Narrative Interpretation Research Articles

Berobat Kampung: Religion and Traditional Knowledge of Seeking Recovery in Borneo

This article explores the variants of tradition in seeking recovery within a group of religious community in the upstream Kapuas in Borneo island. It is presented using indigenous psychology, narrative analysis and psycho-anthropology. The data were collected using the techniques of in-depth interviews, psycho-anthropological observations, narrative interpretation and documentation. This work finds that the use of Quranic verses and dhikr as well as religious symbols are are very prominent. The people of the upstream Kapuas river interpret and leave a legacy for traditional healing, beginning with an "agreement", reciting a prayer, enhancing, testing to form and hardening. Passing occurs in a closed, difficult and secret process. The preservation of traditional healing is due to very important facts; that it is low cost, being located far from modern health facilities and short time between risk of death and health resources. In addition, the traditional healers are always ready, providing fast treatment, guaranteed recovery from certain types of diseases. This article suggests that the Sufistic-style traditional healing is profound within the tradition.

Opresja i sztuka myślenia

Zygmunt Bauman was unquestionably one of the most popular contemporary thinkers. His writings provoked not only worldwide acclaim but also severe criticism, while the complexities of his personal life gave rise to international controversies. On the basis of three recently published biographies of Bauman, as well as a personal acquaintance and scholarly cooperation, in this paper I attempt to explain the sources of his astounding popularity, but also try to dispel mysteries and controversies surrounding his difficult carrier, especially those pertaining to the critical assessments of the scholarly quality of his work. I argue that having been released from academic duties, gradually and ever more boldly he abandoned the regime of scientific explanatory poetics in favour of an interpretative narrative of the social world, helping himself to the results of science, but also to idiosyncratically read works of poetry and fiction. Flouting academic orthodoxies, Bauman developed a unique art of transforming scientific knowledge into wisdom, and transformed himself from a scientist into a sage.

Spiritual Experiences of Portuguese Women Who had a Water Birth.

This study aimed to understand the significance of spirituality to Portuguese women who had a water birth. In-depth interviews, using a semi-structured questionnaire, were conducted with 24 women who experienced water birth at the hospital or home. Results were analyzed from a narrative interpretation perspective. Three spirituality-related categories emerged: (1) Beliefs and connections with the body; (2) Spirituality: integration of being a woman and transformation during birth; and (3) Spirituality as wisdom, intuition, or the sixth sense. Spirituality was perceived in women's faith and beliefs in a superior being that helped them manage the unpredictability and uncontrollability of giving birth.

Prejudice and need for relatedness expressed in the narratives of Finnish Roma early school leavers: A multi-case study

School discontinuation in Finland is more common among the Finnish Roma than among the population as a whole. We lack knowledge of the perspective of those of the Roma, representing a minority inside a minority, who have left compulsory school without a leaving certificate. Within a study about school experiences of imprisoned early school leavers in Finland we had six participants with a Finnish Roma background, whose experiences of relatedness, and frustration of it, we examine in this paper. We conducted narrative interviews with the participants, applying a co-operative narrative interpretation to the meanings of what was told. After the field process, we interpreted the narrative accounts focusing on experiences of relatedness, and how relationships with people in the school environment affected the participants’ sense of belonging together with the people in the school environment. Frustration of relatedness was identified at three levels. Firstly, at a general, life condition level, cultural prejudice manifested itself as a sense of not being accepted and respected as an equal with other people, the situation creating a constant need to cope with outspoken prejudices. Secondly, at a contextual-specific level in the school environment, we identified experiences of being rejected by peers and their parents, as well as some of the teachers. This was linked with a sense of loneliness and detachment from other people in the school environment. Thirdly, at a situational level, the participants described both positive relationships, such as momentary friendships, and negative experiences of being excluded from the peer group. Pathways for further inquiries are discussed.

Understanding Nuance and Ambivalence in Intergenerational Relationships Through Fiction.

