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Religions, 2020 This article explores the role that local elites played in the development of the Mazu cult, a local goddess cult in Putian district in late imperial China. I argue that local elites were central in the promotion and transmission of the cult.
Yanchao Zhang
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NeuroTwister: Gamified learning to teach cross‐sectional neuroanatomy to medical students
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Neuroscience is a required course in many health professions curricula, but with it often comes neurophobia, the fear or difficulty that students experience when attempting to learn neuroscience. Traditional teaching methods in neuroanatomy may contribute to cognitive overload and stress, reinforcing the notion that neuroanatomy is ...
Cameron B. Jeter +3 more
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The Cult of St. Anthony in Lisbon and Viana do Castelo
ReligionsHis baptismal name, Fernando de Bulhões (1195–1231), may say little to many people, but his religious name, St. Anthony, certainly says a lot, especially to the Portuguese. In fact, the cult of St.
Pedro Pereira +2 more
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Tempestades y conjuros de las fuerzas naturales : aspectos mágico-religiosos de la cultura en la Alta Edad Moderna [PDF]
, 1991 El autor examina las actitudes de la religión oficial y la religión popular frente a la fenomenologia de las tempestades y sus distintas percepciones dentro de la cultura del Antiguo Régimen.The author examines the official and popular religion attitudes
Gelabertó Vilagrán, Martí
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Buddhism and modernity: in the margin of Donald S. Lopez Jr.’S “Buddhism and Science” [PDF]
, 2016 The present article aims at setting the issue of the relationship between Buddhism and science in a historical and philosophical frame wider than that took into account by the international scholarship so far.
LO TURCO, Bruno
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Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Anecdotally, educational institutions without access to human remains may choose to import these from other countries; however, there is currently no published information illuminating the existence of this trade. This study therefore aimed to document the nature of international transfer of human remains for education, and explore anatomists'
Jackie Hazelhurst +7 more
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, 2007 IS NATURE ENOUGH? TRUTH AND MEANING IN THE AGE OF SCIENCE by JOHN F. HAUGHT Cambridge University Press, 232 pages, $19.99 JOHN HAUGHT ASKS, "IS nature enough?"--which naturally elicits the question, "Enough for what?" Indeed, one ...
Liccione, Michael
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Revista Cultura & Religión, 2009 In the forty years of research socioantropológicas of Chilean Pentecostalism has been addressed under three main theoretical models that can be characterized as apocalyptic theories, culturalist and secularization. These theoretical models have docked to
Miguel Ángel Mansilla
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Narasimha, Lord of Transitions, Transformations, and Theater Festivals: God and Evil in Hindu Cosmology, Myth, and Practice [PDF]
, 2016 This paper focuses on the multi-faceted nature of the divine depicted in Narasimha and the unique perspectives on God and evil offered by the myths of Narasimha, which is also subliminally represented within the religious practice and performance ...
Vemsani, Lavanya
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