The research is a hermeneutic interpretation in practical theology on the communitas phase through which the DR Church in South Africa has been moving since 1994. It would seem that the church is currently close to the limen of reintegration at the end of such a communitas phase. A contextual analysis was made of the events before and during the communitas phase to gage the influence thereof on the section of society that falls under the ministry of the DR Church. The study upheld the hypothesis that the transitional phase that was heralded for South Africa after 1994 has placed the DR Church in a late communitas phase, before the limen of integration. In this phase, leadership identity and development could be defined more clearly in terms of a structural model as support mechanism The shift from an authoritarian office structure that before 1994 was politically entwined with the government and clearly visible, to a structure that seems to prefer to be largely invisible and without voice in the current dispensation, has strongly influenced the way in which the various offices in the church are viewed, as well as church leadership. St Paul linked leadership to the broad milieu within which leaders were required to function in the early church. This means that leadership in the church should be driven by the charismata, because it does not depend exclusively on good management. The study makes it clear that although leadership and management are related, the gift of leadership differs from management skills. As the church is responsible for assisting its members to make informed decisions in a postmodern world, strong church leadership comes with visionary leadership. With regard to contentious issues of our time, judgemental pronouncements that are made without thinking tend to push people further towards the edge of the church and the Christian faith. Leadership identity within a team (in which relationships are also important) is supported by the specialised leadership tasks for which pastors are responsible. The research sees this premise as a broadening of the Primus inter pares principal. A structural model defines the various tasks within the parish and makes leaders responsible for their work. In the process, leadership can be confirmed and empowered. The DR Church has reached a strategic inflection point in its history and to remain relevant in the future the church will have to give serious thought to paradigm shifts with regard to church leadership. Particularly in the growing number of peri-urban congregations, the church has no choice but to appoint senior pastors who have specialised leadership abilities (gifts) to lead the church in an attempt to bring order in the chaos that currently surrounds the ministry. Well-planned models for the ministry will serve as mechanisms of support and once again clearly define the identity of the pastor. / Thesis (PhD (Practical Theology))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Practical Theology / PhD / unrestricted

I den här uppsatsen har jag applicerat ett ritualperspektiv i en ny situation, nämligen sociala medier. Uppsala Gäris är en separatistisk grupp för kvinnor och ickebinära med koppling till Uppsala och Uppsala län. I uppsatsen frågade jag hur ritualerna i Uppsala Gäris ser ut och vad de har för beståndsdelar, varför ritualerna sker och vilka sociala ordningar som ses som problem och vilka ritualen försöker etablera. Jag frågade också hur communitas manifesterar sig och organiseras i Uppsala Gäris. Genom intervjuer och netnografi har jag kommit fram till att ritualerna är oförutsedda och orienterade efter gruppen, eftersom mycket fokus ligger på gemenskapen och dess communitas och förnyande kraft. Communitas uppstår på grund av gruppens gemensamma upplevelse av att de är utsatta i Uppsala och vilja att etablera en ny social ordning.

Thesis advisor: Alyssa W. Goldman / Pandemic mutual aid groups are part of a contemporary mutual aid movement which intends to marry the spontaneous suspension of social boundaries of post-disaster collective action with sustained community-building and social justice. This comparative case study examines how two such radical social change organizations navigate the tension between ideology and the need for resources. Specifically, I ask what strategies organizers deployed in pursuit of their dual mandate, under the banner of ‘solidarity not charity.’ Despite virtually identical philosophies, visions, and circumstances, I find that organizers deployed different resource mobilization strategies to access and generate moral, cultural, and human resources. These strategic differences directly influenced organizational outcomes: One group continued to operate more than two years after organizing, while the other was on an indefinite hiatus. The findings depart from what might be predicted by a longstanding focus on material resources in resource mobilization theory, and support the call for more attention to culture and ideology in resource mobilization scholarship. / Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2023. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Sociology.

