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Research Article
Defining Sacredness in a Masonic Temple Can Be Defined by PARTY
Alexandria Purdue,
Griffin Hays,
Sarah Angne Alfaro*
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 3, June 2025
Pages:
132-137
Received:
30 December 2024
Accepted:
17 January 2025
Published:
20 June 2025
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijecs.20251003.11
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Abstract: This case study is focused on the Scottish Rite Cathedral. Built in 1929, it was the largest cathedral of the Scottish Rite. The building was used to house meetings and ceremonies of the Freemason Fraternity. In recent years, the building has had issues with funding, resulting in the space being opened to the public. This has caused several issues, such as misuse of the space and a misunderstanding of the building. This research explores the ways in which religious organizations are forced to change to maintain their original identity and to educate people about the impact they have when they visit. Architecture plays a key role in defining religious spaces, as such, this research will also highlight certain spots within the cathedral that are especially noteworthy. It defines identity, religious/sacred spaces, and belief using a qualitative method of inquiry: interviews, documentation, and observations. These were then analyzed to answer the following research question: What makes a place sacred? The acronym PARTY (Personal experience, Architecture, Resources, Theology, and Years) is used to describe the findings of this research. PARTY represents the general themes and categories found in correlation to the research and analysis of religious spaces. The findings reveal sacredness is created by the memories people make in space, the type of experience someone has, and the history of the building.
Abstract: This case study is focused on the Scottish Rite Cathedral. Built in 1929, it was the largest cathedral of the Scottish Rite. The building was used to house meetings and ceremonies of the Freemason Fraternity. In recent years, the building has had issues with funding, resulting in the space being opened to the public. This has caused several issues,...
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Research Article
The Historical Analysis of the Development of Educational Sociology in Mongolia
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 3, June 2025
Pages:
138-142
Received:
11 March 2025
Accepted:
31 March 2025
Published:
23 June 2025
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijecs.20251003.12
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Abstract: Educational sociology is a new and developing scientific field in Mongolia. In order to conduct a historical analysis of this science, past research in this field was collected and used as background information. This research has led to the development of educational sociology, an independent branch of sociology, guided by the theory and methodology of general sociological science. This study examines how educational sociology emerged and developed in Mongolia. It focused on the issues of education that were studied during the development of this science. No research has been conducted in this field in our country before, and this study will be first. The peculiarity of this study is that it attempts to classify the recent development of educational sociology in our country into specific stages and to identify their characteristics. Another feature is that the old narrow definition of education, which defined the process of cognition as its result, was abandoned, and education was considered not only as a process of cognition but also as a social system, social institution and social relations within the educational community. By understanding education in this broad sense, we have been able to fully understand its essence. The research used methods such as document review, comparison, calculating correlation between variables, conducting focus interviews, and benchmarking the current level of education against specific criteria. Using the theory and methodology of educational sociology, we are analyzed the historical development of education in our country, especially the state of Education since 1990, when it transitioned to democracy and market economy and identified the problems that need to be addressed. The study concluded that Mongolian education is currently in a state of crisis. In order to overcome the crisis, it is important to make the state policy for developing education more clear and to implement it in practice, not just declare education as a priority sector. The urgent issues to be addressed are reforming the teacher training system, addressing the social problems of teachers, changing teaching methods to student-centered learning, unifying schools that provide 12 years of education and increasing the number of qualified workers.
Abstract: Educational sociology is a new and developing scientific field in Mongolia. In order to conduct a historical analysis of this science, past research in this field was collected and used as background information. This research has led to the development of educational sociology, an independent branch of sociology, guided by the theory and methodolo...
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Review Article
The New Historical Novel is a Historical Novel
Herminio Núñez Villavicencio*
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 3, June 2025
Pages:
143-147
Received:
25 April 2025
Accepted:
7 June 2025
Published:
25 June 2025
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijecs.20251003.13
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Abstract: In these lines we expose that nowadays the beginning of a research work no longer has such clear and distinct categories as it was supposed just a few decades ago. The supposed solidity of some concepts is blurring as well as some disciplinary visions that were sure of their rigorous procedure, in fact, only widened the gap between the abstract world of concepts, theories and methodologies and the world we experience day by day. Today, genres and knowledge are interconnected in search of new notions to name and explain new realities and, in the case of the contemporary historical novel, compared to the previous one, it no longer has the characteristics of the subgenre in its origins. It is a historical novel, but with differences required by its own reality, it is characterized by a critical stance towards the first historical novel and by a marked evaluative tone of the past.
Abstract: In these lines we expose that nowadays the beginning of a research work no longer has such clear and distinct categories as it was supposed just a few decades ago. The supposed solidity of some concepts is blurring as well as some disciplinary visions that were sure of their rigorous procedure, in fact, only widened the gap between the abstract wor...
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