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Sinister Bees and Desperate Pleas: Hittite Incantation Prayers

open access: yesAsia Anteriore Antica
The tablet collections from Ḫattuša-Bogazköy contain a significant body of Hittite prayer literature. Particularly notable are personal prayers, arkuwar, made by Hittite rulers to the gods for support in historical contexts.
Billie Jean Collins, Giulia Torri
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Prayers of the 6–10 Cathismata in the Old Russian Psalters [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарии
This article examines 29 Psalters of the 13th–16th centuries in the context of Old Russian liturgical writing: horologions, liturgical collections, etc., as well as the old-printed Psalter.
Anton V. Shchepetkin, deacon
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Water Governance Under International Pressure: Policy Narratives, Food Security, Scarcity, and the Politics of Survival in Iran

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Water governance is increasingly influenced by a paradox at the nexus of environmental scarcity and food security. Escalating water scarcity crises coincide with geopolitical disruptions that have exposed the fragility of global food supply chains, prompting states to expand domestic food production at the expense of water conservation ...
Alireza Raisi
wiley   +1 more source

Is Prayer CAM?

open access: yesThe Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2009
Alternative medicine researchers and policy makers have classified prayer as a mind-body intervention, and thus, a modality of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). As such, numerous epidemiological surveys of CAM utilization-which have included prayer-depict increasing CAM use, particularly in specific racial and ethnic groups.This paper ...
Kim, Tippens   +2 more
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Aftasten/Tantear: A sensorial, coalitional wayfinding among Muslim runners

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Muslim recreational runners in Muslim‐minority settings that take up running as their preferred form of leisure indicate that they feel they have to navigate a sense of exclusion when running outdoors. This article explores the process of exploration and sensing in public, represented by the Dutch verb aftasten, to investigate the way Muslim ...
Jasmijn Rana
wiley   +1 more source

Sermons and prayers, 1991

open access: yes, 2019
Five sermons and prayers by history professor David L. Smiley: "The worshipping community and the word," "Presby prayer breakfast," "Brookridge," "Promise and fulfillment," and "Luke 11:1-13.

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Who is a responsible woman? Understanding the scope and characteristics of responsible womanhood amongst women in Karachi

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we will construct and analyze intersecting definitions of womanhood among middle‐class women living in Karachi, Pakistan. Women are agents of their lives and are not passive voices. In this paper, we present narratives of women who resist “societal” narratives of womanhood to live a life of their choosing.
Urooba Ahmed Fatima   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Die voorkoms en betekenis van gebede in die Ou Testament

open access: yesIn die Skriflig, 1997
In this article the most important elements of prayers in the Old Testament are used to serve as indicators for our present-day prayers. The key words and phrases for prayer in the Old Testament are discussed, while the form and contents of prayers in
E. J. Smit
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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
wiley   +1 more source

Sermons and prayers

open access: yes, 2019
14 sermons and prayers by history professor David L. Smiley: "Almighty God, God of our fathers, we offer our prayer to thee...", "The brazen serpent," "Christian education," "Church jokes," "David's covenant," "The eagle speech," "Forgiveness and folly,"

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