Introduction: Measuring Religiosity and Multi‐Religiosity in East and West
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The introduction to the spotlight set of research notes that are based on the Global East Survey of Religion and Spirituality briefly explains why we believe it is necessary to develop new measures of religiosity, the process of developing the questionnaire, and the key findings in this set of research notes, including the common phenomenon of
Fenggang Yang
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Excess of death and the experiential disruption of death and mourning rituals during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa. [PDF]
Med HumanitNunez Carrasco L, Lewins KR, Cooper S.
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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
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Determinants of HPV vaccination decision-making among South Asian mothers for their adolescent daughters in Hong Kong: A mixed methods study. [PDF]
Asia Pac J Oncol NursLee PPK, Chan DNS, So WKW.
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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
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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
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Towards an understanding of the impact of micro- and macro-manifestations of religiosity on climate change risk perception: a cross-national study. [PDF]
Front PsycholSaunders R, Pomati M, Pidgeon N.
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The Analogia Entis for Reformed Theology: Retrieving Calvin's Implicit Metaphysics
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The famous controversy between Emil Brunner and Karl Barth which led to Barth's ‘No!’ was driven by disagreements over how to read John Calvin: Barth and Brunner never agreed on whether Calvin had a doctrine of the analogy of being. This article rekindles the debate.
Silvianne Aspray
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Diminished Anthropometric Measures and Other Associated Variables in a Sample of Violent Offenders: A Case-Control Study. [PDF]
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