Beyond the Cut: Generative Refusal and the Reimagining of Jewish Affiliation in Contemporary Israel
ABSTRACT In Jewish‐Israeli society, circumcision (brit milah) carries far‐reaching significance, symbolizing both the covenant between god and the Jewish people and serving as a key marker of communal affiliation and cultural continuity. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with Jewish‐Israeli parents who have chosen not to circumcise their sons and using ...
Nina Rageth
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Enhancing the visual environment of urban coastal roads through deep learning analysis of street-view images: A perspective of aesthetic and distinctiveness. [PDF]
Zhang Y +7 more
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Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside
Abstract The purpose of this article is to respond critically to a research project initiated out of the Board of the Lonergan Research Institute that seeks to expose colonialist assumptions in Lonergan's thought. Some of the initiatives seek to link Lonergan with complicity in Canadian residential schools, spiritual violence, and cultural genocide ...
John D. Dadosky
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Perceptual assessment of the quality of urban space - validation of criteria and metrics by older citizens. [PDF]
Ptak-Wojciechowska A, Gawlak A.
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art
Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
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Community-built environment and self-rated health in Western China: a latent serial mediation within SEM of sleep quality and family functioning. [PDF]
Yao L, Tham J, Pan Q, Tian X.
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Toxic utopia: Unseen ideology and “Le Politique” in China Miéville's The City & The City
Abstract What if ideology were not just hidden—but aesthetic? This article reads China Miéville's The City & The City not as a metaphor for division, but as a speculative blueprint for how politics operates through enforced invisibility. By threading Derrida's Absolute Other and Rancière's le politique through Miéville's uncanny urban layering, we ...
Bo Kampmann Walther, Rune Graulund
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The Relationship Between Accessibility to Food Destinations and Places for Physical Activity and Children's BMI: A Sex-Stratified Analysis. [PDF]
Molina-García J +3 more
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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