Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 9019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Taylor |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9189-3187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ordinary-Time Festivals
Feasts and festivals enliven the Christian life. Given Easter, Christmas and Pentecost cluster around the nineteen weeks of Christmastide and Eastertide, the thirty-three weeks of ordinary time are disconnected from these celebrations. The theological impact is considered in light of Amy Plantinga Pauw's wisdom ecclesiology. For Pauw, the church has largely neglected the ordinary-time dimension of the Christian life. The result is a Christian lif…
Public support for food subsidy and tax scenarios to promote healthy and sustainable diets
Visualizing online climate change activism
Digital technology is changing the world. This article analyses visual images to learn with and from the social media presence of two Christian organizations as they respond to the climate challenges facing our planet. The article demonstrates how online visual images are a public theology that communicates activist journeys, intergenerational participation and prayer integrated into climate justice. The research makes a novel contribution to the…
Theologies of Fulfillment in a Reciprocal Study of Relationships between John Laughton and Rua Kēnana in Aotearoa New Zealand
Crossing the borders of religion presents challenges and provides opportunities. This article presents a contextualized case study from Aotearoa New Zealand, examining the lifelong relationship between Presbyterian missionary Rev. John “Hoani” Laughton (1891–1965) and Māori leader Rua Kēnana (1869–1937). Photography, as a tool in discerning lived theologies, suggests a side-by-side relationship of reciprocity and particularity. Relationships acro…
Transition numérique et fréquentation des espaces de montagne
Ce numéro spécial du Journal of Alpine Research | Revue de géographie alpine s’inscrit dans le champ des travaux portant sur les effets de la transition numérique sur la fréquentation et la gestion des territoires de montagne. L’entrée de nos sociétés dans une ère numérique a eu des effets directs et indirects sur différentes facettes de nos quotidiens (Sciadas, 2006) qui sont désormais intégralement accompagnés par des objets connectés, mais aus…
The Digital Transition and Use of Mountain Spaces
This special issue of the Journal of Alpine Research|Revue de géographie alpine is part of a series of studies on the effects of the digital transition on the use and management of mountain areas. The entry of our societies into a digital era has had direct or indirect effects on various facets of our daily lives (Sciadas, 2006), which are now entirely accompanied by digital devices, but also by the data they produce and which we voluntarily shar…
Consumer culture and symbolic capital in a differentiated Pakistani transnational community
Drawing on original qualitative data this article analyses fluid and shifting notions of symbolic capital within the Pakistani diaspora in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. Focusing on the South Asian concept of izzat (honour/prestige) it is argued that the field of local symbolic prestige is adapting to the macro context laid down by consumer culture as its mechanisms permeate the structural, cultural and everyday lives of this transnatio…
Durkheim and social realism
The term positivism has a long and varied history and is often used loosely. The imbalance of egoism, altruism, anomie, and fatalism could not be perceived by sensory perception, but had to be penetrated by special methods. Medical sociologists do not avoid theorizing simply by claiming to reject it on the grounds that they are researchers concerned only with the real, or empirical, world. The theoretical assumptions that are made structure the s…
Te Hāhi Mihinare
Theological Education as "Being With" the Future Church
Pandemic Spiritual Leadership
Background The COVID-19 pandemic introduced disruption that crossed sectors, borders, and disciplinary boundaries. Among faith communities and religious leaders, numerous commentators have observed technological innovations in response to physical gathering disruptions. We outline a form of pandemic spiritual leadership that supports faith communities beyond digital innovation by combining original empirical research and a novel conceptual framew…
Jesus as a Socially (Ir)responsible Innovator
This article examines the contribution of Jesus as an innovator to a public world in need of change. Jesus, as the fulfilment of God, is interpreted using the insights of Josef Schumpeter who argued for innovation as social change through creative recombination. The potential of recombination is located in the wisdom literature of the Hebrew Bible and then in Pauline literature, with ministry in 1 Corinthians portrayed as serving, gardening, buil…
Conational Networks
The early twentieth-century writings and community organizing of Gertrude and Raymond Bonnin (Yankton Sioux) reveal how their cocommitment to Dakota nationhood and to all Indigenous nations informs current discussions and practices of Indigenous intellectualism, modernism, nationalism, and global relations. The still-unanalyzed 1926 constitution and bylaws of the National Council of American Indians is brought into conversation with the Bonnins' …
Thucydides, the Athenians, and Harmodios and Aristogeiton
Scholars have long misread what Thucydides says about Athenians' knowledge of their liberation from the Peisistratid tyranny: he does not say that Athenians knew nothing true about it; he says, rather, that they said nothing true about it. Correction of this misreading invites critique of Thucydides' own account and agenda. Abstract: Les chercheurs ont longtemps mal lu le témoignage de Thucydide quant à ce que les Athéniens savaient de la manière…
