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RESOLUSI KONFLIK DALAM PENATAAN DAN PEMBINAAN PKL KOTA BANDUNG MENGGUNAKAN TEORI DRAMA
Authors: Permatasari Anggraeni
Published: July 2018

Proses relokasi Pedagang Kaki Lima (PKL) seringkali mengakibatkan konflik antara Pemerintah Kota (Pemkot) dan PKL. Hal ini disebabkan karena perbedaan kepentingan antara Pemkot dan PKL. Oleh karena itu, Pemkot berinisiatif untuk menyelesaikan permasalahan PKL di Kota Bandung dengan mengeluarkan Peraturan Daerah (Perda) No.4 tahun 2011 mengenai penataan dan pembinaan PKL. Penelitian ini akan membahas lebih jauh mengenai dilema yang muncul antara Pemkot Bandung dan PKL terhadap pelaksanaan Perda No.4 tahun 2011. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan deskriptif-kualitatif melalui wawancara dan analisis teori drama. Data yang digunakan menggunakan data primer dan sekunder. Data primer didapatkan melalui wawancara terhadap PKL dan perwakilan kelompok. Data sekunder didapatkan melalui tinjauan pustaka, surat kabar, media online dan website. Hasil penelitian ini mengungkapkan bahwa pemahaman dilema sangat diperlukan kedua belah pihak dalam resolusi konflik.
Zero-Field Quantum Tunneling of the Magnetization in a Series of High Energy-Barrier Dysprosium (III) Single-Molecule Magnets
Authors: Ortu Fabrizio , Reta Daniel , Ding You-Song , Goodwin Conrad A. P. , Gregson Matthew P. , McInnes Eric J. L. , E. P. Winpenny Richard , Zheng Yan-Zhen , Liddle Stephen T. , Mills David P. , Chilton Nicholas F.
Published: July 2018

Energy barriers to magnetisation reversal (Ueff) in single-molecule magnets (SMMs) have vastly increased recently, but only for the dysprosocenium SMM [Dy(Cpttt)2][B(C6F5)4] (Cpttt = C5H2tBu3-1,2,4) has this translated into a considerable increase in magnetic hysteresis temperatures. The lack of concomitant increases in hysteresis temperatures with Ueff values is due to efficient magnetic relaxation at zero-field, referred to as quantum tunnelling of the magnetisation (QTM); however, the exact nature of this phenomenon is unknown. Recent hypotheses suggest that both transverse dipolar magnetic fields and hyperfine coupling play a significant role in this process for Dy(III) SMMs. Here, by studying the compounds [Dy(tBuO)Cl(THF)5][BPh4] (1), [K(18-crown-6-ether)(THF)2][Dy(BIPM)2] (2, BIPM = C{PPh2NSiMe3}2), and [Dy(Cpttt)2][B(C6F5)4] (3), we show conclusively that neither of these processes are the main contributor to zero-field QTM for Dy(III) SMMs, and suggest that its origin instead owes to molecular flexibility. By analysing the vibrational modes of the three molecules, we show that the modes that most impact the magnetic ion occur at the lowest energies for 1, at intermediate energies for 2 and at higher energies for 3, in correlation with their ability to retain magnetisation. Therefore, we conclude that SMM performance could be improved by employing more rigid ligands with higher-energy metal-ligand vibrational modes.
Kronik Obstruktif Akciğer Hastalığı (KOAH) Tedavisinin Nitrik Oksit (NO) ve Asimetrik Dimetil Arjinin (ADMA) Düzeylerine Etkisi
Authors: TANBOĞA Kübra , BİLGİN Cahit , AKDOĞAN Mehmet , DEVECİ ÖZKAN Asuman , ERDOĞAN ÇAKAR Ayşe
Published: July 2018

Asimetrik dimetilarjinin (ADMA) ve nitrik oksit (NO),
etki mekanizmalarını karşılıklı olarak gösterirler, bu moleküller arasındaki
denge hava yolu tonusunun ve fonksiyonunun sıkı düzenlenmesine katkıda bulunur.
Çalışmamız kronik obstrüktif akciğer hastalığı (KOAH),  tedavisinin kandaki hemogram, total IgE ve
serum ADMA, NO düzeylerine ve solunum fonksiyon testi (SFT) değişimlerine olan etkisine
bakmayı amaçlamıştır. Çalışmada seçilen tedavi öncesi ve tedavi
sonrası gruplarından alınan kan örneklerinden total IgE, hemogram ve serum
ADMA, NO düzeylerine bakıldı. Serum ADMA ve NO düzeyleri ise NO ticari ölçüm
kiti kullanılarak ELISA yöntemiyle, hemogram ve total IgE değerlerine ise
otomatik kan sayım cihazında bakılmıştır. Kontrol ile tedavi öncesi serum ADMA
düzeyleri arasında anlamlı fark bulunurken (p<0.05)  tedavi sonrasındaki grupla arasında anlamlı
fark bulunmadı (p<0.05). KOAH’lı bireylerde yapılan tedavi kontrol grubu
düzeyi ile olan ADMA farkını azaltmıştır. Tedavi öncesi ile tedavi sonrası ADMA
düzeyleri arasındaki fark anlamlı bulunmamıştır (p<0.05). Kontrol ile tedavi öncesi ve tedavi sonrası
grupların NO konsantrasyonları arasındaki fark anlamlı bulunurken (p<0.001),
tedavi öncesi ile tedavi sonrası NO düzeyleri arasındaki fark anlamlı bulunmamıştır
(p<0.05). Kontrol ile tedavi öncesi ve tedavi sonrası grupların total IgE
konsantrasyonları arasındaki fark istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bulunmuştur (p<0.001).
Tedavi öncesi ile tedavi sonrası grupların total IgE düzeyleri arasındaki fark
anlamlı bulunmamıştır (p<0.05). Tedavi
öncesi ve tedavi sonrası grupların KOAH serum ADMA ile NO değerleri arasında
önemli negatif bir ilişki bulunmuştr. KOAH’lı bireylerde ADMA düzeylerinin yüksek,
NO düzeylerinin düşük olduğunu ve her ikisinin de hava akımı sınırlaması
derecesi ile güçlü bir korelasyon gösterdiğini gözlemledik. ADMA, KOAH
prognozunun olası yeni bir göstergesi gibi görünmektedir ve KOAH tedavisinde
yeni bir potansiyel tedavi hedefi olabilir.
Brazilian high-level men’s volleyball
Authors: Conti Gustavo , Freire Auro , Evangelista Breno , Pedrosa Gustavo , Ugrinowitsch Herbert , Castro Henrique
Published: July 2018

