Pub Date : 2022-12-06DOI: 10.30965/23642807-bja10058
M. Kočí
This paper focuses on the idea of the so-called sacrifice for nothing in Jan Patočka. Firstly, I clarify the concept and explain its place in the context of Patočka’s thought and its surrounding historical conditions. Secondly, I critically apply Patočka’s concept to some particular examples, such as a free-willing sacrifice of a mother for her child and a forced-violent sacrifice of political oppression. Thirdly and finally, I argue that despite the language of nothingness, it is possible to draw a positive program from these reflections, and thus to turn the negativity of sacrifice into a being transforming experience.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-06DOI: 10.30965/23642807-bja10060
Sara Cohen Shabot
The concept of sacrifice poses an interesting challenge to feminist theory. On the one hand, it seems that women must reject self-sacrificing practices. On the other hand, certain recent feminist analyses have recognized sacrifice as a potential empowering tool for women, so long as it is freely chosen and experienced as positively transformative. In this paper I argue that it is possible to relate to childbirth either as an event calling for women to sacrifice themselves in the patriarchal sense or, alternatively, as one that allows for a “feminist sacrifice” – a deeply embodied and painful but also creative and redeeming self-sacrifice, chosen by a woman herself. I show that while the patriarchal sacrifice of women’s birthing bodies in the labor room through shame, blame, objectification, and abuse must be clearly rejected from a feminist perspective, there is nevertheless room for “feminist sacrifice” in childbirth.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.30965/23642807-bja10055
Yves Mühlematter
The theoretical framework presented in this article makes it possible to understand religions as constantly changing networks of actors and infrastructures that incorporate, modify, discard, and reformulate numerous “elements” in terms of specific conceptualizations often rooted in concrete contexts of application, and “structures,” i.e., larger conceptual contexts such as evolution, cosmogonies, or anthropological views of humanity, in a necessary ongoing creative process. Such a process, and the usefulness of the tool, will be illustrated in this article through discussion of the work of Robert T. Browne, particularly his book The Mystery of Space. To date, research has assumed that Browne derives all of his theory from Theosophy. By applying the above theoretical framework and situating Browne’s work within a broader network of discourses, the article challenges this conclusion and is able to paint a more complete picture. This illustrates the usefulness of the analytical tool presented.
本文提出的理论框架使我们有可能将宗教理解为不断变化的行动者和基础设施网络,这些网络根据具体的概念化(通常根植于具体的应用背景)和“结构”(即更大的概念背景,如进化论、宇宙起源论或人类人类学观点),在必要的持续创造过程中整合、修改、丢弃和重新制定许多“元素”。这篇文章将通过对罗伯特·t·布朗(Robert T. Browne)作品的讨论,特别是他的《太空之谜》(the Mystery of Space)一书,来说明这个过程和这个工具的有用性。迄今为止,研究一直认为布朗的所有理论都来自神智学。通过运用上述理论框架,并将布朗的工作置于更广泛的话语网络中,本文挑战了这一结论,并能够描绘出更完整的画面。这说明了所提出的分析工具的有用性。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-24DOI: 10.30965/23642807-bja10048
Inga Scharf da Silva
This study examines the question of how religious knowledge of the Umbanda religion is transferred from Brazil to German-speaking Europe in an interreligious network. Since the personalization of the Umbandistic spirits is not familiar in the cultural context in Europe, an emotional archive through the body becomes significant. In understanding the different aspects of religion in Africa, Brazil and Europe in relation to kinship, regionality, personality and nature, which are reflected in the sacred dimension, the focus is laid on the ontological understanding of the spiritual world and its understanding of nature and human beings. The argument of a shift of attention in the Umbanda religion to a stronger focus on nature in Central Europe is based on an observation of a change of the entanglements and borders of the religious field of Umbanda in German-speaking Europe integrating a great part of psychological aspects, especially a newly-founded therapy of nature.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-11DOI: 10.30965/23642807-bja10046
Devran Gülel
Since the late 2000s, Turkey has experienced de-Europeanisation, de-democratisation, and Islamist and authoritarian transformation that has also reinforced patriarchal understanding of gender relations and regressive gender norms. This study focuses on women’s freedom from religion and their liberty to decide whether to wear an Islamic veil in such a gendered socio-political climate. The online platform Yalnız Yürümeyeceksin [you will not walk alone] was born in 2018, and it anonymously publishes women’s life experiences around veiling. By examining 592 letters published between 2018 and 2020, this original study ascertains that women’s rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) have been disregarded against the backdrop of oppressed women’s lived histories. In doing so, the study reveals how various parties’ decisions around veiling shape women’s lives and how women’s rights and freedoms are violated vis-à-vis these decisions.
