Fundamentalist Discourse Research Articles

“VIRADA MORAL” E ENTEXTUALIZAÇÃO DO HOMOSSEXUAL COMO PEDÓFILO EM FALAS DE BOLSONARO NO CONGRESSO (2000 A 2018)

ABSTRACT In this article, we aim to carry out a qualitative-quantitative investigation of 922 shorthand notes of Federal Deputy Jair Bolsonaro´s speeches in the Chamber of Deputies from 2000 to 2018. As objectives, we analyze (i) the presence of religious and military lexical items in the hatred rhetoric of Bolsonaro throughout this chronological segmentation and (ii) the “moral turn” in his political discourse, when, from 2011 on, he starts to associate homosexuality with pedophilia. To do so, we anchored ourselves in a lexical analysis methodology, bringing Corpus Linguistics closer to Linguistic Anthropology. To that end, we distributed the data into two sub-corpora, from 2000 to 2010 and from 2011 to 2018, having as a parameter, firstly, to describe the diachronic contrast in the occurrences of 20 keywords, divided into 10 for the religious discourse and 10 for the military, and, secondly, to explain the reentextualization of the sign “pedophilia” in the (re)organization of the relationship between hate speech, homophobia and moral panic in the speeches of the politician. The pronouncements were processed in the AntConc program and in Excel. From 2011 on, the Bolsonarist discourse begins to balance the use of lexicons from the ultraconservative military discourse and the Christian fundamentalist discourse.

Religious Fundamentalism: A Theoretical-Constitutional Analysis

This Article analysis the phenomenon of religious fundamentalism from a theoretical-constitutional perspective. The two basic questions are: what religious fundamentalism is? And what are its boundaries? At one side, religious fundamentalism is seen as a fundamental right (religious freedom) exercise, thus appointing proper constitutional boundaries in order to harmonize it with other rights, values, goods and interests. That is the question for applying balancing. From another side, religious fundamentalism is seen as a political control strategy, a platform for achieving political aims through a religiously based fundamentalist discourse. The Article demonstrates that not only the fundamentalist phenomenon crosses the constitutional boundaries of fundamental rights exercise, rather it denies central pieces of modern liberal constitutionalism.

A New Hermeneutical Approach to the Qur’an with Special Reference to the Narrative of Prophet Yaḥyā (John the Baptist) in the Qur’an and the Bible

Prophet Yaḥyā (John the Baptist) is considered to be a bridge between Islam and Christianity. Both traditions emphasize that he is a ‘rightly-guided’ figure and among the company of ‘the righteous’ such as Abraham and Moses. The story of Yaḥyā is included in two chapters (Q. 3: 39 and Q. 19: 12–14) in the Qur’an. Canonical Gospels also provide various aspects of John the Baptist. Muslim commentators have used biblical and other sources in their interpretation of the Qur’an, elaborating some aspects of his life within the Qur’anic theological framework. Whereas various similarities may be seen in narratives of Islamic sources and the biblical sources regarding Prophet Yaḥyā, some differences are present. Therefore, this article seeks to provide an analysis on the story of Prophet Yaḥyā through Qur’anic narratives. It also investigates the classical exegetical approach to such a comparative reading (isrā’īliyyāt, biblical materials) and a modern tendency of direct citations from the Bible. Relying on the framework of comparative theology, considered as “welcoming wisdom wherever it exists” and “faith seeking understanding” in light of truth seen deeply in other religious tradition, such mutual close readings and interactions across religious traditions could be a good model for the Muslim world, instead of a fully rejectionist fundamentalist discourse against other traditions. Such a pluralist approach emphasizes a global raising of awareness and mutual understanding.

