scholarly journals Urban Islam in the Netherlands: What Mosques Can Tell

Islamology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Welmoet Boender
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Analytical Instrument ◽  
Dutch Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dutch Cities

In the Netherlands the number of newly built mosques has grown fast in the past decades, attracting attention of academic observers, politicians and citizens alike. This paper presents a seven-fold typology of Dutch mosques, as one possible way to discuss how mosques have integrated into the urban landscape of Dutch cities and towns. Each type emphasizes a specific imagery of the material expression of the mosque’s ethnic-social-religious identity in Dutch society. Providing illustrative examples that support this classification, the typology will serve as analytical instrument to provide insight in the history of identity politics and dynamic notions of aesthetics.

scholarly journals Stol ons 'kerklike' godsdiensbeoefening in die historiese Jesus?

2002 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Spoelstra
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Lord's Supper ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past 2000 Years ◽  
Congregational Worship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reformed Churches

Does ecclesiastical religion fixate on the historical Jesus? In this article the question is posed whether the kingship of Jesus within modern Reformed ecclesiastical religious practice, and especially within the GKSA, is adequately recognized. It is argued that since Karl Barth, the practice of religion in Reformed churches has in essence focused mainly on the aspect of justification brought about by faith in the atonement on the cross. Another aspect also stressed in Barths’ theology, and still prevalent today, is his rejection of God’s so-called general revelation in creation and history. Since Barth a biblicistic trend has developed in which the kingship of the risen and glorified Christ has been overwhelmingly neglected. The result is that Jesus is mainly commemorated for his atonement in history and is not experienced as the living and reigning Christ in the present. Present-day faith and worship thus relate directly to the history of Jesus on earth, leaving the impression that no revelation has occurred during the past 2000 years. History has become an embarrassment to present-day preachers. It is asserted that the influence of rationalism and humanism on Reformed worship may have caused a lack of appreciation for the aspect of communion with the glorified Christ. In the GKSA the Lord’s Supper is a central event in congregational worship. The Formulary presents the sacrament as a meal to commemorate the death of Christ and does not adequately testify to His kingship here and now. It is apparent that the GKSA inherited many of Zwingli’s ideas from the Reformed churches in the Netherlands and did not fully grasp Calvin’s emphasis on actual communion with the living and reigning Christ.

Renaissance Poverty and Lazarillo's Family : The Birth of the Picaresque Genre

PMLA ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 94 (5) ◽  
pp. 876-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Herrero
Keyword(s):  
Urban Growth ◽  
European Society ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
The Past ◽  
Copernican Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature

In the history of literature the change from the idealized worlds of the shepherd and the knight to the world of the pícaro; from arcadia and chivalry to the desolate urban landscape of misery and hunger; from romance to irony—in fact, the Copernican revolution that produced a new genre—could only have been born of an upheaval that affected men’s lives and forced educated writers to see conditions they had so far ignored. This change stemmed from an increased awareness of human misery, which the urban growth of the Renaissance had made highly visible. The genius of the Spanish author of the Lazarillo consists in his having found the literary voice for such a profound transformation of European society. The Lazarillo, of course, did not annihilate the past, but it gave artistic form to the all-pervading crisis that was destroying the basis of the traditional order.

scholarly journals Traditional Islam and Global Religious Connectivity: Nahdlatul Ulama in The Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-162
Author(s):  
Amin Mudzakkir
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nahdlatul Ulama ◽  
Traditional Pattern ◽  
Traditional Islam

