Actuellement, le concept « idole » a basculé dans la sphère triviale du culte de personnes et renferme, néanmoins, des traces du sens antique du mot. Le terme d’idole met l’accent sur le moment de la vénération et c’est précisément là que réside la difficulté : la combinaison de l’adoration et de la plasticité d'une image va à l’encontre de la théologie de l’Ancien Testament de la vénération unique et sans image de JHWH. Le point de départ de cette étude est le mot grec eidôlon, qui est ancré dans le sujet de l’image des divinités depuis la Septante et qui fait office de terme fixe pour désigner les déités étrangères. Il en ressort qu’il n’existe pas d’expression standard pour une image de culte dans la culture grecque. La comparaison et l’analyse exacte des équivalents hébreux et grecs forment la majeure partie de la thèse. Dans le cas d’eidôlon il n’existe pas d’équivalent standard mais un bon nombre de termes hébreux qui sont tous reproduits par le terme grec dans la LXX. Par ailleurs, le terme eidôlon apparaît dans des textes d’importance cruciale pour la foi israélite (voir sa fréquence dans le deuxième commandement du Décalogue et dans le Chant de Moïse). Il s’agit d’une manœuvre stratégique et théologique des traducteurs, car ce terme renferme tous les éléments majeurs des divinités étrangères. Il existe donc une différenciation claire entre le dieu d’Israël et toutes les autres divinités. / The concept “idol” derives from ancient Greek, which is still used today. Nowadays, an Idol designates first and foremost the cult of personality but the traces of the ancient meaning are partly preserved. The term idol focuses on the veneration of foreign deities and their pictorial representations. Therefore, idols contrast with the monotheism and an iconism of the god of Israel. This study elaborates the original meaning of the Greek word eidôlon which becomes the standard expression for divine images since its usage in the Septuagint and afterwards. It seems that there did not exist a major term for cult images in the Greek culture. The comparison and the exact analysis of the Hebrew and Greek equivalents form the major part of the thesis. In the case of eidôlon there does not exist a Hebrew standard equivalent but a variety of Hebrew lexemes which are all translated by the Greek word in the Septuagint. In general, eidôlon appears in important and authoritative texts (Exodus 20: the Second Commandment,Deuteronomy 32: The Song of Moses). Concerning the choice of terminology, eidôlon is astrategic and theological move of the translators because this Greek expression includes allmajor characteristics of foreign deities. A clear distinction between JHWH the god of Israel andall other deities becomes clear.

Orientador: Ana Raquel Marques da Cunha Martins Portugal. / Banca: Eliane Cristina Deckmann Fleck / Banca: Ivan Aparecido Manoel / Resumo: A investigação visa estudar as relações entre o discurso demonológico e colonização no vice-reinado do Peru de finais do século XVI e início do XVII, através dos processos de "extirpação de idolatrias" e a criação de instituições que buscavam a normatização/uniformização dos costumes, como a "casa de Santa Cruz", um cárcere para líderes religiosos considerados "feiticeiros", e o "colégio do Príncipe", uma escola para filhos da elite indígena. Ambas instituições estavam sob responsabilidade do jesuíta Pablo José de Arriaga, que também foi uma referência para as visitas de idolatrias / Abstract: The research aims to study the relations between the demonological and colonization in the Viceroyalty of Peru from the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries through the processes of "extirpation of idolatry" and the creation of institutions seeking the standardization / harmonization of customs as the "home of Santa Cruz," a prison for religious leaders viewed as "wizards" and the "colegio del Príncipe", a school for children of the indigenous elite. Both institutions were under the responsibility of the Jesuit Pablo José de Arriaga, who also was a reference to the visits of idolatry / Mestre

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2017-06-20T17:06:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Thadeu Silva SOUZA, T.S..pdf: 1285779 bytes, checksum: 0d12eb37b5f2dfd1b930b2a71c20912b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-20T17:06:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Thadeu Silva SOUZA, T.S..pdf: 1285779 bytes, checksum: 0d12eb37b5f2dfd1b930b2a71c20912b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-20 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / This research seeks to investigate the theoretical methods used by the latin-american theologian Hugo Assmann to articulate the binomial theology and economics in the task of criticizing the religious functioning of capitalism. For an adequate analysis, we restrict ourselves to analyse the devolopment of his criticism to the idolatry of the market. By making use of Jung Mo Sung's contributions we have divided Assmann's thoughts in three phases very different in his understanding about the market.We seek to analyse in detail each one of