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Is Religion Undermined By Evolutionary Arguments? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
I examine three major antireligious arguments that are often proposed in various forms by cognitive and evolutionary scientists, and indicate possible responses to them.
Caruana, Louis
core   +1 more source

Microengineering the Liver: Strategies for Constructing Functional Liver‐on‐a‐Chip Devices

open access: yesExploration, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent advances in liver‐on‐a‐chip (LOC) technologies, including fabrication strategies and functional integration approaches, and discusses their promising applications in drug screening and related biomedical fields. ABSTRACT Reliable in vitro liver models are indispensable for researching liver diseases and developing ...
Jie Wang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exhortation to Persevere and Grow in Holiness, Love, and Integrity (1 Thess 4:1-12) (Chapter in 1 & 2 Thessalonians)

open access: yes, 2013
Excerpt: In the first three chapters of 1 Thessalonians, Paul\u27s primary concern involved extending compassion and comfort to a suffering and troubled church. There is a gracious, warm, generous tone.
Gupta, Nijay K.
core  

Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Can Libertarian Free Will be Reconciled with Divine Providence?

open access: yesTheoLogica
I try to reconcile libertarian free will for created agents with a qualified understanding of divine providence. Divine providence is not absolute, since created agents have some say in how things go in the universe.
Katherin Rogers
doaj   +1 more source

A Comprehensive Review on Nutrition, Phytochemistry, Pharmacology and Food Application Perspectives of Bioactive Rich Superfruits

open access: yesFuture Postharvest and Food, EarlyView.
The review critically evaluated and compared the selected superfruit phytochemistry, their bioactive composition and the key health benefits majorly emphasizing the antioxidant potential. It has highlighted the translational challenges in formulating functional foods by addressing the issues related to delivery system, bioavailability mechanism and the
Sharath Kumar Nagaraja   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Christian Embossed Human Action as a Basis for the Social Doctrine of the Church

open access: yesAstra Salvensis, 2019
The question of the place of the social doctrine of the Church between the systematic theological sciences is very important for the precise definition of the sources and the scientific treatment of the subject. In the search for answers to this question
Inocent-Mária V. SZANISZLÓ OP
doaj  

The new meaning of retirement for bridge employees: Situating bridge employment through the lens of the Kaleidoscope Career Model

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 89-112, Spring 2025.
Abstract Retirees re‐entering the workforce, popularly termed as bridge employment, is a phenomenon that is anticipated to increase in the coming years. Though research establishes that these employees have unique aspirations and work motives (see Mazumdar et al., 2020), primary research on how the retirement transition and bridge employment shape each
Bishakha Mazumdar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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