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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT From its very inception, the Jewish National Movement Hibbat Zion turned to the collective past to advance its goals in the present. One of their activities was to reinterpret Jewish holidays and festivals, especially those that did not take a central place in the Jewish calendar.
Asaf Yedidya
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The Living Dead: An Interpretation of the Metaphor of Death in Daoist Inner Alchemy
ReligionsThis article explores the metaphor of death in Qing 清 Dynasty Daoist inner alchemy (neidan 內丹) scriptures, which require practitioners to consider themselves dead or living dead, and argues that this metaphor of death can be traced back to the ...
Qiongke Geng
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The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
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Rebirth narratives, as a unique literary phenomenon, have recently garnered significant attention in literary studies both domestically and internationally. Through protagonists’ rebirth experiences, these novels explore themes of identity reconstruction
Yan, Deng, Liu, Guanbao, Ya, Zhou
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, 2000 The main themes of Paedagogus include the significance of rebirth and the childhood of the people of God and the divine paideia or character formation.
John Behr
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
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On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human: Two Meditations
Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and EthnicityIn the Western history of ideas, light is conventionally associated with concepts such as rebirth, innovation, and creativity—exemplified by eras like the Enlightenment.
Wilson Kwamogi Okello
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