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Simeon the God-Receiver (Luke 2:21–35) as a Translator of the Septuagint: Investigating the Sources of a Popular Hagiographic Legend in Orthodox Christianity

open access: yesReligions
The legend of the old man Simeon, who received Jesus in his arms and was one of the Septuagint translators, is almost unknown in Western Christianity but is very popular today among Orthodox Christians.
Constantin Horia Oancea
doaj   +1 more source

Social and historical aspects of the assimilation of Christianity in Southeast Asia from 1500-1900 with reference to Thailand and the Philippines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Though many have attempted to address the complexities of the encounter between Christianity and non-western societies, the literature has not dealt much with Southeast Asia.
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas
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Staying in the Unknown: Avoidance of Genetic Testing in Families With Hereditary Cancer Syndromes—A Qualitative Study

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims To explore the experiences and challenges associated with genetic testing decisions among untested individuals from hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) or Lynch syndrome (LS) families. Design Qualitative descriptive study. Methods Semi‐structured telephone interviews were conducted between 2022 and 2024 with 56 untested at‐risk ...
Ronit G. Tsemach   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

God and the World: Panentheism in Modern Orthodox Christianity

open access: yesZygon
Panentheism is an unsettling and controversial notion in modern Orthodox Christianity. Some Orthodox theologians explicitly identify themselves as panentheists, while others reject panentheism as incompatible with Orthodox tradition.
Paul Ladouceur
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“Why?”: C. Wright Mills on the Spirit of the Classical Sociological Tradition and Positivist Versus Critical Sociology

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite their very diverse interests, the classical sociological thinkers were concerned with analyzing the dramatic social transformations in the wake of colonialism, slavery, and modern industrial capitalism as well as the multiple revolutions, particularly in relation to the new forms of social inequalities and power disparities.
Zaheer Baber
wiley   +1 more source

The passage to immortality: an anthropological insight into an Orthodox hagiorite monastic community [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
In order to convey the meaning of monastic life style in comparison to its lay context, the thesis will examine the monkish use of metaphors concerning secular images and relationships.
Coubarelis, Anargyros D.
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Can the subaltern speak through WhatsApp? Unearthing the labour/knowledge of digital methodologies

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Prompted by the challenges that Syrian refugees posed to a qualitative WhatsApp survey, this article dissects what researchers and research participants actually do when they ‘produce’ knowledge through digital methods such as WhatsApp. While many refugee participants saw the survey as an opportunity to express their views on social tensions ...
LEILA ULLRICH
wiley   +1 more source

Il ‘Patriarca verde’ Bartolomeo I: la missione eco-teologica e il rilancio dell’Ortodossia

open access: yesJoMaCC
Increasingly, religions are being called upon to rethink their positions in light of the issues raised by the current ecological crisis. This challenge particularly concerns Christianity, which is often regarded as the cultural progenitor of this ...
Gabrielli, Alfredo
doaj   +1 more source

Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means

open access: yesJournal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
wiley   +1 more source

Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley   +1 more source

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