The present study aimed to characterize and differentiate between the predictive factors of the attacks performed by the opposite player from positions 1 and 2. The sample consisted of the observation records of 142 volleyball games of the Brazilian Men’s Super-League season 2014/2015, totaling 8,010 actions of reception, setting and attack, with 5,965 actions from position 2 and 2,045 from position 1. The analysis of the predictive factors of the opposite player’s attack, according to the position of the attack, showed that the attacks from position 2 are more likely to occur after reception B (OR:1.317), in either diagonal (OR:1.302) or parallel (OR: 1.548), and to result in blocking of the attack (OR:1.496). On the other hand, attacks performed from position 1 are more likely to occur after receiving A (OR:0.458) resulting in a point (OR:0.709). Thus, situational constraints influenced the predictive factors of the opposite player’s attack, according to the attacking position
Comunicación y territorio: Resistencias en el noreste argentino
Authors: Agüero María Laura , Müller Ana
Published: July 2018

En este artículo nos detenemos a pensar en las prácticas, los procesos y los sujetos de la comunicación popular, alternativa y comunitaria del noroeste argentino. Enmarcado en la Investigación Acción Participativa, el artículo exhibe las proyecciones y deseos por ejercer el derecho a la comunicación y los desafíos para repensar de manera colectiva los aportes que cada territorio de la región realiza al campo comunicacional a partir de sus historias y modos de relacionarse afirmandop la cultura local como lugar de enunciación. Esto no solo impacta y transforma los territorios y las luchas históricas de los sectores rurales organizados, sino también nos invita y obliga a reflexionar, investigar, rediscutir y renovar compromisos desde allí.
Extraños en las esquinas
Authors: Aparicio Camacho William Fernando
Published: July 2018

Este conjunto de fotografías es el resultado de encuentros fugaces en las esquinas de Bogotá. Son ellas un homenaje a los rostros de las personas, donde el fotográfo capta, cual espejo, un reflejo a las vez cristalino y enigmático. Las actitudes y expresiones retratadas están adornadas con bostezos, muecas, gafas, bigotes, corbatas, corbatines, peinados, aretes, pelos. La cámara se transforma en un instrumento que acorta la distancia con aquel que, por la calle, camina a mi lado.
Shariah Value Logic to Enhance NPD Performance
Authors: Mursid Mansur Chadi
Published: July 2018

To analyze shariah value logic as the role mediating in the relationship between NPD Innovation and NPD Performance. We purposed shariah value logic as mediating role in this study. The questionnaires will be given to only the managers of LKMS (the board of shariah micro finance) in Pekalongan, Indonesia with total 246 responden from 24 LKMS (Baitul Maal wa Tamwil, Baitul Tamwil, Kospin Jasa Shariah, and KSPP Shariah). Shariah Value Logic significantly affect to Customer Brand Trust. Research limited in muamalah, future research can exploring in ebadat. LKMS adapted shariah value logic to get customer brand trust. Shariah value logic as the new variable and theory concept. Indirect, NPD Innovation positive significantly affect to NPD Performance with shariah value logic and customer brand trust are as mediating role.
Structural Characteristics of Reinforced Palm Kernel Shell Concrete Deep Beams
Authors: Adom-Asamoah Mark , Osei Jack Banahene , Adinkra-Appiah Kwadwo
Published: July 2018

This paper evaluates the structural characteristics of deep beams made from reinforced palm kernel shell concrete (PKSC) and normal weight concrete (NWC). Twelve PKSC and NWC deep beam samples, with and without shear reinforcement were tested under three-point loading and their structural behavior studied. The ultimate shear strength of PKSC beams increased with a decrease in the shear span-to- depth ratio. Post diagonal cracking shear resistance is greater in PKSC deep beams than beams of normal weight concrete. The shear capacity of the PKSC and NWC deep beams were assessed to be un-conservative using ACI 318-99, ACI 318-05, Eurocode (EC) 2 and a kinematic model, when compared with the experimental results. Nonetheless, this necessitated the development of a calibration procedure to correct the bias inherent in these models. Calibrated shear strength models revealed the compressive strength and the ratio of the shear span-to-total depth as significant influential parameters for correcting the inherent bias in the original deterministic shear strength models. The calibrated functional model of ACI-318-99 may produce conservative predictions, given this limited number of test specimens. Therefore future studies should investigate the reliability of the calibrated models, and quantifying the uncertainties in the estimated coefficients of parameters, using a much larger representative dataset.
Empowering Women to Understand Their Role as the Prime Builder of Inclusive Society
Authors: Uyuni Badrah
Published: July 2018

