scholarly journals From Nature to iNature. Articulating a Sami Christian Identity Online

Nordlit ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Torjer Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Christian Education ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Church

The article discusses the activities of both indigenous people and religion online, and introduces the pair of concepts indigeneity-online/online-indigeneity as a means of analysing this activity. This concept is new, and leans heavily on the pair of concepts religion-online/online-religion that is used in religious studies. The second part of the article consists of an analysis of the website www.osko.no, a site for the Christian education of Sami children and youth. I treat this as an expression of, or a medium for, the contemporary formation of Sami identity, and argue that it can be seen as an indigenous website. The Church of Norway, as an institution with a strong history of colonization  and  Norwegianization, has  developed  into an  institution  that  seeks  to integrate, implement and strengthen the Sami voices and traditions to such extent thatSami  Christians  use  it  as platform  for  the  communication  of  a Sami  kind of Christianity. www.osko.no is an example of a certain articulation of Sami identity. What seems  to  be  the  preferred  or idealized  Saminess  is  related  to nature and  a particular past, and is distant to modernity, urban culture and Norwegian culture. 

The Peach Blossom Spring’s Long History as a Sacred Site in Northern Hunan

T oung Pao ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 107 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-39
Author(s):  
Mark Meulenbeld
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Hunan Province ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Sacred Site ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
Tao Qian

Abstract Though long seen uniquely from the perspective of the Chinese literary canon, Tao Qian’s 陶潛 (365?–427) famous “Record of the Peach Blossom Spring” (“Taohuayuan ji” 桃花源記) may find an even more fruitful disciplinary home in religious studies. The story refers itself to a grotto at Wuling 武陵 (present-day northern Hunan province), a site that has been associated with Daoist transcendents (shenxian 神仙) at least since the middle of the sixth century. A Daoist monastery on that same site, the Peach Spring Abbey (Taoyuan guan 桃源觀) or Peach Blossom Abbey (Taohua guan 桃花觀), became officially recognized in 748 and received imperial support not long after. This article studies the long history of Peach Spring as a sacred site, or, as Tao Qian referred to it in his poem, a “divine realm” (shenjie 神界).

“Christianity, Commerce and Civilization”: Child Labor and the Basel Mission in Colonial Ghana, 1855–1914

2014 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 72-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Koonar
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Labor History ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
History Of ◽  
Degree Of Control ◽  
Basel Mission ◽  
A Site

AbstractFocusing specifically on colonial Ghana between 1855 and 1914, this article aims to situate the history of child labor in colonial Africa within the larger historiography of African labor history. Relying primarily on the records of the Basel Mission, this article complicates the narrative of labor history by studying how the mission acquired and sustained the labor of children and youth at various mission stations as part of the greater “missionary project.” This article argues that childhood in colonial Ghana can be viewed as a site of contestation between the competing interests of patriarchy, race, and colonial and missionary authority, in which the labor of children was used to achieve a larger degree of control and influence in the region.

Tenth Anniversary of the History of Religion in Ukraine

1996 ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Anatolii M. Kolodnyi
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Thematic Content ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Church

The Ukrainian Association of Religious Studies together with the Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine began writing this fundamental work. This will not only be the history of the church or denominations, but the religious process in our native lands. Thematic content of the ten-volume is as follows: 1. Religions of the pre-Christian age; 2. Ukrainian Orthodoxy; 3. Orthodoxy in Ukraine; 4. Catholicism in the Ukrainian lands; 5. Ukrainian Greek Catholicism; 6-7. Protestantism in Ukraine; 8. Religions of national minorities and indigenous peoples of Ukraine; 9. Non-religion in Ukraine; 10. Religion and church in independent Ukraine.

scholarly journals Ecumenical education of children and youth according to The religious education core curriculum of the Catholic Church in Poland (2018) and The curriculum for the Roman Catholic religious instruction in kindergartens and schools (2018)

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 129-141
Author(s):  
Jerzy Henryk Kostorz
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Core Curricula ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

The article presents an ecumenical education in the light of new core curricula for the religion education at schools and kindergartens. These documents were accepted and approved in 2018 and will take effect on the 1st of September of 2020. Currently one can see ongoing work on new series of workbooks. The aim was to notice and detect, whether or not, new documents and propositions within can inspire catechists and teachers to explore and become familiar with an ecumenical education. Goals and contents of the new Core curriculum of the religious education for the Catholic Church in Poland of 2018 for kindergartens and schools were carefully analysed, described and presented. It was done with the focus on ecumenical education. It was observed that the very idea of the ecumenism was treated lightly in aforementioned documents. The authors addressed this idea rarely and sparsely. Clear and concrete description of main foundations of the ecumenical formation were also not observed. The authors of analysed documents don’t put any stock in forming attitudes such as attitude of dialog, openness or respect, or so it seems. According to them, the main focus of religious education should be on history of the Church and general concepts and usual terms (i.e. divisions within the Church, attempts to undertake a dialog, etc.). All of these can create particular challenges and difficulties for those who work on new workbooks to include ecumenical education in its fullness.

