scholarly journals Multiple Meanings: The Role of Black Gospel in an Interracial and Multi-Ethnic Edmonton Church

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Angela Taranger
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Gospel Music ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Conceptual Systems ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The People ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
A Site ◽  
Black Gospel Music

This paper examines the process by which Black gospel music (performed according to aesthetic standards determined by African Americans) has become a site of meaning for both Black and White congregants at Edmonton Community Worship Hour, a church with an interracial and multi-ethnic ministry. Certain "transformations" (or "inversions") are at play in the conceptual systems of the people who attend; each individual has disparate, though intersecting, webs of meaning which become operational in a cross-cultural setting, relating to: the music itself, the method of worship, and the interpersonal relationships of the church's Black majority and White minority.

Emerging Challenges and Opportunities of Mobile Commerce in India: A Study on Societal Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Utkarsh Kumar ◽  
Anil Kumar Gope ◽  
Shweta Singh
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Societal Perspective ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
Mobile Banking ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The People ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

In India, the position of mobile banking was in saga and this time, it is in pic position. The speedof reaching the people is going high and high. This is time of wireless world and sense of prestige; no doubt the mobile commerce is contributing to enhance the beauty of life and playing the role of metaphor and has become the part and parcel of our life. This growth has changed people to do business in mobile commerce (М- Commerce). Peoples are transferring to M-Commerce to attain good and fast transaction into market and saving their precious time. M-Commerce has become distinguished in Indian people, quickly during last few years. Due to large number of mobile application, growth rate in mobile penetration in India is increasing with the rapid speed. The mobile users has shifted to use the android phone from simple and black and white phone and taking the service of internet, the role of telecom companies is also important in the being popular of mobile commerce. Although many people have started E-Commerce but still a separate part of the society feel uncomfortable and hesitate to use M-Commerce because of security problems, payment issues and complexity of mobile applications. This paper identifies facts about the feasibility of MCommercein India today its growth and the Strength and opportunity, weakness and threats lying ahead.

‘Never so at home’: Charles Elton and the Woods of Wytham

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgina M. Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Site ◽  
The People ◽  
As Species ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
Scientific Value ◽  
Scientific Environment ◽  
Long Term Studies

Focusing on the history of an ecological site northwest of Oxford, UK, this essay explores the people, research and values behind the development of Wytham Woods as a scientific environment. A small patch of woodland, Wytham has long been identified by ecologists as a site of great scientific value. In addition to traditional sources of scientific value, such as species diversity, this article examines the role of emotional connection and aesthetics in how scientific sites are formed and maintained over long periods of time. As such, this history of Wytham Woods sheds light on the multiple factors that nurture the relationships formed when researchers dedicate decades to long-term studies conducted in specific scientific environments.

Tricking memory, remaking the city: Trompe l’oeil and the visual transformation of a historic city in China: Chengdu

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-29
Author(s):  
Yanshuo Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Trompe L'oeil ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
The People ◽  
A Site ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City

This article discusses how Chinese cities are transforming in visually radical ways to reconfigure their historic memories. In the midst of ‘creative city campaigns’ sweeping over China, which emphasize the discovery and exploitation of the creative-historic-cultural elements of urban pasts, Chengdu, one of China’s ‘New First-tier Cities’, epitomizes the pivotal role that visual culture plays in facilitating urban change. Grounded in critical analysis of both indigenous urban-making strategies within China and Chinese cities’ borrowing of western visual practices, this article investigates how Chengdu, as an emerging metropolis in globalizing China, introduces trompe l’oeil-style photographic installations on the site of its famous Kuanzhai Alleys (Kuanzhai xiangzi) transformation project. Urban planners in Chengdu take advantage of trompe l’oeil (‘trick-the-eye’), a post-Renaissance Western artistic innovation, to blur the boundaries between memory and reality. By transforming a vernacular architectural heritage site in Chengdu into a modern interactive cultural Disneyland, urban planners create embodied interactivity on the current tourist site of the Kuanzhai Alleys. While tourists indulge in the enchanting pleasure of a bygone urban past revived through visual tricks on the site, the people of Chengdu criticize the transformed district for failing to represent the authentic memories of the city. By revealing how the Kuanzhai Alleys becomes a site of contested urban experiences, the article probes the role of artistic creations in mediating memory and reality, the past and the present in fast-changing Chinese cities.

scholarly journals The Nooter photo collection and the Roots2Share project of museums in Greenland and the Netherlands

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 165-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cunera Buijs ◽  
Aviâja Rosing Jakobsen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Photo Collections ◽  
The People ◽  
Photo Collection ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cooperative Venture

In 2008 two Dutch museums and two Greenland museums started a cooperative venture to share the photo collections of museums in the Netherlands. The photographs were taken from 1965 to 1986 by husband and wife Gerti and Noortje Nooter in Diilerilaaq, a village in the Sermilik Fjord (East Greenland). Gerti Nooter, then curator at the Museon in The Hague and at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, was doing fieldwork in that changing hunting community and, as part of that research, took photographs and collected museum objects for both Dutch museums. The National Museum of Ethnology in particular has long had a working relationship with Greenland museums and the local Tunumiit community. Through the visual repatriation project Roots2Share, these photographs have been scanned and returned to the communities where they originated and where they can now be accessed locally. As a product of cross-cultural interactions, they depict ancestors of present-day Tunumiit and carry multiple meanings: ethnological or exotic ones for a Dutch public and historical or ancestral ones for the people of Diilerilaaq. Many stories have been told about them. This article explores the relationship between the photographs and Tunumiit knowledge, as well as issues of cultural heritage, ownership, and sharing of these images.

