Religion and Nature in the Light of Rosa’s Resonance Theory

German sociologist Hartmut Rosa has developed an integral resonance theory, which is a theory of our relationship to the world. This theory has aroused much interest in recent years not only among sociologists but also among representatives of other humanities and social sciences, including representatives of the science of religion. Therefore, the author considers it worth discussing. The article deals with religion and nature in light of Rosa’s theory. Rosa understands religion and nature as two of the main axes and areas of man’s search for vertical resonance in modernity. In the section devoted to religion, the author presents Rosa’s view that the essence of religion is man’s need for a response. In light of resonance theory, the author examines phenomena such as prayer, worship, religious rites, certain holidays (Christmas), and sin. Schleiermacher, Buber, Gerhardt, Luther and Camus are singled out as particularly relevant thinkers and creators. On this basis, he discusses existential violence, which stems from the need for resonance and the rejection of alienation as its opposite. The section devoted to nature is mainly focused on the problems that hinder modern man in their quest to fulfil their longing for resonance with nature. The author explains Rosa’s thesis that the ecological crisis is, at its core and origin, an existential and cultural crisis and not a crisis of resources. The author draws conclusions concerning the importance of religion and modern man’s fear of the loss of resonance.

Modernism, Inflation and the Gold Standard in T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound

The great inflation of the 1920s had a dramatic effect on Anglophone literary modernism. Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway all recognized that financial signs had come unmoored from any objective reference, and their work explores the literary implications of representation's newly autonomous, performative power. Pound blamed the economic and cultural crisis on ‘usury.’ Following Aristotle, he conceived of usury as the unnatural reproduction of autonomous representation, and thus as the antithesis of natural sexual and semiotic fertility. He particularly deplored the historical role played by Samuel Loyd, the Victorian head of Lloyds Bank, who had cunningly manipulated the gold standard in order to give control of the economy to ‘usurers.’ In his financial journalism for Lloyds Bank Monthly, Eliot used the gold standard as an economic logos in order to facilitate usury. Pound saw that Eliot's theory of the ‘objective correlative’ was incompatible with the referential model of representation assumed by the gold standard.

Romantic Nationalism and German ›Universality‹. Novalis’ »Europa« Speech and its context

The poet Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) first put forward the idea that the German nation was destined to “deliver” Europe from its political and cultural crisis, an idea that formed the basis of his work “Europe” (1799). With it he ultimately transferred Christian universalism and missionarism into politics, thereby establishing a line of thinking that German nationalism would lastingly incorporate into its mindset.

Christianization, the New Testament and COVID-19 in Owambo, Namibia

This article explores religious and cultural responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Namibia, focusing particularly on the northern region of Owambo. Since the 1870s, Owambo has experienced a rapid and widespread process of Christianization. Today, the vast majority of the population (both in Owambo and in wider Namibia) identify as Christian. In this context, the supremacy of the Bible and Christianity was established, in no small part, through the instigation of cultural crisis – the upending of social norms and the demonization of African Traditional Religion (ATR) and local cultural practice. From foodstuffs to family structure, from initiation to forms of dress and adornment – the overtly ‘traditional’ became taboo. And yet, responses to the COVID-19 pandemic illustrate the endurance of ATR and demonstrate that the cultural ‘text’ is at least as significant as the biblical text in the current crisis, whether as sphere of impact or source of resilience. This article therefore reflects on responses to the current COVID-19 crisis in light of the historical cultural crisis, exploring how Christianity and ATR are perceived to be affected by COVID-19, and how communities are drawing on Christianity/the Bible and ATR as sources of resilience.

Thinking Beyond Coloniality: Toward Radical Caribbean Futures

This essay reviews Aaron Kamugisha’s reading of the works of C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter in his 2019 book Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition. Kamugisha issues a resounding call to reenergize the radical Caribbean intellectual tradition, saving us from our own alienation, colonization, and ambivalence. This essay takes inspiration from Beyond Coloniality to respond to the climate-political-social-cultural crisis in the Caribbean and to think through the possibilities for futurity in relation to reparative justice and ecological repair. It considers how the multiple devastations of recent “unnatural disasters” in the Caribbean are the outcome of the coloniality of climate, the deadly logics of racial capitalism, and the persistence of antiblack racism globally. The coloniality of climate calls for attention to repair, care, and reparations. We need to ask, Who is responsible, who is harmed, and who should be accountable?

Nietzsche’s nihilism and the crisis of values

The present paper analyzes Nietzsche’s ideas about the cultural crisis from the standpoint of nihilism. According to Nietzsche, nihilism takes over modern civilization and raises the question of values. To the decline, or as Nietzsche call it, “the decadence” that led to the crisis in values, Nietzsche contrasts his “active” nihilism, which has to find “new values”. From a perspectivist point of view, the revaluation of all values through which the contemporary humanity must overcome the nihilism and project its future, is considered.

