I 2023 kom boken Religionshermeneutikk. Forståing i ei polarisert tid av Øystein Brekke. Denne ambisiøse essayboka på vel 350 sider ble umiddelbart en viktig bok å lese og diskutere i fagmiljøene som forholder seg til religion og livssyn i utdanningsfeltet. Året etter ble boken utgangspunkt for en helt ny sjanger på Norsk religionspedagogisk forskerforums (NoReFo) årlige konferanse: Forfatter møter kritikere, en paneldebatt med tre inviterte kritikere i møte med forfatteren, før tilhørerne i salen fikk anledning til å komme med sine spørsmål og kommentarer. Debatten sparket i gang hele konferansen, og skapte stor entusiasme. Den ble også tatt opp, og nå er opptaket transkribert og publisert her, i en egen temaseksjon av dette Prismet-nummeret. Slik kan både de som ikke kunne være til stede på NoReFo-konferansen og de som ikke husker alt som ble sagt, lese både kritikernes innspill, kommentarene fra salen og Øystein Brekkes svar.
This study aims to explore the efforts of school superintendents in managing the changes caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has led to a decline in the quality of process standards in schools, and to measure the results. Examining the issue of declining the quality of process standard by using change management strategy has not been conducted in earlier studies. This research used a qualitative approach with a phenomenological type. This research took place at elementary school in Ponorogo. The informants in this research consisted of school superintendents who are members of Ponorogo Branch of the Indonesian School Supervisors Association (APSI) as well as principals of elementary schools in Ponorogo. The results of this research revealed that: first, school supervisors have managed the changes that occur in their target schools through ADKAR steps combined with technology, namely: awareness, desire, knowledge, ability and reinforcement which are supported by using information technology. Second, the success of change management in improving the quality of process standards could be divided into three points, namely improvement, stagnation and decline.
By implementing a full non-linear treatment of $f(R)$ gravity in static and spherically symmetric spacetimes, we analyze two scenarios. The first one within the context of the solar-system tests where we try to recover the chameleon effects without any approximations in the equations (e.g. linearization) from $f(R)$ models that are compatible with cosmology. The second scenario deals with a quadratic $f(R)$ model that is tested in neutron stars. This scenario, which is associated with strong gravity, is completely independent from the first one, but exploits the fact that the equations and formalism are basically the same in both applications. The difference between the two goals lies mainly in the values of the constants involved in the specific $f(R)$ models and the equation of state (EOS) of the central object (Sun or neutron star), but the numerical techniques and the general form of the field equations remain valid in both situations. For the neutron star problem we employ for the first time and in the context of $f(R)$ gravity a multiple algebraic polytropic EOS that mimics accurately realistic EOS in several density ranges. By doing so we avoid the numerical interpolation needed when a realistic EOS is given in tabulated form. Furthermore, we compare our results with the latest data, which includes the most massive neutron star known to date of about $2.35 M_\odot$ from PSRJ0952-0607.
We give the first general construction of solutions of the static spherically symmetric Einstein-Euler equations, the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV-)equation, with prescribed density functions allowed to be discontinuous and non-uniform; these solutions describe stellar phase transitions in General Relativity. Boundedness of the resulting pressure functions solving the TOV-equations, from the boundary down to the stellar center, is obtained by identifying a novel condition on the prescribed density, in generalization of the classical Buchdahl limit. Moreover, we introduce a new necessary condition for the existence of such bounded pressure functions, which in the special case of a uniform density state reduces to the classical Buchdahl limit on the stellar mass-radius relationship. We present various examples to study the stellar mass-radius relationships resulting from our new conditions.
Leni Pitriani, Mega Hadistia, Achmad Muharam Basyari
This article aims to explore strategies for integrating general and religious knowledge within Islamic education as an approach to building a holistic educational system aligned with the demands of the multidisciplinary era. Using a descriptive qualitative method through literature review, this study analyzes integrative practices in Islamic educational institutions, the strategic role of teachers, as well as the challenges and opportunities for strengthening integration. The findings indicate that integration models are implemented through unified curricula, thematic learning, and value-based project assignments that combine scientific and spiritual approaches. Teachers act as key agents who not only deliver subject content but also embody values through interdisciplinary teaching. Despite facing challenges such as dichotomous paradigms, limited teacher competencies, and the scarcity of integrative teaching materials, integration can be strengthened through teacher training, curriculum reform, institutional policies, and collaboration among stakeholders. Through this approach, Islamic education can cultivate insan kamil individuals who are intellectually excellent, spiritually grounded, and globally competitive.
