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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

Koduhanedega seotud baškiiri rituaalid: traditsioonid ja uuendused [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused
In the modern life of the Bashkir population of the Republic of Bashkortostan, a large number of various beliefs, customs and rituals related to domestic birds, including geese, have been preserved.
Zifa Hasanova
doaj   +1 more source

CEO Tenure, CEO Gender Diversity, and the Quality of Carbon Reporting: Empirical Evidence From New Zealand

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study examines whether and how Chief Executive Officer (CEO) tenure and gender diversity influence the quality of carbon reporting (QCR), an increasingly significant dimension of non‐financial reporting in the era of climate change risk.
Muhammad Nurul Houqe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Philosophy and Practice of Amulets in Tibetan Buddhist Tantra: Wearing, Analyzing, and Recognizing Your Way to Liberation

open access: yesJournal of Contemplative Studies
Buddhist amulets have been a topic of academic research for decades. But scholarly presuppositions that amulets have circulated primarily in popular Buddhist milieus, related only tangentially to the pursuits of elite practitioners, has limited our ...
James Gentry
doaj   +1 more source

Never Mind the Bollards: Exploring the Role of GCHQ, MI5, and the National Technical Authorities in UK Security Markets

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cultures and governance of security markets in the United Kingdom are often characterised through a paradoxical narrative of simultaneous state retreat and progressive advance. In the face of repeated recent high‐profile security failures, and global changes in material political economy, we argue that UK security governance is adapting to
Ben Collier, Jamie Buchan
wiley   +1 more source

Associations Between Benzoxazinoids, Plant Development and Nutritional Parameters in Different Maize Maturing Genotypes

open access: yesJournal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Maize (Zea mays L.) silage is a major energy source in ruminant diets and provides fermentable substrate for the rumen microbiota. In addition, forage maize contains benzoxazinoids (BXs), defence‐related secondary metabolites with antimicrobial activity that remain detectable after ensiling.
Julia Eichinger   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Anguipede of the Magical Amulets

open access: yes, 1951
With his Studies in Magical Amulets Professor Campbell Bonner has rendered a great service not only to collectors and museums, but also to the history of religion in Late Antiquity.
Martin P. Nilsson
core   +1 more source

Key amulets: a cultural clinical sign of epistaxis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
An association between key amulets/talimans worn by Black South African patients and epistaxis was observed by the ...
Malherbe, J.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Pemaknaan Jimat Sebagai Simbol Religi Bagi Mahasiswa Jepang

open access: yesJKG (Jurnal Komunikasi Global), 2018
This research started with the idea that many Japanese are not concerned with religious status. The Ippen monks in the 13th century made the concept of religion simpler for Japanese society through the use of amulets as religious symbols that were ...
Fatonah Fatonah
doaj   +1 more source

Time, place, person: Field epidemiology as a political practice

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Five years after the end of the Ebola epidemic, a district in Sierra Leone received a measles alert. This article tells the story of the epidemic that followed and the response that was mounted in the context of the new global epidemic preparedness and biosecurity paradigms that govern the management of health emergencies.
Luisa Enria
wiley   +1 more source

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