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Glaube und Gesetz: Die Identitätsbildung Messianischer Juden in Israel
No full textMessianische Juden, die in Israel leben, befinden sich auf Grund ihres Glaubens an Jesus als den jüdischen Messias bei gleichzeitigem Festhalten an ihrer jüdischen Identität in einer prekären Lage: Auf der einen Seite müssen sie sich gegen missionarische Vereinnahmungsversuche von christlicher Seite wehren, auf der anderen Seite sind sie im einzigen jüdischen Staat der Erde einem hohen Konformitätsdruck, vor allem von jüdisch-orthodoxer Seite, ausgesetzt. Die Bildung ihrer individuellen und kollektiven Identität erscheint vor diesem Hintergrund »paradox«. Der Artikel befasst sich mit der Forschungsfrage, wie Messianische Juden in Israel mit der Kluft zwischen Judentum und Christentum leben oder diese überwinden. Auf der Grundlage einer theoriegeleiteten Analyse zehn biografisch-narrativer Interviews mit Messianischen Juden in Israel gelangt der Autor zu dem Schluss, dass diese ihre religiösen Aktivitäten in eine dezidiert jüdisch anmutende praktische (und damit sichtbare) Dimension, die in Israel unproblematisch ist, und eine weniger offensichtliche theoretische Dimension, deren im israelischen Kontext problematischer christlicher Inhalt eher im Verborgenen bleibt, aufspalten. Messianic Jews can most easily be described as Jews that believe in Jesus as the Jewish Messiah. Those Messianic Jews living in Israel are in a difficult position: on the one hand they are forced to defend themselves against Christian missionaries that attempt to strip them of their »Jewishness«, on the other hand they are targeted by orthodox Jews that perceive them as a threat to the Jewish identity as a whole. The building of an individual and collective Messianic-Jewish identity thus seems paradoxical. This article is focused on the question how Messianic Jews bridge the gap between the antagonistic Jewish and Christian poles. Based on a theory-governed analysis of ten biographical interviews with Messianic Jews in Israel, the author of this article concludes, that they split their religious activities into a decidedly Jewish-appearing practical (and therefore visible) dimension, which is uncomplicated in Israel, and a far less apparent theoretical dimension, dominated by Christian implications which are problematic in the Israeli context, but, however, remain hardly visible
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The Next Step? Suggestions for an Integrative Model for Theorising Ecstasy
No full textThe article emphasises the necessity of an integral approach for theorising ecstasy and makes a suggestion for how this could be achieved. Although at first it seemed that the compelling sociological theory of ecstasy by I.M. Lewis and the psychological theories by proponents such as Abraham Maslow, Martin Buber or Theresa of Avila contradicted each other and could not both be true at the same time, it now turns out that these two sets of theories have different scopes of application that hardly overlap. They are thus not conflicting, but incommensurable and useful in different contexts. A very elegant and simple model for demonstrating this is the quadrant model by the integral theorist Ken Wilber, as it makes the diverging applicability compellingly visual. Adapting it for the academic study of ecstasy, it can thus be understood that, while sociological theories apply mostly to the occurrence of ecstasy in hierarchical societies among individuals who identify strongly with their group bespeaking their socio-material desires, psychological theories are best employed with individuals who do not strongly identify with group norms and whose ecstatic states cannot be connected with upward social mobility or means to acquire material gain
A Critical Acclaim of Lewis’s Sociological Theory of Ecstasy. Towards an Integrative
No full textThis article provides the first step of a threefold argument on why an integrative model for theorizing ecstasy is necessary and how this could be accomplished. This article sets out with some preliminary epistemological remarks on normativity and religious experience as a legitimate object of inquiry that have to be made in order to prepare the larger argument. Afterwards I.M. Lewis’s sociological theory of ecstasy will be outlined and its numerous advantages pointed out. The strength of the theory lies mainly in explaining ecstasy in highly hierarchical societies and in those cases where it occurs in connection with material gain. It fails however to be applicable in situations when the subjects do not achieve or aim at achieving improvement of their material or societal statuses, but quite contrarily (and gladly) give up possessions and positions. The same applies for social structures where a high degree of equality has been achieved and ecstasy or ecstatic spiritpossession does not have to function as a releasing remedy for social tensions. These cases of ecstasy can better be explained by theories that could be called “psychological”, or even “psychotheological”, that will be discussed in the next paper
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
A Critical Assessment of Psychological Theories of Ecstasy. Towards an Integrative Model for Theorising Ecstasy
No full textIn this article a number of approaches toward ecstasy or ecstatic spirit possession are explored that take a decisively non-sociological approach to the subject. They stress the importance of acknowledging ecstasy and related phenomena not as by-products of social struggle but as actual experiences that are events with meaning and importance in the biographies of those who experience them. Some of these are psychological theories (exemplified by Abraham Maslow), some are theological (Teresa of Ávila), and some stand in between (Martin Buber). These psycho-theological theories contribute to understanding ecstasy and have to be taken into account. Emphasised at the end of the article is the need to reconcile these views with the seemingly contradictory theories of ecstasy such as that of Lewis
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