Results 161 to 170 of about 125,917 (303)
The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity
Journal 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
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley +1 more source
Never, Ever Getting Started: On Prospect Theory Without Commitment
Mathematical Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Prospect theory is arguably the most prominent alternative to expected utility theory. We study the investment or gambling behavior of a prospect theory decision maker who is aware of his time‐inconsistency but lacks commitment. For the empirically relevant prospect theory specifications, we obtain the extreme prediction that such a decision ...
Sebastian Ebert, Philipp Strack
wiley +1 more source
Neural network properties of hydrophilic polymers as a key for development of the general theory of evolution. [PDF]
R Soc Open SciKabdushev S +3 more
europepmc +1 more source
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic was a crisis in prisons and jails, with some of the largest outbreaks in the United States happening inside carceral facilities. In the absence of structural interventions to protect them, people inside prisons engaged in various forms of carework to support one another and to draw attention to the horrific conditions. We
Esther Melton +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
wiley +1 more source
Albert Schweitzer, Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, and War. [PDF]
Oncol Res TreatSchalk E.
europepmc +1 more source
Concealed coexistence: Reproductive choice and coercion in Timor‐Leste
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Choice is a central concept in reproductive rights. However, a discourse of choice in reproductive health can also mask precisely the act it aims to protect against: coercion. Whilst choice has been explored extensively in studies of reproductive rights and justice, understandings of coercion are fragmented and under‐theorized.
Laura Burke
wiley +1 more source
Rethinking youth emergency mental healthcare in the UK: insights from Australian service models. [PDF]
BJPsych BullRomeu D.
europepmc +1 more source
Myths of contestation in the medical education curriculum: A dialogical exploration
Medical Education, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose In this paper, the authors use their collective experience as medical education scholars and change agents to engage in a dialogical approach examining five myths regarding the role of contestation in curricular change. In doing so, they argue that what is taught, how it is taught and what knowledge is valued in curricula is not a ...
Rachel H. Ellaway +3 more
wiley +1 more source