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Religion, Education, and the ‘East’. Addressing Orientalism and Interculturality in Religious Education Through Japanese and East Asian Religions
Get PDFThis work addresses the theme of Japanese religions in order to rethink theories and practices pertaining to the field of Religious Education. Through an interdisciplinary framework that combines the study of religions, didactics and intercultural education, this book puts the case study of Religious Education in England in front of two ‘challenges’ in order to reveal hidden spots, tackle unquestioned assumptions and highlight problematic areas. These ‘challenges’, while focusing primarily on Japanese religions, are addressed within the wider contexts of other East Asian traditions and of the modern historical exchanges with the Euro-American societies. As result, a model for teaching Japanese and other East Asian religions is discussed and proposed in order to fruitfully engage issues such as orientalism, occidentalism, interculturality and critical thinking
The Theme of Social Cohesion in Religious Education Policies and Practices: An Analysis of England, Japan, and Italy
No full textSince 9/11, religious education (RE) has gained increased importance, particularly in European and American regions, though not exclusively. RE has been assigned a broader role in promoting social cohesion, especially in the context of intercultural and citizenship education. International organizations have actively contributed to this discourse through policy papers, research, and guidelines. This article, adopting a critical RE research perspective grounded in the academic study of religions, examines how the concept of social cohesion is addressed, thematized, and implemented in official documents, educational resources, and scholarly debates across three distinct RE contexts. The study pays special attention to how these processes impact the representations of religions
Teaching Asian Religions through the Internet—How Online Representations Interact with Dynamics of Eurocentrism, Orientalism, and Confessionalism in the Case of Italian Teaching of Catholic Religion
Get PDFThe religions of South and East Asia resist Eurocentric interpretations, such as the so-called World Religion Paradigm. However, they are subjected in various ways to hetero- and auto-orientalist representations that respond to Western ideals and expectations. This article analyzes how Italian Catholic teachers use online representations of East Asian religions in their lessons to teach these traditions. The aim is to shed light on the interplay, facilitated by online environments, between contemporary processes of Eurocentric and Orientalist interpretation and the educational and confessional motivations of confessional religious education teachers. The result of the analysis indicates that these factors concur to reinforce misleading representations, which contradicts the intercultural aims proclaimed by teachers and other Teaching of Catholic Religion stakeholders. Nevertheless, this article also individuates those elements that could be fruitfully framed in an academic study-of-religions perspective and suggests a modality of cooperation between Catholic Religion teachers and scholars of religions
Asian Religions According to Italian Teenagers Context, Analysis and Reflections on a Trend Towards the ‘Global Market Regime’
No full textResearch on the cultural influence of Asian religions in Western countries tends to overlook younger actors as receivers and producers of innovation. By applying a theoretical framework that highlights the cultural role of nationalism, neoliberalism and consumerism in shaping religious behaviour, the article analyses, through interviews, the interpretation of Asian religions among a purposive sample of adolescents and put them within the larger context of the physical and mediatic presence of these religions in society. It argues that these adolescents further align themselves with those trends in Italian society which follow the so-called ‘Global Market Regime’. It also provides reflections on the implications of this situation concerning religious and intercultural education
Religious education and East Asian religions : a study-of-religion\s based framework for intercultural and didactic approaches
No full textRecentemente si sta sviluppando, all’interno della ricerca sulle religioni, un interesse per il variegato ambito della educazione concernente la religione – indicato col termine generico Religious Education - specialmente nelle scuole pubbliche. In particolare, cominciano a vedere la luce lavori di natura normativa che discutono su come impostare un insegnamento pubblico non confessionale e basato sullo studio accademico delle religioni. Il presente lavoro intende riflettere sul ruolo che il tema delle religioni est-asiatiche può assumere in tal senso.
A questo scopo si individuano e discutono temi e concetti rilevanti relativi allo studio teorico delle religioni, alla didattica, all’educazione interculturale, nonché taluni aspetti, ritenuti chiave, dello studio delle religioni est-asiatiche. Quale pietra di paragone in tema di Religious Education, si considera e analizza il case-study dell’Inghilterra, generalmente considerata la più sviluppata in tema di insegnamento su base non confessionale.
Attraverso il confronto tra il case-study e una discussione interdisciplinare dei diversi ambiti sopracitati, si intende mostrare come il tema delle religioni est-asiatiche possa rivelare problematiche nascoste, potenziare il raggiungimento di taluni obiettivi e proporre nuove prospettive. Allo stesso tempo, si intende organizzare tali osservazioni in un quadro teorico-pratico per future concrete applicazioni del tema delle religioni est-asiatiche all’interno di una Religious Education non confessionale, basata sullo studio accademico delle religioni e con una prospettiva di educazione interculturale
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
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
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