scholarly journals Why Is There So Little Shia–Sunni Dialogue? Understanding the Deficit of Intra-Muslim Dialogue and Interreligious Peacemaking †

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 567
Author(s):  
Krause ◽  
Svensson ◽  
Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Data Bases ◽  
The Third ◽  
Organized Violence ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
Institutional Initiatives ◽  
Research Endeavor ◽  
Existing Data

Despite a growth in fatalities resulting from organized violence with Shia–Sunni dimensions over the last two decades, in this study, we show, using existing data-bases on interreligious dialogue and peacemaking, that only less than two percent of the interreligious peacemaking organizations in the world are specialized in dialogue between Shias and Sunnis. Why is there so little institutionalized Shia–Sunni dialogue occurring when the need for such dialogue is evident? This study identifies and discusses this lack of institutional initiatives designed to prevent violence, manage conflicts and facilitate processes of intra-Muslim de-sectarianization. We discuss what we see as the three seemingly most obvious explanations—(1) the dismissal of the relevance of a Shia–Sunni cleavage, (2) the inappropriateness of the interreligious dialogue concept in the Muslim context, and (3) the substitution of institutional interreligious dialogue by other channels. Although we suggest that the third is the most potent explanation to pursue, we do not aim to provide a comprehensive explanation for the Shia–Sunni religious dialogue deficit. Instead, our aspiration is mainly to present and substantiate a puzzle that has not been identified or discussed in previous research. This can set an agenda for a reinvigorated research endeavor into the contemporary challenges for interreligious peacemaking.

scholarly journals Organized violence, 1989–2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Therése Pettersson ◽  
Kristine Eck
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
World Population ◽  
Dr Congo ◽  
The Third ◽  
Organized Violence ◽  
The World ◽  
Data Program

This article reports on trends in organized violence from data collected by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). With almost 90,000 deaths recorded by UCDP last year, 2017 saw a decrease for the third consecutive year to a level 32% lower than the latest peak in 2014. This trend in declining levels of organized violence is driven by state-based armed conflict, and by the case of Syria in particular. Forty-nine state-based conflicts were active in 2017, down by four compared to 2016, and ten of these reached the level of war, with at least 1,000 battle-related deaths. The overall decrease in fatalities lends support to the claim that conflict deaths are in decline and that the world is increasingly peaceful. This trend holds even more strongly when controlling for increases in world population. In contrast, non-state conflict has increased: a new peak of 82 active non-state conflicts was recorded in 2017 and fatalities have increased concurrently. Much of this is due to escalating violence in DR Congo and the Central African Republic. However, fatalities from non-state conflict remain but 15% of the total number of fatalities from organized violence. As for actors engaged in one-sided violence, their number also increased during 2017, although the number of fatalities remained at the same level as in 2016.

scholarly journals Diálogo inferfé e hermenêutica feminista latino-americana: possíveis caminhos | Interfaith Dialogue and Latin-American feminist hermeneutics: possible paths

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Angelica Tostes
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Feminist Theology ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Interfaith Dialogue ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Feminist Hermeneutics ◽  
Abya Yala

A teologia feminista latino-americana está entrelaçada com a sobrevivência e a espiritualidade diárias das mulheres, repensando assim os conceitos tradicionais de corpos subalternos. É a experiência das mulheres como uma direção para desafiar as noções de revelação e dogma. O diálogo inter-religioso tem sido construído com as lentes ocidentalizantes do Paradigma das Religiões Mundiais que fixam apenas uma noção do que é Religião. Este artigo tem como objetivo desafiar esses conceitos, tecendo hermenêuticas latino-americanas do diálogo inter-religioso, nesse caso, com as mãos de mulheres feministas. Como podemos entender a hermenêutica do diálogo inter-religioso das mulheres latino-americanas? Dialogaremos com o tema a partir do conceito de diálogo interfé, conectando-o com a colonialidade em Abya Yala, para assim pensar os possíveis caminhos da hermenêutica inter-religiosa feminista latino-americana e do Princípio Pluralista na América Latina. Utilizaremos autoras/res da teologia feminista latino-americana e do princípio pluralista para construir possíveis bordados a partir do nosso chão e luta, tais como Maricel-Mena López, Ivone Gebara, Cláudio de Oliveira Ribeiro entre outras/os pensadoras/os.Abstract Latin American feminist theology is intertwined with women's daily survival and spirituality, thus rethinking traditional concepts of subordinate bodies. It is the experience of women as a direction to challenge the notions of revelation and dogma. Interreligious dialogue has been built with the Westernizing lens of the World Religions Paradigm, which has fixed the notion of what Religion is. This article aims to challenge these concepts by weaving Latin American hermeneutics of interreligious dialogue, in this case, with the hands of feminist women. How can we understand the hermeneutics of inter-religious dialogue among Latin American women? We will dialogue with the theme based on the concept of interfaith dialogue, connecting with coloniality in Abya Yala to think about the possible paths of Latin American feminist inter-religious hermeneutics and the Pluralist Principle in Latin America. We will use authors from Latin American feminist theology and the pluralist principle to build possible embroidery from our ground and struggle, such as Maricel-Mena López, Ivone Gebara, Claudio de Oliveira Ribeiro among other thinkers.

