scholarly journals Mestring og balanse. Trekk ved ung hindureligiøsitet

Prismet ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 27-41
Author(s):  
Hildegunn Valen Kleive
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
Western Norway ◽  
Contemporary Religion ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
North Western ◽  
Everyday Religion

 This article focuses on understandings of the divine and how everyday life experiences motivate for religious practices among young Tamil Hindus in North Western Norway. Their religiosity is discussed in relation to Hindu traditions as well as to contemporary religion. The findings suggest that coping and balancing strategies generate a young Tamil Hindu religiosity with features resembling several traditions. The analysis is based on field notes from observations, questionnaire responses and interviews. The participants are between 16 and 25 years of age.Keywords: Hinduism, Tamil, youth, rural Norway, concept of God, everyday religion Denne artikkelen handler om hvordan unge tamilhinduer på Nordvestlandet i Norge oppfatter det guddommelige og hvordan hverdagslige erfaringer motiverer for religiøs praksis. Deres religiøsitet blir drøftet i lys av hindutradisjoner samt vestlig samtidsreligiøsitet. Mestring og balanse synes å være viktige anliggender for ungdommene, og det genererer en religiøsitet som gjenspeiler trekk fra flere tradisjoner. Analysen er basert på feltnotater fra observasjoner, spørreskjemaresponser og intervjuer. Deltakerne i undersøkelsen er mellom 16 og 25 år.Nøkkelord: Hinduisme, tamil, ungdom, distrikts-Norge, gudsoppfatning, hverdagsreligion

Nomadic life archiving across platforms: Hyperlinked storage and compartmentalized sharing

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 796-815
Author(s):  
Yang Wang ◽  
Sun Sun Lim
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
Nomadic Life

People are today located in media ecosystems in which a variety of ICT devices and platforms coexist and complement each other to fulfil users’ heterogeneous requirements. These multi-media affordances promote a highly hyperlinked and nomadic habit of digital data management which blurs the long-standing boundaries between information storage, sharing and exchange. Specifically, during the pervasive sharing and browsing of fragmentary digital information (e.g. photos, videos, online diaries, news articles) across various platforms, life experiences and knowledge involved are meanwhile classified and stored for future retrieval and collective memory construction. For international migrants who straddle different geographical and cultural contexts, management of various digital materials is particularly complicated as they have to be familiar with and appropriately navigate technological infrastructures of both home and host countries. Drawing on ethnographic observations of 40 Chinese migrant mothers in Singapore, this article delves into their quotidian routines of acquiring, storing, sharing and exchanging digital information across a range of ICT devices and platforms, as well as cultural and emotional implications of these mediated behaviours for their everyday life experiences. A multi-layer and multi-sited repertoire of ‘life archiving’ was identified among these migrant mothers in which they leave footprints of everyday life through a tactical combination of interactive sharing, pervasive tagging and backup storage of diverse digital content.

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

scholarly journals Everyday life experiences in families with a child with kidney disease

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Agerskov ◽  
Helle C. Thiesson ◽  
Birthe D. Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Experiences

scholarly journals The Mediatized Conditions of Contemporary Religion: Critical Status and Future Directions

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mia Lövheim ◽  
Stig Hjarvard
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
The North ◽  
Contemporary Religion ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
North Western

During the last decade the framework of mediatization theory has been introduced in the field of media, religion and culture as a parallel perspective to the “mediation of religion” approach, allowing new questions to be posed that align with religious change within Europe. This article provides a critical review of existing research applying mediatization of religion theory, focusing on key issues raised by its critics as well as how the theory have moved the research field forward. These issues concern the concept of religion, institution and social change, religious authority, and the application of mediatization theory outside the North-Western European context where it originated. The article argues that an institutional approach to mediatization is a relevant tool for analyzing change as a dynamic process in which the logics of particular forms of media influence practices, values and relations within particular manifestations of religion across various levels of analysis.

scholarly journals Integrating consequences of stroke into everyday life – Experiences from a long-term perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Charlotte Wassenius ◽  
Lisbeth Claesson ◽  
Christian Blomstrand ◽  
Katarina Jood ◽  
Gunnel Carlsson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Experiences

scholarly journals Just Like Any Other Family? Everyday Life Experiences of Mothers of Adults with Severe Mental Illness in Sweden

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 1023-1032 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Piuva ◽  
Helene Brodin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Family Carer ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Care Support ◽  
Mothers Experiences

AbstractThis study explores experiences of mothers in Sweden who care for their adult children suffering from severe mental illness. Using 15 interviews with mothers from 40 to 80 years old, the article examines how predominant professional knowledge and sanism constructs the mothers and their children as deviant and what counterstrategies the mothers develop as a response to these experiences of discrimination. The findings show that the mothers’ experiences are characterized by endless confrontations with negative attitudes and comments that have forced them to go through painful and prolonged processes of self-accusations for not having given enough love, care, support and help in different stages of their children's life. But the mothers’ experiences also reveal important aspects of changes over the life span. As the mothers are ageing, the relationship between them and their children becomes more reciprocal and the ill child may even take the role as family carer.

Mutating Goddesses

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saswati Sengupta
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Female Subjectivities ◽  
Female Power

It is an enduring contradiction that Hindus revere their goddesses but their society is dominated by Brahmanical patriarchy. Although we assume that the worship of goddesses implies the celebration of so-called female power, we overlook how the development of such practices of devotion occurred within a highly patriarchal society that subjugated women in everyday life. Addressing this oversight, Mutating Goddesses traces the shifting fortunes of four goddesses—Manasā, Caṇḍī, Ṣaṣṭhī, and Lakṣmī—and their mutation within the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal’s Hinduism. It uses the vibrant laukika archive comprising religious practices and beliefs that, unlike the ṣāstrik perspective, have not been affected by the emergence and consolidation of the male Brahman and the Sanskrit language. Using narratives such as kathās, laukika bratakathās, and maṅgalkābyas, Sengupta explores the period between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries and investigates the correlation of gender, caste, and class in the sanctioning of female subjectivities through goddess formation. Thus, she excavates the multiple and layered heritage of Bengal to illustrate how tradition is a result of strategic selection by those in power.

The Gods and the Cosmos

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry O. Maier
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
And Function ◽  
Votive Offerings

The chapter discusses ancient beliefs about the gods and the cosmos and describes ancient religious practices and their intersections with New Testament writings. It presents the unsystematic nature of beliefs about the gods and other powers, the meaning of divine epithets as means to access the divine, and divine epiphanies as markers of ever-present deities. It describes the form and function of temples and the role of sacrifice and votive offerings as means to communicate with divinities. It discusses the role of festivals and processions as well as daily rituals embedded in household practices and the role of neighborhood experts in guiding devotion. It considers magic, its uses, and the need to protect oneself from it in everyday life. Jewish and Christian views of demons and cosmic forces are presented. Also discussed are Christian rituals of Eucharist and baptism in the context of ancient practices and cosmology.

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