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Mormonism And The Limits Of Scripture, Vincent L. Wimbush Jan 2020

Mormonism And The Limits Of Scripture, Vincent L. Wimbush

Mormon Studies Review

The complex, modern, US-founded but now international, social-cultural phenomenon categorized most popularly by insiders and outsiders as “Mormons,” the “Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” and/or simply by analysts as a provocative example of modern “religion,” is, as it should be, approached by the latter through many different disciplines and areas and fields of study and in myriad and overlapping ways. From the historical to the literary-rhetorical, from the scientific/social-scientific to the materialist, from the theological and psycho-social to the aesthetic, and from the comic-farcical to the political—whatever approach has been attempted in terms of examining historical and ongoing …

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The Mobility Of Race: An Indigenous Feminist View From Aotearoa/New Zealand, Gina Colvin Jan 2020

The Mobility Of Race: An Indigenous Feminist View From Aotearoa/New Zealand, Gina Colvin

Mormon Studies Review

This paper provides a commentary on how race and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints intersect in Aotearoa/New Zealand and will include an exploration of the mobility of race through an analysis of hermeneutics in the LDS Church. I will argue that while the interpretative lens of sacred texts, including the four standards works of the LDS Church, is shaped by and enforced by an American patriarchal leadership, the redemptive power of scripture will be lost to a population who can least afford another spiritual deprivation.

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Full Issue Jan 2020

Full Issue

Inscape

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Full Issue Jan 2020

Full Issue

BYU Studies

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James E. Talmage And Scientific Consulting In Early Modern Utah, Gregory Seppi Jan 2020

James E. Talmage And Scientific Consulting In Early Modern Utah, Gregory Seppi

BYU Studies

A devout member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, James E. Talmage (1862–1933) is perhaps best remembered today for his classic theological text Jesus the Christ.1 He is also remembered by some for his extensive academic ties to Brigham Young Academy, the Latter-day Saints College, and the University of Utah.2 Yet the image many Latter-day Saints have of Talmage sedately writing Jesus the Christ in the Salt Lake Temple has seemingly little in common with the trail-worn scientist covered in mining debris who emerges from his journals. Talmage spent much of his time from the …

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Rawah, Rawah, Brandi Kilmer Jan 2020

Rawah, Rawah, Brandi Kilmer

TSOS Interview Gallery

No abstract provided.

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The Transcendence Of Flesh, Divine And Human, James E. Faulconer Jan 2020

The Transcendence Of Flesh, Divine And Human, James E. Faulconer

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

In this essay, James E Faulconer confronts an age-old issue that seems to divide Latter-day Saint Christians from other Christians, namely, “what it means to say that God is transcendent and embodied.” Early Christians also believed that God is embodied and transcendent, but with important differences in how that seemingly paradoxical combination of assertions can be explained. In his brilliant analysis, Faulconer shows how God “transcends us because He is embodied.”

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Smith County Colored Teachers’ Institute, 1920, Vicki Betts Jan 2020

Smith County Colored Teachers’ Institute, 1920, Vicki Betts

Presentations and Publications

A look at early schools for African Americans in Smith County, Texas, with a reprint of the minutes and roster of the 1920 Smith County Colored Teachers’ Institute.

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Review Of 'The Penelope Project: An Arts-Based Odyssey To Change Elder Care, Valerie Barnes Lipscomb Jan 2020

Review Of 'The Penelope Project: An Arts-Based Odyssey To Change Elder Care, Valerie Barnes Lipscomb

English Sarasota Manatee Campus Faculty Publications

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Secularity, Emotion And Law In Ian Mcewan's The Children Act, Bancha Rattanamathuwong Jan 2020

Secularity, Emotion And Law In Ian Mcewan's The Children Act, Bancha Rattanamathuwong

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This paper examines Ian McEwan's The Children Act as a work of fiction that explores the contemporary issue of secularism. My argument is that the novel's exploration of the interplay between law and feelings demonstrates McEwan's attempt to defy the dichotomous quality commonly attributed to law. By juxtaposing the implementation of law and religious practices, the novel's dramatization of the collision between these two forces shows that emotion and feeling are never absent from the allegedly unsym-pathetic secular civic institution. The realm of law can offer both sympathy and com-passion to people who are subject to it.(ความเป็นฆราวาส อารมณ์ และกฎหมายในนวนิยายเรื่อง The …