KRISIS KULTURAL PEMUDA DI KAWASAN PARIWISATA

<p><em>This research aims to find out the cultural crisis among youths in tourism region. This study employed a qualitative research method with phenomenological approach. The result of research showed that the factors underlying the cultural crisis in Kuta society, particularly youths, are innovation or new invention in the society, dissatisfaction with the existing condition, openness to the change, and people’s poor consciousness of the preservation of cultures existing. In addition, it is also due to the cultural effect of tourist, the entry of globalization and modernization currents, government supporting more the organization of entertainment events leading to the fading traditions, and more sophisticated technology innovation and social media effect. Cultural crisis occurring in Kuta Village is inseparable from the effect of Kuta village as tourist destination. Such condition makes some of local cultures existing in Kuta changing. On the one hand, some original cultures of Kuta village are still maintained well and not mixed with or affected by external culture (e.g. various forms of art and customary rites). On the other hand, as a tourist destination to which the tourism lovers often come, either domestic or foreign, culture westernization occurs in this village. The westernization effect can be seen from the western-oriented life of tour guide, the youths’ fashion style, and tourist facilities resembling foreign lifestyle such cafes.</em><em></em></p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><strong><em>: Cultural Crisis, Youth, Tourism</em></strong><strong><em>.</em></strong><strong><em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><h2>Abstrak</h2><p>Penelitian ini memiliki tujuan untuk mengetahui krisis kultural pemuda di kawasan pariwisata.Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan fenomenologi.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa faktor yang melatar belakangi timbulnya krisis budaya pada masyarakat khususnya pemuda kuta adalah adanya inovasi atau penemuan baru dalam masyarakat tersebut, ketidakpuasan dengan kondisi yang ada, sikap terbuka pada perubahan, kurangnya kesadaran pada masyarakat akan kelestarian budaya yang ada. Selain itu juga karena pengaruh budaya dari wisatawan, masuknya arus globalisasi dan modernisasi, pemerintah yang lebih mendukung dilakukannya ivent-ivent hiburan yang menyebabkan kesakralan suatu tradisi makin pudar, adanya inovasi teknologi yang semakin canggih, dan pengaruh media sosial. Krisis budaya yang terjadi di Desa Kuta tidak terlepas dari pengaruh desa kuta sebagai destinasi wisata.Kondisi tersebut mengakibatkan sebagian budaya lokal yang ada di Kuta mengalami perubahan.Disatu sisi masih ada budaya asli desa kuta yang terjaga dengan baik dan tidak tercampur ataupun dipengaruhi budaya luar, diantaranya berbagai bentuk kesenian, upacara-upaca adat. Namn disisi lain, sebagai wilayah destinasi wisata yang sering didatangi oleh penikmat wisata baik lokal hingga mancanegara, menjadikan perubahan budaya yang ada di masyarakat kuta mengalami westrenisasi. Berbagai bentuk pengaruh westrenisasi tercermin dari kehidupan guide tour yang cendrung kebarat-baratan, selain itu cara berpakaian generasi muda, fasilitas-fasilitas wisata yang menyerupai kebutuhan gaya hidup ala mancanegara seperti kafe-kafe.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Kata Kunci:</strong>Krisis Kultural, Pemuda, Pariwisata.</p>

Overcoming the Modern Socio-Cultural Crisis – from Postmodern to Post-Postmodern: Theoretical Aspects

The purpose of the article is to consider the negative aspects of postmodernism and study how post-post modernity can help humanity overcome the modern socio-cultural crisis. In their research, the authors used various scientific methods of cognition, such as analysis and synthesis, in particular meta-analysis and meta-synthesis, generalization, and induction. The authors analyze the stages of development of civilization from the point of view of social progress, highlight their main characteristics and typological differences. The considered key points characteristic of postmodern, such as pluralism, negativism, relativism, denial of binarity in thinking, the extreme degree of nihilism, etc., lead to the understanding that the crisis that arose in the political, economic, socio-cultural life of society, at the turn of 20 21 centuries, inherent in the very nature of postmodern. The values and perception of the postmodern are less and less consistent with the present time, and in its depths, a new worldview begins to crystallize, conventionally called post-postmodern, as a response to overcoming the current socio-cultural crisis. Post-postmodern, postmodern, like modern before them and similar phenomena are links of one chain, interconnected with each other and logically following from the processes of previous eras. The main components of the post-postmodern, which are formed from the problems of the postmodern, are highlighted and characterized. As a result, the study showed that the currently being formed new worldview - post-postmodernity came close to the search for a new spirituality for the all-round development of a person and turning him into a socially mature being, as well as for resolving the internal contradictions of the postmodern worldview

La mística como síntoma de la modernidad. Una lectura del proyecto epistemológico de Michel de Certeau

This article presents an enquiry into one aspect of Michel de Certeau’s intellectual project: to make Christianity intelligible in our epistemological situation. I seek to demonstrate how this epistemological and theological question shapes many of his historical and anthropological works, which seek to elucidate the re-composition of the human sciences and Christianity from a particular reading of modernity. The matrix of his thought is configured by the irruption of mystical experience in otherness and strangeness and the questions this poses to the claimed uniqueness modern reason, heir to the Aufklärung. We will inquire about the fundamental theoretical tools that support the political discernment made by Michel de Certeau in the cultural crisis of May 68. Then we analyse the place of the nominalist rupture in the process of desontologization of language and the passage from the religious system to the ethics of Enlightenment as a way through the notion of “the formality of practices”. Both are preludes to his particular reading of secularization.