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Spendemic: Japan’s Marketing of Mythical Creatures and the Business of Selling Hope

IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 2022
With their roots in animism and Shintōism, Japan’s mythical creatures known as yōkai have been feared, revered, and used to explain calamities or inexplicable phenomena.
Antonija Cavcic
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“A Person's God Should Look Like Them”: African Traditional Religions Among Black Queer Millennials and Gen Z Americans

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
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Sustaining fecundity: artistic creation as care for life

Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2023
Art is as old as human culture. For most of the time, art was part of an exchange between humans and the cosmic order. Art was meant as a gift to nourish the fecundity of life.
Andreas Weber
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Whose Nation Is It Anyway? Towards Methodological Cosmopolitanism in Studies of Nationalism and Nation‐Building in Kazakhstan

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarship on nationalism and nation‐building in Kazakhstan has been dominated by a social constructivist approach that privileges the civic–ethnic dichotomy. Even when critiques of this binary have emerged, they have often substituted proxy categories that reproduce the same dualism.
Rico Isaacs
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Hybrid beasts of the Nordic Bronze Age

Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2018
During the Nordic Bronze Age (NBA), hybrid beasts contributed to cosmological and mythical narratives on the main media of metal and rock. These hybrids are composed of body parts from particular animals – including bull, bird, snake, horse and human ...
Laura Ahlqvist, Helle Vandkilde
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Dancing Ambiguity: Nora and the Politics of Cultural Nationalisation in Southern Thailand

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Nora, a traditional dance‐drama from southern Thailand, through its designation as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2021) and the Thai government's recognition of its performers as National Artists (2018, 2021). It situates these actions within Thailand's cultural nationalisation.
Goeun Kim
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Spirituality and Well-Being: Theory, Science, and the Nature Connection

Religions, 2021
The links between spirituality and eudaimonic well-being are examined, beginning with a look at theoretical issues as to whether spirituality is best construed as part of well-being, or as a possible influence on well-being.
Carol D. Ryff
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CHARACTER IN ANIMALS [PDF]

Science, 1893
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A new Anthropocene aesthetics: Mediating Harman, Morton, and Boysen

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Practitioners of Object‐Oriented Ontology (OOO) have critiqued the metaphysical assumptions of contemporary poetry, and particularly the position of the lyric speaker. Scholars such as Graham Harman and Timothy Morton have positioned themselves as critics of these lyric sensibilities. In recent years, concerns have risen around their critiques
Chase Cate
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Technologies of the Anthropocene

Cultural Science, 2022
Rather than a levelling-down of the human to the standing of a biological machine, technologies of the Anthropocene have tended towards sensibilities which level-up a variety of non-humans.
Milligan Tony, Springer Lena
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