Selon Paul Ricœur, « l’anthropologie est devenue une tâche urgente de la pensée contemporaine ». Celle qu’il élabore dans l’ensemble de son œuvre repose sur sa phénoménologie herméneutique (dont l’originalité tient notamment à l’héritage qui lui vient de la philosophie réflexive), au point que cette dernière suffit selon nous à en dessiner les grandes lignes. Elle permet de doter le monde de régularités qui le rendent habitable et de doter chaque homme d’un soi. Elle prend aussi à bras le corps les difficultés de l’intersubjectivité qu’Edmund Husserl ou Martin Heidegger avaient laissé non résolues et fait de cette intersubjectivité une clef de sa philosophie. L’homme est alors plus qu’un habitant du monde : il habite une cité qu’il contribue à édifier. Le thème du « nouveau » permet de consolider l’une des leçons que l’on peut tirer de l’œuvre de Ricœur : pour vivre ensemble, il faut vivre. L’anthropologie ricœurienne ne réclame alors aucune éthique ajoutée pour que cet élan vitaliste apparaisse via sa phénoménologie herméneutique.
Motivated by the current research of generalized symmetries and the construction of conserved charges in pure Einstein gravity linearized over Minkowski spacetime in Cartesian coordinates, we investigate, from a purely classical point of view, the construction of these charges in a coordinate- and frame-independent language in order to generalize them further. We show that all the charges constructed in that context are associated to the conformal Killing-Yano 2-forms of Minkowski spacetime. Furthermore, we prove that those associated to closed conformal Killing-Yano 2-forms are identical to the charges constructed by Kastor and Traschen for their dual Killing-Yano (d-2)-forms. We discuss the number of independent and non-trivial gravitational charges that can be constructed in this way.
Este artigo pretende discutir os elementos díspares que se combinam para a caracterização de Medeia nas Argonáuticas de Apolônio de Rodes como uma virgem ingênua e uma feiticeira assassina. A harmonização desses elementos possibilita reconhecer em Medeia a principal aliada dos argonautas a partir do livro 3. Num contexto de discussão sobre o conceito de heroísmo e a atribuição da liderança da nau Argo ao ἄριστος, caberá a Jasão, por conta de sua postura diplomática adequada a esse poema épico, distinguir as especificidades e os campos de atuação de cada herói de modo a alcançar o êxito coletivo da missão. Medeia, portanto, integrará a expedição por conta de sua dupla caracterização: por ter sido seduzida por Jasão e, ao mesmo tempo, por ser a única capaz de possibilitar, através de seus ἄεθλα, o cumprimento dos φάρμακα designados por Eeta.
We investigate the variational principle for the gravitational field in the presence of thin shells of completely unconstrained signature (generic shells). Such variational formulations have been given before for shells of timelike and null signatures separately, but so far no unified treatment exists. We identify the shell equation as the natural boundary condition associated with a broken extremal problem along a hypersurface where the metric tensor is allowed to be nondifferentiable. Since the second order nature of the Einstein-Hilbert action makes the boundary value problem associated with the variational formulation ill-defined, regularization schemes need to be introduced. We investigate several such regularization schemes and prove their equivalence. We show that the unified shell equations derived from this variational procedure reproduce past results obtained via distribution theory by Barrabes and Israel for hypersurfaces of fixed causal type and by Mars and Senovilla for generic shells. These results are expected to provide a useful guide to formulating thin shell equations and junction conditions along generic hypersurfaces in modified theories of gravity.
We show that manifolds admitting special generic maps also admit nice generalized multisections. Special generic maps are natural generalized versions of Morse functions with exactly two singular points on closed manifolds, characterizing spheres whose dimensions are not $4$ topologically and the $4$-dimensional unit sphere, and canonical projections of unit spheres. They are shown to restrict the differentiable structures of spheres etc. and topologies of more general manifolds strongly by Saeki, Sakuma etc., followed by Nishioka, Wrazidlo etc. and followed by the author. Some elementary or important manifolds also admit such maps. (Generalized) multisections of manifolds are nice decompositions of (compact) manifolds, generalizing so-called Heegaard splittings of $3$-dimensional manifolds. PL manifolds have been shown to have (generalized) multisections enjoying certain properties by Rubinstein and Tillmann.
