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Reflection of animistic ideas in the Mordovian funeral and memorial rite

open access: yesВестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2022
In the article, the author made an attempt to identify the most archaic features of the Mordovian funeral and memorial rites. The relevance of this study is determined by the importance of preserving the cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia, the ...
A. V. Sosnovsky
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Object-relics and their effects: for a neo-animist paradigm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Our relationship with objects is far less clear-cut than a rational materialism predicated upon a subject/object distinction would have us believe. On the contrary, it is a messy and unpredictable one, electrified by emotional investments, often anxiety ...
Marenko, Betti
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Jægeren, de venlige jaguarer og honningfesten

open access: yesReligionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2021
Engelsk summary: This brief article is an addition to my introduction to Philippe Descola’s theory on ontologies available in this volume of RvT. Inspired by a South American myth about helpful jaguars, I discuss Lévi-Strauss’ miscomprehension of the ...
Hans J. Lundager Jensen
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Ecology in Hartmut Rosa's Theory of Resonance: A Four‐Level Reconstruction

open access: yesDialog, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article discusses Hartmut Rosa's sociological theory of resonance with special emphasis on religion and ecology. In Rosa, resonance experiences refer to (always) participatory and (normally) enlivening world relations. I argue that Rosa's resonance theory is multi‐pronged and covers at least three interconnected levels.
Niels Henrik Gregersen
wiley   +1 more source

Virkeligheder og religionshistorie: En introduktion til ontologier ifølge Philippe Descola

open access: yesReligionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2021
  ENGLISH SUMMARY: A presentation of Philippe Descola’s model of four ontol-ogies (animism, totemism, analogism, and naturalism) and six forms of attach-ment (gift, exchange, etc.) and an argument for their relevance for the academic study of ...
Hans J. Lundager Jensen
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Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract AI enables forms of automation that threaten unemployment and deskilling, eliminating important opportunities for the development of virtue. The concomitant loss of virtue and meaningful employment makes it a theological problem from the perspective of Catholic social teaching and theological anthropology.
Paul Scherz
wiley   +1 more source

Where Now for Migration Studies? Problems, Purpose and Potential

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract The 21st century has witnessed an explosion of academic research on migration. We now have a rich corpus of projects and publications, as well as academic posts, degree programmes, PhDs, conferences, journals, departments and other (often well‐funded) ventures dedicated to migration. In parallel, however, ultra‐nationalism, militarised borders
Melanie Griffiths
wiley   +1 more source

Loving by Instinct: Environmental Ethics in Iris Murdoch’s The Sovereignty of Good and Nuns and Soldiers

open access: yesÉtudes Britanniques Contemporaines, 2020
An aspect of Iris Murdoch’s ethics, situated in her environmental imagination, appears to date to have been largely overlooked. Concern about the climate crisis and its impact on our natural world posits an ethical debate that offers quite different ...
Lucy Oulton
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The Next Paradigm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In order to perceive the world, we need more than just raw sensory input: a subliminal paradigm of thought is required to interpret raw sensory data and, thereby, create the objects and events we perceive around ourselves.
Kastrup, Bernardo
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Animal Culture and Animal Welfare

open access: yesPhilosophy of Science, 2022
AbstractFollowing recent arguments that cultural practices in wild animal populations have important conservation implications, we argue that recognizing captive animals as cultural has important welfare implications. Having a culture is of deep importance for cultural animals, wherever they live.
Simon Fitzpatrick, Kristin Andrews
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