Religious Genres Research Articles

The Translation of English Proverbs into Albanian Language in the Religious Genre

Proverbs are short culturally-bound expressions that give practical advice or a moral based on real life experience; they constitute a source of folk wisdom. The translation of proverbs has long been recognized as a critical issue in the field of translation due to their cultural peculiarities and semantic properties. The meaning of a proverb cannot be understood by the individual words it is composed of. This study explores how proverbs are translated in the religious genre, from English to Albanian language. 100 proverbs have been selected from “KJV’S Holy Bible”’s chapter entitled “Proverbs” in order to collect data. The corpus of proverbs has been thoroughly analyzed; each of the proverbs has been individually analyzed in order to identify the translation strategy that has been employed. Mona Baker’s model of translation for idioms and fixed expressions is used as the theoretical framework of this research for the analysis of translation strategies. The study concluded that the majority of the proverbs are translated by using a proverb with a similar meaning but a different form. Nevertheless, a considerable number of proverbs have been translated by means of a proverb with a similar meaning and form. Additionally, the study demonstrates whether domesticating or foreignizing translation strategies are more suitable for the translation of the proverbs in question. The results of the study have concluded that domestication is a more suitable translation strategy for the proverbs of the religious genre. Received: 6 June 2024 / Accepted: 25 July 2024 / Published: 29 July 2024

Development of a Learning Module for Writing Short Stories in the Religious Genre for Elementary School Students

The purpose of this research is to find out the needs, develop, and find out the validity of the learning module for writing short stories in the religious genre that has been created. This product development research was carried out concerning the 4D development model, which consisted of four stages: defining, designing, developing, and and disseminating. The research was conducted on students in class IV of SDN 50 Bulu Datu. The instruments used in the study were teacher interviews, teacher questionnaires, student questionnaires, and comprehension tests for students. The data obtained from the agencies were analyzed qualitatively. The results obtained from the needs analysis showed that students liked colourful, pictorial teaching materials. The type of question you are interested in is in the form of multiple choice. Students also want to work on assignments in groups. The development is done by integrating the linguistics of short story material with Islamic religious knowledge, especially the story of the Prophet Muhammad. Product validation by three experts, namely language and material experts, religious content experts, and elementary school instructional design experts, obtained very valid results the module was feasible to use

Pesan Moral Dalam Film Merindu Cahaya De Amstel

Film is one of the mass media that has a function as a medium of information, education, persuasion, and also entertainment. Therefore, film can be used as a medium for conveying moral messages to the public through the scenes shown. The film Missing Cahaya de Amstel is a film with a religious genre with the theme of hijrah which contains many moral messages. This research is a qualitative research using a descriptive approach with semiotic theory. The data collection technique in this study was by means of observation, namely observing and watching every scene of the film Merindu Cahaya de Amstel carefully. Then do documentation in the form of taking pictures by taking screenshots of scenes that are considered to contain a moral message. The data analysis technique in this study uses semiotic analysis in every scene that contains elements of a moral message with the Ferdinand De Saussure Semiotics model. Based on the results of the analysis of the data obtained in this study, it shows that the signifiers and signifieds are found in the scenes in the film Merindu Cahaya de Amstel and contain elements of a moral message. The moral message contained in the film Missing Light de Amstel. First, tolerance with indicators of accepting differences, respecting others, respecting other people's beliefs and allowing or not forcing desires. Second, social care with indicators of mutual help and sympathy as well as empathy or tolerance

Analisis Penggunaan Bahasa pada Film Ayat-Ayat Cinta 1

The film Ayat-ayat Cinta is one of Indonesia's best-selling films with a religious genre that conveys messages of peace, love, and the meaning of friendship that upholds humanist values ​​and religious values. The film shows the use of heterogeneous language because it tells the life of an Indonesian student who is studying in Egypt. So this study aims to describe the form of code-switching and code-mixing contained in the film Ayat-Ayat Cinta 1. This study uses qualitative research methods. The data source of this research is the film Ayat-Ayat Cinta 1. The data collection uses the technique of listening to the narrative of the characters in the film and then analyzing using a descriptive method. The form of code-switching found in the film Ayat-Ayat Cinta 1 is the form of external code-switching which includes: code-switching from Indonesian to Arabic, and code-switching from Arabic to Indonesian. While the forms of code mixing found in this film are in the form of word insertion code-mixing, clause insertion code-mixing, and idiom insertion code-mixing. The factors causing code switching and code mixing in this film are caused by the speaker and the interlocutor, the situation, the background of the speaker, and the subject of the conversation.