This article examines the Nahdlatul Ulama in the Netherlands. Nahdlatul Ulama is the largest Muslim organization in Indonesia which is now starting to open branches overseas, including in the Netherlands. Despite its traditional pattern, NU has a religious vision which has been very responsive to global connectivity from the beginning. Based on interviews and observations, this article demonstrates the ability of the Dutch NU to portray itself as a religious diaspora organization that bridges the identity needs of its members regarding the homeland and the reality of daily life in the Dutch multicultural society. Keywords: Nahdlatul Ulama, traditional Islam, religious connectivity, Indonesia, Dutch multicultural society REFERENCE: Anderson, Bennedict R. O’G. 1992. “Long-distance nationalism: World capitalism and the rise of identity politics”. The Wertheim Lecture 1992. CASA-Centre for Asian Studies Amsterdam. Azra, Azyumardi. 1994. Jaringan ulama : Timur Tengah dan kepulauan Nusantara abad XVII dan XVIII : melacak akar-akar pembaruan pemikiran Islam di Indonesia. Bandung: Mizan. Helly, Denise. 2006. “Diaspora: History of an idea” dalam Haideh Moghissi (ed.). Muslim diaspora: Gender, culture and identity. London/New York: Routledge. Laffan, Michael Francis. 2003. Islamic nationhood and colonial Indonesia: The umma below the winds. London/New York: Routledge. Noer, Deliar. 1980. Gerakan Moderen Islam di Indonesia, 1900-1942. Jakarta: LP3ES. Sujadi. 2017. Persatuan Pemuda Muslim se-Eropa: identity, encouragement for giving, and network, 1971-2009, Disertasi Universitas Leiden. Wawancara, Ahmad Maksum Hambali, 9 Maret 2019. Wawancara, Nur Hasyim Sobandi, 12 Maret 2019. Wawancara, Nana Supriatna, 14 Maret 2019. Korespondensi, M. Latif Fauzi, 31 Oktober 2019. https://www.nu.or.id/post/read/107683/konferensi-internasional-nu-belanda-perkuat-promosi-islam-moderat http://nubelanda.nl/conference2019/selected-papers/120-conference2019 https://islam.nu.or.id/post/read/76456/seminar-internasional-islam-nusantara-awali-konfercab-nu-belanda

scholarly journals De BMGN als platform voor vernieuwing van de politieke geschiedenis

2021 ◽  
Vol 136 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-149
Author(s):  
Dirk Jan Wolffram
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Dutch Politics ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
History Of

De politieke geschiedenis van Nederland en België zoals bestudeerd in de BMGN had verschillende gezichten. Aanvankelijk domineerde een zekere traditionele geschiedschrijving over beide landen, die als een steeds dunner wordende rode draad door de inhoud van de afgelopen vijftig jaar loopt. Vanaf het midden van de jaren tachtig verschoof de nadruk naar de geschiedschrijving over de Nederlandse politiek, en ontwikkelde de BMGN zich tot platform voor de vernieuwing van de politieke geschiedenis van de moderne tijd. Deze politieke-cultuurbenadering manifesteerde zich vanaf het midden van de jaren negentig in een aantal baanbrekende artikelen en bracht ook de moderne Belgische politieke geschiedenis opnieuw onder de aandacht. In het afgelopen decennium ontpopte de BMGN zich tot podium voor een jonge generatie politieke historici. Studies of the political history of the Netherlands and Belgium as examined in the BMGN had various manifestations. Initially a somewhat traditional historiography about the two countries dominated, surfacing in the content of the past fifty years, albeit progressively less pronounced. From the mid 1980s the focus shifted to the historiography of Dutch politics, and the BMGN evolved into a platform for innovating political history writing of the modern period. This political-cultural approach manifested from the mid 1990s in several pioneering articles and restored interest in modern Belgian political history. In the past decade the BMGN has become a platform for a young generation of political historians.

From Landscape to Individuality

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aron Y. Gurevich
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
National Character ◽  
Historical Anthropology ◽  
Second Nature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

Several years ago, when I visited the Netherlands for the first time, a famous historian with whom I was walking along a road through the polders observed that the national character of the Dutch had formed through many centuries of efforts to shape nature, and that nature in its turn bears the imprint of their character. I was greatly interested by this remark on the interaction between mentality and landscape and I asked my colleague to write an article on this subject for the periodical Odissei. Chelovek v istorii (‘Odysseus. Man in history’), which focused on issues of historical anthropology and which I am publishing for several years. Although unfortunately I did not receive the article as such, I was all the more interested to read Nico Roymans' work. The perception of space and landscape does in truth change through history and it would be incorrect to interpret the natural environment as a rigid framework in which the history of mankind unfolds. It is said that culture is man's second nature – but would it not be nearer the truth to say that it is his only nature? Man is a symbolical being (animal symbolicum), who finds his way in this world by means of symbols and who perceives reality through these points of reference, which he creates or reproduces. There is no sphere of activity beyond the boundary of this symbolical world. For this reason the perception of human activity cannot go beyond or neglect this all-embracing symbolical universe. Nevertheless far from all historians have mastered the art of reading or deciphering the sign systems of the past or present, since it is by no means easy to learn to read in this manner.

