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A man of his time: Joseph Leidy, racial science, and American anatomy

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Professor Joseph Leidy M.D. was arguably the most influential anatomist in the nineteenth‐century United States, having written over 500 publications and serving as the first President of the Association of American Anatomists. While many of Leidy's diverse contributions to American science and medicine are well‐known, scholars have said much ...
Christopher D. E. Willoughby
wiley   +1 more source

Manioc beer and the Word of God : faces of the future in Makuma, Ecuador [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
How can anthropologists describe the relationship between Christian and Amazonian ontologies? Based on a 13 months-long fieldwork, this ethnography of the Evangelical mission town of Makuma in lowland Ecuador describes the relationship between the ...
Cova, Victor
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Debunking Divine Command Theory

open access: yesReligions, 2023
The divine command theory holds that morality finds its origin in God or that God is somehow closely connected to morality. Many people across the world hold a related, though different belief that Religious belief is required for proper moral behavior ...
Hans Van Eyghen
doaj   +1 more source

Of People And Their Gods

open access: yes, 2020
The four main elements in this study are the village deities, the communities that worship them and the two organizations that provide the institutional framework for such a worship – the ‘mahājan’ and the ‘gāṁvkārī’; it is the juxtaposition of these four elements that yields the information about the people.
openaire   +1 more source

The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Being in encounter : toward a post-critical theology of knowledge of God for persons with intellectual disabilities : with special reference to Karl Barth's 'Church dogmatics' III:2 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This study is an exercise in understanding both doctrinally and pastorally the nature of knowledge of God for persons with intellectual disabilities. Its central question is: “How might one know the Word of God without words?” At present, no extended ...
Demmons, Tracy Allison
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Educational pathways and outcomes for care‐experienced children: A 16‐year longitudinal study

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children who are removed from their birth families during childhood—termed care‐experienced—can be at risk for lower educational attainment and poorer school experiences, often linked to deprivation and behavioural factors. However, research often uses aggregated measures that obscure the complexities of care (e.g.
Emily Lowthian   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

God and the Problems of Love

open access: yes, 2023
This Element looks first at God and then divine love within the Abrahamic traditions. The author discusses the kind of love each tradition asks of humans and wonders, given recent work in the relevant cognitive and social sciences, if such love is even ...
Clark, Kelly James, James Clark, Kelly
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Talking about God or Talking about Faith

open access: yesBogoslovska Smotra
In the article, the author points out the difference between speaking »about God«, speaking about faith, and believing. Man is similar to God in his ability to communicate. From the beginning of mankind until today, there is talk about God.
Mari Jože Osredkar
doaj   +1 more source

How do secondary schools in England talk about modern languages? A corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of school websites

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Situating the study within an ecological perspective on language education, this article examines how secondary schools in England present Modern Languages (MLs) on official school websites. Focusing on 44 schools in Local Authorities with the lowest percentage average entry for the Languages pillar of the EBacc, we built a text database ...
Zhu Hua, Yunpeng Du, Elin Arfon
wiley   +1 more source

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