Религиозный стиль как система жанров (Рец. на кн.: Ицкович Т. В. Жанровая система религиозного стиля [Текст] : монография / Т. В. Ицкович. – М. : ФЛИНТА, 2021. – 400 с.)

The review is a response to the publication of T. V. Itskovich’s monograph “Genre system of the religious style”. The author of the book presents an original view on the functional religious style as a system of genres and gives its multidimensional description. The relevance of the research is justified by the need for a comprehensive linguistic study of the religious style as part of the paradigm of functional varieties of the modern Russian literary language and the classification of genres of the religious style on a single basis. In the monograph, its author, basing on an integrated approach which combines communicative-pragmatic and categorical-textual aspects of the study of religious texts, taking into account the cultural-historical and textual genesis of religious genres, establishes the constructive principle of the religious style, gives a scientific description of the system of religious genres and its proto-genre basis, reveals the compositional-thematic and speech originality of religious genre types and their varieties as well as the core and periphery of the genre field of religious style. The study is based on the texts of the liturgical and non-liturgical spheres of Orthodox religious communication in Russian and Church Slavonic, selected by the author on the basis of the tradition of their use in the religious activities of the Church and the individual as well as the frequency of their use in modern religious communication.

Semiotics of Da’wah in the Sang Pencerah Film

The film always tells hidden realities with certain characters and symbols. The characters and symbols represent the story or the meaning that the audience will achieve. As an industry, film in Indonesia was dominated by the horror genre. However, in 2010, Ayat-Ayat Cinta film marked the success of the religious genre, especially those that tell historical figures in the Islamic world. The Sang Pencerah film, released in 2010, is a religious film directed by Hanung Bramantyo. It is based on the true story of the founder of Muhammadiyah, KH Ahmad Dahlan. Therefore, this film is a worthy research object to examine the representation of the da’wah methods in it. This study uses a qualitative research method by applying Charles Sanders Pierce's semiotic analysis, which focuses on signs, sign references and sign users. Data collection techniques in this study were carried out through documentation techniques by analyzing scenes and dialogues in scene footage in the film. The results of this study indicate that the method of da’wah in the Sang Pencerah refers to the Qur'an, especially Surah an-Nahl verse 125, which includes the bil hikmah, bil mau'idhah hasanah, and bil mujadalah methods. The dominant da’wah method in this film is the bil hikmah method.

Literature and Medicine 2000-2007.

