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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Three Philosophical Premises of Religious Tolerance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
My contention is to adumbrate three general premises leading to religious tolerance. The first is that emphasis should be laid much more on ethics than on metaphysics.
Waloszczyk, Konrad
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Skeptical Theism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Skeptical theism is a family of responses to the evidential problem of evil. What unifies this family is two general claims. First, that even if God were to exist, we shouldn’t expect to see God’s reasons for permitting the suffering we observe.
Perrine, Timothy, Wykstra, Stephen
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

A comparative study of nurses’ competencies in integrating religion/spirituality into patient care

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research
Background There is a need of research to evaluate and compare the competencies of nurses in integrating patients’ religion and spirituality into nursing practice in various settings, including general and psychiatric hospitals.
Jamileh Farokhzadian   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The relationships between religion/spirituality and Mental and Physical Health: A review [PDF]

open access: yesDisease and Diagnosis, 2016
Religion and spirituality are usually considered as protective factors against a host of negative health outcomes. Recent surveys have documented several associations between religion/spirituality and physical and mental health outcomes.
Fazilat Pour Ashouri   +4 more
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Trust in Others: Does Religion Matter? [PDF]

open access: yes
Though the recent literature offers intuitively appealing bases for, and evidence of a linkage between religious beliefs, religious participation and economic outcomes, evidence on a relationship between religion and trust is mixed.
Joseph Daniels, Marc von der Ruhr
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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Psychology and Religion

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 1998
Religion is a pervasive and influential phenomenon in the lives of m y people. Instances of religious behavior are easily found in almost all societies and cultures of the world.
Amber Haque
doaj   +1 more source

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