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

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 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 Islam and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Between Religious Practice and Health Protection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aldona Maria Piwko
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practice ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Rapid Transmission

AbstractThis paper concerns a problem, the global pandemic COVID-19, which has influenced religious practices with respect to health protection across the Muslim world. Rapid transmission of the virus between people has become a serious challenge and a threat to the health protection of many countries. The increase in the incidence of COVID-19 in the Muslim community took place during and after the pilgrimages to Iran's Qom and as a result of the Jamaat Tabligh movement meetings. However, restrictions on religious practices have become a platform for political discussions, especially among Muslim clergy. This paper is an analysis of the religious and political situation in Muslim countries, showing the use of Islam to achieve specific goals by the authorities, even at the price of the health and life of citizens.

scholarly journals List apostolski Duodecimum saeculum Ojca Świętego św. Jana Pawła II z okazji tysiąc dwusetnej rocznicy Soboru Nicejskiego II. Miejsce ikony w wierze i rozumieniu św. Jana Pawła II

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4 Zeszyt specjalny) ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
Urszula Mazurczak
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practice ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Religious Art ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Spiritual Expression ◽  
The Church

The letter of the Holy Father John Paul II written in Rome in 1987, in the tenth year of His pontificate, on December 4th, on the day of memorial of Saint John Damascene, the doctor of the Church, on the Twelfth Centenary of finishing the controversy over the icon, is of great importance for the Pope’s program of ecumenism. The Holy Father indicated various directions of the dialogue, however, the one of the utmost importance concerned the agreement with the Orthodox Church, which was confirmed in the letters and in His other documents quoted in this paper. The image used to be essential for religious practice, for illustrating the word of prayer and of the song, in order to preserve the tradition of the Church. The strict prohibition introduced by the iconoclasm depreciated not only the artistic tradition of paintings but also the basic dogmas of Christ’s Incarnation and the one which introduced Virgin Mary as the Theotokos (the God-bearer). The ban constituted a threat not only for the icons but also for the Christian faith. In His Letter, the Pope underlined the important role of the Second Council of Nicaea which reintroduced icons and maintained and deepened the meaning of the cult in the faith of believers. Furthermore, the Holy Father indicated the connection with the Second Vatican Council in understanding the function and form of images in contemporary Church. Contemporary trends are overwhelmed by the impotence of the spiritual expression of sacral art, which is a great concern for the Pope. The Letter is, therefore, a dramatic warning of the threats for religious art in contemporary time, expressed by the Holy Father with these words: ‘The rediscovery of the Christian icon will also help in raising the awareness of the urgency of reacting against the depersonalizing and at times degrading effects of the many images that condition our lives in advertisements and the media.’ (DS, 11).

scholarly journals Depiction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on a Jerusalem icon from Ružica Church: An example of visual culture in the context of religious practice

Nasledje ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 191-207
Author(s):  
Marko Katić
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Early Origin ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

Among but few icons brought back home by hajjis from their pilgrimage to Jerusalem (hence the name jerusalems) preserved in Belgrade, the one that stands out for its peculiarity and relatively early origin is the 1819 icon kept in Ružica Church in Kalemegdan. The most important element of the icon is the depiction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. This paper presents and analyses numerous peculiarities of this depiction, before all by comparing its iconography and style with the usual kind of the Jerusalem pilgrimage icons of the same age. Th icon painter's method is additionally analysed through the theoretical prism of palimpsest and gloss, recently developed in art-historical studies. It has been concluded that the depiction is basically similar to that on other icons dating from after the 1808 fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, but bearing an array of specificities that could be ascribed to the reinterpretation of architectural elements of the Jerusalem Church which the icon painter depicts to underline its holiness. The analysis points to a local Palestinian master as the author of the icon.

scholarly journals Nehemiah Fundraising Strategy: A Model for the Ghanaian Church

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Iddrissu A. Shaibu
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practices ◽  
Traditional System ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Fundraising Strategies ◽  
Sustainable System ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
The Church