scholarly journals The role of pragmatics in cross-cultural

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-59
Author(s):  
Uno Chemmel ◽  
Roger Phillipe
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Ordinary Meaning ◽  
The People ◽  
Main Motive ◽  
The Way

We here try to find out the role of pragmatics in the cross-cultural contexts. Pragmatics is the way we convey meaning through communication (Deda, 2013). Other factors beyond competence are the adjustments between contexts and situations that can change the ordinary meaning of elements/sentences according to the language situation. The culture of an organization decides the way employees behave amongst themselves as well as the people outside the organization. Pragmatic culture more emphasis is placed on the clients and the external parties. Customer satisfaction is the main motive of the employees in a pragmatic culture. In linguistics, pragmatic competence is the ability to use language effectively in a contextually appropriate fashion. Pragmatic competence is a fundamental aspect of a more general communicative competence.

scholarly journals Unfulfilled Expectations: Influence of Chinese International Students’ Roommate Relationships on Sense of Belonging

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 762-778
Author(s):  
Christina W. Yao
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Domestic Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
Residential Living ◽  
Meaningful Connections

Findings from this study indicate that more attention must be given to Chinese students’ interpersonal relationships with domestic students, particularly when considering the role of daily cross-cultural interactions in residential living. Participants who wanted American roommates anticipated an easier transition to U.S. culture. However, making meaningful connections with American students proved to be more challenging than anticipated. Participants reported that cultural differences within their residence hall room led to difficulty with communication and social connections.

scholarly journals Igwebuike theology of Ikwa ogwe and the inculturation of the gospel message

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Enterprise Culture ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Conceptual Systems ◽  
Major Task ◽  
Cultural Conflicts ◽  
The People ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Gospel Message

This piece on Igwebuike theology of Ikwa Ogwe has attempted at building a bridge between two conflicting inheritances or worldviews of the African Christian: the western heritage and the heritage of his or her ancestors. The researcher attempted doing this with maturity and creativity, and without destabilizing the wholeness of the African Christian. It defined Igwebuike theology contextually, and the Igwebuike concept of culture as a preparation for the gospel, basing this on Clement of Alexandria’s Stromata. This created a basis for an Igwebuike theology of Ikwa Ogwe. It argued that until this bridge is built, the Word of God cannot be effectively communicated- in such a way that the people hearing the Word understand who they are and who others are. It observed that communicating the Gospel without building a bridge would rather take people away from themselves, thus, creating a problem of identity. It discovered that the major task of the gospel message, which is the transformation of worldviews and conceptual systems would not be adequately achieved without Ikwa Ogwe. Igwebuike theology of Ikwa Ogwe, therefore, emphasizes identifying with the people and communicating the message through their categories. The purpose of this study is to make a contribution to the ongoing efforts at resolving the cross-cultural conflicts of the missionary era. The theoretical framework employed is the Igwebuike holistic and complementary understanding of evangelization and culture, which focuses on the bigger picture of reality and believes that all parts of reality are interconnected. Keywords: Igwebuike, Theology, Ikwa Ogwe, Missionary Enterprise, Culture, Conflicts

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF THE TECTONICS AND HYDROGEOLOGY AT THE TSAKONA (ARKADIA, PELOPONNESE, GREECE ) LANDSLIDE

2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 1872
Author(s):  
I. Φουντούλης ◽  
I. Λαδάς ◽  
E. Σπυρίδωνος ◽  
Η. Μαριολάκος
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Tectonic Deformation ◽  
Contour Map ◽  
The People ◽  
Neotectonic Deformation ◽  
Highway Network ◽  
Tectonically Active ◽  
Tectonic Contact ◽  
A Site

The present paper aims to the understanding of the causes of the large-scale landslide that occurred at Tsakona area (SW Arcadia, Peloponnesus) during February 2003. This is the largest landslide that have ever effected the Greek National highway network as it entirely rubed out the new Megalopolis-Kalamata highway at a length of 200m. It took place at the western slopes of Drosovouni Mt., which exhibits an elogated shape of NE-SW direction. At the broader area of the slide three alpine formations of the Pindos unit occur which from lower to upper are: (i) the Jurassic radiolarites, (ii) the so called 1s t flysch and (iii) the Upper-Cretaceous pelagic limestones. The initial sliding took place inside the first two formations and the landslide moved more than 1,000 meters downward along the mountain slope at an E-W direction while its headscarp was near the tectonic contact between these formations and the upperlying pelagic limestones.In order to understand the causes of the landslide we carried out a detailed geological, morphotectonic, microtectonic and neotectonic study of the broader area. Additionally we constructed the structural contour map between the limestones nappe and the underlying formations. From all the aforementioned we suggested that the landslide occurred in a tectonically active area where the neotectonic deformation. Based on the above-mentioned studies, we have to mention the followings: The landslides occur in a site that the tectonic deformation is very intense. There were old landslides before the activation of the last one and before the study and construction of the highway. The constructors as well as the people that studied the area did not take into account the already existed landslides. It has to be mentioned that hydrogeological regime of the area is of great importance, as to the opposite slopes of the landslide in which occur the same formations like in the landslide area there is no landslide activity at least the last 100 years as indicated by the existing railway, due to the no occurrence of limestones above the radiolarites. From all the above mentioned it is clear that the tectonics - neotectonics affected the major area are the main factors involved to the initiation of the landslide, and the crossing of the landslide by the highway contributed to the reactivation together with the rains.

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