scholarly journals „Odwrócony dekalog”, popękana kultura. Socjologiczne refleksje wokół kultury i religijności

2021 ◽  
Vol 12(48) (1) ◽  
pp. 53-78
Author(s):  
Wojciech Świątkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
University Students ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Ten Commandments ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Role Of Religion

Attitudes towards the Ten Commandments, expressed in accepting or rejecting its principles, mark the direction of changes in Christian civilization and culture. The results of nationwide sociological empirical research conducted among university students in 2017 were a premise for the conclusions on the deconstruction of the Decalogue, which is subject to relativization procedures and inscribed in the cultural spaces of transition from objective morality to subjective morality, from the morality of orders and prohibitions to the morality of free choices justified by the principle of situational conformism. Attitudes towards the Decalogue are not only a consequence of selective choices and rejections but also of subjective composing and free structuring of decalogical principles. The in-verted decalogue shows the broken foundations of Christian civilization and the lost experience of cultural identity expressed in the formula etsi Deus non daretur. The article consists of six points: Introduction: Culture and Religion, The Role of Religion in the Processes of Cultural Legitimation, The Decalogue in the Christian Tradition and its Role in Culture, Accepted and Rejected The Decalogue, The Decalogue of Deeply Believers and Systematic Practitioners, Conclusions.

scholarly journals Researching Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Christians and Muslims: Some Thematic Reflections

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew K. T. Yip
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Hidden Populations ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Role Of Religion

This paper highlights some thematic reflections primarily based on two empirical research projects on lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) Christians and Muslims. It begins by discussing reflexivity by way of contextualising the subsequent exploration of specific themes. This is followed by a discussion of the plight of LGB Christians and Muslims which renders research on this population highly sensitive. The paper then explores the theme of researching meanings and lived experiences sensitively, focusing on the importance of being theoretically and culturally sensitive; and the relevance of methodological pragmatism and pluralism. It then proceeds to a detailed discussion of accessing ‘hidden’ populations and trust building; and the dynamics of the insider/outsider status. The paper concludes with a call for LGB research to take seriously intersectionality of contemporary LGB identity (e.g. sexual, religious, cultural, ethnic), and the role of religion/spirituality in LGB lives and politics.

scholarly journals The impact of attitudes towards influencers amongst millennial fashion buyers

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia SanMiguel ◽  
Simone Guercini ◽  
Teresa Sádaba
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

The aim of this paper is to identify influencers and the way they affect the behavior of millennial buyers in the process of consuming fashion goods. The paper examines the literature on opinion leaders, ranging from the origins of the concept to its developments within the context of the Internet. The shift from influential to influencer and the different types of influencer are examined and certain hypotheses regarding the role of influencers (including all the influential players) regarding fashion-buying millennials are presented. The paper presents the results of qualitative and quantitative empirical research based on focus groups and in-depth interviews with 22 university students. Findings from this research and their implications regarding the different stages of the millennial buying process are discussed.

scholarly journals HERITAGE CONTESTATION AND CONTEXT OF RELIGION: POLITICAL SCENARIO FROM SOUTHERN ASIA

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-99
Author(s):  
Rana P.B. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
South Asian ◽  
North India ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Southern Asia ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Role Of Religion

Heritage is a cultural identity to be refl ected in the purview of individual, unique and multiple layers of pluralism, especially with respect to religion, at least in Oriental cultures that maintained their traditions and continuity together with examples of contestation, destruction and also sometimes harmonious co-existence. In the span of time the layering of various cultures put their marks, which in the sequence of time turn to be the issue of confl icts due to claims and controls by the diff erent groups. As a consequence there resulted issues of representation, belongingness, control and power, dissonance and contestation. Despite all theoretic constructs and human concerns for peace and harmony the issue of dissonance dominates, especially withreference to ethnicities and religion. The religious built environments are the pitiful suff erers in such happenings of turmoil recorded every parts of the world. In South Asia the Muslim invasion in medieval period (15th to 18th centuries) had been the major force and process for destruction and superimposing Islamic structure, like in case of major sacred cities of Hindus in north India. In the areas of old culture one fi nds heritagescapes that are subject to ‘ill construction and jumbled space’ where ‘several sites appear incompatibly’. The confl icts between secularist democracy and democratic religiosity are the common phenomena in South Asian region. So on, confl icts between archaeological sites or monuments and lived cultural heritage. It may be accepted rationally that if the two communities, Hindus and Muslims, are ready not to heap defeat and humiliation with an aim to re-establish the history of the medieval times, the issues can be resolved amicably. This essay reviews the emerging literature dealing with the enduring role and context of religion in the issue of contesting heritage (mostly cultural). Emphasis is further laid on the contextual constructs of analysis, examples from diff erent parts of Southern Asia, and fi nally role of religion in policies, mitigation and management of contesting heritage.

The Sacred Orders of Finnish Political Discourse on the Revision of the Blasphemy Law

Numen ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 294-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuomas Äystö
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Religious Plurality ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines how Finnish politicians constructed the legal protection of religion and the relationship between religion and society during the process of revising the blasphemy and religious insult sections of the Finnish criminal code in the late 1990s. In doing so, it analyzes their discourses on religion and the sacred. It identifies two “sacred orders” in these discourses. One is a “secular sacred order,” concerned with the defense of religious plurality, secular progress, and the principles of public order and freedom of religion. The other is a “Christian sacred order”; it defends Finnish national and cultural identity, is connected to the national form of Christianity, and refers explicitly to the Christian God. These orders represent different views on the role of religion in society but, as the article shows, during the legislative process proponents of both invoked a category of religion that presumed a Christian prototype. Based on this analysis, the article suggests that theories utilizing the Durkheimian notion of the sacred should take into account issues of power, the nature of sacred things as social constructions and thus variable, and the existence of hierarchical relationships between different sacred things.

Role of Emotional Intelligence in Managing Stress Among University Students

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iram Feroz ◽  
Asma Parveen ◽  
Iftekhar Ahmed ◽  
Nandita Choube
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
University Students ◽  
Managing Stress

Role of Islamic religiosity in predicting academic motivation of university students.

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shameem Fatima ◽  
Musferah Mehfooz ◽  
Sumera Sharif
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Academic Motivation
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