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ORLAN Revisited: Disembodied Virtual Hybrid Beauty [PDF]

, 2013
I argued in 2000 that the French artist ORLAN may have moved away from her Reincarnation performances toward her Self-Hybridizations because she thought that in the latter she would be more transparently obvious in meaning and less frequently ...
Weiser, Peg Zeglin Brand
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Maternal Paradox: When Nurturer Meets the Knife, Living Organ Donation From Daughters to Mothers in Türkiye

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article uses the case of living organ donation from daughters to mothers in Türkiye to examine how maternal subjectivities are constructed, enacted, and transformed within specific cultural contexts. In Türkiye, motherhood is both culturally idealized and politically reinforced as the moral core of womanhood.
Sezen Demirhan, İlknur Gürses Köse
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Metamps(i)pirical: Believing in Reincarnation with Reason as a Cyclical ‘Lie’ in Halef

Filmvisio
Throughout history, humanity has questioned the meaning of its existence and sought different answers to these questions. Every living thing will taste death one day, and the mind can sometimes leave people helpless despite death and the vastness of the ...
Aleyna Zaim
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A New Outlook on the Birth of Philosophy in Greece and India. Seaford, R. (2020). The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India. A Historical Comparison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sententiae, 2020
The article provides a brief description of the main theses of Richard Seaford's new book. I criticize some of these theses. In particular, there are doubts that the common characteristics and chronological proximity of the origin of philosophy in ...
Sergii Shevtsov
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"God Is Infinite, and the Paths to God Are Infinite": A Reconstruction and Defense of Sri Ramakrishna's Vijñana-Based Model of Religious Pluralism [PDF]

, 2017
This article argues that contemporary philosophers have unduly ignored Sri Ramakrishna’s pioneering views on religious pluralism. The Bengali mystic Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) taught the harmony of all religions on the basis of his own spiritual ...
Maharaj, Ayon
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What makes you not a Buddhist? : a preliminary mapping of values [PDF]

, 2012
This study sets out to establish which Buddhist values contrasted with or were shared by adolescents from a non-Buddhist population. A survey of attitude toward a variety of Buddhist values was fielded in a sample of 352 non-Buddhist schoolchildren aged ...
Adamson J., Andolina M. W., Assanangkornchai S., Banks J. A., Berliner D. C., Brewer J. D., Carnap R., Chakravarti S. S., Chamorro-Premuzic T., Choompolpaisal P., Clifford J., Clifford J., Cohen L., Cooper C., Crosby K., Cush D., De Silva P., Delmonico N., Denzin N. K., Erickson F., Fane R. S., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Furlong J., Garrison J. W., Glaser B. G., Glock C. Y., Hartas D., Hofstede G., Hood R. W., Hubbard J., Jackson R., Jackson R., Kay W. K., Kelly G. J., Kemp S., Khyentse D. J., Kluckhohn C., Loundon S., Loundon S., Maltby J., Pennington D., Phra Nicholas Thanissaro, Popper K. R., Pupatana S., Qualifications and Curriculum Authority [QCA], Rogers P., Scotton B. W., Smart N., Smart N., Smith D. L., Smith W. C., SPSS Inc, Thananart M., Thanissaro P. N., Thanissaro P. N., Thanissaro P. N., Thanissaro P. N., Thanissaro P. N., Tooley J., Tori C. D., Wallace B. A.   +64 more
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From Populism to Fascism? On Our Present‐Time Political Categories

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the global rise of far‐right governments, two categories are available to describe this aspect of our current times: populism and fascism. This raises a twofold question: analytically, which is the most accurate to describe these authoritarian governments?
Federico Tarragoni
wiley   +1 more source

Sadhana as a Tapas [PDF]

, 2009
Indian and Classical Greek philosophical traditions both recommend that we structure our lives around the performance of certain kinds of actions as daily and regular habits. Under some circumstances and for some individuals, this means merely doing what
Piper, Adrian M. S.
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Why Are Young Men Increasingly Drawn to Christianity? A Study of Finnish Young Men

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent surveys in the Global North suggest a possible reversal in established gender patterns of religiosity, with young men increasingly engaging with Christianity. This study examines this development in Finland, a highly secular country, drawing on qualitative individual and small‐group interviews with 30 men attracted to Christianity.
Kati Tervo‐Niemelä, Pietari Hannikainen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reincarnation in the Speech of Aristophanes

Revista de Filosofia Antiga
This article examines Aristophanes’ speech in Plato’s Symposium, focusing on its myth of humanity’s division and the search for wholeness. Traditional interpretations view the myth either as a folktale (Dover) or as a tragic denial of true fulfillment ...
Ryan Christensen
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