From Occupational Stigma to Mukti: Liberation, Place, and Agency Among Sex Workers in Sonagachi
ABSTRACT This article examines how former sex workers in Sonagachi, Kolkata, India, navigate occupational and place‐based stigma through spiritual repertoires, of which mukti (liberation) is a central tool. Drawing on critical, embedded ethnography across three fieldwork periods (2001, 2011, and 2019) with long‐term engagement in the Freeset community,
Edwina Pio +3 more
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Anti-COVID-19 Vaccine Narratives Among African and North American Neo-Pentecostals (Part 2): Public Health Impacts and Theological Response to Leadership Gaps and Lessons. [PDF]
Orogun D.
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Anthropogenic factors such as artificial lighting at night (ALAN) and natural factors including temperature and moonlight can affect the dawn chorus pattern in birds. However, most studies are conducted in temperate regions. We investigated the effect of anthropogenic and natural factors on dawn chorus timing in eight species of bird across Hong Kong ...
Ann W. Y. To, Sarah A. Collins
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Impossible futures and the ethics of hopelessness: learnings from Black liberation system entanglements part III. [PDF]
Udoewa V.
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Abstract Although sustainability has been championed in management education for over 25 years, its integration remains uneven, fragile and contested. Existing literature mirrors this fragmentation—often descriptive, celebratory or narrowly focused, offering limited insight into the organisational processes that shape integration.
Simona Grande +3 more
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University students' awareness of the social dimension of sustainable transportation: The case of Amasya/Turkey. [PDF]
Şendoğdu S, Nergiz C.
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Theological Doctrines as Scientific Theories? Thinking along with and beyond McGrath
Abstract McGrath's recent analysis of the parallels between scientific theory formation and the development of theological doctrine in The Nature of Christian Doctrine (OUP, 2024) is insightful and largely compelling, but also raises some questions and areas for further exploration. First, there is a remarkable back‐and‐forth between uses of ‘doctrine’
Gijsbert van den Brink
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Anti-COVID-19 Vaccine Narratives Among African and North American Neo-Pentecostals (Part 1): Evidence, Causes and Lessons. [PDF]
Orogun D.
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics
Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
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Traditional Islam in Kazakhstan: historical formation, state discourse, and contemporary challenges. [PDF]
Kerim S, Kurmanaliyev M.
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