scholarly journals Uma tríade botânica na paisagem oitocentista portuense: jardins e hortos de excelência científica e económica

CEM ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 218-238
Author(s):  
Cristiana Vieira ◽  
Ana Catarina Antunes ◽  
Sónia Faria
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
The Other ◽  
City Center ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

The present work explores the recognition of the past and present genius loci of three spaces of Porto city center as remaining and transformed representations of spaces with distinct, interconnected and pertinent botanical missions in the nineteenth century landscape of the city. Through the exploration of sources left by the interveners or graphic testimonies of the urban landscape from 1850 to the present day of these (ethno-)botanical spaces, we explore how the interveners and spaces of the Jardim Botânico da Academia Polythecnica do Porto, the Horto-pharmacêutico da Botica da Hospital Real de Santo António and the Horto das Virtudes mutually influenced. On the other hand, it is demonstrated how these spaces determined a time of special interest in botany that would not be repeated in the history of the city and its population.

scholarly journals Woodlands of the past — The excavation of wetland woods at Zwolle-Stadshagen (the Netherlands): Reconstruction of the wetland wood in its environmental context

2006 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.J. Kooistra ◽  
L.I. Kooistra ◽  
P. van Rijn ◽  
U. Sass-Klaassen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Soil Science ◽  
Large Wood ◽  
Field Methods ◽  
Landscape Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Integrated Study

AbstractInformation on the vegetation and landscape history of a region is often limited, and available data are hard to interprete. A concept is presented here on how a more comprehensive picture of the structure and development of landscapes and vegetations of the past can be gained by integrating the information of several disciplines. Archaeological field methods have been combined with methods used in landscape studies (geology, soil science, micromorphology) and vegetation studies (ecology, palynology and dendrochronology).This concept has been applied and tested during an integrated study of a buried woodland at Zwolle-Stadshagen (Province of Overijssel, the Netherlands). Many large wood remnants were found in a peat layer preserved below a thick clay deposit. The wood remnants were dated by using dendrochronology to the period between ca. 150 BC and AD 580 (ca. 2200 - 1400 cal. BP). Two phases could be distinguished in the development of the peat. The woodland consisted of a closed stand with ash, alder and oak as main species, in the first phase mostly resembling an alder carr, and in the second one the near-extinctFilipendulo-AlnetumPassage et Hofmann 1968. No evidence of exploitation of the woodland by man nor of animal foraging was found.The followed integrated procedure has led to a more substantiated reconstruction of the palaeo-environment with its wetland wood, but also of the influence of human activities on the palaeo-landscape and its woodlands, that could not have been obtained otherwise.

Identity, Politics, and Nation-building in History Textbooks in Bangladesh

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shreya Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
History Textbooks ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Past ◽  
Narrative Representations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Nation State

If nations are “imagined communities”, as many theorists like to define them, then they need an ideology to create a cohesive imagination. In modern times, the project of writing “history” has been an important instrument in the service of this ideological purpose of justifying and reproducing the modern nation-state as the predestined and legitimate container of collective consciousness. School textbooks, at least in South Asia, have long been among the most exploited media for the presentation of the history of the national collective. This essay is a study of school textbooks in Bangladesh. It looks at narrative representations of selected episodes from the past, both pre- and postindependence, in order to reflect on how they construct “history”. Through this work I endeavor to relate textual images to issues of community relations and identity by identifying and sharing the ways in which the audience for nationalist discourse is created, nurtured, and secured through symbolic means.

