Temple in a House

Cross Americas: Probing Disglobal Networks- Projects ◽

10.35483/acsa.intlp.2016.4 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Nerea Feliz ◽

Keyword(s):

Radical Change ◽

Economic Systems ◽

Significant Challenge ◽

Buddhist Temple ◽

Refugee Community ◽

Changing World

In 2011, 15 families of the Burmese refugee community on Buffalo’s Westside collectively purchased a vacant house in Buffalo at 349 Plymouth Ave. They wanted to convert the house to a Buddhist temple and residence for three monks. ‘Temple in a House’ is an adaptive project designed in collaboration with local architect and artist Dennis Maher (University at Buffalo), which presented a significant challenge: that of trying to reconcile a very radical change of program, use, and cultural references. Beyond the project’s unique socio-economic characteristics pertaining to Buffalo, this project has global implications. Changing world demographics, as a result of different economic and migratory dynamics, are increasingly asking designers to negotiate complex cultural, social, religious, and economic systems.

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INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY STRATEGY OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

Economic innovations ◽

10.31520/ei.2019.21.4(73).67-75 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (4(73)) ◽

pp. 67-75

Author(s):

S.B. KOLODYNSKYI ◽

O.V. ZAKHARCHENKO ◽

O.N. BABYI

Keyword(s):

Radical Change ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Innovation Activity ◽

High Tech ◽

Practical Implementation ◽

Economic Systems ◽

Resource Base ◽

Regional Economic ◽

Technological Basis ◽

Activity Strategy

Topicality. Modern regional economic systems require a radical change in the strategy of innovative development, which, among other strategies, acquires a special meaning and needs to identify its features and priorities in the implementation of the directions of development of regional systems.The innovation activity strategy should be decisive among other strategies and should be designed to change the technical and technological base of regions, to influence information resources of a certain type of economic development and not only to technological upgrading, but also to a fundamental change in the entire resource base of the region in which priority will be be provided with the latest developments in the high-tech field.Aim and tasks. Identify the peculiarities of the strategy of innovation activity of regional economic systems, indicate the purpose of such strategy, its means and tools for practical implementation and outline the possible expected results in the near future.Research results. Based on practical materials collected when writing articles, found that under current conditions is extremely necessary strategy for active response to the innovation of modern regional economic systems.The lagging behind of leading countries in the field of innovative technologies becomes extremely critical and leads to economic and even military expansion of Ukraine.More developed countries that exploit the weakness and insecurity of our country pursue aggressive trade policies, impose their far better products than they are driven by economic dependence on. Ukraine needs a major innovation of the technological basis on an innovative basis, and regional economic systems must play a leading role in such an upgrade.Conclusion. Thus, the strategy of innovation activity of regional economic systems should be active, perhaps even aggressive and aimed at achieving strategic priorities in the creation of intellectual products.

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Ritual, belief and habituation

European Journal of Social Theory ◽

10.1177/1368431016645355 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 132-145 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Bryan S Turner

Keyword(s):

Human Body ◽

Radical Change ◽

Sociology Of Religion ◽

Significant Challenge ◽

The Past ◽

Axial Age ◽

Common Complaint ◽

Important Exception ◽

Embodied Practice

It is a common complaint that sociology has little regard for history. One important exception to this standard criticism is the sociology of religion of Robert N. Bellah and his ‘revival’ of Karl Jasper’s notion of the axial age. In this article, Bellah’s evolutionary notions of religion are explored within a debate about historical disjunctures and continuities. A significant challenge to the idea of the continuity of axial-age religions comes from the notion of an Anthropocene. Our relationship to nature has fundamentally changed and the possibilities for ‘improving’ the human body create a significant ontological challenge to the continuity/preservation of embodied practice as the underpinning of axial-age religions. The Anthropocene age presents a turning away from the religious legacies of the past, because biotechnical developments change not only our relationship to nature but they presage a radical change to the human body. Can the axial-age religions as our contemporaries survive the construction of hybrid post-bodies? In conclusion, insofar as there has been a ‘protestantization’ of religions with modernity involving an erosion of habitualized religion, an individualized and dis-embodied religiosity may be compatible with our anthropocenic future, but this possibility represents a discontinuity with the past and not a continuity.

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