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Religion and healthcare in the European Union : policy issues and trends [PDF]
, 2009 92 p. ; 24 cm.Libro ElectrónicoThe impact of religious doctrine on the law, policy and practice of healthcare is becoming increasingly significant for a whole range of issues – from euthanasia to fertility treatment; from belief-based exemption from ...
Clifford, Jarlath, Petrova, Dimitrina
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Practicing exorcism in schizophrenia [PDF]
BMJ Case Reports, 2011 Historically, many cases of demonic possession have masked major psychiatric disorder. Our aim is to increase awareness that symptoms of schizophrenia are still being classified as demonic possession by priests today. We report the case of a 28-year-old patient who had been diagnosed 5 years previously with paranoid schizophrenia ...
Kazuhiro, Tajima-Pozo +6 more
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Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
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Johannes Trithemius and Witches: Between Religion and Superstition
ReligionsThis contribution reconstructs the reflection on witches of Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516), a German Benedictine who took up the pen on several occasions to declare against the spread of witchcraft and the need to solve this problem.
Giulia Lovison
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, 2015 Poems include: Exorcism, by Bonni Lowry and Poem, by Elessa ...
High, Elessa, Lowry, Bonni
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Calibration and Irradiation Study of the BGO Background Monitor for the BEAST II Experiment [PDF]
, 2017 Beam commissioning of the SuperKEKB collider began in 2016. The Beam Exorcism for A STable experiment II (BEAST II) project is particularly designed to measure the beam backgrounds around the interaction point of the SuperKEKB collider for the Belle II ...
Brown, André EX +11 more
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Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
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Sirens Chanting in Auvergne-Velay: A Story of Exegetical Pilgrimage on the "Via Podiensis"
Ad Limina, 2013 Migrating from Greek mythology to scripture and ecclesiastical writing, sirens are best known for the perils they put on the road of Odysseus, and conversely, on that of the crucified Christ and on that of the pilgrim, two significations that Odysseus ...
Avital Heyman
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Community and Social Interaction in Digital Religious Discourse in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon [PDF]
, 2013 Since the advent of the Internet, religion has maintained a very strong online presence. This study examines how African Christianity is negotiated and practised on the Internet. The main objectives are to investigate to what extent online worshippers in
Chiluwa, Innocent
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