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“Not a Single Leaf Is Meant to be Taken With You”: Conservation Motivations and Belief Systems in a Khasi Sacred Landscape of Meghalaya, India “一片叶子都不许带走”:印度梅加拉亚邦卡西族神圣景观中的保护动机与信仰体系

open access: yesIntegrative Conservation, EarlyView.
This study examines the Mawphlang Sacred Forest in Meghalaya as a culturally embedded model of community‐led conservation. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, it highlights how spiritual reverence, sacred taboos, and ancestral authority shape ecological stewardship, complementing formal governance systems.
Mrinal Saikia
wiley   +1 more source

The Rise of the Baptists in South Carolina: Origins, Revival, and their Enduring Legacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Baptists have played an important role in the development of the religious landscape in the United States since the First Great Awakening. This religious sect’s core of influence eventually migrated south around the turn of the nineteenth century.
Pruitt, Steven C.
core   +1 more source

Omen and Anti-omen: The Rabbinic Hagiography of the Scapegoat’s Scarlet Ribbon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article proposes that the place and meaning of various objects among religious communities can be explored in terms of “hagiography,” that is, through the narratives constructed around sacred objects sometimes long after their physical disappearance.
Balberg, Mira
core   +1 more source

Predicting Major Depression Among Diverse Online Gamers: The Role of Internet Addiction and Spirituality

open access: yesJournal of Addictions &Offender Counseling, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzed whether religious or spiritual affiliation and therapy enrollment protect against symptoms meeting Major Depressive Disorder criteria beyond demographic, Internet addiction, and described therapy enrollment. Findings illustrated one risk factor and one protective factor associated with experiencing symptoms that meet Major ...
Lindsay A. Lundeen, John R. McCall
wiley   +1 more source

Caste as a Social Kind

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
wiley   +1 more source

Relational Healing: Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Their Experiences of Connection, Disconnection, and Growth

open access: yesJournal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this interpretive phenomenological analysis, we interviewed 10 women to make meaning of their lived experiences of sex trafficking and mental health challenges and how relational dynamics influenced their healing and sense of self. Our analysis revealed four themes: (a) central relational paradox, which described internalized shame and ...
Claudia G. Interiano‐Shiverdecker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oriental rite as a religious phenomenon

open access: yesUkrainian Religious Studies, 2006
The phenomenon of Eastern Christian rite has become an object of religious studies in recent years. This phenomenon is of interest to the scientific community because it is the result of the development of theological concepts, which, being theoretically expressed in collections of Christian dogmas and canons, have found their practical reflection in ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Not Just Half a Doctor: Promoting Humanism During Stressful Times

open access: yes
Annals of the Child Neurology Society, EarlyView.
Nigel S. Bamford   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Positive developmental cascades: Strength development reduces support needs in children

open access: yesJCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Strength development in children across a range of psychiatric diagnoses may reduce needs for mental health, social, and functioning support over time. A strength‐based adjunct to child and adolescent mental health may foster the developmental context most helpful for achieving desired outcomes with positive developmental cascading ...
Melody R. Altschuler   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

But we had hoped ... : The Road We\u27ve Traveled; the Road that Lies Ahead [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
(Excerpt) It is a privilege to be here with you at this annual gathering to explore matters of consequence affecting our churches at the beginning of this new millennium.
Bernstein, Eleanor
core   +1 more source

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