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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, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 427-438, June 2026.
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

“I had to open my eyes”—A narrative approach to studying the process of adult belief change

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 3, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Organising Inequality: Viral Contamination of Healthcare Policies During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Wales

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Program Outcomes from a Novel Outreach Network to Increase Breast Cancer Screening Uptake in Washington, DC. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Community Health
Safron H   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Affirmative Biopolitics of Anxiety in China: Ambivalence, Marginalisation and Resistance Under the ‘Double Reduction’ Policy

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 232-246, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Notes on Collection and Research, Part 1

open access: yesScottish Studies, 1963
[Editor]
doaj  

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