Literature and Medicine 2000–2007 Maura Spiegel (bio) and Rita Charon (bio) Our co-editorial retrospect on Literature and Medicine from 2000 to 2007 exposes major conceptual and disciplinary breakthroughs that, at the time, were of course invisible. We can see now how significant a role L&M played in the emergence and development of the genre of illness narratives, which by 2022 has emerged as one of the towering developments not only in literature and medicine but in the humanities and the public discourse altogether. After publishing her 1993 authoritative Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography, Anne Hunsaker Hawkins became an L&M Associate Editor in 1996. Anne characterized what she termed "pathography" as survival stories or modern adventure stories and, perhaps more tellingly, as "cautionary parables," striking the parallel to conversion narratives in which life undergoes a total bouleversement to become something else entirely.1 As Guest Editor of our Spring 2002 Special Issue on "Literature, Medicine, and Children," Anne devoted a section to "Personal Narrative," written by several parents about their acutely or chronically ill or disabled children. In "Research Shows: A Narrative of Teaching and Learning," English professor Deborah Minter provided pages from her journal during her baby's treatment for an aggressive leukemia. She counterposed dramatic scenes from visits to the pediatric oncologist, support groups with other mothers of severely ill children, and classroom discussions in her ironically timed college seminar on "Stories and Human Experience." Throughout, the reader sees the narrator relying on her own intellectuality as a ploy to get one step removed from what she is actually going through. Her artist husband Dale contributes a series of photographic collages that juxtapose teddy bears with IV drips and a rocking horse with an intubated baby, with one unbearable shot of a doll's head enshrouded in a plastic bag. Literary scholars Joanne Trautmann Banks and Michael Bérubé, well known to L&M (Banks wrote the first essay in the first issue of [End Page 213] our journal in 1982), themselves had severely ill or neuroatypical children. Banks's son Piers suffered irreversible neurological damage as an infant from uncontrolled seizures. Bérubé's son Jamie was born with Down's Syndrome. The parents' comments widen the picture toward both the existential and the surreal, exposing the "comedy, tragedy, and higher comedy" (Jo's words) of parenting ill children while nailing the personal confrontations with embodiment and mortality that had been theirs every day.2 Jo narrates days in Piers's life in his residential school for developmentally challenged children and adults, in effect donating the protagonist position to the child. Darker, Michael's account probes the ironies and pathos in the family's situation with a physically healthy, rambunctious child whose thoughts and actions travel uncommon paths. Michael repeats the words "solace," "consolation," or "inconsolable" six times in his five-and-a-half page essay, "Life Stories: In Response to Deborah Minter." Consolation is sought by both the child and his parents. Disrupting this otherwise rather snarky representation of the endlessness of a family's situation with a child requiring above-average attention, the idea of consolation recalls Anne Hawkins's sense of pathography as a religious genre. What seemed at the time an odd pleat in the mood of Michael's essay became telling upon reading Michael Rowe's essay "Metamorphosis: Defending the Human" (Fall 2002), which indirectly takes up the notion of consolation. A Yale sociologist of poverty and urban health and author of Crossing the Border: Encounters between Homeless People and Outreach Workers (1999), Rowe seems particularly well qualified to write a personal essay about illness narratives. He lived through the long illness and death of his teen-aged son after a second failed liver transplant. Rowe paid me [Rita] a visit some time after the events recounted in his paper. This young father joined me in my office, exuding urgent, charged affect, sitting on the edge of his seat, leaning forward as if to extinguish the distance between us, asking without words, "Why did he die? Why is he gone? It cannot be that he is dead." Although the essay provides an elegant analysis of Kafka's "Metamorphosis," it...

A Cognitive-Pragmatic Analysis of Schematic Structure of Selected Husseini Sermons with Reference to Ahmed Al-Waeli’s Sermons

This research is concerned with the schematization of certain subschemata within the Husseini sermons as a religious genre that emphasizes good religious, social, and political attitudes. Based on Stockwell’s 2002 model of the schematic structure, several Al-Waeli’s sermons on the Husseini cause have been analyzed. The analysis has yielded several essential conclusions on the level of the cognitive conceptualization and the level of theme. Regarding the conceptualization, the employment of the objectives of the Husseini cause as a revolution against tyranny and persecution to address the public has triggered different scripts and frames within the major schemata of the Husseini discourse. As for the thematic conclusion, the Husseini discourse is a positive genre including good values and concepts that are adopted by Human rights such as freedom, love, peaceful coexistence, social equality, economic solutions, and other relevant issues. This research has a positive impact on humans’ cognitive behavior.

Identifying Causes of Pragma-linguistic Difficulties in Translating the Embedded Meanings of the Quranic Love Words into English: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Study

The current research paper aims at identifying the pragma-linguistic difficulties faced by the translators of the meaning of the Holy Qura’n whilst rendering the Quranic love words into English, specifically in the work of Mohammed. A. S. Abdel Haleem, Mohammed. M Pickthall and Mohammed Khan and Mohammed Taj Al-Din Al-Hilali. Also, the study aims to identify the translation strategies adopted by the three translators in renderings the Quranic love words into English. Also, the study intends to prospect how the three translators come to grips with pragma-linguistic difficulties in their renderings of the Quranic love words into English. Three examples of the Quranic love words were intendedly selected to tackle the research problems. The study revealed that translating the Quranic love words is even more difficult than translating love words in other genres because of the religious genre. Also, the study showed that translating the embedded meanings in the Quranic texts is not quite easy. This is because Qur'anic love words involve very ingenious differences in meaning that are difficult to understand.