A presente pesquisa visa delinear princípios filosóficos e procedimentos criativos e metodológicos centrais do programa artístico in progress Projeto Árvore, desenvolvido pelo coletivo transdisciplinar URUBUS desde 2005, buscando investigar suas estratégias de ação, estabelecendo ênfase de análise nas abordagens de natureza relacional. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa-ação com revisão de diários criativos processuais, com revisão bibliográfica, com pesquisas de campo, com entrevista dos artistas realizadores e outros participantes das ações, com análise de conteúdo multimídia (foto, áudio e vídeo) criado ao longo do programa e com pesquisas ações práticas relacionais. No capítulo um, abordaremos os principais fundamentos políticos, filosóficos e estruturais que sustentam a existência do Projeto Árvore. No segundo, adentraremos seu universo artístico compreendendo os seus contornos, territórios e práticas de operação. E no terceiro poderemos aprofundar o olhar sobre três trabalhos que o compõem - enquanto a árvore espera na semente, Corpos/ e entreExtremos - Projeto Árvore em residência no Parque Nacional Serra da Capivara -, analisando com maior minúcia os impactos e reverberações de seus alcances relacionais no outro/público. No desenvolvimento da pesquisa foi possível reconhecer metodologias aplicadas pelo URUBUS na realização do programa performativo e relacional in progress de ação pública em meio urbano e natural, delimitando horizontes de sua criação e ação prática. Identificar o seu campo de interesse artístico voltado à produção de modalidades de experiência. E reconhecer em suas atividades a presença de uma \"práxis artística-ecosófica\". A dissertação pretende destinar-se à pesquisa de artistas independentes, de pesquisadores das práticas performativas e relacionais, de zonas autônomas temporárias, de communitas urbanas e da \"cultura de presença\". / This research intends to outline philosophical principles and creative and methodological procedures that are essential in the progressing artistic project Projeto Árvore / Tree Project, developed by the interdisciplinary collective group URUBUS since 2005. The group investigates action strategies emphasizing approaches to relational nature. An action-research was made with such purpose, which included reviews of creative process diaries, bibliography analysis, field research, interviews with the artists and other participants of the actions, analysis of the multimedia content (pictures, audio and video) produced along the work and focusing on relational researches-actions-practices. At the first chapter we discuss political, philosophical and structural fundaments that support the existence of Projeto Árvore / Tree Project. At the second chapter we approach its artistic universe comprehending its outlines, grounds and practices of operation. At the third chapter we look deeper at three pieces that are part of the project - while the tree waits inside the seed, Bodies/ and betweenExtrems - Projeto Árvore / Tree Project at Serra da Capivara National Park - and analyze the impacts and repercussions of the relational influence in the public/other. During the development of the research we identified methodologies used by URUBUS in the progressing performative and relational program of public action in urban and natural landscapes outlining horizons of creation and practical action. To identify the field of artistic interest towards the production of experiences. And to recognize in its activities the presence of an \"ecosophical-artistic praxis\". This work intends to give grounds to the research of independent artists, performative practices researchers, relational aesthetics, temporary autonomous zone, urban communitas and \"culture of presence.

