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Plants, people and their shared heritage: A comparative medicinal and wild food ethnobotany of Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians living in the Gjirokaster area, southern Albania

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Traditional knowledge about wild plants connects people to nature and sustains both cultural identity and biodiversity. This study explores how cultural exchange among Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians in southern Albania shapes the use and naming of medicinal and food plants.
Evanthia Dina, Ani Bajrami, Mousaab Alrhmoun, Naji Sulaiman, Konstantinos Ntinas, Marjol Meço, Bledar Pulaj, Nektarios Aligiannis, Avni Hajdari, Andrea Pieroni   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Covenant Refractions in Everyday Devotion

African Christian Theology
A book review essay of The Covenant’s Veil:   Ethiopian Orthodox Tradition of Elaboration, by Alexandra Sellassie Antohin, Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought (New York:   Fordham University Press, 2025).
Nebeyou A. TEREFE
doaj   +1 more source

Orthodox Christianity and Gender [PDF]

, 2019
The Orthodox Christian tradition has all too often been sidelined in conversations around contemporary religion. Despite being distinct from Protestantism and Catholicism in both theology and practice, it remains an underused setting for academic inquiry

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An Islamic Perspective on the Sustainable Development Goals: Exploring Key Challenges From the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Projects are typically viewed as mechanisms for delivering products and services; however, this study examines projects from the distinct perspective of grand challenges (GCs). The selected case is the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project in Lahore, Pakistan—a grand challenge project (GCP).
Rehab Iftikhar, Syed Nayyer Abbas Kazmi
wiley   +1 more source

Christianization of Kalmyks in Semirechye and Its Consequences

Oriental Studies, 2022
Introduction. In the process of territorial expansion, Imperial Russia was seeking to implement internal policies, including that of Christianization.
Orazgul H. Muhatova, Ziyabek E. Kabuldinov, Nurgul N. Kurmanalina, Zhanymkhan Oshan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Why Does Individualism Affect Economic Development: Is It Values, Policies, or Institutions?

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A substantial body of literature highlights the positive roles of individualism and economic freedom in fostering prosperity, and recent work links the two. This paper disentangles their contributions to economic development. In cross‐country data, we show that both are independently associated with per capita income, even after extensive ...
Lewis S. Davis, Claudia Williamson Kramer   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Woman in Priesthood” in Orthodox Judaism and Orthodox Christianity

Forum Theologicum Sardicense
Magdalena Kraycheva, “Woman in Priesthood” in Orthodox Judaism and Orthodox Christianity. The article focuses on the issue of ‘woman and priesthood relations’ in contemporary Orthodox Judaism and Orthodox Christianity.
Магдалена Ю. Крайчева
doaj   +1 more source

The psychometric properties of the Slovenian translation of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity : a study among Roman Catholic undergraduate students [PDF]

, 2008
In order to contribute to a growing international research programme concerned with the correlations, antecedents and consequences of individual differences in attitude toward religion, the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity was translated ...
Flere, Sergej, Robbins, Mandy, Klanjsek, Rudi, Francis, Leslie J.   +3 more
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Goffman's Tempting the Devil in Stigma: A Close Rereading of Goffman's “Subversive” Construct of “the Normals” Versus “the Stigmatized”

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article engages in a close rereading of Stigma, relating it to Goffman's biography as a person who faced stigma. Exploring his biography helps us to recognize the ways Goffman applies stigma strategies in how he represents himself as the author in Stigma.
Thaddeus Müller
wiley   +1 more source

Nuclear Weapons and In-Group Moral Reasoning: The Case of Orthodox Christianity

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
Are nuclear weapons moral? The contemporary ban movement asserts that they are not, and a common view prevails that even if possession for deterrence can be accepted, there is a taboo against the use of nuclear weapons.
Christopher Ferrero
doaj   +1 more source