scholarly journals A Sociological Breakthrough of Interreligious Engagement in Everyday-Symbolic Interaction Perspectives

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-185
Author(s):  
Izak Lattu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Symbolic Interaction ◽  
The United States ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Interfaith Relations ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Migration

This article explores the symbolic interaction, interfaith daily in Indonesia and beyond. The question of how one can live peacefully in a multireligious environment that has colored a discussion about interfaith engagement in many regions of the world. This article begins with a discussion of interfaith relations by introducing the history of migration in Europe. Having developed an awareness of everyday symbolic in migrant-host relationship, this article studied the effect of migration to interfaith engagement in Europe and the United States. Interfaith engagement in this sense is a means of building peace in many parts of the world, including Indonesia. Based on the sociological context of interreligious relations, the article criticized the rigidity of interreligious dialogue is stuck in the official forums related to religious issues. Therefore, religious dialogue based on everyday relationships become important to create the same sphere where everyone has the same solidarity and understanding with all those who have faith and religion are different. [Artikel ini mengeksplorasi interaksi simbolis antariman sehari-hari di Indonesia dan di luar. Pertanyaan bagaimana seseorang dapat hidup secara damai di lingkungan yang multiagama telah mewarnai diskusi tentang keterlibatan lintas agama (interreligious engagement) di banyak wilayah di dunia. Artikel ini dimulai dengan diskusi tentang hubungan antaragama dengan memperkenalkan sejarah migrasi di Eropa. Dengan mengembangkan kesadaran simbolis sehari-hari dalam hubungan migran-tuan rumah, artikel ini mendalami pengaruh migrasi ke keterlibatan antaragama di Eropa dan Amerika Serikat. Keterlibatan antaragama dalam pengertian ini adalah sarana pembangunan perdamaian di banyak bagian dunia, termasuk Indonesia. Berdasarkan konteks sosiologis hubungan antaragama, artikel ini mengkritik kekakuan antaragama yang terjebak dalam forum dialog resmi terkait masalah agama. Oleh karena itu, dialog agama berbasis hubungan sehari-hari menjadi penting untuk menciptakan wilayah yang sama dimana setiap orang memiliki solidaritas dan pemahaman yang sama dengan semua orang yang memiliki iman dan agama yang berbeda

Optimum Structure of the Banking Market: How Many Banks Are Necessary for Russia?

2006 ◽  
pp. 75-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Moiseev
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Optimum Structure ◽  
Population Number ◽  
The Third ◽  
Banking Market ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Equilibrium Number

The number of classical banks in the world has reduced. In the majority of countries the number of banks does not exceed 200. The uniqueness of the Russian banking sector is that in this respect it takes the third place in the world after the USA and Germany. The paper reviews the conclusions of the economic theory about the optimum structure of the banking market. The empirical analysis shows that the number of banks in a country is influenced by the size of its territory, population number and GDP per capita. Our econometric estimate is that the equilibrium number of banks in Russia should be in a range of 180-220 units.

Overcoming “The Third Way” Concept

2006 ◽  
pp. 126-134
Author(s):  
L. Evstigneeva ◽  
R. Evstigneev
Keyword(s):  
Economic Research ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Third ◽  
Linear Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Non Linear

“The Third Way” concept is still widespread all over the world. Growing socio-economic uncertainty makes the authors revise the concept. In the course of discussion with other authors they introduce a synergetic vision of the problem. That means in the first place changing a linear approach to the economic research for a non-linear one.

