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Floral Images of Modern Kalmyk Lyrics: English Translation in the Aspect of Imagology
The article views the semantics of the floral image ‘red tulip’ from the perspective of imagology, delineating — through English translations — its symbolic character and additional motifs, including those of reincarnation and memory.
Ekaterina A. Shkurskaya
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Buddhism and Animal Ethics [PDF]
This article provides a philosophical overview of some of the central Buddhist positions and argument regarding animal welfare. It introduces the Buddha's teaching of ahiṃsā or non-violence and rationally reconstructs five arguments from the context of ...
Finnigan, Bronwyn
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Reincarnating the Identity Theory [PDF]
The mind/brain identity theory is often thought to be of historical interest only, as it has allegedly been swept away by functionalism. After clarifying why and how the notion of identity implies that there is no genuine problem of explaining how the mental derives from something else, we point out that the identity theory is not necessarily a mind ...
Myin, Erik, Zahnoun, Farid
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While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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Book Review: No Other Gods: Christian Belief in Dialogue with Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam [PDF]
A review of No Other Gods: Christian Belief in Dialogue with Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam by Hendrik ...
Nelson, Lance E.
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Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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An anatomy of worldmaking: Sukarno and anticolonialism from post‐Bandung Indonesia
Abstract This article analyzes the anticolonial worldmaking of postcolonial Indonesia's first president Sukarno, during Guided Democracy (1959–1965). Using worldmaking as a conceptual interface, the article offers three interconnected interventions.
Say Jye Quah
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Religious policy and state control in Tibet : Scottish Parliament cross-party group on Tibet, briefing paper 3 [PDF]
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Mills, Martin, Scrimgeour, Ronald
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ABSTRACT Developmental psychology continues to shape how adults engage with children about death and dying. This influences whether children are included in rituals surrounding human and other‐than‐human bodies. Figurations of the innocent, immature and vulnerable child still dominate adult imaginaries of young children's understandings of mortality ...
Karin Murris +2 more
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Belief in Reincarnation and Some Unresolved Questions in Catholic Eschatology
Mainstream Christianity has always rejected reincarnation teaching in all its varieties, e.g., Greco-Roman, Albigensian, Hindu, Buddhist, New Age, etc.
Bradley Malkovsky
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