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The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
wiley   +1 more source

The role of a death and grief festival in cultivating awareness of serious illness, death, and bereavement at university: A qualitative study of students' and staff's motivations and experiences with Compassionate Week activities. [PDF]

Palliat Care Soc Pract
Bakelants H, Dury S, Chambaere K, Deliens L, Vanderstichelen S, Van Droogenbroeck F, Cohen J.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Ambiguous Boundaries of Religious Belief, Behavior, and Belonging in Japan: A Descriptive Analysis of Plural and Cultural Religiosity

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research note analyzes the ambiguous boundaries of religious identity, belief, and ritual behavior in Japan, drawing on data from a nationally representative postal survey conducted in 2024 (N = 3947). The findings reveal widespread participation in Buddhist and Shinto rituals even among individuals who identify as nonreligious or atheist,
Koki Shimizu, Yoshihide Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

Tribal Revival: West Coast Festival Culture (Kyer Wiltshire and Erik Davis)

Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 2012
tobias c. van Veen
doaj  

Insights into Menstruation: A Qualitative Exploration among School going Adolescent Boys of Central India. [PDF]

Indian J Community Med
Mohanty M, Desai RA, Dabir AJ, Ukey UU, Narlawar UW.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Gregorini v. Shyamalan: Can Access Trump Similarity in a Globalised Digital Age?

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract On the 20th February 2025, the final judgement of Gregorini v. Shyamalan rejected director Gregorini's claims that the show ‘Servant’ produced by Apple TV+ copied her independent film ‘The Truth About Emanuel’. Infringement can be established by proving substantial similarity and access to the work.
Anna Monnereau
wiley   +1 more source

Time-series-based forecasting of accident-related referrals to Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital, Northern Thailand, during each year and especially the "Seven dangerous Days" periods. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Srikummoon P, Traisathit P, Chittawatanarat K, Chandacham K, Kittikhunakon A, Piriyahaphan T, Kawilapat S, Chotirosniramit N.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Zoonotic anxieties: The cultural politics of Nepal's quest for pandemic preparedness

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal (2022–2024) and by paying attention to how local and transnational notions of epidemiological risk are deployed, this ethnography introduces the concept of “zoonotic anxieties” to make sense of the multi‐species relational ethos that contemporary global health regimes propose.
Max D. López Toledano, Hari Basnet, Anna Durrance‐Bagale, Natasha Howard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Stage Lighting on Visual Comfort at Summer Festivals: A Study in Portugal. [PDF]

Healthcare (Basel)
Oliveira AP, Ferreira G, Martinez-Perez C.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +1 more source