The US Religious Public and Radical Human Enhancements
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A radical enhancement to the human body or brain is defined as giving human capabilities that no past or present human has possessed. These are being developed by scientists and bioengineers and backed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. This article reports on the first study of the US religious public's views of radical enhancements using a ...
John H. Evans
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Negotiating illness through faith: Religious narratives of cancer etiology among patients and caregivers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [PDF]
PLoS OneFikre K, Kassegne AB, Tadele G.
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That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
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Work of Oliver R. Avison and His Ecumenical Spirit. [PDF]
Yonsei Med JChung M.
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Spiritual practices for dementia care of Black persons: An integrative review. [PDF]
Alzheimers Dement (N Y)Johnson PE, Vandermause R.
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Modern 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
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“That We May Love the As Yet Unknown God”: The Meaning of Analogy in Augustine’s De Trinitate
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Recent interest in the idea of analogy and the analogy of being, along with the apparent invocation of Augustine’s De Trinitate in the definition of Lateran IV, calls for a renewed investigation into the idea of analogy in the aforementioned text. Methodologically, “analogy” in De Trin. names a form of discourse which attempts to see the truth
Samuel J. Korb
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Mapping potential community resources and care pathways for earlier identification and recovery-oriented intervention for people with psychosis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [PDF]
PLoS OneTsehay M +5 more
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“CONSCIENCE AND THE ENDS OF HUMANITY: CHRISTIAN HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The astonishing speed of the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked reflections by theologians and philosophers on what distinctiveness, if any, human beings possess as individuals and as a species. This article addresses this question with respect to an ancient idea in Christian thought reaching back to St.
William Schweiker
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