Abjection and the Irish-Greek Fir Bolg in Aran Island Writing

2020 ◽  
pp. 173-192
Author(s):  
Arabella Currie
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Reception History ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Irish People ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Aran Islands

This chapter analyses the reception history of the Fir Bolg, a legendary Irish people who sought refuge in Greece, were enslaved there, rebelled, and returned to Ireland where they were driven to the Aran Islands by invaders. The complex range of engagement with the Fir Bolg by Victorian and Celtic Revivalists, by anthropologists, diarists, travellers, writers, poets, and by scholars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is deeply entangled with identity politics in Ireland. Cast as abject figures the Fir Bolg are trapped in the primitivism of island writing that uses antiquity, including comparisons to Homeric islanders, to enshrine the past. But the Fir Bolg could be mobilized as revolutionary within the political discourse of Aran islanders, and the marked silence of J. M. Synge on the Fir Bolg (and on Homer) may activate their revolutionary potential. The Fir Bolg become resurgent under erasure.

scholarly journals How Generations Matter

2021 ◽  
Vol 136 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-85
Author(s):  
Agus Suwignyo ◽  
Alicia Schrikker ◽  
Susan Legêne
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Current Generation ◽  
International Scope ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

In de historiografie spelen generaties een rol, en dit is zeker het geval inzake het langdurige proces van dekolonisatie. In deze forumbijdrage bespreken wij de artikelen die opeenvolgende generaties sinds 1970 over kolonialisme, imperialisme en dekolonisatie in BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review publiceerden. Deze bijdrage gaat over verschillen en continuïteiten in de onderzoekspraktijken tussen de oudere generatie historici die het kolonialisme zelf nog meemaakten, en de daaropvolgende generaties. De geschiedschrijving van het koloniale verleden is verweven met debatten over dekolonisatie; dat houdt ook het idee van ‘deimperialisatie’ in, oftewel het bevorderen van een geschiedschrijving waarin Europa niet in het centrum staat. Door de inhoud van de BMGN onder de loep te nemen kunnen we deze ontwikkelingen enigszins volgen, ook al figureerde de thematiek van kolonialisme, imperialisme en dekolonisatie bepaald niet prominent in de BMGN van de voorbije vijf decennia. Qua historiografie laten de artikelen echter wel degelijk veelzeggende trends zien, zoals veranderingen op het vlak van bronnenkritiek, van de internationale reikwijdte van het debat en met betrekking tot de gekozen conceptuele benaderingen. We zien bijvoorbeeld dat een toenemende belangstelling voor het koloniale verleden, ook buiten de geschiedwetenschap zelf, de perceptie heeft beïnvloed van historici ten aanzien van koloniaal geweld – zowel in diens fysieke, socio-culturele als in zijn kennistheoretische vorm. Ondanks allerlei lacunes, laat het groeiende aantal publicaties in de BMGN sinds 2006 over kolonialisme en dekolonisatie zien dat deze thematiek voor de huidige generatie historici een integraal onderdeel is geworden van de geschiedschrijving in Nederland en België.Generations matter in historiography, and this is certainly the case when it concerns the enduring process of decolonisation. This forum contribution discusses how different generations published about colonialism, imperialism and decolonisation in BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review since 1970. It raises questions about contrasts and continuities in research practices between the older generation of historians with first-hand experience with colonialism, and subsequent generations. Writing the history of colonialism intersects with debates about decolonisation, including what we characterise as de-imperialisation, namely decentring Europe, in history writing. Examining the content of BMGN allows us to trace this development, even though the subject of colonialism, imperialism and decolonisation did not feature prominently in BMGN over the past five decades. However, in terms of historiography, the articles do show significant trends, such as changes in source criticism, in the international scope of the historical debate, and in conceptual approaches. We observe how a growing interest in the colonial past beyond the discipline of history as such has influenced perceptions among historians of colonial violence, in its physical, socio-cultural and epistemic forms. Despite its lapses, the increasing number of articles on colonialism and decolonisation published in bmgn since 2006 show that for the current generation of historians, colonialism and decolonisation have become an integral part of history writing in the Netherlands and Belgium.

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