Holistic Worldview Research Articles

Sound Symbolism in the Qur’an as a Reflection of the Ancient Arab Worldview (on the Example of Four-Consonant Roots)

Sound symbolism plays an important role for artistic devices and rhetorical techniques of the Qur’an. On the lexical material from four-consonant roots that could be described as an extremely archaic layer of the Arabic vocabulary, the article discusses ideophones (words that express an idea or convey a certain impression through their sound) in the Qur’anic Arabic. The article also describes their morphological structure and etymology of ideophones in the Qur’an. Semantic analysis and classification of these lexical units show that words of the language of the Qur’an, derived from four-consonant roots, dominantly describe the characteristics of movement, sound and visual sensations. The abundant set of sound-symbolic vocabulary in the language of the Qur’an reflects a cohesive, holistic worldview. Within that worldview a human being did not contrast himself with the environment and other living beings, but felt that he was a whole entity with them. He perceived sounds and other phenomena of the surrounding world as manifestations of otherworldly forces and supernatural beings, and this vision determined the sacred nature of the vocabulary that described these phenomena and its special rhetorical persuasiveness, as well as the emotional impact on listeners of the Qur’anic text. Moreover, a comparison with similar phenomena in other cultures allow us to suggest that sound-symbolic vocabulary was of the great importance for creating the performative function of the Qur’anic text, which was perceived as having special power to influence the world.

Oceans and human health—navigating changes on Canada’s coasts

Ocean conditions can affect human health in a variety of ways that are often overlooked and unappreciated. Oceans adjacent to Canada are affected by many anthropogenic stressors, with implications for human health and well-being. Climate change further escalates these pressures and can expose coastal populations to unique health hazards and distressing conditions. However, current research efforts, education or training curriculums, and policies in Canada critically lack explicit consideration of these ocean–public health linkages. The objective of this paper is to present multiple disciplinary perspectives from academics and health practitioners to inform the development of future directions for research, capacity development, and policy and practice at the interface of oceans and human health in Canada. We synthesize major ocean and human health linkages in Canada, and identify climate-sensitive drivers of change, drawing attention to unique considerations in Canada. To support effective, sustained, and equitable collaborations at the nexus of oceans and human health, we recommend the need for progress in three critical areas: ( i) holistic worldviews and perspectives, ( ii) capacity development, and ( iii) structural supports. Canada can play a key role in supporting the global community in addressing the health challenges of climate and ocean changes.

DEEP SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL CONCEPTS IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

The article describes the main concepts of the Russian political discourse - “politika (policy)”, “vlast' (power)”, “ideologiya (ideology)”. The author specially notes the integrative nature of the study which occupies a position on the borderline between linguistics, psychology, philosophy and politology. This fact makes it necessary to employ not only explanatory but also encyclopedic, politological and philosophical dictionaries. The study analyzes the concepts in the light of the cognitive approach which defines them as operation units of memory, mental lexicon, conceptual system and “brain language” and the holistic worldview, or as knowledge quanta. Conceptual analysis presupposes several stages: semantic analysis of a word in accordance with the data found in explanatory dictionaries; analysis of the term whose history and usage variability are reflected in special purpose dictionaries; transition to the level of conceptosphere demanding synthesis of the data previously obtained taking into account sociocultural peculiarities. In order to determine the dominating ideas about the policy in a community, it is necessary to use, in addition to dictionary definitions, the words of famous political theorists. “Politika (policy)” is a macroconcept of political discourse which incorporates several concepts of a high level of abstraction: “politicheskoe soznanie (political consciousness)”, “vlast' (power)”, “gosudarstvo (state)”, and “ideologiya (ideology)”. These concepts are so closely interconnected that it is difficult to establish hierarchical relations between them. The concept “politika (policy)” can be schematically presented as a hyperonym covering three microconcepts (“politicheskaya vlast' (political power)”, “gosudarstvo (state)” and “politicheskaya ideologiya” (political ideology)”, or, alternatively, as two microconcepts (“gosudarstvennaya vlast' (state power)” and “politicheskaya ideologiya (political ideology)”. In the Soviet explanatory and politological dictionaries, the seme “klas (class)” was the core element of the semantics of the word “politika (policy), which was in line with the ideology of Marxism-Leninism. The Russian language concept “vlast' (power)” has an economic origin (it is etymologically associated with the verb “vladet' (possess)”), which singles out the Russian language from other languages. Policy forms ideology (conception) associated with the role of man in society, state and the modern world. The article demonstrates that the political sphere concepts can be studied on two levels: semantico - terminological level and deep or linguocultural level.

