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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

The negative words and religious turn of Laozi’s Dao theory

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
Besides concepts such as ‘being’ (有 [you]) and ‘non-being’ (无 [wu]), nature and the One to reveal the relationship between Dao and the phenomenal world from a positive perspective, Laozi used negative words, forming a speech system comprising ‘opposite ...
Youdong Yang
doaj   +1 more source

Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
wiley   +1 more source

Glucagon‐Like Peptide‐1 Receptor Agonists in Pregnancy: Periconception Exposure and Perinatal Outcomes

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective An increasing number of women of childbearing age worldwide are using glucagon‐like peptide‐1 receptor agonists (GLP‐1 RAs) and are advised to use effective contraception during treatment. Nevertheless, maternity services are encountering increasing numbers of women exposed to GLP‐1 RAs shortly before conception or during pregnancy ...
Katherine G. Y. Lau, Anisha Chopra, Edward Mullins, Rochan Agha‐Jaffar, Tricia Tan, Lynne Sykes, Christina K. H. Yu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Victorian Invention of Daoism [PDF]

, 2010
Dr. Littlejohn, Director of Asian Studies at Belmont, will explore the ways in which Victorian period thinkers created communities by inventing “religions” that in their indigenous form actually lacked a set of essentialist characteristics.
Littlejohn, Ronnie
core   +2 more sources

Content validation of the new nursing intervention “0565 – ultrasonography: bladder”

International Journal of Nursing Knowledge, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To validate the content of the nursing intervention “0565 – ultrasonography: bladder.” Method The content validation study was conducted from September to November 2022, with a sample of 22 specialists who evaluated the components of the nursing intervention “0565 – ultrasonography: bladder,” according to the Nursing Interventions ...
Vítor Monteiro Moraes, Ana Clara de Brito Cruz, Taline Bavaresco, Amália de Fátima Lucena, Cheryl Marie Wagner, Miriam de Abreu Almeida   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

From politics to economics: The investigation of the determinants of local administrative hierarchy in the Tang–Song transition

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 39-78, March 2025.
Abstract This study collects original data to examine the determinants of classification criteria of county hierarchy and its rank variations during the Tang–Song period. The results reveal that the county hierarchy was affected by both economic and political situations, with more emphasis on politics in Tang and economics in Song.
Nan Li, Heqi Cai
wiley   +1 more source

Radial outer retina reflectivity (RORR) sign in LAMP2‐associated retinopathy

Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To describe the radial outer retina reflectivity (RORR) sign in patients carrying pathogenic variants in the X‐linked lysosome‐associated membrane protein‐2 (LAMP2) gene and to review the histologic characteristics of LAMP2 expression in the human retina.
Rachael C. Heath Jeffery, Bohdan Kousal, Ulrike Grünert, Christine A. Curcio, Svetlana Cherepanoff, Tina M. Lamey, Michel Michaelides, Chrysanthi Tsika, Isabelle Chow, Omar A. Mahroo, Seungmin Lee, Martin Meliska, Milos Kubanek, Jakub Sikora, Siying Lin, Raymond C. B. Wong, Petra Liskova, Fred K. Chen   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Formalization of Land Rights in State Forestlands Under the National Land Policy (Kor Tor Chor) Programme in Nan Province, Northern Thailand

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In rural Thailand, unclear and unregulated property rights of state forestlands have led, for decades, to conflicting land claims between state agencies and villagers. To solve this problem, on the one hand, grassroots activists proposed the communal land title bill so that local people could obtain formal recognition of their land rights and ...
Chusak Wittayapak, Ian G. Baird
wiley   +1 more source

Unfolding the Ontological Depth of Non-Being: Yan Zun’s Fourfold Interpretation of Laozi’s Dao as a Synthetic Achievement

Religions
By differentiating the following four levels, namely Dao, De, Spirit-Illumination, and Supreme Harmony, Yan Zun is not proposing an evolutionary cosmology. Instead, he is offering a fourfold interpretation of Laozi’s Dao that can be presented as the four
Linwei Wang
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