Absence Of Faith Research Articles

The Faithless Analyst.

In this lecture, I wish to speak about the faithless analyst. This is an analyst without fixed religious notions, without specific preferences with regard to religious faith and practice, without religious commitments or attachments of the kind that would influence the course of the analysis. Is this possible? Analysts like everyone else grow up in specific cultures that are deeply entangled with religious traditions. Can analysts shed this formation when they enter the consulting room? Should they? Values come with religious faith and practice. Should the analyst shed such religiously based values for the sake of absolute neutrality? I want to think about such faithlessness as an impossible ideal for analytical practice and how to work with failures to remain faithless in the presence of different faiths or the absence of faith among patients.

Perspectives of Minority Ethnic Caregivers of People with Dementia Interviewed as Part of the IDEAL Programme

Postwar migrants from the Caribbean and Indian subcontinent (Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan) to the UK are now experiencing the onset of age‐related diseases such as dementia. Our evidence base, both quantitative and qualitative, documenting the experiences of family caregivers of people with dementia is largely drawn from studies undertaken with white European, North American, and Australasian populations. Consequently, there is a need for research in the field of dementia caregiving to reflect the increasing diversity in ethnic identities of the older adult population of the UK. Using semistructured interviews, we investigated the experiences of 18 caregivers of people with dementia in Black Caribbean, Black African, and South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi) communities in England. Participants were recruited from the Join Dementia Research platform and were predominantly female intergenerational carers. We identified the following three themes: motivation to care (spending time with the care recipient and reciprocity), positive and negative consequences of caregiving (rewards and consequences), and the cultural context of caregiving (cultural norms and values supporting caregiving and negative attitudes towards dementia). Our findings develop existing literature by identifying (a) the importance of spending time with the person they care for, (b) the absence of faith as a caregiving driver, and (c) the challenge of watching the declining health of a parent. We highlight how the different motivations to care are intertwined and dynamic. This is illustrated by the linking of obligation and reciprocity in our dataset and positive and negative experiences of caregiving.

Factors associated to suicide risk in stricto sensu postgraduate students: a cross-sectional study.

Objective:to analyze factors associated to suicide risk in postgraduate students.Method:a cross-sectional analytical study, developed with 565 stricto sensu postgraduate students from August to September 2019. Data collection took place using a validated instrument containing demographic, socioeconomic, health and academic variables; as well as variables of Module C of the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), version 5.0; of the CAGE (Cut down, Annoyed by criticism, Guilty and Eye-opener) questionnaire; and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21). Descriptive and multiple statistical analysis was performed using the Poisson regression model, with a significance level of 5%.Results:40.8% prevalence of current suicide risk. The following variables were associated to current suicide risk: age > 30 years old (p=0.029), absence of faith (p=0.015), depression (p<0.001) and anxiety (p=0.018) symptoms, use of psychotropic drugs during the course (p<0.001), not having a meaningful and inspiring academic work (p=0.013), not having a good relationship with colleagues from the postgraduate school (p=0.033), having family relationship impaired by the demands of the postgraduate school (p=0.036) and concern about the financial situation (p=0.048).Conclusion:a high prevalence of current suicide risk was identified among postgraduate students, as well as a significant association of this risk with demographic, socioeconomic, academic and health variables.

Scientific and Spiritual Structure of the Realm of Being in Flannery O’Connor and Graham Greene

ABSTRACTTaking as a basis Søren Kierkegaard’s theory of the spiritual stages of the human soul, this paper will analyze the concept of secular ethics in Flannery O’Connor and Graham Greene, concretely in two of their writings, the short story “The Lame Shall Enter First” (1962) and the play The Potting Shed (1957). I will first examine the characters of Sheppard and Henry Callifer, who are in a similar situation of existential complacency that spins around a rationalistic and materialistic outlook of good and evil, the rejection of the existence of God and hence, anything related to Christianity. In addition, I will discuss their relationship with their respective sons, Norton and James Callifer, a relationship —using Flannery O’Connor’s words— based on a tenderness which in the absence of faith is wrapped in theory. Finally, I will analyze the consequences that their standpoint has over their sons’ lives and the violent event in both stories that shakes Sheppard and Henry Callifer out of their complacency, giving them an opportunity of progressing in their spiritual existence.

Invisible Concealment of Invisibility Crypto-Judaism as a Theological Paradigm of Racial Anti-Semitism

The motif of secret, crypto-Judaism has a history that reaches further back into the theological tradition. It no doubt structurally arises from or closely related to the epistemo-political challenges posed by the unworldliness and absolutely inner being of faith, which in the political or inter-subjective dimension immediately raises the question of evidence. The question of evidence, i.e., for the invisible faith, becomes acute in the case of conversion, where the basic premise is the initial absence of faith. Paradoxically, conversion is consequently the establishment of the convert’s fundamental faithlessness, of her originally non-Christian element, which the convert, in the very same act of conversion, claims no longer exists. It is easy to see the conceptual constellation that would present the convert as structural deception. At the Iberian threshold of modernity, in the face of mass Jewish conversion and assimilation, this paradox appeared in the image of the “new Christians”, the marranos, structurally suspected to be crypto-Jews, to the effect that the ultimate evidence of faith was a certificate of limpieza de sangre, “purity of blood”. This paper will follow the historian Yosef HayimYerushalmi in tracing the conceptual link between the Inquisition’s notion of crypto-Jews and the racialized figure of the Jew in modern anti-Semitism.

