CОЦИАЛЬНОЕ ПРОЕКТИРОВАНИЕ КАК ВИД РЕЛИГИОЗНОГО ВООБРАЖЕНИЯ (ПО МАТЕРИАЛАМ ИЗ ИСТОРИИ РУССКОЙ МЫСЛИ КОНЦА XIX - НАЧАЛА XX СТОЛЕТИЯ) (Social Design as a Kind of Religious Imagination (on the Materials From the History of Russian Thought of the Late XIX – Beginning of XX Centuries)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Agadzhanyan ◽  
Vladislav Razdyakonov
Keyword(s):  
Social Design ◽  
Religious Imagination ◽  
History Of

Isaiah 14: The Birth of a Zombie Apocalypse?

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-142
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Time Reversal ◽  
Religious Imagination ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
History Of

Isaiah 14, a text about the infamous fall into the netherworld of a proud celestial being, has played a key role in the history of biblical understanding. In particular, the netherworld eschatology shaped Israelite end-time beliefs, or apocalyptic eschatology. In Isaiah 14, before readers’ eyes, a transcendent archetype, the ill-fated “Shining One,” materializes on earth as an historical figure, King Sargon II of Assyria. Later, the idea of an “incarnation” of the Shining One as an earthly entity evolves as a key catalyst of a radical new religious imagination. In Ezekiel 38–39, the Shining One becomes “incarnate” as Gog of Magog, a monstrous, but real, apocalyptic “zombie.” Editors first reworked Isaiah 14 as a prophecy of Babylon’s fall and later redeployed the text to depict a final, end-time reversal of Babylon’s hubris.

scholarly journals ‘A Slow Build-Up of a History of Kindness’: Exploring the Potential of Community-Led Housing in Alleviating Loneliness

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 11323
Author(s):  
Jim Hudson ◽  
Kath Scanlon ◽  
Chihiro Udagawa ◽  
Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia ◽  
Mara Ferreri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Connection ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Design ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Research Project ◽  
History Of

This article explores the potential of community-led housing (CLH) in combatting loneliness, and represents a mixed-methods research project carried out from just before the beginning of the pandemic, through 2020. Methods comprised a nationwide quantitative online survey of members of CLH groups (N = 221 respondents from England and Wales), followed by five case studies of communities representing a range of different CLH models. This qualitative element comprised participant observation, and semi-structured interviews at each group. The article also considers data from a smaller research project carried out by the same team in July 2020, that aimed to capture the experience of the pandemic for CLH groups, and comprising an online questionnaire followed by 18 semi-structured interviews. We conclude that members of CLH projects are measurably less lonely than those with comparable levels of social connection in wider society, and that such benefits are achieved through combinations of multiple different elements that include physical design, social design and through social processes. Notably, not all aspects of communities that contribute positively are a result of explicit intentionality, albeit the concept is considered key to at least one of the models.

scholarly journals The Religious Imagination in Literary Network and Muslim Contestation in Nusantara

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Religious Imagination ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
History Of

This study aims to examine the history of religious imagination and contestation in Nusantara. It will trace the issue of transformation of Islamic thought as religious imagination from Middle East to the region by looking at the network of Muslim scholars, the development of institution, and the distribution of religious ideas in kitabs. I will utilize socio-historical approach as means to understanding the early development of Islamic intellectual. It is said that Aceh as the first place of Islamization process in Nusantara. It can be seen from the early historical facts such as Kingdoms of Peureulak, role of ‘ulama of Pasai, and institution of dayah as place of reproduction of ‘ulama in the region. It is argued that there have been many of anthropological and archaeological evidences that had influenced the early reproduction of Islamic thought in Southeast Asia. In addition, this study will also examine the current potrait of contestation among Muslim in political landscape in the country. It indicates that the identity of Muslim has to do with the roots of historical narrative in the Nusantara.

How to Read the Word for Lazarus Resurrection? On the Question of Old Russian Myth-Making and Religious Imagination in the Slavic Medieval Apocrypha World

2021 ◽  
pp. 154-185
Author(s):  
Miura Kiyoharu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Religious Imagination ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
The Third ◽  
Russian Word ◽  
Ancient Literature ◽  
History Of

The article sets the task of investigating, using the example of the apocryphal Word for Lazarus Resurrection, some of the features of old Russian myth-making and the manifestation of religious imagination reflected in the Slavic medieval apocrypha. For this, the concept of “divine sight” is introduced, which goes back to the principle of the image described by P. Florensky and called ‘the eyes of God’. In addition, the proposed article suggests that Old Russian Word for Lazarus Resurrection has a connection with ancient literature. The article is divided into three parts. To substantiate the proposed assumptions, the first part of the article is devoted to an overview of the history of the study of this apocryphal work before A.S. Nikolaev (a researcher of our time), who emphasizes the connection between the Word for Lazarus Resurrection with the Indo-European root. To substantiate the application of the “divine sight” technique in the analysis of a literary work, in the second part of the article, we will consider the cultural soil of the ancient Christian apocrypha. Further, on the basis of the first two parts in the third part, using the concept of “divine sight,” we will analyze the drama of the Word for Lazarus Resurrection.

ARCHITECT-ACTIVIST. THE SOCIO-POLITICAL ATTITUDE BASED ON THE WORKS OF WALTER SEGAL

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateusz Gierszon
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Use Of Self ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Social Design ◽  
Strong Trend ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ambivalent Attitude ◽  
The One

Architecture is a public activity, it is political. This truth is particularly strongly manifested in modern architecture, which through merging with political agenda of a welfare state, has been recognized as a tool for shaping the community, both by improving the standard of housing and disciplining people. In this way, architect has been assigned an important social role. The work attempts to capture a moment in the history of the twentieth century, in which a wave of criticism of modernism led to creating a new paradigm of architecture and a new model of architect: social design and architect-activist. As a model of architect’s attitude might serve the activity of Walter Segal, his socialized designing and model of constructing houses with the use of self-build method. Segal method is interesting because, on the one hand, it is derived from the ideas and achievements of modern architecture, and on the other hand, it creatively forms part of criticicism of modernist building practices. Libertarian and, at the same time, communal aspects of Segal’s methods, together with the ambivalent attitude of the architect, make his work and attitude as co-designer and organiser of the process associated with anarchist idea. Segal method and his attitude of the architect-activist included within it, may be considered as mature model of a modern, strong trend of construction based on the principles of participation and sustainability.

Reimagining Religious Imagination, in Theory and in Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-408
Author(s):  
Adrian Ivakhiv
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Religious Imagination ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
David Morgan ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Jack Miles, Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2020). T.M. Luhrmann, How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020). David Morgan, Images at Work: The Material Culture of Enchantment (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018). Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge (New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2019). Jeffrey J. Kripal, Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions (University of Chicago Press, 2017). Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).

Representing the Twelve Calendrical Animals as Beastly, Human, and Hybrid Beings in Medieval China

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Chungwa Ho
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Early History ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Religious Imagination ◽  
Medieval China ◽  
History Of ◽  
External Sources ◽  
China Today ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Primary Materials

In this study, the early history of the calendrical animals is traced to the mapping of space, time, stars and constellations, the rise of correlative cosmology and the mantic arts in China. It draws attention to the representations of the calendrical animals as beasts, humans and hybrids, their internal as well as external sources of inspiration, and the differing perspectives on the relationship between humans and animals underlying such depictions. Archaeology provides the primary materials for the study of the belief in the calendrical animals as arbiters of human fate in medieval China. Today the calendrical animals continue to engage the religious imagination and beyond, as they also spark the discourse on national identity and global politics.

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