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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Popular Religion in Old Testament Research: Past, Present & Future

open access: yesTyndale Bulletin, 2003
The heightened interest in the study of popular religion in various disciplines has led to scholars giving it consideration in the field of biblical studies.
Jules Gomes
doaj   +1 more source

The Precious Scroll of the Blood Pond in the “Telling Scriptures” Tradition in Changshu, Jiangsu, China

open access: yesReligions, 2021
The Precious Scroll of the Blood Pond is a newly discovered manuscript (copied ca. 1993), used in the “telling scriptures” tradition in Changshu, which represents ritualized storytelling based on the vernacular narrative texts called “precious scrolls ...
Rostislav Berezkin
doaj   +1 more source

Christians’ Cut: Popular Religion and the Global Health Campaign for Medical Male Circumcision in Swaziland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Swaziland faces one of the worst HIV epidemics in the world and is a site for the current global health campaign in sub-Saharan Africa to medically circumcise the majority of the male population.
Golomski, Casey, Nyawo, Sonene
core   +2 more sources

Religion populaire et crise identitaire en Amérique latine

open access: yesAmerika, 2012
Popular religion is the religion of the people as against the clergy’s scholarly religion. In Latin America, Indian religions and the Catholic religion have often mingled in syncretic practices.
Jean-Louis Benoit
doaj   +1 more source

Narrative, postmodernity and the problem of "religious illiteracy" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
It is popular nowadays to claim not only that narrative is the most effective way to communicate religious knowledge but also that narrative provides the framework within which religious lifestyles and practices are meaningful.
Harrison, V.S.
core   +1 more source

Spiritual and Identity Transformations of Migrants: An Approach from the Experience of an Andean Community

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Understanding transformations in the spirituality of people involved in migration processes poses new challenges to theological approaches that usually operate within national or regional boundaries.
Jorge E. Castillo Guerra
doaj   +1 more source

Saints, Sacred Trees, and Snakes: Popular Religion, Hierotopy, Byzantine Culture, and Insularity in Cyprus during the Long Middle Ages

open access: yesReligions, 2021
The holiness of sacred spaces is expressed through the creative synthesis and performance of different symbolic or iconic elements. This article concentrates on the medieval church of Ayios Iakovos in Nicosia, Cyprus. Dedicated to Saint James the Persian,
Chrysovalantis Kyriacou
doaj   +1 more source

The antinomies of aggressive atheism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The spate of popular books attacking religion can be seen as a manifestation of the recoil against the idea of multiculturalism. Religious identities are also cultural identities, and no meaningful form of multiculturalism is possible that leaves ...
Wilde, L
core   +1 more source

O que os santos podem fazer pela antropologia?

open access: yesReligião e Sociedade, 2009
O artigo sustenta que os santos podem servir de eixo a uma abordagem mais etnográfica e radical da antropologia da religião. De praxe, essa subdisciplina está excessivamente pautada pelas concepções de apenas um tipo de nativos: teólogos, sacerdotes ...
Oscar Calavia Sáez
doaj   +1 more source

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