The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity
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
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Evaluation of high dose post-dialytic versus daily beta-lactam dosing in hemodialysis patients using Monte Carlo simulation. [PDF]
Bauman AJ +6 more
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“I had to open my eyes”—A narrative approach to studying the process of adult belief change
Abstract Why do people, socialized and sedimented in their political beliefs, change their convictions in adulthood? Belief change has a long history of research in the social sciences. Yet, in quantitative research, belief change is studied largely through cognitive and behavioral lenses, that, however valuable, struggle to capture how people ...
Marcel van den Haak, Kamile Grusauskaite
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Taking stock: understanding key processes in the public health programs-stages of research and evaluation framework. [PDF]
Lee K +4 more
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ABSTRACT This article explores the role of the COVID‐19 virus in changing healthcare policies in Wales and their effects on pandemic inequalities. It draws on the analysis of policy documents and key informant interviews with government and healthcare officials in Wales conducted during the cross‐European study on the varying impacts of pandemic ...
Sergei Shubin, Diana Beljaars
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Program Outcomes from a Novel Outreach Network to Increase Breast Cancer Screening Uptake in Washington, DC. [PDF]
Safron H +7 more
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ABSTRACT The ‘affirmative turn’ in Geography has generally been read positively for promoting care‐full urban governance, repairing inter‐group relations and enhancing socio‐spatial justice, while largely neglecting the biopolitics, marginalisation and resistance embedded therein.
Qiong He, Shenjing He
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Correction to: Does optimizing choose to move - a health‑promoting program for older adults - enhance scalability, program implementation and effectiveness? [PDF]
Nettlefold L +5 more
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Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes
Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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