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The Legal Status of Conjoined Twins in Islamic Law: A Socio‐Legal Analysis

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conjoined twins are a rare congenital anomaly. Conjoined twins can occur in various morphological types. Conjoined twins are perceived not only as a physical difference but also as a subject of interest and curiosity in many areas of society.
Merve Yiğitoğlu
wiley   +1 more source

From Christian Confession to “Speaking Your Truth”: A Genealogy of Lived Experience as Truth‐Telling

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a sociological genealogy of “lived experience” as a mode of truth‐telling. It asks how narrated life came to function as knowledge and why such speech now circulates as evidence in activism, academia, and social policy. Using a Foucauldian genealogy, the analysis traces the shifting conditions under which speech became ...
Jody Moore
wiley   +1 more source

Liberation Medicine: Past, Present, and Future. [PDF]

open access: yesCult Med Psychiatry
Führer AG, Vorhölter J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Traces of legal Orientalism: racialized othering and (neo)colonial legacies in R (on the Application of TTT) v. Michaela Community School

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critiques the controversial decision of the High Court R (on the Application of TTT) v. Michaela Community School (Michaela), where a school's ban on ritual prayers was upheld. Subjecting the case to postcolonial and critical race critique, I contend that Michaela should be understood as a worrying and harmful manifestation of ...
FATIMA MOHAMED AHDASH
wiley   +1 more source

Why Are Young Men Increasingly Drawn to Christianity? A Study of Finnish Young Men

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent surveys in the Global North suggest a possible reversal in established gender patterns of religiosity, with young men increasingly engaging with Christianity. This study examines this development in Finland, a highly secular country, drawing on qualitative individual and small‐group interviews with 30 men attracted to Christianity.
Kati Tervo‐Niemelä   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Me and God, We're Good”: Abortion Morality and Protestant Women Having Abortions in the South

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how 84 Protestant women in the South understand the morality of their abortion decisions, offering a nuanced perspective on the complex relationship between religion and abortion and revealing that many women navigate abortion decisions with theological depth, moral reasoning, and a profound sense of responsibility.
Rebecca Todd Peters
wiley   +1 more source

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