The Social Spaces of Music Traditions in Baghdad before and after Destruction

The Social Spaces of Music Traditions in Baghdad before and after Destruction

Русскоязычная хутба в контексте современной лингвокультурной ситуации

A muslim sermon is a religious genre that attracts the attention of specialists in various fields of knowledge: theologians, religious scholars, historians, sociologists, political scientists, and linguists. Having emerged simultaneously with the emergence of Islam, the khutbah has come a long way and has retained its ritual side unchanged. In the 20th – 21st centuries in the Russian Empire, in the Soviet Union, and later in the Russian Federation, it adapted to local conditions and catered to the political and ethnocultural needs of the time, one of which was the question of the language of its presentation. The orientation towards the canonical Arabic language or the ethnic language of the majority of the parishioners was explained by the requirements to preserve the doctrine in its original purity, or by the need to bring believers to closer understanding of the pastoral word. Today, this issue still remains controversial due to the fact that the Russian language, which has acquired the status of the state language, displaces bilingualism from many spheres of life, and small peoples lose their national identity because of this. The strengthening of the role of the Russian language occurs also due to the fact that now it performs the function of the language of inter-confessional and intra-confessional communication. The state policy in the sphere of religion and the change in the social conditions of people’s life affected the expansion of the reasons for reading the khutbahs and the conditions for their conduct, which gave rise to certain genre transformations. In the context of the pandemic, not only the format of sermons (on-line khutbahs) has changed but also the level of creativity has increased, which is based on the collective activity of the imam-khatib and the team of his associates and students.

Lucy Hutchinson’s Guide to Domestic Catechesis

Abstract This essay proposes that we can better understand Lucy Hutchinson’s manuscript, ‘On the Principles of the Christian Religion’, by considering it in relation to ministerial guides to domestic catechesis. Guides to catechesis were a popular religious genre in sevententh-century England and were most often composed by ministers as part of their pastoral duties; they provided explanations of the Westminster Shorter Catechism and were designed for use within godly homes. ‘On the Principles’ resembles these ministerial guides both thematically and structurally. But Hutchinson elaborates and expands the genre to reflect her own concerns and experience as a catechizing mother, just as she adapts the epic genre in ‘Order and Disorder’. By composing a guide to domestic catechesis for her daughter, Hutchinson draws upon the authority accorded to mothers in domestic catechesis while emulating ministerial authority. Hutchinson’s adaptation of this ministerial genre reveals her views concerning the role of domestic catechesis within Christian community as well as her understanding of the relationship between women’s teaching and ministerial authority.

The Meaning of Da’wah in Rich Short Films Without Wealth

Da'wah is an activity to spread knowledge of Islam to all corners of the world. With the development of the times, it becomes a challenge for the da'i so that their da'wah can be enjoyed and disseminated more widely. In this digital era, visual media is the most effective tool used to spread da'wah. One of the media that is currently popular is YouTube. The ease of YouTube's popularity needs to be put to good use, such as creating and displaying educational content with Islamic elements, such as films of the religious genre. The researcher analyzed the da'wah contained in rich short films without religious genre treasures on the YouTube channel of Muslim filmmakers to find the meaning of denotation, connotation and myth in the film. The research method used is descriptive qualitative with Roland Barthes' semiotic approach. The type of research used is field research, researchers observe the object directly. The results of this study are that the meaning of denotation in this study is about the description of human life in facing various trials of life in family, neighbors and friends. The meaning of the connotations in the short film Kaya without treasure is that sincerity, gratitude and patience will make us calmer and accept what is. The meaning of the myth in the short film rich without wealth is that alms will make us more grateful for what Allah SWT has given us. The message of moral da'wah is more dominant in this film.

