LITERATURE OF THE PEOPLES OF DAGESTAN OF THE PRE-OCTOBER PERIOD IN THE METHODOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF ACADEMICIAN G. G. GAMZATOV. THE CIVILIZATIONAL ASPECT

The methodological foundations of the scientific research of the famous Dagestan scholar – literary critic, academician G. G. Gamzatov are considered. It is noted that the cultural and aesthetic experience of mountaineers accumulated by generations is translated in the works of G. G. Gamzatov into theoretically based concepts that affect the processes of development of the multinational artistic system of Dagestan in the pre-October period. These concepts, based on the cyclical paradigms of humanitarian knowledge, build a sequence of semantic dominants that have ensured not only the national identity, but also the spiritual community of the Dagestan peoples.

Voices in the Reo: Music, Community and Membership in a Rātana Brass Band

<p>This study explores the brass bands of the Rātana community. Te Hāhi Rātana (the Rātana Church) is a Māori Christian church based in Aotearoa New Zealand. Between 1932 and 1984 Te Hāhi Rātana established seven brass bands, which today constitute an amateur brass movement with over eighty years of history and several hundred active band members around the country. Rātana brass bands are widely recognised as emblematic of the Rātana Church and associated political movement, yet the bands gain only passing mention in New Zealand music histories and reference works. This thesis presents the first in-depth research about Rātana brass bands. Based on fieldwork conducted over a one-year period, this thesis investigates Rātana brass banding in its community context. Taking a contemporary ethnographic approach, I explore aspects of symbolism, performance and membership, discussing some of the localised meanings and functions of the brass band in the Rātana context. The research presented in the thesis centred around interviews and interactions with members of one of seven Rātana brass bands, whose voices I incorporate into the text. Observations of the band members playing in church and marae contexts form the basis for narrative ethnographic descriptions and interpretive discussion. Drawing on ‘insider notions’ of community and banding, such as the idea of whānau (family), I explore the Rātana community and faith through the brass bands. This study considers some of the ways in which brass band music serves to bind and sustain the musical collectivities of the bands themselves, and the large, geographically spread, spiritual community of which they are a part.</p>

Voices in the Reo: Music, Community and Membership in a Rātana Brass Band

<p>This study explores the brass bands of the Rātana community. Te Hāhi Rātana (the Rātana Church) is a Māori Christian church based in Aotearoa New Zealand. Between 1932 and 1984 Te Hāhi Rātana established seven brass bands, which today constitute an amateur brass movement with over eighty years of history and several hundred active band members around the country. Rātana brass bands are widely recognised as emblematic of the Rātana Church and associated political movement, yet the bands gain only passing mention in New Zealand music histories and reference works. This thesis presents the first in-depth research about Rātana brass bands. Based on fieldwork conducted over a one-year period, this thesis investigates Rātana brass banding in its community context. Taking a contemporary ethnographic approach, I explore aspects of symbolism, performance and membership, discussing some of the localised meanings and functions of the brass band in the Rātana context. The research presented in the thesis centred around interviews and interactions with members of one of seven Rātana brass bands, whose voices I incorporate into the text. Observations of the band members playing in church and marae contexts form the basis for narrative ethnographic descriptions and interpretive discussion. Drawing on ‘insider notions’ of community and banding, such as the idea of whānau (family), I explore the Rātana community and faith through the brass bands. This study considers some of the ways in which brass band music serves to bind and sustain the musical collectivities of the bands themselves, and the large, geographically spread, spiritual community of which they are a part.</p>

Exploring religious power: A re-reading of Micah’s metaphor of food (Mi 3:5) in the context of African religious space

Power and exploitation of power constitute an essential aspect of Micah’s oracles in the literary prophetic book, and surprisingly, exploitation of religious power was both highlighted and criticised by Micah. This article attempted to explore the religious power by reading and re-reading Micah’s metaphor of food in the context of contemporary Christian religious space in Africa that is marked by power relations, economic and material consciousness, exploitation, poverty and corruption. Clearly, images are important in people’s attempt to comprehend God and the spiritual community of which they are part, and to understand their roles. Consequently, this article employed a biblical, literary, theological and comparative method, to explore Micah’s metaphor of food in Micah 3:5 against the background of exploitative powers. In this article, the author believed that Micah’s food metaphor (Mi 3:5) is an appropriate image to capture the imagination and orientation of present-day religious leaders and Christians in Africa, and consequently, a viable medium to re-direct and inspire the work of the ministry, in a materially conscious world. The article thus demonstrated how religious power can become a vehicle for exploitation of people, for services rendered in the community.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article brings together insights from the biblical, literary, and theological exploration of Micah’s metaphor of food in Micah 3:5, into dialogue with practical Christian theology and ethics. Consequently, it provided a voice against commercialisation of spirituality, contemporary religious consumerism, false prophetic activities, and corrupt religious space, in the ecclesia community context.

Introduction

This book tells the story of Nell M. and the author, her therapist, as they encounter mortal time. When Nell was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, she sought counseling because she wasn’t dying soon enough. The text consists of a compilation of 12 illness narratives in conversation with the author. Nell was disappointed that her breast cancer would not prevent her from seeing her husband deteriorate due to Alzheimer’s disease. She had hoped breast cancer would give her an easy exit. Her journey was guided by conversation in psychotherapy, a circle of family and friends, as well as her spiritual community, where she gained strength and sustenance. The narratives include commentary and reflections by the author/therapist as well as a section on coping with three important areas of a patient’s life: the disease of cancer and treatment-related symptoms, personal and professional relationships, and intrusive thoughts and troubling feelings. The therapeutic approach is supportive-expressive counseling with deep empathic listening and compassionate responding at its core. The dialogues include poetry readings and use of music, both comforting elements that inform the art of dying.

