Individualism as Principle: Its Emergence, Institutionalization, and Contradictions, political philosophy

Symposium: Law and Civil Societ

Introductory essay for society special issue on David Martin

This brief introduction notes some of the salient aspects of David Martin’s career and thought. It further presents and frames the following eight essays in this symposium devoted to different aspects of David Martin’s work.https://rdcu.be/b2Q6EAccepted manuscriptPublished versio

David Martin and the sociology of hope

David Martin’s work has always bridged many worlds: the sacred and the secular, the world of power politics and of religious visions, of individual and society, and of poetry and rational analysis. His trenchant and uncompromising analyses of human social formations and their ideational concomitants have nevertheless provided many with a vision of that hope which must sustain scholarly analysis if it is not to become tedious and moribund. His sensitivity to tradition, to ritual, to received knowledge and the debt we owe to the past – even while appreciating the frisson of the radically new (as in his studies of Pentacostalism) – have made him one of only a small handful of scholars who could address the broad range of human religious expression and its implications for life in the world. This paper explores some of these themes in terms of what we understand as the overwhelming sense of hope that is a permanent feature of David’s scholarly contributions.Accepted manuscrip

BELAJAR UNTUK HIDUP DENGAN PERBEDAAN BAGAIMANA CEDAR MEMBAWA ANTROPOLOGI KELUAR DARI RUANG KELAS DAN MASUK KE DUNIA

Artikel ini menjelaskan tentang proses CEDAR (Community Engaging Difference and Religion) sebuah lembaga swadaya masyarakat untuk menyebarkan ide dan praktek tentang bagaimana hidup bersama yang lain. CEDAR telah berkembang sejak awal dibentuk pada tahun 2003 dengan nama International Summer School on Religion and Public Life (ISSRPL). Namanya berubah menjadi CEDAR pada tahun 2013 dan sejak itu terus mengadakan program pelatihan di banyak negara, antara lain Inggris Raya, Bosnia, Bugaria, Israel, Amerika Serikat, Kenya dan Indonesia. Artikel ini dimulai dengan testimoni dari peserta program CEDAR yang dilakukan di berbagai negara itu selama dua minggu untuk menggambarkan perubahan yang kemudian mereka alami terutama pandangan dan sikapnya terhadap mereka yang memiliki keyakinan yang berbeda.  Dari penagalaman program di Bosnia, Krosia dan Israel misalnya kami belajar bahwa perbedaan agama atau antara pemeluk agama dan sekuler sebagai sumber utama konflik namun juga perbedaan suku, golongan dan orientasi seksual juga merupakan sumber ketegangan, intoleransi dan saling curiga satu sama lain. Oleh karenanya, kami memasukkan berbagai faktor tersebut ke dalam program kami. Berbagi pengalaman adalah tempat terbaik untukmemahami perbedaan dibandingkan pelatihan akademis. Penekanan berbagi pengalaman berimplikasi kepada model pelatihan dimana kegiatan akademis dikurangi dan dan lebih diperbanyak kegiatan pembelajaran non akademis misalnya mengerjakan proyek bersama. Artikel ini juga menjelaskan tentang peran ahli antropologi baik dalam teori maupun iplementasinya dalam kurikulum dan kegiatan program CEDAR2003 at the time under the name of  International Summer School on Religion and Public Life (ISSRPL). The name is changed into CEDAR in 2013 and since than have conducted summer program in many countries, such as UK, Bosnia, Bulgari, Israel, USA, Kenya and Indonesia.The article bean with testimonies from several CEDAR participants from different countries for two weeks to show their change in attitude and perception towards the others that ave different faiths. From the experience of the program in Bosnia, Kroasia and Israel for examples we learned that religious differencies or differencies between religious and seculars not always the main source of conflicts but also differencies in ethnicity, tribal groups and sexual orientation that could be the triggered for tensions, intolerance and prejudices.Therefore, we dicided to include those factors into our program. Sharing experiences is the best place to understand differences compare to academic trainings. Emphasis to sharing experiences have an implication to the reduction of academic training components and giving more times to non academic activities for instance with working together in share projects. The article also explains the role of anthropologist in theory and implementation within the CEDAR program’s curriculum and activities

Stress System Dynamics during “Life As It Is Lived”: An Integrative Single-Case Study on a Healthy Woman

Little is known about the dynamic characteristics of stress system activity during “life as it is lived”. Using as representative a study design as possible, this investigation sought to gain insights into this area. A healthy 25-year-old woman collected her entire urine over a period of 63 days in 12-h intervals (126 measurements) to determine cortisol and neopterin (immune activation marker) levels. In addition, she filled out questionnaires on emotional state and daily routine in 12-h intervals, and was interviewed weekly to identify emotionally negative and positive everyday incidents. Adjusted cross-correlational analyses revealed that stressful incidents were associated with cyclic response patterns in both urinary cortisol and urinary neopterin concentrations. Urinary cortisol levels first decreased 12–24 h after stressful incidents occurred (lag 1: −.178; p = 0.048) and then increased a total of 72–84 h later (lag 6: +.224; p = 0.013). Urinary neopterin levels first increased 0–12 h before the occurrence of stressful incidents (−lag 1: +.185; p = 0.040) and then decreased a total of 48–60 h following such stressors (lag 4: −.181; p = 0.044). Decreases in urinary neopterin levels were also found 24–36 and 48–60 h after increases in pensiveness (lag 2: −.215; p = 0.017) and depressiveness (lag 4: −.221; p = 0.014), respectively. Findings on emotionally positive incidents sharply contrasted with those dealing with negative experiences. Positive incidents were followed first by urinary cortisol concentration increases within 12 h (lag 0: +.290; p = 0.001) and then by decreases after a total of 60–72 h (lag 5: −.186; p = 0.039). Urinary neopterin levels first decreased 12–24 h before positive incidents occurred (−lag 2: −.233; p = 0.010) and then increased a total of 12–24 h following these incidents (lag 1: +.222; p = 0.014). As with previous investigations on patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), this study showed that stress system response can be considerably longer and more complex and differentiated than findings from conventional group studies have suggested. Further integrative single-case studies will need to be conducted in order to draw firm conclusions about stress system dynamics under real-life conditions

Problems of Trust

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Individualism as Principle: Its Emergence, Institutionalization, and Contradictions, political philosophy

Symposium: Law and Civil Societ

The Problem of Trust

Some time ago Sir Ralf Dahrendorf published a trenchant and rather de pressing essay on the growing uncoupling of economic well-being, social cohesion, and political freedom in Europe.vii, 205