Wie wirkt Pluralität auf individuelle Religiosität? Eine Konfrontation von Wissenssoziologie und Rational Choice

Interdisziplinär konzipiert, zeigt dieses Buch in historischer und gegenwartsbezogener Perspektive die Komplexität und den Facettenreichtum des religiösen Pluralismus auf, der unsere gesellschaftliche Wirklichkeit zunehmend bestimmt. Die hier dokumentierten religionswissenschaftlichen, soziologischen, rechtlichen und philosophischen Zugänge sind dabei behilflich, sich mit Religion und ihrer weltweit wachsenden gesellschaftlichen Relevanz auseinander zu setzen. Die Beiträge zeigen, wie der Herausforderung des Religionspluralismus im europäischen und außereuropäischen Raum begegnet wird und welche große Bandbreite an Themen hierbei zu Tage tritt.

The Quest for the Oracle Birds: Researching the Chinese Community in Colonial Mexico (1565-1700)

The Asian Diaspora in the Americas in the 16th and 17th has been neglected by scholars for a long time. This fact is baffling, not only for the great interest of this topic in of itself, but also because it could provide new knowledge of colonial Mexico, especially in terms of the interaction among the many groups that populated the colony. This early movement of people and ideas across the largest extension of water in the planet is characteristic of what has been called the ¿archaic globalization,¿ and thus research on these matters could contribute to the history of globalization.In this presentation, I seek to further elaborate on the themes outlined by Edward Slack in The Chinos in New Spain: A Corrective Lens for a Distorted Image, an article published in 2009 in the Journal of World History. Firstly, I would like to bring forth some evidence that indicates that Asian religious practices were present in Mexico in the 1600s. Furthermore, I will argue that the traces of these practices are still visible today, in the form of a popular fortune-telling tradition. Secondly, I intend to provide some information about the arrival, settlement and distribution of the Asian Diaspora. I will focus on their distribution within Mexico City. Thirdly, I will elaborate on their occupations, social status and daily life, as well as in the patterns in marriages and relations with other groups. And lastly, I will show how the guild of barbers served as an Asian immigrant reception network.

Evidence for the presence of tetrodotoxin in a powder used in Haiti for zombification.

A powder prepared by Haitian voodoo sorcerers for the making of zombis was extracted with acetic acid, the extract concentrated and applied to a small cation exchange column followed by elution with water and then acetic acid. The water and acetic acid eluents were analysed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. The analyses indicated the presence of an alkaline degradation product of tetrodotoxin, namely 2-amino-6-hydroxymethyl-8-hydroxyquinazoline, after base treatment, and of tetrodotoxin and an isomer on direct thermospray mass spectral activity.

A Importância da Diáspora na Política Externa de Cabo Verde

Com a globalização, a emigração tem-se tornado cada vez mais um assunto que desperta muito interesse, por parte dos estudiosos. A emigração tem ganhado um forte cunho nas Relações Internacionais, já que com a alteração do Sistema internacional, o Estado deixou de ser o único actor da cena internacional. Por isso desperta muito o interesse em aprofundar os estudos sobre a emigração que é um fenómeno que tem acontecido no sistema internacional há várias décadas. Após a segunda guerra mundial e com a globalização tem-se verificado muita emigração de sul para norte, em busca de melhores condições de vida. Hoje em dia é comum quando se fala da emigração falar-se da diáspora que é um termo usado para designar a dispersão dos Judeus “exilados/expulsos” da sua terra de origem Palestina. Mas vários investigadores têm usado este termo para caracterizar a emigração cabo-verdiana para várias partes do mundo. E sem fugir à regra, Cabo Verde é um exemplo de fuga de sul para norte. Os cabo-verdianos emigram para norte à procura de melhores condições de vida. E hoje, já não se fala nos emigrantes cabo-verdianos, mas sim na diáspora cabo-verdiana. Por isso pretende-se com essa dissertação procurar fazer um estudo, para saber qual a importância da Diáspora na política externa de Cabo Verde.

Os Liames de Solidariedade entre o Estado e as Organizações de Economia Solidária na Luta contra Pobreza nas Comunidades Rurais em Cabo Verde

La thèse a comme but comprendre, à la lumière du paradigme du don et de la perspective théorique de l’économie solidaire, la nature des relations de coopération entre l’Etat et les Associations Communautaires de Développement, dans le cadre de la lutte contre la pauvreté dans les communautés rurales au Cap Vert. L’objet principal de l’étude est le Programme de la Lutte Contre la Pauvreté et, particulièrement, son (Sous)Programme de la Lutte Contre la Pauvreté au milieu rural. Le PLPR, par sa conception de pauvreté, méthodologie et stratégie d’intervention décentralisé au sein des Associations Communautaires de Développement et respectives communautés, s’est révélé comme le modèle qui illustre mieux comment les deux modalités de solidarité démocratique, réciprocité et redistribution, s’interragent et participent d’un processus dynamique de génération, construction et multiplication d’initiatives et d’expériences d’économie solidaires; d’ampliation et approfondissement du processus de démocratisation de l’Etat et d’approximation de la gestion publique des communautés rurales pauvres. Subsidiairement, le paradigme du don, particulièrement, le concept de solidarité démocratique, nous a forcé à proposer un autre regard sur l’économie (conventionnelle) du Cap Vert, à partir de la réflexion et analyse sur la relation entre l’Etat et la diaspora capverdienne, propagée autour du monde, comme hypothèse dont les liens culturelles et d’identités qui existent entre l’Etat et la Diaspora constituent la motivation principale des émigrants pour envoyer, régulièrement, leurs revenues au Cap Vert. De son côté, à partir des relations de coopération entre l’Etat capverdien et ses traditionnels partenaires internationaux de développement, nous avons formulé l’hypothèse dont l’Aide Publique au Développement consiste en un système international de redistribution de ressources publiques au Cap Vert, (dons aux étrangers), pour faire face aux défis de la lutte pour l’éradication de la pauvreté et de la promotion du développement socioéconomique, représentant ainsi, comme l’équivalent empirique du concept de solidarité distributive international.

