In countries such as Lebanon, with the historical presence of a variety of large religious communities, particular linguistic expressions may reveal the religious affiliation of the individual using ...them. This article analyses the opposite phenomenon: the purposeful use of expressions associated with other religious groups in the written discourse of an individual. This case study will explore the novel Būnā Anṭūn (Father Antun), written in 1937 by the journalist and author Karam Melhem Karam, in which the writer, who was a Maronite, constantly uses expressions associated with Islam. This article suggests that these expressions reflect the well-established multi-religious character of the society and that they are deliberately used as a way to rebel against an imposed sectarian social system.
The paper examines intercultural communication as the management of messages across cultures. Our understanding of culture, culturing and intercultural communication enlarges our understanding of ...what being human means and, moreover, expands moral action by locating our humanity within a constantly changing world. This emergent quantum understanding brings a closer look on intercultural theory and the phenomenon of culturing, thus, broadening human understanding of intercultural communication.
Problems of communication in intercultural dialogue typically arise when the communicators understand concepts of meaning and identity in strikingly different ways. This article employs influential ...assumptions in modern philosophy of language to discuss fundamental aspects of these problems. Drawing on a distinction between beliefs and values, it is argued that intercultural communication typically fails when communicators have different values and do not acknowledge that culturally shaped values are different from beliefs and thoughts. Within a hermeneutical approach to understanding, it is explained how an understanding of the nature of values can help secure successful intercultural communication. Cases of cultural conflict are used to clarify this and other practical implications of the philosophical analyses that are developed.
The Forum on Mediterranean Food Cultures has the purpose to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue to acknowledge the underestimated role of the Mediterranean diet and of the Mediterranean food ...cultures for an effective sustainable development in the Mediterranean. It is addressed towards the achievement of food security and a broader nutritional well-being in the entire Mediterranean area. The Forum uses a creative approach for the development of community-based programmes to manage the emerging trend of childhood overweight and obesity, as well as to reduce the increasing erosion of the Mediterranean food cultural heritage.
There is a wide consensus on the secular character of Western societies. This is particularly evident in their articulation of the private and public spheres, based on the assumption that secular ...norms require that religious groups stay away from public arenas. The Habermasian public sphere appears then as a prototypical secular arena. The paper explores how the Habermasian notion can be enriched in a transcultural perspective. It shows that several Muslim actors are key contributors - and not opponents - to the renewal of the secular process, both within European societies and at a transnational level, notwithstanding their original understanding of the public sphere and of its normative fundaments.
This paper aims to improve preparation of stakeholders and affected interests for participation in natural resource management (NRM) processes. It argues that a reframing of relationships in ...multicultural NRM systems can improve individual and institutional capacities to think about and respond to intercultural domains. We argue that the professional toolkit needed to enhance the efficacy and openness of NRM must go beyond technical competence in science and economics to include a refined intercultural capacity amongst all involved. This does not refer to a unidirectional education of those perceived as lacking education, but a multi-directional capacity to reframe relationships, behaviours and practices. By reflecting on our diverse experiences of teaching and learning at the Comalco bauxite mine in far northern Queensland and in the university classroom in Sydney, we argue that a literacy in cultural landscapes is fundamental to this reframing of relationships. To use a metaphor that draws together a concern with both natural resources and geographical scale, it is simply not good enough to deal with both the forests and the trees: we also need to recognise the cultural landscapes in which both are embedded, and the cultural frames that give them different meanings.
What defines the Cypriot communist party, AKEL, as an exceptional case in Western Europe is the existing trend of its recent electoral fortune. While it is the oldest Cypriot party, with wide appeal ...to the Cypriot electorate in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, its more recent history defies the trends of West European communism. Since the boiling point of 1989, not only has it not suffered serious electoral decline but it is the only communist party to dominate the left in a Western European society, and its performance in municipal, presidential and, most of all, legislative elections has come to bear a pattern of continuous success. This electoral success can be accounted for by a combination of internal and external factors. Internal factors include ideological renewal, the party's response to European integration, the specific Cypriot issue of inter-communal rapprochement, and organizational issues. External factors concern the domestic political arena in which AKEL competes with other actors, and the Cypriot class structure from which AKEL draws its support. The ideological, programmatic and organizational renewal of the party and the strategy of relying less on theory and more on activism are the main elements that allowed AKEL to remain an important part of Cypriot politics.
The Court of the Gentiles Blackman, Daniel
Israel affairs,
10/2010, Letnik:
16, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Nostra Aetate, Vatican II's declaration on the Church's relationship with other religions, initiated a new stage in Catholic-Jewish relations. This relationship has been one marked by dialogue and ...the search for common ground. This has been continued by Pope Benedict. This same Pope has suggested that the documents of Vatican II can be interpreted through a hermeneutic of renewal in continuity or a hermeneutic of rupture. In this essay Nostra Aetate is examined through these two hermeneutics, and suggests that dialogue has become detached from evangelization. Pope Benedict's call for a Court of the Gentiles, borrowing from Judaism and the Temple, is examined and offered as useful for a new stage in Catholic-Jewish relations. The Court of the Gentiles provides us with new channels of dialogue and places the person of Jesus at the centre, as attempted by Rabbi Jacob Neusner. Finally, the mariological dimension of Nostra Aetate and Pope Benedict's writings is presented as an essential aspect of Catholic-Jewish dialogue which has been neglected.
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