КАНОНИЗАЦИЯ СВЯТЫХ И ПСЕВДОКАНОНИЗАЦИЯ УСОПШИХ ПОДВИЖНИКОВ. ПРОБЛЕМЫ И РЕШЕНИЯ

In a historical context, the article carries out research on the actual, but poorly studied, problems of the institution of locally venerated saints’ canonization as a specific part of the general canonization procedure performed by the Russian Orthodox Church in accordance with the unified canonization criteria. Analyzing the process of the Eparchial Sobors of Saints formation that began in the Soviet period, the author shows that throughout its existence the Russian Orthodox Church had a clear canonical and legal mechanism of the canonization of saints for both Church-wide and local veneration, but in its history until the middle of the 20th century such an institutional formation as the “Eparchial Sobors of Saints” did not exist. The article traces the transformation of the Eparchial Sobors into a semi-legal channel, which essentially cancels the basic church definitions concerning the center of church life – the sphere of saints. Considering the establishment of a new, for the Russian Church, institution as a tribute to the revolutionary era, the author deals with the anthropological and genetic problems, characterizing the origins and essence of religious materialism and of the deep foundations that determine a person’s qualities and aspirations as depending on the image ideal. The article provides sufficient evidentiary foundation to show that the substitution of a saint image opens the way to pharisaism, as a holistic worldview system, which is seen convincing and attractive from the outside, and destructive – from the inside.

The results of the analysis of the research-methodological functions of the test current control of knowledge for natural sciences in MGRI

An obligatory part of the quality management system of educational institutions is pedagogical control of digestion of the learning material by students, which should be considered as an important component of the diagnosis and monitoring of training. The analysis of research and methodological functions of the current knowledge control on the basics of paleontology, general stratigraphy and historical geology, performed with the help of test tasks, was conducted from the spring semester of 2014 to the spring semester of 2019 inclusive. It has confirmed that the test system of the current control allowed carrying out effective diagnostics of higher education, making more systematic and effective carrying out of lessons, organization of the self-control over the digestion of some topics of the course and correction lecture material in order to increase the efficiency of the training. The consequence of methodically correct organization of systematic test control is the formation of holistic natural science world view by students, as well as the culture of educational process by students — concentration, responsibility, accuracy, ability to develop internal and external self-organization and self-control. The reasons for the low results of testings are analyzed. It has been proved that the analysis of the results of the current control of knowledge can determine creativity and a clear vocation for the research activities of students. Data on the results of the test control of educational work should be fully used for timely adjustment of educational trajectories of students at all stages of training. They will be necessary for the development of initiatives in mastering the future profession, creative abilities, the ability to plan and predict the results of their independent actions and to solve non-standard tasks.

Hopeful Discourse: Elementary Children’s Activist Responses to Modern-Day Slavery Grounded in Systems Thinking

This qualitative case study examines how fifth graders and their teachers participated in critical literacy instruction grounded in systems thinking on the topic of slavery. Systems thinking seeks to discover relationships and patterns in diverse underlying systems; critical literacy examines everyday texts, focuses on social justice and change, and promotes transformative practices. Classroom observations, photographs, interviews, and student artifacts were collected and analyzed to provide insight into students’ understandings of patterns of slavery from American colonial times to modern-day trafficking. Through a range of texts and different modalities, students sought to understand different group perspectives and ultimately took action to disrupt an unjust system. Three aspects of students’ learning led them to an agentic role: (1) crossing boundaries across time and differences, (2) developing a holistic worldview, and (3) reimagining a different world and altering the existing discourse.

