Traditional Canon Research Articles

Repertoire by Women Composers: A Guide for Beginning and Intermediate-Level Singers

Abstract: Although vocal music has one of the longest recorded histories of any art form, the songs of women composers remain largely excluded from the traditional canon. Recently, performers and educators have been working to change the way we decide which music and musicians are part of the classical repertoire. This article will address repertoire by women composers to suit early-stage singers in the first years of study. Repertoire presented will explore multiple languages, time periods, and styles within the Western-classical pedagogic tradition. The authors offer insight into each selection’s benefits. Online and traditional resources are suggested for further exploration.

Madness and the Apostle: Paul’s Jewishness in the Euthalian Prologue to the Letters of Paul and in the Writings of John Chrysostom

Abstract The Euthalian Prologue to the Letters of Paul is found in hundreds of late ancient and medieval editions of the Pauline corpus, presenting readers with a prefatory biography of the apostle that both aligns and departs from canonical traditions. Notably, the Prologue depicts Paul’s violence against early Christian assemblies as a manifestation of Jewish μανία, triggered by prophetic foresight and healed by Christ on the road to Damascus. Previous studies primarily examine the Prologue’s connection to canonical sources. This article explores its relationship with other late ancient expressions of Paul’s life. It argues specifically that the Prologue’s depiction of Paul has been shaped – either directly or indirectly – by the writings of John Chrysostom, based on otherwise unique shared thematic elements. Its findings contribute to our understanding of the Prologue’s nebulous origins, its rhetorical objectives, and Chrysostom’s already massive impact on the reception of Pauline literature and tradition in the late ancient and medieval periods.

Interpretation of Euthanasia in the Buddhist Worldview

Religious interpretations of the moral aspect of euthanasia arouse serious scholarly interest in the problematic field of bioethics. The article is devoted to the explication of the Buddhist approach to the ethical assessment of euthanasia based on the material of Encyclopedia of Abhidharma with Commentary, an exegetical work by the famous educator Vasubandhu (4th–5th centuries) . A thematic analysis of the text reveals two different types of euthanasia discussed by Buddhist exegetes. One of them is characterized as the foreign practice of killing terminally ill parents in order to save them from severe suffering. In the context of the Buddhist worldview, this type of euthanasia belongs to the category of murders committed on the basis of ignorance. Killing is not a method of getting rid of suffering, because suffering is an attribute of samsara. Ignorant Gentiles do not understand the true difference between sin and virtue. By interrupting the lives of terminally ill parents, they commit the mortal transgression of killing a benefactor. Another type of euthanasia is described as a Buddhist ritual of premature end of life. The ritual is performed by an elderly arhat (the enlightened guardian of the Buddha’s teachings) when he has already prepared a worthy successor. An arhat interrupts his own life through a special mental method sanctified by the canonical tradition. This type of euthanasia was defined by Buddhist exegetes as a phenomenon of the domination of an enlightened person over life and death.

A hovering ghost from the future: the posthuman gothic landscape of Bangalore in Appupen’s ‘Bangaloids’

ABSTRACT The academic discussion surrounding the Gothic is dominated by British and American traditions. The globalgothic, concerned with gothic discourses outside the canonical traditions, is a developing arena, and gothic voices from other parts of the globe need to be studied. Appupen’s ‘Bangaloids’ is a dystopian short story that represents the gothic voice from India. Part of Bangalore: A Graphic Novel (2017), a city-centric graphic storytelling initiative, the story responds to the social trauma caused by fast-paced urbanism and questions some of the deepest fears about the human condition. This paper argues that ‘Bangaloids’ presents Bangalore’s fictitious posthuman gothic landscape to make readers contemplate a dystopian future. It analyses the gothic matrix of the metropolis; theories on modern gothic are used to comprehend Bangalore’s gothic character. It also studies the formal qualities of the graphic medium that highlight the gothic themes and facilitate storytelling.

Problems of Citation in the Study of Religion: Who Do We Cite and Why?

This special issue introduction contributes to emerging discussions on citation in studies of religion. What particular issues of citation arise in cultural, historical, and textual research on religious traditions? What can the study of religion contribute to the study of citation? Weaving together references to the four articles of the special issue, we identify four citational themes that are particularly relevant to the study of religion: the continuing reverberations of colonization; relations to and in canonical traditions; the conjunction of morality and economy in neoliberal academic contexts; and the knowledge that comes from naming and interacting with a wider range of sources, such as ancestors. Finally, in the conclusion we argue for a relational ethics of citation in the study of religion.

