scholarly journals Religion in the structures and forms of manifestation of everyday life

2016 ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
Yuri Boreyko
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Community Patterns ◽  
Ordinary Consciousness

The article analyzes the structure and manifestations of everyday life as the sphere of the empirical life of the individual believer and the religious community. Patterns of everyday life are not confined to certain  universal conceptual or value systems, as there is no ready-made standards and rules of their formation. Everyday life is intersubjective space of social relations in which religious individuals, communities, institutions self-identified based on form of reproduction of sociality. Religious everyday life determined by ordinary consciousness, practices, social aspects of life in the religious community, which are constituted by communication. The main religious structures of everyday life is mental cut ordinary religious consciousness, religious practice, religious experience, religious communication, religious stereotypes. Everyday life is the sphere of interaction between the social and the transcendental worlds, in which religious practices are an integral social relationships and the objectification of religious experience through the prism of individual membership to a specific religion, a means of inclusion of transcendence in the context of everyday life. Religious practices reflect understanding of a religious individual objects of the supernatural world, which is achieved through social experience, intersubjective interaction, experience of transcendental reality. The everyday life of the believing personality is formed in the dynamics of tradition and innovation, the mechanism of interaction of which affects the space of social existence. It exists within the private and public space and time, differing openness within the life-world. Continuous modification of everyday life, change its fundamental structures is determined by the process of modern social and technical transformation of society

Street Performance and the City

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Street Performance ◽  
The City

This article examines the performative transformation of street spaces into performance places by considering the practices of street performers. Street performance here refers to a set of practices whereby either musical or nonmusical performances are undertaken in the street with the aim of eliciting donations from passersby. Drawing on ethnographic observations undertaken in Bath, U.K., and situating the discussion in recent conceptions of everyday life and public space, the specific sociospatial interventions that street performances make into Bath’s everyday life are considered. In doing so, the article focuses on the fleeting social relations that emerge from these interventions and what these can do to the experience of the everyday in terms of producing moments of sociality and conviviality. This is also reflected on in light of the various debates that have occurred in Bath as a result of these interventions relating to the increased regulation of street performances. The article then highlights the conflicted and contentious position that street performers occupy in the everyday life of such cities.

scholarly journals TAREKAT SYEIKH MUHAMMAD ARSYAD AL-BANJARI: TELAAH ATAS KITAB KANZ AL-MA'RIFAH

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Hadi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Colour Patterns

Development of Sufism in the archipelago is one icon in view of the problems connected with the Sufi. Sufism is the diversity of colour patterns of thought of religious life, while religious practice to be a representation of the diversity of religious thought to be highly variable and often decorated with the interview "controversial" a very sharp. In the context of religious institutions belonging to the tarekat also have a variety of variants, so that a diverse group of tarekat scattered every where and have the characteristics of each in accordance with religious discourse and the "religious experience" developer congregation. In fact there are some "differences" between the executive tarekat in an area with other regions, although with the same tarekat. Sheikh Muhammad Arsyad Al-Banjary as a prolific writer in various fields of Islamic sciences, such as Tawheed, Fiqh and Sufism. Among his works is the Kanz al-patterned ma'rifah Sufism, but in some discussion related to religious practices and traditions of the congregation are very close, but the Sammaniyah tarekat who had been brought closer to the Al-Banjary Arsyad not so visible in Kanz al-Ma 'rifah but Syaziliyah tarekat who are more visible.

scholarly journals The Influence of Bosnian Islam on the Identity of Slovenian Muslims

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Urška Flisar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Population Census

The article focuses on the identity of Slovenian Muslims. The Population Census in Slovenia shows that the majority of Slovenian Muslims by ethnicity are defined as Bosniaks, Muslims or Bosnians. All three national classifications are defined by migrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina (B-H). In recent times, religion has had a significant influence on the formation of the identity of Muslims in both B-H and in Slovenia, characterized by nationalism and culture. The primary characteristic of the population of B-H is its heterogeneity. Thus, religious identity has always been evenly tied to its national and political identity. However, we must not ignore the fact that Bosnian Islam has always been different from Islam on other continents, which is especially evident in the local manners and ways of everyday life. The influence of religion is derived from the reality of religious practices that individuals have adapted to their cultural identity. In this discussion, we will attempt to identitfy those connections that relate to Slovene Islam in Muslim religious practice.

scholarly journals Med rom for flere stemmer? En kritisk analyse av tre nye læreverk for konfirmantundervisning i Den norske kirke

Prismet ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Bernd Krupka
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Textbook Analysis ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Broad Consent ◽  
Class A ◽  
The Church ◽  
Stimulation Of