Пропаганда в плоскости «Парабола – парадигма»

This article presents two strategies of manipulation: metaphoric and metonymic. Metaphoric type is a foundation of the totalitarian propaganda. The optimal environment for this type of propaganda is a new urban population, the former peasants. Its best information distribution channel is a newspaper. Its Achilles’ heel is the involvement of population masses in creating and developing of metaphors, which makes perception of metaphors less “automatic” and more thought-provoking. Metonymic type of propaganda is based on categorization of reality through the understanding of what is typical. Such propaganda does not create a holistic worldview and is suitable for an authoritarian rather than classical totalitarian government. Its optimal environment is people who have experience in virtual reality. The ideal information channel is TV. The recipient of this propaganda is not involved in its co-creation, which makes the system more resistant to self-analysis. Nevertheless, like in case of any hidden linguistic manipulation, the intensive use of metonymic type of propaganda reduces its manipulative potential.

УКРАЇНОЗНАВЧИЙ ОСВІТНІЙ ЧИННИК В УМОВАХ СУЧАСНОЇ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ МАСОВОЇ КУЛЬТУРИ

The purpose and tasks of the work are to analyze the contemporary Ukrainian mass culture in terms of its value and humanistic components, as well as the importance of cultural studies and Ukrainian studies in educational disciplines for the formation of a holistic worldview of modern youth.Analysis of research and publications. Scientists repeatedly turned to the problems of the role of spirituality in the formation of society and its culture. This problem is highlighted in the publications by O. Losev, V. Lytvyn, D. Likhachev, S. Avierintsev, M. Zakovych, I. Stepanenko and E. Kostyshyn.Experts see the main negative impact of mass culture on the quality approach, which determines mass culture through the market, because mass culture, from our point of view, is everything that is sold and used in mass demand.One of the most interesting studies on this issue was the work by the representatives of Frankfurt School M. Horkheimer and T. Adorno «Dialectics of Enlightenment» (1947), devoted to a detailed analysis of mass culture. Propaganda at all socio-cultural levels in the form is similar in both totalitarian and democratic countries. It is connected, according to the authors, with the direction of European enlightenment. The tendency to unify people is a manifestation of the influence of mass culture, from cinema to pop. Mass culture is a phenomenon whose existence is associated with commerce (accumulation in any form – this is the main feature of education), in general, the fact that it exists in this form is related to the direction of the history of civilization.Modern mass culture, with its externally attractive and easily assimilated ideas and symbols, appealing to the trends of modern fashion, becomes a standard of prestigious consumption, does not require intense reflection, allows you to relax, distract, not teach, but entertains, preaches hedonism as the main spiritual value. And as a consequence, there are socio-cultural risks: an active rejection of other people, which leads to the formation of indifference; cruelty as a character trait; increase of violent and mercenary crime; increase in the number of alcohol and drug addicts; anti-patriotism; indifference to the values of the family and as a result of social orphanhood and prostitution.Conclusions, perspectives of research. Thus, we can conclude that modern Ukrainian education is predominantly formed by the values of mass culture. Namely, according to the «Dialectic» by Horkheimer and Adorno, «semi-enlightenment becomes an objective spirit» of our modern society.It is concluded that only high-quality education can create the opposite of the onset of mass culture and the destruction of spirituality in our society. It is proved that only by realizing the importance of cultivating disciplines in the educational process and the spiritual upbringing of the nation, through educational reforms, humanitarian knowledge will gradually return to student audiences.Formation of youth occurs under the influence of social environment, culture, education and self-education. The optimal combination of these factors determines both the process of socialization itself and how successful it will be. In this context, one can see the leading role of education and upbringing. It turns out that the main task of modern education is to spread its influence on the development of spiritual culture of the individual, which eventually becomes a solid foundation for the formation of the individual. Such a subject requires both philosophical and humanitarian approaches in further integrated interdisciplinary research, since the availability of such research will provide the theoretical foundation for truly modern educational and personal development.

Intersectionality of Cultural Identities in Health Psychology: Key Recommendations for Working With African-Caribbean Immigrant Women.

