Sacramental Expressions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
New South ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Related Group

This chapter looks closely at a related group of practices and beliefs: grave decoration, Christmas lore, folk sermons, baptism, and praying spots. It traces the New South practice of decorating graves with household objects to African cultural practices, and New South Christmas lore (and related lore) to legends circulating in modernizing England. Connecting these with other practices and oral forms common among folk Christians, it shows that they all display a strong sacramental impulse—the longing to manifest the sacred in tangible, material ways. While the dominant religious culture wrought a “disenchantment” of the world, the cultural work of folk Christians envisioned an enchanted world where seemingly ordinary, mundane things were transformed and infused with sacred meaning.

Tales of Conversion and Call

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hayes
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Geographic Scope ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Characteristic Features

This chapter explores two interrelated oral forms: conversion and call narratives. It establishes that they were cultural productions of the New South era, and that they wove elements of African and European religious tradition together to craft a distinct understanding of Christianity’s place in the world—either as an initiate enters into it, or as a religious authority proclaims it. The speakers, dates, and geographic scope of these narratives are traced, and then a close analysis of the oral forms highlights their characteristic features. The vision articulated in the narratives is shown to be very different from the dominant religious culture, where religious authority was professionalized and Christianity was associated with the safe stability of the home. In sharp contrast, the narratives imagine the wildness and liminality of Christianity.

The Making of the Poor South

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
New South ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Wide Scope ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Alternative Vision ◽  
The World

This chapter establishes the economic and cultural context in which folk Christianity was forged. Despite the optimism of its proponents, the New South emerged as a society with severe and widespread poverty, and the dominant religious culture fortified an emergent middle class but gave little consolation to those trapped beneath it. In this circumscribed world, in spaces of their own that often did not look like churches, with impoverished preachers who had no formal training, through oral and imitative networks of wide scope, the poor crafted a distinct Christianity of their own. In this “hard, hard religion” they developed an alternative vision of the world that infused their everyday lives with transcendent meaning—vital cultural space in which they became more than mere victims of their socioeconomic circumstances.

A review of the biology and ecology of Florida beggarweed (Desmodium tortuosum)

Weed Science ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore M. Webster ◽  
John Cardina
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Plant Pathogens ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Southeast United States ◽  
Forage Crop ◽  
Disturbed Areas ◽  
The World

Florida beggarweed is native to the Western Hemisphere but is naturalized around the world. During the last century, the mechanization of agriculture has transitioned Florida beggarweed from an important forage component to a weed of significance in the coastal plain of the southeast United States. This herbaceous annual is naturalized and found in fields and disturbed areas throughout the southern United States. The characteristics that made Florida beggarweed a good forage crop also make it a formidable weed. This review describes the importance of Florida beggarweed as a weed in the southern United States and the taxonomy of this species and details the distribution throughout the world and within the United States. The ecology of Florida beggarweed and its interactions with crop plants, insects, nematodes, and plant pathogens also are summarized. Finally, management of Florida beggarweed in agricultural systems using cultural practices and herbicides is reviewed.

scholarly journals Żywe strefy wyobraźni. Przyjmowanie gości jako praktyka oporu

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23
Author(s):  
Adam Pisarek
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Considerable Degree ◽  
A Value ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Order ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Polish Culture ◽  
Important Basis

This article concerns “living zones of the imagination”—areas of social life in which intensive “interpretive labor” is underway. Thanks to these zones, it is possible to engage in universally accepted exercises that enable a person to “see the world through the eyes of another person” and that yet do not disturb the current socio-cultural order. They provide an important basis for understanding among people, for harmonizing meanings in the sphere of social realities, and for integration that goes beyond certain permanent boundaries and hierarchies. The basic aim of the article is to prove that hospitality, understood as a value in Polish culture, could contribute to a considerable degree to the creation of such zones. The author analyzes the zones’ character, function, and meaning, paying attention to how they resist the expansion of bureaucratic ways of organizing social life. He also draws attention to the influence that an axio-normative pattern could havewithin specific models of behavior and cultural practices.

scholarly journals History of World and Russian Mammoth Studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 1163-1181
Author(s):  
Vladimir S. Luzan ◽  
Alexandra A. Sitnikova ◽  
Anastasia V. Kistova ◽  
Antonina I. Fil’ko ◽  
Julia S. Zamaraeva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Far East ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Art Collectors ◽  
The North ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Comparative