Cette thèse revient sur les moyens de la prise en charge publique et par les associations de défunts dits ‘indigents’. Si la littérature sur ce sujet insistait grandement sur la catégorie des personnes de la rue et sur les idées de délaissement et de sacrifice, ce travail met en avant les différentes facettes, parfois conflictuelles, de l’intérêt public porté à ces morts. Cette recherche est principalement l’aboutissement d’une ethnographie menée auprès de l’association parisienne du Collectif les Morts de la Rue. Cette association dénonce depuis 2001 les conditions de vie et de morts des personnes de la rue et s’occupe, depuis 2003, des cérémonies funéraires pour tous les corps non-réclamés de la ville de Paris. L’enquête revient sur les motivations des deux groupes de bénévoles coexistant au sein de la même association, l’un se concentrant sur l’activisme en faveur des personnes de la rue (‘gueuler’) et l’autre sur les rituels des défunts non-réclamés, quelle que soit leur origine sociale (‘pleurer’). Ces deux groupes créent des communautés symboliques de morts et de vivants à travers des cérémonies, émotions et rituels. L’insistance du groupe des fondateurs sur l’activisme en faveur des vivants de la rue est parfois en contradiction avec l’implication plus générale de certains bénévoles pour tous les défunts non-réclamés. La thèse revient sur leur cohabitation au sein de la même association et montre comment des références communes à la fraternité humaine et à l’universalité de la mort ne suffisent pas à couvrir des motifs d’engagements divergents. / This research analyzes what happens to the deceased labeled as ‘paupers’ and managed through non-governmental organizations and public means in France. Where previous literature on the subject emphasized social categories such as homeless people and theories of sacrifice, this work puts forward conflicting public interests given to the dead labeled as ‘paupers’. This recearch draws mostly on ethnographic fieldwork with the Collectif Les Morts de la Rue, a parisian organization denouncing the life and death conditions of homeless people since 2001, and in charge of the funeral ceremony of any unclaimed body since 2003. The investigation shows how two groups of volunteers with two different primary interests developed over time. The first group is mainly concerned with political activism in favor of people living and dying on the streets. The second group focuses more on non-political rituals for all unclaimed bodies, regardless of their social status. The two groups coexist with mutual references to the dead and to humanity after death. Through rituals and public ceremonies using emotions, they create symbolic communities gathering both the living and dead. The strong emphasis of the first group on inequality and socio-economic structure is sometimes at odds with the more general emphasis of the second group on the universal bond between human beings, showing how shared references to death and humanity are not enough to cover diverging motivations inside the same organisation.

A presente pesquisa visa delinear princípios filosóficos e procedimentos criativos e metodológicos centrais do programa artístico in progress Projeto Árvore, desenvolvido pelo coletivo transdisciplinar URUBUS desde 2005, buscando investigar suas estratégias de ação, estabelecendo ênfase de análise nas abordagens de natureza relacional. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa-ação com revisão de diários criativos processuais, com revisão bibliográfica, com pesquisas de campo, com entrevista dos artistas realizadores e outros participantes das ações, com análise de conteúdo multimídia (foto, áudio e vídeo) criado ao longo do programa e com pesquisas ações práticas relacionais. No capítulo um, abordaremos os principais fundamentos políticos, filosóficos e estruturais que sustentam a existência do Projeto Árvore. No segundo, adentraremos seu universo artístico compreendendo os seus contornos, territórios e práticas de operação. E no terceiro poderemos aprofundar o olhar sobre três trabalhos que o compõem - enquanto a árvore espera na semente, Corpos/ e entreExtremos - Projeto Árvore em residência no Parque Nacional Serra da Capivara -, analisando com maior minúcia os impactos e reverberações de seus alcances relacionais no outro/público. No desenvolvimento da pesquisa foi possível reconhecer metodologias aplicadas pelo URUBUS na realização do programa performativo e relacional in progress de ação pública em meio urbano e natural, delimitando horizontes de sua criação e ação prática. Identificar o seu campo de interesse artístico voltado à produção de modalidades de experiência. E reconhecer em suas atividades a presença de uma \"práxis artística-ecosófica\". A dissertação pretende destinar-se à pesquisa de artistas independentes, de pesquisadores das práticas performativas e relacionais, de zonas autônomas temporárias, de communitas urbanas e da \"cultura de presença\". / This research intends to outline philosophical principles and creative and methodological procedures that are essential in the progressing artistic project Projeto Árvore / Tree Project, developed by the interdisciplinary collective group URUBUS since 2005. The group investigates action strategies emphasizing approaches to relational nature. An action-research was made with such purpose, which included reviews of creative process diaries, bibliography analysis, field research, interviews with the artists and other participants of the actions, analysis of the multimedia content (pictures, audio and video) produced along the work and focusing on relational researches-actions-practices. At the first chapter we discuss political, philosophical and structural fundaments that support the existence of Projeto Árvore / Tree Project. At the second chapter we approach its artistic universe comprehending its outlines, grounds and practices of operation. At the third chapter we look deeper at three pieces that are part of the project - while the tree waits inside the seed, Bodies/ and betweenExtrems - Projeto Árvore / Tree Project at Serra da Capivara National Park - and analyze the impacts and repercussions of the relational influence in the public/other. During the development of the research we identified methodologies used by URUBUS in the progressing performative and relational program of public action in urban and natural landscapes outlining horizons of creation and practical action. To identify the field of artistic interest towards the production of experiences. And to recognize in its activities the presence of an \"ecosophical-artistic praxis\". This work intends to give grounds to the research of independent artists, performative practices researchers, relational aesthetics, temporary autonomous zone, urban communitas and \"culture of presence.

