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Out There No One Has a Right to Die

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
wiley   +1 more source

Existentialism and Monty Python: Kafka, Camus, Nietzsche, and Sartre [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This essay utilizes the work of the comedy group, Monty Python, as a means of introducing basic concepts in Existentialism, especially as it pertains to the writings of Nietzsche, Sartre, and ...
Slowik, Edward
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Technical, Cultural and Religious: Risks for Children in Minority Religious Communities as Seen in the Ultra‐Orthodox Jewish Community During COVID‐19

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child development research predominantly focuses on Western secular contexts and does not adequately consider non‐Western religious contexts. The COVID‐19 pandemic has affected children worldwide in various dimensions, with children from minority populations being disproportionately impacted.
Netanel Gemara
wiley   +1 more source

Hyperreality, Polarization and Prejudice: Social Media Descriptions of Swedish Child Welfare Services

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the Swedish child welfare services (CWSs) are described in Arabic‐speaking social media, with a focus on the ‘LVU campaign.’ The material consists of Facebook and YouTube posts and comments about the Swedish CWSs' actions in child mistreatment cases involving migrant families.
Dana Sofi, Jonas Stier, Emmie Wahlström
wiley   +1 more source

Arts, Culture, and the Social Health of the Nation 2005 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Examines the scope and level of participation in arts and culture activities by adults and children, and across income lines, in America.
Marque-Luisa Miringoff, Sandra Opdycke
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Making, Unmaking and Remaking Home: Foster Carers' Home Practices Within Australia's Child Protection System

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws from interviews with 16 foster carers to explore their efforts to make and remake a sense of home for young people in out‐of‐home care. Our findings highlight home as an important idea and a challenge for carers. Home was a deliberate achievement, created through practices that responded to each young person as an individual ...
Sharyn Goudie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Polish Case

open access: yesSvensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2020
This article is a reflection on contemporary Polish-Catholic identity. It begins by reflecting on how a gluing-together of national and religious identity is evident in discourses about the most pressing challenge of the Catholic Church in Poland today:
Magdalena Dziaczkowska
doaj  

Incontrare Grendel al cinema. Riscrivere il Beowulf in un altro luogo e in un altro tempo

open access: yesBetween, 2011
As an epic poem Beowulf is a literary space of encounters, but in comparison to the Classical models, the Iliad and the Odyssey, it does not require the extraneousness of the place where the meeting or the clash happens. The threat is at the door.
Francesco Giusti
doaj   +1 more source

Oh, Ya Got Trouble! Right Here in New York City! or Gotta Find a Way to Keep the Young Ones Moral After School: The Boycott of Hollywood, March-July 1934 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This article discusses the movie boycotts of 1934. These were started because religious groups, especially the Catholic Church, were concerned about the sexual and violent content of movies and how it was affecting children.
Simpson, Jenna
core   +1 more source

Associations between religiosity and sexuality in a representative sample of Australian adults [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Many studies have examined the influence on sexual attitudes and behavior of religious belief (i.e., religious denomination) or religiosity (e.g., attendance at services, subjective importance of religion). However, few studies have examined the combined
de Visser, Richard O   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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