Seuraesittelyssä Eetos ry.

Taira, Teemu

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“…Smart, 2005), joiden on kuitenkin vaikea kattaa koko monimuotoista ilmiötä. Se, mikä ilmiö määritellään uskonnoksi, on aina myös politiikkaa ja vallankäyttöä (Taira, 2006(Taira, , 2019a. Täten vaikkapa Närvän määritelmä "uskonto on psyykkisesti normaalia tai tervettä ajattelua, kokemista ja käyttäytymistä, jossa otetaan spontaanisti ja tunneperusteisesti todesta ei-empiirisiä intuition vastaisia olentoja" (Närvä, 2014, s. 22) sopii hyvin kristinuskoon, mutta ei esimerkiksi joihinkin buddhalaisuuden muotoihin.…”

Section: Katsomuksia Ja Katsomuskasvatusta Notkeassa Jälkisekulaariss...unclassified

Kohti notkeaa ja yhdenvertaista varhaiskasvatuksen katsomuskasvatusta

Itäkare

2023

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Tässä artikkelissa tutkitaan kriittisen diskurssianalyysin menetelmällä Varhaiskasvatussuunnitelman perusteiden (2018) ja Ohjeen varhaiskasvatuksen katsomuskasvatuksen toteuttamisesta ja uskonnollisista tilaisuuksista varhaiskasvatuksessa (2018) katsomuskasvatuspuhetta. Tutkimuskysymyksinä ovat, millaisia diskursseja kyseisistä asiakirjateksteistä on tuotettavissa, miten niitä tuotetaan ja millaiseen käytännön varhaiskasvatukseen ne ohjaavat. Teoreettisena viitekehyksenä tutkimuksessa on paitsi varhaiskasvatustiede ja katsomusaineiden didaktiikka, myös uskontotiede ja siinä erityisesti Tairan kehittämä notkean uskonnon teoria. Päätutkimustulos on, että varhaiskasvatuksen asiakirjaohjaus tuottaa yhä katsomuskasvatusta, joka piiloisesti suosii yhtä uskonnollista traditiota, nimittäin yleensä kristinuskoa ja erityisesti luterilaisuutta. Artikkelissa esitellään useita kehittämisehdotuksia, jotta niin varhaiskasvatuksen katsomuskasvatuksen asiakirjaohjaus kuin sen käytännön toteutuskin voivat muuttua inklusiivisemmaksi, yhdenvertaisemmaksi ja moninaisuutta edistävämmäksi. Abstract In this article, the method of critical discourse analysis is used to examine discourses on worldview education in the National Core Curriculum for Early Childhood Education and Care (2018) and the “Instructions for Implementation of Worldview Education and Religious Ceremonies in Early Childhood Education and Care” (2018) by the Finnish National Agency for Education. The research questions are: what kind of discourses can be produced within the documents, how the discourses are produced, and what kind of practice in ECEC the discourses direct to. The theoretical context in the study is not only educational sciences and the didactics of religious and worldview education, but also the study of religions and in particular the theory of so called liquid religion developed by Taira. The main result of the study is that the steering documents in ECEC still produce worldview education that favors one religious tradition, namely Christianity in general and Lutheranism in particular. The article presents several development proposals so that both the steering documents and their practical implementation in ECEC can become more inclusive, more equal and more open to diversity in the future. Key words: early childhood education and care, worldview education, curriculum, critical discourse analysis

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Kohti notkeaa ja yhdenvertaista varhaiskasvatuksen katsomuskasvatusta

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2023

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“…The connecting factor between different types of non-institutional spiritualities and associated wellbeing practises, such as MPY, is the emphasis on subjectivity (Heelas 2008). Taira (2006) emphasizes the importance of 'affect' and 'interest' rather than creed and commitment, as important characteristics of what he calls 'liquid religiosity', with reference to Bauman's concept of 'liquid modernity' (Taira 2006; see also Bauman 2000;Speck 2013). This type of religiosity is also often exemplified by the rhetoric of being 'spiritual, but not religious', or what Grace Davie has called 'believing without belonging' (Davie 1994).…”

