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Kristliku kiriku ja (voorus)eetika panusest meditsiini ja tervisedenduse arengus
Get PDFThe Contribution of Christian Church and (Virtue) Ethics to the Development of Medicine and Health Promotion
COVID-19 crisis has challenged Estonian churches both in practical issues as well as in ethical reflection into a dialogue with nowadays medicine and health promotion. Learning from biblical background, historical experience of the church, and current discussions on Christian ethics, the author shows how churches in Estonia could particularly via ecumenical cooperation benefit more and relate better to medical development and future of health promotion by Christian virtue ethics approach
Kõlbelistest ja usulistest otsingutest postmoderniseeruvas Eestis
Get PDFMeego Remmel, Ethical and religious search in postmodernist Estonia.Estonia as a historical factor of innovation and complete change of the Soviet Marxist-Leninist empire up to the collapse of the Union itself is providing an interesting and a descriptive pattern also in a new, Postmarxist and Postmodern era. Estonia is small enough and its historical development is relatively clear in order to see it as a model society of cultures under Postmarxist and Postmodernist impacts. Throughout the permanent process of change in Estonia the Christian community has learned how to build upon and stand for their own Christian tradition, narratives, practices, virtues. Living through the Postmarxist philosophical, religious and ethical vacuum, opening to the wider world of pluralism, facing the growth of individualism and Postmodern impacts - all that has taught a lesson to the Estonian Christians. The article, in fact, to be continued in the next issue, presents some sociological insights to the processes of postmodemisation of Estonia. The author is showing how the people in Estonia are facing the challenges of re-evaluation of the society, at the same time indicating how the Estonian Christian community has developed a solid tradition of faith and ethics within the Estonian tradition in itself
Fundamentalismi ja sekularismi eetikast
No full textBeSt programmi toetusel loodud videoloeng kursusel "Religioosne fundamentalism" (USUS.02.080
Koroonakriisi eelse ja järgse (vaba)kogudusliku elu arengukohtadest Eestis
Get PDFOn pre- and post-covid crisis (free) church life developments in EstoniaThis article asks how COVID-19 has shaped the Estonian churches, how it might affect their future development and what implications has it brought for the planting of new free churches. Hypermodern times are changing society in its perception of spirituality and maturity of faith. History of Christianity – including the history of Estonian free church movement – shows how vital are discipleship and fellowship within churches for following Jesus and embodying missional relationships. Estonian denominational leaders have noted both strengths and weaknesses that have emerged in their churches during the COVID-19 crisis. In the future of Estonian free church planting both authentic relationships of smaller communities of faith and digital capabilities seem to become crucial for the missionally sustainable church-life. 
Eestimaalaste moraalsete ja eetiliste hoiakute muutumine 1995–2020
Get PDFThe change in the moral and ethical attitudes of Estonians from 1995 to 2020 This analysis highlights significant shifts in the moral and ethical attitudes of Estonians over the past 25 years, reflecting broader societal transformations. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a tendency towards conservatism, but this trend has shifted markedly towards liberalism in recent years. The last decade, in particular, has seen a notable increase in tolerance towards issues such as extramarital relationships, homosexuality, abortion, and euthanasia. These changes are consistent with broader European and North American trends.A clear distinction exists between the moral and ethical views of ethnic Estonians and other language groups in Estonia, with Estonians tending to be more liberal. This difference is likely influenced by the general information environment rather than ethnic characteristics, suggesting that people’s attitudes are shaped more by the media and societal influences than by cultural or linguistic factors.Religious affiliation and community involvement also play a crucial role in shaping moral and ethical views. Those who are actively engaged in religious communities, particularly in free church or Catholic contexts, tend to hold more traditional values. This is in contrast to those with weaker ties to religious institutions, who are more susceptible to secular influences.The findings support previous research showing that active participation in religious life strengthens specific moral convictions and virtues. In contrast, weakened or severed ties to religious communities lead to a drift away from religious practices and values, resulting in a more secular and less morally defined identity
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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