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Animals and Animality in Irish Fiction
, 2022 This chapter charts a transhistorical narrative to analyze the evolving permutations encoded within human–animal binarisms. Maureen O'Connor argues that “The native Irish were long believed to have powers of human–animal metamorphosis.” O’Connor states that the Welsh clergyman Giraldus Cambrensis, and later Edmund Spenser in his View of the ...
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Developmental psychology continues to shape how adults engage with children about death and dying. This influences whether children are included in rituals surrounding human and other‐than‐human bodies. Figurations of the innocent, immature and vulnerable child still dominate adult imaginaries of young children's understandings of mortality ...
Karin Murris +2 more
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Ingold, hermeneutics, and hylomorphic animism
, 2023 Tim Ingold draws a sharp line between animism and hylomorphism, that is, between his relational ontology and a rival genealogical ontology. He argues that genealogical hylomorphism collapses under a fallacy of circularity, while his relationism does not.
Jeff Kochan, Kochan, Jeff
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Death, Grief and Collective Care in the Materialist Spirituality of a Forest Preschool
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In a time when material reality appears disconnected from the spiritual world and meaning is sought through overconsumption of the Earth's material sphere, this study explores how death and grief are narrated as part of the ‘stories of the land’ that unite the material and spiritual worlds in a forest preschool in southeastern Finland ...
Emma Kurenlahti +3 more
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Psychological Impacts of Animism and Religiosity on the Igbo People of Nigeria [PDF]
The psychological impacts of animism and religiosity were investigated among the Igbo people of Nigeria. The study employed ethnographic methods to gather data through observations, participations in public conversations, religious and cultural events ...
Agazue, Chima Damian
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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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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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The Origins of R. G. Collingwood's Philosophy of History in his Philosophy of Religion, 1916–1943
The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that R.G. Collingwood's philosophy of history was deeply rooted in his early philosophy of religion as expounded in Religion and Philosophy (1916). Although scholars have tended to separate Collingwood's early religious ideas from his later writings, this study demonstrates that his theory of history was informed by his ...
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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A cross-cultural study of science conceptualization in Egypt and England [PDF]
, 1987 The cardinal objective of this research has been to investigate cross- culturally the performance of Egyptian and English children of age’s 5 to 15 on science conceptualization in the light of Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Khalil, Salwa Mohamed
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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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