Artikkelen undersøker tre nye læreverk for konfirmasjonsundervisning i Den norske kirke med kriterier hentet fra lærebokanalyse. Fokuset ligger på flerstemmigheten i det fremstilte materialet: Flerstemmighet i innhold presentert i håndbøkene, mangfoldet i representasjonen av konfirmanter og deres egne religiøse praksiser, og stimuleringen av flerstemmighet i samtale og undervisning. Flerstemmighet fremstår ikke som et viktig anliggende i de undersøkte læreverk. Fri meningsutveksling blant konfirmanter er til dels ikke tilsiktet i det hele tatt, til dels begrenset innenfor rammene av en grunnleggende tilslutning til tradisjonell kirkelig lære. Læreverkene lager spirituelle og rituelle praksiser som er spesifikke for konfirmantåret, heller enn å representere konfirmantenes egen religiøse praksis. Læreverkene førsøker å understreke gyldigheten av kristen lære gjennom rituelle og spirituelle praksiser, heller enn å legge opp til en debatt der flere synspunkt blir synlig. Undervisningsforslagene kombinerer i hovedsak fiktive tekster med bibelske referanser og skaper på den måten et narrativt univers som er atskilt fra hverdagslivet, men også fra aktuelle teologiske og etiske problemstillinger. Det diskuteres avslutningsvis kort om dette narrative universet kan ha sin forankring i kristent ungdomsarbeid som pedagogisk provins i en avstand fra voksenverden.Nøkkelord: Konfirmasjon Lærerveiledning Tekstbokanalyse Konfirmantbok Flerstemmighet Kristen praksis UngdomThe article analyzes three recently published teacher's handbooks and workbooks for confirmation classes in the Church of Norway, using methods of textbook analysis. The article focusses on the plurality of voices represented: the plurality of content and methods displayed in the handbook, the representation of students and their own different religious practices, and the stimulation of a plural exchange of meaning in class. A plurality of voices is not a prominent concern in the teachers' handbooks. The handbooks either do not aim at a free exchange of meanings amongst the students at all or limit it within a broad consent to traditional Christian teachings. The handbooks design spiritual and ritual practices typical for confirmation time rather than represent the students' own experiences with religious practice. The handbooks sometimes try to establish the authority of Christian teachings with the help of ritual and spiritual practices, rather than stimulate a debate with a plurality of perspectives. Teaching suggestions tend to combine fictional with biblical references, creating a narrative universe apart from everyday life concerns or contemporary theological and ethical discussions. The article discusses briefly whether this narrativity stems from Christian youth work being part of a pedagogical province apart from adult society. Keywords: Religion confirmation, teacher's guide, textbook analysis, confirmation workbooks, christian practice, youth, religion

Relationship between religiousness and mental health

2021 ◽  
Vol XII (4 (37)) ◽  
pp. 9-25
Author(s):  
Stefan T. Kwiatkowski ◽  
Renata Nowakowska-Siuta
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Spirituality And Health ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
The Relationship

The article presents considerations focused on the broadly understood relationship between religiousness/spirituality and health - primarily mental health, although issues related to physical health were also discussed. It addresses, among others, the issue of potential benefits resulting from participation in religious practices - in this context, particular emphasis was placed on the sphere of social relations and social support that can be obtained from other members of the religious community, which can be perceived as a factor that may play a key role in the process of coping with various life difficulties and the resulting stress. The final part of the article presents the potential mechanisms underlying the relationship between religiousness/spirituality and health.

Pratiques religieuses et production de l’espace public en migration : comparaison entre deux champs migratoires

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Odgers Ortiz ◽  
Frida Calderón Bony ◽  
Mahamet Timera
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
The Public ◽  
Spatial Production ◽  
Similarities And Differences

By observing the presence of what we consider a ‘religious tool’ – a set of expressions convened to stimulate a territorialization of religious practices – we present religious practices identified as a base of spatial production in public space, in migratory contexts. By comparing the Mexico–United States migratory field (with Catholic migrants in Los Angeles) and that of Senegal–France (with Muslim migrants of Soninké origin in Paris), we show the similarities and differences that religious practice produce in terms of spatial anchoring in the public space. We conclude that dissimilarities are mainly a consequence of a differential management of religion – in its relation to ethnicity – in the public space within host societies, and are scarcely related to the specificities of Catholicism and Islam.

scholarly journals “I Get Peace:” Gender and Religious Life in a Delhi Gurdwara

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Kamal Arora
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Shared Experiences

In October and November of 1984, after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards, approximately 3500 Sikh men were killed in Delhi, India. Many of the survivors—Sikh widows and their kin—were relocated thereafter to the “Widow Colony”, also known as Tilak Vihar, within the boundary of Tilak Nagar in West Delhi, as a means of rehabilitation and compensation. Within this colony lies the Shaheedganj Gurdwara, frequented by widows and their families. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, I explore the intersections between violence, widowhood, and gendered religious practice in this place of worship. Memories of violence and experiences of widowhood inform and intersect with embodied religious practices in this place. I argue that the gurdwara is primarily a female place; although male-administered, it is a place that, through women’s practices, becomes a gendered counterpublic, allowing women a place to socialize and heal in an area where there is little public space for women to gather. The gurdwara has been re-appropriated away from formal religious practice by these widows, functioning as a place that enables the subversive exchange of local knowledges and viewpoints and a repository of shared experiences that reifies and reclaims gendered loss.

Philosophy of Religious Experience and the Nag Hammadi Texts

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-22
Author(s):  
Stephen Bush
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Nag Hammadi ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Theoretical Issues

This essay, in response to Michael Kaler and Philip Tite, examines several theoretical issues about mystical experience in the Nag Hammadi texts. First is the problem of whether experiences can be an object of study at all, and I argue that they can, so long as we attend to the causes of the experiences. Attending to the causes of experiences, however, means that neo-perennialists must articulate and defend an account of the cause(s) of the cross-culturally universal experiences that they suppose occur. As for the attempt to apply contemporary psychologists' attachment theory to the experiential knowledge described in the Nag Hammadi texts, questions remain about the relation between attachment to the divine figure purportedly experienced and the experiencer's attachment to his or her religious community.

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