scholarly journals Theology, Martyrdom and Female Agency in Reformation Prague

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 748
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Fudge
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Female Agency ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
The World

The Hussite tradition historically has been excluded by the mainstream of Reformation historiography. Czech-language scholarship treating Hussite history have made few significant advances in the study of women and there has been limited attention given to the role women played in the Hussite tradition. The gap in Anglophone historiography is even more apparent. This essay considers Klára, a sixteenth-century Prague housekeeper, Marta, a learned figure contemporary with Klára who withstood civil and ecclesiastical officials, and Anna Marie Trejtlarová, an early seventeen-century educated laywoman. Their names are almost completely unknown outside Czech historiography. An examination of their lives and faith by means of the surviving primary sources and relevant historiography provides a window through which to observe the nature of religious reform in the Prague context in the world of Reformations. What is striking is the role of theology and the nature of female agency in the examination of these women. The essay endeavours to use these case studies to present a preliminary answer to the question: What do women tell us about Reformation? This study reveals the world of religious reform more fully by situating women and female agency in an active capacity.

The Role of Music and Allied Arts in Public Writings on Cultural Diversity: “People of Sri Lanka”

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
Gisa Jähnichen
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Culturally Different ◽  
The World ◽  
Official Languages ◽  
The Way

The Sri Lankan Ministry of National Coexistence, Dialogue, and Official Languages published the work “People of Sri Lanka” in 2017. In this comprehensive publication, 21 invited Sri Lankan scholars introduced 19 different people’s groups to public readers in English, mainly targeted at a growing number of foreign visitors in need of understanding the cultural diversity Sri Lanka has to offer. This paper will observe the presentation of these different groups of people, the role music and allied arts play in this context. Considering the non-scholarly design of the publication, a discussion of the role of music and allied arts has to be supplemented through additional analyses based on sources mentioned by the 21 participating scholars and their fragmented application of available knowledge. In result, this paper might help improve the way facts about groups of people, the way of grouping people, and the way of presenting these groupings are displayed to the world beyond South Asia. This fieldwork and literature guided investigation should also lead to suggestions for ethical principles in teaching and presenting of culturally different music practices within Sri Lanka, thus adding an example for other case studies.

scholarly journals Children coping with COVID-19: Intersectional understandings of film and media access in a crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Justine Atkinson ◽  
Firdoze Bulbulia
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Media Access ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Film Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
The Impact

As a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns across the world, digital access has become paramount, as most aspects of education have moved online. Drawing together five case studies located in South Africa, Argentina, the Netherlands, India and Ethiopia, this article assesses the role of film education during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on the impacts of digital access. We examine multimodal forms of film education, and how these were used to inform, entertain and educate children during the crisis by the varying work undertaken by the organizations. Applying theories of intersectionality, we address the need for context-specific approaches to film education, focusing upon the impact that the societal and individual contexts had on the dissemination of film education in each country.

scholarly journals Princess Olga and the Byzantine Emperor: Evolution of the Storyline in Russian Historical Tradition of the Sixteenth Century

Slovene ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 487-493
Author(s):  
Boris Floria
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
World History ◽  
Traditional Account ◽  
The World ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Historical Tradition

The article explores the evolution of the traditional account about the 10th –century events under the influence of new ideas about the role of Rus′/Russia in the world history.

Religion, health care, and Africa

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Robert B. Lloyd ◽  
Melissa Haussman ◽  
Patrick James
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
International Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World

It is estimated that populations in Africa are afflicted with 24% of the global load of disease with only 13% of the population. This chapter provides theoretical suggestions for studying why this is so. Among these theories are area studies, Africa studies and the World Health Organization’s Social Determinants of Health Framework, which relates social inequality to the study of political and health-providing institutions. The chapter lays out the book’s three case studies and our look at the role of national and international health and secular ngo’s in helping to remedy gendered health inequalities. It lays out the MDG framework of 2000, to be discussed in succeeding chapters.

Guildsmen, religious reform and the search for the common good: the role of the guilds in the early Reformation in Augsburg

1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Broadhead
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Urban Commons ◽  
Capital Intensive

ABSTRACTThis article examines the forces that shaped the responses of the urban commons to the Reformation in Augsburg. Developing work by Blickle and others, it considers the extent to which traditional communal ideals were reflected in measures to construct a system of ‘sacral corporatism’. An examination of the attitudes of guildsmen towards communal values and institutions shows variation in their views, even on such basic points as the identification and imposition of the ‘common good’. Case studies show how predominantly poor weavers were attracted to the call to enforce communal principles as a means of defending their status and incomes. To this end they welcomed evangelical teaching, for it provided scriptural and ethical endorsements of corporate action. In contrast, members of the butchers' guild, who were involved in a capital intensive occupation, resisted communal restraints on their freedom to trade and make profits. The butchers' opposition to the Reformation rested more on their rejection of ‘sacral corporatism’, as advocated by reformers in Augsburg, than on support for Catholicism. Augsburg shows the significance of communal values in the urban Reformation, but it demonstrates that these were neither static nor uniformly accepted. On the contrary they were themselves the subject of dispute.

