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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities. [PDF]
Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Jenkin RA, Keay KA.
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Birth Rituals and Associated Taboos among the Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh
Rites of passage are rituals or ceremonies signifying an event in a person’s life, indicative of a transition from one stage to another, as from adolescence to adulthood.
Landi Pussang Monia
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Forced Migration and Muslim Rituals: An Area of Cultural Psychology?
The psychological foundation of rites de passage have long been debated within the history of religion and related areas. The significance of such rites in facilitating emotional readjustment to a new life situation have been particularly stressed ...
Nora Ahlberg
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Dialogue \u27On The Ground\u27: The Complicated Identities and the Complex Negotiations of Catholics and Hindus in South India [PDF]
Interreligious dialogue is a vital theological concern for the Catholic Church in India. Over the past three decades, church leaders, progressive theologians, and maverick monastics have experimented with various models and forms of interreligious ...
Raj, Selva J.
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Dreaming of fecundity in rural society [PDF]
In Albanian village society, the main characteristic of the social status of women, and their only function that meets social approval, is their aptitude for procreation and motherhood. And the Albanian child is first and foremost a son, who will succeed
Doja, A.
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Between Tradition and Modernity: Dynamics of Krobo Marriage Rites in the Eastern Region of Ghana
Purpose of the Study: This research delves into the dynamic evolution of marriage rites within the Krobo community in Eastern Ghana, focusing on the 'la-pomi' and 'fia' ceremonies.
Elizabeth Anorkor Abbey, Nadir A. Nasidi
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Valencian “Fallas”: Intangible Cultural Heritage
The article is about one of the most popular festivities in Spain, namely, Valencian “Fallas”. This feast has formed over the course of several centuries and includes a lot of rites and ceremonies, so expressive and artistic that in 2016 UNESCO ascribed ...
Larisa Kuznetsova
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The present formative research study reviewed existing literature relating to adolescent rites of passage and initiation ceremonies in East and Southern Africa (ESA), with a focus on Eswatini, Malawi, South Africa and Zambia to assess the impacts of ...
Elizabeth Schroeder +2 more
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Ritualistics: a New Discipline in the History of Religions
The history of Religions is in need of subdisciplines. Those that it has are mostly derived from other academic disciplines such as psychology, sociology, or, to mention a more recent invention, aesthetics.
Jørgen Podemann Sørensen
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Scrutinising the British Monarchy: The corporate brand that was shaken, stirred and survived [PDF]
Purpose – The principal purposes of this article are to provide normative advice in terms of managing the British Monarchy as a Corporate Heritage Brand and to reveal the efficacy of examining a brand’s history for corporate heritage brands generally ...
John M.T. Balmer, John M.T. Balmer
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