KARYA SENO GUMIRA ADJIDARMA ( Sebuah Kajian Antropologi )

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 40-48
Author(s):  
Chitra Pangripty Nanda Sukmana
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Past Event ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Power Of God

The title of this research is Java Culture Values in Biola Tak Berdawai Novel ( Antropology Discussion ). And start from the principle that literature is kind of social reality in societies group as potential which describes, idea, message and certain value. The data which is submitted un the words or pictures, It is not numeral,or drawing the datas which be analyzed by Biola Tak Berdawai novel. The main purpose is descriptive describing, or drawing the datas which be analyzed by Biola Tak Berdawai novel. From this result can be explained that in Biola Tak Berdawai novel there are Culture of character include of religion emotion and believe of ghaib shape, dead Life and the power of God, the relation of human with them as harmonious attitude, respect, make an help, the relation human with time which basic in the past event and it will become to change in the future

scholarly journals Recent Developments in Corporate Taxation

1987 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Donald H. Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Corporate Taxation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments

A large number of amendments to the Income Tax Act (Canada) have been made or proposed during the past year, many of which affect how corporations will conduct acquisitions and mergers in the future. The paper reviews certain of those amendments which will affect corporations engaged in the petroleum industry.

Steps Towards an Ecology of Experience: Empiricism, Pragmatism and George Eliot’s The Spanish Gypsy

2018 ◽  
pp. 107-138
Author(s):  
Philipp Erchinger
Keyword(s):  
John Dewey ◽  
William James ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
American Pragmatism ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ecological View ◽  
Spanish Gypsy

Chapter 4 makes the case that the work of Eliot and Lewes exemplifies a pragmatist understanding of knowledge that is centred on the idea of “experience as experiment” (Jay) or “experience as a craft” (Sennett). Distinguishing between two main senses of ‘experience’, practical wisdom and intense awareness, the chapter traces the manifold implications of that term through G.H. Lewes’s five volume fragment Problems of Life and Mind, Samuel Butler’s Life and Habit and George Eliot’s The Spanish Gypsy. Moreover, close readings of these texts are interwoven with references to the philosophical tradition of American Pragmatism, as represented by the work of William James and John Dewey. Briefly, my main argument is that these Pragmatist writers shared with their Victorian predecessors an ecological view of experience as an incipient pattern, an advancing middle between the past and the future as well as inside and outside, or subject and object, that essentially lacks anything like a firm ground.

Wavering in Delight

2018 ◽  
pp. 56-76
Author(s):  
Myrto Drizou
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
The Novel ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Past ◽  
Models Of Teaching ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Sister Carrie

In this chapter, Drizou argues that Theodore Dreiser’s novel Sister Carrie (1900) questions the rationalization of modern progress by depicting the turn of the century as a moment that wavers between the urgent incalculability of the future and the conventional knowledge of the past, embodied in the two main plotlines of the novel: Carrie’s hasty anticipation of the future and Hurstwood’s steady retreat to the past. For many scholars, the intersecting plotlines of Sister Carrie suggest the contrasting narratives of progress and decline that confirm the irreversibility of fate in turn-of-the-century naturalist texts. Dreiser complicates the teleology of this model, however, by dramatizing the temporal unpredictability of evolutionary tropes (change, adaptability, and chance) to illustrate wavering as a mode that allows his characters to measure their options and remain open to the future. This wavering mode furnishes a new paradigm of thinking about the fin de siècle as an incalculably open jangle that welcomes (and embodies) the resistance to rationalized discourses of modernity. In this sense, Dreiser’s novel prompts us to question and rethink our contemporary processes of rationalization, such as the standardization of knowledge through period-based models of teaching and temporally restrictive paradigms of scholarship.

Women’s Political Participation in Bahrain

Women Rising ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 321-329
Author(s):  
Marwa Shalaby ◽  
Ariana Marnicio
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Political Empowerment ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
The Past ◽  
British Occupation ◽  
Recent Developments

Women played a crucial role in the Bahraini political sphere over the past decades—through both formal and informal avenues of political activism. They were remarkably successful in shaping the country's political arena as they participated in the nationalist struggle against the British occupation, and in the innumerable subsequent calls for social and political reforms. Despite the regression of women's presence in the political sphere during the 1980s with the rise of Islamism—exacerbated by the political and social stagnation throughout the region—Bahraini women returned to the spotlight in the 1990s and continued to play a major role in the political sphere until the present time. Marwa Shalaby and Ariana Marnicio explain the paradox of women's political empowerment in Bahrain, with a special focus on recent developments post–Arab Spring.

Recent Developments in High Speed Research

1950 ◽  
Vol 54 (477) ◽  
pp. 545-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Beavan ◽  
D. W. Holder
Keyword(s):  
Compressible Flow ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
High Speed ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Lock In

Much work has been done on compressible flow since the contribution of the Aerodynamics Division to research in this field was last described to the Society by the late C. N. H. Lock in 1937. At that time he was able to review many of the data which were available from other sources, whereas today such a task would be impossible in a paper of this length. We shall confine ourselves here, therefore, to a description of some of the experimental work that has been done during the past few years in the high-speed laboratory of the Division, and to an account of the lines along which it is intended to continue the work in the future.

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