The inclusive society is the condition where all people fell valued. Their differences are respected, and their basic needs are met so they can live in dignity. There are many ways to achieve this dream to become true in society. One of the best ways is to acknowledge woman’ roles as the prime part of the society. As women build half of society and responsible for the nurturing, guidance and reformation of the generations of both men and women. When the women as the first teachers do not have a strong foundation in their own divine identity, we are distorted our beliefs about relationships and our own world, and when it could be accommodated this so called inclusive society. In fact, they are often at a disadvantage condition due to many factors which are rooted in the society. There are some steps that have been done to increase women's dignity by the Government, society, non-governmental organizations and the like. And it is considered successfully develop the life style of most people from the outlook of the education, economic, health, politics and others. However, there is missing link that should be existed on these improvements. The consciousness and the awareness of the women responsibility for her to developing their authentic identity is should be recognized not only by them, but also by the community in general. The family, the society and the Government in general should accommodate their existence, and never ending awareness to be always mature in building the inclusive society
Profil Literasi Fisika Siswa Madrasah Terhadap Mitigasi Bencana Erosi Batang Sinamar
Authors: Zakwandi Rizki , Rochman Chaerul , Nasrudin Dindin , Yuningsih Endah Kurnia , Putra Sandijal
Published: July 2018

Contextual physics learning with natural phenomena in the environment will be more meaningful for learners. One of the learning contexts that can be raised is the phenomenon of soil erosion in the river Batang Sinamar, West Sumatra. This study aims to describe the profile of physics literacy ability of learners about the erosion of river wall of Batang Sinamar in District of Lima Puluh City of West Sumatera Province. The method used is pre-experimental with one shoot test design. Data collection is done by disseminating instrument literacy consisting of four questions about the process, concept, context and best attitude of learners in response to the phenomenon. The results showed that there were significant differences in literacy ability of physics concepts between students attending school near the erosion site and students who went to school away from the erosion site. The average overall grade of the learners at the closest school is 2.66 and the furthest school is 2.14. The results of this study can be used as the initial reference in the preparation of enrichment materials about the physical matter related to the phenomenon of erosion of the Sinamar rod wall.
Metode Keteladanan Pendidikan Islam dalam Persfektif Quran
Authors: Taklimudin Taklimudin , Saputra Febri
Published: July 2018

This study aims to understand is how exemplary method Islamic education in the perspective of the Quran, how the exemplary method of Qurani and its implementation in education. This research uses the Research Method Library (library research) with approach method Mudhu'iy. That is, by way of collecting all or part of the verses from several letters that relate to the problem of exemplary (Uswah hasanah). So in the end taken a thorough conclusion about the matter according to the view of the Quran. The results of this study indicate that there are several verses of the Quran that are used as the normative basis used as exemplary methods in Islamic education. The normative description explicitly illustrates the exemplary exemplified by the Prophets and the Messenger of Allah. as well as the companions used as a foothold and backrest by practitioners.
Pengaruh Pemberian Auksin (NAA) dengan Sitokinin (BAP, Kinetin dan 2ip) terhadap Daya Proliferasi Tanaman Kantong Semar (Nepenthes mirabilis) Secara In Vitro
Authors: Yudhanto Bagus Setyo , Wiendi Ni Made Armini
Published: July 2018

Auksin dan sitokinin umumnya digunakan sebagai zat pengatur tumbuh secara in vitro. Sudah ditemukan bahwa kombinasi auksin (NAA) dan sitokinin (BAP, kinetin, dan 2ip) untuk proliferasi tunas Nepenthes mirabilis secara in vitro. Penelitian ini dirancang menggunakan rancangan acak lengkap dua faktor, auksin sebagai faktor pertama dan sitokinin sebagai faktor kedua. Kombinasi auksin dan sitokinin yang digunakan adalah NAA: 1 dan 2 mg / l sedangkan BAP, kinetin, dan 2ip masing-masing sebanyak 0, 2,5, dan 5 mg / l. Kombinasi zat pengatur tumbuh yang ditambahkan ke media Murashige dan Skoog (MS). Hasil terbaik untuk proliferasi tunas yaitu perlakuan tanpa sitokinin dan tambahan NAA 1 mg / l sebanyak 5,2 tunas dalam 10 minggu.
Pengaruh Pupuk Organik Guano dan Chitosan terhadap Pertumbuhan dan Perkembangan Anggrek Phalaenopsis spp.
Authors: Noer Ira Fauziah , Sukma Dewi , Aziz Sandra Arifin
Published: July 2018

Penelitian dilakukan untuk mengetahui pengaruh pupuk organik guano dan kitosan pada pertumbuhan dan perkembangan anggrek Phalaenopsis dilakukan di pembibitan Gunung Batu, Bogor pada bulan Maret sampai Agustus 2011. Penelitian menggunakan rancangan kelompok lengkap teracak dengan 4 perlakuan dan 4 ulangan. Perlakuan pemupukan terdiri atas pupuk Thaichung 1 g L-1, pupuk Thaichung 1 g L-1 + kitosan 10 ppm, Thaichung pupuk 1 g L-1 + guano 10 ml L-1, dan pupuk Thaichung 1 g L-1 + kitosan 10 ppm + guano 10 ml L-1. pupuk Thaichung 1 g L-1 yang dibutuhkan untuk P. bellina dan P. modesta, dan guano 10 ml L-1 yang dibutuhkan untuk P. amabilis di kompot dalam kondisi panas dan kering.
Pengelolaan Panen Tanaman Kelapa Sawit (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) di Kota Waringin Timur, Kalimantan Tengah
Authors: Turman . , Supijatno .
Published: July 2018