Soft charisma as an impediment to fundamentalist discourse

The Anthroposophical Society in Sweden is, in the view of many of its members, going through tough times. Times of crisis and the search for a collective identity often inspire the formation of ideological rifts within a larger religious community. One way of responding to challenges is by turning to doctrines and texts stemming from a purportedly pristine past for guidance – in other words, by developing a fundamentalist discourse. A striking fact about the Anthroposophical Society, in Sweden as well as internationally, is that such returns to a set of canonical texts by the founder of the movement appear to be self-defeating. There are deeply rooted structural features within the Anthroposophical Society as an institution that impede any one voice from gaining significant traction and imposing a collective identity upon the movement. This article uses the example of the Anthroposophical Society in Sweden and the conundrum it repeatedly faces when addressing a perceived crisis in order to formulate a model of charismatic leadership that more generally accounts for the lack of success of fundamentalist discourses in religious movements with certain types of organisational culture.

Meta Concept Of Horizon Ilmu And Its Application On Islamic Political Thought Department Of UIN Mataram

This article will analyze the concept of scientific integration-interconnection and internalization or the “Horizon Ilmu” in the Islamic State University of Mataram. This study formulates the implementation model on the curriculum of PPI Department. This article aims to combine Karl Popper's falsification theory, and the theory of paradigm revolution by Tomas Kuhn, with Ian Barbour's theory about the integration between religion and science. As an additional theory on this subject, author use amin abdullah's theory of integration-interconnection. This study uses interpretive approach, that Focuses on the ideas and the spirit and the implementation method that construct the political theory. This study describes conclusions. First, the PPI' s model of Horizon Ilmu, consist two fundamental discourses: the Islamic political thought represented by al-Madinah al-Fadhilah, and the western political science represented by democracy. Second, These two fundamentals then emulsified with the classical islamic scientific tradition. Third, PPI’s characteristic of Horizon Ilmu can be actualized through the reciprocal relation between these two fundamentals discourses in order to build the new academic traditions in the Islamic political thought department.

Imaginaire identitaire/identité imaginaire dans Meursault, contre-enquête de Kamel Daoud: question(s) de démêlés…

" Identity is approached from the perspective of the genre of literary counter- investigation, in the wake of Laurent Demanze’s study Un nouvel âge de l’enquête. In post-colonial Algeria, the motif of spectrality is bound up with an imaginary of grief and impossible mourning, typified by Kamel Daoud’s Meursault, contre-enquête. In this context, identity is synonymous with alienation. Like his predecessors Camus and Assia Djebar, Daoud is conducting his own quest for freedom, promoting the relational and ethical value of the imaginary as a universal network of images that counter the narrow enclosure of nationalist and fundamentalist discourse in a fundamentally dynamic encounter with the world and the other."

DISCURSIVE FORMED TOPICS IN INFORMATION LITERACY: LITERATURE REVIEW AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS' PERSPECTIVES

Information literacy is a critical topic in contemporary pedagogy and information science, it is ranked among the essential competencies for the 21st century, and in recent years, it has received increasing research interest. The problem, however, is that the research is focused mainly on primary and university (college) contexts and only rarely analyses secondary school settings. This paper, therefore, focuses on a group of high school students and on whether the literature's idea of their needs corresponds to their actual needs. Based on the analysis of 32 documents indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science databases, the paper identifies seven significant discursive areas addressed in the literature, both theoretically and empirically. These are the relationship of libraries and librarians to the development of information literacy, information evaluation, the relationship of information literacy and learning competencies, connection with other competencies, emphasis on constructivist approach, the social dimension of information literacy and its possible use for self-actualization. These topics form a specific research discourse, which they set out. In the second phase of the research, focus groups (8 groups in 4 schools, 41 students) on information literacy are studied through the seven essential discourses mentioned. Although our sample lacked reflections on the relationship between the library and high school students, the remaining six fundamental discourses appeared in the testimonies of high school students (Libraries and librarians, evaluation of information, learning competencies, connection with other literacy, constructivist approach, the social dimension of information literacy, information literacy as a means of self-actualization). The findings show that the main difference between literary discourse and student responses is in the perception of libraries as centres of information literacy development and that students prefer the school or their teachers in their place. Keywords: focus groups, information evaluation, information literacy, media literacy, overview study

Translation and feminism in post-Islamic revolution Iran: A sociological approach