Lived religion of the devotees of rural surbs in Armenia

The article analyses the beliefs and practices of rural surb worshippers in Armenia on the basis of lived religion approaches. Surb means “holy”, “sacred”, “divine”. It is a saint and a place of veneration. A surb can be a book, a khachkar, a church, a tree, an image, etc. – any revered object. The everyday religion of believers is a special relationship with the sacred and the divine power of the saints. People accept the power of the surb as real and experience its effects every day. Ritual practices in the surbahs are seen as a way of influencing the divine power to meet certain needs and perform certain tasks. Ritual practices in surbs have real physical and spiritual efficacy for the worshippers. Also important is physical contact with the shrine. The representations and practices of devotees of rural shrines are not approved by the Armenian Apostolic Church. In Armenia there is a vernacular tradition successfully operating in parallel to the official and canonical tradition.

META-NARRATIVE OF SANSKRIT IN INDIAN ENGLISH WRITINGS

Sanskrit has been the primary language and the receptacle of sublime expressions in early India. The language became an object of engagement for Indologists and Orientalists who began a series of translations of Sanskrit works in English and initiated an association that subsequently culminated in form of Indian English Writings. The gradual absorption of English in Indian culture became partly accountable for rendering original works of Sanskrit inaccessible due to incomprehensibility as well as distortions in translations and cultural misrepresentations. Yet, it was also the chief reason why crucial works of the Sanskrit tradition survived. It is in this context that this research paper analyses Sanskrit as an enduring source of influence in the genesis of the canonical tradition of Indian Writings in English.

Historical thinking in a digital environment: Swedish history teaching analysed through a TPACK lens

This paper presents results from a large-scale study of history teachers in Swedish secondary schools. The study examines perceptions of history, content being taught, teaching methods and use of digital technology. The study uses the Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework to analyse the results together with narrative theory. The main results indicate that knowledge of the past and contemporary perspectives from a canonical tradition are prioritised, together with a content-based lecture-style pedagogy. The use of digital technology does not seem to challenge methods or bring new perspectives to history teaching. However, to fully understand history teaching with technology, a framework that emphasises all parts of history education is needed. This calls for further development of the TPACK model, which is further discussed in this article.

Self-Defence and Battered Woman Syndrome in a Selected isiXhosa Short Story

The fact that there are continued public reports of abuse and violence against women and young girls in South Africa, and elsewhere in the global village, is enough to underline that gender-based violence (GBV) is profoundly entrenched in social and human settings. Considering this, it stands to reason to recurrently contest this challenge relying on isiXhosa literature, among other mechanisms. In fact, violence against women and young girls has been regarded by several scholars, government and non-governmental organisations, and community members as an international crisis. On account of this, this article critiques how self-defence and battered woman syndrome (BWS) are reproduced in a selected isiXhosa short story titled “Umfazi Akayongqongqo” (A woman is not a punching bag). This short story is recognised herein as a primary source of data, while African feminist theory is applied to uncover the complexities pertaining to self-defence and BWS as they emerge as a direct consequence of prolonged incidents of GBV. The findings and discussions indicate that prolonged occurrences of abuse and violence towards women and young girls have the potential to lead to situations where victims of GBV cannot tolerate it any longer, hence resulting in retaliation, self-defence and BWS. While there are contrasting views concerning self-defence and BWS, particularly within the legal frameworks, this article underlines the necessity to strike a balance between these important social, cultural, and political issues in a bid to reasonably solve the conundrum—GBV. The concluding remarks present possible future scholarly discourses that may be considered in an attempt to address this challenge. For instance, it would be prudent to consider ways to decolonise isiXhosa literary scholarship, focusing on re-evaluating traditional canons, challenging Eurocentric voices and promoting indigenous African knowledge systems (IAKS). By the same token, it would be perceptive to examine how isiXhosa literature mirrors and responds to the legacies of colonialism, including matters related to identity, language, and cultural representation.