Shaping tourists’ wellbeing through guided slow adventures
Against the backdrop of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 3, good health and wellbeing, this paper reports on a study that examined how outdoor guides perceive their role in facilitating the psychological wellbeing of tourists who consume slow adventure experiences. These experiences, such as canoeing, stargazing or foraging, are characterised by a slower passage of time, immersion in the natural world and a sense of belonging to s…
Unbounding learning communities
While formation is an essential practice of local church communities, the formation of ministers for ordination, along with continued professional education, is generally located in the context of higher education. ‘Ako’, describing a teaching and learning relationship grounded in reciprocity, and employed as an approach to researching life-long learning needs among ordained ministers in the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand, challenged…
When ‘#xmasangels’ Tweet
Craftivism combines craft and activism. This paper contributes to the field of contemporary culture, mission, and creative making by examining the Christmas Angels project, in which local churches yarn-bomb hand-knitted angels, as an ecclesial expression of craftivism. Recipient responses to this fresh expression of Christian witness are analysed by examination of over 1,100 ‘#xmasangel’ tweets. Analysis reveals a found theology, in which angels …
Children of the Waters
From space, the Pacific glitters in ocean blue. What might the world’s largest ocean contribute to missio Dei? A spiral methodology is used to trace connections between the baptism of Jesus, early Christian art, recent legal (Treaty of Waitangi Tribunal) research and indigenous knowing, including ocean voyaging, ancestor understandings of whirlpools, Māori water rites and oral history of river beings (taniwha). The argument is that indigenous Oce…
Decolonisation and the Pacific
Blood on a Blackberry
204 Feminist Studies 46, no. 1. © 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Blood on a Blackberry Darlene Taylor The road bends. In a place where a girl was snatched, no one says her name. They talk about the bloody slip, not the lost girl. The blacktop road curves there and drops. Can’t see what’s ahead so, I listen. Insects scratch their legs and wind their wings above their backs. The road sounds safe. Every day I walk alone on the schoolhouse road, keep…
Cultural Hybridity in Conversion
This essay analyzes Christian witness, applying a post-colonial lens to Drusilla Modjeska’s The Mountain to account for conversion and transformation in Papua New Guinea. A hapkas (half-caste) Christology of indigenous agency, communal transformation and hybridity is examined in dialogue with New Testament themes of genealogy, redemption as gift and Jesus as the new Adam. Jesus as “good man true” is placed in critical dialogue with masculine iden…
Theological Education as Development in Vanuatu
Education is essential to development. In Pacific cultures, in which the church is a significant presence, theological education can empower agency and offer analytical frames for social critique. Equally, theological education can reinforce hierarchies and dominant social narratives. This paper provides an account of Presbyterian theological education in Vanuatu. Applying an educative capability approach to a theological education taxonomy propo…
Manifesto for an Archive of Nuclear Harm
Manifesto for an Archive of Nuclear Harm N. A. J. Taylor (bio) Future beings, whatever your form, I address you as a child of the nuclear age. Beginning with the weaponization of the atom in 1945, my fellow Earthlings continued to mark Earth in pursuit of various civilian and militaristic ends. For this, their nuclear past has violated the sanctity of my present, as it will your futures. Several of these nuclear barons acted in the belief that th…
Tears of Rangi
Waves across the South
Waves across the South: a new history of revolution and empire." The Round Table, 111(1), pp. 147–148
Emotional Labour and Sexual Difference in the Airline Industry
This paper examines service work within the contemporary airline industry which has recently been shaped by managerial initiatives aiming to deliver ‘quality service’. We focus upon the gendered consequences of this. On the basis of original empirical research, three specific arguments are advanced: firstly, recent competitive pressures and accompanying managerial initiatives are intensifying demands upon female employees for the production of em…
The Exchange of Aesthetics
Drawing on empirical research data on the work of flight attendants, this paper will explore Marcel Mauss's theory of ‘gift’ exchange relations, with particular reference to his concern with the ‘exchange of aesthetics’ (Mauss 1954), as an analytical model which may contribute to our understanding of ‘women's work’ in contemporary Western societies, of which, we shall argue, the work of female flight attendants is a notable example. It will begin…
Searching for ontological security
Drawing upon a decade of empirical research, this article examines changing meanings of 'home' and ontological security amongst a diasporic British Indian Punjabi community. It is argued that home is pursued, transnationally, by British South Asians and that this is significantly shaped by the dynamic social context of South Asia as well as social processes within Britain and across the South Asian diaspora. Previous studies of Punjabi and South …
Extending the Dream Machine’