The term "intergenerational relationships" is widely used in gerontological literature and age-related policies. However, discussions of the term often tell us surprisingly little about what it means or why it matters. We suggest that this is due to a reductivism and instrumentalism in 2 main discourses within which intergenerational relationships are usually discussed. First, intergenerational relationships are often conceptualized through a binary "conflict/solidarity" lens, reinforcing an entrenched "generationalism". Second, they are predominantly constructed as a problem to be addressed within debates on how to tackle intergenerational segregation. Neither of these discourses provides much room for a more nuanced understanding of how intergenerational relationships are experienced or why they are meaningful. In this paper, we discuss how fictional narratives can introduce imagination and a richer vocabulary into discourses concerning how people of different ages relate to each other. We present findings from reading groups where adults discussed novels depicting themes of older age, intergenerational relationships, and time. In discussing the fictional narratives and characters, participants reflected on the significance and meaning of intergenerational relationships in ways that went beyond dichotomous and instrumentalist discourses. Drawing on the concept of lived ambivalence, we argue that fictional representations of intergenerational themes can elicit more meaningful reflections on the complexities and contradictions of relationships across age groups. We conclude that a more nuanced understanding of intergenerational interaction can inform gerontological discourses and policy, but also that gerontological awareness of social challenges concerning age relations can inform interpretations of fictional narratives.

Understanding the moral of the story: Collaborative interpretation of visual narratives

Fostering moral thinking and cultural literacy are major contemporary concerns in Europe and beyond, as means for young people to co-create social futures. We present a theoretical-methodological approach to understanding students' moral thinking in the context of collaborative interpretation of visual narratives (“wordless texts”) with ethical implications. Six layers of interpretation are defined, from referential reconstruction of characters' intentions, through semiotic symbolism, to making the moral of the story explicit in terms of conceptualisations of three key European values (empathy, inclusion and tolerance). Within a case-study approach to analysing computer-mediated dialogues, we show the extent to which students are led to discuss and understand ethical implications of a particular narrative, and how this relates to the quality of collaboration.

Vision and Voice: Revelatory Experience in the Formation of Christian Identity by Mark D. Batluck

Reviewed by: Vision and Voice: Revelatory Experience in the Formation of Christian Identity by Mark D. Batluck Olegs Andrejevs mark d. batluck, Vision and Voice: Revelatory Experience in the Formation of Christian Identity (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2021). Pp. x + 176. £60/$85. In this insightful monograph, Mark Batluck analyzes the narrative role of the accounts of revelatory experiences in the four canonical Gospels. His objective is to encourage "readers to enter into the experience of early believers" (p. 143). In B.'s view, revelatory events in the Gospels "portray a dialectical process or exchange" whereby Jesus's followers "are prompted to reconcile or 'negotiate' their experience of Jesus with their tradition" (p. 2). The book is divided into eight chapters. In the Introduction, B. discusses the key terms and his methodology. Revelatory events are defined as "Gospel experiences that a character deems 'special' as a communication from heaven" (p. 3). The author explains his intention to analyze each of the Gospels separately. The reader may also wish to consult here the Conclusion, where B. notes that his work "is strictly a narrative project" and that he is not "drawing historical conclusions" (p. 141). Back in the Introduction, n. 21 (p. 7) states that the author assumes the priority of Mark but does not differentiate further between the Synoptic theories based on Marcan priority. The limiting of the discussion to narrative criticism enables the investigation to proceed in the canonical order. In the second chapter, B. provides a Forschungsbericht of religious experience in NT research from 1888 to the present. He identifies three streams of research: (1) phenomenological approaches; (2) religious experience as an effect of the Holy Spirit; and (3) religious experience as a historical factor in the formation of the earliest Christian communities. Each of these approaches receives its own subsection. B. concludes by highlighting how these streams of research converge in his book, specifically in the application of social memory theory (p. 22). Chapters 3–6 are each dedicated to one of the canonical Gospels. The frequently overlapping revelatory accounts help structure the analysis. The chapters mostly focus on the same events: infancy stories (Matthew and Luke); baptism and temptation (Matthew, [End Page 350] Mark, Luke); transfiguration (Matthew, Mark, Luke); crucifixion and resurrection (Matthew, Mark, Luke). The chapter on John's Gospel then discusses the Baptist's report of the Spirit's descent (John 1:32–34); the voice from heaven that confuses witnesses (John 12:27–40); and the Spirit of peace commissioning the disciples at the resurrection (John 20:1–21:25). Each of these events forms a subsection in its chapter. Each chapter receives its own separate conclusion. Because of the focus on the aforementioned Gospel accounts, this book will be of interest to anyone doing research on these pericopes. B. does not hesitate to state his opinion on a number of perennial topics and to engage the existing views. One may especially mention here the engagement with L. A. Huizenga's hypothesis of an Isaac typology in Matthew (The New Isaac: Tradition and Intertextuality in the Gospel of Matthew [NovTSup 131; Leiden: Brill, 2012]) (pp. 40–45) and the discussion of the various elements of the Marcan crucifixion scene (pp. 74–80). In chap. 7, B. seeks to synthesize the separate Gospel accounts, summarizing the divergence and convergence among the four Gospels. He highlights nine ways in which he finds the Synoptic Gospels and John converging in their depiction of revelatory events (pp. 133–36). Finally, in chap. 8 (Conclusion), B. offers several sets of implications of his work: (1) for research on social identity and worship in early Christianity; (2) for research on orality and textuality; (3) for narrative interpretations of devotion to Jesus in the Gospels; and (4) for the relationship between early Christian revelatory experience and the crucifixion and resurrection. I list here some of the notable implications. According to B., the revelatory experiences analyzed here in written form "become paradigmatic for the way first century Christian readers understand Jesus" (p. 138). "From a literary-critical standpoint," the Gospels "do not appear to be unfinished 'notes'" (p. 140, in disagreement with Matthew Larsen—especially with regard to Mark's Gospel). "[T...