Zwischen Bildungsmisere und Bildungsreform(en): Reflexionen angehender Fremdsprachenlehrkräfte über moderne Bildungssysteme und Zukunftsperspektiven des institutionellen Fremdsprachenlernens

This paper presents a small-scale empirical study which included 21 senior-year students of German as a major who took a course on the methodology of teaching German as a foreign language in the spring semesters 2020 and 2021, at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade (Serbia). The students were encouraged to read several articles by the Austrian educational philosopher Konrad Paul Liessmann and to record their reflections on the possible effects of the commercialization of purpose-oriented knowledge. The articles in question are based on Liessmann’s so-called “Theory of Uneducation”. The students’ tasks were analyzed and discussed, with the focus on their statements regarding the following aspects: a) possible challenges, opportunities and dangers of unavoidable digitization and mechanization in everyday life and at school, and b) the changing roles and tasks in the educational context. All this more or less aims at application-oriented knowledge management. The participants supported Liessmann’s thesis that education is losing value through commercial exploitation, accumulation of TV quiz knowledge and extensive testing and examining. However, his skepticism with regard to digitization in the school system and his plea for more traditional canons of school subjects were mostly met with disapproval by the participants.

Politics of Being Loving, Vulnerable, and Present

As feminist faculty we assess our use of testimonios by employing testimonio to share our experiences and Chicana feminist pedagogy praxis, which challenge the structure of the traditional canon and offer alternative classroom practices. As Chicana feminist faculty we appraise the use of testimonios as feminist pedagogy to contest the structure of the conventional canon and fashion and provide alternative classroom practices. We explore how we view our courses as a medium through which students’ lives can be transformed, inspiring them to become active thinkers and active citizens, to participate in the life of the university, and most important, to become agents for social change. As faculty from different disciplines and generations, we examine the use of testimonio in our Chicana/o studies classes by centering the voices and stories of girls, women, and immigrants in a variety of fields, in particular psychology and public health. The stories shared challenge their invisibility, invalidation, and marginalization in academia and in an array of fields. Their testimonios expose brutality, disrupt silencing, and build solidarity among mujeres.

The Importance of the Holy Scripture within the Canonical Tradition of the Orthodox Church

This paper examines the views of Orthodox canonists on the relationship between the Holy Scripture and Canon Law in current academic research. It explores two general positions within Orthodox Canon Law: one that considers the Holy Scripture as a fundamental source of Canon Law, and another that postulates a conflict between the principles of love and grace found in Scripture and the legal aspects of Canon Law. The first position categorizes the Holy Scripture as divine written law, while the Holy Tradition is seen as divine unwritten law. The sources of law are further classified into fundamental, historical, and practical sources. The division of Canon Law also includes distinctions such as divine or natural Church Law, common law versus law, and old law versus new law. The text references various canonists and their works to support these classifications. It highlights the understanding of contemporary Orthodox canonists who continue to recognize the Holy Scripture as a source of divine written law, emphasizing the importance of formulating human laws by divine justice. In general, it is emphasized that all the canons of the Church included in the fundamental collection, being regarded as an essential part of the Patristic tradition and the synodal manifestation of the Church, can be understood as manifestations of the ecclesial experience across time and space, guided by the divine grace of the Holy Spirit, and as a continuation of biblical rules and norms.

The Prohibition of Suicide and Its Theological Rationale in Catholic Moral and Canonical Tradition: Origins and Development

This paper analyzes the nuances of the Roman Catholic Church’s opposition to suicide. First, we analyze biblical suicide cases, showing that these were not usually met with clear condemnation. Next, we show the development of the Roman Catholic Church’s moral teachings, with special attention to Augustine. The canon law of the Middle Ages still made some distinctions regarding motivation, but at this point, Roman Catholic funerals started to be refused to those having committed suicide as discouragement to others. This was maintained by the Council of Trent. In the twentieth century, the Roman Catholic Church followed modern psychiatry in attributing suicide to mental illness, and the ban on Roman Catholic funerals was lifted. Currently, the Roman Catholic Church tries to discourage suicide while accompanying people in need.

