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Monismus als Denkform christlicher Theologie? Analyse und Diskussion des Konzeptes von Klaus Müller
No full textPlural Methods in the Study of Interreligious Relations
No full textThis essay will draw attention to a relatively new phenomenon in the study of interreligious relations, namely the extension of the concept of plurality from that of religions (“there are many religions”) and of the study of relations between religions (“there are many approaches to the study of their relations”) to the plurality of methods available to each of those approaches (“there are many philosophical methods available to the study of relations between religions”).While it is widely acknowledged that attention to the plurality of traditions andthe relations between them is necessary for the understanding of religion in thecontemporary world, there is less attention to the complex plurality of philosophical approaches. Those who pioneered attention to religious plurality, along with the invention of “pluralism” as a guiding category for some of those pioneers, devoted little attention to matters of philosophical method, despite their focal interest in questions of truth, rival claims, multiple perspectives and matters of this kind. This is a notable lacuna which this discussion is intended to explore a little. Plurality extends not only to the phenomena to be investigated, and not only to the approaches available for those investigations, but also to the philosophical engines that power those approaches
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
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