A task-based needs analysis of English language training for the Estonian Defence Forces active service personnel

Käesoleva magistritöö eesmärgiks oli viia läbi Eesti Kaitseväe tegevväelaste inglise keele vajaduste analüüs, et koostada erialakeele õppekavad, mis vastaksid õppurite vajadustele ja soovidele. Tegemist on esmase uuringuga pikema vajaduste analüüsi projekti raames. Töö koosneb teoreetilisest osast, mis kirjeldab sõjalise inglise keele olemust ja eripära ning annab ülevaate koolitusvajaduse analüüsi meetoditest ning allikatest. Tuginedes teistele olulisematele militaarvaldkonna keelevajaduse analüüsi uuringutele (nt Aho 2003, Lett 2005, Park 2015) viidi käesolev uurimus läbi lähtuvalt ülesandepõhise keelevajaduse analüüsi teooriast (vt Long 2015).http://www.ester.ee/record=b5142530*es

Twins, Siblings and Close Neighbours: The Uses of Metaphor and the Genealogy of the Study of Religions - A Response to Kim Knott

No abstract available

Neerukivitõve kahtlusega haige piltdiagnostika

Viimase paari aastakümne tehniline areng on radioloogiliste uuringute nimekirja ja võimalusi nii laiendanud, et nendes orienteerumine nõuab tõsist pingutust ka radioloogidelt endilt, rääkimata siis raviarstidest. Ja nii mõnigi kord juhtub, et uue meetodiga saadud detailirikka ja atraktiivse kujutise võimalik reaalne mõju patsiendi käsitusele jääb selgusetuks ning teatakse vaid, et selle kujutise saamine on järjekordselt kulukam. Enamasti on ka nii, et uued meetodid annavad uut ja täiendavat informatsiooni, vanad aga jäävad endiselt kasutusele. On aga siiski erandeid ning neerukivitõve haige piltdiagnostiline algoritm on üks selliseid, kus uus diagnostikameetod on eelnevad peaaegu täielikult kõrvale jätnud. Eesti Arst 2009; 88(7−8):485−49

Response to Serafim Seppälä

Catharina Raudvere, University of Copenhagen Catharina Raudvere is a professor of the history of religion at the University of Copenhagen and manages its research centre ‘Many Roads in Modernity. South-eastern Europe and its Ottoman Roots’ (modernity.ku.dk). Her publications include the monograph The Book and the Roses. Sufi Women, Visibility and Zikir in Contemporary Istanbul (2002) and the co-edited volumes Religion, Politics, and Turkey’s EU Accession (with Dietrich Jung, 2008), Sufism Today: Heritage and Tradition in the Global Community (with Leif Stenberg2009), and Rethinking the Space for Religion. New Actors in Central and Southeast Europe (with Krzysztof Stala and Trine Stauning- Willert, 2012). Most recently she published Islam: An Introduction (2015) and edited Contested Memories and the Demands of the Past: History Cultures in the Modern Muslim World (2016).A response to Serafim Seppälä’s article ‘The “Temple of Non-Being” at Tsitsernakaberd and remembrance of the Armenian genocide: an interpretation’. Key themes discussed include increasing efforts to convey divergent positions in a conflict when contemporary memorial sites are planned, as well as recent contributions within the academic field of memory studies, placing emphasis on local narrative and agency rather than institutional religious and national frameworks

Rooms of their own: old rituals in new settings: women between Sufism and Islamic activism in contemporary Istanbul

This paper deals with how rituals, deeply rooted in local tradition, can be used to legitimize new forms of activism in complex modern societies. The empirical material comes from fieldwork in Istanbul, where the author has studied a small Muslim women's group. The women have organized their activities in the form of a religious foundation, offering regular prayer meetings and basic religious education to other women in the vicinity. The women's use of the term vakif  comprises both the formal organisation and the meeting place as such. The weekly performance of the repetitive and intense zikir-prayer constitutes the core of activities and the teachings of the leading women and their theology is clearly based on sufi, tasavvuf, thought. They identify themselves as the keepers of sufi traditions, but without any formal connection to any established order, tarikat. Many of the formal aspects of their religious life follow established patterns, but the social and cultural setting in the mega-city of Istanbul is a novelty. From the conditions of modern urban life follows a wider complexity in individual intention and interpretation of the rituals

