scholarly journals Pansacramentalism, Interreligious Theology, and Lived Religion

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Gustafson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Lived Religion ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
The West ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Concrete World

Opening with a philosophical definition of sacrament(ality) as a mediator (mediation) of the sacred in the concrete world, this article offers pansacramentalism as a promising worldview—especially for those rooted in or emerging from the Christian traditions (since, for them, the language of sacramentality may have a stronger resonance)—for bringing together interreligious theology and data mined by Lived Religion approaches to the study of religion. After articulating the concept of pansacramentalism and emphasizing interreligious theology as an emerging model for doing theology, growing trends and changing sensibilities among young people’s religious and spiritual lives (e.g., the “Nones”) is considered insofar as such trends remain relevant for making contemporary theology accessible to the next generation. The article then considers the intersection of pansacramentalism and interreligious theology, especially the issue of determining sacramental authenticity. To explain how this challenge might be met, Abraham Heschel’s theology of theomorphism is offered as but one example as a nuanced means for determining sacramental authenticity of the sacred in the world. Turning to “Lived Religion” approaches, rationale is offered for why pansacramentalism and interreligious theology ought to be taken seriously in the contemporary world, especially considering recent data about the nature of contemporary religious identities among young people living in the West.

The Out-Migration Crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Kristen Ghodsee ◽  
Mitchell A. Orenstein
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Young People ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
Population Declines ◽  
The West ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
East European ◽  
The World ◽  
Migration Crisis

Chapter 8 discusses the significant negative social and economic impacts of the mass out-migration that many postsocialist countries have experienced since the lifting of the “Iron Curtain,” balanced with the positive impacts of remittances and circulation of talent and capital. It also explores the negative side of out-migration, suggesting that the mass exodus of young people has had significant deleterious impacts on a number of sending countries and that many migrants faced hostile, exploitative, and sometimes dangerous conditions in the West. The chapter points to the collapse of rural villages and brain drain as having catastrophic prospects for the postsocialist world. This chapter highlights the role of European Union accession in 2004 as a possible contributor to Central and East European countries experiencing the sharpest population declines in the world and the largest peacetime migration in modern history measured as a percentage of sending country population.

The ongoing aftermath to the financial crisis and the Great Recession

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 560-570
Author(s):  
Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
The West ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World

This article discusses the consequences of the financial crisis that started in 2008 in the West, and particularly in the United States, as a manifestation of neoliberal capitalism’s multiple failures. In doing so, it focuses on the scholarly contributions of Manuel Castells and his colleagues in two important books: Aftermath: The Cultures of the Economic Crisis (2012) and Another Economy is Possible (2017). Both books are collective works led and edited by Castells. Also included in the review is a third book by Castells, Rupture: The Crisis of Liberal Democracy (2018), which can be read as a statement on some of the political consequences of the 2008 financial crisis and a report on the current crisis of liberal democracy. The contention is that Castells et al. make an important contribution to the socio-economic literature on the financial crisis, its consequences, and the interpretation of the societal changes that ensued and are key to understand our contemporary world. Such contribution, as observed in the three books under review, can be summarized as follows: (1) Castells and colleagues provide cases and examples from around the world in a broad comparative fashion, thus expanding our understanding of a crisis that was essentially a crisis of the West with ramifications in other countries but never a truly global crisis. (2) The approach of Castells and his colleagues is interdisciplinary and goes beyond purely economic arguments to include sociological, political and cultural ideas and insights that help us understand the complexity of the historical period under analysis; readers develop an awareness of the systemic character of the crisis, where all events were closely interrelated; in particular, both micro and macro processes leading to the crisis converged into a mutually dialectical and reinforcing relationship that warrants the contention by the authors that ‘economies’ are ‘cultures.’ (3) The authors in both Aftermath and Another Economy is Possible focus on the (long) aftermath of the crisis, which is still ongoing as of September 2019 around the world; in fact, one of Castells’ main points is that the financial crisis brought about irreversible societal change, ongoing and clearly visible today, as it triggered a significant restructuring of global informational capitalism. (4) The authors provide a focus on one of the reactive consequences of the crisis: alternative economic practices developing in the aftermath of the crisis, under the premise that we might be witnessing the rise of a new economic model based on new, alternative values. (5) Castells provides a discussion (in Rupture) of aspects of the contemporary political landscape a decade after the outset of the financial crisis and the Great Recession.

