Anastasia Spirkina
Biographic Data
| ID | 9296971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anastasia Spirkina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anastasia |
| FAMILY NAME | Spirkina |
| SIGNATURE | SPIRKINA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Sociology of the FCTAS RAS, Moscow, Russia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2849-6792 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Religiously motivated silence
The article explores the possibilities of studying silence in a religious context as a social practice included in the continuum of everyday actions of a monk. Understood in such a “down-to-earth”, literal sense, this type of silence can be studied through the methods of participant observation, interviews, and through the analysis of monastery charters and other relevant documents. The Christian practices of silence discussed in the article diff…
Silence Game” as a Form of Social Interaction
The role of silence in the production of social order in meditation (on the example of vipassana)
The article considers silence as the most important component of vipassana (meditation technique from early Buddhism) as it is taught in the tradition of S.N. Goenka. As a religious vow, silence is a condition for the successful meditation retreat. Although meditative silence does not seem to form sociality, vipassana courses are a collective practice. After the end of courses, the desire of people to meet and meditate together proves the need no…
In The Quiet…, Between People…
The article justifies the original conceptualization of silence as a social phenomenon using the cognitive-methodological tools of the theory of practices and the sociology of everyday life. Various interpretations of «silence» that can be found in social and humanitarian texts are directly related to the forms of use of the word «silence» in everyday language. Often they borrow from the latter not only the very understanding of this phenomenon, …
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In The Quiet…, Between People…
The article justifies the original conceptualization of silence as a social phenomenon using the cognitive-methodological tools of the theory of practices and the sociology of everyday life. Various interpretations of «silence» that can be found in social and humanitarian texts are directly related to the forms of use of the word «silence» in everyday language. Often they borrow from the latter not only the very understanding of this phenomenon, …
Silence Game” as a Form of Social Interaction
The role of silence in the production of social order in meditation (on the example of vipassana)
The article considers silence as the most important component of vipassana (meditation technique from early Buddhism) as it is taught in the tradition of S.N. Goenka. As a religious vow, silence is a condition for the successful meditation retreat. Although meditative silence does not seem to form sociality, vipassana courses are a collective practice. After the end of courses, the desire of people to meet and meditate together proves the need no…
Religiously motivated silence
The article explores the possibilities of studying silence in a religious context as a social practice included in the continuum of everyday actions of a monk. Understood in such a “down-to-earth”, literal sense, this type of silence can be studied through the methods of participant observation, interviews, and through the analysis of monastery charters and other relevant documents. The Christian practices of silence discussed in the article diff…
Aesthetics (4 works) · Silence (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)