scholarly journals Bringing Corpus Linguistics into Religious Studies: Self-representation amongst various immigrant communities with religious identity

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (0) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Carmen Dayrell ◽  
Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi ◽  
Gwen Griffith-Dickson
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Immigrant Communities

Discursive study of Orthodox religious identity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor' Yurasov ◽  
Ol'ga Pavlova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Wide Circle ◽  
The Russian Federation

Considers the problem of the Orthodox religious identity from the point of view of the influence of five types of discourse, widely represented in the Orthodox semiotic picture of the world: philosophical, mythological, artistic, political and ideological. Selected types of religious identity: normative, marginalized, and folkloristically, and determined what type of discourse most pragmatically strongly influences the formation of a type of Orthodox identity. The authors come to the conclusion about the existence in the Russian Federation "rural" and "urban" Orthodox discourses. The first leads to the development of social strain in the area of religious identity and is the base of the formation polarisierung religious identity. The second sets the normative Orthodox identity, avoiding archaism and development of the centaur-ideas. This study was conducted in part supported by RFBR, research project No. 18-011-00164 on "Discursive study of religious identity." Designed for a wide range of sociologists, philologists, cultural studies and religious studies, as well as for a wide circle of readers interested in questions of religion.

Avalokiteśvara's Manifestation as the Virgin Mary: The Jesuit Adaptation and the Visual Conflation in Japanese Catholicism after 1614

2011 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junhyoung Michael Shin
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Great Success ◽  
Strict Enforcement ◽  
Jesuit Mission ◽  
The Catholic Church

Since St. Francis Xavier landed in Kagoshima in 1549, the Jesuit mission in Japan had achieved an amazing number of conversions, even though their activity lasted for merely about fifty years. Their great success came to an abrupt end in 1614 when the Bakufu government began the full proscription and persecution of the religion. An earlier ruler, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, had already banned Christianity and ordered the expulsion of foreign missionaries in 1587, but without strict enforcement. Since the 1630s, the former Christians were required to enroll in local Buddhist temples and annually go through the practice of treading on Christian icons in order to prove their apostasy. However, many Christians secretly retained the faith by disguising their true religious identity with Buddhist paraphernalia. These so-called “underground” (or sempuku) Christians survived more than two hundred years of persecution, and today some groups still continue to practice their own religion, refusing to join the Catholic Church. The present-day religion of the latter, called “hidden” (or kakure) Christians to distinguish them from the former, has drawn the attention of ample anthropological as well as religious studies.

scholarly journals Muslim Communities in North America

1995 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-118
Author(s):  
Omar Altalib
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
Muslim Communities

This book, which is a collection of 22 articles by 25 authors, is appropriatefor undergraduate courses on religion in the United States, religiousminorities, immigrant communities, the history of religion, and the sociologyof Islam and Muslims. The first part contains five articles on religiouscommunities, the second part has nine articles on the mosaic of Islamiccommunities in major American metropolitan centers, and the third partconsists of eight articles on ethnic communities in metropolitan settings.Each part should have been a separate book, as this would have made thebook less bulky and more accessible to those who are interested in onlyone of the areas covered.Reading this book makes it clear that there is great need for Muslimscholars to study and analyze their own communities, which have a richhistory and have only been studied recently. Books such as this are animportant contribution to the understanding of Muslims in the West andalso serve to clear up many misconceptions about Muslims, a developmentthat makes interfaith and intercommunity dialogue easier.Part 1 begins with an article on the Shi'ah communities in NorthAmerica by Abdulaziz Sachedina (professor of religious studies, University ...

scholarly journals Traditional African religions and their influences on the worldviews of Bangwa people of Cameroon

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-84
Author(s):  
Michael T. Ndemanu
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
African Religions ◽  
The People ◽  
Divine Retribution

This essay explores the traditional African religious beliefs and practices of the people of Bangwa in the Southwestern region of Cameroon in order to uncover how those beliefs influence their thought processes and worldviews. In the course of rethinking and re-examining their belief systems and their traditional religious practices, the following themes emerged: religious sacrifices, observance of the Sabbath, belief system, incontrovertible belief in God, sorcery and divine retribution, the dead and the living, inequality and class divide, dreams and interpretation, names and religious identity. The implication of the essay is that study abroad should encompass religious studies that help study abroad students learn ways of thinking and knowing of their host countries. 

scholarly journals Religious Belonging in the East Asian Context: An Exploration of Rhizomatic Belonging

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daan Oostveen
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Asian Context

This article explores the hermeneutical challenges to understand religious belonging and religious identity in the East Asian context. In East Asia, religious identities have not always been as exclusively delineated, as is the case in Western models of religious diversity, for example in the so-called World Religions paradigm. Various theoretical frameworks are discussed in religious studies, sociology and anthropology of religion in China and East Asia, to acquire a better understanding of religious belonging. It is observed that two hermeneutical frameworks are used by scholars to discuss religious diversity: a hermeneutics of multiple religions and a hermeneutics of religiosity. The former analyses “religious belonging” as a “belonging to religious traditions”. In the latter, “religious belonging” is understood as transcending particular religious traditions. It is argued that we need to take another look at the philosophical concept of “multiplicity” to understand religious diversity and religious belonging. We can use the Deleuzian concepts of “rhizome” and “assemblage” to describe religious belongings in East Asia specifically and also religion in general. A rhizomatic thinking about religion enables us to reimagine the concept of religious belonging as rhizomatic belonging, and also, as is argued by Haiyan Lee and Mayfair Yang, make it possible to subvert power structures inherent to religion.

