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The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
wiley   +1 more source

THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

Marriage Cancellation Due to Coercion from Marriage and Islamic Law Perspectives

open access: yesAlauddin Law Development Journal
This study analyzes preventive and repressive legal protection for injured parties in marriages carried out on the basis of coercion in relation to marriage law and Islamic law. The methods used were the juridical normative.
Vanisa Vinabilah   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
wiley   +1 more source

Jurisprudential- Legal Challenges of the Shared Guardianship Perspective in the Marriage of Matured Virgin [PDF]

open access: yesفقه و حقوق خانواده
In Article 1043 of the Iranian Civil Law and according to the shared guardianship perspective, the marriage of a matured virgin girl who has reached the legal age is dependent on the permission of her father or paternal grandfather.
reza dehghannezhad
doaj   +1 more source

Attachment insecurity and psychological (mal)adjustment in older adults: The longitudinal role of fear of self‐compassion

open access: yesPsychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives Insecure attachment has been suggested to precede and perpetuate fear of self‐compassion, with a negative impact on mental health. However, this evidence was obtained using general‐age samples and cross‐sectional designs. Our objective was to, in an older adult sample, analyse longitudinally the indirect effect of fear of self ...
Lúcia Tavares, Paula Vagos, Ana Xavier
wiley   +1 more source

Wpływ mentalności wolnych związków na ważność zgody małżeńskiej

open access: yesAnnales Canonici, 2008
Nowadays marriage, as an institution, finds itself in a serious crisis. In modern societies, there exists a widely spread mentality – that is, not simply a view but rather a life action reflected in an outlook - which supports the free union ...
Remigiusz Sobański
doaj   +1 more source

Religious courts provide a useful service for those whose faith they represent but they are in no way replacing civil law in the area of marriage and divorce [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Following the Archbishop of Canterbury’s lecture on Religious and Civil Law in 2008, the existence and status of religious courts has proved controversial in the UK.
Douglas, Gillian, Sandberg, Russell
core  

Outsourcing Love

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper responds to recent arguments for the outsourcing of parental obligations and shows why such proposals are morally problematic. After outlining why it is impermissible for the parent–child attachment to be outsourced, and prior to Section 4, I explain the meaning of the duty of love.
Danielle Levitan
wiley   +1 more source

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