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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

Umbanda, Music and Music Therapy

open access: yesVoices, 2015
This article discusses the use of music in religious rites of Umbanda and the possible correlations among the role played by music in this rite and its role in music therapy process, especially in some of its approaches.
Gregorio José Pereira de Queiroz
doaj   +1 more source

Do religious contexts elicit more trust and altruism? An experiment on Facebook [PDF]

open access: yes
We design a decision-making scenario experiment on Facebook to measure subjects’ altruism and trust toward attendees of a religious service, a fitness class and a local music performance.
Bradley J. Ruffle, Richard Sosis
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Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
wiley   +1 more source

At the Boundary of Sound and Faith: A Systematic Review of Religious Music Education in Multicultural Settings

open access: yesReligions
Cultural and religious diversity has become a defining feature of societies worldwide. Although religious music serves as a powerful medium for fostering intercultural understanding, it remains underexamined in educational research.
Yuetong Dong, Yan Zhang, Qian Cheng
doaj   +1 more source

Nature Symbolism in Religious Music

open access: yesPaedagogia Christiana, 2011
The objective of the research is to show that the use of nature imagery is a veryimportant aspect in religious songs. These images and symbols such as valleys,mountains, and flowers are used to describe the holy figures including Jesus, Mary,Joseph, God ...
Agnieszka Sojka
doaj   +1 more source

Growing Pre‐Service Teachers' Well‐Being Capacity: Comparing the Perspectives of Teacher Education Programme Administrators and Teacher Candidates Across Canada

open access: yesFuture in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recognising the importance of addressing teacher development in the early career stages, our study examined programmatic considerations within teacher education programmes in Canada to determine the extent to which teacher preparation included support for and promotion of teacher well‐being as part of their pre‐service teaching development ...
Benjamin Kutsyuruba   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

RELIGIOUS THEMED COMPOSITIONS OF VLADIMIR CIOLAC IN THE MUSICOLOGICAL LITERATURE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA [PDF]

open access: yesStudiul Artelor şi Culturologie: Istorie, Teorie, Practică, 2019
A review of the studies of V. Ciolac's creation is reflected in the pages of the aricle, in order to highlight the most important genres approached in his compositional record, emphasis is made on the tendency to revivethe spiritual music in the ...
GÎRBU ECATERINA
doaj  

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