The Part of the Whole. Cosmology as an Empirical and Analytical Concept

In the study of Old Norse religion, mythology and cosmology are two core concepts frequently used in inter-disciplinary discussions as to the content, changes and spread of the pre-Christian religion in Scandinavia. The article discusses the concept of cosmology in relation to religion and world-view, with examples from picture-stones and from mythological and heroic texts. Cosmology is not a criterion of religion, any more than the occurrence of an explicitly formulated cosmology necessarily implies that the aim in presenting a world-view is exclusively religious. We may be justified in looking closely at a body of material that is to be studies and asking ourselves where its systematicity is formulated: in the researcher’s argumentation, in a compiler like Snorri, or in the emic tradition? And not least, which individual narratives in the local tradition are singled out as cosmological? Hybrid forms are rarely identified by studying cosmologies as doctrinal systems. The representation of world-views can take other forms than systematised accounts, but then they are less easily accessible to research. In a discussion of the concept of cosmology, there may be good reason to ask what motifs in text and image recurring over a long time imply for different interpretations and what their ambivalence means for their analysis today. The as now, there is a wide range of possibilities when it comes to the interpretation of individual expressions. The explanatory value of concepts such as cosmology, or for that matter mythology, is sometimes obscure, since the terms are used to capture a particular type of empirical material rather than to answer an analytical question. Cosmology and mythology thus refer to a certain kind of content in narratives rather than to the normal meaning of the term cosmology, i.e. a coherent doctrine of the universe that takes into consideration both the spatial aspects of the word cosmos and systematic knowledge, logos

Response to Serafim Seppälä

A response to Serafim Seppälä’s article ‘The “Temple of Non-Being” at Tsitsernakaberd and remembrance of the Armenian genocide: an interpretation’. Key themes discussed include increasing efforts to convey divergent positions in a conflict when contemporary memorial sites are planned, as well as recent contributions within the academic field of memory studies, placing emphasis on local narrative and agency rather than institutional religious and national frameworks

Parasitism kõlvatu konkurentsi valguses

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In från sidan. Elizabeth W. Fernea: En pionjär i studiet av muslimsk religiös praxis

English abstract: An apparent trend in the study of Islam and Muslims during the last decades is the growing interest in religious everyday life and ritual practice. Sometimes Islamic Studies are said to be too focused on politicization, extremism and migration, but contemporary studies to a growing extent also discuss ”lived religion” and ”vernacular religion” with the ambition to identify how individuals and smaller groups practice and understand their religion. These studies have provided important documentation of practices, methodological and theoretical discussions and a more complex view on texts and the uses of texts. But such an interest has a long history. This article presents one of the pioneers in the study of Muslim piety, Elizabeth Fernea, and points to the importance of early ethnography as a resource for the study of contemporary religion. Fernea's two-year stay in a Shiite small-town in Iraq generated fully-fledged descriptions of everyday piety as well as a unique account of a pilgrim tour to Karbala 1957. Its literary style immediately gave Guests of the Sheik a broad range of readers when it was published in 1965, but it took longer before it was established in academic literature. In her book, Fernea describes religious conditions in Iraq in the 1950s and the conflicts between the lives of the clans and the emerging urban middle class. In comparison to the chaos in Iraq since 2003 and the preceding decades of dictatorship, Fernea's study is a narrative from another Iraq. Svensk resumE: En påtaglig trend i studiet av islam och muslimer under de senaste årtiondena har varit ett växande intresse för religiöst vardagsliv och rituell praxis. Islamstudier skylls ibland för att vara alltför fokuserade på politisering, extremism och migration, men samtida studier som inte primärt behandlat dessa frågor har i ökad utsträckning studerat ”lived religion” och ”vernacular religion”. Dessa perspektiv har genererat betydelsefull dokumentation av praxis, metodologiska och teoretiska diskussioner, samt bidragit till en mer komplex syn på text och textbruk. Men intresse för hur människor praktiserar sin religion och lokala tolkningar har en lång historia. Denna artikel presenterar en av pionjärerna för studiet av muslimsk fromhet, Elizabeth Fernea, och pekar på betydelsen av tidigare etnografi som resurs också för religionsvetenskapens samtida studier. Ferneas tvååriga vistelse i en shiamuslimsk småstad i Irak resulterade i skildringar av såväl vardagens fromhet som en unik framställning av en pilgrimsfärd till Karbala 1957. Guests of the Sheik fick från början en bred läsekrets när boken publicerades 1965, men det dröjde innan den fick en självklar plats i den akademiska litteraturen. I jämförelse med det tillstånd av kaos och våld som Irak befinner sig i sedan 2003 och den diktatur som föregick är Ferneas studie ett vittnesmål om ett annat Irak, men som ohjälpligt hör till historien. Spänningarna mellan klanernas traditionella liv och den begynnande framväxten av en utbildad urban medelklass är ett bärande tema i studien liksom de komplicerade relationerna mellan muslimer och kristna