Calvinism and chromosomes: Religion, the geographical imaginary, and medical genetics in the Netherlands

Taussig, Karen‐Sue

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“…The greatest source of heartbreak for these two sisters was to observe growing resentment and alienation among their peers toward the church establishment and the liturgical choir functioning at the center of church life. They attributed this disaffection to the effects of growing up in the Netherlands, where public religiosity is perceived as a sign either of an unassimilated, antimodern, and frankly scandalous quality of Middle Easternness associated with the increasingly visible Dutch Muslim minority or of the historically anachronistic neo‐Orthodox Calvinist minority, seen as a relic of the Dutch religious past (see also Taussig ).…”

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Ritual sounds, political echoes: Vocal agency and the sensory cultures of secularism in the Dutch Syriac diaspora

Kellogg

2015

American Ethnologist

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Ritual sounds, political echoes:Vocal agency and the sensory cultures of secularism in the Dutch Syriac diaspora A B S T R A C TAmong Syriac Orthodox Christian migrant communities in the Netherlands, liturgical performance is a site of controversy over where and how to draw a boundary between "religious" and "ethnic" identity. Tensions materialize in discordant singing styles and modes of performance, echoing complex historical encounters with Dutch, Syrian, and Turkish secularisms. These encounters, I argue, have refashioned the liturgical tradition's role as a central axis of ethnoreligious social life and kin relations across the diaspora. Secular state practices shape a diasporic sensory culture that is met with a distinct form of vocal agency. Syriac Orthodox liturgical experiments show how the voice can transform the sensorial interface between human subjectivity and social intelligibility, in turn transforming how categories of secular modernity-whether ritual, art, ethnicity, or politics-are distinguished and lived.

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Ritual sounds, political echoes: Vocal agency and the sensory cultures of secularism in the Dutch Syriac diaspora

Kellogg

2015

American Ethnologist

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“…17. These policies, which I discuss at length elsewhere (Taussig 1997a(Taussig , 1997b, are rooted in the policies the Netherlands developed in the 19th century to accommodate the country's religious pluralism.…”

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“…In my interviews, people frequently linked services offered by the centers (genetic counseling, pre-and postnatal genetic testing, and increasingly, other genetic practices such as preimplantation diagnosis) to a positive conception of Dutch identity as modern. Scientific and medical explanations for various abnormalities available from genetics experts were preferred over other kinds of explanations-such as a "sign from God"-that they perceived as traditional and premodern (Taussig 1997a(Taussig , 1997b.…”

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Bovine Abominations: Genetic Culture and Politics in the Netherlands

Taussig

2004

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This article examines how people in the Netherlands attempted to come to terms with the phenomenon of a genetically modified bull, illuminating the levels of enculturation surrounding the production, consumption, and use of new genetic knowledge. The article demonstrates that new genetic knowledge and practices are deeply entangled with Dutch national identity, the social ideal of tolerance, and anxieties about what Dutch identity is and means in relation both to the history of Nazi occupation and to contemporary immigration. In so doing I explore how this new knowledge and practice raise issues regarding purity and the porous border crossings and policings of contemporary biotechnoscience. The article also illustrates that there is no single story of genetics in the Netherlands but that people continually contest its meanings, significance, and appropriate use.

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Tourism and Conservation-Based Development in the Periphery

Bosak,

Gale-Detrich,

Ednie

2023

Natural and Social Sciences of Patagonia

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This overview introduces the major concepts and themes that are addressed within the three parts of this book (Part I: Evolution of the green economy in Patagonia; Part II: Contemporary conservation-based development: challenges for green integration; and Part III: Building resilience and sustainability). Fundamental concepts, including core–periphery interactions, conservation-based development, and imaginaries, are described, and we explain how they are prominent themes within this book’s chapters. A geographical overview of the studies represented within this book is provided, along with an outline of the geopolitical and historical contexts of the imaginary region of Patagonia. The three book parts are contextualized within the context of some of the major challenges facing nature-based tourism in Patagonia, including recent and upcoming initiatives that may contribute to sustainability and resilience. This chapter concludes with an overview of this book’s contributors.

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Calvinism and chromosomes: Religion, the geographical imaginary, and medical genetics in the Netherlands

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

Ritual sounds, political echoes: Vocal agency and the sensory cultures of secularism in the Dutch Syriac diaspora

Ritual sounds, political echoes: Vocal agency and the sensory cultures of secularism in the Dutch Syriac diaspora

Bovine Abominations: Genetic Culture and Politics in the Netherlands

Tourism and Conservation-Based Development in the Periphery

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