Theorizing Religion and Nationalism: The Need for Critical Reflexivity in the Analysis of Overlapping Areas of Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam T. Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Religion And Nationalism

Challenging Adultism: Centering Youth as Educational Decision Makers

2020 ◽  
pp. 004208592095913
Author(s):  
Melanie Bertrand ◽  
Maneka Deanna Brooks ◽  
Ashley D. Domínguez
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Schools ◽  
District Level ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Youth Of Color ◽  
Urban Settings ◽  
Educational Decision ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Educational Decision Making

Research indicates that youth, especially those facing injustice, such as youth of Color in urban settings, are essential participants in educational decision-making. However, due to adultism and intersecting forms of oppression, their inclusion is not the norm. Grounded in the concept of adultism and the tradition of storytelling, we address the following question: How can educational researchers and practitioners challenge the adultism that constrains youth’s participation in school- and district-level educational decision-making? We share stories about our experiences in urban schools, considering adultism at the interactional, institutional, and curricular levels. Our implications center on using critical reflexivity to challenge adultism.

Corrupting Language

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Morgan Frick
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Religion And Health ◽  
Critical Reflexivity

The problem of definition is a well-known concern for scholars of religion. Far from being a scholarly preoccupation, the issue has particular relevance in the health care profession. This article discusses how the dynamics of definition impact public policy and perceptions of health, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also advocates for scholars to model critical reflexivity in their research on religion and health care, among other matters.

Organizing practices of reflection: A practice-based study

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 505-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Keevers ◽  
Lesley Treleaven
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Collective Mindfulness ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Reflexive Practice ◽  
Reflection In Action ◽  
Relational Qualities ◽  
The Impact

This article extends debates of how organizing practices of reflexivity and collective mindfulness are encouraged and sustained for learning, critique and change. We present, in a practice-based study, a fourfold framework of anticipatory, deliberative, organizing and critically reflexive practices. Our empirical study illustrates how these multiple forms of reflexive practice can support and co-shape one another so that knowing what to do next emerges in the midst of practice. Our analysis demonstrates the value of going beyond the optical metaphor of reflection to that of critical reflexivity and the metaphor of diffraction. This approach extends understandings of reflective practice in ways that foreground entanglement, co-production and the relational qualities of practice. Diffraction encourages managers and practitioners to not only reflect on what has been done but to also map the effects of their practices and interventions. This orientation assists them to notice the impact of their actions and better understand the complexities of organized reflection-in-action.

Reclaiming a Martyr: French Catholics and the Cult of Joan of Arc, 1890–1920

1993 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 359-370
Author(s):  
James F. McMillan
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Short Communication ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Joan Of Arc ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Religion And Nationalism ◽  
First World

Joan of Arc died at the stake in Rouen in 1431. She became a canonized saint of the Catholic Church only in 1920. It is well known that the wheels of the Vatican grind slowly, but 500 years is a long period to wait for sanctity, even by Roman standards. Obviously, in a short communication such as this, there is no time to explore the rich afterlife which Joan enjoyed between her death and her canonization. Rather, the more modest purpose of this paper is to show how her achievement of canonical status was preceded by a well-orchestrated campaign conducted by French Catholics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. If Joan was finally reclaimed as a Catholic saint and martyr, it was primarily because she was successfully represented as the very epitome of a heady blend of religion and nationalism that was one of the more distinctive and powerful forces of the era of the belle époque and the First World War.

scholarly journals Using Secondary Analysis to Maintain a Critically Reflexive Approach to Qualitative Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Research History ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Over Time

Maintaining a ‘critical reflexivity’ ( Heaphy 2008 ) or ‘investigative epistemology’ ( Mason 2007 ) in relation to the sedimented assumptions built up over the course of one's own research history and embedded in common research boundaries, is difficult. The type of secondary analysis discussed in this paper is not an easy or quick ‘fix’ to the important issue of how such assumptions can embed themselves over time in methods chosen and questions asked. Even though archived studies are often accompanied by relatively detailed metadata, finding relevant data and getting a grasp on a sample, is time-consuming. However, it is argued that close examination of rawer data than those presented in research reports from carefully chosen studies combining similar foci and epistemological approaches but with differently situated samples, can help. Here, this process highlighted assumptions underlying the habitual disciplinary locations and constructions of so-called ‘vulnerable’ as opposed to ‘ordinary’ samples, leading the author to scrutinise aspects of her previous research work in this light and providing important insights for the development of further projects.

scholarly journals Challenging the oppressive social context by redesigning learning space. The case of a business ethics class in Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (57) ◽  
Author(s):  
Polina Kalnitskaya
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Narrative Therapy ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Traditional Management ◽  
Writing Assignments ◽  
Group Activities ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Political Background ◽  
Democratic Principles

