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Alleged Histories of Child Maltreatment in Buddhist Monasteries in Sri Lanka as Revealed by Adult Survivors

open access: yesChild Abuse Review, Volume 35, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT In Sri Lanka, there are more than 12,000 Buddhist monasteries where children as young as 5, mainly from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, are ordained with the expectation of becoming life‐long monks. Although child ordination is identical to the placement of a child in alternative care, it is carried out entirely on the discretion of the ...
Chandana Namal Rathnayake
wiley   +1 more source

Discipleship: Baptized Billfolds

open access: yes, 1981
Sermon Text(s): 2 Corinthians 9:6-15, Proverbs 3:9-10; Series: Discipleship ...
Vanderwell, Howard D.
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Developing a Discipleship Measurement Tool

open access: yes, 2017
This article discusses the development of a discipleship measurement tool. It looks at existing frameworks for the development of such a tool, studies that have been undertaken in the past, the current study undertaken, and how such a study can be ...
Heise, Julie-Anne   +5 more
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L'envolée épistémique de la recherche comptable en économie financière : une étude historique sur la conception de l'utilité de la comptabilité* The Epistemic Rise of Accounting Research in Financial Economics: A Historical Study on the Conception of the Usefulness of Accounting

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 1283-1337, Fall 2026.
RÉSUMÉ L'étude publiée par Ball et Brown en 1968 (ci‐après « BB68 ») est principalement reconnue pour son affirmation selon laquelle la comptabilité de l'époque était utile pour les investisseurs, s'inscrivant alors en contradiction avec la littérature comptable normative faisant office d'autorité. Or, une telle affirmation n'allait pas de soi.
Pier‐Luc Lajoie, Yves Gendron
wiley   +1 more source

The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
wiley   +1 more source

The Light Burden of Discipleship: Embodying the New Moses and Personified Wisdom in the Gospel of Matthew

open access: yesJournal of Moral Theology, 2013
Gospel of Matthew is, it can be argued, directed primarily by the invitation to discipleship. In this, Jesus’ invitation, two images, both steeped within Second Temple Judaism, converge: Jesus as the New Moses and Jesus as personified Wisdom, the Logos ...
Patricia Sharbaugh
doaj  

PERIODIZING GEOLOGICALLY OUTWITH (AND WITHOUT?) THE ANTHROPOCENE: PASTS, AGENCIES, AND THE TERRESTRIAL

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 344-367, September 2026.
ABSTRACT As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to premodern histories and texts. However, it has introduced historians to geological periodization as a mode of describing periods of changed ...
Gwenffrewi J. Morgan
wiley   +1 more source

A Theoretical and Theological Reframing of Trauma. [PDF]

open access: yesPastoral Psychol, 2023
Holton MJ, Snodgrass JL.
europepmc   +1 more source

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