MYSTERY AS A META-GENRE IN THE DRAMA OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

The article examines the specificity of existence of the renewed mystery genre as a meta genre in the twentieth century. The main literary study views on the definition of ancient and medieval / Christian ritual mystery are analyzed. The beginning of the twentieth century was full of a general feeling of catastrophe and tragic hopelessness. In artistic terms, the consequence of this was the activation of Christian issues, motives, plots, religious genres (miracles, morality and mystery). The most universal from the point of view of the ideological message and content for the writers of the twentieth century. was the matrix of the medieval mystery, which retained the ritual basis in its primary structure. This made it possible for the multilevel organization of the action and the space for it.
 The genre of medieval mystery is being modified, it ceases to be a purely form of religious action and acquires the quality of a meta genre. There is a transition from the religious sphere to the secular one, and the aesthetic one is replacing the didactic load. Mystery begins to exist on the edge of genres as a synthetic formation, showing intentions to “help” other genres.
 A large number of dramatic works of the twentieth century. ("Forest Song" by Lesia Ukrainka, "Iconostasis of Ukraine" by Vіra Vovk) comes close to the mystery, using its archetypal components: the ideas of faith in the absolute beginning, governing the eternal rotation of life and death, world order and harmony, death and rebirth, transformations of the human soul, chosenness and initiation associated with trials, sacrifice, deepening into mysticism. Such works are a certain imitation with elements of mythological or religious subjects. So, the twentieth century, actualizes a certain involvement of the semantic content of dramas to the mysteries, bringing the mystery to the level of the meta genre.

Translation of Islamic Arabic Poetry: A Two-Stance Methodological Framework

This study investigates whether it is possible to translate Islamic Arabic poetry, as a universal literary religious genre, into English to a high level of quality. A global-local translation framework (Halimah, 2020) is applied to the translation of Imam Ashshafi’ee’s[i] poem “الرضا بقضاء الله”/ “Accepting Fate with Pleasure” into English, where a methodological collaboration between a bilingual translator and an English poet manifests a two-stance methodological framework. The results, along with the qualitative and quantitative analysis of poetic extracts used in this paper, indicate that this framework has resulted in improving the quality of Islamic Arabic poetry translation. The translated materials proved to be ‘novel and appropriate’, achieving a very high 90% of approximation of the original text against ACNCS criteria. This framework can also be applied by translators of other literary and non-literary texts to bring more structure and clarity to the discipline of translation.[i]Muhammad bin Idrees Ashshafi’ee (DoB:150H/767A.D died in 204H/820A.D.) The founder of the Sunni School of Law مذهب الشافعية

Don Quixote and Saint John of the Cross’s Spiritual Chivalry

Despite its ludic appearance, “The adventure Don Quixote had with a dead body” (part I, chapter XIX) is one of the most complex pieces of Cervantes’ famous novel. In the midst of a dark night, the Manchegan knight errant confronts an otherwordly procession of robed men carrying torches who transport a dead “knight” on a bier. Don Quixote attacks them to “avenge” the mysterious dead man, discovering they were priests secretly taking the body from Baeza to Segovia. He wants to see face to face the relic of the dead body, but humbly turns his back, avoiding the “close encounter”. Curiously enough, his easy victory renders him sad. Cervantes is alluding to the secret transfer of St. John of the Cross’ body from Úbeda to Segovia, claimed by the devoted widow Doña Ana de Peñalosa. However, Cervantes is also establishing a surprising dialogue with St. John’s symbolic “dark night”, in which he fights as a brave mystical knight. Concurrently, he is quoting the books of chivalry‘s funeral processions and the curiosity of the occasional knight who wants to glance at the dead body. Furthermore, we see how extremely conversant the novelist is with the religious genre of spiritual chivalry, strongly opposed to the loose fantasy of the books of chivalry. Unable to look at St. John’s relic, an authentic knight of the heavenly militia, Don Quixote seems to silently acknowledge that there are higher chivalries than his own that he will never reach. No wonder he ends the adventure with a sad countenance, gaining a new identity as the “Caballero de la Triste Figura”.

