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The landscape of RE continues to evolve, in part, due to the academisation programme in England which is disrupting long-standing historical local structures. Following the National Plan by the Commission on RE, as a contribution to the ongoing debates, this study explores the perceptions of early career teachers about the future determination of RE. To examine such views, an online survey gathered quantitative data from PGCE and Year 3 students and a questionnaire gathered qualitative data from two groups in Year 1 of the BA Honours in Primary Education course at a university in the West Midlands, England. The findings are based on 149 survey responses and 52 completed questionnaires. This article reports the results about the membership and duties of Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE) and the proposed Local Advisory Network for Religion and Worldviews (LANRW) from the Year 1 groups. The open-ended questionnaire data were analysed by thematic analysis. The results reveal that a small majority of the Year 1 groups were unhappy with the current membership setup of SACREs. However, a larger majority were happy with the current duties of SACREs. More than half of the responses received for the question about the creation of LANRWs agreed with this proposal. All responses received for the question about the representativeness of LANRWs agreed that the five groups proposed would make a LANRWs representative. A majority of the responses received for the question about the proposed roles designated for LANRWs also expressed their satisfaction with the roles. Based on these, further research is recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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There is an immediate chronological link between Durkheim's criminology courses on crime and punishment, taught between 1892 and 1894, and his first course in religious sociology (1894–1895). Both are included in the cycles of 'General Physics of Law and Morals'. Beyond this observation, the emphasis here is on six points that intellectually connect the two fields of study, always analyzed separately by the commentators of his work. Crime is in itself a means of revealing social solidarity, and the religion that carries it. The penalty is at the articulation between criminal law and religion. The evolution of penalty marks the progressive elimination of the religious substance of modern criminal laws. Durkheim outlines a theory of the sacred by reflecting on the respect and authority of the law. There are also suggestive digressions that link the tattoos of criminals to the institution of totemism. Finally, his typology of crimes is an opportunity to transform religion into an 'explanatory variable', rather than a 'variable to be explained'. Il existe un lien chronologique entre les cours de criminologie de Durkheim sur le crime et la peine en 1892–1894 et son premier cours de sociologie religieuse, dit de la révélation (1894–1895), qui se succèdent sans transition. Les deux domaines s'inscrivent d'ailleurs dans les cycles de 'Physique générale du droit et des mœurs.' Au-delà de ce constat, cet article met l'accent sur six points qui relient intellectuellement les deux domaines d'études, toujours analysés séparément par les commentateurs de son œuvre. Le crime est en soi un moyen de révéler la solidarité sociale et la religion qui la porte. En outre, la pénalité est le lieu d'articulation entre le droit pénal et la religion. Quant aux les 'lois de l'évolution pénale', elles manifestent l'élimination progressive de la substance religieuse des droits criminels modernes. Durkheim esquisse dans sa sociologie criminelle une théorie du sacré en réfléchissant au respect et à l'autorité de la loi, qui est transcendante. On évoque également les digressions suggestives dans lesquelles il rattache les tatouages des criminels à l'institution du totémisme. Enfin, on montre que sa typologie des crimes est l'occasion de transformer la religion en 'variable explicative', plutôt qu'en 'variable à expliquer', ce qui ne manque pas de lui conférer une objectivité scientifique considérable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In recent years, concern has been expressed about lack of clarity in the published aims and purposes provided for the teaching of religious education (RE) in English schools. Public reports and significant RE authorities suggest that this contributes to teacher confusion and a lowering of standards in the subject. As a contribution to the debate, 513 Standing Advisory Council for RE (SACRE) members offer their responses to an online survey about competing alternative aims for the subject. The results provide fascinating data on the perspectives of one of RE's key stakeholder groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ion Creangă is a classic writer, author of the most well-known memory book of the Romanian literature and also author of largely red fairy tales. He is one of the compulsory writers in the school canon, in any of its versions. This is why the critics and also the Romanian culture at large had difficulties in accepting and interpreting his two pornographic texts. This article tries to enroll Povestea poveştilor in the XIX th century ideological and cultural context and to read the text as an attempt of the ex-clergyman not only to amuse his aristocratic auditor, but also to shock the mentalisties and the habits of the Romanian orthodox society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cette étude a pour objectif de comprendre comment le système symbolique attaché à l’eau incite les populations locales à adopter des comportements préservant cette ressource vitale. A cet effet, une enquête est menée auprès de 246 habitants de la vallée d’Anougal, lieu où la population conserve encore un mode de vie traditionnel. Les résultats obtenus montrent que la population utilise une diversité de croyances symboliques pour entretenir son rapport avec les sources d’eau. Par ailleurs, l’étude a révélé la capacité de ces croyances symboliques à préserver les sources d’eau dans la vallée, et ce suite à leur efficacité d’orienter les comportements de sorte qu’ils soient plus conforment au principe de prudence. Ainsi, la prise en compte du système symbolique des populations est primordiale pour toute action ou programme de développement destinés à protéger les ressources en eau. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Shanghai is a metropolis that sees itself as the cradle of Chinese ‘modernity’, the birthplace of the revolutionary movement, and a hub of cultural and religious diversity – a multilayered identity enshrined in a number of ‘sacred spaces’. This article focuses on the way sacredness continues to be engineered in today’s Shanghai, mapping the religious landscape through the exploration of four dimensions – namely, ‘landmarks’, ‘compounds’, ‘privacy’, and ‘waterways’. The article assesses the role played by churches, temples, and mosques, by home and working spaces, by waterways and virtual networks, in the shaping of an urban sacred space satisfying a variety of needs and traditions while being symbolically organized into a consistent territory. In the context of a religiously vibrant global city, locating ‘sacredness’ means understanding it as a process of ceaseless dislocation and relocation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article looks at the sociology of religion theorized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his book "The Elementary Forms of Religious Life," which is the focus of the current special issue. It outlines and analyzes the main ideas developed in the book, including religion as an inherently social phenomenon, totemism in Australia as an instance of the origins of religion, the sacred-profane distinction, morality, the meaning of ritual, and collective consciousness.