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Tales In The Paasaali Dirge: Structure And Moral Lessons From The Past, Confidence Gbolo, Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Charles Ofosu Marfo Jan 2020

Tales In The Paasaali Dirge: Structure And Moral Lessons From The Past, Confidence Gbolo, Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Charles Ofosu Marfo

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Among the Paasaala people in the Upper West Region of Ghana who speak paasaali, dirge performance and the execution of the tale go hand in hand; the two genres com-plement each other. This paper investigates the close relationship between tales and dirges and establishes some of the reasons that bind them together in the Paasaala funeral context. By using the theory of ethno-poetics and methodologies such as close observation of live performances of dirges, interviews with poet cantors and cultural custodians of some selected Pasaala communities, recordings of live dirge perfor-mances as well as references to some documented sources on …

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Traditional Intricate Paper Cutting Techniques Of Southern Thailand: Background, Beliefs, And Cultural Animation Of Thai Buddhist Culture, Pannee Virunanont Jan 2020

Traditional Intricate Paper Cutting Techniques Of Southern Thailand: Background, Beliefs, And Cultural Animation Of Thai Buddhist Culture, Pannee Virunanont

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Intricate paper cutting of Southern Thailand is a traditional folk art, which is passed down from one generation to another. However, there are no detailed studies or re-cords of the historical backgrounds, beliefs, and cultural animation of Thai-Buddhist culture in Southern Thailand concerning this folk art. This study, therefore, aims to examine this art form in Songkhla and Nakhon Sri Thammarat provinces, which have their own cultural identities. The goal is to register this art form as a part of cultural heritage. The compilation of vital data includes (1) paper characteristics, (2) paper en-graving methods, (3) colours, (4) instruments, (5) …

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Transgender People's Deterritorialization In Arundhati Roy's The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness And Trace Peterson's "After Before And After", Tanrada Lertlaksanaporn Jan 2020

Transgender People's Deterritorialization In Arundhati Roy's The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness And Trace Peterson's "After Before And After", Tanrada Lertlaksanaporn

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Trace Peterson's "After Before and After" have been studied in several aspects related to transgender issues. The pre-sentation of transgender people, especially the transgender protagonist in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, has been criticized as a formulaic depiction with little portrayal of their struggles and triumphs. At the same time, the transgender protagonist is viewed positively as an integral force in the novel. The poem "After Before and After" has been praised for its creative portrayal of transgender people. A study of transgen-der issues in relation to desire and connection helps to …

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Holger Schmitt, Language In The Public Space: An Introduction To The Linguistic Landscape. Independently Published By The Author. 2018. 205 Pages., Thom Huebner Jan 2020

Holger Schmitt, Language In The Public Space: An Introduction To The Linguistic Landscape. Independently Published By The Author. 2018. 205 Pages., Thom Huebner

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

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Varieties Of English Accents: A Study Of The Degree Of Preference And Intelligibility Among Second-Year English Major Students At Maejo University, Daranee Choomthong, Supaporn Manowong Jan 2020

Varieties Of English Accents: A Study Of The Degree Of Preference And Intelligibility Among Second-Year English Major Students At Maejo University, Daranee Choomthong, Supaporn Manowong

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Thailand is regarded as a country of the expanding circle (EC). The fact that English has become a working language in the asean community makes it vital that Thai stu-dents are aware of the varieties of English. The study examined the perception of Eng-lish majors towards varieties of English pronunciation. Listening tasks spoken by speakers in the expanding circle (EC), the inner circle (IC) and outer circle (OC), were presented to students enrolled in a course on Sound and English Sound System. The students rated accent preference and intelligibility. A semi-structure interview was in-cluded for more in-depth information. The results …

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Invented Identity Of Thai Monks In Indonesia, Jesada Buaban Jan 2020

Invented Identity Of Thai Monks In Indonesia, Jesada Buaban

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Thai missionary monks are viewed as passive in the new land on the grounds that though they work abroad, they still serve Thai communities rather than adapt Bud-dhism to attract the locals. Missionary work in Indonesia is, however, exceptional. This article questions how Thai monks attracted Chinese followers, who have a different background of beliefs. Ethnographic methodology was conducted in Central Java and Sumatra for three months. It found that in order to negotiate with educated lay reli-gious leaders, Thai monks choose to invent an identity of traditional forest monks who are experts in meditation as found in Northeast Thailand. …