Understanding the future and evolution of agri-food systems: A combination of qualitative scenarios with agent-based modelling

The agri-food system is a vital and complex social-ecological system characterized by interactions between humans and the environment. For such systems, qualitative scenarios (QS) can generate pictures of possible futures, which combined with quantitative modelling allow identifying pathways towards improved resilience and exploring system uncertainties. However, the interpretation of qualitative narratives into quantitative simulation parameters remains challenging due to system complexity. In this study, we translate QS into quantitative agent-based model (ABM) parameters and estimate the likelihood of each scenario in the evolved agri-food system in response to individual actions. We implement a five-step approach consisting of: i) the generation of the QS, ii) the parameterization of the ABM iii) the translation of scenario assumptions into ABM parameters, iv) the validation of our results via an expert workshop, v) the assessment of the scenarios in the evolved system. The results of an illustrative example reveal that, with the implementation of cropping diversification, the system will evolve to a combination of scenario 1, 2, 3 and 4 at probabilities of 9 %, 35 %, 30 % and 26 %, respectively, which change under different management options. Overall, we conclude that QS-ABM combination is a promising approach to provide robust quantitative projections of the agri-food system future.

Interpretive Narratives Related to Hajj in Surat Al-Baqara from Verse 196 to Verse 198 in Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - Study and Analysis -


 
 
 
 This research aims to state hadiths on the condition of the two sheikhs or on the condition of one of them or authentic only, not on the condition of one of them, and none of the two sheikhs produced them in their authenticity, and to study their wedge and find out what is acceptable and what is rejected from them, in order to present a verified scientific material in a single reference that makes it easier for researchers to return to it and citing it, For that reason, I entitled my research entitled my research (the interpretive narratives related to Hajj in Surat Al-Baqarah from verse 196 to verse 198 in Al-Mustadrak on Al-Sahihain _study and analysis).
 
 
 

Drawing Disney: Analyzing Artistic Reinterpretations of Disney Deaths.

Disney's notably traumatic character deaths have been the focus of several academic studies that identify the potential harm of witnessing animated deaths during childhood; however, these studies have almost exclusively examined death images within film without looking to images that exist external to the media texts themselves. This paper addresses such limitations by uniquely examining how audiences use/produce images to offer reinterpretations of popular death scenes in Disney films. The components of user-generated images, descriptions, and comments on deviantart.com indicate that audiences utilize creative expression to communicate the traumatic experience of viewing character deaths during childhood, change elements that are frustratingly inaccurate, and re-write narratives to challenge assumptions of sympathy. Such an analysis considers what these artistic expressions might suggest about the decoding of animated death by consumers and encourages new ways of thinking about the consumption and interpretation of death narratives.