While the field of health psychology has progressed over the years, much work still needs to be done when considering immigrants' health care and well-being. Particularly, for African-Caribbean immigrants, the intersectionality of their cultural identities in the health care system require much attention moving forward. Therefore, this article is particularly relevant for Canada's multicultural society; it describes cultural identity reconstruction within health psychology as a common issue for diverse groups, particularly African-Caribbean immigrant women. The article speaks to the holistic worldview that is required in a paradigm shift which engages a pluralistic society that is Canada. The author presents a key cultural identity model and assessment tool that should be integrated into the health care system to ensure culturally-sensitive and inclusive care for immigrants, especially women. As is argued in the article, contemporary research, advocacy, and social movements speak to invoking alternative ways to complement the prevailing downstream approach to health psychology. In a growing multicultural society that should strive on honoring and respecting the pluralistic cultural worldviews of all people in the health care system, many immigrant women struggle to cope with the social determinants of health post-migration. Their concerns are often pushed to the margins of health care services, with several individuals relying on their faith for coping strategies. This article concludes with culturally-informed and socially-just recommendations for health care professionals working with immigrant populations, particularly African Caribbean immigrant women.

A review of climate change impacts on the ecosystem services in the Saami Homeland in Finland.

The aim of this work is (i) to review the recent studies on weather and climate change in Finnish Sápmi and to present the literature review findings alongside our survey on the observations made by local reindeer herders on the same phenomena, and, further, (ii) to review the impacts of climate change on the ecosystem services (ES) in Finnish Sápmi. The focus of the study is on the impacts of climate change on those habitat, provisioning and cultural ecosystem services which are interconnected with the Saami way of life as Indigenous people and thus support the continuity of their culture. In the holistic world view of Arctic Indigenous peoples, material culture and non-material culture are not separated, and there is no boundary between nature and culture. However, cultural and spiritual meanings of ecosystems, species and landscapes are rarely taken into account in scientific research on ecosystems services. Our review indicates that mostly negative impacts of climate warming on ecosystems and traditional livelihoods are to be expected in Sápmi. The most profound negative impacts will be on palsa mire and fell ecosystems, in particular snowbeds, snow patches and mountain birch forests. Consequently, changes in ecosystems may erode cultural meanings, stories, memories and traditional knowledge attached to them and affect the nature-based traditional livelihoods. In a situation where our rapidly changing climate is affecting the foundations of the nature-based cultures, the present review can provide a knowledge base for developing adaptation actions and strategies for local communities and Indigenous peoples to cope with changes caused by climate change and other drivers.

Leading a Community Engagement Approach for Integral Mission in Central Africa and Southeast Asia

Community engagement is essential in global health mission organizations in order to effectively integrate physical and spiritual health. I experienced a progression in understanding faith-based community engagement in global health during my time as a health director in central Africa and Southeast Asia. The Facilitator phase of this progression leads to understanding the systems and networks as described by the Social-Ecological Model (SEM) and the Holistic Worldview Analysis (HWVA) model. Together, these can be used to guide church workers, faith-based public health practitioners, and development leaders in taking a holistic approach to improving community health and well-being in a way that learns from my experience and focuses on the Facilitator phase as the most effective. Integral mission understands that the physical and spiritual determinants of health are inseparable but is often challenged by diverse partnerships, community beliefs, and assumptions influencing cross-cultural health initiatives. Together, the SEM and HWVA models support a holistic community engagement strategy for integral mission to take place.

Leading a Community Engagement Approach for Integral Mission in Central Africa and Southeast Asia

Community engagement is essential in global health mission organizations in order to effectively integrate physical and spiritual health. I experienced a progression in understanding faith-based community engagement in global health during my time as a health director in central Africa and Southeast Asia. The Facilitator phase of this progression leads to understanding the systems and networks as described by the Social-Ecological Model (SEM) and the Holistic Worldview Analysis (HWVA) model. Together, these can be used to guide church workers, faith-based public health practitioners, and development leaders in taking a holistic approach to improving community health and well-being in a way that learns from my experience and focuses on the Facilitator phase as the most effective. Integral mission understands that the physical and spiritual determinants of health are inseparable but is often challenged by diverse partnerships, community beliefs, and assumptions influencing cross-cultural health initiatives. Together, the SEM and HWVA models support a holistic community engagement strategy for integral mission to take place.

ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī, Waḥdat al-Wujūd, and Reconfiguring Epistemology

This study introduces some new ideas into the study of ideas in Sufism. Taking al-Jīlī and, esp., his al-Insān al-kāmil as a starting point this study argues a holistic worldview following the concepts of the oneness of being (waḥdat al-wujūd) will be able to integrate – and to be integrated – into contemporary scientific concepts like chemical fluctuation, the new synthesis, and holobionts. This will lead to creating a general philosophy of being beyond the Western biases.

ЛИНГВОКОНЦЕПТОЦЕНТРИЧЕСКИЙ УРОК В РЕШЕНИИ ЗАДАЧИ РАЗВИТИЯ УСТНОЙ РЕЧИ ШКОЛЬНИКА

The article deals with a linguo-concept-centred lesson built on the basis of the metasubject and linguoculturological approaches. The discussed didactic form is aimed at developing a pupil’s oral speech - a prepared monologic utterance, which is positioned by the author as the projection of a pupil’s individual holistic worldview in oral speech, translating the culture of comprehending scientific and artistic worldviews through solving linguoculturological problems, i.e. the lexical, derivational, etymological analysis of universal concepts.

Circular and Flexible Infill Concepts: Integration of the Residential User Perspective

Circular building has gained considerable attention in the Netherlands during the past decade. It is rooted in concepts such as circular economy (CE) and Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C®), accentuating the closing and coupling of material loops to establish effective and efficient resource flows. Moreover, those concepts adhere to a systemic, holistic worldview, incorporating multiple flows and values. Although social aspects, such as health, wellbeing, and social inclusiveness, are generally part of circular building principles, specific benefits for end-users are not. This paper explores the synergistic potential of circular and flexible (Circ-Flex) criteria from the perspective of enhanced control and convenience for residents. The hypothesis is that without integrating the user domain, replicability of circular building concepts on a larger residential scale cannot be done in a truly sustainable manner. The paper is structured around two objectives: (1) further identifying the relationship between flexible and circular building; and (2) exploring the impact of circular, flexible building concepts and practices for the users of multi-family housing, specifically regarding interior partitioning. The research follows a mixed-mode methodology comprising of literature review, case study, expert consultations and a quick-scan assessment. Eleven Circ-Flex criteria are explored, grouped in three categories: flexibility capacity, circularity capacity, and user capacity. These criteria are applied to two partitioning variants, whilst exploring the performance regarding material circulation and user benefits.

Archpriest Avvakum’s Paradise Lost: the treatise “Sniskanie i Sobranie o Bozhestve i o Tvari” as Interpretation of Biblical History

The paper focuses on interpretation of Biblical history in a lesser-known treatise written by Archpriest Avvakum entitled Sniskanie i sobranie o Bozhestve i o tvari. The main issues addressed in the paper are the sources and aims of the treatise, methods and functions of citing, structure and style of the text, the perception of God, the imagery of the world and paradise, the notion of mankind and fall of man, the progress and sense of history, the flow of time, the role of the author and the reader in the text. Central to this polemical treatise is the thesis of the immensity of God, which manifests itself both in spatial and in temporal aspects. The simplicity of Avvakum’s notion of the physical world is considered in the context of the author’s holistic worldview. An emphasis is put on the perception of the creation of Adam as a key moment that predetermined the eschatological plan of history. The paper traces the spatial and temporal imagery of Avvakum and its manifestation inside the text, specifically in the alteration of the past, present, future and infinite planes of reality, which reveals Avvakum’s attitude to the process and meaning of history. Sniskanie i sobranie is a text whose structure is a reverse reflection of the major work of Avvakum, i.e. his Life, where the events of the present are referred to the the sacred history, while in Sniskanie Biblical events are compared to the present. The versatility of Sniskanie i sobranie is demonstrated through its multiple functions, since the text is built as a polemical treatise, narrative and a dialogue. In conclusion, the interpretation of the events of the Book of Genesis by Avvakum is compared to John Milton’s poem Paradise Lost. The works reflected both similar and entirely different problems in connection with the fall of man and the loss of paradise.