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The Impact Of Communication Technology And Social Media On Intergenerational Relationships Between Older Individuals And Their Adult Children In Bangkok, Marie-Helene Thomas Jan 2020

The Impact Of Communication Technology And Social Media On Intergenerational Relationships Between Older Individuals And Their Adult Children In Bangkok, Marie-Helene Thomas

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Modernisation theory (Cowgill and Holmes 1972) argues that older people in modern societies are less respected and valued as a result of technological innovations. To un-derstand the impact of communication technology and social media on Thai society, this research studies the transformations in communication, interaction and overall connectedness between older people and their adult children. In addition, it examines what elements have shifted due to the introduction and use of the smart phone and its accompanying instant messaging and social media applications such as Line and Face-book. The data demonstrates various positive and negative impacts on the intergen-erational relationship between …

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Friedrich Halm's Earliest Extant, Melodramatic Novelle, St. Sylvesterabend: An Austrian Dramatist's Hidden Beginnings As A Narrative Fiction Writer, Tony Page Jan 2020

Friedrich Halm's Earliest Extant, Melodramatic Novelle, St. Sylvesterabend: An Austrian Dramatist's Hidden Beginnings As A Narrative Fiction Writer, Tony Page

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

To date there has been no scholarly exploration of the genesis and nature of Friedrich Halm's earliest extant Novelle, St. Sylvesterabend (New Year's Eve). The present research article attempts to fill that gap by determining the contested date of the story's origin, establishing it as 1823. Furthermore, the article examines the tale's simplicity of style, which is distinct from Halm's later Kleist-influenced narratives. Furthermore, it ana-lyzes the novel's structural principle of parallels and contrasts, and its themes of monomania, secularised religiosity, and Christian caritas. The article also indicates how vicious criticism of the tale by Halm's literary mentor, Michael Enk …

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A Dominant Global Translation Strategy In Thai Translated Novels: The Translations Of Religious Markers In Dan Brown's Thriller Novels, Wiriya Inphen Jan 2020

A Dominant Global Translation Strategy In Thai Translated Novels: The Translations Of Religious Markers In Dan Brown's Thriller Novels, Wiriya Inphen

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

When translation is considered as an integral part of larger social systems (Even-Zohar 1990), the ways in which translations are produced to serve readers' specificity could be affected. This paper examines whether there is a preference for a specific global trans-lation strategy due to a readership that is specialized in terms of education level. Adopting Venuti's (1995/2008) division of global translation strategies into exoticizing and domesticating translation, it examines the frequency of local translation strate-gies, which are part of a global translation strategy, used in translating English-Thai religious markers in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The …

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Introduction : From Performance Research To Performance Ecologies In Contemporary Thailand, Pornrat Damrhung, Lowell Skar Jan 2020

Introduction : From Performance Research To Performance Ecologies In Contemporary Thailand, Pornrat Damrhung, Lowell Skar

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This special issue of manusya explores the diverse ways that performance cul tures are embedded in cultural ecologies in Thailand today. This theme emerged from work done using performance research approaches in projects done around Thailand between 2017 and 2019. These projects discovered that perfor mance lives in cultural ecosystems, both producing new knowledge, skills and performances for those involved in them, and revealing how performance cul tures were locally-grounded living assemblages of creativity in diverse Thai communities.1 These results prompted arranging the first English-language conference in Thailand to focus on performance research and to further ex plore the ecological …

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The Promise Of Artistic Research In The Asia Pacific, Danny Butt Jan 2020

The Promise Of Artistic Research In The Asia Pacific, Danny Butt

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Artistic research has sought to gain academic legitimacy through adapting to scientific methods, while also retaining the mandate of the humanities in the reproduction of culture. In both cases, Western epistemologies have structured what constitutes knowledge and how it is circulated and shared. The contemporary university is far more connected to its local environment, bringing the potential of engaging broad publics in the life of the institution. Innovation and experimentation with local artistic forms is one way that artistic research can powerfully animate the 21st century university mission in the Asia Pacific.