A popular and accessible form of adventure recreation, mountain biking is enjoyed for a wide range of reasons, and different settings offer multifarious attributes that enable mountain bikers’ motivations to be satisfied. This article outlines the findings of qualitative research of experienced and regular mountain bikers in New Zealand and the UK. A general inductive method was employed to condense findings into key themes and sub‐themes, and to…
Waves across the South
Waves across the South: a new history of revolution and empire." The Round Table, 111(1), pp. 147–148
Relocating Cultural Studies
Bringing it 'Home'? Sociological Practice and the Practice of Sociology
Since Sociology was established in 1967, the journal has assumed a significant role in shaping the discipline. In the interim years it is often said that the very practice of sociology has now 'spun out' beyond the dedicated departments that were once the centres of sociological practice. This raises questions as to the relationship between sociology and other disciplines, questions that are compelling and arguably distinct from a welcome recogni…
All in the family
Pandemic Spiritual Leadership
Background The COVID-19 pandemic introduced disruption that crossed sectors, borders, and disciplinary boundaries. Among faith communities and religious leaders, numerous commentators have observed technological innovations in response to physical gathering disruptions. We outline a form of pandemic spiritual leadership that supports faith communities beyond digital innovation by combining original empirical research and a novel conceptual framew…
Religious Conversion and Dalit Assertion among a Punjabi Dalit Diaspora
Drawing upon original ethnographic research amongst Punjabi Dalit communities within the UK and India, this paper examines post-transnational migration religious conversion from Sikhism to neo-Buddhism and Christianity, assessing the extent to which this process is simultaneously one of Dalit assertion and resistance to caste-based oppression, thereby facilitating social change within the contemporary Punjabi transnational community. While it is …
The Diasporic Pursuit of Home and Identity
This paper examines the pursuit of home within a diasporic British Indian Punjabi community. It is argued that the British Asian transnational pursuit of home is significantly shaped by the dynamic social context of South Asia as well as social processes within Britain and across the South Asian diaspora. Drawing upon a decade of original, transnational, ethnographic research within the UK and India, I analyse the rapidly changing social context …
Consumer culture and symbolic capital in a differentiated Pakistani transnational community
Drawing on original qualitative data this article analyses fluid and shifting notions of symbolic capital within the Pakistani diaspora in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. Focusing on the South Asian concept of izzat (honour/prestige) it is argued that the field of local symbolic prestige is adapting to the macro context laid down by consumer culture as its mechanisms permeate the structural, cultural and everyday lives of this transnatio…
Jesus as a Socially (Ir)responsible Innovator
This article examines the contribution of Jesus as an innovator to a public world in need of change. Jesus, as the fulfilment of God, is interpreted using the insights of Josef Schumpeter who argued for innovation as social change through creative recombination. The potential of recombination is located in the wisdom literature of the Hebrew Bible and then in Pauline literature, with ministry in 1 Corinthians portrayed as serving, gardening, buil…
A Diasporic Indian Community
This paper examines a UK Jat Sikh Punjabi diasporic community. Existing studies of such communities focus upon processes of identity formation within the UK. We suggest that British Asian identities are shaped by social processes within South Asia as well as the UK. In particular, we argue that meanings of home, amongst the UK diasporic group studied, are being importantly shaped by dynamic social and cultural processes within East Punjab. Becaus…
Suicide and the Renewal of Life
Homesteading in North-West Canada
Suicide and the Renewal of Life
Postscript
Since the completion of this text, J. Baechler’s Suicides, which makes an important contribution to the interpretative approach to suicide discussed in Chapter 6, has appeared in English translation (trans. B. Cooper, Blackwell, 1979). Baechler argues that we must begin with the assumption that ‘men make their own destinies’ and that suicidal actions must be seen as rational responses to life problems: not so much an end, but rather a means to an…
Proving Suicide
In the previous chapter it was argued that the questions students have raised about the viability of official suicide statistics for research purposes could only be answered by more systematic study. Official statistics are products of the system of theoretical categories in terms of which they are compiled and the bureaucratic and organisational procedures by which they are collected. Their evaluation for research, therefore, involves considerat…
General Conclusions
The research undertaken in this book has suggested, in opposition to Durkheim and the sociological tradition apparently following him, that official suicide rates are a most inappropriate source of data for suicide research and that suicidal actions will not be satisfactorily explained without reference to the actor’s intentions and the micro-social context of his action. However, this view of sociological studies did not lead to an acceptance …
The Jazz-Mobile Man
Shorter Notices
Durkheim et le suicide
Inter-Agency Conflict in Child Abuse Work—Reducing Tensions between Social Workers and Health Visitors
Relocating Cultural Studies
Asking the Right Questions
The Exchange of Aesthetics
