Jacob
Biographic Data
| ID | 1842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacob |
| SIGNATURE | JACOB |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wolverhampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9777-5395 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Gladdening Vision of a Dancing Christ: Findings of a Ritual Ethnography of Intercultural Icons
The cultural renaissance in 20th-century India has fostered an aesthetic integration of contemplative mysticism with popular religious practices, influencing various artistic and theological movements. This paper examines Christian artist Joy Elamkunnapuzha's use of Indian classical and mythical elements in his religious artworks, particularly in two North Indian churches. These intercultural icons, which incorporate symbols from Hindu traditions…
Átaw Iwá Ichishkíin Sɨ́nwit: The Importance of Ichishkíin Language in Advancing Indigenous Feminist Education
Michelle M. Jacob, Virginia R. Beavert, Regan Anderson, Leilani Sabzalian, Joana Jansen, Átaw Iwá Ichishkíin Sɨ́nwit: The Importance of Ichishkíin Language in Advancing Indigenous Feminist Education, Feminist Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2-3, Indigenous Feminisms in Settler Contexts (2019), pp. 290-311
Risk-Aversion or Ethical Responsibility: Towards a New Research Ethics Paradigm
Ethics seems to be of increasing concern for researchers in Higher Education Institutes and funding bodies demand ever more transparent and robust ethics procedures. While we agree that an ethical approach to fieldwork in religion is critical, we take issue with the approach that ethics committees and reviews adopt in assessing the ethicality of proposed research projects. We identify that the approach to research ethics is informed by consequent…
Shakti’s New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Woman-led Spiritual Movement
Shakti’s New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Woman-led Spiritual Movement." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 33(2), pp. 372–373
Ethics by committee: Governing human experimentation in the Netherlands, 1945-2000
regelen inzake medisch-wetenschappelijk onderzoek met mensen (Wet medisch-wetenschappelijk onderzoek met mensen). 9The notion of hard power is typically understood as the power of a government to coerce individuals and institutions to behave in a certain way.It is developed by political scientist Joseph Nye in his work on soft power: the ability to persuade individuals and institutions to behave a certain way.See
A Life in Balance: Sattvic Food and the Art of Living Foundation
Many modern forms of yoga can be located in the holistic milieu. Discourses of health and wellbeing for mind, body and soul are central in the holistic milieu. Ideas about food and diet are frequently significant aspects of this therapeutic discourse. This paper focuses on ideas about food and diet in the Art of Living Foundation (AOL), a modern transnational yoga movement. AOL legitimises its beliefs about food through an appeal to concepts foun…
Yoga Jam: Remixing kīrtan in the Art of Living
Yoga Jam are a group of musicians from the United Kingdom who are active members of the Art of Living, a transnational Hindu-derived meditation group. Yoga Jam organize events—also referred to as yoga raves and yoga remixes—that combine Hindu devotional songs (bhajans) and chants (mantras) with modern Western popular musical genres, such as soul, rock, and particularly electronic dance music. This hybrid music is often played in a clublike settin…
Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace
This is a fascinating account of Mata Amritanandamayi—a female guru from Kerala in South India—who is affectionately called ‘Amma’ by her devotees. Amma is most renowned for hugging the thousands o
Evaluation of three medicinal plant extracts against Plasmodium falciparum and selected microganisms
BACKGROUND: A great revival of scientific interests in drug discovery has been witnessed in recent years from medicinal plants for health maintenance. The aim of this work was to investigate three Nigerian medicinal plants collected in Nigeria for their in vitro antiplasmodial and antimicrobial activities. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Extracts obtained from parts of Persea americana, Jatropha podagrica and Picralima nitida and their fractions were eval…
Inner Peace and Global Harmony: Individual Wellbeing and Global Solutions in the Art of Living
his paper explores the discourse in the Art of Living (AOL), a Hindu derived transnational meditation movement, which suggests that solutions to global problems are best addressed at the individual level. Ethnographic fieldwork, qualitative interviews and an analysis of published material suggest that the primary concern of the AOL is the reduction of stress and anxiety for the individual practitioner. This reduction of stress not only means that…