the phases in the next chapters that constitute this dissertation starting from his main works. In the first chapter, we dedicated ourselves to study Assmann's criticism to the "capitalismo como religião do fetiche". Our hypothesis is that this criticism is the first register that critically links the market to the biblical concept of gods and idols. In this phase Assmann develops a radical or metaphysics critique of the capitalist market, disregarding the importance of the market in a possible postcapitalism/socialism society. The second chapter approaches the theme of the market idolatry from Hugo Assmann. After that, we analyse both of the major concepts of this structure: idol and idolatry. We showed that, by the time he made use of the thesis of Franz Hinkelammert about Crítica da razão utópica, Assmann begins to accept the market as a necessary economic factor to social relations. His criticism is toward the absolutizing of the alleged self-relgulation of the market's mechanisms advocated by the neoliberal utopian thought. In the third chapter, we analyse in which way Assmann incorporates the theory of living self-regulative systems to his thought about the market and begins to accept that, in some parts, the market is a self -regulating system and has a positive dimension. Here Assmann criticizes the neoliberal's idolatrous faith in a self-regulation that will always produce the best result. This impedes any attempt of a social intervention as a consequence of solidarity purposes which would compensate the exacerbated system's exclusion logic. In this interim, we will try to present a socioeconomic basis for the fact that it is impossible to put an end to the market and to the mercantile relations in wide and complex realities such as those from modern societies. Finally, we will also investigate how Assmann introduces the conception of solidarity in this discussion, both to criticize the idolatry of the market's complete automatism and to propose an estrategy to overcome this logic of sacrifice that ignores the tendency of exclusion in the market. To this end, we will make use mainly of DEI theologians' contributions as reference for analysing the work of Assmann and other philosophers and sociologists that are important from our point of view. / Esta pesquisa busca investigar os mecanismos teóricos utilizados pelo teólogo latino-americano Hugo Assmann para articular o binômio teologia e economia na tarefa de criticar o funcionamento religioso do capitalismo. Para uma adequada investigação, nos limitamos a analisar o desenvolvimento de sua crítica à idolatria do mercado. Por meio das contribuições de Jung Mo Sung dividimos o pensamento de Assmann em três fases com características bastante distintas em sua compreensão sobre o mercado. Buscamos analisar detidamente cada uma delas nos capítulos que compõem esta dissertação a partir de suas principais obras. No primeiro capítulo, dedicamo-nos à análise da crítica de Assmann ao “capitalismo como religião do fetiche”. Nossa hipótese é de que está nesta crítica as primeiras notas que vinculam criticamente o mercado ao conceito bíblico de deuses ou ídolos. Nesta fase Assmann desenvolve uma crítica radical ou metafísica ao mercado capitalista, de modo a desconsiderar por completo a importância do mercado em uma possível sociedade pós-capitalista/socialista. O segundo capítulo aborda o tema da idolatria do mercado. Buscamos apresentar nele a estrutura conceitual da crítica à idolatria do mercado em Hugo Assmann. Depois, analisamos os dois conceitos principais desta estrutura: ídolo e idolatria. Evidenciamos que, ao apropriar-se da tese de Franz Hinkelammert sobre a Crítica da razão utópica, Assmann passa a aceitar o mercado como um fator econômico necessário às relações sociais. Sua crítica está direcionada à absolutização da suposta autorregulação dos mecanismos do mercado defendido pelo pensamento utópico neoliberal. No terceiro capítulo, analisamos o modo com que Assmann incorpora ao seu pensamento sobre o mercado a teoria dos sistemas vivos autorregulativos e passa aceitar que, em partes, o mercado é um sistema que se autorregula e tem uma dimensão positiva. Aqui Assmann critica a fé idolátrica dos neoliberais de que autorregulação do mercado produzirá sempre o melhor resultado. Isto impede qualquer forma de intervenção social em vista de metas solidárias que compensem a exacerbada lógica de exclusão do sistema. Neste ínterim, buscaremos apresentar uma fundamentação socioeconômica para o fato da impossibilidade de acabar com o mercado e com relações mercantis em realidades amplas e complexas como nas sociedades modernas. Por fim, investigaremos também como Assmann introduz a noção de solidariedade nesta discussão, tanto para criticar a idolatria do automatismo pleno do mercado, quanto para propor uma estratégia de superação desta lógica sacrifical que ignora a tendência de exclusão do mercado. Para tanto, utilizaremos fundamentalmente de contribuições dos teólogos do DEI como referencial de análise das obras de Assmann e também de teses de outros filósofos e sociólogos que se fizerem importantes a partir de nosso objetivo geral.

