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Sacred and profane kriya in the island of Bali

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences
This article examines Balinese kriya’s development from sacred to profane. This research is qualitative research with a historical approach. The results show that the presence of past works cannot be separated from the purpose of the religious offering ...
I Ketut Sunarya, Ismadi
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Enabling pandemic‐resilient healthcare: Narrowband Internet of Things and edge intelligence for real‐time monitoring

open access: yesCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) in deploying robotic sprayers for pandemic‐associated disinfection and monitoring has garnered significant attention in recent research. The authors introduce a novel architectural framework designed to interconnect smart monitoring robotic devices within healthcare facilities using narrowband Internet of Things ...
Md Motaharul Islam   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Problem With Efficiency as a Pervasive Principle in Business School Academia, and What a Sufficiency‐Based Approach Can Do Better

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Efficiency is a pervasive yet insufficiently challenged managerial principle and an integral part of business school academia. However, while there is compelling evidence that efficiency gains can have severe undesirable social and ecological consequences that reduce overall welfare both in terms of well‐being and natural resources, business ...
Stephan M. Schaefer, Christopher Wickert
wiley   +1 more source

Civil and/or laic religions

open access: yesAnthropological Researches and Studies, 2016
Objective. In postmodern culture, individuals explore ways to orient their worlds by a certain “invisible” religiosity, which penetrates throughout the so-called secular societies.
Maria Serafimova
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Семантика ДОРОГИ во фразеологии славянских языков: соотношение сакрального и профанного

open access: yesOpera slavica, 2016
The paper deals with the ratio of the sacred to the profane in the semantic evolution and phraseological interpretation of the ROAD by means of Russian, Ukrainian and Czech languages.
Alla Archangel'skaja
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L’EXIL DE LA « RELIGION » CHEZ CAMUS [PDF]

open access: yesStudii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Romanice, 2008
Cet ouvrage se propose de « restituer » à l’œuvre et au système de pensée de l’existentialiste Camus la dimension chrétienne qu’il a tant niée. Au-delà de son nihilisme acharné et de son attachement aux valeurs concrètes de cette humaine condition ...
Crina-Magdalena ZARNESCU
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Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
wiley   +1 more source

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