Drawing on empirical research data on the work of flight attendants, this paper will explore Marcel Mauss's theory of ‘gift’ exchange relations, with particular reference to his concern with the ‘exchange of aesthetics’ (Mauss 1954), as an analytical model which may contribute to our understanding of ‘women's work’ in contemporary Western societies, of which, we shall argue, the work of female flight attendants is a notable example. It will begin…
Incertitudes et analyse des erreurs dans les mesures physiques, cours
Emotional Labour and Sexual Difference in the Airline Industry
This paper examines service work within the contemporary airline industry which has recently been shaped by managerial initiatives aiming to deliver ‘quality service’. We focus upon the gendered consequences of this. On the basis of original empirical research, three specific arguments are advanced: firstly, recent competitive pressures and accompanying managerial initiatives are intensifying demands upon female employees for the production of em…
The Sources of Higher States of Consciousness
In this paper, it is argued that “higher states of consciousness”–or mystical experiences–have two\nmain sources: they can be caused by a disruption of the normal homeostasis of the human organism\nand also by an intensification of the “consciousness-energy” that constitutes our being.\n(These are termed HD and ICE states). The author investigates examples of both types of experience,\nand compares and contrasts them. It is concluded that the sec…
The post-evangelical emerging church
This article explores new religious groups who build a distinctive vision of the ‘emerging church’ by drawing from a post-evangelical perspective. Specifically, we explore the ways in which two groups (a Baptist church in Auckland, New Zealand, and a group attached to a Church of England parish in York, UK) re-imagine church and reflexively reconfigure ideas of Christian religion, in light of their embrace of a ‘post-modern’ view of the world. Th…
All in the family
A Diasporic Indian Community
This paper examines a UK Jat Sikh Punjabi diasporic community. Existing studies of such communities focus upon processes of identity formation within the UK. We suggest that British Asian identities are shaped by social processes within South Asia as well as the UK. In particular, we argue that meanings of home, amongst the UK diasporic group studied, are being importantly shaped by dynamic social and cultural processes within East Punjab. Becaus…
Extending the Dream Machine’
A popular and accessible form of adventure recreation, mountain biking is enjoyed for a wide range of reasons, and different settings offer multifarious attributes that enable mountain bikers’ motivations to be satisfied. This article outlines the findings of qualitative research of experienced and regular mountain bikers in New Zealand and the UK. A general inductive method was employed to condense findings into key themes and sub‐themes, and to…
The Peak at the Nadir
A study of 161 temporary awakening experiences showed that over 23% were triggered by, or associated with, intense turmoil and distress Examples of some of these turmoil-induced awakening experiences are given, illustrating the wide variety of traumatic experiences involved. (The type of trauma was found to be less important than its intensity.) These temporary awakening experiences are contrasted with permanent suffering-induced transformational…
Youth exposure to in-vehicle second-hand smoke and their smoking behaviours
The slow decline in SHS exposure in vehicles and the lack of progress in reducing relative inequalities is problematic. To accelerate progress, the New Zealand Government could follow the example of other jurisdictions and prohibit smoking in cars carrying children. Other major policy interventions, beside enhanced smoke-free environments, will also likely be required if New Zealand is to achieve its 2025 smoke-free nation goal
Searching for ontological security
Drawing upon a decade of empirical research, this article examines changing meanings of 'home' and ontological security amongst a diasporic British Indian Punjabi community. It is argued that home is pursued, transnationally, by British South Asians and that this is significantly shaped by the dynamic social context of South Asia as well as social processes within Britain and across the South Asian diaspora. Previous studies of Punjabi and South …
The congregation in a pluralist society
Lesslie Newbigin sought to engage the gospel with western culture. A re-reading of Newbigin’s work offers insights for mission and communicating the gospel in the 21st-century western world, including the need to grapple with religious pluralism. For Newbigin, ‘the only hermeneutic of the gospel, is a congregation of men and women who believe it and live by it’. How plausible is the Newbigin thesis? Can congregations today believe and live the go…
Religious Conversion and Dalit Assertion among a Punjabi Dalit Diaspora
Drawing upon original ethnographic research amongst Punjabi Dalit communities within the UK and India, this paper examines post-transnational migration religious conversion from Sikhism to neo-Buddhism and Christianity, assessing the extent to which this process is simultaneously one of Dalit assertion and resistance to caste-based oppression, thereby facilitating social change within the contemporary Punjabi transnational community. While it is …
The Diasporic Pursuit of Home and Identity
This paper examines the pursuit of home within a diasporic British Indian Punjabi community. It is argued that the British Asian transnational pursuit of home is significantly shaped by the dynamic social context of South Asia as well as social processes within Britain and across the South Asian diaspora. Drawing upon a decade of original, transnational, ethnographic research within the UK and India, I analyse the rapidly changing social context …
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