Investigating Religious “Identity”

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-26
Author(s):  
Kate Power
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
Linguistic Methods ◽  
The Impact

This article describes a fieldwork case study which integrates religious studies with various discourse analytic methods, to examine how contemporary Christian identities are represented in conversation. Based on interviews and focus groups with 46 residents of a small town in rural Canada, this research is primarily concerned with religious talk – in particular, with the “social practice” (Fairclough and Wodak, 1997: 258) of “talking [religious] identity” (Hadden and Lester, 1978). In this article, I will review briefly how “identity” is conceptualized in contemporary discourse analysis studies, before describing both the challenge of selecting appropriate linguistic methods for the investigation of religious identity, and the impact upon my research of adopting particular methods.

scholarly journals Producing an LGBT Religious Organizational Identity: The Case of DignityUSA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nik Lampe ◽  
James Cavendish ◽  
J. Sumerau
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Identity Integration ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Organizational Identities ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
Over Time

In this exploratory study, we examine the production of an organizational LGBT religious identity utilizing the case of DignityUSA. To this end, we engage in two interconnected analyses. First, we revisit and verify the findings of Loseke and Cavendish (2001) concerning the production of what they called a “Dignified Self,” which LGBT Catholics may use to integrate their religious-sexual-gender identities. Then, we expand on their analyses of DignityUSA in the late 1990’s to outline the ways DignityUSA constructs an organizational identity their members may draw upon to construct the Dignified Self and integrate their sexual/gender and religious identities. In so doing, our analyses speak both to (1) Loseke and Cavendish’s (2001) call to explore whether their findings from three years of newsletters held over time; and (2) calls over the past two decades for LGBT religious studies to expand beyond individual LGBT religious-sexual-gender identity integration to ascertain the construction of the organizational identities LGBT people draw upon to accomplish individual and interpersonal identity integration.

scholarly journals Identity, fashion and dress consumption by immigrants : a focus on ethnic dress and/or hijab

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omono Gladys Akhigbe
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Multicultural Policy ◽  
Religious Dress ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Canadian Multiculturalism

This study highlights and explores how Canada’s multicultural policy influences the relationship between fashion and identity of racialized diaspora communities in Canada. It focuses on traditional dress and/or the Hijab, a religious dress among diaspora communities in Canada. However, the study demonstrates that consumption of these items among immigrants varies, with some immigrant communities displaying stronger ethnic identity than others. The consumption of these goods shapes one’s ethnic or religious identity. The two theoretical approaches shed insights on the complex relationship between ethnic fashion/dress, religious dress and ethnic identity. The study concludes that although symbols of ethnic identity such as ethnic fashion and/or religious dress are increasingly being contested due to political ideology, they have served members of their respective diasporic communities quite well in that they have allowed them to display and celebrate their identity, and thus produce a particular theme of their identity within Canadian multiculturalism. Key words: Fashion, ethnic dress/clothing, veil/religious dress, immigrants and diaspora.

scholarly journals Identity, fashion and dress consumption by immigrants : a focus on ethnic dress and/or hijab

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omono Gladys Akhigbe
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Multicultural Policy ◽  
Religious Dress ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Canadian Multiculturalism

This study highlights and explores how Canada’s multicultural policy influences the relationship between fashion and identity of racialized diaspora communities in Canada. It focuses on traditional dress and/or the Hijab, a religious dress among diaspora communities in Canada. However, the study demonstrates that consumption of these items among immigrants varies, with some immigrant communities displaying stronger ethnic identity than others. The consumption of these goods shapes one’s ethnic or religious identity. The two theoretical approaches shed insights on the complex relationship between ethnic fashion/dress, religious dress and ethnic identity. The study concludes that although symbols of ethnic identity such as ethnic fashion and/or religious dress are increasingly being contested due to political ideology, they have served members of their respective diasporic communities quite well in that they have allowed them to display and celebrate their identity, and thus produce a particular theme of their identity within Canadian multiculturalism. Key words: Fashion, ethnic dress/clothing, veil/religious dress, immigrants and diaspora.

scholarly journals Muslim identity in the conceptual field of modern religious studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 02008
Author(s):  
Jade Zuriet ◽  
Svetlana Lyausheva
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
Islamic Religion

The article justifies the need for an integrated approach to the study of Muslim identity in the conceptual and categorical field of modern religious studies. Various conceptual approaches to the analysis of religious identity are considered. The authors analyze the features of a Muslim identity, the development of which is influenced by transforming religious institutions and crisis phenomena in Islam at present. Muslim identification is one of the main mechanisms of socialization by the individual's recognition of their belonging to the Islamic religion and gaining value orientations of Islam. Muslim identity dramatically changes its configuration and demonstrates both integration and disintegration potential. The conclusion is that the Muslim identity is combined with other levels of identity on the principle of complementarities and has its own specific features.

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