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Ritual Reform and Ritual Behavior
Traditiones, 2012 The article focuses on the complex question of continuity and change as exemplified by ritual policies and ritual practices during the Lutheran reformation in 16th century Denmark-Norway. Thematically the article concentrates on matrimony and funeral.
Arne Bugge Amundsen
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Password Policy Purgatory [PDF]
IEEE Internet Computing, 2008 IT system users, (all of us), and administrators, (increasingly large numbers of us), must all manage some passwords. In this article, the author reviews some issues related to password policies and concludes that managing passwords, in any sensible manner, is becoming more and more of a nuisance for users, a factor that should be to the forefront when
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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Counting half-shekels – Redeeming souls? in 2 Maccabees 12:38–45
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018 This article deals with a highly debated text, namely 2 Maccabees 12, specifically the problematic verses (38–45) which contain a theology that is distinctly non-Jewish in import. Indeed, most recent scholars concerned with this passage do not seem to be
Nicholas P.L. Allen, Pierre J. Jordaan
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Blankness in post‐post‐postmodern poetry
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Jameson's “myth” identifies reification as the leading cause of cultural change. The myth also adumbrates the semiotic form of post‐postmodernism and post‐post‐postmodernism, which Jameson himself did not explore. One of the most extreme varieties of post‐post‐postmodern verse is the would‐be blank poem, pursued by Russian Futurists, Lettrists,
Shawn Normandin
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Figure femminili di santità nella Commedia di Dante
Cahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2021 The article gives a survey of the holy and blessed women mentioned by Dante in his Comedy. Some women have strong structural functions: it is the case of Beatrice, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Lucy.
Giuseppe Ledda
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Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.Abstract Background Brief mindfulness‐based interventions (MBIs) are shorter and less intensive than standard 8‐week courses and could provide health and well‐being benefits to participants while requiring fewer resources to implement at scale. However, brief MBIs are typically developed ad hoc and lack a clear rationale for the components they include.
Kelly Birtwell +3 more
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How Theists Can Answer the “Why be Moral?” Question: An Indirect Reason‐Generation Account
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, I give a new type of theistic answer to the “Why be moral?” question. After briefly clarifying the version of the question I'm concerned with, as well as extant theistic answers to the question, I argue for a new kind of answer. Roughly, while on standard answers, future (post death) benefits directly generate present reason to ...
Justin Morton
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e-Hum: Revista das Áreas de Humanidade do Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte, 2020 eoi/doi Deposit-Electronic Object Identifier http://eoi.citefactor.org/10.11248/ehum.v13i1.3090 The iconography of Souls and Purgatory: a re-reading bibliographic and some examples.
Adalgisa Arantes Campos
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Restoring the Deformed Administrative State? Bureaucratic Repair After Illiberal Rule
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While scholarship has documented how populist and authoritarian‐leaning executives deform bureaucratic institutions, post‐illiberal reconstruction has only begun to receive attention. This paper develops an exploratory framework distinguishing four repair strategies (neutralizing, rectifying, balancing, and democratic hardening) and two repair
Michael W. Bauer +3 more
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