Making Sense of Psalm 127:3-5 in African / South African Contexts

African wisdom sayings have enjoyed and continue to enjoy some authoritative status in varying African contexts from time immemorial till today. As sacred texts, African proverbs have shaped and continue to shape, whether consciously or not, the worldview of African peoples, even in present day contexts. The holistic worldview which embeds Ps 127:3-5, one that underlies many an African proverb, reveals the great store set by large families and the celebration of women’s role as mothers in both contexts. The main question that this article seeks to engage is: If read from an (African) South African context, which insights may emerge from Ps 127:3-5? https://doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2019/v32n2a9

Time and Space within Daoism's Holistic Worldview

The Dao De Jing offers a complete account of reality, running from an ultimate emptiness, which is called the Dao, to the multitude of everyday things. Central to the Daoist account is the YinYang dynamic, which can exist in a state of either harmony in which case the Dao is realized, or discord, in which case life is defined by a series of hardships. The seamless explanation encompasses consciousness, akin to the Dao, as well as cognition and form, both necessary for the experience of the Dao. This elucidation also intertwines time and space, which too have Yin and Yang characteristics and feature in the harmonious and discordant states. The Yin aspect of time and space manifests as the deep here and now, while the Yang aspect appears as the conventional past and future or near and far. When the central YinYang dynamic is in harmony, consciousness, cognition, and form converge in a state of effortless action. In this state of oneness, the here and now is realized and linear time and space are experienced as but for this deeper truth. In discord, on the other hand, consciousness, cognition, and form struggle among each other so that a person suffers unease and life becomes difficult. Time and space are experienced as a conflict between the need to be present and the need or desire to be some other place and time. The ideal state of harmony with time and space dilation has been well-documented and is characterized by modern positive psychology as the state of “flow.” The disruptive state of discord, on the other hand, is now often misconstrued as the basic human condition. As Daoism elucidates, the harmonious state of effortless action is key to all of life’s endeavors from racing a sports car to butchering an ox and can be cultivated by mindfulness practices like meditation, Tai-chi and Yoga.

Влияние современных информационных технологий на картину мира человека

The article reveals and summarizes various approaches to the study of the influence of modern information technologies on the worldview. The importance of addressing the study of a holistic worldview as an integral and dynamic psychological phenomenon is justified. Particular attention is paid to the concepts of computer metaphor, sociocultural pathology and clip thinking. Education approaches are analyzed in this context. The problem of methods for studying the worldview of an individual and group subject in virtual space is discussed: methods for working with big data, sentiment analysis of the text, corpus linguistics methods. Some of the possibilities of these methods are illustrated, their advantages and limitations are considered, their high potential in psychological research is emphasized. Methodological problems of studying the influence of modern information technologies on the worldview are formulated, in particular, the uncertainty of terms in the framework of the concept of clip thinking, the paucity of differential psychological studies and psychological methods.

Когнітивні засади освітніх стратегій

New Age connected education with science, which is understood as a rational project. Science of New Age is principally public. Connected with it the ideal of objective truth claims the rational description of scientific methods. Historical transformation of ideals and types of rationality changed also the educational strategies of New Age. Foundations of such strategies are the foundations of scientific cognition: ideals and norms of scientific research, scientific world picture and philosophical foundations of science. 
 Traditions are extremely strong in education, but critique of them and understanding, that education must be changed, proclaim themselves very soundly today, particularly in jubilee report by Club of Rome “Come on!” For members and supporters of Ukrainian Synergetic Society, the ideas, expressed in report of Club of Rome, are consonant to their synergetic imaginations about complex self-organizing world and to view on modern stage of development of science as on postnonclassical one. Methodological principles of postnonclassical science are contrast to reductionism, postnonclassical world picture is based on dialectic ideas of becoming and wholeness, postnonclassical type of rationality approves objectiveness of knowledge by taking into account the human values of researchers.
 Specificity of objects of postnonclassical science is brunching of nonlinear dynamics of self-organizing systems. It needs to elaborate in education process the certain cognitive orientations. Partially such orientations were formulated in methodological principles of nonlinear thinking, which orient to be ready for emergence of a new whole as a result o self-organization.
 Current nonlinear scientific world picture considers the processes of self-organization of all levels of world's structure organization as condition of its existence. Understanding of such processes requires the elaboration of evolutionistic holistic worldview. Of course, learning of modern nonlinear theories can't be the task of common education. It is important, that readiness to favorable reception of evolution and holistic ideas is elaborated in process of such education.