Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
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The influence of intergenerational support on the subjective wellbeing of the older population: the moderating effects of community environment and filial expectation. [PDF]
Zhao N, Zhu C.
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Reasons for the Commandments (Kabbalah)
This article delves into Kabbalistic rationales for the commandments, tracing their theological constructs since their origin in the late twelfth century. It highlights the four aspects of these rationales: theurgic, magical, mystical, and eschatological,
Leore Sachs-Shmueli
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Understanding and assessing personality across cultures: A scoping review. [PDF]
Sheppard H +3 more
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland
ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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"It Is Not Possible to Balance It Easily": A Phenomenological Study Exploring the Experience of Work-Family Conflict in Contemporary Chinese Society. [PDF]
Chen S, Cheng MI, Elqayam S, Scase M.
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Moral Assumptions in Causal Thought: Poverty and Perversity
ABSTRACT Causal attributions, framings, and ideas shape moral judgments. Sociologists have long highlighted these causality‐to‐morality processes, showing how causality underpins blame and moral responsibility. The reverse process of morality‐to‐causality, where moral assumptions influence causal attributions, has been studied less.
Lukas Posselt
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Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom
ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
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Exploring quality of death in Chinese hospice and palliative care units: a qualitative perspective from practitioners in healthcare settings. [PDF]
Cheng M +5 more
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Piety, Faith, and Spirituality in the Quest for the Historical Luther [PDF]
Grislis, Egil
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