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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence and associated risk factors of self-reported symptoms suggestive of female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) among women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Shongwe S, Kalinda C, Hlongwana K, Ginindza T.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Chickadees: a contemporary fable

, 1974
I found this tale at first very engaging. Before long, however, it started to creak. The story touches on Christianity, Buddhism, drugs, and ecology. Its lesson seems to be Enjoy and be what you are. Its forty-eight pages of story give some sense
Hyers, M. Conrad
core  

Thinking With Care About Animals in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine: Gender and the Politics of Care in Scotland, 1910–30

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, we ‘think with care’ about gender in Scotland in the early twentieth century, undertaking an ethnographic approach to the archive of OneKind, formerly the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection (SSPV), which has only recently been catalogued.
Elizabeth Vander Meer, Alette Willis
wiley   +1 more source

Eco-cultural synergy: exploring the links between native trees, rituals, and conservation in Guji Society, Southern Ethiopia. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Roba GO.
europepmc   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

Phylogenetic Perspectives and Ethnobotanical Insights on Wild Edible Plants of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North Africa. [PDF]

Foods
Alrhmoun M, Sulaiman N, Pieroni A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Influence of Christian missions on ecological preservation

Verbum et Ecclesia
For many years, Christian missions have focused on the redemption of humans while neglecting the environment that sustains them. The salvation story has always been centred on Christ’s sacrifice for humankind. Other creations were conceived as immaterial to God’s mission of love and care on Earth.
openaire   +1 more source

The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
wiley   +1 more source

How to solve the problem of inherited behavior patterns and increase the sustainability of technological civilization. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Vinn O.
europepmc   +1 more source