Ancestral personhood and moral justification

Hickman, Jacob R.

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“…The Ethic of Divinity focuses on persons as spiritual or religious entities, and reasons include divine and natural law, sacred lessons, and spiritual purity. Research has shown the presence and reliable differentiation of the three ethics across diverse cultures, including groups from Brazil, Finland, India, New Zealand, the Philippines, Turkey, and the United States (Guerra and Giner-Sorolla 2010 ; Hickman 2014 ; Kapadia and Bhangaokar 2015 ; Padilla-Walker and Jensen 2016 ; Vasquez et al 2001 ).…”

Section: Cultural Psychology: Theoretical and Methodological Implicatmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Cultural Psychology of Religiosity, Spirituality, and Secularism in Adolescence

Jensen

2021

Adolescent Res Rev

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Cultural psychology has raised awareness of religiosity, spirituality, and secularism in people's psychological lives. This article takes a cultural-developmental approach by examining the development of religiosity, spirituality, and secularism among culturally diverse adolescents. At the outset, an explanation is provided as to why the valid study of peoples' psychological lives necessitates taking culture into account, and of key implications for theory and methodology. Throughout research on adolescent religiosity, spirituality, and secularism is described, including studies on conceptions of God, afterlife beliefs, the development of an Ethic of Divinity in moral reasoning, recent increases in spirituality and secularism, and the impact of globalization on worldviews and religiously-based puberty rituals. While the focus is on adolescents, the article includes relevant research with children and emerging adults. Concrete future research directions are proposed, including a call to address the extent to which effects of religion on adolescents are dependent on culture and globalization.

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Section: Cultural Psychology: Theoretical and Methodological Implicatmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Cultural Psychology of Religiosity, Spirituality, and Secularism in Adolescence

Jensen

2021

Adolescent Res Rev

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“…Personhood refers to "the quality or condition of being an individual person" (Oxford Dictionaries, n.d.); anthropologists have used the term, however, to convey the inextricability of the individual person and her cultural context(s) (e.g., Cassaniti, 2015;Fortes, 1971;Hickman, 2014;Parish, 1994). In his piece, Parish (1994) demonstrates that for Newars in Nepal, individual identity and self are deeply woven into the fabric of relational webs.…”

Section: Moral Personhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalization and Moral Personhood: Dyadic Perspectives of the Moral Self in Rural and Urban Thai Communities

McKenzie

2016

Journal of Adolescent Research

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Although the psychology of globalization is a burgeoning area of research, literature on the topic remains primarily theoretical to date. This study empirically examined the moral psychological impact of globalization in northern Thailand, a rapidly globalizing cultural context. Eighty participants (20 adolescents and 20 parents in both a rural and an urban community) took part in semi-structured interviews on perceptions of morality and globalization. This article shares three sets of mixed-methods analyses of participants' private moral experiences. Results indicated varying conceptions of morality and self across cultural and dyadic lines, and thus revealed a double-gap in moral personhood across contexts of globalization. Whereas the moral experiences, evaluations, and reasoning of rural adolescents and parents were characterized by similitude, those of urban adolescents and parents were characterized by divergence. Findings indicate an emergent intergenerational moral disconnect in the urban Thai setting. Situating interview data in light of ethnographic evidence gathered in community, school, and home contexts, this study suggests that globalization profoundly impacts moral reasoning and perceptions of oneself as a moral person.

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“…They fostered discourses of "disappointment," discredited "true" friendships and proximity, and created uncertainty about persons and their "real" nature and intentions. In this scenario, models of persons hardly provided solid grounding to conceive (discrepant) morals (Hickman 2014). Conversely, moral ambivalence-sharing while avoiding, monitoring while hiding, criticizing while doing-engendered notions of shifting, divided, duplicitous persons.…”

Section: U N C E R T a I N T Y A N D D U P L I C I T Y I N P E R S O mentioning

confidence: 97%

“It’s Neighborhood, Not Buildings”: Spatial Anchors to Morals and Persons in a Portuguese Housing Project

Mourão¹

2017

Journal of Anthropological Research

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Personhood can provide "ontological cement" (Hickman 2014) for imagining moral objects since persons are cognitively "more concrete entities" than morals. I examine this proposal in a Portuguese migrant housing project where contrasting moral codes and personhood models coexisted. Local residents (Portuguese and African migrant families formerly living in slums) were involved daily in discrepant discourses and behaviors: strongly defending neighbor sharing while privately condemning it as unfair; monitoring and gossiping about neighbors' possessions to enforce sharing while concealing their own; reinforcing proximity through relatedness idioms while undermining it through distancing rhetoric; seeking mutual assistance while regretting evil and duplicity in proximate relations. I examine this ambivalence in morals and persons in light of an economic and ethical shift in postindustrial capitalist societies and show how the duality was locally reimagined through theories about housing space. Amid moral uncertainty, space became cognitively "more concrete" than persons.

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Ancestral personhood and moral justification

Cited by 19 publications

References 16 publications

The Cultural Psychology of Religiosity, Spirituality, and Secularism in Adolescence

The Cultural Psychology of Religiosity, Spirituality, and Secularism in Adolescence

Globalization and Moral Personhood: Dyadic Perspectives of the Moral Self in Rural and Urban Thai Communities

“It’s Neighborhood, Not Buildings”: Spatial Anchors to Morals and Persons in a Portuguese Housing Project

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