scholarly journals Use of ethnographic material in the course "Religious studies"

1999 ◽  
pp. 87-91
Author(s):  
A. Gudyma
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
The Church ◽  
Ukrainian Society

The traditional religious studies program, which focuses primarily on the history of religion and the church, finding out the features of religion as a spiritual phenomenon and a cultural phenomenon does not always provide an opportunity to fully realize the teaching and educational tasks of the subject. Students will soon master the philosophical and methodological principles of discipline rather than mastering material that would meet the needs of the modern national revival of the Ukrainian people. It is known that the impudent sources of the history of our people by the political will of the uninvited people both from the East and from the West continue to distort the ethnogenesis of Ukrainian society, the origins of its spirituality, the identity of Kyiv Christianity, the idea of ​​a national Church, and others.

History of Sport and Religion in the United States and Britain

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Koehlinger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Natural Religion ◽  
Historical Importance ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
A Site

This chapter surveys scholarly writing about the intersection of religion and sport in the United States and Britain. It reviews the dominant historiography of works on religion and athletics, arguing that historians have focused primarily on clergy within Protestant traditions and the question of whether specific sports were considered licit or illicit in different places and times. This perspective occludes consideration of Catholic and other religions, the historical importance of bloodsport, and the informal nature of the interrelationship of religion and sport in daily life. The chapter also examines approaches to sport in scholarship from religious studies, highlighting the ways that scholars of religion have imagined sport as a form of religion (or “natural religion,” civil religion), often taking the perspective of the spectator and fan. The chapter concludes by exploring newer modes of analysis that explore the body as a site where religion and sport intersect.

Together and Apart

2021 ◽  
pp. 120-148
Author(s):  
David Dickson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The Political ◽  
Church Of Ireland ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Church

This chapter traces the long history of the rival confessional communities in Ireland that cohabited in the cities, which provides a key to understanding urban culture. It underlines the contrast between the non-existent legal status of the Catholic Church and the exclusive constitutional position of the established Church of Ireland. The eighteenth-century Catholic Church continued to function both in Dublin and the southern cities. But deprived of the patronage of a sympathetic gentry, the Church as an organization was drastically weakened after the Jacobite defeat. The chapter then presents the Catholic Church's organizational recovery and the creation of a new Catholic politics, urban and lay in character. It details the growth of functioning parishes of the Church of Ireland built in Dublin between the 1660s and 1800s. The chapter then turns to discuss the Church of Ireland's visible challenge in artisan districts: the arrival of a string of Methodist preachers, and investigates its immediate impact in Dublin. Ultimately, the chapter unveils the political power of Presbyterians in Dublin, and it analyzes the significance of Dublin in the emergence of the reformist tendency in Presbyterianism.

The Double Consciousness of Blackness and Christianity: Towards a Biblical Intersectionality

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-343
Author(s):  
Jaison K. D. McCall
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Christian Education ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Christian Students ◽  
History Of ◽  
Black Christians

This research uniquely aims to introduce a biblical intersectionality approach and its usage in reconciling the double consciousness of the Black Christian. Related to Christian education, this research informs issues associated with Christian identity development and redemptive formation among black Christian students. The unique history of African Americans aids in Black Christians feeling a part of and apart from their faith. A biblical approach to intersectionality supports understanding the complexity of the lived experience.

Medieval plague pandemis

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2b) ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
О.A. Oparin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
World History ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

In this work, on the basis of a comprehensive analysis in the field of world history, history of medicine, religious studies, a study of two medieval plague pandemics, features of their distribution, course and consequences was carried out. A close relationship is shown between the appearance of the plague pandemic and the deviations of the church and people from the gospel principles and laws.

Materials for the history of the gospel-Baptist movement in Ukraine

1996 ◽  
pp. 4-15
Author(s):  
S. Golovaschenko ◽  
Petro Kosuha
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
Evangelical Christian ◽  
First Results ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fruitful Cooperation ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The report is based on the first results of the study "The History of the Evangelical Christians-Baptists in Ukraine", carried out in 1994-1996 by the joint efforts of the Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Odessa Theological Seminary of Evangelical Christian Baptists. A large-scale description and research of archival sources on the history of evangelical movements in our country gave the first experience of fruitful cooperation between secular and church researchers.

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