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(Re)humanizing Blackness: Integrating BlackCrit in the Mental Health Counseling of Black Clients
ABSTRACT Does Black mental health matter? Historically, mental illness in the Black community has been inadequately addressed. Yet Black Americans experience more severe psychological distress than other races, and they are also more likely to experience poor outcomes in counseling.
Demetrius Cofield
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‘To sin in loving virtue’: desire and possession in Measure for Measure
This essay offers a startling new reading of Shakespeare’s Angelo as a paradoxical if not tragic hero who discovers in his sudden and inexorable impulse to rape a nun in the dark that desire is always more-or-less demonic – even, and perhaps especially ...
Ewan Fernie
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse
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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In the 1730s, a group of villages in the Venetian Dolomites was the stage of a case of collective possession. Dozens of people, especially women, began to manifest the classic symptoms of demonic possession. Meanwhile, many other people and their animals
Federico Barbierato
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Almas y demonios ante la materia del mundo
This article examines how the naturalistic research during the sixteenth century integrated into its agenda the clarification of two central issues of the Christian doctrine: the existence of Hell and the relationship of spiritual entities with the ...
Andrés Vélez-Posada
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In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top‐tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career,
Thaddeus Müller
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Modern Practice, Archaic Ritual: Catholic Exorcism in America
The following ethnographic and folkloric analysis of American exorcism practices post-1998 centers on four Catholic priest-exorcists currently active in the United States.
William S. Chavez
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Menorah Review (No. 63, Summer/Fall, 2005) [PDF]
Affirming Life -- Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and Christianity -- Beginnings Departures Endings -- Christians and Israel -- Judaism and Superstitions -- Noteworthy ...
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This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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The Possession of Thomas Darling: Adumbrations of a Jungian Psychohistory [PDF]
Applying Jungian psychology to this microhistorical instance, I try to understand the potential, psychological significance of Darling?s possession experience. Using the frontispiece ? ?The Witch of Endor? ?
Lu, K
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