Approaching Religion, 2022 This issue of Approaching Religion is dedicated to Terhi Utriainen, Professor of the Study of Religions at the University of Helsinki. It is published on the 7 November 2022, Terhi’s sixtieth birthday, and contains reflections and research articles written by Terhi’s colleagues in Finland, the UK and the Netherlands.
Helena Kupari, Maija Butters
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Policy implementation challenges and the ritualization of public health emergency plans: An investigation of urban communities in Jiangsu Province, China. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2022 IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has been a global public health emergency, and countries worldwide have responded to it through a vast array of pre-planned, adaptively devised and ad-hoc measures.
Zhang R, Wang C, Li C, Xiong Y.
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Studies of the Behavioral Sequences: The Neuroethological Morphology Concept Crossing Ethology and Functional Morphology. [PDF]
Animals (Basel), 2022 Postures and movements have been one of the major modes of human expression for understanding and depicting organisms in their environment. In ethology, behavioral sequence analysis is a relevant method to describe animal behavior and to answer Tinbergen’
Bels VL +3 more
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Warning Before a Fight: The Role of Distance and Ritualized Agonistic Behaviors in Minimizing Aggression in the Jamaican Fruit Bat. [PDF]
Biology (Basel)In many vertebrates, ritualized behaviors serve to settle conflicts while minimizing the risk of injury. The Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) is a polygynous species that roosts in caves, where dominant males form and defend harems by displaying
Vivanco-Montané OR +4 more
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Idiosyncratic gesture use in a mother-infant dyad in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the wild. [PDF]
Anim CognOne promising method to tackle the question, “In which modality did language evolve?” is by studying the ontogenetic trajectory of signals in human’s closest living relatives, including chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
van Boekholt B +6 more
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Etiquette Speech Strategy in the Spanish Diplomatic Discourse [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2022 The article is devoted to the study of the ethical speech strategy in the Spanish diplomatic discourse. The article deals with the functioning of speech strategy in Spanish diplomatic documents.
Larisa G. Khoreva
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Using Intersectional Perspectives in the Studies of Non-Religion Ritualization
Religions, 2020 In the 21st century, the Church of Sweden has lost its dominant position regarding the ritualization of births, marriages, and deaths in Sweden. Above all, name giving ceremonies, civil weddings, and civil funerals have become more common. The purpose of
Karin Jarnkvist
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Innovation, adaptation, and maintaining the balance
Approaching Religion, 2022 The environmental crisis has challenged faith traditions to take a stand and act both globally and locally. Statements and action build on reinterpretations of tradition, which also produce a variety of ritual applications.
Heikki Pesonen
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Modern discourse developmental trends [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2021 The paper deals with discourse development tendencies determined by social, economic, cultural and historic characteristics of our present existence, on the one hand, and modern technologies of distant communication, on the other hand.
Vladimir I. Karasik +1 more
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Out of many modes and motivations
Approaching Religion, 2022 This article explores a sequence of events, a combination of Orthodox Christian village and chapel festivals, associated processions and a cross-border procession, through the theoretical concept of ritualisation.
Jere Kyyrö, Teemu T. Mantsinen
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