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No entanto, ao longo da peregrinação podemos observar também isso que desde Mauss (1925) chamamos da dimensão das técnicas corporais e cujo aprendizado, transmissão e aperfeiçoamento ocorre antes, durante e depois do caminho. Ação tradicional eficaz, como define Mauss (1925) e que depende de um aprendizado, as técnicas corporais ganham na obra de Bourdieu (1994) a propriedade de serem incorporadas sob a forma de disposições duráveis. A peregrinação vista desse ângulo pode ser pensada como um espaço de troca, de aprendizado e de transmissão do habitus corporal, chamada por Bourdieu de razão prática, que nada deve ao intelecto ou à razão discursiva. Transmitidas ou introjetadas sem que passem necessariamente pela dimensão da linguagem, mas sim da prática, o habitus corporal envolvido na peregrinação constitui meu objeto de investigação. Metodologicamente essa é uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa que se orienta pelos pressupostos da antropologia relacional. Através do uso do trabalho de campo, da observação participante e de entrevistas abertas, próprias da pesquisa qualitativa, busco compreender o processo de transmissão e aprendizagem de técnicas corporais (MAUSS, 1925) ou da incorporação do habitus (BOURDIEU, 1994) em uma rota de peregrinação denominada “Caminhos da Piedade”. A rota que busco investigar perfaz um total de 21 quilômetros, que ligam a cidade de Cataguases-MG à cidade de Piacatuba-MG. Minha questão é saber de que forma a experiência religiosa da romaria é vivenciada por um grupo de pessoas cuja preparação física e emocional implica no aprendizado de técnicas corporais capazes de ajudá-los nessa jornada e como se comporta o corpo e as emoções do peregrino dentro de seu campo de atuação, a peregrinação/romaria. Assim, o objetivo principal desta pesquisa é observar como é feita a construção do corpo e das emoções do peregrino em determinados contextos rituais, sob a hipótese de que, após passar por essa transformação social e pelo momento de communitas, tem o corpo modificado e as emoções acentuadas para chegar à Piacatuba, à Nossa Senhora da Piedade. Analisar o corpo, perceber como o corpo do peregrino é construído, e como ele se comporta atrelado às suas emoções, sentidas ou expressadas, no campo constitui meu objetivo de pesquisa. / Pilgrimage has been showed by several authors as a journey of a modern person in search connection to a sacred or yet, a human with a feeling of a sacred connection. However, during this pilgrimage we can see that since Mauss (1925) we call body technics dimension in which learning, transmission and perfectioning happen before, during and after travel. Efficient traditional action, as Mauss (1925) defines, and it depends of learning, the body technics take in the Bourdieu (1994) works the properties of been incorporated. In this point of view, the pilgrimage can be thinking as an interchange space of learning and body habits, called by Bourdieu of practical reason, that nothing owe to the intellect or a debate reason. Transmitted or introduced without pass by language dimension, but practical, the body habits involved in pilgrimage is my investigation object. Methodologically this is a research of qualitative way that gets anthropology relationship. Through the field work, observation and open interviews, qualified research, I look for understand the transmission and learnig process of body technics ( Mauss, 1925) or habits incorporation (Bourdieu, 1994) in a pilgrimage path named “Caminhos da Piedade”. The path that I am looking for is 21 kilometers long, in between Cataguases, MG and Piacatuba, MG cities. My question is to know how the religion experience pilgrimage lived deeply for a group of people that the physical and emotional get to the body technics learning to help them in this journey and how the body and emotion support in the field performance, the pilgrimage. In this way, the main object of this research is to see how is built the pilgrimage body and emotions in some ritual context, in the way that, after this social transformation and by communitas moment, has the body modified and high emotions to get from Piacatuba into Nossa Senhora da Piedade. Analyze the body, see how the pilgrimage body is build and how its holds together with its emotions, felt and expressed, in the field is my research object.

