Locational Practices of Christianity in Minority Areas of Southwest China | Chapter 10 | Anthropological Explorations of Gender, Identity, and Economics

After Christianity entered minority areas of southwest China in modern times, it has spread rapidly in local areas. The belief propagation depends not only on endogenous power but also external mechanisms. First of all, the material needs asked for by ethnic minorities in the southwest are lacking, on the other hand, their spiritual sustenance is difficult to meet as well. What’s more, multiple confrontations have contributed to violent ethnic conflicts between local political forces. Furthermore, the disorder and looseness of minority cultures cannot effectively resist the powerful foreign cultural system, which has created a stronger economic, political and cultural conditions for the introduction of Christianity. The Christian missionaries localized and indigenized their preaching methods by substituting Christian cultural elements for those of the receiving region. Moreover, the Christian missionaries define and reassign their identity with the Savior for spreading more rapidly. Missionary objectives are carried out in a way popular with the local people. They have improved the local living conditions and brought advanced concepts and laws, as well as modern education and health care to local areas. However, the excessive cultural penetration has seriously affected the local ethnic identity and culture.

Author(s) Details:

Lin Yanting,
Graduate Student in Anthropology at the School of Sociology and Anthropology of Xiamen University at Xiamen in the Fujian Province, P. R. China.

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The Absolute Openness as the Groundless Ground of All Nature | Book Publisher International

 In this Book, I enquired into the origin of religions, and the origin of religions and sciences. Such origin can we find in the philosophy of Kyoto school including Kitaro Nishida, Hajime Tanabe and Keiji Nishitani and Alfred North Whitehead. K. Nishida, who advocated the philosophy of the field of the absolute nothingness and later became the founder of the philosophy of the Kyoto school, advocated the paradigm of “absolute nothingness” (=Budhistic emptiness, or my term “absolute in -finite nothingness”) that subsumes not only all kinds of thinking, but also all nature including four other paradigms (=relative being, absolute being, relataive nothingness and nihil).

Author(s) Details:

Eiko Hanaoka,
Emeritus of Osaka Prefecture University, Kyoto, Japan.

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New Religions as Reflaction of the Postsecular State of the Contemporary Ukrainian Society | Chapter 4 | Research Aspects in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 7

 The improving tendencies of postsecularism and worldwide integration under the conditions of the friendly rifts in today’s Ukraine are especially significant in their influence on the almost-religious framework in the transformations of the scrupulous worships in the communities of the existing Ukraine.These very factors deteriorate the modernity basis of the organization, and Ukraine, being in the process of ending the modernity point, occurs in the antagonistic situation of allure intention to complete the modernization process and the leanings of the antiglobalistic isolationism. The neoprotestant education and practices are analyzed in this place article accompanying the assertion of their chief impact on the principles of tolerance and consumerism. Neo-Oriental and new artificial/syncretic religions produce significant influence on extending globalistic views in the Ukrainian society. The marginality traits of the latest religions find the authors’ idea that the values projected by them are a weighty challenge to the stereotypes of the essentialistic dichotomies of the Ukrainian fatherly culture and usual churches. The sociocultural and political framework of globalization and postmodernism includes scrupulous transformations inevitably, and the impact of both on the late commercialism stage has been suitable more and more apparent all over the world. Spreading allure influence in various circumstances and under the conditions, that can seem remarkably different, the idea of globalization and postmodernist drifts makes this process intensely complicated in the nations which are still betwixt modernity and postmodernity.The processes of the label change are in the focus of the reasoning with the stress on the replacement of the rationalistic foundation by almost-scientific plans and teachings in the modern Ukraine. The findings explain thatthe very incompleteness of the novelty processes has led to the expansion of the almost-scientific and almost-religious methods in the social and educational life of Ukraine. In this framework, the erosion of the modernity principles results in spreading neoreligious worships, that began intense at the end of the last of one hundred years. It proves that the globalistic trends promote syncretic and Neo-Oriental religions and cults. The neopagan techniques and practices support antiglobalization evolutions.

Author(s) Details:

Grabovska Irina,
Ukrainian Studies Centre, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Talko Tetiana,
Department of Philosophy, Oles Honchar National University of Dnipro, Dnipro, Ukraine.

Vlasova Tetiana,
Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies, Dnipro, Ukraine.

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Judaic, Christian and Islamic Leaders on Mitigating Human-induced Climate Change | Chapter 4 | International Research in Environment, Geography and Earth Science Vol. 7

In order to reduce the detrimental effects of human-forced climate change, leaders of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have openly urged intervention. Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Pope Francis, and Patriarch Bartholomew were especially prominent prior to, during, and after the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. A party of Islamic clerics, leaders of organisations, and academics who participated in issuing a climate change declaration three months before COP 21 were also prominent. These leaders, persuaded by the Earth sciences, expressed their faith-based rationales for acting locally and globally, as seen in the papers discussed in this essay. Examples of organisations inspired by the values of their representatives indicate their ability to be educated by scientists. These religious leaders and environmental organisations need well-substantiated findings from data gathered to address unsubstantiated arguments by climate sceptics and deniers in order to function effectively. Earth scientists will find partners among religious leaders and organisations in the quest for a thriving world. While remaining alert to scientific findings, world religious scholars need to delve deeper into the practises they concentrate on and make promising insights known to leaders who can educate, preach, act, and pray for their community members. In the search for a thriving Planet-our shared habitat, Earth scientists will find these religious scholars, officials, and affiliated groups allies.

Author(s) Details

Jame Schaefer
Department of Theology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA.

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