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How Many Children in a Family? Fertility Ideals and Gender Equality Norms in 26 Societies. [PDF]

Eur J Popul
Edlund J, Öun I.
europepmc   +1 more source

There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
wiley   +1 more source

Social Media Reactions to Sex Toy Criminalization in Ghana: Cross-Sectional Sentiment and Text Network Analysis. [PDF]

JMIR Infodemiology
Agbeve AS, Niyomugabo C, Hakizimana C, Fiaveh DY, Ugboji AY, Pukall C, Anto-Ocrah M.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Lived religion and gendered environmental governance: ecofeminism and indigenous cosmology in the Kajang community, Indonesia. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Najamuddin N, Meutia FS, Tamrin S, Rahman A, Arisnawawi A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
wiley   +1 more source

Childhood vaccine refusal in Türkiye: a dual perspective qualitative study of parents and healthcare workers. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Sezer E, Ulman YI.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

Andrea Prudente case: a case study on social mobilisation, reproductive governance, and the politics of abortion reform in Malta. [PDF]

Sex Reprod Health Matters
Dibben A, Stabile NP, Stabile I.
europepmc   +1 more source

Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Firearm safety policy in the United States cannot succeed through legislation alone; effective interventions must also address the social, economic, and infrastructural conditions that shape perceptions of safety. Evidence suggests that place‐based investments can reduce violence and firearm deaths while strengthening social cohesion and ...
JONATHAN M. METZL
wiley   +1 more source