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Personal prayer in patients dealing with chronic illness: a review of the research literature. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2015 Background. Prayer is commonly used among patients for health purposes. Therefore, this review focused on three main questions: (1) why do people turn to prayer in times of illness?, (2) what are the main topics of their prayers?, and (3) how do they pray? Method.
Jors K, Büssing A, Hvidt NC, Baumann K.
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African philosophy for successful integration of technology in higher education
British Journal of Educational Technology, Volume 54, Issue 6, Page 1520-1538, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Due partly to the multimodal and multiscalar nature of technology applications, there lacks theories to explain successful technology integration in teaching and learning in higher education. Such multidisciplinary theories developed primarily within Western contexts as behaviourism, cognitivism, constructivism, connectivism, collaborationism,
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It would be bad if compatibilism were true; therefore, it isn't
Philosophical Issues, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 270-284, October 2023., 2023 Abstract I want to suggest that it would be bad if compatibilism were true, and that this gives us good reason to think that it isn't. This is, you might think, an outlandish argument, and the considerable burden of this paper is to convince you otherwise. There are two key elements at stake in this argument.
Patrick Todd
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Zygon®, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 789-805, September 2023., 2023 Abstract In recent years, several scholars have hinted at a resemblance between Maximus the Confessor's logoi cosmology and evolutionary biology. In this article, I develop these suggestions further and claim that the logoi (divine ideas or wills) do indeed behave in an evolutionary fashion, diverging hierarchically and interactively from the Logos ...
Andrew Jackson
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Computer crime motives: Do we have it right?
Sociology Compass, Volume 17, Issue 4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Academic, legal and practitioner responses to cyber threats have been predominantly reactive, punitive, and deterrence‐based, with limited attention given to the motives underlying computer criminals' behaviors. This paper reasons that new and better theoretical perspectives are needed to explain computer criminals' motives. Following a review
Derrick Neufeld
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How the Cognitive Sciences Might Contribute to the Theological Debate about Free Will
Modern Theology, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 362-381, April 2021., 2021 Abstract This article argues that recent results of the cognitive sciences could make significant contributions to theological debates about free will, but they have been largely ignored by contemporary systematic and philosophical theologians. Recent work in cognitive psychology and moral psychology has to do with our intuitive and automatic patterns ...
Aku Visala
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Sublime encounters: Commodifying the experience of the geos
Geo: Geography and Environment, Volume 5, Issue 2, July-December 2018., 2018 This paper discusses scientific and economic aspects of two recent Icelandic eruptions, focussing particularly on the tension between tourism, which commodifies the experience of the earth, and risk management, which limits it.e00067 This paper discusses the rise in volcano tourism in the last few decades, focusing on its impact in recent eruptive ...
Amy Donovan
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Post‐Christendom Ignorance in Secular Society
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 431-449, February 2025.ABSTRACT In banning religious symbols for civil servants in a position of authority, Québec's laicity law disproportionately burdens religious minorities. Nevertheless, politicians seem to somehow avoid this problem, and the law is largely supported by the population. This insensitivity to religious discrimination calls for an explanation. I argue that
Gilles Beauchamp
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Necessitarianism in Leibniz with a view to contingency in natural science and theology
Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 1, Page 8-24, February 2025.Abstract Leibniz distinguishes between contingent truths and necessary truths, but many commentators worry that Leibniz's contingent truths are not truly contingent. While scholars who consider Leibniz in the context of his work in the natural sciences often view Leibniz as a forerunner of the theory of contingent truths, scholars who consider his ...
Clara Carus
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Toward a cultural sociology of disaster: Introduction. [PDF]
Poetics (Amst), 2022 Xu B, Lo MM.
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