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“…This 'spiritual' aspect of yoga is defined in contrast to religion, but otherwise described in an extremely open-ended way. This may have to do with potentially negative connotations associated with religion typical of modern public discourse (Mäenpää 2006;Taira 2006). On the other hand, they can also be seen as typical characteristics of spiritual prosumption, where the agency of the self, the body as the site of prosumption, and hybrid repertoires (including the freedom to construct one's own meanings and methods) form important aspects of the process.…”

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“…Several authors have convincingly argued that the proliferation of noninstitutional religiosity is connected with spread of capitalism, neoliberal policies and the rise of consumer culture (Lau 2000, Possamai 2003Carrette & King 2005;Rindfleish 2006;Taira 2006;Dawson 2013;Gauthier, Martikainen & Woodhead 2013a). While the relationship between different types non-institutional religiosity and consumerism is well-documented (e.g.…”

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Wellbeing for sale: Representations of yoga in commercial media

Puustinen

Rautaniemi²

2015

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This article focuses on how spirituality and commercialism are intertwined in the representations of yoga in the media. For this study, articles on yoga were collected from seven Finnish popular magazines, and analyzed using qualitative close reading guided by sensitizing concepts of subjective wellbeing spirituality and prosumerism. The results show that looks, wellbeing and health are found to be the main selling points of yoga, whereas spirituality is used as a distinguishing device and a tool for constructing a consumer identity associated with ‘spiritual’ values. The material also raises questions on the possibility of anti-consumerist trends within contemporary yoga.

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“…It may be possible to call this blurring of the discursive boundaries 'postsecular' , but I still find it more comfortable to follow the vocabulary I used in my book Notkea uskonto (Liquid religion, Taira 2006). The main argument in the book was that after the classification system of what Zygmunt Bauman calls solid modernity-including a normative distinction between religion and politics, religion and the secular, private and public and so onthe boundaries are becoming more difficult to keep up and justify, and that this 'liquefaction' is manifest in people distancing themselves from doctrinal religious beliefs while at the same time being interested in religious or spiritual practices.…”

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Atheist spirituality: a follow on from New Atheism?

Taira

2012

Scripta

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Books about well-being, self-improvement, life management and spirituality have been popular for many years. It is not news to anybody that such topics sell. However, books on atheism have never become bestsellers until the early years of the twenty-first century. Now the so-called New Atheist books have altogether sold millions. It may sound surprising, but atheism sells. It may have been the idea of a publishers’ marketing department to put the two selling points together, but in recent years a number of books about atheist spirituality, spiritual atheism and atheist self-help have been published. That has been one aspect of the increased visibility of atheism and spirituality in public discourse. Atheist discourse which is combined with ‘spirituality’ might be called ‘post-secular’ as it does not fit easily into the neat binary classification between religious and non-religious secular. This article examines this hybrid area in atheist discourse in relation to three aspects: monotheism, spirituality and meditation. Atheist discourse situates itself against monotheism, but some spokespersons combine atheism with spirituality and meditation. This works as an example of a wider and recent trend in society where a blurring of the earlier normative boundaries between religion and non-religion has become fairly common, not necessarily in terms of beliefs, but of practices. Even though there is a long tradition of non-theistic and atheistic readings of Buddhism, for example, they have rarely been combined with an explicit criticism of monotheistic traditions and atheist consciousness-raising.

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Seuraesittelyssä Eetos ry.

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Kohti notkeaa ja yhdenvertaista varhaiskasvatuksen katsomuskasvatusta

Kohti notkeaa ja yhdenvertaista varhaiskasvatuksen katsomuskasvatusta

Wellbeing for sale: Representations of yoga in commercial media

Atheist spirituality: a follow on from New Atheism?

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