This is an ethnographic case study of a musical community in Catalonia centered around the performance of bluegrass and old-time music. By using Victor and Edith Turners’ ideas of normative communitas, this paper identifies an aesthetic communitas model which describes a community centered around a performative genre. Through participant observation in the 16th Annual Al Ras Bluegrass and Old Time Music Festival and interviews with local musicians, fans, venue owners, and luthiers, the ethnographic narrative details the characteristics of the aesthetic communitas in Catalonia and searches for associations of Appalachia that accompany the cross-cultural manifestation of bluegrass and old-time music in Catalonia. The conclusion examines the significance of the aesthetic communitas model and suggests further lines of research for this model.

Southern Paiute people stipulate that when the world was formed, the Creator gave them sole possession of the lands that constitute the traditional Southern Paiute nation and the Creator gave them the responsibilities to tend to the land, resources, and each other. As a result, from these stewardship duties, Southern Paiute people developed complex socio-ecological methods for promoting and maintaining both ecological and spiritual balance. One method was used by medicine people or Puha'gants and it involved them traveling to special ceremonial areas to acquire knowledge and power. These journeys required Puha'gants to undergo intense purification and preparation and they traveled along designated trails to places far away from their home communities. The pilgrimage process allowed the pilgrims to gain knowledge and power at their destination places to use in ceremonies to restore balance and promote sustainability in their home communities. My dissertation study examines six pilgrimage trails across Southern Paiute territory in an effort to understand this process. As a way to frame my discussion, this analysis draws upon four concepts--(1) Southern Paiute place logic, (2) cultural landscapes, (3) pilgrimage, and (4) communitas. For trail systems under study, I examine the types of places visited and their associated performance characteristics, and specifically the types of relationships pilgrims, or Puhahivats with each other, the places visited, and objects used.

La siguiente investigación se propone analizar los procedimientos, narrativas y objetos propios del desarrollo del régimen gubernamental en la provincia de Mendoza. A partir de un trabajo etnográfico y a través del examen de documentos y fuentes históricas del Archivo Histórico de Mendoza, fuentes censales, documentos administrativos/legislativos y material historiográfico –exploro los dispositivos, acciones y normativas de reestructuración política y de complejización del aparato administrativo provincial y los efectos -en términos narrativos y organizacionales- de dichas acciones en el reordenamiento territorial local y en las formas de clasificación y organización de la población indígena residente en el departamento de Lavalle. En el abordaje de dicho proceso he identificado dos contextos sociales críticos, en los que se producen reestructuraciones sociales con implicancias significativas en la dinámica social indígena y en su forma de visibilidad y corporalización pública: fines de siglo XIX-principios del XX, contexto en que se producen reestructuraciones jurídicopolíticas a nivel del Estado y del territorio correlativas al proceso de consolidación de la modernidad administrativa y territorial; y el contexto de fines de siglo XX y principios del siglo XXI- definido por la anexión de la filiación étnico-cultural al sistema de clasificación social y de gobernabilidad. Si bien los dispositivos administrativos y jurídico-políticos contemporáneos aparecen como ampliamente divergentes y superadores de la política estatal asimilacionista de fines de siglo XIX y principios del XX, existen ciertos indicadores que ponen de manifiesto la existencia de un contiguo patrón textual y organizacional estructurado por el mismo tipo de racionalidad: la racionalidad moderna; una racionalidad centrada en la maximización de la productividad de la población, incluida ahora la indígena. En este sentido, y contrariamente a entender su visibilidad contemporánea como “resurgimiento étnico”, la investigación que aquí se presenta problematiza cómo determinadas coyunturas históricas han incidido en su pública visibilización/invisibilización y han condicionado en parte la configuración de sus identificaciones, sus instituciones y sus aspiraciones públicas.