Penelitian ini dilakukan di perkebunan kelapa sawit, Kota Waringin Timur, Kalimantan Tengah dari tanggal 14 Februari-14 Juni 2011. Tujuan umum dari penelitian untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan, keterampilan dan pengalaman kerja lapang dalam pengelolaan perkebunan kelapa sawit, baik teknis atau manajerial. Tujuan khusus dari penelitian untuk mempelajari manajemen panen dan meningkatkan kemampuan manajemen panen di perkebunan kelapa sawit. Kegiatan selama penelitian termasuk beberapa pekerjaan yaitu, sebagai karyawan kebun dan membantu mandor masing-masing untuk satu bulan, dan membantu asisten divisi selama dua bulan. Data primer diperoleh langsung dari lapang  dengan melakukan diskusi atau wawancara mandor dan asisten divisi serta melalui pengamatan langsung di lapang. Data sekunder diperoleh dari data perusahaan atau catatan perusahaan. Berdasarkan pengamatan selama penelitian, pemanen di Divisi I perkebunan masih membuat beberapa kesalahan seperti memotong buah kurang matang 0.59%, buah lewat matang 4.23%, brondolan tinggal, tangkai panjang 0.59% dan buah tinggal 0.81%. Tapi kesalahan berada di bawah standar perusahaan kecuali buah yang tidak dipanen. Toleransi buah yang tidak dipanen adalah 0%, namun kenyataannya masih ditemukan buah yang tidak dipanen. Hasil kualitas buah cukup baik, persentase buah matang yang dihasilkan tinggi sebesar 95.09% dan tidak ada buah mentah yang ditemukan. Sistem pengawasan yang ketat dan penerapan  sistem eksplisit akan mengurangi terjadinya kesalahan pemanen.
Pengelolaan Pemangkasan Teh (Camellia Sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) Di Kabupaten Kendal, Jawa Tengah
Authors: Wachjar Ade , Supriadi .
Published: July 2018

Penelitian ini dilakukan di Kendal, Jawa Tengah dari bulan Februari sampai Juni 2011. Kegiatan penelitian dilakukan dengan cara mengikuti semua kegiatan di kebun baik aspek teknis maupun aspek manajerial diantaranya menjadi seorang Karyawan Harian Lepas (KHL) selama satu bulan, pendamping mandor selama satu bulan, dan bekerja sebagai pendamping bagian kepala kebun selama dua bulan. Tujuan penelitian yaitu untuk mengembangkan pengetahuan, pengalaman kerja, dan pembelajaran terhadap aspek manajemen pemangkasan teh menurut aspek teknis dan manajerial. Pemangkasan merupakan kegiatan pemeliharaan untuk meremajakan tanaman teh untuk meningkatkan produksi pucuk. Kegiatan pemangkasan tanaman teh di Kendal, Jawa Tengah sudah cukup baik. Jenis pemangkasan yang dilaksanakan adalah pemangkasan produki setengah bersih,. Hasil pengamatan menunjukkan bahwa pemangkasan dilaksanakan dengan tinggi bidang petik 107 cm, diameter bidang petik 112 cm, tinggi pangkasan 61 cm dan diameter pangkas 60 cm, persentase pucuk burung telah mencapai 89 %. Meskipun ketentuan-ketentuan kebun mengenai pemangkasan tidak selalu dapat diterapkan secara menyeluruh dilapangan, tetapi pihak manajemen selalu mengusahakan agar pelaksanaan dilapangan mendekati standar operasional prosedur (SOP).
Tulevaisuuksien muotoilua Lapin varhaisessa seutusuunnittelussa
Authors: Kinnunen Veera
Published: July 2018

The reconstruction of Lapland after World War II did not mean merely restoring the pre-war infrastructure and buildings; Lapland was both reconstructed and built afresh at the same time. Reconstruction was viewed by planners and architects as an inspiring challenge to modernise the devastated areas. Lapland region was considered a real-life laboratory for arranging novel ways for “living, moving and working”. Almost all the rapids of Finland´s longest river, the Kemijoki, were harnessed during the 1950s and 1960s. The construction of hydropower plants changed both the mental and physical landscape of Northern Finland in ways that were not anticipated in the planning stage of the projects. One of the rapids harnessed on the Kemijoki River was Pirttikoski. During the construction years (1955-1959) the population of Pirttikoski grew from zero to almost 4000. In this article I will discuss the kinds of modernising influences that the construction of the power plants introduced into the culture and everyday lives of the people living in the region, asking what was the ethos of regional planning articulated in the planning of both the community and the region. I will further explore what was the anticipated future society that the designers of Lapland regional plan in the 1950s were pursuing. In this article the village of Pirttikoski serves as a model community in two ways. Firstly, Pirttikoski was originally designed as an experimental model community for creating solutions for future power plant construction site communities. Secondly, it is a model village of my study, a micro case from which I will examine the process of designing a regional plan for Lapland in the 1950s.
Objektiivista ja subjektiivista hyvinvointia mittaamassa
Authors: Sotarauta Markku
Published: July 2018

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Religious diversity
Authors: Obadia Lionel , Illman Ruth
Published: July 2018

The subject matter of this special issue is anything but new: religious diversity has already been widely discussed in theology, philosophy, history and sociology.  (Too) many times, however, diversity has been measured against the yardstick of the changing face of monotheistic models of religion (mainly Christianity). Asian religions have stood at the opposite end of a spectrum of analytical models in religious studies ever since Max Weber’s classic analysis of Asian religions as mixed systems of beliefs per se. This distinction is, nevertheless, rather problematic, and calls for a closer examination of the conceptual status of diversity, and of the forms it assumes in Asian contexts.
Rethinking the Enlightenment
Authors: Elkana Yehuda
Published: July 2018

