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The role of bushmeat in urban household consumption: Insights from Bangui, the capital city of the Central African Republic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the Congo Forest Basin, hunting provides a major source of protein for rural household consumption. In the context of increasing urbanisation, an understanding of bushmeat consumption in urban settings is needed to both address food security issues ...
Drouet-Hoguet, Nolwenn   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Relational work with distressing voices mirroring experiences of discrimination and marginalisation: Three illustrative cases of an extended form of AVATAR therapy (AV‐EXT)

open access: yesPsychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background For voice‐hearers from minoritised communities, voices may reflect interpersonal and societal discrimination, including experiences of feeling silenced or ‘voiceless’. AVATAR therapy is a relational approach involving facilitated dialogues between a voice‐hearer and a digital embodiment of their main distressing voice (the avatar ...
Thomas Ward   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutionalization of Protestantism as a way out

open access: yesУкраїнське Pелігієзнавство, 2005
The study of the current state and tendencies of the development of the traditional trends of late Protestantism in Ukraine - Baptism, Adventism and Pentecostalism, as well as Jehovah's Witnesses during 1999-2005 made it possible, in our opinion, to be ...
Petro Yarotskiy, Yu.Ye. Reshetnikov
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: Attitudes on LGBT Nondiscrimination Laws and Religious Exemptions - Finding from the 2015 American Values Atlas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Across 2015, the year that saw same-sex marriage become legal in all 50 states following the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision in June, public opinion on same-sex marriage remained remarkably stable.
Betsy Cooper   +3 more
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Wittgenstein On Moral Certainty

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Moral certainty is a growing research area in philosophy with implications for current debates on hinge epistemology, moral change and deep moral disagreements. Despite several distinctive lines of disagreement, two assumptions are shared in the current discussion of moral certainty.
Cecilie Eriksen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Case series of Jehovah's witnesses having Total Knee Arthroplasty in Hong Kong [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Electronic Poster Presentations: P48INTRODUCTION: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is challenging in Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW), as they do not accept transfusions.
Chan, PK   +5 more
core  

Kokkinakis at the grassroots level [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This contribution considers the impact of Kokkinakis at the grassroots level: to what extent do grassroots level actors know about the case of Kokkinakis and see in it an opportunity to further their own religion-related rights claims? To what extent has
Fokas, Effie
core   +3 more sources

“I had to open my eyes”—A narrative approach to studying the process of adult belief change

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do people, socialized and sedimented in their political beliefs, change their convictions in adulthood? Belief change has a long history of research in the social sciences. Yet, in quantitative research, belief change is studied largely through cognitive and behavioral lenses, that, however valuable, struggle to capture how people ...
Marcel van den Haak, Kamile Grusauskaite
wiley   +1 more source

Les Témoins de Jéhovah : un mouvement religieux aux caractéristiques d’un mouvement social

open access: yesÉtudes Caribéennes, 2014
This article observes that Jehovah’s Witnesses share similarities with a social movement. The writer uses the descriptions that sociologists such as Alain Touraine and Herbert Blumer give of social movements.
Christophe Zamord
doaj   +1 more source

Teaching Theology and Law in the Australian Secular Law School: Lessons From the Adelaide Law School

open access: yesTeaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Adelaide Law School introduced Law and Religion into its suite of elective courses in 2012, the culmination of a long process of encouraging both the institution and individual faculty members to accept that this sub‐discipline, at the time already well‐recognized in the United States and Europe, properly belonged as a scholarly pursuit in
P. T. Babie
wiley   +1 more source

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