Epidemias y Religión

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-81
Author(s):  
Bruno Van der Maat
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Adverse Reactions ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Government Regulations ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethical Reflections

The current pandemic has seen some adverse reactions from the most diverse religious groups all over the world to government regulations. After having described some of their manifestations, this contribution analyzes what the Bible and some post biblical (patristic and Talmudic) traditions say about illness and pandemics. As it is ascertained that these sources contain very limited material on these subjects, the third part of this article proposes some ethical reflections regarding the official response to the pandemic as well as some pastoral implications. Key Words: Pandemic, Religion, Bible, Talmud, Pastoral Care.

Interpretation of Nonsense as a Method of Children Imagination Development (as exemplified in Carroll L. «Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There»)

2020 ◽  
pp. 200-212
Author(s):  
Larisa V. Kalashnikova
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The World ◽  
Looking Glass ◽  
Rules Of The Game ◽  
Powerful Incentive ◽  
Algorithmic Thinking

The article enlightens the probem of nonsense and its role in the development of creative thinking and fantasy, and the way how the interpretation of nonsense affects children imagination. The function of imagination inherent to a person, and especially to a child, has a powerful potential – to create artificially new metaphorical models, absurd and most incredible situations based on self-amazement. Children are able to measure the properties of unfamiliar objects with the properties of known things. It is not difficult for small researchers to replace incomprehensible meanings with familiar ones; to think over situations, to make analogies, to transfer signs and properties of one object to another. The problem of nonsense research is interesting and relevant. The element of the game is an integral component of nonsense. In the process of playing, children cognize the world, learn to interact with the world, imitating the adults behavior. Imagination and fantasy help the child to invent his own rules of the game, to choose language elements that best suit his ideas. The child uses the learned productive models of the language system to create their own models and their own language, attracting language signs: words, morphs, sentences. Children’s dictionary stimulates word formation and language nomination processes. Nonsense-words are the result of children’s dictionary, speech errors and occazional formations, presented in the form of contamination, phonetic transformations, lexical substitution, implemented on certain models. The first two models are phonetic imitation and hybrid speech, based on the natural language model. The third model of designing nonsense is represented by words that have no meaning at all and can be attributed to words-portmonaie. Due to the flexibility of interframe relationships and the lack of algorithmic thinking, children can not only capture the implicit similarity of objects and phenomena, but also create it through their imagination. Interpretation of nonsense is an effective method of developing imagination in children, because metaphors, nonsense as a means of creating new meanings, modeling new content from fragments of one’s own experience, are a powerful incentive for creative thinking.

A war hero or a Hitler soldier?

2019 ◽  
pp. 50-57
Author(s):  
Pavel Gotovetsky
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
National Committee ◽  
World War ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third Reich

The article is devoted to the biography of General Pavlo Shandruk, an Ukrainian officer who served as a Polish contract officer in the interwar period and at the beginning of the World War II, and in 1945 became the organizer and commander of the Ukrainian National Army fighting alongside the Third Reich in the last months of the war. The author focuses on the symbolic event of 1961, which was the decoration of General Shandruk with the highest Polish (émigré) military decoration – the Virtuti Militari order, for his heroic military service in 1939. By describing the controversy and emotions among Poles and Ukrainians, which accompanied the award of the former Hitler's soldier, the author tries to answer the question of how the General Shandruk’s activities should be assessed in the perspective of the uneasy Twentieth-Century Polish-Ukrainian relations. Keywords: Pavlo Shandruk, Władysław Anders, Virtuti Militari, Ukrainian National Army, Ukrainian National Committee, contract officer.

RECREATION SPECIALIZATION FOR RUNNERS AND EVENT ATTACHMENT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isao Okayasu ◽  
Chi-Ok Oh ◽  
Duarte B Morais
Keyword(s):  
Practical Implication ◽  
Event Management ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
The Third ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The World ◽  
Recreation Specialization ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Predictive Relationship

Running is one of the most popular activities in the world. Runners’ attitudes and behaviors vary depending on their running style. This study aims to construct different measures of running specialization based on the theory of specialization. This study also tests a runner’s stage of specialization segmentation based on recreation specialization and examines the predictive relationship between a runner’s specialization and event attachment. Three groups of sampling data assess the performance of diverse specialization measures for running in three marathon events. First, two surveys were conducted with marathon participants to assess the performance of diverse specialization measures for runners. Second, the third dataset was used to examine the relationship between a runner’s recreation specialization and event attachment.The study results showed that the 15 measures of specialization showed a good fit to the data. Our research showed how runners’ recreation specialization is connected to their event attachment. In addition, this study suggested event management for subdivisions of runners. Its practical implication is that recreation specialization for running can help us understand event attachment.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document