A Motivação de Viagem como Critério de Segmentação do Mercado Turístico da Ilha de São Vicente

A segmentação de mercado é uma técnica que os profissionais de marketing utilizam para dividir o mercado em segmentos, tendo em vista a criação de estratégias para satisfazer os clientes. Este estudo visa identificar e caracterizar os segmentos do mercado turístico da ilha de São Vicente – Cabo Verde com base nas motivações de viagem. Para a concretização deste estudo recorreu-se a uma revisão da literatura referente à segmentação de mercado em geral e à do mercado turístico em específico, às motivações de viagem, e à delimitação da actividade turística. Desta forma, foram colhidos subsídios que permitiram a elaboração de um modelo de segmentação com base nas motivações de viagem dos visitantes para que se pudesse identificar os segmentos do mercado de turismo da ilha de São Vicente. Aplicou-se um questionário a uma amostra de 200 turistas internacionais que estavam de visita a ilha de São Vicente entre os dias 20 de Agosto e 21 de Outubro de 2013. A partir dos dados recolhidos, fez-se uma análise de clusters onde foram identificados três segmentos que receberam as denominações de “Cultos”, “Diáspora” e “Aventureiros” de acordo com as suas respectivas motivações de viagem. Na análise das diferenças entre os segmentos constatou-se que, o segmento “Cultos” são os que viajam para conhecer outras pessoas e outras culturas e visitar pontos turísticos. Por sua vez, a “Diaspora” são os que viajam por motivos de estar com amigos e familiares. E por último, o “Aventureiros” viajam para experimentar coisas novas, interagir com residentes locais, apreciar paisagem, contacto com a natureza, sair da rotina diária, conhecer outras pessoas e outras culturas, visitar pontos turísticos e conhecer gastronomia local.

IRELAND AND LATIN AMERICA: A CULTURAL HISTORY

According to Declan Kiberd, “postcolonial writing does not begin only when the occupier withdraws: rather it is initiated at that very moment when a native writer formulates a text committed to cultural resistance.” The Irish in Latin America – a continent emerging from indigenous cultures, colonisation, and migrations – may be regarded as colonised in Ireland and as colonisers in their new home. They are a counterexample to the standard pattern of identities in the major English-speaking destinations of the Irish Diaspora. Using literary sources, the press, correspondence, music, sports, and other cultural representations, in this thesis I search the attitudes and shared values signifying identities among the immigrants and their families. Their fragmentary and wide-ranging cultures provide a rich context to study the protean process of adaptation to, or rejection of, the new countries. Evolving from oppressed to oppressors, the Irish in Latin America swiftly became ingleses. Subsequently, in order to join the local middle classes they became vaqueros, llaneros, huasos, and gauchos so they could show signs of their effective integration to the native culture, as seen by the Latin American elites. Eventually, some Irish groups separated from the English mainstream culture and shaped their own community negotiating among Irishness, Englishness, and local identities in Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, Cuba, and other places in the region. These identities were not only unmoored in the emigrants’ minds but also manoeuvred by the political needs of community and religious leaders. After reviewing the major steps and patterns of Irish migration to Latin America, the thesis analyses texts from selected works, offers a version of how the settlers became Latin Americans or not, and elucidates the processes by which a new Irish-Latin American hybrid was created.

Ferran Canyameres, la creació de l'Editorial Albor i la, fàbrica Simenon

En plena ocupació alemanya de França, amb la intel·lectualitat catalana fraccionada entre els escriptors de l’interior i els de l’exili, i aquests últims encara repartits entre els diversos països que van acollir la diàspora republicana, l’escriptor Ferran Canyameres va tenir la idea de crear una editorial popular per acostar al public lector de Catalunya l’obra de l’inoblidable creador del comissari Maigret

Le ballon ne tourne pas rond en Afrique: les effets pervers d'une "extraversion dépendante"

Les dirigeants du football africain ont abandonné les politiques protectionnistes pour bâtir des sélections nationales performantes. Ils s'orientent vers des stratégies libérales qui favorisent le départ de joueurs à l'étranger et leur rapatriement pour les matches de l'équipe nationale. De plus en plus systématiquement, les footballeurs d'origine africaine ayant grandi en Europe sont « récupérés ». Si le recours à la « diaspora » permet de compenser le gâchis de talents résultant de la faiblesse de la formation locale de footballeurs, cette pratique empêche le football national de se structurer. The managers of African football have abandoned their protectionist policies in order to build up high-performing national teames. They are adopting liberal strategies fostering the departure of players abroad and their repatriation for national team matches. Footballers of African origin who have grown up in Europe are increasingly often being "retrieved". Although this recourse to the "diaspora" offsets the waste of talent brought about by the shortcomings of local training for footballers, this practice puts a brake on the structuring of national football.