It is Necessary for the Century. Review of: Cherashnyaya, D. I. (Comp.). (2017). “Kakaia svetlaia stezia…”. Zhizn’ i tvorchestvo Nelli Millior [“What a Light Path…”. The Life and Creative Work of Nelli Millior]. Izhevsk: Alkid. 534 p.

The collection reviewed is devoted to the life and creative activity of Elena Aleksandrovna Millior, a renowned historian of antiquity, a writer, and a student of Vyacheslav Ivanov. The reviewer considers the content and structure of the collection which does not only include E. Millior’s memoirs but also her own works, the main of which are Reflections on M. Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita , and her novel With Sword and Word. Memories of Dion, Son of Hipponicus, a Cadmean . Referring to private correspondence (letters by M. Millior, D. Kovalevsky, L. Ivanova, V. Manuylova, V. Bianki, A. Dovatur, etc.) and memoirs of the contemporaries (N. Sakharova, S. Averintseva, N. Safonova, O. Shatunovskaya, etc.), D. Cherashnyaya manages to describe the spiritual search of the Russian intelligentsia of the 20 th century. The book focuses on the issues of death and immortality, faith and absence of faith, freedom and servitude, reality and myth. Additionally, the book outlines the dramatic lives of remarkable representatives of culture of the 20 th century, such as B. Yarkho, A. Dovatur, Ya. Godin, and E. Bulgakova. Furthermore, the author pays close attention to texts written by N. Millior herself. It is demonstrated that her ideas about Bulgakov’s novel were the first research attempts to enter a text and laid the foundations for other methodological approaches (thoughts about the mystery play character of The Master and Margarita , and it combining satyr play and pathetic element). The novel Dion published for the first time is regarded as a text constructing an alternate reality. Writing it provided Millior with spiritual freedom and helped her disconnect from imperfect reality. The review emphasises the relevance of the book for contemporary philology which is gradually losing its humanistic component.

The relationship between perceived needs for faith / presence or absence of faith and understanding of the world / subjective well-being

The relationship between perceived needs for faith / presence or absence of faith and understanding of the world / subjective well-being

William Blake’s Jerusalem and the Los Angeles of Film Noir

William Blake and film noir apparently had the same problem with the urban landscape. While Blake attempts to create a mental world within language that would give a new face of religion to offer comfort to the inhabitants of London, film noir in Los Angeles finds noise and nihilism in the absence of faith. Both struggle with Immanuel Kant, who claimed that reason actively makes the world worthwhile. Hickey and Boggs , a relatively obscure neo-noir movie from 1972, represents the meaninglessness and noise of language, bereft of the religion of Blake and the reason of Kant.

Choice of Approach to Low Carbon City in the Context of Climate Change - A Kind of Explanation of Sociology

This article interprets the implications of “low carbon city” from a sociological perspective, and thinks that low carbon city is not only to update the technical, administrative and development patterns, but also a social structural form. This means a low carbon city has to be realized by adapting the social structural form of a certain city to the development of a low carbon city through the integration of the city society system. This article discusses the key issues and difficulties facing China during the construction of “low carbon cities” are the conflict between the urgent need for economic growth and the realization of low carbon cities, greater sense of speculation of low carbon city than its practical sense, laying particular stress on practice while neglecting rational thinking, the absence of faith and the prevalence of materialism, technical and administrative path dependence, and the polarization of the social class structure. Finally, this article proposes the choice of approach to low carbon city in China, where the goal of “low carbon city” should be realized by focusing on the realization of the forms and relations of government/power, enterprises/market, citizens/society and ideology/culture in the city society system.

Keine Konzessionen? Recht und Gerechtigkeit im Epos von Loher und Maller

The late mediaeval prose epic Loher und Maller constantly challenges a naive interpretation of what constitutes justice by confronting it over and over again with extreme cases. Generally speaking, ›poetic justice‹ succeeds in establishing coherence and propel the narrative forward. The constituents of societal norms and of laws are nevertheless relentlessly questioned — to such an extent that the narrative inquiry occasionally departs from the common understanding of justice. With its focus on morality, especially the presence or absence of faith, Loher und Maller is primarily concerned with the potential for confl ict inherent in medieval constructions of legality and justice. In doing so, the epic opens up a narrative playground unencumbered by legal constraints as — after all — literature need not comply with medieval jurisdiction and its claims to the validity and scope of its writings. It is literature’s privilege to facilitate unfamiliar ways of looking. The playful — but by no means inconsequential — casuistry played out in Loher und Maller gives rise to a ›probable‹ world tangential to historical reality and its understanding of justice and the law.

