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“A Person's God Should Look Like Them”: African Traditional Religions Among Black Queer Millennials and Gen Z Americans

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
wiley   +1 more source

Bis(silylene)‐Mediated N═N Bond Scission of Diazo Compounds

open access: yesAngewandte Chemie, Volume 138, Issue 18, 27 April 2026.
The carborane‐based bis(silylene) enables unprecedented N═N bond scission in diazodiarylmethanes. While xanthene‐ and aniline‐based scaffolds promote end‐on addition with partial N═N activation, the carborane‐based variant uniquely achieves complete N═N bond scission of Ar2C═N═N compounds, resulting in isolable disilicon nitride imino species.
Yun Xiong, Shenglai Yao, Matthias Driess
wiley   +2 more sources

Art as a tool for cross-cultural conversation: A personal dialogue with Igbo and Ainu art

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2016
This paper examines the concepts and perceptions of art among the Igbo people of Nigeria and the Ainu people of Japan. From a practical point of view, it assesses each group’s notion of art and how it has fared in the postcolonial experience. It grapples
Chuu Krydz Ikwuemesi
doaj   +1 more source

Personal name in Igbo Culture: A dataset on randomly selected personal names and their statistical analysis

open access: yesData in Brief, 2017
This data article contains the statistical analysis of Igbo personal names and a sample of randomly selected of such names. This was presented as the following: 1).
Hilary I. Okagbue   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tangled Web of Associational Life: Urban Governance and the Politics of Popular Livelihoods in Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Drawing on case studies of informal enterprise associations in Christian and Muslim parts of Nigeria, this paper explores the differing ways in which networks of ethnicity, class and religion are used to forge links between dynamic informal ...
Kate Meagher
core  

Dread in the Homeland: Symbolic Politics and Ethnonationalist Struggles for Self‐Determination in Nigeria

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The revival of Biafran separatism in contemporary Nigeria is often explained with three leading theoretical frameworks: relative deprivation, political economy and state repression. Whereas relative deprivation and political economy perspectives posit that the resurgent separatism derives from the perception and empirical reality of ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
wiley   +1 more source

War, Gender, and Family Dynamics: A Couple Analysis

open access: yesPopulation and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract A growing demographic literature outlines how war exposure has long‐lasting and far‐reaching impacts on individuals. Yet the nascent literature leaves questions of whether and how the war exposures of key relatives, such as spouses, affect individuals.
Yingyi Lin, Emily Smith‐Greenaway
wiley   +1 more source

Living in the Mycelial World

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
wiley   +1 more source

Enfants-soldats au Nigeria : les romanciers témoignent [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
During an interview, Ishmael Beah, conscripted in Sierra Leone when he was 13, testified to the fact that the rights of child‐soldiers were constantly violated.
Ugochukwu, Francoise
core   +1 more source

Does Speaking the Same Language With the Caretakers Associate With a Higher Neuraxial Labor Analgesia Use Rate?

open access: yesActa Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, Volume 70, Issue 6, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Use of neuraxial analgesia requires communication between the parturient and her caretakers. In this retrospective study, the use of labor analgesia is compared between parturients whose primary language is other than Finnish or Swedish and who don't communicate in these languages or English without an interpreter (Category I), who communicate
Luisa Pirsko   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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