In this introductory statement, given at the beginning of the Aboagora symposium in Turku in August 2011, Yehuda Elkana highlights the need, in accordance with the title of the conference, to rethink rather than unthink the Enlightenment. Indeed, the Enlightenment remained an unfinished project, but one should never forget that this era formed the basis for the greatest and most important creation of knowledge in all areas for 300 years. Over the last 100 or more years, however, cracks have started to appear in this edifice, Elkana argues: researchers have started to realise that one cannot really distinguish the rational from the irrational and that being contextual does not necessarily mean being relativist.
The moving and shifting concept of culture
Authors: Järviluoma-Mäkelä Helmi
Published: July 2018

Today, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, cultural, and gender scholars are interested in culture not only as it is performed, but as it is continuously done, constructed, maintained through acting, musicking, talking, dancing together. Culture lives, and its elements—or aspects, if you wish—are constantly converging, and articulating into new, moving and shifting formations. In this paper Järviluoma discusses the different ways of understanding the concept of culture, interweaving the ideas with the early twentieth century forms of music making in her own grandmother’s home village in northern Finland. She discusses how the new ‘culture’, within the ‘civilising’ social movements converged with the old ways of life and musicking.
Luxury and the diversity of the Age of Enlightenment
Authors: Pietilä Niklas
Published: July 2018

Economic thought of the eighteenth century has often been interpreted as a unitary whole, which set down the foundations of modern economics.In this essay, Pietilä discusses how the economic thinking of the era was fragmentary and more diverse than traditional overviews of the subject have suggested. Through a brief analysis of David Hume’s essay Of Luxury, published in 1742, Pietilä focuses on the complex concept of luxury as it was discoursed upon in the eighteenth century. Views of Hume and his contemporaries illustrate the level of disagreement in economic discourse during the eighteenth century,and as a conclusion it seems that diverse and wide-ranging arguments were part of the Age of Enlightenment as a whole.
The search for happiness in the eighteenth century and today
Authors: Talikka Hanna
Published: July 2018

The changing world of the eighteenth century and the preceding centuries challenged the traditional view of happiness and good life. Thinkers of the eighteenth century pursued happiness through their texts in various ways. By reading these texts we can notice that most of the key elements in our thinking today derive from the eighteenth century.A parallel can be seen between Rousseau's idea of the good life and today’s view of happiness. Rousseau didn’t think that progress was always leading towards a better life. Today the currently rising trend is to revert to natural ways of living and to criticise the negative progress that has led to pollution, isolation and depression. This connection between Rousseau’s and today’s thinking shows that people deliberate over the same questions regardless of the period of time. We can see that the eighteenth century includes those roots of thought and those questions which have been developing and have been a part of the general discussion all the way to the present moment.
Reflections
Authors: Behar Ruth , Vikström Björn , Salmi Hannu , Illman Ruth
Published: July 2018

This final section presents a literary excerpt and three personal reflections on the theme of Aboagora, as well as on the experience of taking part in Aboagora. It opens with a story written by Ruth Behar, dealing with her personal experience of mastering the English language. Professor Behar read this story as an artistic comment within a workshop entitled ‘Between Art and Research: Rethinking Professional Borderlands’, which dealt with the experiences of people who combine an academic professional career with artistic work. The story is followed by a personal reflection by Bishop Björn Vikström, presented within the context of a session dealing with objectivity and the problem of combining academic research with personal engagement and activism. Finally, two of the organisers of the Aboagora conference, Professor Hannu Salmi and Dr Ruth Illman, reflect on the outcome of the event, evaluating the new insights and perspectives it has facilitated, as well as looking to the future and the potential of Aboagora to develop into a permanent forum for encounters between the arts and sciences.
Neuer Atheismus: New Atheism in Germany
Authors: Zenk Thomas
Published: July 2018

Matthias Knutzen (born 1646 – died after 1674) was the first author we know of who self-identified as an atheist (Schröder 2010: 8). Before this, the term had solely been used pejoratively to label others. While Knutzen is almost completely forgotten now, authors such as Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, or Sigmund Freud are better remembered and might even be considered classic writers in the history of the atheist criticism of religion. Whatever may be said about the influence of any one of these authors, there is no doubt that Germany looks back on a notable history in this field. About a decade ago, Germany’s capital Berlin was even dubbed ‘the world capital of atheism’ by the American sociologist Peter L. Berger (2001: 195).Given this situation, I am bewildered by the expression ‘New Atheism’. Yet, undoubtedly, the term has become a catchphrase that is commonly used in the public discourse of several countries. The most prominent authors to be labelled ‘New Atheists’ are Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion, 2006), Daniel Dennett (Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, 2006), Sam Harris (The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, 2004, and Letter to a Christian Nation, 2006), and Christopher Hitchens (God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Every­thing, 2007). These authors and their books – all of them international bestsellers – have been intensely discussed around the world, including in Germany. In this paper, I intend to illuminate some of the characteristics and remarkable traits of the German discourse on the ‘New Atheism’. Here we can distinguish between two phases. The German media initially characterised ‘New Atheism’ as a rather peculiarly American phenomenon. However, it soon came to be understood to be a part of German culture as well.
Dialectics or politics? Atheism and the return to religion
Authors: Hyman Gavin
Published: July 2018

