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Expanding impact of mobile health programs: SAHELI for maternal and child care
Abstract Underserved communities face critical health challenges due to lack of access to timely and reliable information. Nongovernmental organizations are leveraging the widespread use of cellphones to combat these healthcare challenges and spread preventative awareness.
Shresth Verma +10 more
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Ayahuasca: A review of historical, pharmacological, and therapeutic aspects
Abstract Ayahuasca is a psychedelic plant brew originating from the Amazon rainforest. It is formed from two basic components, the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and a plant containing the potent psychedelic dimethyltryptamine (DMT), usually Psychotria viridis.
Simon G. D. Ruffell +15 more
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Atmospheric Buddhism: How Buddhism is Distributed, Felt, and Moralized in a Repressive Society
ABSTRACT A growing number of lay Buddhist practitioners have sought out alternative ways to incorporate Buddhist teachings in their daily practices and make positive changes in society by “doing good” for others. Sometimes recognized as part of “humanistic Buddhism,” this approach emphasizes general morality and focuses on people who need help as a way
Yasmin Cho
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This article demonstrates the resilience of religious traditions and practices among Australian soldiers, and the need for caution about presuming connections between the experience of modern war and secularisation. A core argument is that the Bible should be understood as a central text and cultural artefact of Australian soldiers' experience of the ...
Michael Gladwin
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Abstract Despite advances in theory, often driven by feminist ethicists, research ethics struggles in practice to adequately account for and respond to the agency and autonomy of people considered vulnerable in the research context. We argue that shifts within feminist research ethics scholarship to better characterise and respond to autonomy and ...
Jennifer Roest +4 more
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ADOLESCENT IDENTITY FORMATION VERSUS SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION
Abstract Since 1950, Erik Erikson's emphasis on ego‐identity formation as the crucial task of adolescence has been the framework for almost all subsequent research and programming to empower positive adolescent development. Chatlos has recently described a “Framework of Spirituality” and contends that identity formation significantly interferes with ...
John Calvin Chatlos
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Keeping Fit in Later Medieval England: Exercise for Man and Beast
Abstract This article begins by exploring ideas about physical exercise as outlined in the advice literature that circulated widely in late medieval and early sixteenth‐century England. Whereas other aspects of these popular guides to health have attracted considerable interest on the part of medical and cultural historians, recommendations about ...
Carole Rawcliffe
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Dialogues: anthropology and theology
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 297-347, March 2022.
Jione Havea +11 more
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Abstract From the beginning of widespread public interactions with ChatGPT and other large language models, some users have seen the disfluencies of chatbots as opportunities for them to go on an archaeological search for an unfettered chatbot persona that they need to jailbreak. These are not claims of sentience, but rather of personhood.
Courtney Handman
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief
Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
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