When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract We write and read ethnography in the wake of time passing: a fact that has long thrown up a host of epistemological and ethical issues for the doing of anthropology. In this essay I revisit this classic problem—the problem of the ethnographic present—asking what happens when we rethink the relationship between ‘the present’ and ‘presence’, the
Michael Edwards
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The journey through disruptive loss and transformational gain: a co-creative single case study on writing and publishing after psychosis. [PDF]
Philos Ethics Humanit MedBrijs E +3 more
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Review Article of Mourad, Suleiman Ali. 'Early Islam between Myth and History: Al-Hasan al-Basri (d. 110H/728CE) and the Formation of His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship' [PDF]
, 2009 Shah, Mustafa
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract This paper develops the concept of ontological resilience through an ethnographic study of a Sufi‐inspired rural community in southwestern Türkiye. Based on eight months of fieldwork, it examines how resilience is enacted not as a technical adaptation but as an ethical and spiritual practice of living with vulnerability.
Özge Can Doğmuş
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Unveiling the Multifaceted Nature of Spirituality: Assessing the Dimensions of the Spirituality Inventory in the Turkish Context-A Preliminary Adaptation and Validity Reliability Study. [PDF]
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Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom
Teaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
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Expanding the scope of "trans-humanism": situating within the framework of life and death education - the importance of a "trans-mystical mindset". [PDF]
Front PsycholPhan HP, Ngu BH, Hsu CS, Chen SC, Wu L.
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Paul Russell: the transcendentalist surgeon of America. [PDF]
Front Transplant, 2023 Abdi R.
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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From "mind-matter" duality to "body-situation" mechanism -the phenomenology of the body on how shaman soul retrieval heals the sick. [PDF]
Philos Ethics Humanit MedFeng K, Yang M.
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