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Huwelik en huweliksrolle in Afrikaanse kultuur- en kerklike konteks
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013 Marriage and marital roles in the Afrikaans cultural and religious context. The article investigates women’s socialization in terms of their position in society and the church, and their roles in the marriage relationship.
Annelie Botha, Yolanda Dreyer
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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Abuse in the church? A social constructionist challenge to pastoral ministry
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013 The article focuses on abusive practices in the faith community. It indicates that abusive behaviour is more often than not unintentional and is ostensibly driven by a zeal for God and the church.
Rosemaré A. Visser, Yolanda Dreyer
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When Urgency Drops: Temporal Consciousness and the Choreography of Dying
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the hospital, the transition from fighting for life to preparing for death involves not only a shift in medical repertoires but also a profound transformation in temporal experience. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Canadian intensive care unit, this article examines how the tempo of care, its rhythms, urgencies, and pauses shapes ...
Louise Chartrand
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Pedoseksualiteit as manifestasie van afwykende seksualiteit: ’n Kerklike en pastorale uitdaging
In die Skriflig, 2013 Die fokus van hierdie artikel is om aan te toon dat pedoseksualiteit en pedofilie ’n uitdaging aan die pastoraat en die kerk stel. Nie net in Suid-Afrika nie, maar ook internasionaal is pedoseksuele gedrag ’n wydverspreide probleem.
Stella D. Potgieter, George A. Lotter
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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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(Un)threading Rhythms: On Affect and Vibe in a Rave
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Toronto, raves arise across large nightclubs, DIY venues and outdoors, despite changing regulations that have further arranged and narrowed their possibility in the past 4 years. Following a rave in Toronto, this work explores ways that potentialities and affects emerge in a single night, through my entry of taking part in dancing and ...
Tatiana Yunadi
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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Scientific Authorship Through the Lens of Parenthood
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
Pierpaolo Nicolì +3 more
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