In Search of the Sharīʿah

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Omar Farooq ◽  
Nedal El-Ghattis
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
The World

Abstract The centrality of Sharīʿah as a term and concept, together with its ubiquitous usage, reflects present Muslim understanding of their religion. Existing research indicates this Sharīʿah-based conception represents a later historical development. However, earlier studies have not documented contemporary understanding and use of the term in the primary sources of Islam. This has important implications regarding the imparting of sacredness according to its traditional conceptualization. Based on comprehensive research and close examination of the Hadith literature in particular, this represents the first work to examine whether and to what extent the term Sharīʿah was used by the Prophet and his companions. The present investigation makes the case for fundamentally re-evaluating the role of the Sharīʿah in understanding Islam, and argues that this is necessary in order for a positive impact on contemporary Muslim societies and their relationship with the rest of the world to occur.

scholarly journals The Position of Cochinchina (Vietnam) in the Trade with Portugal in the XVI-XVII Period

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoang Thi Anh Dao ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Trade Network ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
Strategic Position ◽  
The Way

The sixteenth century is considered the beginning time of trade activities between Vietnam and Western countries after great geographical discoveries in the world, in which Portugal was the pioneer country to establish trade relations wit h Vietnam. Cochinchina, with many favourable factors in terms of human, geography, and goods, was the place to attract Portugal on the way of exchange and establishment of Intra - Asian marine trade network. Thus, what factors led Cochinchina to a strategic position in this trade network, and Portugal had come here to trade with specific characteristics are, and the consequences of this trade process are, is the purpose of this article. Based on analyzing objective and subjective factors, generalizing and systematizing commercial activities between Cochin china and Portugal, the author provides objective assessments of the role of Cochin china in the voyage to The East of the Western countries in the contemporary time.

Conducting Ethical Economic Research

2014 ◽  
pp. 401-422
Author(s):  
Harold Alderman ◽  
Jishnu Das ◽  
Vijayendra Rao
Keyword(s):  
Asymmetric Information ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Field Trials ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Ethical Review ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

This chapter discusses practical issues confronted when conducting surveys as well as designing appropriate field trials. First, we look at the challenge of ensuring transparency while maintaining confidentiality. Second, we explore the role of trust in light of asymmetric information held by the surveyor and by the respondents as well as the latter’s expectations as to what their participation will set in motion. We present case studies relevant to both of these issues. Finally, we discuss the role of ethical review from the perspective of research conducted through the World Bank.

scholarly journals MUJER Y CIMARRONAJE EN LA REGIÓN HISTÓRICA DE VUELTABAJO (1790-1850)

2019 ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Jorge Freddy Ramirez Pérez ◽  
Pedro Luis Hernández Pérez ◽  
Silfredo Rodriguez Basso
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
Slave Resistance ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Las Mujeres

Resumen: El presente artículo, aborda una mirada de género al interior de la resistencia esclava en la región histórica de Vueltabajo, en Cuba. Se establecen los parámetros geohistóricos, económicos y naturales que condicionan la presencia de la mujer cimarrona, con dos estudios de casos representativos: el de la Madre Melchora y el de Petrona Conga. Los métodos histórico-lógico, y de recopilación, ordenamiento y análisis documental de las fuentes primarias, sustentaron los resultados que se presentan. Se resalta a modo de conclusiones, el papel de las mujeres en el cimarronaje como portadoras y trasmisoras de una cultura de resistencia, lo que contrasta con la escasa atención que sobre el asunto existe en la historiografía cubana. Abstract: This article reports a gender perspective within the slave resistance in the historical region of Vueltabajo, in Cuba. The geohistorical, economic and natural parameters that determine the presence of the Maroon woman are established, with two representative case studies: that of Mother Melchora and that of Petrona Conga. The historical-logical methods, and the collection, ordering and documentary analysis of the primary sources, supported the results presented. It highlights as a conclusion, the role of women in the cimarronaje as carriers and transmitters of a culture of resistance, which contrasts with the scant attention on the matter in Cuban historiography.

Importing Exceptional Buildings: Transforming Urban Arabian Peninsula Into Skyscraper Cities

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
Kheir Al-Kodmany ◽  
Mir M. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
City Identity ◽  
Design And Construction

Globalization has supported the exportation of exotic design and construction of many buildings including skyscrapers. In the past two decades skyscrapers have proliferated across cities all over the world, particularly those in the Arabian Peninsula. Because of their massive bulk and soaring height, these skyscrapers have dramatically altered the urban landscape and city identity. This paper examines the role of skyscrapers in supporting place identity in the Arabian Peninsula. Through case studies, the paper describes and evaluates skyscraper projects. While the “imported” iconic skyscrapers with their flamboyant forms have been transformative in re-imaging cities and their skylines, many of these have been transplanted to these cities with little consideration for local heritage and culture.

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