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Religious Legal Pluralism in the Shadow of the Centralistic State. [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud
Schlesinger C.
europepmc   +1 more source

A theory of political divergence and gradual institutional change

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do some societies succeed in breaking away from historical traditions while others remain trapped? This paper proposes a formal theory to investigate the interaction between short‐run and long‐run political dynamics, highlighting a co‐evolution of political institutions and social structures.
Clair Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Walking Together: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Relationship Between Religiosity and Substance Use Disorder. [PDF]

Nurs Health Sci
Chagas C, Martins LB, de Paula TCS, Zangari W, Galduróz JCF.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante, Armel Lekeufack, Nina Tamara Barbosa Ponce, Roger Amos Kañaa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The AFFIRM Model for Navigating Challenges in Continuously-Interfaith and Divergent-Interfaith Marriages. [PDF]

Fam Process
Hendricks JJ, Dollahite DC, Marks LD, Hardy SA, Johnson C.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From Loss to Transformation? Towards Pluralistic and Politicised Agrarian‐Climate Futures

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how actors perceive and anticipate future states of the world is gaining traction in climate change governance scholarship and related calls for sustainability transformations. However, smallholder farmers, indigenous groups, and local communities, who are expected to bear disproportionate burdens of loss and damage from climate ...
Joel Persson, Kelly Dorkenoo, Monin Nong, Sodavy Nhong, Van Hai Thi Nguyen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

'It's like these scientists own the rains': indigenous knowledge, disaster warnings, and the politics of legitimacy in Malawi. [PDF]

Disasters
Kita SM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Adaptive Spaces and Rural Futures: Climate Change, Agrarian Dynamics, and Knowledge Politics in Southeast Asian Socioecological Transformations

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary rural change in Southeast Asia is shaped by complex, intersecting forces that defy simplistic narratives. Researchers must therefore develop new ways to grasp nuanced, non‐linear, and locally specific processes to understand how transformational shifts may occur (or not) in the region.
John F. McCarthy, Jean‐Christophe Castella, Kelly Dorkenoo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating sociocultural practices and traditions in HIV management: a review of African cultural barriers to achieving sustainable development goal target 3.3. [PDF]

Front Epidemiol
Mashaba RG, Ntimana CB.
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The Welfarist Consequentialist Case Against Conscientious Objection in Healthcare: Empirical Failures, Normative Confusions, and the Primacy of Patient Care

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We have defended the view that there should be no accommodation of conscientious objectors in health care. Numerous critics have advanced arguments designed to defeat this conclusion. We respond here to what we take to be the most serious of the criticisms directed at our analysis. We begin with two distinct consequentialist lines.
J. Savulescu, U. Schuklenk
wiley   +1 more source