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Therapeutic aQompaniments: Walking together in hypnotherapy—and ethnography
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic data collected over 16 months of fieldwork with Indonesian hypnotherapists, this article investigates the suitability of different relationalities for providing therapeutic care. Clinical literature often advocates the merits of self‐hypnosis over hetero‐hypnosis, while anthropologists express skepticism regarding ...
Nicholas J. Long
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Abstract During fieldwork among older adults in middle‐class families in the city of Bhaktapur (2018–2019), I recurrently came across comparative narratives of moral decline, depicting a stark contrast between the present time and a mythical past where ageing parents were treated “as gods.” In this paper, I analyze how, through acts of comparisons ...
Paola Tinè
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Contested parenting and its affective economies: A commentary
Abstract In stringing together the fine‐grained ethnographic studies that comprise this special issue of Ethos, “Contested Parenting. Experts, Audiences, Selves,” our commentary is designed to go beyond the micro‐setting of daily routines to the emotional entanglements of family relationships within wider economic and political networks. Calling on the
Claudia Fonseca
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Gnostic Metaphysics in the Dynamics of Foxian Light and the Reunion of the Soul with God
This paper analyses prior scholarship surrounding the emphasis upon, and interpretation of, the moral and ethical dynamic within the Light theology of George Fox, and advances it by suggesting a metaphysical approach which is remarkably similar to that ...
Reynolds, Glen
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Moral Theology in the Ruins: Introducing a New Journal
The establishment of this Journal of Moral Theology has as its aim to provide a solid grounding for critical discussion in order to navigate the modern moral issues in a fractured cultural and intellectual landscape, willing to interact with other ...
David Matzko McCarthy
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Parenting as contested practice between experts, audiences, and selves: An introduction
Abstract Interrogating what constitutes “good parenting” captures and reflects multiple debates within and across different societies, milieus, and power constellations. In this Special Issue, Contested Parenting. Experts, Audiences, Selves, we bring together seven articles and a commentary that tackle how people move through the labyrinth of diverse ...
Heike Drotbohm, Konstanze N'Guessan
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