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Ancestor worship is conceived by some to be an outdated primitive custom with no relevance to modern society. However, this study shows that ancestor worship is still alive and well in numerous cultures and countries around the globe and that it is still practised in different forms today. This study focuses on the phenomenon of ancestor worship in Africa, Japan and Korea and specifically deals with the challenges it has posed to Christian missionaries in these contexts. Furthermore, this study examines the strategies which the Roman Catholic Church, the Protestant Church and Independent Churches have adopted to deal with this problem and the apparent mismatch with Christian theology. Therefore, the analysis of the phenomenon of ancestor worship is situated in the socio-cultural and religious paradigms of each of these countries and is examined in theological, missiological and Biblical terms. Most notably, the thesis attempts to determine whether or not ancestor worship can be considered to be a purely social and cultural phenomenon which carries certain ethical responsibilities in these cultures and whether or not it is congruent with Christian theology. This study has attempted to prove that in spite of the socio-cultural dimensions of ancestor worship and its rituals (with their ensuing ethical responsibilities in the cosmologies of these nations) it is still essentially worship. It is contended that ancestor worship is fundamentally a form of idolatry and contrary to the teachings of the Bible and is therefore does not articulate with Christian theology. The fundamental premise underlying the study is the ultimate authority of the Bible as the inspired word of God. This is a qualitative study which attempts to explore the phenomenon and rituals of ancestor worship on numerous levels. In each case the theological contributions of scholars in the field are evaluated and explored and ultimately benchmarked against the Biblical evidence. In the African context it is necessary therefore to look at African Christology and the attempts of scholars to contextualise the gospel in African terms. As such the continuity and discontinuity between traditional religion and the Bible is explored and the dangers of syncretism are addressed. The ultimate goal was to suggest a suitable approach for the Church to deal with the challenges which ancestor worship poses in these specific contexts. The study will motivate and argue for contextualisation as an appropriate mission principle in this regard. This takes into consideration the social responsibility which missionaries have towards the people to whom they introduce the gospel. The reason is that the close bond which exists between identity, culture and religion is acknowledged. If the religion or cultural practises are rejected because it does not comply with the Gospel’s requirements, then missionaries need to be sensitive to the void which they may create in the identity of the people and take appropriate steps to ameliorate the problem and avoid syncretism. / Thesis (PhD (Science of Religion and Missiology))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Science of Religion and Missiology / unrestricted