Even though fundraising has been part of the religious practices of the Church since its inception, its development over the centuries has led to the adoption of several fundraising strategies, which has led to overdependence on the congregation as the main source of funding. This situation has created fatigue in giving among a section of the congregation and its attendant complaints. Consequently, calls have been made for the Church in Ghana to wean itself from the traditional sources of generating funds and look for alternative sources of funding its activities. It is against this backdrop that this paper provides an alternative mean that the Church can use to wean itself from the traditional system of generating funds and thus be receptive to a more sustainable system of funds generation, which is the Nehemiah fundraising model. This research was done through primary and secondary sources and it became known that the adoption of Nehemiah’s fundraising model must be guided by certain principles. The application of Nehemiah’s model would aid the Church not only generate funds to meet its ever-increasing demands, but it would also reduce, to some extent, the Church’s dependence syndrome on the traditional system. Keywords: Fundraising, Model, Traditional Fundraising system, Church and Strategies

scholarly journals SUFISME PERKOTAAN DAN PEDESAAN DI ERA MODERNISASI DAN SEKULARISASI

UNIVERSUM ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilis Andarwati
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Peace Of Mind ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Business Meetings ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
The Church

Islam freed adherents make a selection from the church in the search for his true identity in this world. The phenomenon of the excitement of urban and rural communities to the Islamic religion more real . Sufism or dhikr (Dzikir, wirid) is done in the form of doctrine, understanding and spiritual practices by individuals for the purpose of self-purification, in order to achieve the approach to the God (Kholiq). Sufism of urban intends to bring peace of mind, happiness, relief and satisfaction. Sufism of urban known modern times, it founded the middle of business meetings with a suit and tie of neatly. While, the Sufism of countryside only to worship the God (Khaliq) performed with a variety of dhikr (wirid) deeds for rural communities in the era of modernization and secularization are increasingly rational and secular.Keyword: Sufisme, Modernisasi, Sekularisasi

Afghanistan

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Anthony Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
The North ◽  
Central Highlands ◽  
Soviet Invasion ◽  
The Church

With Turkic and Tajik peoples to the north, Tajiks and Pashtuns in the west, ethnic Hazaras in the central highlands and the Pashtuns to the south and east, Afghanistan’s diversity stems from its history as a regional crossroads. Christianity began in Afghanistan in the fourth century and was later revived by missionaries in the frontier areas, but there was little concerted effort to spread the faith until after 1945, when the Pashtun monarchy sought to modernise Afghanistan. However, the Soviet invasion prompted fighters to repel the forces under the banner of Islam. Amidst a civil war, Christian NGO’s continued until expelled by the Taliban in 2001. The new government allowed Christian NGO’s to expand into new areas of the country. For the sake of believers’ security the most visible fellowships have been limited to foreigners. Most find it difficult to sustain everyday life in the country while openly professing Christianity due to ostracism from society. While Islam has been linked with Afghan identity, worldview has begun to change. Unfortunately, there has been an exodus of Afghan believers, usually after social and legal ostracism. Nevertheless, due to sacrifices by Afghan believers, the church is growing in numbers despite all the challenges.

Music as Propaganda for the Church of England after the Toleration Act

2020 ◽  
pp. 185-192
Author(s):  
Joseph Arthur Mann
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Marketplace Of Ideas ◽  
Average Reader ◽  
English Society ◽  
First Time ◽  
Protestant Denominations ◽  
Fundamental Shift ◽  
The Church

The passage of the Toleration Act meant religious freedom for non-Anglican Protestants but signaled a fundamental shift in the position of the Church of England in English society. Prior, the Church of England benefited from a government-backed monopoly on legal religious practice in England. The loss of these legal inducements meant that the Church of England had to compete equally, for the first time, in a marketplace of religious ideas. Chapter four exposes how the Church of England responded to this change with pro-music pamphlets advertising the joyful nature of the Anglican service in contrast to the austere practices of other Protestant denominations. It argues that while nonconformists wrote massive treatises arguing fine theological points about music in divine worship, Anglicans produced pamphlets that were addressed to the average reader in terms they could understand. It also connects these pro-music pamphlets to other accessible works written by Anglican propagandists that promote the Church of England in this new marketplace of ideas. Overall, the chapter reveals the previously-unknown propaganda functions of these Anglican music pamphlets and reveals that they were part of a larger, equally unknown, pro-Anglican propaganda campaign that directly responded to the results of the Toleration Act.

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