Much scholarly attention has been given to the vast differences in understandings of theism throughout the history of the theological tradition. Rather less attention has been given to differences in understandings of atheism. That there are and have been such differences, however, is obvious. This may be seen in the contemporary context if we juxtapose the ‘newly visible’ atheisms of, for instance, Richard Dawkins and Slavoj Žižek. In previous work, I and several other scholars have drawn attention to the ways in which the existence of different forms of atheism may be explained by the fact that they are responding to and negating very different forms of theism. But there may well be more at stake in differences between atheisms than this.
Yoga in cyberspace? The web pages of yoga studios in Turku/Åbo
Authors: Broo Måns
Published: July 2018

In this article, I will offer some comments on the websites of the nine yoga schools which are active in the city of Turku/Åbo at the present moment (see sources for the links). This work is part of a larger, ongoing research project on yoga in this city within the PCCR or Post Secular Society and a Changing Religious Landscape Centre of Excellence research project at the Department of Comparative Religion, Åbo Akademi University.
Textualising an Oral Epic – Mission Completed
Authors: Harvilahti Lauri
Published: July 2018

In this article the author briefly examines three cases that represent Lauri Honko’s views on the textualisation of oral epics. Furthermore, these examples offer an insight into the concept of the paradigm, which was a key concept for Lauri Honko in the field of folkloristics and in the study of religion. The three case studies are as follows:1. A literary folk epic based on an oral tradition: the ‘singing scribe’ Elias Lönnrot, who compiled a number of versions of his Kalevala on the basis of Kalevala-metric folk poems.2. An epic based on multimedia documentation/ fieldwork: the Siri Epic, sung by Gopala Naika. He was an erudite singer, who used to perform the epic on ritual occasions or in the work-song context.3. An epic based on an archived oral tradition: the long epic of the Setu female singer Anne Vabarna, who produced a twin epic with the encouragement of the collector Armas Otto Väisänen, who dreamt about writing down such an epic.These three examples all belong to the ‘second life’ category of folklore in the sense that all of them have been produced outside the ‘system of communication’ which maintains an item of folklore in its original setting.
'Dead Clay and Living Clay': Máirtín Ó Cadhain's criticisms of the work of the Irish Folklore Commission
Authors: Briody Mícheál
Published: July 2018

In Ireland the creation of one of the world’s largest collections of oral traditions by the Irish Folklore Commission (1935−70) was intimately bound up with the declining fortunes of the Irish language as a spoken vernacular and the young independent Irish state’s efforts to revive that language. This paper deals not with the Trojan achievements of the Commission, but with certain criticisms of its work levelled against it by someone with impeccable Irish-language credentials and someone who was also steeped in the Irish-language oral tradition since childhood; namely the creative writer and intellectual Máirtín Ó Cadhain. In this paper I will outline some of Ó Cadhain’s criticisms of the work of the Irish Folklore Commission as well as place them in context.
Functions of Narrative Genres for Lived Religion
Authors: Hovi Tuija
Published: July 2018

The article presents the object and results of a study which combines the psychology of religion and folkloristics in the form of a qualitative analysis of empirical ethnographic material compiled from sources in a local neo-charismatic congregation called the ‘Word of Life’. Personal narrative is discussed as a genre which represents the collective tradition of a religious community. It is a socially-learned speech act and a means of interpreting and sharing religious experience, thus constructing and confirming the faith of the community, both individually and collectively. In the neo-charismatic tradition, everyday speech draws on a literal (biblical) tradition as well as on socially-shared narrative genres such as ritual testimonies, prophecies, sermons and casual, personal narratives of co-believers. The faith-creative power of these stories can be found in their performative utterances and evaluative structures as well as in non-communication.
Vernacular Beliefs and Official Traditional Religion: The position and meaning of Mari worldview in the current context
Authors: Alybina Tatiana
Published: July 2018

Vernacular religion connected with the clan was expected to adapt in the context of globalisation and the vanishing ideals of traditional (tribal) societies. But at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries a revival of European ‘paganism’ has appeared. A return to vernacular beliefs is not only happening in the mass religious mind of some Eastern European and Asian people, but also in the romantic mythologemes which are being created by national elites. Lithuanians, who were Christianised in the fourteenth century – the last nation in the Baltic region to undergo this process  – recall their heathen roots; Ukrainians revive their rodnoverie – indigenous beliefs – in an attempt to resist the Orthodox and Catholic Churches. Apart from this there are other pre-Christian faith organisations in Latvia, Estonia, Germany and England. The traditions of the pre-Christian societies attract people through their apparent proximity to communal peasant culture. Followers of some of these beliefs are interested in popularising Viking mythology. The activities of druids and adherents of the Northern European Asatru religion revive ancient festivals and ceremonies. The popularisation of these movements can be seen as an attempt to resist an encroachment of the modern, globalised, urbane society.
Concord, Conflict and Co-Existence: religion and society in the Middle East and North Africa
Authors: Kerkkänen Ari , Illman Ruth
Published: July 2018

This is the editorial for the special issue 'Concord, Conflict and Co-existence: Religion and Society in the Middle East and North Africa'.
An emerging trend of charismatic religiosity in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Authors: Haapalainen Anna
Published: July 2018

The membership rates of the Evangelical Lutheran Church are declining; thus its position in society is becoming more and more precarious. This article focuses on a description of how charismatic religiosity, as one possible answer to the challenges faced, has gained a foothold inside the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and what might be the premises that have made its emergence within an institutionalized Evangelical Lutheran religion possible. Because of the several decades of work done by the association known as Spiritual Renewal in Our Church, the publication of the Bishops’ Commendation, and the Church’s awakening to the ‘crisis of the folk church’, more doors have been opened to collaboration and the search for sources of inspiration.
Systems thinking, spirituality and Ken Wilber: beyond New Age
Authors: Kamppinen Matti , Jakonen JP
Published: July 2018

