Is White Evangelical Antistructural Theology Related to Poor Health Outcomes? [PDF]
Kindig DA, Ariffin YM, Olson-Williams H.
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ABSTRACT Anthropological methods and theory have historically marginalized hometown research while they have privileged the study of the “Other.” This essay discusses the prevalent challenges and misconceptions surrounding research conducted in one's hometown, while advancing its legitimacy as an anthropological field site.
Dada Docot
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Religion, Spirituality, and Health Revisited: Bringing Mainline Western Protestant Perspectives Back into the Discourse-Theology's "Seat at the Table". [PDF]
Béres A.
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How to Be Hopeful About Climate Change
ABSTRACT Why do people in climate‐vulnerable regions of Kenya and Namibia express more hope for the future than many in Germany, despite facing greater environmental threats? Drawing on ethnographic research and the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, we make two arguments.
Julian Sommerschuh, Michael Schnegg
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Hildegard of Bingen's Embryology: Enabling Women's Reproductive Power without Seed. [PDF]
Lee M.
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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Caring for the world: Geography, Religious Cosmovision and Encounters, Elizabeth Wilson's 'actionist' career, 1943-1990'. [PDF]
Taithe B.
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ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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Adaptation and validation of the Christian Sanctification of Suffering Scale (CSSS) in a Polish Catholic chronic pain sample. [PDF]
Skalski-Bednarz SB, Krok D.
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The Camino de Santiago as a 'Spiritual Journey': A Contemporary Challenge to Religion? [PDF]
Roszak P, Mróz F.
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