Patriarkkana ikuisuuden performanssissa : Maskuliinisuuden ja miehen ruumiillisuuden rakentuminen mormonien Duties and Blessings of the Priesthood -opetuskäsikirjassa

The material I analyze for my master's thesis is a teaching manual used by the Mormons (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), called "Duties and Blessings of the Priesthood". This work includes numerous lesson plans, each one with a separate topic. The manual is intended especially for teaches, but can also be used for individual study. The main target of my research is to find out how men and their bodies are constructed in the manual. Prescriptive texts together with narrative stories and illustrations create a multifaceted picture of Mormon notions of masculinity and corporeality. I approach my research material from a constructivist perspective. I build my interpretative reading upon Critical Discourse Analysis. I am especially interested in how the manual interprets and understands connections between gender, embodiment and religion. I understand gender in Judith Butler's terms, as a performance of styled and repeated gestures. Some of the discussions I raise in my work draw upon the disciplines of Critical Men's Studies and Sociology of Religion. In Mormonism, gender is thought to be an elementary part of human ontology. It is an eternal trait inherited from God the Father (and God the Mother). The place of men in Mormon cosmology is determined by their double role as patriarchs, fathers and priests. The main objective of mortal life is to gain salvation together with one's family. The personal goal of a Mormon man is to one day become a god. Patriarchs are responsible for the spiritual and material well-being of their family. The head of a household should be gentle and loving, but still an unconditional authority. In the manual, a Mormon man is depicted as a successor of mythical and exemplary men of sacred history. The perfect and sinless body of Jesus Christ serves as an ideal for the male body. Mormon masculinity is also defined by priesthood - the holy power of God - which is given to practically all male Mormons. Through the priesthood, a Mormon man serves as the governor of God on Earth. The Mormon priest has the authority to bind the immanent and the transcendent worlds together with gestures, poses and motions performed with his body. In Mormonism, the body also symbolizes a temple or a space where the sacred meets the profane. Because the priesthood borne by a man is holy, he has to treat his body accordingly. The body is valuable in itself, without it one cannot be saved. Men are forbidden of polluting their bodies by using stimulants or by having sexual relations out of wedlock. A priesthood holder must uphold healthy habits, dress neatly, and conduct himself in a temperate manner. He must also be outgoing and attentive. The manual suggests that a man's goodness or wickedness can be perceived from his external appearance. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a hierarchical and man-led organisation. The ideals of gender and corporeality are set by a homogenous priesthood leadership that consists mainly of white heterosexual American men. The larger Mormon community can control individual men by sanctioning. Growing as a Mormon man happens under the guidance of one's reference group.

"La familia de la construcción" : representaciones corporativas y discurso empresarial. La "historia sagrada" del Centro de Constructores y Anexos de Mar del Plata

Indudablemente, a lo largo de la historia las corporaciones empresarias han construido sus propios discursos al interior y al exterior de su campo de acción. Ello ha seguido diferentes modalidades, empero con objetivos similares al pretender legitimar su intervención pública y política en la sociedad en que se desarrollan. El artículo pone el foco de atención en la industria de la construcción a través de un análisis micro de los empresarios del sector en una ciudad de la provincia de Bs. As, donde la actividad resultó una de las ruedas maestras de su economía. A lo largo de sus años de vida, desde el Centro de Constructores y Anexos (cámara empresaria local de la industria de la construcción privada) en la ciudad de Mar del Plata se ha ido reproduciendo un determinado relato fundante que se ha convertido ya en “historia sagrada". Ello ha seguido determinados procesos de memoria colectiva, y de los actores, fortaleciendo la identidad institucional y potencializando líneas concretas de acción empresaria.

Le grand dictionnaire historique ou le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane... /

Tomo II: B-C.

Le grand dictionnaire historique ou le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane... /

Tomo II : M-P.

A history of mediaeval Christianity and Sacred art in Italy.

Intended as a sequal to His A history of Ancient Christianity and Sacred Art in Italy, 1866.

The sacred and profane history of the world connected, from the creation of the world to the dissolution of the Assyrian empire at the death of Sardanapalus, and to the declension of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel under the reigns of Ahaz and Pekah: including the dissertation on the creation and fall of man.

"Illustrated with a new and correct set of maps and plans."

A history of Egyptian mummies : and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, &c. /

Mode of access: Internet.

Musical ministries in the church; studies in the history, theory and administration of sacred music,

"Books on church music in general": p. 165-169. "Books on hymns and hymn-writers": p. 170-173. "American church hymnals published since 1888": p. 174-176.

Daily monitor, or, Reflections for each day in the year : containing inferences from Christian doctrines, ecclesiastical history, sacred biography, &c. : intended for the use of all classes, and fitted to the various circumstances of life /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Horae Paulinae of William Paley, carried out and illustrated in a continuous history of the apostolic labours and writings of St. Paul : on the basis of the Acts, with intercalary matter of sacred narrative supplied from the epistles, and elucidated in occasional dissertations /

Half-title: The continuous history of St. Paul.

Sacred biography; or, The history of Jesus Christ. Being a course of lectures, delivered at the Scots church, London-wall.

Supplementary volume to the author's Sacred biography; or, The history of the patriarchs.

Sacred biography, or, The history of the patriarchs : to which is added, the history of Deborah, Ruth, and Hannah : being a course of lectures, delivered at the Scots church, London-wall /

Shaw & Shoemaker

Horae biblicæ : being a connected series of notes on the text and literary history of the Bibles, or sacred books of the Jews and Christians; and on the Bibles or books accounted sacred by the Mahometans, Hindus, Parsees, Chinese, and Scandanavians.

"Some account of the principle authors, of whose labors the writer has availed himself in this compilation": v. 1, p. 102-108.

A dictionary of the Holy Bible : containing an historical account of the persons, a geographical and historical account of the places, a literal, critical, and systematical description of other objects ... and the explication of the appellative terms, mentioned in the writings of the Old and New Testament, the whole comprising whatever important is known concerning the antiquities of the Hebrew nation and church of God, forming a sacred commentary, a body of Scripture history, chronology, and divinity, and serving in a great measure as a concordance to the Bible /

Mode of access: Internet.

Sacred hermeneutics developed and applied : including a history of biblical interpretation from the earliest of the Fathers to the Reformation /

Includes indexes.