The article is devoted to the study of the concept of the mammoth in regulatory documents and cultural practices. The analysis of both Russian and international experience allowed to generalise the existing legal provisions regarding the regulation of mammoths, as well as to determine the role of mammoths in the world and Russian culture, including the culture of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East. The methodological basis of the study is represented by the comparative analysis of sources and materials, historical-comparative and chronological methods, the historiographic method, as well as methods of philosophical and art history analysis. The study revealed the fact that in the field of legislation and legal regulation of extraction and sale of mammoth ivory in the world, the issue of the status of mammoths is raised only in connection with a discussion of the survival of rare species of elephants. Measures to prevent extermination of elephant population, encompassing a ban on trade, including trade of mammoth ivory, cause heated discussions and are controversial for craftsmen, antique dealers and art collectors. The issue of legal regulation in this area is particularly acute for the Russian Federation, due to the lack of a finalised legal and regulatory framework, both at the federal, regional and municipal levels. The image of the mammoth in the world and Russian culture is embodied in a number of visual practices. These are heraldry, animation, book graphics, sculpture and fine art. Sign and symbolic forms of the mammoth embody religious and mythological characteristics of the animal, demonstrating its significance in people’s worldview, as well as indicating of the “living” memory of it in the modern world

scholarly journals TEOLOGI BURUH : Agama dan Sikap Pasrah Perempuan Buruh Sanggan Batik

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Rahmawati ◽  
M. Muslih Husein ◽  
Asmuni Hayat
Keyword(s):  
Labor Relations ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
The World ◽  
Material Procurement ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

This qualitative descriptive research aimed to describe in detail the meaning of the values of religion and expression of women's resignation batik workers in the struggle of the production process, and the factors that influence it. Research was taken place in Pekalongan city and data obtained through observation, interviews, and literary studies. The results showed that deep belief in God is the foundation of understanding of the value of religion in the world of work as well when they interact with the skipper and other workers. The expression of resignation is seen almost in all stages from raw material procurement, production to marketing. Surrender women sanggan also evident in labor relations and outside the employment relationship, which is due to the fact that the religious elite is skipper and social conditions of patriarchal religious culture.

scholarly journals ORNAMENTAL MOTIVES OF MODERN DESIGN PRACTICES

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
O. D. Rykhlitska ◽  
O. I. Kosyk
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Modern Design ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
Performance Technique ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
The People ◽  
Emotional Environment ◽  
The World

The article analyzes modern design practices based on symbolic and ornamental motives of folk art and their modern actualization in ethno-artistic areas, reflecting the relationship of traditional aspects with innovative, symbolic translation of cultural experience in time and space, creating symbolic value images, enhancing emotional environment and creating new narratives. Symbols, as the basis of the existence of the people, reflect the ethno- national aspects of culture, is an opportunity to find yourself at the level of relationship with your people, your nation, traditions. The appeal to archetypes is a special methodological perspective in which the meaning of the future is created due to the transformation of the past into a symbol. What is relevant in modern Ukrainian realities is that the whole cultural paradigm is being reconsidered and new ways of national identification are being sought. Embroidery is marked by a special color and incredible ornamentation, complex performance technique, which is reflected in the symbols of sociocultural practices, immersing in the depths of traditional norms and values that encourage to feel, assimilate, preserve and transmit. In modern domestic discourse, design practices are thought of as aimed at transforming the cultural environment into the integrity of cultural and natural components. They serve as a basis for forming an idea of the world and building harmonious relationships with the world. And the use of symbols-amulets and a certain emotional color is a special process of self-identification and the foundation for the revival of national culture and spiritual values, seeing their own place in the global cultural and artistic space. Therefore, the use of ornamental symbols in design practice is the basis for the revival of national culture and spiritual values and the formation of a new promising direction of Ukrainian design. Among the spiritual heritage of Ukraine with its color and incredible ornamentation, complex technique is embroidery, which is reflected in the symbols-codes of modern socio-cultural practices

scholarly journals ROLE OF NUTRITION AND LIFESTYLE CHANGES FOR CANCER RISK IN INDIA

2021 ◽  
Vol p5 (4) ◽  
pp. 2913-2918
Author(s):  
Pawar Sarika Shivaji
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Prevention ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Food Additives ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Disease Rate ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Lung Cancers ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Prevention Of Cancer

India is a developing country with one of the most diverse population and diet in the world. Cancer rates in India are lower than those seen in Western countries but are rising with increasing migration of rural population to the cities, increase in life expectancy and changes in lifestyles. In India, rates for oral and oesophageal cancer are some of the highest in the world. In contrast, the rates for colorectal, prostate, and lung cancers are one of the lowest. Studies of Indian immigrants in Western societies indicate that rates of cancer and other chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease and diabetes increase dramatically after a generation in the adopted country. Change of diet is among the factors that may be responsible for the changing disease rate. In prevention of cancer in India attention being focused on certain aspects of Indian diet such as vegetarianism, spices, and food additives such as turmeric. Researcher also has investigated cumin, chillies, kalakhar, Amrita Bindu and various plant seeds for their apparent cancer preventive properties. From a public health perspective, there is an increasing need to develop cancer prevention programs responsive to the unique diet and cultural practices of the people of India. Keywords: India, Cancer, Prevention, Diet.

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