The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773–1783

Joseph J. Ellis has sold many books by telling rousing stories of the American Revolution that break little new historical ground. The Cause is yet another. The stories are well told, but they are the standard fare: the writing of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington's disastrous defense of New York in 1776, the winter at Valley Forge, the post-Saratoga stalemate, Britain's southern campaign. Ellis's fans will find plenty of eerie familiarity with his prior books. In fact, the first half of The Cause is basically a recycled version of Ellis's 2013 book, Revolutionary Summer, with most of the same quotes and anecdotes, told nearly word for word in some passages. What is new (at least for an Ellis book) are the odd, little two-to-three-page “profiles” at the end of each chapter that address groups Ellis all but ignores in the main text: women, enslaved people, Indians. This treatment reflects Ellis's view that full integration of these subjects represents “politically correct isometric exercises” (p. xvi). So, Ellis offers only terse, sterile minibiographies that call to mind social studies textbooks of the 1970s with their little blue boxes that segregated women and nonwhites from the central interpretive narrative.

Diskursus Kritik Naratif Sebagai Metode Hermeneutis Biblis Menurut Kajian Teolog Biblika

This article describes narrative criticism as a Scripture hermeneutical method according to a literature review as a result of research by several Biblical theologians. As for the substance of the biblical literature and the theologians' perceptions reviewed, the researchers selected randomly. This study uses a qualitative method built by a literature study that is in sync with the research problem. The final result of this study shows how theologians express their perception of narrative criticism as a method of biblical interpretation that emphasizes the historical story of God's salvation. The final results also show that with various perceptions, all theologians recognize the benefits of narrative interpretation of the Bible as an important part of explaining God's initiative in revealing Himself and communicating with humans. Researchers also point to a variety of strengths and weaknesses in the theologians' perceptions of the research problem. This will provide opportunities and possibilities for further research in this field, both scientifically and practically.

Looking for the infant voice. How depth hermeneutics (scenic-narrative microanalysis) contributes to an understanding of how a child participates from the beginning of life

ABSTRACT The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) gives the right to participate and be heard in situations that affect their lives to all children, even pre-verbal children and infants. Even so, infants are often denied the right to participate because they don’t possess verbal language. But the last 50 years of infant research has shown how infants powerfully communicate their intentions in quite refined ways. The crux of the matter is to develop methods to find the voice of pre-verbal children, that is: to register their impact on us and decode their influence into common language and practical action. A research project building on intersubjectivity and qualitative methodology grounded in a depth-hermeneutical interpretation of narratives made by parents before and after birth of their first child is outlined. We describe the epistemological foundation and the procedures of the research project from data collection to interpretation.

Свет и цвет в библейском богословии

Visualisation of verbal languaging, both speech and written texts, goes back to the very dawn of culture and might well be traced back to ancient texts including the Bible. It is well known that fundamental biblical imagery together with related concepts form the basis of European art, culture, and mentality. The very possibility to visualise words draws on the met-aphorical dimension of language and enriches our understanding of both speech and texts. Imagery has its place in biblical exegesis; without it our interpretation of biblical narratives and poetry would be incomplete or even inadequate. This article explores some instruments of figurative expression of theological concepts in the Bible, namely, how lightand colourin the biblical narrative help to visualise the image of God. Contextual analysis shows that the notion of ‘light’in the Bible is almost always associated with divinity. Being God’s first creation, lightin the Bible becomes an important sign of His immanence in the world. Time and again God’s presence is marked with luminous or fiery objects. The word̓ôr (‘light’in Hebrew) is used as an attribute, epithet or even the very name of God.

Book Illustration and The Deserted Village

Book illustration is enjoying new interest. The Deserted Village attracted illustrators from the beginning. By the mid-nineteenth century, images of its rustic characters appeared regularly alongside the verse. During the final decades of the eighteenth century, three graphic artists reimagined Goldsmith's narrative as tragedy. Their transformations show the need for a term to describe the full interplay of verbal narrative and visual interpretation: the imagetext. James Gillray, John Keyse Sherwin, and Francis Wheatley each represent two characters from the poem, the bashful virgin and the dutiful daughter, as a single tragic heroine. In two pairs of freestanding prints, Gillray and Sherwin recast the then-and-now structure of the poem as a drama of displacement. These prints are imagetexts in a dual sense. They reflect a printing practice dating back to the sixteenth century of showing a text and an image in tandem, and they place the image in an independent collaborative relation. In a third print and then in related book illustrations, Francis Wheatley depicts the daughter as the prime victim of the trade in luxury. Like Sherwin, he represents an abandoned maiden as an allegorical figure of the land, following Charles Le Brun's decrees regarding how the passions should be depicted. These visual narratives reflect the academic theory of the sister arts as filtered through the lens of sensibility and indicate social commitments largely lost in the nineteenth-century illustration of the poem.

