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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
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The Provenance of Silver in the Viking‐Age Hoard From Bedale, North Yorkshire
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The acquisition of silver was a key motive propelling the Viking expansion out of Scandinavia; identifying the sources of Viking silver during the early part of the Viking Age can provide critical insights into the relative significance of western European and eastern, Islamic wealth in the Viking expansion.
Jane Kershaw +5 more
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A Confucian Perspective on Public Health Ethics
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Debates in public health ethics have been dominated by the assumptions of Western liberalism: a priority given to liberty and autonomy over other values, an individualistic view of social ontology, a focus on personal responsibility, a minimal set of obligations (only created through consent), and a marginalization of social, cultural, and ...
Kathryn Muyskens, Angus Dawson
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Family, Food, Nation, and Economy: Attachment to China and the Return (or Not) of Chinese Graduate Students in the Sciences and Engineering [PDF]
, 2008 For our project we sought to identify the meanings that male graduate students in the sciences and engineering mobilize when making plans for after they graduate.
Romero, Jason C.
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The Euthyphro Dilemma, Assisted Dying, and a Virtue Ethics Approach to Autonomy
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Euthyphro dilemma highlights that accounts of moral value which are dependent on the decisions of agents either result in arbitrary values arising from agent's decisions, or accept external reasons to morally justify the value, making the agent's decisions unnecessary for explaining the resulting value.
Thomas Donaldson
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Caring for piety: doing Muslim among Hui people in contemporary China
Journal of Contemporary East Asia StudiesThis study examines how Hui Muslims have attempted to become pious Muslims under the influence of rapid social change and the Islamic revival in the post-Mao era, focusing on their practices of piety in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China.
Masashi Nara
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The Quest for Ethical Truth: Wang Yangming on the Unity of Knowing and Acting [PDF]
, 2017 Drawing an analogy between Wang Yangming’s endeavor to know ethical truth and Descartes’ quest for epistemic certainty, this paper proposes a reading of Wang\u27s doctrine of the unity of knowing and acting to the effect that the doctrine does not ...
SHI, Weimin
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‘The Heart of the Matter’: Grandparent Childcare in Contemporary Chinese Families
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Grandparent childcare is an international phenomenon, especially within families with children under 3 years old. China is no exception, as shown by a number of quantitative studies. Less clear is our understanding of the actual childcare arrangements involved and how these are negotiated and sustained through the intergenerational ...
Jiatong Ling +2 more
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管我们是因为爱我们 To Guan Us Is to Love Us: Understanding Guan Through Adolescent Perceptions
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how children interpret the practice of guan (Chinese parenting) within the home and its relationship to family language policy (FLP). The study involved nine adolescent participants from six families. Using a written reflective task, the study explores the attitudes of adolescents towards the practice of guan and its ...
Angie Baily +1 more
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Euthyphro and the Logic of Miasma [PDF]
, 2019 Euthyphro is a Socratic interlocutor claiming enormous religious expertise, while his portrayal in the eponymous dialogue raises questions the reliability of his beliefs.
Eckert, Maureen
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