[pt] O Método Pragmalingüístico é um instrumento de leitura bíblica cujos fundamentos encontram-se na semiótica, ciência articulada e dividida em três estágios: sintática, semântica e pragmática. A singularidade da pragmalingüística está na análise do texto como estratégia comunicativa do autor, que procura conduzir e provocar os sucessivos leitores para uma ação. A aplicação do Método Pragmalingüístico para a leitura de Os 10,1-8 evidencia que o próprio texto contem em si mesmo, explícita ou implicitamente, os elementos para sua compreensão. Permite detectar elementos relevantes para a reflexão metodológica, sobretudo a relação entre análise sincrônica e diacrônica. Se a interpretação dos textos bíblicos não depende exclusivamente dos conhecimentos que se tem das condições históricas da origem dos mesmos, não significa que estas devem ser ignoradas ou descartadas. A singularidade da pragmalingüística não está na oposição sincrônico e diacrônico. Mesmo admitindo o estudo diacrônico como indispensável para interpretação da Bíblia, a inclusão no método histórico crítico de uma análise sincrônica dos textos constitui uma operação legítima, pois é o texto em seu estado final, e não uma redação anterior, que é expressão da Palavra de Deus. O método pragmalingüístico não seria um método alternativo, mas é uma metodologia que possibilita uma visão totalizante, procurando integrar os resultados já adquiridos, potenciando-os a partir de uma concepção do texto como processo comunicativo. / [en] The Pragmalinguistic Method is an instrument of biblical reading of which fundamentals are found in semiotics, articulated science and divided in three stages: syntactic, semantics and pragmatics. The uniqueness of Pragmalinguistics lies in the text analysis as an author's communicative strategy that seeks to lead and incite to action the consecutive reader. The Pragmalinguistic Method application to the reading of Hos 10,1-8 makes evident that the text itself encloses within, explicitly or implicitly, the necessary elements to achieve its understanding. It makes possible to relevant elements for the methodological reflection, above all the relation between sycchronistic and diachronistic analysis. If the interpretation of biblical texts does not depend exclusively on the knowledge acquired through historical conditions of their origin, it does not mean that these very same should be ignored or dismissed. The uniqueness of Pragmalinguistics does not reside in the opposition synchronistic and diachronistic. Even admitting the diachronistic study as being essential for the interpretation of the Bible, the inclusion into the historic critical method of a synchronistic analysis of the texts establishes a genuine operation, since it regards the text final outcome, not a former draft, the expresses the Word of God. The Pragmalinguistic Method wouldn't be an alternative method, but a methodology which enables an absolute view attempting to integrate the results already acquired, involving them from the basis of a text conception as communicative process.

This work deals with the symbolism of trees in the Old Testament considering the mythology of the ancient Near East, using relevant literature, concordant exploration, and synchronic and diachronic analyses of biblical texts. It aims to present an intersection of the most important aspects of the appearance of trees in the Scripture, both in a literal and figurative sense. Drawing on work with biblical and mythological texts from the ancient Near East, it presents the tree as a comprehensible symbol with strong explanatory power, which constitutes its potential to contain even the most complex messages of the Scripture and of the human condition as such.