Systems thinking is a general worldview concerning the nature of reality. It sees the world as composed of systems, and all particular entities populating reality as linked with other entities – the emergence of new properties denies the flatland of plain materiality, and generates entities of a higher order. Spirituality in historical and modern traditions has minimally amounted to relating oneself to a larger or higher systemic whole, which confers meaning to particular cases of existence. In some religious traditions this larger systemic whole has been understood as a transcendental sphere of existence, whereas in other religious and spiritual traditions it has been seen as an immanent thatness. The search for spirituality and wisdom has never been confined to religious traditions, but has inspired other systems thinkers as well, for example in philosophy, the New Age movement, in developmental psychology, biology, or futures research. The American philosopher and theoretical psychologist Ken Wilber (b. 1949) has discussed, re-interpreted and synthesized various views on spiritual development as well as systems thinking and has provided input for the New Age movement, comparative religion, developmental psychology, and world philosophy. In this article we will discuss the relationship between systems thinking and spirituality and will assess Ken Wilber’s contribution to their conceptualization.
Tracing circulations: the case of the Mercator-Hondius atlas (1613)
Authors: Tunturi Janne , Skurnik Johanna
Published: July 2018

This is the editorial for the special issue of 'Tracing Circulations: The Case of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas (1613).
The Mercator-Hondius Atlas at the Donner Institute
Authors: Ahlbäck Tore
Published: July 2018

This introduction describes the background and reasons why the Mercator-Hondius atlas analysed in this issue became part of the library collection of the Donner Institute.
Art approaching religion and science
Authors: Illman Ruth , Kristensson Uggla Bengt
Published: July 2018

Editorial for the special issue on the theme of art appraoching religion and science.
Response to Melissa Raphael
Authors: Illman Ruth
Published: July 2018

A response to Melissa Raphael’s article ‘The creation of beauty by its destruction: the idoloclastic aesthetic in modern and contemporary Jewish art’. Key themes discussed include the notion of human beings as created in the image of God, Levinas’s understanding of the face and its ethical demand as well as the contemporary issue of the commodification of the human face in digital media.
'The double helix proves the existence of God': art and science in dialogue with Salvador Dali's religious imagination
Authors: Smith Alan
Published: July 2018

The later artistic work of Salvador Dali demonstrates a dialogue involving new developments in science in the 1940s and 1950s as metaphysical clues to inform his religious imagination and inspire a new era in Dali’s art: nuclear mysticism.
A cinematographic fence and ornamental oars: experiencing the sublime in structures of urban public space
Authors: Ziegler Denise
Published: July 2018

I approach the theme of the sublime experience in public urban space from the point of view of a visual artist and from one of a person walking through the city. In this essay a concrete sublime experience in public urban space is analysed through an experimental artistic intervention. In this way knowledge is gathered about the relationship between public urban space and its users. I engage in a dialogue with the ancient understanding of the sublime as an effect of elevated, performed language. Features of this rhetoric are adapted on to the visual appearance of public urban space in order to reveal situations that evoke sublime experiences.
In retrospect: do we have to choose between art and research practice
Authors: Weckman Jan Kenneth
Published: July 2018

How do artists experience and address beauty at present? Has the notion of beauty vanished completely from artistic discourse? Are ornaments still allowed? What does a contemporary ornament look like? In the exhibition Ornament & Beauty, mounted at Titanik Gallery (5–29 May 2016) in connection with the conference Art Approaching Science and Religion, 12–13 May 2016, the artists intended to comment on questions such as those in the texts published here and through the art works presented.
Beautiful destruction
Authors: Cirkel-Bartelt Vanessa
Published: July 2018

Though the term ‘science fiction’ was coined somewhat later, the early twentieth century saw an enormous rise in an interest in technological tales set in the near future, mirroring a general awareness of the growing importance of science.

Hans Dominik was one of the most prolific – and successful – German authors of this kind of popular literature. According to estimates millions of copies of his books have been sold, making Dominik’s work an interesting case study illustrating the sorts of ideas about science that German-speaking audiences entertained. Being a trained engineer and a public relations officer by profession, Dominik drew heavily on scientific topics that were headline news at the time and yet he also managed to create something new on the basis of these.

One of the methods he employed was the use of religious motifs and topoi. Dominik magnified the relevance of scientific enterprises and depicted the consequences of science – or scientific misconduct, rather – as the beginning of a catastrophe, or even an apocalypse. By the same token, Dominik often introduced the figure of the scientist as a protagonist who would save the world. Thus Dominik was able to draw the attention of a large audience to concepts of the use of atomic energy or nuclear weapons – to name only two – and their creative or destructive potential, decades before such devices were technically feasible.
Thermodynamics and theology
Authors: Russell Cathriona
Published: July 2018

Review of Helge S. Kragh's Entropic Creation: Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and Cosmology (London and New York, Routledge, 2016) (first published in 2008 by Ashgate).
KOCAELİ GÖLCÜK’TE OLUŞAN HEYELANLARIN NEDENLERİ, ETKİLERİ VE ALINAN ÖNLEMLER
Authors: ZENGİNCE Musa , KARAKAŞ Ahmet
Published: July 2018