CIALIZÕES E ETNOCENTRISMO: O PONTO DE VISTA DA PSICOLOGIA EVOLUCIONISTA

The evolutionary natural selection model is no longer a matter exclusive to Biology, now being debated in fields as diverse as Psychology, Economy, Social Sciences and Philosophy. Evolutionary Psychology is regarded as one of the most successful approaches to investigating human behavior from an evolutionary perspective. It proposes that the human mind works through evolutionary-derived psychological mechanisms that would be universal and reminiscent of the past conditions in which they evolved. One of these mechanisms would be ethnocentrism (favoritism to one's own ethnic group and indifference or hostility towards other ethics groups), which is present in all human cultures. Race and religion are among frequently used markers of group pertinence in this context. Based on an empirical investigation we observed that religion fulfills the marker function, as the absence of faith. Evolutionary studies have consistently indicated the existence of universal patterns of behavior in our species. Such patterns are modulated by physical and social surroundings. Those with which we cooperate are chosen on under ethnocentric bias. Nevertheless, some conditions can diminish the influence of markers, suggesting that artificial categories such as race, ethnicity and religion result from coalition identification mechanisms, and as such could be easily dissolved.

The Vacation (review)

Reviewed by: The Vacation Deborah Stevenson Horvath, Polly The Vacation. Farrar, 2005197p ISBN 0-374-38070-8$16.00 R Gr. 5-8 Just after Henry turns twelve, his mother decides to go to Africa as a missionary, despite her absence of faith; since Henry's father is, reluctantly, going as well, Henry is left in the care of his aunts Pigg and Magnolia. The aunts decide that a vacation is in order, and they take Henry (whose mother has since disappeared in Africa) with them on their largely goalless ramble across America, which is punctuated with aunt/aunt bickering (Henry reflects that he's "always being enlisted as the swing vote"), impulsive encounters with relatives (Henry meets the grandfather he's never known) and serendipitous meetings with strangers (Pigg meets a cowboy in Oklahoma, falls immediately in love, and stays). Horvath's unhurried eccentricity is perfectly suited to this kind of picaresque novel, and some of her favorite elements—unusual aunts, strange parental absences—work to good effect here. She masterfully refrains from making the aunts endearingly offbeat, instead making them credibly unpleasant even as Henry (like the reader) grows oddly accustomed to them. While the book eschews the overtly structured trajectory of much realistic fiction, many kids will be more familiar with Henry's less-organized experience of random events thrust upon him by circumstances and adult whim. The book's ending focuses on internal rather than external closure, which may leave a few readers wishing for a more dramatic conclusion, but most will see the groundwork that makes such a close not only appropriate but satisfying and, for Henry, victorious. Horvath fans and those readers who enjoyed the humorous randomness of Gantos' Heads or Tails (BCCB 7/94) will want to grab a seat on this weird yet compelling road trip. Copyright © 2005 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Psicopatologia e religiosidade no lugar do outro: uma escuta levinasiana

Este artigo visa recolocar a discussão da religiosidade de um ponto de vista psicopatológico, levando em conta não somente o sintoma moderno da ausência da fé, mas principalmente sua utilização como forma de preencher o lugar destinado ao outro na subjetividade. Nesta direção, deve-se levar em conta a presença singular do fenômeno da religiosidade na realidade brasileira, bem como sua incorporação nos quadros psicopatológicos, para que se possa adotar uma nova ótica desta relação.

Religion and Electoral Politics in France: Some Recent Observations

L'importance de la religion dans la vie politique de la France tient à ce qu'elle a alimenté les divisions du système politique français: la persistance de la controverse politicoreligieuse a accentué l'opposition entre la droite et la gauche et miné les efforts de regroupement du régime des partis. Toutefois, le changement des relations sociopolitiques, issu de la conjoncture contemporaine, a amené la nouvelle génération politique à croire possible la coopération entre les catholiques et la gauche et pourrait modifier considérablement l'alignement des forces politiques dans l'avenir; c'est cette influence actuelle de la pratique religieuse sur le comportement politique que veut préciser la présente étude, à l'aide des idées et des fails mis en lumière par les recherches empiriques en ce domaine.On a trouvé que la pratique religieuse intense influence les choix partisans et conditionne la perception que se font les individus des distances qui séparent les différentes formations politiques. On a trouvé également que dans les régions à forte pratique religieuse la religion demeure un facteur important dans le comportement politique alors que d'autre questions comme l'anti-gaullisme sont reléguées au second plan, contrairement à ce qui a été observé dans les régions où règne l'indifférence religieuse. Il semble que l'anticléricalisme tende à disparaître comme thème politique et qu'il ne soit plus une raison de ralliement à la gauche. L'étude révèle enfin que, dans les régions à faible pratique religieuse, des problèmes tels que l'anti-gaullisme et la modernisation socio-économique ont supplanté la question traditionnelle du cléricalisme.