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Karen Alejandra Arriagada Valdivia.pdf: 730302 bytes, checksum: 20e0cdfc0c2cf3c4bbd76713a485a7c2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-03 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The method structured by friar Bernardino de Sahagún to describe the ancient rituals of the mexica feasts, reveals a deepest sense behind the enormous compilation of the ancient mexica habits and beliefs done by the Franciscan in his chronicle Historia General de las cosas de Nueva España (General History of the things of New Spain). Once Sahagún considered the ancient mexica feasts as idolatry ceremonies , such descriptions expressed two of the main purposes of the missionary: to know the ancient indigenous ritualistic practices and identify any clue of its survival. On the other hand, the descriptions brought to light the main difficulties that Sahagún faced trying to understand and to translate the diversity, the other, that goes much further than the systematic descriptions of the mexica rituals, the organization of its terms and vocables, and the questions that were part of his questionnaire. They also reflected the complex missionary context which friar Bernardino was inserted and which was reflected in his chronicle. Among the eighteen feasts that took place throughout the mexica solar calendar, we have chosen seven of them, connected to the agricultural cycle and which main elements they remitted to, formed an extremely important group in the native cosmovision: water, rain, corn, hills and fire. They are rituals of the vintenas: I Atlcaoalo; IV Huey tozoztli; VI Etzalcualiztli; XI Ochpaniztli; XIII Tepeílhuitl; XVI Atemoztli e XVIII Izcalli. The purpose of this research is to analyze the method structured by friar Bernardino to describe the rituals of these specific vintenas, which was his path of description and what he would be actually saying / O método estruturado por frei Bernardino de Sahagún para descrever os antigos rituais das festas mexica, revela o sentido mais profundo que estaria por trás de toda a enorme compilação dos antigos costumes e crenças mexica feita pelo franciscano em sua crônica Historia General de las cosas de Nueva España. Uma vez que Sahagún considerava as antigas festas mexica como cerimônias idolátricas , tais descrições expressavam dois dos principais objetivos do missionário: conhecer as antigas práticas ritualísticas indígenas, e identificar qualquer vestígio de sua sobrevivência. Por outro lado, ditas descrições traziam à luz as principais problemáticas que Sahagún enfrentou ao tentar entender e traduzir a alteridade, que iam muito mais além das descrições sistemáticas dos rituais mexica, da organização de seus termos e vocábulos, e das perguntas que faziam parte de seu questionário. Elas são reflexo também de um complexo contexto missionário no qual frei Bernardino se insere e que se reflete em seu trabalho. Dentre as dezoito festas que eram feitas ao longo do calendário solar mexica, escolhemos sete delas, ligadas ao ciclo agrícola e cujos principais elementos aos quais remetiam, formavam um conjunto importantíssimo na cosmovisão indígena: água, chuva, milho, montes e fogo. São os rituais das vintenas I Atlcaoalo; IV Huey tozoztli; VI Etzalcualiztli; XI Ochpaniztli; XIII Tepeílhuitl; XVI Atemoztli e XVIII Izcalli. O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar o método estruturado por Sahagún para descrever rituais destas vintenas específicas, qual seu caminho de descrição, o que estaria dizendo de fato