The traditional management educational methods like in class group activities derive from Western democratic principles and work well in tolerant and pluralistic climate. However, in dogmatic and oppressive social environment, they just reinforce the dominant culture and create obstacles to develop students' critical reflexive thinking. Learning space becomes constrained by different overwhelming contextual factors: from group pressure to an authoritarian political background. On the case of the Russian business ethics classroom, this paper examines the influence of an oppressive context on the learning space and offers an approach to weakening this influence by intensifying students' critical reflexivity using writing assignments and supportive teacher's feedback based on a narrative therapy approach. 

scholarly journals KEBERLANJUTAN BUDAYA DI PELAJAU, KALIMANTAN SELATAN (THE CONTINUOUS CULTURE IN PELAJAU, SOUTH KALIMANTAN)

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartatik Hartatik
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Culture ◽  
Inductive Reasoning ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Upstream Region ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Artifacts ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Religion And Nationalism ◽  
Relationship Of

Pelajau merupakan sebuah kawasan pemukiman kuna yang dikelilingi oleh sungai mati dan kini terpecah menjadi beberapa desa. Beberapa toponim menandai ramainya aktivitas pemukiman masa itu, seperti Sumur Candi, Sumur Pemandian Raja, dan Masjid Keramat Pelajau. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi peran Pelajau pada masa lalu dan hubungannya dengan situs pemukiman tepi sungai bagian hulu Kalimantan Selatan seperti situs Jambu Hulu, Jambu Hilir, dan Nagara. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskriptif dengan penalaran induktif. Teknik pengambilan data dengan observasi, wawancara dan ekskavasi, dengan analisis data secara laboratorium, morfologi dan teknologi artefak, serta pendekatan etnoarkeologi. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa Pelajau merupakan pemukiman tepi sungai mempunyai peranan yang penting terhadap perkembangan perekonomian, religi dan nasionalisme di wilayah hulu Kalimantan Selatan. Dari beberapa artefak dan tradisi yang hingga kini masih digunakan, disimpulkan bahwa budaya di Pelajau masih berlanjut dari masa dahulu hingga kini, meskipun sempat terjadi keterputusan generasi dan perubahan konsep pemaknaan terhadap Sumur Candi.Pelajau is an ancient settlement area surrounded by dead river, and nowadays it split into several villages. Some toponyms marked the high activities in the past, such as sumur candi (temple well), sumur pemandian raja (bath well of king) and Masjid Keramat Pelajau (Pelajau Sacred Mosque). This paper aims to identify the role of Pelajau in the pastand relationship of Pelajau with riverbank settlement sites at the upstream of South Kalimantan such as Jambu Hulu, Jambu Hilir and Nagara. The method used is descriptive with inductive reasoning. Data are collected through observation, interviews and excavation, and analysis data are conducted by laboratory, morphology and technological artifacts, as wellas ethnoarchaeological approach. Results from this study indicate that a riverbank settlement of Pelajau has an important role to the development of economy, religion and nationalism in the upstream region of South Kalimantan. Based on some artifacts and traditions which are still in use, it is concluded that the culture in Pelajau is continued from ancient times until present, eventhough there are disconnect generation and changeable concept of sumur candi (temple well) meaning.

scholarly journals Ritual as а Subject of Religious Reflexivity in British Social Anthropology and Catholic Traditionalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (50) ◽  
pp. 131-168
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Khonineva
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Liturgical Reform ◽  
The Many

This article discusses how the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) and the liturgical reform in the Catholic Church enhanced critical reflexivity on ritual semiotics and the boundaries of ritualism and anti-ritualism in British social anthropology (namely, in the works of Victor Turner and Mary Douglas) and in the protest movement of Catholic Traditionalism, and furnished the conditions for their discursive convergence. Since Turner and Douglas were Catholics, the similarities in the logic and rhetoric of academic and “folk” anthropology of ritual inevitably raise questions commonly labeled as the problem of belief, focusing on the risks and benefits of the anthropologist's religious commitments for ethnographic work. A close analysis of statements on liturgical reform by British anthropologists and Traditionalist Catholics shows that they share a common, Durkheimian view of ritual and social order; at the same time, intellectual and spiritual biographies of Turner and Douglas demonstrate that sometimes anthropology can influence anthropologists' belief as much as their belief influences their anthropology. These observations provide grounds for a revision of the problem of belief with a Protestant bias. The association of belief with the inner life and creeds is one of the many ways of conceptualizing the mediation of religious experience. In some cultures, such as traditional Catholicism, no lesser emphasis is placed on ritual performance. Thus, an exploration of the proximity of anthropological and Traditionalist “languages” of ritual description opens up prospects for a discussion of the place of attitudes toward ritual in anthropological epistemology and its historical roots.

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