Investigating the strategies for achieving repentance and its effect on justice [PDF]
Repentance has worldly effects along with otherworldly effects. What has been studied in legal jurisprudential sources as the effect of repentance is exemption from punishment. But can a mere claim of repentance save the offender from punishment?
Shaghayegh Amerian, Mohammad Reza Kaykha
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Becoming a Nun, Becoming a Man: Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns’ Gender Transformation [PDF]
This paper explores apparent contradictions in the gender identifications of Taiwanese Buddhist nuns. Because the texts and teachings of their tradition provide conflicting messages about women\u27s spiritual abilities, the nuns create a complex gender ...
Crane, Hillary
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Becoming Neolithic in words, thoughts and deeds [PDF]
How did people come to ‘think Neolithic’? While there has been considerable progress on reconstructing the environmental, economic, technological and social changes associated with the transition from mobile hunter-gathering to sedentary farming and ...
Mithen, Steven
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Affective Embodiment and the Transmission of Affect in Ex Machina
The focus of posthuman thought centers on a shift in the humanistic paradigm; focusing on a state of existence that lies beyond being “human”, including bioengineering, artificial intelligence, and synthetic embodiment. Inspired by continuous
Chia Wei Fahn
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Languaging the Borders of Europe
Emerging from a discomfort with the blind spots encountered within and across theorizations of language and space in the field of human geography, in this article, we argue for “making space” for conceptualizations that speak from and through the ...
Olivier Kramsch, Kolar Aparna, Huda Degu
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Gothic and Baroque Imagination, Hegelian Speculative and Spinozist Plane of Immanence in Herman Melville’s Literary Creativity / Herman Melville’in Edebi Yaratıcılığında Gotik ve Barok İmgelem, Hegelci Spekülatif ve Spinozacı İçkinlik Düzlemi [PDF]
In this article, I try to relate Herman Melville’s literary creativity to Gothic and baroque art forms to understand the aesthetic vision revealed in his novels more in a more comprehensive manner.
Ömer Küçük
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Spotify as a case of musical Bildung
This article explores the meaning and function of streaming media as a potential facilitator of musical Bildung. Taking the affordances of streaming media technologies as a starting point, the article thus focuses on the formative and cultivating ...
Cecilia Ferm Almqvist
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The Ontology of Becoming: To Research and Become with the World
This article aims is to explore a perspective of the ontology of becoming, that makes it possible to study the emergence of phenomena and thereby broaden the understanding of how knowledge is created.
Bosse Bergstedt
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Monsters Escaping the Screen: Embodied Narratives of LARPS and Zombie Walks
This article engages with communities that invite monstrous characters to come to life and invade three-dimensional spaces through real-life bodies. Through focus group interviews with participants in live action role-play (LARP) and zombie walks in ...
Kristina Stenström
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Became, Become, Becoming [PDF]
Linguist David Adger reviews the recent film Arrival, exploring some of the concepts, such as Fermat’s principle of least time and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, that underlie both the film and the short story by Ted Chiang on which it is based.
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