The emergence of a new pilgrimage as an assurance game. [PDF]
Restrepo Ochoa N, Moya C.
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The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity
ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
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Tumor microenvironment-targeted PROTAC nanoparticle self-assembly broadly predicted by structural descriptors. [PDF]
Vogt KC +12 more
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Abstract How do palliative care professionals negotiate end‐of‐life care with family members when prognosis and dying are not openly discussed? Based on ethnographic fieldwork in an Indonesian palliative care unit, I argue that palliative care professionals employ implicit, ambiguous and culturally sensitive communication to carefully negotiate ...
Hanum Atikasari
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Belief in Miracles, Religious/Spiritual Struggles, and Depressive Symptoms: Exploring Variation among American Indian, South Asian, and White Cohorts in the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health. [PDF]
Upenieks L +5 more
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Agnosticism about artificial consciousness
Could an AI have conscious experiences? Answers to this question should be based not on intuition, dogma or speculation but on solid scientific evidence. However, I argue such evidence is hard to come by and that the only justifiable stance is agnosticism.
Tom McClelland
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Methodology for the analysis of biological impurities associated with peri-eucharistic phenomena. [PDF]
Grzybowski T +12 more
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Dextrocardia Situs Solitus: A Reflection on Life, Loss, and the Unyielding Currents of Belief. [PDF]
Ashinze P.
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