Metamodernism

Storm, Jason Ānanda Josephson

doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226786797.001.0001

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“…Further, we agree that the answer to the problems Appadurai identifies in the study of materiality lies in semiotics, the very thing new materialists are attempting to leave behind. Jason Josephson Storm (2021: 161), for example, points out that new materialist scholarship – Jane Bennett's Vibrant matter (2010) is his example – is keen to enumerate the sorts of things in an ‘assemblage’, but ‘once the assemblage is traced, there is often no more work that can be done’ (cf. Latour 2013: 64).…”

Section: Mediation and Materialitymentioning

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“…Instead, what they show are the ways that particular materials are semiotically weighty in given suasive strategies. Our contributions, as Storm helpfully puts it, focus on ‘matter that has semiotic content or function’ (2021: 161) 13. In particular, what we attend to in analysis are the ways actors figure these material forms and their mediating signs' function in various suasive capacities, working to effectuate particular instantiations of change.…”

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Religious suasion: introduction to the special issue

Cardoza,

Victor

2024

Royal Anthropological Inst

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In this introduction, we outline a comparative tool for studying communicative ideologies and practices, which we call ‘religious suasion’. Developing a conversation about religious forms of ‘suasion’ is important because it provides a vocabulary for comparing parallel practices of religious influence across different religious communities, allowing for more nuanced understandings of what might commonly – and negatively – be termed ‘proselytizing’. The proposed analytical frame is not concerned with how the ‘convert’ might experience religious change, nor with how social and religious change unfolds on a grand scale. Rather, it interrogates and puts into dialogue multiple forms of discursive practice, demonstrations of virtue, and material forms of religion to reach beyond suasive strategies based on formal doctrines about religious propagation that tend to be associated with traditionally evangelistic religious communities, especially with Christianity. Focusing on the rhetorical strategies, religious imaginaries, and ethical evaluations that underpin how religious actors pursue change in others and in and of the world, ‘religious suasion’ contributes to the development of an anthropology of influence.

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Section: Mediation and Materialitymentioning

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Section: Mediation and Materialitymentioning

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Religious suasion: introduction to the special issue

Cardoza,

Victor

2024

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…When Witnesses are silently standing by their literature carts, they are silently witnessing the destruction of evil and injustice – especially the ultimate injustice, the lie Satan told about Jehovah in the beginning to Adam and Eve. If, as Victor and I argue in the introduction to this issue, suasive strategies pay attention to the semiotics that function to specific ends (see Storm 2021: 161), Witnesses’ silence by literature carts functions to vindicate the name Jehovah that was besmirched in the Garden of Eden. Vindication, as such, lies at the semiotic heart of preaching as one of the primary suasive strategies in Witnesses’ toolkit.…”

Section: Silently Vindicating God's Namementioning

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Epiphenomenal suasion: Jehovah's Witnesses and the politics of preaching against the state

Cardoza

2024

Royal Anthropological Inst

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The individual is the conventional way religious change is figured when considering ‘conversion’. This essay argues this is rooted in the soteriological focus of Christian evangelism and shifts what are typically taken to be the objects of change to view them as agents of change. As an example of this, the essay compares two ethnographic examples of Jehovah's Witnesses’ evangelism: the ways that Witnesses preach with mobile literature carts; and the way three Witnesses ‘preached’ at an academic conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In order to make sense of these examples, it is necessary to unpack the theopolitical context underlying the common suasive strategy, and doing so is revealing in both instances of different objects and agents of evangelism, allowing for a comparison that explores how causality and agency are distributed in Witness preaching work. This leads to a consideration of the ways Witnesses’ public evangelism subtly preaches against the state as a process of ‘vindicating the name of God’.

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“…We live in a complex society confronted with unprecedented existential risks and a growing mental health crisis unfolding across generations [1][2][3][4]. These complex challenges can disrupt established lifestyles and narratives and expose limitations in both personal and collective capacities for meaning-making [5][6][7].…”

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“…V1 to V2 corresponds to the 9-month mindfulness module. V2 to V3 corresponds to the 9-month loving kindness and compassion module 2. The global composite score reflects the mean score of awareness, connection, and insight.…”

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An 18-month meditation training selectively improves psychological well-being in older adults: A secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial

Schlosser,

Klimecki,

Collette

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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Objectives As the world population is ageing, it is vital to understand how older adults can maintain and deepen their psychological well-being as they are confronted with the unique challenges of ageing in a complex world. Theoretical work has highlighted the promising role of intentional mental training such as meditation practice for enhancing human flourishing. However, meditation-based randomised controlled trials in older adults are lacking. We aimed to investigate the effects of meditation training on psychological well-being in older adults. Methods This study presents a secondary analysis of the Age-Well trial (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02977819), which randomised 137 healthy older adults (age range: 65 to 84 years) to an 18-month meditation training, an active comparator (English language training), or a passive control. Well-being was measured at baseline, mid-intervention, and 18-month post-randomisation using the Psychological Well-being Scale (PWBS), the World Health Organisation’s Quality of Life (QoL) Assessment psychological subscale, and composite scores reflecting the meditation-based well-being dimensions of awareness, connection, insight, and a global score comprising the average of these meditation-based dimensions. Results The 18-month meditation training was superior to English training on changes in the global score (0.54 [95% CI: 0.26, 0.82], p = 0.0002) and the subscales of awareness, connection, insight, and superior to no-intervention only on changes in the global score (0.54 [95% CI: 0.26, 0.82], p = 0.0002) and awareness. Between-group differences in psychological QoL in favour of meditation did not remain significant after adjusting for multiple comparisons. There were no between-group differences in PWBS total score. Within the meditation group, psychological QoL, awareness, insight, and the global score increased significantly from baseline to 18-month post-randomisation. Conclusion The longest randomised meditation training conducted to date enhanced a global composite score reflecting the meditation-based well-being dimensions of awareness, connection, and insight in older adults. Future research is needed to delineate the cognitive, affective, and behavioural factors that predict responsiveness to meditation and thus help refine the development of tailored meditation training.

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Metamodernism

Cited by 42 publications

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Religious suasion: introduction to the special issue

Religious suasion: introduction to the special issue

Epiphenomenal suasion: Jehovah's Witnesses and the politics of preaching against the state

An 18-month meditation training selectively improves psychological well-being in older adults: A secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial

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