This paper provides the translation of a Hausa song in praise of the Senegalese Tijāni leader Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse, written by the Nigerian singer, Kabiru Maulana. Locating it in the context of a ...wave of Sufi songs that were produced in reaction to the spread of Salafism in Nigeria, the paper argues that running parallel to the purpose of praising a Sufi leader lies an intention to mock the Salafis' rejection of both Sufism and music. In other words, singing the glory of Niasse in public, is in today's Nigeria also a means of satirizing and protesting the opposition to Sufism as well as marking the Islamic public sphere with a sign of the Sufi presence.
This paper focuses on St. John of Nepomuk, the most popular saint of the Czech Baroque period, and his hymnography, which constitutes the largest group of songs in the entire Baroque hymnography from ...the Czech lands, whether in Czech or German. The study is dedicated not only to analysing the song material from the perspective of literary history (leitmotifs, other frequent motifs, metaphors and terms, song genres, forms of narration) but also to seeking relations between the songs and piety itself. Songs about St. John of Nepomuk, preserved mainly as broadside ballads, were in fact closely connected to the religious services performed during the May feasts in Prague and in front of his statues and chapels, which were spreading across the country from the beginning of the 18th and far into the 19th century. My research is based on 328 gathered songs, of which 201 have so far been analysed in more detail.
Scholars of late medieval religious practice have focused on the expression of personal devotion and on the use of individualized devotional texts and books. Particularly manuscript collections of ...Middle Dutch religious song are thought to have been used in personalized devotional practices of individuals, even though previous research generally did not include codicological analysis. Using both codicological research and textual analysis of twelve Middle Dutch religious song manuscripts and their contents (ca. 1470–1550), this article demonstrates that these sources contain indications for both individual use and for use in group activities.
In 2014, an international team of scholars measured the acoustical properties of eight Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki. This article examines two of the tested churches, the
Acheiropoietos ...basilica and the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, in order to provide objective and phenomenological accounts of how sound—both chanted and spoken—was produced and
received. Framing the soundscape of each church through an examination of its original shape, furnishings, decoration, liturgy, music, acoustics, and psychoacoustics raises new
questions about ties between the two buildings and the streets that connected them. This study also deepens our understanding of the archaeoacoustics of Thessaloniki's early
churches.
Die Covid-19-pandemie het groot lyding veroorsaak en die einde is nog nie in sig nie. Wat help mense in swaar tye, tydens die "lockdowns" van die lewe? Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten van Georg ...Neumark (1621-1681) dien as voorbeeld van 'n lied wat mense in die konteks van geleefde geloof kan bemoedig. Die lied het neerslag gevind in baie Duitse gesangboeke en vertalings daarvan is in gesangboeke oor die wéreld opgeneem. In orrel-voorspele, kantates en ander musiekwerke word dit tot klank gebring. Tydens die Eerste Wéreldoorlog het dit mense in Duitsland getroos, maar is ook vir militaristiese en patriotiese doeleindes gebruik. Die lied speel 'n prominente rol in twee films: Babette 's Feast (1987) en Vaya con Dios (2002). In beide films word getoon hoe die lied mense in die uitlewing van hul geloof 'n stem gee en hoe hulle God se stem daarin hoor. In die artikel kry die agtergrond van die lied en die oorspronklike Duitse teks aandag. Daarna word die vertaling in Afrikaans en die wysigings aan die teks krities bespreek. Ses van die sewe strofes van GBA Gerdener se vertaling in Afrikaans (1931) is opgeneem in die Psalm- en Gesangboek (1944). Vir die Psalm-en Gesangboek (1978) is die teks drasties verkort tot drie strofes. Veranderinge in die weergawe vir die Liedboek van die Kerk (2001) het die band met die oorspronklike teks verder verbreek. In samehang met die treffende melodie (en met aspekte van die ouer weergawe wat nog in mense se himniese geheues lewend is), kan die lied mense steeds bemoedig en hulle aan God se teenwoordigheid herinner. Die resepsiegeskiedenis dui op die voortgaande werking van die lied in verskillende kontekste van geleefde religie.
In attempts to attribute a single event—such as an observed heat wave or flooding—to climate change, the probability distributions of the quantity under consideration for current and preindustrial ...conditions are compared to determine a possible changed occurrence rate. These distributions are typically calculated from large ensembles produced by climate models and require large computational resources. In this study, a simple alternative surrogate method together with analytical considerations will be used as a test bed to inform about methodological issues connected to the selection problem and deviations from Gaussianity that should be considered before comprehensive climate models are invoked.
The author will mainly study the influence of the selection problem, which in this context means that when an event has been observed it is not obvious how the probability distributions should be defined. Should similar events be looked for in the immediate neighborhood of the observation or in an extended area? It is shown that this choice will have serious consequences for the distributions of the events and the attribution to climate change.
The author also demonstrates that deviations from Gaussianity can have a large influence on the conclusions and that it is important that the ensembles adequately represent the features that contribute to the extreme events under consideration. In particular, it is shown that the fractional attributable risk has very different behavior for heavy-tailed distributions than for Gaussian distributions. In the example considered with the surrogate method—European heat waves—important features also include the seasonal variation in skewness.
This study analyses joint decisions. Drawing on video-recorded planning meetings in a workplace context as data, and on conversation analysis as a method, I investigate what is needed for a proposal ...to get turned into a joint decision: How do people negotiate the outcome of the decision-making processes in terms of whether they indeed comprise new decisions and whether these decisions are really joint ones? This study identifies three essential components in arriving at joint decisions (access, agreement, commitment), and discusses two other possible outcomes of decision-making processes–non-decisions and unilateral decisions –as being a direct result of the deployment of the same components. These observations help explain the exact mechanisms involved in approving and rejecting proposals in joint decision-making settings, as well as the ways in which people may negotiate their rights and obligations to participate in decision-making processes.
Hymns are commonly sung in the public space of worship. They often also function in other public as well as private spheres. Religious singing in public spaces forms bridges between personal faith, ...the church, and public Christianity, while at the same time also forming bridges to a pluralist, secular, and post-secular society. I depart from the premise that the singing of hymns in the public sphere constitutes a form of religion lived in public. When the singing is reflected upon and discussed in public, also in social media, it can be seen as a form of public theology. Aspects of the reception histories and narratives of hymns, functioning in the wider public sphere in various countries and in various contexts and times, are discussed with regard to the possible functions that the singing could fulfil in these contexts. It is shown that hymnody forms a part of the beliefs, self-concepts, values, symbols, identities, ideologies, instruments of power, sets of myths, and the collective cultural memory of people.
This article discusses issues of authority and conflict in John Wesley's Connexion in the eighteenth century, drawing on the example of the itinerant preacher Thomas Wride (1733–1807), who was ...embroiled in constant controversy. It explains that the tensions between Wride and his congregations and colleagues arose not simply from his alleged eccentricity, but reflected deep-seated differences about worship and discipline. A thoughtful and energetic pastor, and a dutiful administrator, Wride's punctiliousness and insensitivity in enforcing adherence to the movement's rules as he saw them undermined his effectiveness. His career, as recorded in his own often colourful words, exposes struggles within early Wesleyan Methodism that are not always evident in the movement's extensive official history.
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