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Revisiting the classics on secularization theory. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Gülalp H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
wiley   +1 more source

Psychometric Properties of the Dutch Surrender to God Scale: Relationships with Religious Behavior, God Representation, Well-being, and Health. [PDF]

J Relig Health
Seesink HJ, van Dusseldorp M, Ostafin BD, Schaap-Jonker H, Wiers RW.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
wiley   +1 more source

The longitudinal associations of material security and belief in God in young Americans. [PDF]

Evol Hum Sci
Lang M, Palíšek P, Chvaja R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Endangered indigenous knowledge: Assessing locally adopted tree conservation practices in Aleta Wondo district, Sidama regional state, Ethiopia. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2023
Kakiso T.
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Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract AI enables forms of automation that threaten unemployment and deskilling, eliminating important opportunities for the development of virtue. The concomitant loss of virtue and meaningful employment makes it a theological problem from the perspective of Catholic social teaching and theological anthropology.
Paul Scherz
wiley   +1 more source

Action-based explanations as a basis for the analysis and design of the social world. [PDF]

Br J Sociol
Maurer A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Austere Moral Ecologies and Artificial Agents

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract There are underappreciated moral costs for deploying artificially intelligent agents in our present bureaucratically and market‐structured world. Currently, AI systems lack the interiority and mutual vulnerability required for genuine moral relationality.
Manuel Vargas
wiley   +1 more source

Regulated religion, fading belief: how Indonesians' religiosity has quietly changed, 2000-2020. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Wardana A.
europepmc   +1 more source