Urbanization and Child Development: Investigating Socioeconomic, Structural, and Environmental Influences on Cognitive Development. [PDF]
Dev SciABSTRACT This study examines the links between urbanization‐related factors (crowding, access to institutions, and socioeconomic status) and cognitive development in young children (3–5 years old) in Bhutan, a rapidly urbanizing country in the Global South.
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 Augustine and female homoeroticism in the early Middle Ages: A Foucaultian idea-historical interpretation. Taking his reading of Romans 1:26–27 and Genesis 19 as its hermeneutical key, an idea-historical interpretation of the views of the Western church ...
Johann Beukes
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Spirit, mind and body: the archaeology of monastic healing [PDF]
, 2019 Archaeology and material culture are used in this chapter to consider how monastic experience responded to illness, ageing and disability. The approach taken is influenced by the material study of religion, which interrogates how bodies and things engage
Gilchrist, Roberta
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The Burden of History: Kirkjubæjarklaustur and the Biography of Landscape
Religions, 2023 The importance of landscape has long been recognized within monastic studies, both as an economic and spiritual resource. This paper focuses on the surrounding landscape of a single monastic site, that is Kirkjubæjarklaustur on Síða (south Iceland), one ...
Sigrún Hannesdóttir
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Structural Effects of Sex-Ratios and Power Distribution on the Survival Rates of Female Monasteries [PDF]
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015 Kanter has argued that groups consisting of different gender proportions produce certain patterns of interaction which tend to handicap the minority group.
Grätzer, Gitte, Rost, Katja
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Equality of Access? Chinese Women Practicing Chan and Transnational Meditation in Contemporary China
Religions, 2022 This paper examines how the Buddhist revival, the Chan revival, and recent popularity of transnational meditation practices have facilitated Chinese women practicing Buddhist meditation in contemporary China.
Ngar-Sze Lau
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Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2010 This article examines the characteristics of female jobs in civil and religious institutions during the 18th and early 19th centuries. It further seeks to evaluate the visible and invisible advantages of these kinds of work in terms of security and ...
Ofelia Rey Castelao
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Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2020 The Grand-Est region counted around 65 monasteries of the order of Cîteaux, founded between 1115 (Clairvaux) and before 1274 (Consolation). The presence of these abbeys and their barns, rural establishments attached to them, was a real marker of the ...
Benoit Rouzeau, Agnès Charignon
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Artistic manifestations as a mean of connection to the world outside the cloister: mural paintings in the Monastery of São Bento de Cástris [PDF]
, 2016 S. Bento de Cástris Monastery was the first extramural monastic community in the town of Évora and the first Cistercian female community in southern Portugal. In the 16th century, as in other monasteries, its regular life underwent an intense reformation,
Conde, Antónia Fialho
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Niemodelowe życie średniowiecznych zakonnic w cieniu piastowskich dworów. Uwagi na marginesie pracy Anny Agnieszki Dryblak [PDF]
Kwartalnik HistorycznyThe article verifi es the thesis put forward by Anna Agnieszka Dryblak in her book on foundations of female convents in thirteenth-century Poland by the Piast dyna sty.
Przemysław Wiszewski
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