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Performance Research Seen Through The Lens Of Cultural Ecology : A Case Study Of An Innovative Production At Chiang Mai’S Lanna Wisdom School, Pornrat Damrhung Jan 2020

Performance Research Seen Through The Lens Of Cultural Ecology : A Case Study Of An Innovative Production At Chiang Mai’S Lanna Wisdom School, Pornrat Damrhung

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This paper examines a performance project called Kita Natakan Lanna (Lanna Music and Dance) done by the artist, Saran Suwanachote, or Khru Nick, a dancer in the Northern martial dance form of “Choeng,” at the local arts and culture center known as the Lanna Wisdom School in Chiang Mai. By working with Khru Nick and observing how he produced a new work for this project, I learned that he used an approach based on a local form of cultural life made of interconnected parts, and used the concept of Rabob Niwet or “ecology.” This system is used to …

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The Rong Ngeng Of The Andaman Coast : History, Ecology, And The Preservation Of A Traditional Performing Art, Lawrence Ross Jan 2020

The Rong Ngeng Of The Andaman Coast : History, Ecology, And The Preservation Of A Traditional Performing Art, Lawrence Ross

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This article examines recent grassroots strategies for preserving traditional performing arts along southern Thailand’s Andaman Sea Coast, focusing on rong ngeng, an idiomatic form of social dance and music, widely popular there in the post-World War Two years. Between 1935 and 1960 a small, mixed cohort of rural performing artists created networks of communities, scattered on Thai-Andaman, with a distinctive regional culture based in the shared repertoire of songs and dances they adapted, created an innovative lyrical style called phleng tanyong (Tanyong song), and a star system that turned village performers into local celebrities (Ross 2017, 68). More than …

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Roundtables On Performance Research, Developing Cultural Ecologies, And Artistic Research Networking In The Asia-Pacific, Lowell Skar, Pornrat Damrhung Jan 2020

Roundtables On Performance Research, Developing Cultural Ecologies, And Artistic Research Networking In The Asia-Pacific, Lowell Skar, Pornrat Damrhung

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Three sessions of international and local participants from a July 2019 conference created active ecosystems which generated living examples of intercultural improvisation, performance research, cultural ecologies and artistic research in Thailand. Summarized and assessed in this article, these sessions revealed some of the first fruits of Thailand’s work in these areas through engagement with other practitioners in the region. Besides offering creative improvisation among Thai artists and artist-centered critical assessments of their work, the article captures active thinkers seeking to reimagine the “festival” format for performance research, and seeks for ways to continue future regional collaboration in artistic research. The …

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Contents Jan 2020

Contents

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

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Ecological And Evolutionary Dynamics Of Elephant Rewilding, Lysanne Snijders Jan 2020

Ecological And Evolutionary Dynamics Of Elephant Rewilding, Lysanne Snijders

Animal Sentience

Baker & Winkler make a thought-provoking contribution to the discussion of what role captive animals could play in nature conservation and how we could get there through rewilding. There certainly is potential for captive Asian elephants, Elephas maximus, to become targets of conservation efforts, but there are also many questions: (1) How much do (behavioral) traits of captive-origin animals differ from their free conspecifics? (2) What predicts the likelihood and strength of social reintegration of captive animals into free populations? (3) How much of an Asian elephant’s functional role in the environment can captive animals still fulfill and how …

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Philosophy, Ecology And Elephant Equality, Rebekah Humphreys Jan 2020

Philosophy, Ecology And Elephant Equality, Rebekah Humphreys

Animal Sentience

The considerable conservation research on environmental problems and climate change tends to focus on species “biodiversity” rather than individuals. Individuals of the same species get categorized as “wild” or “captive”, with the latter often omitted from conservationists’ concerns. But wild and captive animals, although they may require different treatment, have comparable interests as individuals. Equity requires taking this into account in conservation efforts.

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Does Sentience Come In Degrees?, Andrew Y. Lee Jan 2020

Does Sentience Come In Degrees?, Andrew Y. Lee

Animal Sentience

This commentary is about whether sentience, or what philosophers call “phenomenal consciousness,” comes in degrees.

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What Happens, Ona Gritz Jan 2020

What Happens, Ona Gritz

CutBank

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The Hidden People, K. C. Mead-Brewer Jan 2020

The Hidden People, K. C. Mead-Brewer

CutBank

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