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From Occupational Stigma to Mukti: Liberation, Place, and Agency Among Sex Workers in Sonagachi

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how former sex workers in Sonagachi, Kolkata, India, navigate occupational and place‐based stigma through spiritual repertoires, of which mukti (liberation) is a central tool. Drawing on critical, embedded ethnography across three fieldwork periods (2001, 2011, and 2019) with long‐term engagement in the Freeset community,
Edwina Pio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pre-Christian Eschatological Motifs in the Ukrainian Dumas and Spiritual Verses and Their Germanic Parallels

open access: yesReligions
The Ukrainian folklore genres least studied in a mythological context are the epic songs: dumas and spiritual verses. In particular, it is possible to find concepts of the beginning and the end of the world in these works. In many aspects, they are close
Mykhailo Rakhno
doaj   +1 more source

The Origins of R. G. Collingwood's Philosophy of History in his Philosophy of Religion, 1916–1943

open access: yesThe Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that R.G. Collingwood's philosophy of history was deeply rooted in his early philosophy of religion as expounded in Religion and Philosophy (1916). Although scholars have tended to separate Collingwood's early religious ideas from his later writings, this study demonstrates that his theory of history was informed by his ...
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient Greek Cosmogony

open access: yesAestimatio, 2015
Andrew Gregory (book author)   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modernized cosmogony: enduring hierarchies and the co-optation of public administration reform in Indonesia

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
This study investigates the persistent barriers to democratic accountability within Indonesian public administration by elucidating the evolving cultural logic termed modernized cosmogony.
Fadillah Putra   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enduring After God: An Anatheistic Reframing of Augustine on Suicide

open access: yesThe Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper proposes a retrieval of Augustine's argument on suicide in De Civitate Dei I.17–27, rearticulating its ethical core for a post‐theistic age through the hermeneutic lens of Richard Kearney's anatheism. Confronting the dual reality of persistent suicide and declining religiosity, I argue that Augustine's pastoral case against ending ...
Kornelius Lumbanbatu
wiley   +1 more source

Iron’s Symbolical Structure-Organizing Function in a Cosmogony

open access: yes, 2010
У статті на основі вивчення міфологічних, фольклорних та лінгвістичних матеріалів розглянуто питання структурно-організуючої функції заліза в космогонічних міфах.В статье на основе изучения мифологических, фольклорных и лингвистических материалов ...
Тупчієнко, М.
core   +1 more source

The Wairua of Self: A Path of Love, Simplicity, and Connectedness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Love is an action of freedom until something else steps in – often fear – that insists we create a box of survival. Whether self-imposed, forced, or chosen, it is interesting to notice how we limit ourselves with love.
Frishman, Lezlie
core  

Theological Doctrines as Scientific Theories? Thinking along with and beyond McGrath

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract McGrath's recent analysis of the parallels between scientific theory formation and the development of theological doctrine in The Nature of Christian Doctrine (OUP, 2024) is insightful and largely compelling, but also raises some questions and areas for further exploration. First, there is a remarkable back‐and‐forth between uses of ‘doctrine’
Gijsbert van den Brink
wiley   +1 more source

The Kichwa of Sarayaku Case at the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights: Legal Pluralism, Identity and Citizenship in a Context of Extractivism

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the tension between a universal approach to law and the recognition of indigenous peoples' rights at the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights. The struggle for citizenship in a situation of extractivism and land dispossession demonstrates how identity is mobilized to obtain and attribute rights. The focus of this study is
Elisabeth Cunin
wiley   +1 more source

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