Introduction: Therapeutic Culture
No abstract available
Communicating Hinduism in a Changing Media Context
New media forms have a range of implications for the way in which the Hindu community is conceived and Hinduism is practiced. Oral modes of communication continue to have a significant role in the communication of Hinduism, however, Hindus have also made effective, and often innovative, use of all media forms. The use of print made by Hindu reformers, such as Rammohun Roy, was an important feature in the conceptualization of Hinduism as a 'world …
Virtually Sacred: The Performance of Asynchronous Cyber-Rituals in Online Spaces
This article explores how the design of sacred spaces and ritual performance are transformed in the move from offline to online contexts. A semiotic analysis of two websites—a Christian Virtual Church and a Hindu Virtual Temple—suggests the potential for demarcating distinct online sacred spaces, in a Durkheimian sense, in which devotees can engage in ritual activity. The article focuses on the performance of cyberpuja in the Virtual Temple and t…
Virtually Sacred: The Performance of Asynchronous Cyber-Rituals in Online Spaces
This article explores how the design of sacred spaces and ritual performance are transformed in the move from offline to online contexts. A semiotic analysis of two websites—a Christian Virtual Church and a Hindu Virtual Temple—suggests the potential for demarcating distinct online sacred spaces, in a Durkheimian sense, in which devotees can engage in ritual activity. The article focuses on the performance of cyberpuja in the Virtual Temple and t…
Inner Peace and Global Harmony: Individual Wellbeing and Global Solutions in the Art of Living
his paper explores the discourse in the Art of Living (AOL), a Hindu derived transnational meditation movement, which suggests that solutions to global problems are best addressed at the individual level. Ethnographic fieldwork, qualitative interviews and an analysis of published material suggest that the primary concern of the AOL is the reduction of stress and anxiety for the individual practitioner. This reduction of stress not only means that…
Átaw Iwá Ichishkíin Sɨ́nwit: The Importance of Ichishkíin Language in Advancing Indigenous Feminist Education
Michelle M. Jacob, Virginia R. Beavert, Regan Anderson, Leilani Sabzalian, Joana Jansen, Átaw Iwá Ichishkíin Sɨ́nwit: The Importance of Ichishkíin Language in Advancing Indigenous Feminist Education, Feminist Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2-3, Indigenous Feminisms in Settler Contexts (2019), pp. 290-311
Risk-Aversion or Ethical Responsibility: Towards a New Research Ethics Paradigm
Ethics seems to be of increasing concern for researchers in Higher Education Institutes and funding bodies demand ever more transparent and robust ethics procedures. While we agree that an ethical approach to fieldwork in religion is critical, we take issue with the approach that ethics committees and reviews adopt in assessing the ethicality of proposed research projects. We identify that the approach to research ethics is informed by consequent…
Ethics by committee: Governing human experimentation in the Netherlands, 1945-2000
regelen inzake medisch-wetenschappelijk onderzoek met mensen (Wet medisch-wetenschappelijk onderzoek met mensen). 9The notion of hard power is typically understood as the power of a government to coerce individuals and institutions to behave in a certain way.It is developed by political scientist Joseph Nye in his work on soft power: the ability to persuade individuals and institutions to behave a certain way.See
Virtually Sacred: The Performance of Asynchronous Cyber-Rituals in Online Spaces
This article explores how the design of sacred spaces and ritual performance are transformed in the move from offline to online contexts. A semiotic analysis of two websites—a Christian Virtual Church and a Hindu Virtual Temple—suggests the potential for demarcating distinct online sacred spaces, in a Durkheimian sense, in which devotees can engage in ritual activity. The article focuses on the performance of cyberpuja in the Virtual Temple and t…
Communicating Hinduism in a Changing Media Context
New media forms have a range of implications for the way in which the Hindu community is conceived and Hinduism is practiced. Oral modes of communication continue to have a significant role in the communication of Hinduism, however, Hindus have also made effective, and often innovative, use of all media forms. The use of print made by Hindu reformers, such as Rammohun Roy, was an important feature in the conceptualization of Hinduism as a 'world …