With the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, the pre-revolution secular modernisation process was interrupted and, as believed by the liberal activists, the Islamisation of rules and domination of political Islamic views in the society imposed restrictions on Iranian women. This led specifically part of the urban, educated middle-class women to be inclined toward secular-oriented feminism in their struggle against inequalities. Inspired by Luhmann’s social systems theory, the current study investigates the social function of translation in communicating feminist ideas in the environment and context of Iran. The study is conducted through a thematic analysis of summaries of domestic (locally authored) and translated books on women’s rights published in post-revolutionary Iran. The differences in the ideas covered in the translated books compared to those in domestic books are discussed, demonstrating the unique role of translation as a communication medium in making external feminist ideas accessible to the Iranian people and disseminating them in the society, potentially contributing to the challenge against the official fundamentalist view and discourse on women’s rights.

Jan Hardy versus Likwidator. Comics als Medien der gesellschaftlichen Spaltung Polens

This article at the intersection of cultural studies of popular and memory culture deals with the genre of comics as an identity-forming (protest) medium and projection surface for the ideologised “culture war” between traditionalists and modernists in contemporary Poland. The analysis focuses on two historical comics that combine facts and imaginary and refer back to the Second World War, the communist period and the recent history of the Republic of Poland after 1989. The article juxtaposes two title heroes and their comic worlds, which represent opposite ends of the political spectrum and reveal the problem areas of Poland’s dividedness along the underlying canon of values and symbolic worlds: Jan Hardy, the national-conservative “cursed soldier”, and Likwidator, the relentless “anarcho-terrorist”. The characters and their adventures exemplify fundamental memory cultural, religious, nationalist and emancipatory discourses in Poland today. The focus of the analysis lies on the creation context and the (visual) language with its narrative-aesthetic intensifications, which illuminate Poland’s current state of conflict between national egoism and traditional “cultural patriotism” on the one hand and liberal value relativism with its progressive-emancipatory rhetoric on the other.

The rise of fundamentalist narratives - a post-9/11 legacy? Toward understanding American fundamentalist discourse

Why would a group of writers act in a way that appears to readers as literary fundamentalism, such as post 9/11 American writers? Most of the effective causes underlie superior behaviors, namely, n...

Problems of incorporation of the principles of international law into the system of normative legal support of social welfare of the Russian Federation and their impact upon training of personnel for social services

The subject of this article is the theoretical and practical aspects of application of the experience of other countries of the modern world (from the perspective of the concept) in the process of raising the effectiveness of social welfare system of the Russian Federation as a whole, and the system of training social workers in particular. Since the late XX century, key difference of the current stage of global development, and namely of international law is the gradual shift of legal norms and political practice away from the traditional concepts of economic, social and humanistic policy, which for a long time formed the fundamental discourses of the domestic and international social life. The author states the fact on the need accelerate inclusion of the Russian Federation into the global social cont1ext on both, theoretical and practical levels. Reception of the norms of international law, especially of humanistic nature, historically contributed to the improvement of legal systems of the so-called counties of “catch-up development”; in a certain way, the Russian Federation can also be attributed to this group. On the one hand, Russia has a rich tradition of creating the norms of perfect social legislation (including a fairly effective system of training social workers), whole on the other hand, in recent years we can observe the processes of “erosion” of social rights of the citizens.

Os microdramas de Wolfgang Bauer: o riso como liberação e como provocação

À primeira vista, os microdramas de Wolfgang Bauer, escritos nos anos 1960, parecem ser nada mais do que pequenas brincadeiras engraçadas com o gênero dramático e suas convenções. Partindo da constatação que eles tiveram um considerável efeito provocativo, e até político, no contexto conservador da Áustria daquela década, propõe-se uma reflexão sobre a relação entre a sua comicidade e o seu potencial incitador. Com base em estudos sobre características e efeitos da obra de Wolfgang Bauer (Antonic [2018; 2019]; Melzer [1981], Waggershauser [2016]) e nas teorizações sobre a experiência do cômico de Peter L. Berger (1998) e Uwe Wirth (1999), este artigo sugere que os microdramas de Bauer não são apenas um exemplo de metateatro bastante inovador. Eles permitem surgir um riso “redentor”, libertador, que também pode ser sentido como uma provocação política, especialmente em contextos sociais marcados por discursos essencialistas e/ou fundamentalistas.

