The 1815 Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland

10.12737/3908 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-45
Author(s):  
Дариуш Шпопер ◽  
Dariusz Shpoper
Keyword(s):  
Creation Story ◽  
History Of

The article reveals the history of the 1815 Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland. Special attention is paid to the Constitution draft’s creation story and its authors.

The Chamorro Creation Story, Guam Land Struggles, and Contemporary Poetry

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Craig Santos Perez
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Related Issue ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Western Pacific

Abstract This essay focuses on the creation story of the Indigenous Chamorro people from the western Pacific Island of Guam. The essay presents and analyzes the deeper meaning of the story of Puntan and Fu’una as they birth the island of Guam and the Chamorro people. Moreover, it maps the history of Catholic missionization that displaced and replaced the Chamorro creation story. The essay covers the related issue of how colonization removed Chamorros from their ancestral lands and appropriated these lands for imperial, military, tourism, and urban development. Then it highlights the decades-long struggle of Chamorro activists to reclaim the land. Lastly, it turns to contemporary Chamorro poetry to illustrate how authors have revitalized and retold the story of Puntan and Fu’una to critique and protest the degradation of Chamorro lands and to advocate for the protection and return of the land.

scholarly journals The International Childbirth Initiative: An Applied Anthropologist’s Account of Developing Global Guidelines

2022 ◽  
pp. 179-197
Author(s):  
Robbie Davis-Floyd
Keyword(s):  
Maternity Care ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Medical Intervention ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
Clear Vision ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global Movements

AbstractThis chapter describes my personal experiences as an applied anthropologist serving as the lead editor in the development of a set of international guidelines focused on improving quality of maternity care: the International Childbirth Initiative (ICI): 12 Steps to Safe and Respectful MotherBaby-Family Maternity Care (2018). The ICI’s purpose is to encourage global awareness and local implementation of the MotherBaby-Family Model of Care. This is a model based on women’s rights and humane, respectful, family-centered care. The ICI’s creation story is continuous with global movements to improve the quality of maternity care and with a deep history of birth activism by practitioners, public health advocates, and social scientists aimed at decreasing unnecessary medical intervention in childbirth. This narrative is widely relevant for understanding how to develop and implement global guidelines that can flexibly adapt to local contexts. The ICI was developed by the merging of the 2015 FIGO Guidelines to Mother-Baby Friendly Birthing Facilities with the pre-existing International MotherBaby Childbirth Initiative (IMBCI) in an intense and rewarding group process. The chapter discusses factors that contributed to the successful development of clear global guidelines for high-quality maternity care. These include attention to process, alignment with key values of the women’s health and midwifery movements, multilevel collaboration and networking around a clear vision, garnering input from many people with diverse voices and perspectives, and patience with and commitment to the tasks at hand.

The History of Creation

2019 ◽  
pp. 158-201
Author(s):  
Gaven Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Creation Story ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Creation

In this chapter the history of creation is considered, and the focus is on two key issues: (i) whether or not there is a beginning to creation, and (ii) the consistency of Aquinas’s views with the biblical account of Genesis. There are two main parts of this chapter. The first part deals with Aquinas’s view that the arguments both for and against a beginning of creation are unsatisfactory. The second part deals with Aquinas’s reading of the creation narrative in Genesis, how this reading fits in with his metaphysics of creation, and how it entails that one need not be committed to a literal six-day creation story in order to take the Genesis account seriously.

scholarly journals Lalibela: Spiritual Genealogy beyond Epistemic Violence in Ethiopia

Genealogy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Education ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
The People ◽  
Epistemic Violence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spiritual Tradition ◽  
Sacred Land ◽  
To Receive

The rock hewn churches of Lalibela have special significance in the formation of Ethiopia’s consciousness as a sacred land of God’s covenant. Numerous local stories express the sanctity of Lalibela as a Heavenly Jerusalem on earth and the faithful use holy soil from the churches to cure the sick. Every year, thousands of Tewahido believers travel to receive blessings. Local scholars who studied decades in the indigenous education system serve as intermediaries between the sanctity of the place and the people, and transmit their knowledge to the younger generation. This paper traces this spiritual genealogy to the creation story in the Kebra Nagast regarding the Ark of the Covenant (Tabot) and relates it to Lalibela’s famous churches. It demonstrates the existence of enduring spiritual genealogy that considers place as alive and powerful. The paper also reflects on how the loss of indigenous sources of knowledges, particularly through the stealing or taking of manuscripts by foreign collectors, and the rise of a Eurocentric interpretation of the history of Lalibela challenges this millennial spiritual tradition. It argues that this has resulted in epistemic violence, the practice of interpreting local knowledge with a foreign lens in a way that reinforces colonial Eurocentric views that are then internalised within Africans themselves. Despite such challenges, it shows how the genealogy continues through the very identity and practice of local communities and individuals.

Die fünfteilige Schöpfungsgeschichte Michelangelos und Platons Timaios

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-70
Author(s):  
Otfried Garbe
Keyword(s):  
Human Race ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
The World ◽  
Sistine Chapel ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Further Development

Abstract Michelangelo based the design of the architectural frame of the Sistine Chapel ceiling on an underdrawing in a watercolor by Piermatteo d’Amelia, but he chose to subdivide it into nine bays. He then depicted the biblical story of Creation in five, rather than six, pictorial fields and made references to the number five in the fresco. This structure was intended to allude to the five Platonic bodies, which are a further development of the four elements and, according to Plato, explain the creation of the world. In the views of Augustine and of Christian Neoplatonists, there are close similarities between the creation story and the creation process as described in Plato’s Timaeus. They believed that Plato had imitated the story of Genesis. The remaining four panels would then symbolize the history of the human race and the classic four elements.

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