Historical evolution of the traditional canon of architectural proportions "The square root of three seconds" in the planning of Chinese cities

The article examines and analyzes architectural proportions in the modern urban planning and architecture of China. The concept of the proportion "The root of three seconds" (√3/2) is outlined, the use of proportionation techniques in urban planning is illustrated with examples, and the evolution of the proportions and their applications in the modern architecture of China are briefly described. Using the planning structures of several Chinese cities and fragments of open spaces in these cities as an example, graphical analytical schemes of the geometry of proportions are derived.

Hlukhiv People Amature Chamber Choir of Sacred Music creativity as a component of Hlukhiv region’s culture (the end of 20th – early 21st century): art reflections

Statement of the problem. The 20th century in the history of Ukraine was marked by the harsh policy of the USSR authorities in relation to religion and national self-identity. Aiming to destroy everything sacred for Ukrainians and transform them into an universal faceless nation, the government achieved the opposite result. Against a background unsuitable for revival, sprouts of spirituality and “Ukrainianness” appeared as a counter-response to the totalitarian radicalism of the government. Recent research and publications. We established that the Hlukhiv phenomenon was revealed in the works of O. Vasiuta (1998), H. Lokoshchenko (1990), L. Horenko (2006), V. Ivanova (1997), M. Kyianovska (2000), L. Kornii & B. Siuta (2011), K. Maiburova (1971), M. Yurchenko (2001). The purpose of these publications is to study the origins of the development of professional Ukrainian music and its integration into the world music space. The publications addressed the activities of the Chamber Choir were appeared in local periodical press, in particular the newspapers “Hluhiv region”, “Day”, “Courier”, “People Tribune”, “Week”, “Panorama”, and others; they have narrative character without analytical science approach and adopted to usual unprofessional readers. Objectives, methods, and novelty of the research. The purpose of this article is a coverage of the creative activity of the Hlukhiv People Amateur Chamber Choir of Sacred Music. For this, source studies, scientific, historical, and analytical research methods were used, as well as generalization and systematization of information about the activities of the creative team. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the analysis and systematization of the Choir’s repertoire, in highlighting of its history and aesthetical principles directed its progress, in presentation of social and cultural context of the time, and revealing of significance the choir collective’s activity for actualization of Ukrainian national spiritual heritage. Research results and conclusion. The choral culture of Hlukhiv is a bright page of the centuries-old history of developing the Ukrainian choral singing. Its traditions were revived at Hlukhiv region in the 20th century through the activities of the Sacred Music Chamber Choir. The main vectors of the group’s creativity are highlighted: promotion of the Ukrainian-language repertoire, performance of works by countrymen composers M. Berezovsky, D. Bortnyansky, preservation of the canonical traditions of choral singing, and performance of sacred music. These areas of activity make it possible to identify the team’s creative work as an important component of the national Ukrainian culture. Regardless of historical and political obstacles, the choir’s activities achieved their goals: the performance of outstanding countrymen’s music gained popularity and found its continuation in the repertoire of the Choir department of the Hlukhiv School of Arts; classical and sacred choral music became part of the repertoire of city concerts; due to successful concerts and tours of the Choir as well as the active promotion work of its leader Kateryna Kobzar, the people of Hlukhiv got the opportunity to hear the performances of famous Ukrainian musicians, the guests of the city.

Reimagining the English Language Arts canon: A case for inclusive and empowering instruction

AbstractThis paper explores the possible negative implications of teacher selected whole‐class reads rooted within the traditional canon of English Language Arts instruction and possible solutions for re‐engaging the disengaged adolescent reader through choice reading and the implementation of more culturally relevant texts. Historically, English Language Arts educators assign required readings to the entire class without taking into account the lens through which students view the texts. This paper identifies how texts deemed historically valuable and enabling by the educator can actually be disabling and disengaging to the learner. Additionally, this paper offers insights regarding the positive shifts that can stem from reimagining the traditional canon utilizing a whole‐class read scenario into a more democratic and culturally responsive English Language Arts canon. Assigned whole‐class reads are defined as selections of text chosen by the teacher with the understanding that every student is required to engage in the text. These are not chosen by students and they are not part of independent reading. The goal of this paper is to first, inform educators concerning the disabling effects of choosing whole‐class texts inside the traditional canon without viewing the texts through the varied interests, abilities, socio‐economic backgrounds, integration of students' cultural knowledge and experiences, and maturity levels of the students served. Furthermore, this paper will provide a basis for increasing educator knowledge regarding the traditional canon, disabling and enabling texts, and culturally responsive ELA practices along with particular scaffolds in hopes of re‐engaging the disengaged adolescent reader.

