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The History of Religion: Ancient Rome Edition 1960–2026
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Celia E. Schultz
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What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
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International Journal of Social Service and ResearchThis article examines the child-adoption practice within the Dayak Desa community of West Kalimantan through the lens of Inculturation Theology, employing Stephen Bevans’ anthropological model. The study explores symbolic dynamics, relational structures, and customary rituals as theological loci that illuminate a creative dialogue between Christian ...
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Attitudes arising from Buddhist nurture in Britain [PDF]
, 2014 Focus groups comprised of seventy-five self-identifying Buddhist teenagers in Britain were asked to discuss value domains that previous research has identified to be of special interest to Buddhists.
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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More Than Self-Gift and Sex: The Role of Receptivity in Catholic Marital Ethics
Journal of Moral Theology, 2015 This essay strives to find common ground in the importance of receptivity for an ethic of sex and marriage. It engages the theology of the body more deeply in order to address criticisms and reach out to a broader audience.
Robert Ryan
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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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, 2015 This thesis embraces the theology of inculturation as another important theological tool of evangelization. Through a comparison of the cultural rites—namely the Ga Bi Kpodziemↄ, dubbed “naming” and “outdooring”—of the Ga people of Accra, Ghana, and the ...
Amuzu, Matthias
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Public worship and practical theology in the work of Benjamin Keach (1640-1704)
, 2012 The late seventeenth century was a critical and fruitful period for the Particular Baptists of England. Severely persecuted following the Restoration, toleration in 1689 brought its own perils.
Vaughn, James Barry
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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