This essay describes the Jivaka Project, a pedagogical experiment undertaken at a public liberal arts college outside of Philadelphia. A multi-year ethnographic survey of Buddhist healthcare in the greater metropolitan area, this project has come to constitute a major part of my general education course on American Buddhism. As I argue, this project serves as a model for student-centered, engaged, and inclusive approaches to pedagogy. It is particularly notable for centering the intercultural competency of international and first-generation Asian American students. I discuss how this project was inspired by a bilingual Chinese American student; how it developed into a large-scale effort involving about a hundred students in ethnographic research in Philadelphia’s Asian American neighborhoods; how it was a transformational educational experience for a diverse group of participating students; and how in the process it pushed my pedagogy in a more relevant and personally fulfilling direction.
Diana van Winden, Diana van Winden, Diana van Winden
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The demanding environment that contemporary dance students are exposed to could result in high stress levels, which can influence injury susceptibility. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the association between stress and injuries. In the period between September 2016 and March 2020, four cohorts of first-year dance students (N = 186; mean age 19.21 ± 1.35 years) were followed for one academic year. Each month, general stress was assessed on a 0–100 visual analogous scale. The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center Questionnaire on Health Problems was used on a monthly basis to monitor injuries. Injuries were defined as “all injuries” (i.e., any physical complaint irrespective of the need for medical attention or time-loss from dance) and “substantial injuries” (i.e., leading to moderate/severe/complete reductions in training volume or performance). Mann–Whitney tests were performed to measure differences in general stress levels between injured and injury-free students, while repeated-measures ANOVA were performed to investigate whether general stress scores increased before and during injury occurrence. The overall average monthly general stress score over all cohorts for all students was 39.81. The monthly general stress scores ranged from 31.75 to 49.16. Overall, injured and substantially injured students reported higher stress scores than injury-free students, with significant differences in 3 out of the 9 months for all injuries (September, October, March, p < 0.05), and in 5 months for substantial injuries (September, October, November, December, April, p < 0.05). Within the 3-month period before and during injury occurrence, a (marginally) significant linear effect of general stress across the time periods was found for all injuries [F(1.87,216.49) = 3.10, p = 0.051] and substantial injuries [F(2,138) = 4.16, p = 0.018]. The results indicate an association between general stress and injuries. Future research should focus on effects of varying stress levels on injury risk using higher sampling frequency, for instance by measuring weekly since stress levels are likely to fluctuate daily. Practically, strategies aiming at stress reduction might have the potential to reduce the burden of dance injuries and may have positive outcomes for dancers, teachers, schools, and companies.
Although dance as a topic has been explored through various theoretical and thematic discourse, little attention has been paid to the presence of dance motifs in Christian imagery. An examination of Orthodox Macedonian medieval fresco painting provides a fascinating point of entry into this overlooked subject. Analysis reveals the presence of two dominant approaches, conditioned primarily by the position of dancing in the philosophical-ethical discourse present in the Bible and other late antique and medieval theological texts. Some frescoes and icons show the body as a channel through which the Lord is glorified. Others show it as an instrument and reflection of immorality instigated by demonic powers. As in each approach, the bodies have differing semantic qualities, valuable information can be obtained about the performing practices present in this historical period.
The paper’s starting point is the distinction of different traditions, which shape scholarship in the classics at an international level. In a very personal perspective, it gives important examples of the impact the “School of Paris” and French intellectual concepts in a broader sense had, and still have, on the author’s scholarly biography, particularly in his dealing with topics of anthropology, geography, religion, and the imaginaire in general.
Larissa Cruvinel Leite, Larissa Vitoria Dornelas, Laura de Souza Bechara Secchin
Abstract: Introduction: Mental health was included as one of the top ten health indicators and studies have shown it is related to religiosity and spirituality (R/S). Objective: The aim of the present study is to evaluate whether the degree of R/S of medical students influences anxiety and depression disorders during undergraduate school. Method: This study was carried out with a convenience non-probabilistic sample, consisting of 298 students. The Duke Religiosity Index in Brazilian Portuguese (P-DUREL) was used in questionnaire form, whereas, to map depression, anxiety and stress, DASS-21 was applied. Results: It was demonstrated that the different dimensions of religiosity have no association with the students’ emotional disorders, anxiety and stress. Conclusions: It is possible to propose recommendations for future research, so that the results can be used in meta-analysis studies. Studies that did not show a significant association between the variables cannot be neglected, so that the positive and negative dimensions of the association between R/S and mental health can be investigated.