Küçük veya büyük ölçekli oluşan heyalanlar insan canı ve
malına zarar vermektedirler. Planlama ve yapılaşma sürecinde gerekli bilimsel
çalışmaların yapılmamasının, doğal olayların afete dönüşmesine zemin hazırlamaktadır.
Bunu önüne geçmek için yerleşime uygunluk çalışmaları
göz önüne alınarak yapılaşmaya gidilmelidir. Heyelanlar Gölcük ve civarında sık sık meydana gelmektedir. Bu nedenle bu
çalışmada Kocaeli ili Gölcük ilçesi orta kesimlerinde oluşan heyelanların nedenleri,
etkileri ve bu heyalanlara karşı alınan önlemler araştırılmıştır. Jeolojik açıdan bu kesimlerde
sık sık heyalan oluşmasının nedenlerininin başında, inceleme alanının Üst
Paleosen-Orta Eosen yaşlı kırıntılılar ve ayrışmış volkanikler ve
piroklastiklerin üzerinde yer alması gelmektedir. Yerleşik alan sınırları
içerisinde kalan heyelanlı alanlarda 174 adet hane yer almaktadır. İnceleme
alanında MTA heyelan haritaları dışında kalan 15 adet aktif kütle hareketi
alanları (heyelan, toprak akması) tespit edilmiş ve bu alanların yapılara ve
tarım alanlarına etkisi ortaya konulmuştur. Ayrıca, bu heyalanların yarattığı
etkilere karşı alınan önlemler da araştırlımıştır.
Presence and absence of the belated witness in two short stories by Mavis Gallant
Authors: Ballan Joseph
Published: July 2018

This essay extends Michael Levine’s theory of the ‘belated witness’ as an approach to the question of how Holocaust survival is represented in literature, by considering how the absence of such a witness is made perceptible in two stories by Mavis Gallant. Much of Gallant’s short fiction critically analyzes various aspects of post-war western European cultures, but the two stories considered here (‘The Old Place’ and ‘Old Friends’) are unique in her published fiction in that they feature concentration camp survivors as main characters.  According to Levine, the ‘belated witness’ is a narrative figure, different to the survivor him or herself, who enables and supports testimony to trauma. This essay argues that this kind of figure is absent in both stories by Gallant, but that rather than a banal absence (i.e., simply missing from the dramatis personae), this absence is significant (i.e., is the conclusion of Gallant’s analysis).
Different antisemitisms: on three distinct forms of antisemitism in contemporary Europe. With special focus on Sweden
Authors: Dencik Lars , Marosi Karl
Published: July 2018

This article studies eight European countries, investigating how the level of antisemit­ism as registered in national populations relates to the perception of antisemitism by the Jewish population in the same country. Furthermore, the article empirically identifies distinct aspects of antisemitism, deconstructing the concept of antisemitism and breaking it up into three kinds of empirically differently based and composed antisemitisms (note the plural!): classic antisemitism, Israel-derived antisemitism and Enlightenment-based antisemitism. The article also elaborates on some more general implications for the understanding of the character of antisemitism in contemporary Europe, and based on that, presents some perspectives on the development of the three distinct antisemitisms in contemporary Europe.
Putting the Nordic into Nordic Jewish Studies
Authors: Kahn-Harris Keith
Published: July 2018

Review of Jewish Studies in the Nordic Countries Today, edited by Ruth Illman and Björn Dahla (2016).
Editorial
Authors: Illman Ruth , Zetterholm Karin Hedner
Published: July 2018

Editorial for issue 28(2) of Scandinavian Jewish Studies.
Den judisk–katolska relationen
Authors: Nyström Jennifer
Published: July 2018

Efter femtio framgångsrika år i kölvattnet av Nostra Aetate (nr 4), publicerade The Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews (Kommissionen för religiösa relationer med judar) ett nytt dokument om judisk–kristna relationer. Denna artikel syftar till att presentera detta dokument med titeln ”The Gifts and the Calling of God are Irrevocable” (Rom 11:29): A Reflection on Theological Questions Pertaining to Catholic–Jewish Relations on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Nostra Aetate (No. 4)” (”Gud tar inte tillbaka sina gåvor och sin kallelse (Rom 11:29)”). Som undertiteln antyder önskar kommissionen att detta skall vara en reflektion över teologiska frågor som är relevanta för en judisk–katolsk dialog med särskild hänsyn till förbund, frälsning och mission. Jag diskuterar min läsning av dokumentet och de frågor som uppstår vid läsning av denna långa och delvis svårgenomträngliga text. Det teologiska initiativ som dokumentet utgör är lovvärt, men det kvarstår problem, vilka de som är aktiva i dialogen även fortsättningsvis måste ta ställning till.
Georg Brandes and the Jewish question
Authors: Bay Carl
Published: July 2018

Georg Brandes (1842­­­­­­–1927) was a famous European literary and cultural critic who is one of the most controversial personalities to be found in Danish intellectual life. His position as the leading figure in the so-called modern breakthrough is, of course, beyond dispute. The controversy has been and still is centered around the significance of his efforts. In this connection reference has often been made to his Jewish heritage as something “non-Danish” or “foreign”. To be sure, anti-Semitism at its worst never really acquired a foothold in Denmark, but it did, however, come to play a decisive role in the disqualification of Brandes and in the discrediation of the name he left to posterity. No matter how things were worded, they always had to do with Brandes’ Jewish ancestry. Quite understandably, serious scholarly research, has until recently on the whole avoided this controversial aspect of such an already extremely controversial person. There are obviously things having to do with Brandes’ life and works which cannot be explained unless we take into account his Jewish ancestry, a subject which, quite against his will, became one of the central themes in his life.
Book reviews
Authors: Illman Karl-Johan , Martola Nils
Published: July 2018

Judendomens historia (Hanne Trautner-Kromann, 1983) is reviewed by Karl-Johan Illman.Josefus som historieskriver (Per Bilde, 1983) is reviewed by Nils Martola.Den antike jødedom. Politisk udvikling og religiøse strømninger fra Aleksander den Store til kejser Hadrian (Benedikt Otzen, 1984) is reviewed by Nils Martola.