From Landscapes to Projection Drama

From Landscapes to Projection Drama

The Witch in Flight

The Witch in Flight

The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur’an: Scripture, Polemic, and Exegesis from Late Antiquity to Islam. By Michael E. Pregill

This book examines the Golden Calf episode and its interpretation from ancient Israel to the emergence of Islam as a case study for re-evaluating the relationship between Bible and Qur’an. It includes an introduction, a methodological chapter, three sections including seven more chapters, and a conclusion. The introduction defines the Qur’an as part of the biblical tradition of the late first millennium CE, having emerged through active and conscious processes of early Islamic identity-building, and presenting its audience with new interpretations of biblical narratives. The proposed methodology is, therefore, a critical historical analysis of the qur’anic calf episode through the history of its interpretation and reinterpretation by Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the longue durée. Chapter 1 depicts the historical and methodological framework. While illustrating the story’s polemical importance for Christians and Muslims as a means of justifying their self-presentation as true Israel, it also highlights the differences between the calf narrations in the Qur’an (Q 2:51–54, 7:148–153, 20:82–97) and in the Bible (Exod. 32, Deut. 9, Ps. 106). Pregill considers the qur’anic calf narrative as corresponding directly with the biblical text; he rejects the scholarly view that the Qur’an mainly reflects midrashic re-narrations of the Bible. Moreover, he considers the Qur’an and Islamic literature as legitimate participants in the biblical tradition. However, the emphasis on the textual fluidity of the Bible and rabbinic tradition during the emergence of the Qur’an (28–29) is questioned by the book’s apparent perception of the millennium-long exegetical tradition being examined as relating to a rather stable version of Exodus 32, similar to the Masoretic text (324–25).

Shame in the Clash of Two “Normals”: The Case of Covid-19 in Tasmania

This paper deals with the general question of what a segment of sociocultural reality in the capital of Tasmania looked like over the time span from the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in China up to Australia's lockdown in mid-March 2020, or more specifically, what took place in direct, daily contacts between people, in the meeting or clash of coexisting incongruous behavioral norms – the “old” (habitual up until then) and the “new” (modified due to the crisis) patterns of interpersonal behavior. In this period of health and social crises, which is here termed liminal, shame was generated. It arose as an emotional reaction to the discrepancy between the thinking, feeling and behavior of interviewees and the thinking, feeling and behavior of members of their social environment, a discrepancy that became apparent in the course of their mutual interactions and whose object was a different emotion – fear. The fieldwork was conducted in mid-2020 in Hobart, in the form of semi-structured interviews with several immigrants from the states of the former Yugoslavia. As it was aimed at studying their fear, and only in second place their feeling of shame, in this paper I have limited myself to a narrative interpretation of the origins and object of shame, with the intention of, on the one hand, highlighting the principal factors in the construction of shame and, on the other, examining what it was in connection with fear that aroused shame in the given context. It was noted that, among other things, shame was culturally generated in the given interactions which occurred within secondary relationships and specific environmental contexts and, still more broadly, as part of the crisis caused by the general spread of the virus, and that, as the object of shame, fear emerged as an inappropriate emotion, initially in the sense of the disproportion between the intensity of fear and its object (i.e. the threat posed by the virus).

Biographical Study with Hermeneutic Approach in Psychiatric Care Delivered at Community Mental Health Centers

When the literature studies on the services provided in community mental health centers (CMHCs) are carefully evaluated, it is seen that there are research results with positive feedback. On the other hand, a structured daily work standard has not yet been reached regarding the psychiatric care services provided in the increasing number of centers. In order to establish such a standardized work, there is a need for nurses to carry different approaches to the services they provide to sick individuals to their practice areas. Biography study, which can be defined in general terms as the use of the possibilities available to the individual in the process of coping with the events affecting his/her life, is compatible with the need for the formation of community mental health centers and the understanding of multidisciplinary work as such an application area. In this article, the introduction of biography work, its transfer to psychiatric care practice services in CMHC and the interpretation of the individual's life story narrative with a hermeneutic approach are discussed.