ABSTRACT Research about the religion and environmental attitudes relationship in the United States has yielded mixed results. Some studies find that religion relates to heightened concern about environmental threats and greater environmental interest whereas others find religion relates to diminished concern and interest. A new perspective that applies ideas from psychology and sociology may help resolve these discrepant findings. It is hypothesized that religious meaning reduces concern with environmental threats since meaning helps people cope with distressing stimuli. This reduction is specific to threats and does not extend to environmental interest. Using the 2016 General Social Survey to test this hypothesis, after controlling for sociodemographic and political variables, structural equation modeling shows Americans who are more religious experience diminished sense of danger from environmental threats, yet exhibit heightened general environmental interest. These findings align with the proposed theory and suggest new ways to promote environmentalism and policy change.
El presente artículo da a conocer el comentario al Cantar que fray Luis de León explicó en su cátedra de Biblia el curso 1585-86. Con ese fin repasa, en primer lugar, la relación de fray Luis con dicho texto bíblico, situando así sus lecciones en una línea de evolución. A continuación, estudia el único testimonio conocido de las mismas, el manuscrito conservado en la Angelica de Roma. Y, finalmente, expone los resultados del análisis de su contenido. Este revela, por un lado, lo mucho que depende de estas lecciones la tertia explanatio del comentario latino de fray Luis al Cantar, y subraya el valor de la misma como vehículo de su teoría de la alegoría y su teología de la historia; y señala sumariamente, por otro lado, las discrepancias entre el texto escolar y el publicado, investigando sus posibles razones. El artículo concluye con la publicación del fragmento inédito con que fray Luis expuso los rasgos del prelado ideal que encontró indicados en el texto bíblico.
Alessandro Germani, Livia Buratta, Elisa Delvecchio
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The COVID-19 pandemic is showing a strong impact on people in terms of uncertainty and instability it has caused in different areas of daily life. Uncertainty and instability are also emotions that characterize emerging adulthood (EA). They generate worries about the present and the future and are a source of anxiety that impacts negatively on personal and interpersonal functioning. Anxiety seems a central effect of the pandemic and recent studies have suggested that it is linked to COVID-19 risk perception. In the present study, a sample of 1045 Italian emerging adults was collected: (1) to assess anxiety severity and perceived risk related to COVID-19 and their association and (2) to compare general health and protective factors such as attitudes about security, relationships, self-esteem, and self-efficacy across anxiety severity and perceived risk categories. The findings of this study highlighted that anxiety severity categories were distributed homogeneously across the sample and that half of the participants referred to moderate-severe anxiety. A series of analysis of variances and post hoc comparisons showed that general health and all protective factors decreased according to anxiety severity. They were higher in participants with high perceived risk, with the exception of self-efficacy. Given the challenging features of the pandemic and EA, it is crucial to monitor anxiety severity in order to prevent last longing effects on mental and physical health, as well as keeping emerging adults informed about the risks related to the pandemic. Intervention and supportive programs based on improving self-esteem and self-efficacy, as well as confidence in relationships, should be offered to emerging adults over the long term, beyond the current outbreak.
Background: Unhealthy nutritional attitudes and emotion regulation difficulties are among the most important problems among young people, but the key question is whether natural cognition plays a mediating role in emotion regulation difficulties and nutritional attitudes? Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of natural misery in predicting nutritional attitudes based on emotion regulation difficulties. Method: It was a descriptive-correlational one and was performed on 130 students of Payam Noor Najafabad University who were selected by available sampling method. Research questionnaires included Toronto Natural Intelligence Scale (1994), Garner & Garfinkel (1979) Nutrition Attitude Scale, and Gratz & Roemer (2004) Emotion Regulation Scale. Data were analyzed using structural equation method. Results: The results showed that direct path coefficients between predictor (emotion regulation difficulties) and criterion variable (nutritional attitudes) were not significant (p>0/05), but indirect path coefficients between These variables were significant with mediation of natural odor (p<0/05). Conclusions: Natural curiosity mediates the prediction of nutritional attitudes based on the difficulty of emotion regulation, which demonstrates the role of natural curiosity in emotion regulation and improvement of nutritional attitudes.