為瞭解青少年偶像崇拜行為之現況，以及青少年偶像崇拜行為與人口變項（性別、年級、家庭社經地位）、家庭變項（親子互動關係類型）、自尊變項（家庭自尊、學業自尊、身體意象自尊、社會人際自尊、利他自尊、整體自尊）、學業成就等背景變項之關係，乃以台北地區國一和國三學生1135名為研究對象，採用家庭社經地位調查表、偶像崇拜問卷、親子互動關係量表、自我尊重量表等研究工具來獲取所需資料，再以卡方考驗、K-W考驗、平均數差異t考驗、Pearson積差相關、變異數分析等統計方法進行分析。結果發現： 1.青少年最崇拜的偶像依序為：「影視明星」（44.8%）、「卡通小說人物」（9.6%）、「父親」（9.1%）、「母親」（8.0%）、「同學朋友」（5.6%）、「運動員」（5.6%）、「其他偶像」（4.6%）、無偶像（3.9%）、「歷史人物」（3.8%）、「師長」（3.1%）、「政治人物」（1.9%）。 2.崇拜不同類型偶像的青少年，對偶像的「外型」、「個性」、「才能」、「成就」、「很會賺錢」等崇拜原因的重要性排序具有顯著差異。 3.崇拜「影視明星」的青少年，會到機場接機、守在偶像出現的場合，或是請假、蹺課去看偶像者實屬少數，且從事上述崇拜行為者多為女生。 4.男生崇拜「父親」、「運動員」、「歷史人物」的人數顯著多於女生，而女生崇拜「影視明星」的人數則顯著多於男生。 5.來自中上家庭社經地位的青少年，崇拜「影視明星」的人數顯著少於來自中等及中下家庭社經地位的青少年；來自中上家庭社經地位的青少年，崇拜「政治人物」的人數卻顯著多於來自中等及中下家庭社經地位的青少年；而家庭社經地位為中下的青少年，崇拜「政治人物」的人數顯著少於中上及中等家庭社經地位的青少年。 6.男生顯著偏好崇拜男偶像，但女生對男、女偶像的偏好並無顯著差異。 7.女生對偶像「外型」的重視甚於男生，而男生對偶像「很會賺錢」的重視則甚於女生；國一學生對偶像「外型」的重視甚於國三學生，而國三學生對偶像「才能」的重視則更甚於國一學生；來自中下家庭社經地位的青少年，對偶像「外型」的重視更甚於中等及中上家庭社經的青少年。 8.女生對偶像的崇拜強度顯著高於男生；國一和國三學生偶像崇拜的強度並無顯著差異；而來自中上家庭社經地位之青少年，偶像崇拜強度顯著高於來自中下家庭社經地位之青少年。 9.父子互動關係為「聚頻心繫」的青少年，崇拜「父親」的人數顯著多於「聚疏心繫」、「聚頻心離」、「聚疏心離」的青少年；父子互動關係為「聚疏心離」的青少年，崇拜「父親」的人數顯著少於「聚頻心繫」、「聚疏心繫」、「聚頻心離」的青少年；而父子互動關係為「聚疏心離」的青少年，崇拜「影視明星」的人數顯著多於其他父子互動關係類型的青少年。 10.父子互動關係為「聚頻心繫」與「聚頻心離」的青少年，對偶像崇拜的強度顯著大於父子互動關係為「聚疏心繫」的青少年。 11.母子互動關係類型不同的青少年，崇拜的偶像類型與崇拜強度均無顯著差異存在。 12.高家庭自尊的青少年崇拜「父親」的人數顯著多於中自尊與低自尊者；低學業自尊的青少年崇拜「影視明星」的人數顯著多於高自尊與中自尊者；而高整體自尊的青少年崇拜「政治人物」的人數顯著多於中自尊與低自尊者。 13.低家庭自尊的青少年較中、高自尊者更重視偶像的「外型」；中、低學業自尊的青少年對偶像「外型」的重視更甚於高自尊者。 14.學業自尊愈低的女生，對偶像崇拜的強度愈強；身體意象自尊愈高的青少年，對偶像的崇拜強度愈強；利他自尊愈高的青少年，對偶像的崇拜強度愈強。 15.學業成就優劣不同的青少年所崇拜的偶像類型無顯著差異。 16.低學業成就的青少年對偶像「外型」、「很會賺錢」的重視甚於中、高成就者；而高學業成就的青少年對偶像「才能」、「成就」的重視則甚於中、低成就者。 本研究根據上述研究結果加以討論，並針對家庭教育、學校教育、社會教育及未來研究等四方面提出數點建議，以供青少年輔導工作及後續研究參考。

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:21:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Juarez Ferreira de Jesus.pdf: 452692 bytes, checksum: 4807659fa6cf84f2343483c21e0abfa0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-08 / Slightly more than half a century after the discovery of the New World, Spanish Conquest in full, would take place in Valladolid in 1550 and 1551, an unprecedented event: a public debate starring two remarkable characters, namely, the Dominican Friar Bartolome de Las Casas and Juan Gines de Sepulveda. This debate is known in history as the Controversy of Valladolid, and had as main objective, to discuss how the Indians of the New World would be treated, what were their rights and their responsibilities. This thesis discusses the context in which this controversy took place, its characters and, of course, itself, in its arguments, exposure mode and constituent structure.(AU) / Pouco mais de meio século depois da descoberta do Novo Mundo, em plena Conquista espanhola, ocorreria em Valladolid, nos anos de 1550 e 1551, um evento sem precedentes: um debate público protagonizado por duas notáveis personagens, a saber: o Frei dominicano Bartolomé de Las Casas e Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda. Este debate ficou conhecido na História como a Controvérsia de Valladolid, e teve, como principal objetivo, discutir o modo como deveriam ser tratados os índios do Novo Mundo, quais eram os seus direitos e as suas atribuições. Esta tese discute o contexto em que se deu essa controvérsia, suas personagens e, é claro, ela própria, em seus argumentos, modo de exposição e estrutura constitutiva.(AU)