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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Women played a key role in the founding of the Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) in 1944 and in providing its branch structure. The newly established LPA also sought to encourage women to join the party and to seek political office. This led the LPA to achieve most of the “firsts” for women in Australian politics and, for much of the 20th century, the ...
Blair Williams
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Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishment
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Religious establishment today often takes a multifaith form, whereby multiple religions are supported in different ways and to different degrees. In order to contribute to the development of a normative framework for assessing practices and regimes of multifaith establishment, this article recommends the concept of “social alienation ...
Andrew Shorten
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Reports of Non‐Physical Beings Assisting in Reiki Sessions
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The belief in non‐physical beings playing crucial roles in illness and healing is widespread across diverse cultures. Our previous study found reports of alleged non‐physical beings during energy medicine sessions. To evaluate the perceived presence and characteristics of non‐physical beings mentioned during Reiki sessions.
Helané Wahbeh +3 more
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The interplay between psychedelic use, mental health, and spiritual, religious, or ‘mystical’ experiences continues to be investigated through clinical research. While many studies focus on general mechanisms underlying these compounds, analysis of real‐life accounts from individuals is underrepresented.
Lisa L. Gezon, Kenton Bartlett
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Bioethical Issues as Triggers of Religious Transformation in Orthodox Christianity
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The advent of new biomedical technologies has given rise to an emerging area of sociocultural discourse. The sociocultural perception of these technologies is contingent upon a number of factors, including the prevailing attitudes within dominant religious traditions. Religious bioethics is fundamentally distinct from secular bioethics.
Roman Tarabrin
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Against Public‐Facing Religious Bio‐Restrictionism
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent calls to include religious bioethics on the table in policy and other public‐facing contexts have been made on the grounds of respect. This paper argues that these same considerations of respect point to an obligation to exclude religious bioethics from public‐facing contexts.
Anantharaman Muralidharan
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Well‐Being, Pain and the Mere‐Difference View of Disability
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I shall initially be discussing the term ‘disability’ in accordance with common‐sense intuition. The term itself is contested. But importantly for our discussion, on the mere‐difference view, Barnes attempts to philosophically define disability in conformity with what we ordinarily perceive to be disability day to day, and she does so by ...
James Forsdyke
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing upon a deprivationist account of the badness of death, Ingemar Patrick Linden advocates for a hypothetical state called “contingent immortality.” The future Linden champions is one in which every person would be able to live for as long as they would like, save for events like accidents or murder.
Andrew Moeller +2 more
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Gender‐inclusive language in midwifery and perinatal services: A guide and argument for justice
Birth, EarlyView.A recent focus in reproductive healthcare on “sexed language” reflects an ideology of unchangeable sex‐binary and fear of erasure, from both cisgender women and the profession of midwifery. In this paper, we highlight how privileging sexed language causes harm to all who birth—including pregnant cisgender women, trans, gender diverse, and non‐binary ...
Sally Pezaro +12 more
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