The Covid-19 pandemic has raised doubts about the sacredness of places, spaces, and materials for worship celebrations by church. As a manifestation God’s kingdom on earth, church seems to reduce space encountering sacred profane things with God. This article argues that even though is arbitrator congregation God (sacred profane), dynamics history Temple, physical building not legal-sacred beca...

This article is an ethnographic inquiry into the cultural dimensions of forced relocations. It based on experiences four resident anthropologists displacements at Tugwi-Mukosi in Masvingo province, Zimbabwe. Using concept death, we question idea belonging and what regarded as “honourable” way exiting this world. These are interwoven fabric most Zimbabwean communities any phenomenon that severs ...

The paper takes its departure point from a seemingly innocuous idiom that common English parlance uses to describe person who has lost possession of their rational mind: “not all there.” Interrogating the locality this deictic “there” implies, argument juxtaposes it with recent religious scholarship on Afterlife, which posits that, by extension, absence risen Christ tomb, Christian subject is e...

Sacred landscapes are texts of sustainable human-ecological relationships with strong senses spirituality. This article explores the sacred and dynamic aspects Sebat Bête Gurage using ethnographic research design. Furthermore, to grasp elements environments their dynamics, a spiritual ecology perspective was used. The data based on sources, original gathered through in-depth interviews, focus g...

The purpose of the study illustrates that marriage contains good social values in character education. Ethnographic method is research culture a community. involves extensive observations Bugis community Tana Luwu, most often through participant observation, where researchers immersed daily lives and observed interviewed participants group. wedding ceremony implementation mappacci or tudampenni...

Bridging scholarly perspectives across disciplines and within communication subfields on spirituality, civil religion, storytelling in political discourse, I argue the U.S. president performs as a spiritual leader ways scholars have generally overlooked – not necessarily by invoking traditional ideology, but summoning moral language of solidarity through compelling, unitary vision uniquely “Ame...

Abstract Using the critique of instrumental rationality, based on Weber, Habermas and Arendt, we analyze, through interviews leaders involved in creation Central Bank Brazil (BCB), tension between politics technique its formation as a bureaucracy. This oral history research was conducted by CPDOC/FGV, published 2019, 25 volumes "Told History Collection," with who participated BCB. As result, id...