Hospital management

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Mayall Brasher
Keyword(s):  
Hospital Management ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
The Poor

In this chapter the various structures of hospital management are examined. As the model for charity in the eleventh and twelfth centuries was almost exclusively religious, these institutions were universally organized within some format of religious or semi-religious community that provided housing for staff and administrators as well as, patients, the poor, and pilgrims. Confraternities, converse, regular canons, neighbourhood associations and semi-religious groups such as the Humiliati were all involved in managing hospitals. This chapter provides an analysis of the groups and individuals who administered the hospitals and their affiliations with other larger religious and community entities.

Intellectual Elites

2019 ◽  
pp. 81-101
Author(s):  
Sarah Stroumsa
Keyword(s):  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
Intellectual Elites

This chapter focuses on Andalusian philosophers. Philosophers, in al-Andalus as elsewhere in the medieval Islamicate world, were committed to what can be called “the philosopher's life,” namely, the unremitting effort to attain human perfection. At the same time, as intellectuals integrated into their own societies, they could significantly shape their communities' cultural, communal, and even political profiles. Philosophers in al-Andalus truly shared a common philosophical tradition. Jews and Muslims alike read scientific and philosophical works translated from Greek into Arabic, as well as books by earlier Muslim and Christian thinkers. Being a small minority within their respective religious communities, and sharing the same education, interests, concerns, and ideals, philosophers constituted, in some ways, a subculture of their own. While they lived fully within their own religious community and adhered to the boundaries between it and other religious groups, they were acutely aware of the commonality of philosophy. The chapter then evaluates the philosophical curriculum which guided the advancement of students to become philosophers, as well as the friendships formed between philosophers. It illustrates the inherently elitist nature of the philosophers' life qua philosophers.

Residential Patterns among Religious Groups in Canadian Cities

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Fong ◽  
Elic Chan
Keyword(s):  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Residential Patterns ◽  
Comprehensive Comparison

This study, based on 2001 Canadian census data for 16 census metropolitan areas, explores residential segregation among eight religious groups. We include non–Christian religious groups to reflect the emerging religious diversity of Canadian society. Our study provides the first comprehensive comparison of the residential patterns of people affiliated with major religious groups in Canada. We argue that each religion is associated with unique sets of religious institutional behaviors, which in turn shape each religious group's relationships with other religious groups. In this study, we identify four religious institutional behaviors that can affect the residential segregation of various religious groups: institutional orientation of religious community services, subcultural identity, religious identity, and discrimination. The findings indicate that these religious institutional behaviors are related to the residential segregation patterns of different religious groups.

scholarly journals Adventists in Montenegro—From the Atheistic Psychosis of Socialism to the Post-socialist Individuation of Adventism

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Vladimir Bakrač ◽  
Danijela Vuković-Ćalasan ◽  
Predrag Živković ◽  
Rade Šarović
Keyword(s):  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Valuable Data ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Depth Interview

The process of converting individuals to a particular religious community is one of the issues addressed by the Sociology of Religion. In the post-socialist Montenegrin society, there have been research works related to dominant religious communities, the Orthodox, the Roman Catholic, and the Islamic, while science has shown no interest in small religious groups. The Adventist movement in Montenegro, although present for a long period of time, has failed to mobilise individuals for conversion to a greater extent. Therefore, this research aims to find out when, under what conditions and in what way the individuals in Montenegro, as a post-socialist state, chose Adventism as religious affiliation, what affected this process the most, and were there any specificities in that regard. This paper is a result of a survey conducted via an in-depth interview with 17 believers of the Adventist Church. The obtained results indicate several valuable data: most respondents accepted the Adventist movement in Montenegro in the early 1990s; they got first-hand knowledge of this religion from their friends or wider family members and relatives, a consistent interpretation of the Holy Bible is the main reason for conversion. A significant factor in the process of conversion to Adventism is early religious socialisation within a family.