scholarly journals Freedom of Expression: A Comparative Study of Ideological Conflict between Islam And the West

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (III) ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
Tasaddaq Hussain ◽  
Muhammad Aslam Pervez ◽  
Shahid Minhas
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
Western Concept ◽  
Universal Definition ◽  
Definition Of

(FOE) is a basic human right, unanimously accepted all over the world; however it has no universal definition. The Islam condemns the Blasphemy strongly, whereas the West takes it as an offshoot of FOE and a symbol of democracy. This paper is an attempt to investigate, to what extent the Islamic concept of FOE is consistent with the Western concept? Its main objective is to point out the real cause of the rift and to discover recipe which could be used in curing the bleeding sore of humanity. Methodologically, qualitative research technique is used; analytical approach is adopted. Principal books, Scholarly articles, and academic writings are especially consulted. It is concluded that all the basic human rights have limits; therefore FOE must also be aligned. In this way, a common socio-religious definition of FOE is suggested for a peaceful and tolerant democratic global society.

scholarly journals Globalization and Muslims: The Concerns & Contradictions

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 562
Author(s):  
Mohd. Habib
Keyword(s):  
Social Scientists ◽  
The West ◽  
Secular Humanism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Christian Morality ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Definition Of

<p>Globalization has been defined in many different ways as the subject has been dealt by many philosophers, social scientists and policymakers with various approaches. Here for the convenience to elaborate the subject, we use the definition of Roland Robertson a known scholar of the subject who applies  the term to ‘<em>a consciousness of the growing connectivity and integration not only between countries and region of the world but also between all manner of economic, political and cultural spheres and processes</em>’.</p><p> </p><p>The earliest origin of the process of globalization is traced with the beginning of modernity after the Renaissance in the West. During eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the modernity emerged in European civilization with secular humanism and gradual decline of religion and morality. It was the time when Christianity removed from the public sphere but Christian morality particularly protestant remain still alive. That morality was intertwined and collaborated with the system of capitalism in economical and industrial terms, as the modernity and globalization is the direct out come of the industrial capitalism. The values of this system spread worldwide by the imperialism of Europe and later on of America.</p><p> </p><p>Here, it is not possible to discuss the whole process of globalization and its ramifications, as the goal of this paper is just to analyze in brief the concerns of the Muslims in India and the world as a reflection of the process of modernity and globalization. It will explain why the Muslims are not ready to emulate the West as such. In this paper I am largely benefited by the ideas of Ejaz Akram, which he had expressed on the subject ‘The Muslim World and Globalization’.</p><div><div><p> </p></div><div><p> </p></div></div>

CALAMITIES VS CYCLES

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-164
Author(s):  
Student
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
The Self ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The West ◽  
Global Event ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
First World

AIDS quickly became a global event—discussed not only in New York, Paris, Rio, Kinshasa but also in Helsinki, Buenos Aires, Beijing, and Singapore—when it was far from the leading cause of death in Africa, much less in the world. There are famous diseases, as there are famous countries, and these are not necessarily the ones with the biggest populations. AIDS did not become so famous just because it afflicts whites too, as some Africans bitterly assert. But it is certainly true that were AIDS only an African disease, however many millions were dying, few outside of Africa would be concerned with it. It would be one of those "natural" events, like famines, which periodically ravage poor, overpopulated countries and about which people in rich countries feel quite helpless. Because it is a world event—that is, because it affects the West—it is regarded as not just a natural disaster. It is filled with historical meaning. (Part of the self-definition of Europe and the neo-European countries is that it, the First World, is where major calamities are history-making, transformative, while in poor, African or Asian countries they are part of a cycle, and therefore something like an aspect of nature.)

Spirituality of Society and Spiritual Economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 144 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-113
Author(s):  
Vladimir A. Morozov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
East And West ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Religious Spirituality

The article examines the history of the formation of spirituality in the East and West and examines modern problems of spirituality in society. The compatibility of the values of the West and the East is studied and the composition of the key laws and principles of the main religions of the world in the life of society is integrated. The combination of secular and religious spirituality is studied. The basics and provisions of labor ethics in the countries of the East and West are considered, and the attitude of the main religions to labor, wealth, property, and the economy is compiled. The definition of spiritual economy is proposed, and evaluation criteria are given, as well as an introductory composition of its characteristics is formed.