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In 2012 a Review of RE in England was initiated by the Religious Education Council of England and Wales, in response to a perceived sense of crisis among the religious education (RE) community. Its recommendations, which include a new National Curriculum Framework for RE, were published in October, 2013. The fact that the proposed National Curriculum Framework for RE aspires to provide a curriculum model of excellence that all schools should follow, naturally invites careful study and scrutiny. This article considers the question whether the Review’s conclusions provides a democratically mandated, legally compliant, educationally convincing and socially appropriate future direction for RE in England. It is concluded that there are serious weaknesses in the proposals and that the Review process was a missed opportunity for the emergence and articulation of a model of religious education that is appropriate to the aims of liberal education in a democratic, increasingly diverse English society. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Cet essai explore la représentation de la guillotine dans l'imaginaire romanesque de trois œuvres: Quatrevingt-Treize de Victor Hugo, Les Dieux ont soif d'Anatole France, et Le Rouge et le Noir de Stendhal. Qu'il soit aux ordres de la république ou de la monarchie, le mécanisme macabre se dresse, funèbre et omniprésent, dans chacun de ces romans où les personnages vont accepter et même choisir de mourir sous sa lame implacable. La figure de la guillotine est abordée par le biais de deux prismes: la sérialité et le sacré i.e. en considérant comment chaque auteur construit le symbolisme de la Veuve en incluant ou excluant son aspect sériel (ses qualités techniques) et/ou en construisant une rhétorique du sacré (une 'Sainte Guillotine'). Le cérémonial lugubre de la 'machine à décollation' devient sous la plume de ces auteurs un emblème de cruauté et d'ignominie mais aussi de résistance et de sublime. This article explores the representation of the guillotine in the fictional imaginary of three novels: Ninety Three by Victor Hugo, The Gods are Thirsty by Anatole France, and The Red and the Black by Stendhal. Whether it takes orders from the republic or the monarchy, the ominous presence of the gruesome instrument overshadows the novels in which the main characters eventually accept and even choose to offer their heads to the implacable blade. The figure of the guillotine is apprehended through two prisms: its serial and sacred qualities, i.e. by considering how each novelist constructs the symbolism of the 'widow' by including or excluding its technical side and/or building a rhetoric of the divine ('Sainte Guillotine'). The bleak ceremonial of the head-cutting machine, under the pen of these authors, becomes an emblem of cruelty and ignominy but also of resistance and sublimity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper the author will utilize both anthropological and historical approaches to illustrate how religion and the State intersect in the Dajia Mazu pilgrimage. Moreover, she will critique the conventional binary model of sacred versus profane by demonstrating how these two concepts are intricately intertwined in the course of the Dajia pilgrimage. The article aims to: provide a brief introduction and background to the Dajia pilgrimage; explore how the pilgrimage route is determined; discuss the protagonists involved in the choice of the pilgrimage route – temple committee leaders and members, as well as local politicians; and examine how temple committee members exploit the pilgrimage to express dissent against the central government of Taiwan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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The article presents abstracts of articles on anthropology and literature, including "New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia Expression: Reflections on a Thematic Project Sponsored by the Coordinating Committee of ICLA," "What Happened to Romanian Literature During Post-Communism? A Plea for Symptomatic Critique of Literary Changes" and "The Role of Silence of Folktales."