The genre of prayer: classification criteria

The religious functional style is currently being actively studied not only in theology, but also in philology. On the one hand, this fact is substantiated by the change in the sociopolitical situation in Russia, while on the other –by the need for scientific comprehension and description of the experience of religious communication implemented in particular genres. Prayer is one of the genres of religious functional style, which are referred to as basic or representative. Both in literary studies and linguistics, prayer is viewed from the perspective of different approaches; therefore, the researchers offer various classifications for the genre of prayer. The subject of this research is a prayer as the religious genre. Analysis is conducted on the existing classifications of prayer based on the material of Christian prayers, and generalizes them for the purpose of deriving general classification and its further application to the corpus of prayer texts created within the framework of the New Apostolic teaching. As a result of the conducted research, the author provides a summary table, which indicates seven criteria for the classification of prayers: position of the addressee (type and number of addressees); type of addressee; method or form of saying the prayer; formal-substantive rigidity of the text; leading intention / content / key function of the prayer and their number; place of creating the text; time of creating the text. The article also presents an example of application the summary theoretical data to particular material—a corpus of 220 prayers created by New Apostolic parishioners, and records of the prayerful life of the Christians from the catechesis of the New Apostolic Church.

Category of composition in the prayer text

In linguistics at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries, the religious functional style is actively studied, which became possible as a result of changes in the socio-political situation in Russia. The subject of the study is the language of religious communication, individual religious genres, and the style system. The purpose of this work is to describe the compositional structure of previously unexplored prayers and to develop a basis for their classification. The subject of the study is the compositional structure of prayer as a genre of religious style. The research material was 120 texts of prayers of New Apostolic Christians created in a non-liturgical situation of communication. The specifics of creating prayers in this religious community is that the texts are created anew each time, while the canonical prayer "Our Father" is a model, which corresponds to the constructive principle of religious style — proto-textuality. By the method of categorical-textual analysis, it was found that each of the created prayers has a compositional structure containing in the main part from one to three compositional blocks correlated with the three main intentions of prayer — request, gratitude, praise. The study proposes to classify prayers based on the number of intentions included in the text and identifies mono-, bi- and polyintentional compositional structures of prayer texts. During the analysis of the texts, it was found that the main compositional structure found in the texts of the New Apostolic Christians is a biintentional structure containing the intentions of gratitude and requests in a strictly fixed sequence. The results of the work can be applied for further research of prayer texts in both liturgical and non-liturgical situations of communication.

Review Essay: “Free Radical: Music, Violence and Radicalism”

Review Essay: “Free Radical: Music, Violence and Radicalism”

Metadiscourse Resources across Themes of Islamic Friday Sermon

Friday sermon is a formal speech delivered during the act of worship by the Muslims held before Friday prayer. It is a weekly event that involves disseminating information as well as persuading the congregation through preaching and teaching. In Friday sermons, as a rhetorical religious genre, religious orators usually try to convince an audience using different strategies and language devices such as metadiscourse. Metadiscourse is a rhetorical strategy used to achieve persuasive and communicative purposes as it helps writers (speakers) to engage their audience and guide their understanding of a text. To get insights into how metadiscursive devices contribute to the theme of a sermon, the current study aimed to examine the distribution of rhetorical devices frequency in three themes (belief, practice, and spiritual) of Islamic Friday Sermon (IFS) delivered in English. To achieve the aim of this study, Hyland’s (2005) interpersonal model of metadiscourse was adapted to analyse metadiscourse devices that were deployed in thirty sermons (10 per theme) delivered between 2012 and 2018. The findings reveal the dominant presence of metadiscourse in the sermons of practice/action theme. This indicates the vital role of metadiscourse features in the nature of sermons as a teaching method. Revealing the status of MD rhetorical devises in three different themes can help raise awareness among orators on the appropriate use of MDMs to support the theme of a sermon and make their speeches meaningful, coherent and persuasive.