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Anthropology of Origen’s treatise “De Principiis” [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2015
This article highlights some of the original Origen’s conceptions about the person: corporeality as a consequence of the fall, the idea of reincarnation, the belief in apocatastasis.
Vera Korablina
doaj  

Scalable Computation of Topological Abstractions for Scalar Data

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Topological data analysis has become an important tool for large scale scalar data analysis and visualization, efficiently extracting the inherent structure and features of interest of the data. However, with growing dataset sizes and complexity, it is increasingly becoming infeasible to compute topological abstractions of interest in serial ...
M. Will   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cremation and Cosmogony – Karma and Soteriology

open access: yesDhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 2006
A common thread linking micro- and macro cosmos is karma. Karma and death are intricately interwoven, since the preparation of the corpse during the funeral is the exit from this world and the entry to the next.
Terje Oestigaard
doaj   +1 more source

Vā Atoa and the Ever-Moving-Present in the Samoan Cosmogony Solo o le Vā [PDF]

open access: yes
[From Chapter 1] The Samoan cosmogony is consistent in the direction of how matter unfolds in the universe. As this chapter aims to show, life unfolds between two states: mavae, the divaricating process of creation, and tōfiga, folding together and ...
Refiti, Albert
core   +1 more source

Un/Learning Adult Frames of Reference in Death Enquiries: Thinking~With a Picturebook, Philosophical Animism and Ontological Tact

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Developmental psychology continues to shape how adults engage with children about death and dying. This influences whether children are included in rituals surrounding human and other‐than‐human bodies. Figurations of the innocent, immature and vulnerable child still dominate adult imaginaries of young children's understandings of mortality ...
Karin Murris   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Objects of Affection: Deathly Encounters With Taxidermy, Stuffed Toys and Atmospheres

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how children and young people relate to death through affective atmospheres and embodied, imaginative encounters with taxidermy and stuffed toy animals. Using arts‐based research (ABR), we explore how death, affective atmospheres, empathy and materiality entangle during multispecies relations.
Rachel Sinquefield‐Kangas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cosmogony in the Vedas, Brāhmanas and Upanisads, with reference to early Buddhism [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
The approach I have taken here is basically descriptive rather than analytical. I have concentrated a lot on the Vedas, possibly at the expense of the other material, led partly by personal preference and partly by awareness of past neglect by many ...
Davies, Alan James
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Cosmogony and Theogony in the Derveni Papyrus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article concerns the Derveni Papyrus – precisely, the cosmogony and theogony which the Papyrus includes. It is mainly based on the foreign-language literature (especially English) gathered and listed in the Bibliography.
Sokal, Angelika
core  

The obsolescence of protected area categories in a polycrisis world

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Current global conservation models face significant limitations in addressing the global polycrisis, and the constraints of the International Union for Conservation of Nature protected area (PA) classification system are part of the issue. The principles of the new conservation paradigm—governance, equity, and interculturality—are not viable ...
Pamela Esther Degele
wiley   +1 more source

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