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Ispovedʹʹ stavrogina: tekst i kontekst
Politeja, 2014 Stavrogin’s Confession: Text and Contexts The paper attempts to examine Stavrogin’s confession in the context of biblical and literary traditions. Both the structure based on plots and the character of the narrative are a testament to the literary ...
Ludmiła Łucewicz
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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Literator, 1996 This paper draws on the work of Michel Foucault in order to sketch a preliminary genealogy of the practice of confession in the twentieth century. The essay argues that confession has undergone major transformations, not only from a chiefly religious to ...
S. van Zyl, J. Sey
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Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.How do people who identify as friendless make sense of their condition in a moment when friendship is extolled for the support and satisfaction it offers? This article draws on interviews with 21 adults in an Atlantic Canadian city. We argue that our interviewees were rarely at ease with their friendlessness and were at pains to recover an honorable ...
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory
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In die Skriflig, 1999 Calvin and the act of confession In 1540 Calvin declared that no member of the congregation would be allowed to take part in the ceremony of Holy Communion unless this ritual had been preceded by the act of confession.
H.A. Speelman
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“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Within Western popular culture and online discourse, a “Nice Guy” is someone who enacts niceness for which they believe they are owed, deserving of, or entitled to something in return—especially the romantic or sexual attention of women. In this study, we examine the use of accounts in personal narratives told in an anonymous online discussion forum ...
Brooke Weinmann, Dennis D. Waskul
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Anonymity, Community, and Expression: Unveiling the Dynamics of Confession Pages on Facebook
Journalism and MediaPurpose: This study investigated the attributes of confession pages on Facebook, their role within social networks, and their impact on society.
Tal Laor
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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The Confessing Subject and the Construction of Modern Catholic Selves
Culture & History Digital Journal, 2017 Historians and sociologists have argued that the practices of confession played a major role in the transition to modern, introspective individuality.
Moshe Sluhovsky
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