自2000年代末以来,土耳其经历了去欧洲化、去民主化、伊斯兰主义和威权主义转型,这也强化了对性别关系的父权制理解和倒退的性别规范。本研究的重点是妇女的宗教自由,以及她们在这种性别化的社会政治气候下决定是否戴伊斯兰面纱的自由。在线平台Yalnız y rmeyeeceksin(你不会一个人走)诞生于2018年,它匿名发布女性围绕面纱的生活经历。通过对2018年至2020年期间发表的592封信件的研究,这项原始研究确定,在受压迫妇女的生活历史背景下,《欧洲人权公约》(ECHR)规定的妇女权利被忽视。在此过程中,该研究揭示了各方围绕面纱的决定如何影响妇女的生活,以及妇女的权利和自由如何受到-à-vis这些决定的侵犯。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-08DOI: 10.30965/23642807-bja10044
Maria Papenfuss
The Mexican city of Catemaco is famous for its diversity of African-American religious traditions. Although Santería was originally shaped in Cuba, the local Mexican versions show not only a variety of references regarding their origins and influences, ranging from West Africa and Cuba to local indigenous traditions, but also (re)interpretations of historically and geographically diverse contents. Based on interview data gathered during field research in 2017, this article outlines the different hybrid (re)configurations of African-Mexican Santería in Catemaco by tracing the changes made by the practitioners in order to adapt existing traditions. The corresponding adaptation processes include beliefs, practices, lore and material assets. Under a critical perspective, concepts of transnationalism, syncretism and glocalization are discussed, focussing on the dynamics between local and global aspects of Santería in Catemaco and shedding light on the processes of inclusion, exclusion and the shift of boundaries.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-07DOI: 10.30965/23642807-bja10030
Volker Kronenberg
The non-scientific questioning of scientific research during the COVID-19 pandemic, the unwillingness of a president of the United States of America to accept the result of a democratically held election: just in recent times, there have been quite a few striking examples of long-held certainties appearing as nothing more than just illusions. This essay reflects on the severe consequences of the loss of such certainties in the spheres of democratic politics on the one hand and of science, especially for highly differentiated societies, on the other hand as well as on their interdependencies. Furthermore, the author tries to make the case that this disillusionment could prove to be a salutary shock – reminding us that we need to take a stand for the things we hold as certainties, oftentimes even as calming ones, if we want them to stay how we always thought they were.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-07DOI: 10.30965/23642807-bja10035
B. Siertsema
For a long time, factual truth was a prerequisite for Holocaust literature. Thus, autobiographical texts were strongly preferred over fiction. From the 1980s onward, however, the boundaries between ‘fabricated’ and ‘true’ turn out to be blurred, though scandals still arise when something that was thought to be true turns out to be fabricated or non-autobiographical. For theologians who are looking for answers to the theodicy question in Holocaust literature, such as Elie Wiesel’s novella Night, the question of factuality is of less importance. What they must never lose sight of, however, is that ambiguity is an important property of literary texts, and that they do not do justice to such texts by ignoring that ambiguity. In general, theologians and philosophers searching for lessons for humanity should be wary of using the Holocaust and its literature for their own ends.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-07DOI: 10.30965/23642807-bja10032
Eytan Celik
Fake news and conspiracy theories are current problems that are increasingly influencing political and social processes. In particular, whether and how legal action should be taken against them, for example, on internet platforms and social networks, is a matter of current debate. Philosophers already discussed the legal relevance of truthfulness at the Enlightenment, where the basis of modern legal systems was drafted. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant, for example, argued for an unconditional duty of truthfulness, which is why he has been accused of a rigorous view even today. I will present a less rigorous interpretation, in which lies are always ethically reprehensible but can only be prosecuted if they violate an external legal good. That means, based on Kant’s Philosophy, fake news cannot be forbidden in general. However, fake news that inevitably leads to legal damage must be prosecuted, such as inciting violence or giving bad medical advice.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-07DOI: 10.30965/23642807-bja10038
K. Appel
The question of verity in our day’s discourses within society, culture and religion challenges philosophy in the face of fake news, manipulations and the virtual. This paper addresses, via an exploration of the later philosophy of F.W.J. Schelling and the Gospel of Mark, whether the illusionary of history ought to be recognised as a form of truth. In his “Positive Philosophy”, Schelling claims that history is characterised by a loss of meaning that cannot be compensated for by philosophy, morality and sciences, and which is caused by a thinking-mode of “presentness”, that knows no true past and future. As a contrast, he proposes the “illusion” of eschatological-utopian thinking, as paradigmatically laid down in the biblical idea of kenosis. The Gospel of Mark also refers to the traumatic character of history, and in its final chapter imparts the notion of a possible counter-history.
面对假新闻、操纵和虚拟世界,我们当今社会、文化和宗教话语中的真实性问题对哲学提出了挑战。本文通过对谢林(F.W.J. Schelling)的后期哲学和《马可福音》(Gospel of Mark)的探索,探讨历史的幻觉是否应该被视为真理的一种形式。在他的《实证哲学》中,谢林声称,历史的特点是失去了意义,这是哲学、道德和科学无法弥补的,这是由一种不知道真正的过去和未来的“现在”思维模式造成的。作为对比,他提出了末世论乌托邦思想的“幻觉”,就像圣经中kenosis概念的范例一样。马可福音也提到了历史的创伤性,并在最后一章提出了可能的反历史的概念。
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