A Comparative Study on the Theory of 'Soul' in Christianity and the Doctrine of 'Gandhabba' in Buddhism

The whole world speaks of the theory of 'Soul'. It cannot be separated from the human mind and it is deep-rooted. In religion and philosophy, it is considered to be the immaterial, emotional, and spiritual part of a person. Many religions including Christianity have recognized a sort of incorporeal principle of human being and in all other living things. Buddhism, as an atheistic philosophy, does not speak of 'Soul' and it teaches the theory of 'Soullessness'. Buddhism, in explaining life after death, expounds the doctrine of 'gandhabba' which is somewhat an ambiguous and abstruse theory. This paper tries to examine the doctrine of 'gandhabba' as expounded in the fundamental discourses of the Buddha and inspect whether it has somewhat a closer idea to the theory of soul in Christianity. The research method used here depends upon the literature survey. First, the Biblical and other secondary sources have been examined and relevant information is obtained, and then major Buddhist sutras related to the concept of 'gandhabba' were taken into consideration. Finally, doctrinal aspects of the soul theory in Christianity and gandhabba concept in Buddhist tradition have been comparatively examined.

Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! Moving from European Discourses on the Precarious and Art to the Realities of Contemporary Dance

In this article, we encapsulate several key debates in sociology, cultural and arts politics and the media industry on precarious work since its emergence at the turn of the twenty-first century. After setting out the fundamental discourses on precarity, we concentrate on contemporary dance artists as precarious workers and investigate the extent to which different levels of precarity affect them, distinguishing relevant aspects related to socio-economic, mental and physical precarity. We propose that the nature of their work is integrally connected with the ‘precarious’. To close, we conclude that protest against precarity itself is of a precarious nature.

“Further Light Pertaining to Celestial Marriage”: The Law of Purity and Twentieth-Century Mormon Fundamentalist Discourse on Sexuality

“Further Light Pertaining to Celestial Marriage”: The Law of Purity and Twentieth-Century Mormon Fundamentalist Discourse on Sexuality

Al-Muqri’s Anti-Religious Stance: A Call for Moderate Islamic Discourse

Al-Muqri’s Anti-Religious Stance: A Call for Moderate Islamic Discourse Dr. Khaled Abkar Alkodimi Abstract Even though many critics and researchers have noted that religion is one of the taboo issues in al-Muqri‟s works, and in spite of the fact that al-Muqri‟s anti-religious attitude is easily noticeable in his novels, little attention is paid to this issue. This study uses textual analysis method to critically examine al-Muqri‟s anti-religious stance in his selected texts, The Handsome Jew and Adani Incense. It attempts to shed light on the way he presented religious figures together with their religious discourse and the mythologies that those scholars promote among the public. The study further attempts to probe into al-Muqri‟s critical techniques which he used to deliver his views. The study shows that al-Muqri utilizes different literary techniques to mock the religious figures and their fundamentalist discourse that impacts many and evoke hatred and revenge among individuals in the society. He also shows keen on interest in what I referred to as moderate Islam which he introduces in his first novel, The Handsome Jew, through Fatima‟s characterization. However, his call for moderate discourse appears to be more urgent in Adani Incense where he introduces the opposite of it, extremism, in order to stress the need for moderate voice. In this sense, I would argue that al-Muqri attempts to villainize most of his religious figures in order to strengthen his views. Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/ijll.v7n1a5

AKAR PERMASALAHAN KONTROVERSI SEPUTAR TANGGUNG JAWAB SOSIAL PERUSAHAAN

The substance of corporate social [and environmental] responsibility as stipulated in Article 74 of Law No. 40 Year 2007 on Limited Corporation has been creating controversies. Despite the huge pressures from many parties to annul the article, The Indonesian Constitutional Court concluded to maintain it as a binding article and believed that its content is still in line with the constitution. Accommodating CSR into our legal system can be considered a progressive step for the sake of Indonesian people in majority, especially for those who have a very limited access to utilize our natural resources. On the other hand, many companies seem still reluctant to implement the mandatory CSR although Article 74 possibly impose criminal sanctions against the violaters. The author of this paper believes that the controversial issues over CSR are lingering on several fundamental discourses, such as the dichotomies between morality and law, between responsibility and liability, and between individual/public interest and social interest. He intends to discuss these dichotomies in the perspective of legal philosophy.