Separating the Sheep from the Goats: Victorian Didactic Hymns

1976 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-273
Author(s):  
Susan Smith Tamke
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Charles Kingsley ◽  
Internal Colonialism ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Government ◽  
Behavioral Norm ◽  
The Church

Charles Kingsley complained in 1848, “We have used the Bible as if it were a mere constable's handbook—an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they were being overloaded—a mere book to keep the poor in order.” Kingsley was outraged that religion should be used for the utilitarian purpose of keeping the lower classes in their place. And yet, in most societies religion has traditionally served the very practical purpose of supporting the established social order. To this end the Christian church—and in this regard it is no different than any other institutionalized religion—has preached a social ethic of obedience and submission to the government in power and to the established social order. The church does this by sanctioning a given code of behavior: those people who conform to the prescribed behavioral norm will achieve salvation, while those who fail to conform are ostracized from the religious community and, presumably, are damned. In sociological terms, the code of behavior approved by a given society is most often determined by that society's most influential groups, always with a view (not always conscious or deliberate) of maintaining the groups' dominance. From the point of view of the least influential classes, this didactic function of the church may be seen as an effort at social control, at internal colonialism—in Kinglsey's words, an effort simply to keep the “beasts of burden…, the poor in order.” In terms of biblical imagery the church's didactic function is to separate the sheep from the goats, that is, to set a standard of “respectable” behavior to be followed by the compliant sheep, with probable eternal damnation and temporal punishment for the recalcitrant goats.

The FBI and the Nation of Islam

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Evanzz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Malcolm X ◽  
Nation Of Islam ◽  
American Muslims ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Unique Relationship

This chapter examines the FBI’s repression of the Nation of Islam. The FBI placed several of its own operatives into leading positions in this religious community, forging along the way a unique relationship with New York City’s police department. The essay explains how Bureau's efforts to destroy the Nation of Islam produced what is arguably its most violent repression of religious groups at the time. The author Karl Evanzz focuses on Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X, both of whom targeted by the FBI for years. By explaining the bureau’s efforts to disrupt the best known organization of African American Muslims, the chapter interprets for readers a pivotal episode in the nation's history of religion and the security state.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Howlett
Keyword(s):  
Faith Community ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Sacred Site ◽  
Community Of Christ ◽  
Religious Other ◽  
A Site

This introductory chapter provides an overview of “parallel pilgrimage”—the dynamics of cooperation and contestation by rival religious groups at a common pilgrimage site. Contestation, whether covert or overt, often charges the shared sacred site with a heightened importance since the shrine is seen as a scarce resource, in danger of appropriation by a religious other. In this way, a contested sacred site may become a supra-sacred site. The Kirtland Temple, a site owned by a minority—a moderately liberal faith community—and patronized mainly by a much larger, conservative religious community, serves as an opportune case study for parallel pilgrimage and its attendant rituals of cooperation and contestation. Beyond the relatively liberal Community of Christ and the more conservative Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at least a half dozen smaller Mormon groups also currently patronize the sacred shrine.

scholarly journals REGISTRATION OF RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-117
Author(s):  
Sergej Flere
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
European Court ◽  
Religious Cultures ◽  
Venice Commission

In the text regimes of religious community registration by statutory law in European countries is reviewed. Although freedom of religion is declared as a pricniple at the European level and individual constitutional provisions, varied obstacles to registering religious communities are set. They may reflect fear of abuse of religion or the intent to safeguard the hegemony of a traditionally entrenched religion. Some of these obstacles are historically entrenched, whereas in post-Communist countries they have been set during democrratic reconstruction. States differ in conditions for registration, in bodies competent to act upon such supplications, procedures in reviewing them and in practice. A trend toward reaching the standards set by the Europeaн Convention on Human Rights may be discerned. The major policies of the Venice Commission regarding religious liberty and a number of standard setting judgments by the European Court of Human Rights, regarding religious liberty, particularly within the registration of religious groups are reviewed in continuation. These policies and judgments ensue from a strict vision of individual and collective religious rights and may collide with traditional religious cultures favouring an entrenched church, within various confessional traditions in Europe. These opinions and judgments present a limited but important instrument of affirmation of religious liberty and suppressing state arbitrariness in the treatment of religious freedom, particularly of minority groups and beliefs. Problems of Orthodox cultures are stressed.