Shaping Russian Identity. The Role of Historical Knowledge

The article is devoted to the vital problem of formation of the Russian civic identity in the conditions of the multi-ethnic and multi-confessional region of the North Caucasus. The Russian identity is viewed as a complicated multilevel social phenomenon that combines several identities namely the ethnic identity, the confessional identity, and the civic identity. Using the data of social surveys the author shows compatibility of ethnic and civic identity in the poly-ethnic society. One of the tools for achieving a balance of identities is historical knowledge. Due to its being the most important form of human self-consciousness, and at the same time being the form of collective memory, history is the key mechanism of identification processes at different stages of personal and social development. Historical knowledge actualized in the institutes of higher education as part of the study of national history lays the foundations of patriotism and civic consciousness. It also forms a tolerant perception of inter-cultural diversity of society in the socio-historical aspect as well as in the ethnic and confessional aspects. The author uses concrete examples to demonstrate the most effective technologies in building the Russian identity in the context of the Russian History Course for the higher educational establishments. The article characterizes the cognitive-emotional basis of the identification process. It emphasizes the importance of forming a positive image of modern Russia as the common home of all peoples who have made a significant contribution to the development of its material and spiritual culture. The author notes that the study of the centuries-old experience of interaction between the peoples of Russia contributes to the strengthening of national consent and spiritual community of Russia’s ethnic groups. Based on the conducted research the author arrives at the conclusion that in the student environment of North Ossetia there are sufficient prerequisites and conditions for shaping an all-Russian civic identity.

Chosen Peoples

On July 9, 2011, South Sudan celebrated its independence as the world's newest nation, an occasion that the country's Christian leaders claimed had been foretold in the Book of Isaiah. The Bible provided a foundation through which the South Sudanese could distinguish themselves from the Arab and Muslim Sudanese to the north and understand themselves as a spiritual community now freed from their oppressors. Less than three years later, however, new conflicts emerged along ethnic lines within South Sudan, belying the liberation theology that had supposedly reached its climactic conclusion with independence. In Chosen Peoples, Christopher Tounsel investigates the centrality of Christian worldviews to the ideological construction of South Sudan and the inability of shared religion to prevent conflict. Exploring the creation of a colonial-era mission school to halt Islam's spread up the Nile, the centrality of biblical language in South Sudanese propaganda during the Second Civil War (1983--2005), and postindependence transformations of religious thought in the face of ethnic warfare, Tounsel highlights the potential and limitations of deploying race and Christian theology to unify South Sudan.

The concept of creative doing in the philosophy of I.A. Ilyin and its application in modern liberal arts education in the high school

Introduction. The philosophy of I.A. Ilyin proposes a program for the renewal of society while returning to the spiritual tradition, which seems to be relevant for modern humanitarian education. The aim of this research is to reconstruct the concept of creative doing in the I.A. Ilyin`s philosophy and to demonstrate of its application in the organization of design and research work of university`s students in the framework of humanitarian education. Materials and methods. Based on the analysis of modern research literature and works of I.A. Ilyin, theoretical and hermeneutical methods were used in this work, as well as the design and research method of organizing educational work with students. Research results. Creative doing is the creative implementation of each person's life project in real conditions. The concept of creative doing consists of four points: 1) creation of oneself; 2) building your own business; 3) building a family and raising children; 4) social and cultural creation. In the philosophical works of I.A. Ilyin, you can find this concept. By discovering spiritual reality, a person comprehends God's plan for himself, his “calling”, freely accepts it and responsibly implements it in his life. The family, created on the basis of the spiritual community of the spouses, transmits the spiritual tradition and creates a new, more creative generation. Patriotism is brought up in the family, the transition to the concepts of the Motherland, the state, domestic and world culture is carried out. The topics are named and the stages of organizing the design and research work of students are presented. Discussion and conclusions. The novelty of this research lies in the combination of theoretical (philosophical ideas of I.A. Ilyin) and practical (long-term practice of organizing students' design and research work) approaches, which allows solving educational problems within the framework of humanitarian education. The concept of creative doing allows you to combine a personal approach with domestic traditions and public good.

Legal Protection of Land Tenure by Foreign Investors through Nominee Agreement in Bali, Indonesia

This paper aims to describe legal protection as the provision of legal certainty to every citizen, individual or legal entity, to fight for and/or defend their rights and obligations by law enforcement officers and/or authorized officials in a certain place. More specifically, the analysis was conducted by using the socio-legal approach to examine the legal protection of land tenure by foreign investors through the nominee agreement in Bali, Indonesia. Moreover, the method was also done by using a normative approach through the analysis of legal matters in Indonesian laws. The legal basis is regulated in the basic constitutional provisions of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, the Criminal Code, the Civil Code, the Basic Agrarian Law, the Environmental Act, Tourism Act, Investment Act, Government Regulation No. 41 of 1996 concerning ownership of residential houses or dwellings by foreigners domiciled in Indonesia. The results showed that there is no exception to foreign investors who contribute to the community also get legal protection. To carry out these investment activities requires land that is sometimes controlled by using nominee. The nominee is someone who acts for and on behalf of another party as the endorsee/guardian, agent/representative of the nominee/simulation/fake agreement. Sociological outlook showed that the sociological basis of Balinese society consists of a spiritual community that upholds local culture because many foreign citizens visit and reside because they want to take a vacation to visit the tourist area and find work in Bali, especially working in the field of tourism services and other fields of work that revive the community in Bali.