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ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
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Abstract This article reports on a qualitative study of the way instructors and students understand and respond to traumatizing events in a Sri Lankan university. It shows how the attitudes and practices in the society at large are carried over to classrooms even though local institutions do not have a programmatic trauma‐informed pedagogy.
Suresh Canagarajah +1 more
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The Image of the Dervish in the Poetry of Parvin Etesami: the Spiritual Ideal of the Poet
The article analyzes the image of a dervish, a character of traditional Sufi lyrics and didactics, that is a key image for poetry by Parvin Etesami (1907-1941).
T. A. Koshemchuk, M. L. Reysner
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The Moral Dimensions of Sufism and the Iberian Mystical Canon [PDF]
This study explores the shared spaces and common ground between the moral theosophies of Sufism and Christian mysticism in Spain. This article focuses on how Sufis, Carmelites and other mystical authors expressed spiritual concepts, establishing networks
Conde Solares, Carlos
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Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Metaphors of Wine, Cup and Tavern in Poetry of Rumi and Hafiz
Poetry is one of the most prominent spiritual genres of mystic literature. Most of the mystics have expressed their thoughts in poetry. Mystic poetry is replete with metaphors of “wine”, “cup”, “tavern” and “wine-bearer” although, in Islam, the use of ...
Dr. Amna Saeed , Madad Sabri
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Brilliance of a fire: innocence, experience and the theory of childhood [PDF]
This essay offers an extensive rehabilitation and reappraisal of the concept of childhood innocence as a means of testing the boundaries of some prevailing constructions of childhood.
Baker +76 more
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What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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The Redemptive Act of Reading: Richard Crashaw & the Teresean Liturgy [PDF]
The essay entitled “The Redemptive Act of Reading: Richard Crashaw and the Teresean liturgy” written by Alexandra Finn-Atkins is centered on Richard Crashaw’s trilogy of poems dedicated to the sixteenth century Saint Teresa of Ávila. The trilogy consists
Finn-Atkins, Alexandra
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Review of Fiona Black, The artifice of Love: Grotesque bodies and the song of songs:[book review] [PDF]
What do we presume when we read or hear a love poem? We presume that the depiction of the lovers will be flattering, surely? Even if the beloved is not described as beautiful by our own cultural standards or perhaps even those of the poet’s, the reader ...
Kelso, Julie-Anne
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