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Leaving and Entering Religion:Understanding Religious Conversion in the Discourse of Religious Freedom and Human Right
No full textReligious conversion is a problematic phenomenon. It is supported based on religious freedom, but opposed based on religious doctrines and truth claims. The debate on religious conversion in relation to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) tends to stop on the dichotomy of universalism and relativism of human rights. That is, religious conversion is recognized as a universal value, but in a particular context became relative. In this perspective, the implementation of religious conversion, which should be universal, becomes limited. As a result, there are various kinds of stigmatization against the subjects of religious conversion, for instance, they are labeled as "heretics", "infidels", "apostates", and even "dissidents" against religion. Therefore, to explain religious conversion in relation to religious freedom and human rights, I do not stop at the dichotomy of universalism and relativism of human rights. However, religious conversion needs to be analyzed as part of the freedom of religion whose subjects must be protected. This paper will analyze the issue of religious conversion in two perspectives: first, how religious conversion (in and out conversion) in religious doctrines and teachings; and, second, how to understand religious conversion in the discourse of freedom of religion which is closely intertwined with human rights. The method used in this paper is a combination of interviews and literature study. The findings in this research show that freedom of religion is often constrained by religion itself (so-called religious relativism)Konversi agama merupakan fenomena yang problematis. Ia didukung atas dasar kebebasan beragama, namun ditentang oleh doktrin dan klaim kebenaran agama. Perdebatan tentang konversi agama dalam kaitan dengan kebebasan beragama atau berkeyakinan (KBB) cenderung berhenti pada dikotomi universalisme dan relativisme hak asasi manusia (HAM). Artinya, konversi agama diakui sebagai suatu nilai yang universal, namun dalam konteks tertentu menjadi relatif. Pada satu sisi, universalisme menekankan bahwa konversi agama adalah kebebasan yang melekat pada diri individu sebagai bagian dari harkat dan martabat manusia. Di sisi lain, relativisme cenderung membatasi nilai tersebut ke dalam konteks atau kulturnya, yang di dalamnya termasuk agama. Dalam perspektif ini implementasi konversi agama yang semestinya universal menjadi terbatas. Akibatnya, muncul berbagai macam stigmatisasi terhadap subjek konversi agama, misalnya mereka dicap “sesat”, “kafir”, “apostasi”, bahkan “pembangkang” terhadap agama. Oleh karena itu, untuk menjelaskan konversi agama dalam kaitan dengan kebebasan beragama, saya tidak berhenti pada dikotomi universalimse dan relativisme HAM. Bagaimanapun, konversi agama perlu dianalisis sebagai bagian dari kebebasan beragama yang mana subjeknya harus dilindungi. Tulisan ini akan menganalisis isu konversi agama dalam dua perspektif: pertama, bagaimana konversi agama (konversi masuk dan konversi keluar) dalam doktrin dan ajaran agama; dan, kedua, bagaimana seharusnya memahami konversi agama dalam diskursus KBB yang berkelindan erat dengan HAM. Metode yang digunakan dalam tulisan ini adalah kombinasi antara wawancara dan studi literatur. Temuan dalam riset ini menunjukkan bahwa kebebasan beragama justru sering dikekang oleh agama itu sendiri (yang disebut dengan relativisme agama)
Interreligious Engagement Between Indigenous Religion and Christianity Within the Huaulu Community in Maluku
Full text linkThe arrival of Western Christianity in the archipelago, alongside European expansion, solidified Christian dominance and asserted superiority over indigenous religious practices. European supremacy did not merely bolster this dominance but also fueled theological narratives that portrayed indigenous religions as “dark” and “heretical,” necessitating their conversion to Christianity. This framework shaped interfaith discourse, marginalizing indigenous religions and excluding them from meaningful engagement. This article aims to analyze the socio-religious engagement between the adherents of Memaham (an indigenous religion) and Christians in the context of interreligious relations. This research was conducted within the Huaulu indigenous community, North Seram District, Central Maluku Regency, Maluku Province. This study employs a participatory qualitative research methodology, using interviews and observations as data generation methods. The findings reveal that Memaham, as the indigenous religion of the Huaulu, experienced a complex and dynamic engagement with Christianity, such as harmonious collaboration, ongoing negotiation, and even direct confrontation. Those findings provide an empirical contribution to interreligious relations within a postcolonial context, by aiming to avoid the romanticization often oriented towards harmonious relationships
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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