METHODOLOGY FOR STUDYING THE PROBLEM OF WAR AND PEACE IN PERSONAL RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

Purpose. The main purpose of this paper is to consider the methodological peculiarities in the formation and interpretation of war and peace, in the context of the spiritual (irrational) rethinking by humanity and the nature of social phenomena, among which a special place is occupied by the political and legal phenomena of the modern world. This involves solving the following tasks: firstly, to reveal the meaning of modern approaches in understanding the features of religious fundamentalism, and, secondly, to reconstruct the dynamics of transformations in representations of war and peace, in the context of the spiritual practices of the present. Theoretical basis. The author's analysis is based on the systematic reconstruction of modern theoretical models of understanding religious fundamentalism and its connection with the subject of modern anthropological research. The resulted fact that the taxonomy of different types of religious fundamentalism includes more political, legal and economic markers does not provide an answer to the question of what the qualitative influence of the fundamentalist ideas is on the spiritual component of a person's life. Appealing to the problem of religious fundamentalism, in the context of rethinking the phenomena of war and peace, is associated with the actualization of these phenomena in the communicational, media and ideological spheres. That is why, in the context of this analysis, we take into account the main modern approaches in the provisions of religious traditions. These articulate the problems of threat to the global world in the context of actualization and return of the religious factor into the everyday life of a person, including through politics. Originality. The author proves that when analyzing the religious aspect in the reinterpretation of ideas about war and peace, it is necessary to consider, as a doctrinal component, certain types of religious belief doctrines, as well as the individual psychological peculiarities of man. These peculiarities, which are manifested in different types of beliefs, can be verified by the clues in the analysis of religious practices, which represent the meaningful components of the religious doctrine. Conclusions. The reasons for forming ideas about war and peace in theistic religions are a number of provisions related to the nature of the world and of man. They are the result of the manifestation of the act of the Supernatural Essence. In the tradition of rethinking the vocation of man in the context of fundamentalist discourse, these ideas acquire the status of spiritually determined and politically achievable goals. These are conceived in connection with the establishment of the Divine Plan, and they overcome the gap between the material world and the ideal world order.

El auge de la turismofobia ¿hipótesis de investigación o ruido ideológico?

In 2017, the rise of tourism phobia became a star topic in public discussion, especially during the summer period. This paper investigates this phenomenon by identifying and exploring the fundamental discourses produced in the media. For this purpose, a sample of 40 news items published in different newspapers is analyzed. The aim of the study is to clarify the true potential of the concept as a heuristic tool to guide tourism research. Taking this idea as a starting point, the present work aims to contribute to the elaboration of an analytical framework from which to think, define and guide the study of tourism phobia.

True Finns and Non-True Finns: The Minority Rights Discourse of Populist Politics in Finland

ABSTRACTThis article analyses minority rights discourse in statements of the populist radical right party called the True Finns, which has become a major political force in Finland in the 2010s. A framework for the analysis is provided by research about the development of political approaches to multiculturalism in Western democracies. Kymlicka (2010) argues that a backlash against multicultural policies has mainly occurred in relation to the acceptance of ethnic-cultural diversity among immigrant groups. Support for a backlash is found in the minority rights statements of the party. However, the political rhetoric of the party is not mainly about policies relating to immigrants, but basic principles of group-specific rights for minorities are also disputed. The article argues that the populist rhetoric has to be understood as related to fundamental discourses about majority and minority rights in developed welfare states.