scholarly journals KEBENARAN HEGEMONIK AGAMA

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Amir Tajrid
Keyword(s):  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Truth Claim ◽  
Theological Challenge

<p class="IIABSBARU">Anarchic violence against jamaah Ahmadiyah and “Aliansi Ke­bangsa­­­­­an untuk Kebebasan Beragama dan Berkeyakinan (AKKBB)” by Front Pembela Islam (FPI) constitutes a form of truth claim among religious groups in religious society. The religious inter­pretation which formerly opened now reduced to become the closed interpretation. The formerly is the substantive interpretation now become the hegemonic interpretation. This is one of the greatest theological challenge facing by religious community. This article will show the patterns of attitude and idea among religious comminity members which stimulate hegemonic truth claim in order to find out the friendly, egalitarian, and tolerant forms of religions, so the hegemonic truth claim of the religion should be avoided.</p><p class="IKa-ABSTRAK">***</p>Kekerasan anarkis yang ditujukan kepada jamaah Ahmadiyah dan “Aliansi  Kebangsaan untuk Kebebasan Beragama dan Berkeyakinan (AKKBB)” oleh Front Pembela Islam (FBI) merupakan bentuk klaim kebenaran di antara kelompok-kelompok agama di dalam masyarakat agama. Interpretasi agama yang s­e­belumnya terbuka kini menjadi tertutup. Sebelumnya interpretasinya bersifat substantif namun kini menjadi hegemonik. Inilah salah satu tantangan terbesar yang dihadapi oleh komunitas agama saat ini. Artikel ini akan membahas pla sikap dan ide di kalangan anggota komunitas yang mencetuskan klaim kebenaran yang hegemonik dalam rangka untuk menemukan bentuk keberagamaan yang bersahabat, egalitarian, dan toleran sehingga klaim kebenaran hegemonik agama dapat dihindari.

scholarly journals Interreligiösa gruppers samarbete med kommuner i Sverige

Politik ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Nordin
Keyword(s):  
Religious Community ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious Plurality ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
The Public Sphere

In Swedish contemporary society we nd ongoing processes of secularization and the idea of secularism be- ing challenged by a growing religious plurality in society. e overall purpose of this article is to highlight what happens when religion in a secularized and secular society enter into the public sphere as a result of inter-religious groups’ collaboration with local authorities. is is done through interviews and observations of three inter-religious groups meetings during 2010 and 2011. e collaboration between the inter-religious groups and the local authorities were initiated as a result of perceived problems of integration in the society and aims to include religious communities in society which may change the ongoing processes of seculariza- tion. One of the major problems with the collaborations was related to which religious community could be included by reasons of economic resources, access to personnel and premises and the acceptance and establishment in society. 

scholarly journals The Law of Russian Empire on Jews as a Nationalist Text

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-54
Author(s):  
Leonid M. Golikov
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Speech Genres ◽  
Structural Content ◽  
Legislative Regulation ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Russian Empire

The results of the study of the Law of the Russian Empire on Jews are presented. It is stated that these documents form a hybrid discursive community of texts, combining the directivity of the law and the persuasiveness of the nationalist text. The relevance of the work is due to the fact that the study of the normative texts of the legislation of the Russian Empire (XVIII, XIX centuries) allows not only to reveal the patterns of development of the language of law, but also to supplement information about the linguistic and pragmatic characteristics of speech genres. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that examples of the mutual influence of legislative and socio-political discourses are considered. From the layer of legislative acts regulating the legal relations of Jews, the author singles out the nationalist law on Jews, which distinguishes the focus on forcing the addressee to causate the situation of protecting Christianity from the hostile influence of the Jews, on overcoming the situation of non-use (harm), where the agents are Jews. This circumstance ensures the presence of a motivational part in the structural-content scheme, which justifies the usefulness of legislative regulation by the negative nature of the image of Jews as an ethnic and religious community, the expression of contrasting prescriptions that are discriminatory towards Jews and preferential against the opposing Jews to national and religious groups. The author, analyzing the use of the nomination jude , highlights the general non-invective nature of the nationalist law on Jews.

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