Carnophallogocentrism and Eco-Deconstruction

Whether deconstruction is relevant to environmental philosophy, and if so, in what ways and with what transformations, has been subject to considerable debate in recent years. I will begin by discussing some reservations regarding deconstruction’s relevance to environmental thought, and argue that they stem from an older misreading of Derrida’s work in particular as hostile to the natural sciences, and as a cultural textualism of relevance only to the interiority of a traditional canon, but unable to reach the materiality of the outside environment. This attempt at refutation will permit a better understanding of the deconstructive argument for what has been called an ‘originary environmentality’ of life. On this basis, I seek to argue that deconstruction tends to be most promising to environmental questions when it shows responses to the call, not primarily for a new ethics, but for far-ranging analyses of our conception of politics. The reason for this lies in the overall deconstructive goal of exposing political and legal sovereignty, including its modern democratic understanding, to what I will elaborate as contextual or environmental finitude.

Времена года в русской поэзии удмуртского поэта В. Ар-Серги

The article is devoted to the study of the semantics of the seasons in the Russian-language poetry of the Udmurt poet and prose writer V. Ar-Sergi. The relevance of this work is caused by the fact that today artistic texts of national authors require a holistic conceptual analysis, since they are strongly influenced by Russian literature, which in turn affects their ethnocultural identity. The issue of preserving, strengthening and developing national language in the multilingual space of the Russian Federation is acute. The author undertook an analytical review of the problem on the material of the Ar-Sergi Russian-language poetry. During the study, traditional methods of literary research (quantitative, structural-semiotic, comparison and collation, method of holistic text analysis) were used. Both traditionally mythological and individual authorial realia associated with the perception of calendar natural changes are reflected in the poetic texts of Ar-Sergi. The degree of their semantic connectedness with traditional canons of Udmurt culture is determined. Comprehension of the natural passage of time is closely intertwined with the emotional and psychological plan of the works. The natural landscape axiologically becomes a theme for constant artistic reflection in the poetry of Ar-Sergi. The lexical units from the lexico-semantic group “seasons” have not only a certain temporal semantic load but also denote the internal emotional state of the lyric subject in the poetic texts of the Udmurt poet. The attention of the author is turned not only on his own worldview but also folk-mythological contexts of the whole ethnic group.

Fashion, cinema and marketing: An exploratory study of diversity and stereotyping on the red carpets in US Vogue

ABSTRACT Research on race and gender stereotypes in the field of cinema and fashion highlights the dysfunction of the social discourse of inclusivity and diversity. The international Red Carpet events continue to reproduce a model of femininity and masculinity according to the traditional canon of beauty, but specialized fashion magazines show a certain tendency to change, that reopen the debate about their role in equality. The symbiosis of both scenarios requires knowing what are the beauty codes and gender stereotypes that identify movie stars in the red carpets and checking to what extent fashion magazines evolve and conveys the message of inclusiveness. The coverage of US Vogue of four red carpets is analysed with the content analysis methodology and then interpreted by a panel of experts. The results show the presence of a stereotyped image of beauty, with the influence and marketing of luxury brands and celebrities, as well as the primacy and continuity of a canon traditional gender binary that identifies women’s fashion magazines. It remains to be seen if, in future red carpets, a more defined trend towards diversity is glimpsed, which also favours a change in strategy in the communication of brands and fashion magazines.

Canonical Tradition Valuing the Right to Reputation

The right to a good name is a fundamental, natural human right that is mentioned specifically in canon 220 of the 1983 Code. In the present environment, however, this right has been frequently forgotten. Catholic clergy, in particular, have seen their right to reputation overlooked by forces both within and outside the Church. This article shows that respect for the good of bona fama is fundamental to any truly human community. Noting the impressive canonical tradition strongly in support of the juridical good of bona fama, this article demonstrates how the good of bona fama became part of the lived testimony of the early Church and developed over time. The canonical tradition was incorporated into the Church's first attempt at codification in 1917; the reform of that Code after Vatican II clearly reflected the developments in 20th century magisterial teaching on the good of reputation.