Cities of the Future: Implications for the Rise and Relative Decline of the Cities of the West

1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 162-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barclay G. Jones ◽  
William F. Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Relative Decline

The prospect for enormous urban growth in many regions of the world outside of Europe and North America is examined. Huge urban centers that must be built in the next generation will be in these regions and will be vastly larger than anything that ever has been built in the West.

scholarly journals Overcoming educational barrier as social exclusion descension in the way of life of rural youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 12163
Author(s):  
Maxim Kuzhelev
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Barriers ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Way

The article deals with highlighting various viewpoints upon the nature and definition of the phenomenon of «social exclusion». Though the author stresses the main accent on the exclusion in the way of life of Russian rural youth, numerous aspects of exclusion impact on different social groups of people in the world have been taken into account. The author makes an attempt to formulate his own terminology on «social exclusion» based on complex application of scientific approaches. The key issue of «social exclusion» arise lies thorough investigation of various social and economic barriers which occur on the way of Russian rural youth to society integration. The outcome of this process results in reduction of life claims within the young people community and deprived socialization. This may lead in the future to insufficient social role acquiring and descending mobility.

scholarly journals ‘Alexa, Adv(ert)ise us!’

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 19-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Haas ◽  
Anna Keller
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
New Media ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Child Friendly ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
Advertising Literacy ◽  
High Degree

Digital assistants increasingly infiltrate the world of children. The way they function reminds us somewhat of playmates, nannies and tutors. So far, educators have only marginally dealt with this new media phenomenon, yet the use of smart speakers by young people offers many opportunities as well as challenges. These are elaborated in this article and classified in terms of media education. Firstly, we will address a definition of smart speakers and digital speech assistants, and then examine their use by means of usage data. We will then concentrate on examining the extent to which these smart technologies play a role in the environments of young people. What forms of advertising are there? What data do digital assistants collect? And finally, how can parents, educators and companies ensure that smart technologies are used in a child-friendly manner that complies with data protection regulations? Our aim is to nudge the phenomenon of smart speakers and speech assistants into the media-pedagogical focus. Dealing with the specific characteristics of smart speakers requires a high degree of (child) user competence. As we will show in the conclusion, there are further pedagogically beneficial approaches from the point of view of promoting advertising literacy.

scholarly journals Youth unemployment in the regions as the most important socio-economic problem

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (11) ◽  
pp. 57-75
Author(s):  
Ludmila G. Batrakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Economic Problem ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Definition Of

Currently, one of the most important socio-economic problems in the world is youth unemployment. Many scientists are engaged in the analysis of this problem, it is considered in the UN Development Programs, the last of which noted that today the world is home to the largest number of young people in the history of mankind. An important issue is the definition of the essential characteristics of the concept of “youth”, since at present there is no single international definition of the age group of young people. For statistical purposes, the age limits for young people are set by the UN Convention and are 15–24 years old. In Russia, before the adoption of the Federal Law “On Youth Policy in the Russian Federation” in 2020, the population aged from 16 to 30 years was considered young, and after the adoption of the Law – from 14 to 35 years. Rosstat annually analyzes the age groups of the population by various parameters: number, education, employment, unemployment, etc., and also calculates indicators, including the level of youth unemployment, the ratio of the level of youth unemployment to the level of unemployment among the adult population. An important aspect of the analysis is the regional level. In many regions of Russia, the situation on the labor market due to the coronavirus pandemic is characterized by instability. It is noted that at the end of 2020, the unemployment rate increased in 82 regions and the highest rates in Ingushetia, the Chechen Republic, and the Republic of Tyva. The problem of modern society is a large proportion of young people who do not study and do not work. Young people have great potential, but despite this, they are experiencing difficulties in finding employment, as a result, the number of NEET youth who are exposed to social exclusion and poverty is growing. The European program “Youth in Action” addresses the problems of young people through the interaction of labor markets and educational services. An important factor that reduces youth unemployment is education.

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