Evaluation of three medicinal plant extracts against Plasmodium falciparum and selected microganisms
BACKGROUND: A great revival of scientific interests in drug discovery has been witnessed in recent years from medicinal plants for health maintenance. The aim of this work was to investigate three Nigerian medicinal plants collected in Nigeria for their in vitro antiplasmodial and antimicrobial activities. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Extracts obtained from parts of Persea americana, Jatropha podagrica and Picralima nitida and their fractions were eval…
Inner Peace and Global Harmony: Individual Wellbeing and Global Solutions in the Art of Living
his paper explores the discourse in the Art of Living (AOL), a Hindu derived transnational meditation movement, which suggests that solutions to global problems are best addressed at the individual level. Ethnographic fieldwork, qualitative interviews and an analysis of published material suggest that the primary concern of the AOL is the reduction of stress and anxiety for the individual practitioner. This reduction of stress not only means that…
Introduction: Therapeutic Culture
No abstract available
Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace
This is a fascinating account of Mata Amritanandamayi—a female guru from Kerala in South India—who is affectionately called ‘Amma’ by her devotees. Amma is most renowned for hugging the thousands o
Yoga Jam: Remixing kīrtan in the Art of Living
Yoga Jam are a group of musicians from the United Kingdom who are active members of the Art of Living, a transnational Hindu-derived meditation group. Yoga Jam organize events—also referred to as yoga raves and yoga remixes—that combine Hindu devotional songs (bhajans) and chants (mantras) with modern Western popular musical genres, such as soul, rock, and particularly electronic dance music. This hybrid music is often played in a clublike settin…
Risk-Aversion or Ethical Responsibility: Towards a New Research Ethics Paradigm
Ethics seems to be of increasing concern for researchers in Higher Education Institutes and funding bodies demand ever more transparent and robust ethics procedures. While we agree that an ethical approach to fieldwork in religion is critical, we take issue with the approach that ethics committees and reviews adopt in assessing the ethicality of proposed research projects. We identify that the approach to research ethics is informed by consequent…
Shakti’s New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Woman-led Spiritual Movement
Shakti’s New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Woman-led Spiritual Movement." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 33(2), pp. 372–373
Ethics by committee: Governing human experimentation in the Netherlands, 1945-2000
regelen inzake medisch-wetenschappelijk onderzoek met mensen (Wet medisch-wetenschappelijk onderzoek met mensen). 9The notion of hard power is typically understood as the power of a government to coerce individuals and institutions to behave in a certain way.It is developed by political scientist Joseph Nye in his work on soft power: the ability to persuade individuals and institutions to behave a certain way.See
A Life in Balance: Sattvic Food and the Art of Living Foundation
Many modern forms of yoga can be located in the holistic milieu. Discourses of health and wellbeing for mind, body and soul are central in the holistic milieu. Ideas about food and diet are frequently significant aspects of this therapeutic discourse. This paper focuses on ideas about food and diet in the Art of Living Foundation (AOL), a modern transnational yoga movement. AOL legitimises its beliefs about food through an appeal to concepts foun…
Átaw Iwá Ichishkíin Sɨ́nwit: The Importance of Ichishkíin Language in Advancing Indigenous Feminist Education
Michelle M. Jacob, Virginia R. Beavert, Regan Anderson, Leilani Sabzalian, Joana Jansen, Átaw Iwá Ichishkíin Sɨ́nwit: The Importance of Ichishkíin Language in Advancing Indigenous Feminist Education, Feminist Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2-3, Indigenous Feminisms in Settler Contexts (2019), pp. 290-311
A Gladdening Vision of a Dancing Christ: Findings of a Ritual Ethnography of Intercultural Icons
The cultural renaissance in 20th-century India has fostered an aesthetic integration of contemplative mysticism with popular religious practices, influencing various artistic and theological movements. This paper examines Christian artist Joy Elamkunnapuzha's use of Indian classical and mythical elements in his religious artworks, particularly in two North Indian churches. These intercultural icons, which incorporate symbols from Hindu traditions…
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