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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract For over four decades we have collaborated as a team of anthropologists and Indigenous Elders of the Yanyuwa language group. The Yanyuwa are the Indigenous owners of lands and waters in Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria. While medicalized healthcare has not been our specific research focus, wellness and ill health have been recurring themes ...
Amanda Kearney +3 more
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An Interesting Study on the Religious Syncretism in the Bulgarian Rhodopes
Проблеми на постмодерността, 2018 The Book of the Polish Ethnologist and Anthropologist Dr. Magdalena Lyubanska Muslims and Christians in the Bulgarian Rhodopes. Study on Religious (Anti) Syncretism (Lubanska, Magdalena, 2015. Studies on Religious (Anti) Syncretism, eBook by Gruyter Open
Nonka Bogomilova
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Ateliers d'Anthropologie, 2013 Speaking of syntheses or mixtures of religious traditions without taking into account the ontologies that operate in them leads to certain mistakes. In this paper I suggest that popular forms of Cuban spiritism (espiritismo) offer a genuine “anthropology”
Diana Espirito Santo
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The following article seeks to explore and analyze the use of lay and traditional medicines among Latin migrants in Spain, and the way in which these forms of treatment are accompanied by identity discourses and collective representations.
Muriel Lamarque
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Theory of religious cycles and its application to interreligious dialogue and trans-religious theology [PDF]
Annales Scientia Politica, 2020 The application of my theory of religious cycles to the development of inter-religious and transreligious thinking is twofold. First, it goes beyond the uni-religious approach and claims to religious exclusivity, by viewing different spiritual traditions
Mikhail Sergeev
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Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The purpose of this article is to respond critically to a research project initiated out of the Board of the Lonergan Research Institute that seeks to expose colonialist assumptions in Lonergan's thought. Some of the initiatives seek to link Lonergan with complicity in Canadian residential schools, spiritual violence, and cultural genocide ...
John D. Dadosky
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Syncretism and indigenisation in the newer Pentecostal and charismatic churches in South Africa
African Journal of Pentecostal StudiesBackground: Syncretism is a complex subject that represents the combination of more than two religious belief systems with fundamental differences. Objectives: This article aimed to contrast the syncretistic views on the newer Pentecostal and charismatic
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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ReligionsWhen applied to Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe, the concept of cultural hybridity provides a framework for understanding how global religious movements can adapt to and incorporate local cultural elements.
Francis Marimbe
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The vibrant British Alevi community has settled in London and other parts of the UK since the late 1980s, constituting the largest population of Kurdish Alevis outside of Turkey. Their religion is Alevism, but they are often mistakenly identified as Turkish and Muslim, contributing to their invisibility in this country.
Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins
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